Asked by: Lord Jones (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their policy regarding the ownership of dental practices.
Answered by Lord Kamall - Shadow Minister (Health and Social Care)
No estimate has been made of the number of different owners of dental practices nor of the average cost of purchase of dental practices.
Any person who provides regulated activity in England must be registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC). In order to obtain a registration with the CQC, a dental practice is assessed against the CQC’s registration assessment framework to assess if applicants will provide services that are safe, effective, caring, responsive to people’s needs and well-led. As part of the registration process, checks are made on Directors listed in the application and any individuals nominated by the provider company to be held legally responsible for carrying on the regulated activities applied for. If a practice cannot meet the standards set out within the framework, the CQC will refuse the application. The Dentists Act 1984 lays out restrictions on carrying on the business of dentistry.
Asked by: Lord Jones (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the number of different owners of dental practices in England.
Answered by Lord Kamall - Shadow Minister (Health and Social Care)
No estimate has been made of the number of different owners of dental practices nor of the average cost of purchase of dental practices.
Any person who provides regulated activity in England must be registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC). In order to obtain a registration with the CQC, a dental practice is assessed against the CQC’s registration assessment framework to assess if applicants will provide services that are safe, effective, caring, responsive to people’s needs and well-led. As part of the registration process, checks are made on Directors listed in the application and any individuals nominated by the provider company to be held legally responsible for carrying on the regulated activities applied for. If a practice cannot meet the standards set out within the framework, the CQC will refuse the application. The Dentists Act 1984 lays out restrictions on carrying on the business of dentistry.
Asked by: Lord Jones (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many members will compose the Advanced Research and Invention Agency.
Answered by Lord Callanan - Shadow Minister (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
ARIA will consist of executive and non-executive members. The executive members are the Chief Executive Officer, a Chief Finance Officer and between two and five others. The non-executive members are the Chair, the Government Chief Scientific Advisor, and a number of others appointed by the Secretary of State. There must be a majority of non-executive members.
Asked by: Lord Jones (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the anticipated vesting day of the Advanced Research and Invention Agency.
Answered by Lord Callanan - Shadow Minister (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
The provisions of the ARIA Bill will commence once a sufficient number of its members have been appointed. We expect this to take place in Autumn 2022.
Asked by: Lord Jones (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the Advanced Research and Invention Agency on the British aerospace industry.
Answered by Lord Callanan - Shadow Minister (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
In line with the principle of strategic and operational autonomy, ARIA’s leadership, not Ministers, will determine which programmes present the greatest opportunities for investment in transformational scientific research.
Asked by: Lord Jones (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the expected salary range for the Chair of the Advanced Research and Invention Agency.
Answered by Lord Callanan - Shadow Minister (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
We are currently advertising the ARIA Chair role at a time commitment of approximately 1 day per week. Remuneration will be £148,500 full-time equivalent (£29,700 on 1 day per week). These terms are in keeping with other comparable roles across the public sector.
Asked by: Lord Jones (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many Independent Rail Retailers there are.
Answered by Baroness Vere of Norbiton
The Department for Transport does not license Independent Rail Retailers, that is the responsibility of Rail Delivery Group.
Asked by: Lord Jones (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the number of people working in dental practices.
Answered by Lord Kamall - Shadow Minister (Health and Social Care)
This information is not available in the format requested. However, in January 2022, there was a total of 113,795 dentists and dental care professionals in the United Kingdom registered with the General Dental Council.
Asked by: Lord Jones (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many dental practices there are in England.
Answered by Lord Kamall - Shadow Minister (Health and Social Care)
As of June 2021, there were 10,894 dental practices in England registered with the Care Quality Commission.
Asked by: Lord Jones (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their policy concerning the third party sale of rail tickets.
Answered by Baroness Vere of Norbiton
We value the expertise and innovation independent retailers have brought, and will continue to bring, to the sector and we welcome them competing in the ticket retail market, particularly where they can grow new markets.