Asked by: Brandon Lewis (Conservative - Great Yarmouth)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many fixed penalty notices have been issued to people under the age of 18 for possessing a firework in a public place, in each year since 2017.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The Ministry of Justice publishes information on the number of Penalty Notice for Disorders (PND), for various offences including the offence “DA15 Possession by a person under 18 of adult firework”, for the years 2011 to 2021 in the Out of Court Disposals data tool 2021.
Penalty notices for disorder should no longer be available for persons aged under 18 such from 8 April 2013. A pilot scheme was implemented from early November 2014 in Leicestershire and Staffordshire police forces and from late November in West Yorkshire to reduce the types of out of court disposals available for adult offenders. In the pilot areas, the only out of court disposals available are community resolutions and conditional cautions.
Asked by: Brandon Lewis (Conservative - Great Yarmouth)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the provision of dental services in Great Yarmouth constituency.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
No specific assessment has been made. However, NHS England asked dental practices to return to full delivery of contracted activity from July 2022, including in Great Yarmouth. In September, we announced ‘Our plan for patients’, which outlines how we will meet oral health needs and increase access to dental care, including in Great Yarmouth.
The plan includes improvements to ensure dentists are renumerated fairly for more complex work, allowing greater flexibility to reallocate resources and to utilise dentists with greater capacity to deliver National Health Service treatment, whilst enabling full use of the dental team. The plan also includes streamlining processes for overseas dentists and holding the local NHS to account for dentistry provision. In addition, Health Education England is also reforming dental education to improve the recruitment and retention of dental professionals.