Asked by: Grahame Morris (Labour - Easington)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Government response to the Fifth Report of the Transport Committee of Session 2022–23 on Maritime 2050: objectives, implementation and effects, published on 24 May 2023, what his planned timetable is for the Maritime Council to produce its report nine-point plan for seafarers’ protections.
Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
A report into the outcome of the plan would need a period of time to pass to allow for a full assessment. The Department would expect it to be incorporated into the annual report that will be published by the new Maritime Council, which is still in its first year.
Asked by: Grahame Morris (Labour - Easington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 29 February 2024 to Question 15620 on Health Services: Postal Services, whether his Department collects information on the reasons for missed NHS appointments.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Rates of missed appointments, and their causes, can vary substantially between providers and local areas. NHS England has developed a range of resources to support trusts in understanding the causes of missed appointments within their organisation, and to take effective action to reduce Did Not Attend rates.
Asked by: Grahame Morris (Labour - Easington)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an estimate of the cumulative number of years of experience held by all police officers in (a) 2010 and (b) 2024.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office collects and publishes data annually on the length of service of police officers employed within the police service in the ‘Police Workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin which can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales.
Information on the length of service of police officers employed in England and Wales has been published since 2016 and can be found in Table JL5 in the data tables accompanying each publication.
Data for as at 31 March 2024 will be published in July 2024 as part of the ‘Police Workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin.
We delivered our commitment to recruit 20,000 additional police officers. There are now over 149,000 officers in England and Wales, higher than the previous peak before the Police Uplift Programme, in March 2010.
Asked by: Grahame Morris (Labour - Easington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much and what proportion of the cost of training a student midwife is paid by (a) the student, (b) the public purse and (c) other sources; and what the cost to the public purse was for training student midwives in each of the last five years.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Student loan outlay and Office for Students Strategic Priorities Grant data is not collected by the Department of Health and Social Care, and is the responsibility of the Department for Education and the Office for Students. NHS England supports the provision of clinical placements for student midwives, through the Education and Training Tariff, which is paid to placement providers. The following table shows the tariff provided for midwifery students in each of the last five years:
| 2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 |
Tariff | £11,336,867 | £13,856,454 | £17,428,079 | £21,234,754 | £23,104,117 |
From 2017 all eligible midwifery students have received non-repayable supplementary funding support through the NHS Learning Support Fund (LSF), which since 2020 has included a non-repayable training grant of £5,000 per academic year, with further financial support available to students for childcare, dual accommodation costs, and travel. Prior to 2017, healthcare education funding for midwifery students was centrally funded by the Government. This included payment of tuition fees and an NHS Bursary. The following table shows all support paid to students undertaking education and training which would enable them to register as a midwife with the Nursing and Midwifery Council, in each of the last five years:
| 2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 |
LSF and legacy bursary | £15,800,691 | £9,436,016 | £31,225,575 | £49,035,130 | £53,841,543 |
Asked by: Grahame Morris (Labour - Easington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people enrolled onto midwifery (a) undergraduate and (b) postgraduate courses in each year of study in each of the last five academic years.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Data published by the Office for Students in the Higher Education Students Early Statistics Survey (HESES), collates figures submitted by individual higher education providers to give an indication of the number of students studying in each academic year. HESES data includes figures on undergraduate and postgraduate midwifery courses in England. The latest published data is for those starting courses in 2022. The table below gives the number of undergraduate and postgraduate starters on midwifery courses in England, each year from 2018 to 2022:
| 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
Undergraduate Starters | 2,550 | 2,930 | 3,460 | 3,565 | 3,305 |
Postgraduate Starters | 70 | 55 | 100 | 135 | 190 |
Source: The Higher Education Students Early Statistics Survey (HESES) 2018 to 2022.
The table below presents the latest available data published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), for the number of qualifiers from undergraduate midwifery courses in England, for the years 2019/20 to 2021/22:
| 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 |
Undergraduate Midwifery Qualifiers | 2,055 | 1,945 | 2,445 |
Source: The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) qualifier data 2022
Note: A qualifier is defined by the HESA as a student who gained a qualification during the academic year in question.
The Department does not hold information on the proportion of student midwives who left university courses, in each of the last five years.
Asked by: Grahame Morris (Labour - Easington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of student midwives left their university courses in each of the last five years.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Data published by the Office for Students in the Higher Education Students Early Statistics Survey (HESES), collates figures submitted by individual higher education providers to give an indication of the number of students studying in each academic year. HESES data includes figures on undergraduate and postgraduate midwifery courses in England. The latest published data is for those starting courses in 2022. The table below gives the number of undergraduate and postgraduate starters on midwifery courses in England, each year from 2018 to 2022:
| 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
Undergraduate Starters | 2,550 | 2,930 | 3,460 | 3,565 | 3,305 |
Postgraduate Starters | 70 | 55 | 100 | 135 | 190 |
Source: The Higher Education Students Early Statistics Survey (HESES) 2018 to 2022.
The table below presents the latest available data published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), for the number of qualifiers from undergraduate midwifery courses in England, for the years 2019/20 to 2021/22:
| 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 |
Undergraduate Midwifery Qualifiers | 2,055 | 1,945 | 2,445 |
Source: The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) qualifier data 2022
Note: A qualifier is defined by the HESA as a student who gained a qualification during the academic year in question.
The Department does not hold information on the proportion of student midwives who left university courses, in each of the last five years.
Asked by: Grahame Morris (Labour - Easington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many student midwives graduated from pre-registration midwifery courses in each of the last five years.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Data published by the Office for Students in the Higher Education Students Early Statistics Survey (HESES), collates figures submitted by individual higher education providers to give an indication of the number of students studying in each academic year. HESES data includes figures on undergraduate and postgraduate midwifery courses in England. The latest published data is for those starting courses in 2022. The table below gives the number of undergraduate and postgraduate starters on midwifery courses in England, each year from 2018 to 2022:
| 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
Undergraduate Starters | 2,550 | 2,930 | 3,460 | 3,565 | 3,305 |
Postgraduate Starters | 70 | 55 | 100 | 135 | 190 |
Source: The Higher Education Students Early Statistics Survey (HESES) 2018 to 2022.
The table below presents the latest available data published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), for the number of qualifiers from undergraduate midwifery courses in England, for the years 2019/20 to 2021/22:
| 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 |
Undergraduate Midwifery Qualifiers | 2,055 | 1,945 | 2,445 |
Source: The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) qualifier data 2022
Note: A qualifier is defined by the HESA as a student who gained a qualification during the academic year in question.
The Department does not hold information on the proportion of student midwives who left university courses, in each of the last five years.
Asked by: Grahame Morris (Labour - Easington)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to increase the relative value of the Sterling to ease cost of living pressures.
Answered by Bim Afolami - Economic Secretary (HM Treasury)
The government does not have a preferred level for sterling, or other financial market variables, and has not intervened for the purposes of influencing the sterling exchange rate since 1992.
Over the 2022-23 and 2023-24 financial years, the Government has provided £96bn of cost of living support to households – that’s an average of £3400 per household. The Government remains committed to improving living standards and building a more prosperous future.
Asked by: Grahame Morris (Labour - Easington)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 28 February 2024 to Question 15436 on Prison Officers: Crimes of Violence, if he will publish the data on method of attack against (a) prison officers and (b) all staff, broken down by victim.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
We publish statistics on the number of total assaults, broken down by type of weapon, as part of our Safety in Custody statistics.
Our statisticians regularly review the content of publications and welcome feedback. Development of new and improved statistical outputs is usually dependent on reallocating existing resources. As part of our continual review and prioritisation, we will consider publishing assaults with weapons by victim type.
Asked by: Grahame Morris (Labour - Easington)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 28 February 2024 to Question 15436, whether assaults by razor are counted under (a) knife/blade or (b) other sharp instrument.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
Assaults by razor should be counted in knife/blade, as the definition is “an object with a sharp edge that is designed to puncture, chop, slice or scrape surfaces, skin, material”. However, as there is no formal reference to razors, we expect that some may also be in the ‘other sharp instrument’ category, defined as “objects or instruments which are able to cut, prick, cause injury and / or infection e.g.,needle, broken glass” and the ‘other’ category.