Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which integrated care boards have reimbursed dental practices for up to 110% of General Dental Services contracts.

Answered by Stephen Kinnock - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

In the 2023/24 financial year, 37 integrated care boards (ICBs) reimbursed at least one dental practice for over 100%, and up to 110%, of their General Dental Services contract value. These ICBs are as follows:

• Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB;
• South Yorkshire ICB;
• Herefordshire and Worcestershire ICB;
• Mid and South Essex ICB;
• Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes ICB;
• Birmingham and Sihull ICB;
• Northeast and North Cumbria ICB;
• Derby and Derbyshire ICB;
• Suffolk and Northeast Essex ICB;
• Devon ICB;
• Lincolnshire ICB;
• Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICB;
• Southeast London ICB;
• Kent And Medway ICB;
• Hertfordshire and West Essex ICB;
• Northeast London ICB;
• North Central London ICB;
• Norfolk and Waveney ICB;
• Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICB;
• Frimley ICB;
• Sussex ICB;
• Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin ICB;
• Greater Manchester ICB;
• Humber and North Yorkshire ICB;
• Bath and Northeast Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire ICB;
• Northamptonshire ICB;
• Gloucestershire ICB;
• Hampshire and Isle Of Wight ICB;
• Northwest London ICB;
• Somerset ICB;
• Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB;
• Cornwall and the Isles Of Scilly ICB;
• Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West ICB;
• Black Country ICB;
• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough ICB;
• Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire ICB;
• Dorset ICB;
• Southwest London ICB;
• West Yorkshire ICB;
• Coventry and Warwickshire ICB;
• Surrey Heartlands ICB; and
• Cheshire and Merseyside ICB.

Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance her Department provides on the potential sanctions available to local authorities in instances when councillors are found to have breached an authority's code of conduct; and whether she plans to re-establish the Standards Board for England with sanction powers in including (a) suspension and (b) disqualification from office for serious breaches.

Answered by Jim McMahon - Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government)

The Government considers that the current local government standards regime is broadly ineffectual, inconsistently applied, and lacking in adequate powers to effectively sanction members found in serious breach of their codes of conduct.

We are actively considering options to strengthen the standards regime for local government and provide councils with more effective means to address serious misconduct by elected members, including a proposal to allow for the suspension of members who violate codes of conduct. We will be consulting with local authorities, sector representative bodies, and other key stakeholders in due course to ensure a wide range of views are heard.

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to encourage the public to buy British produce.

Answered by Daniel Zeichner - Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

This Government will always back British farmers who produce some of the highest quality food in the world, contribute billions to our economy, and are the custodians of our countryside. We want more people to be able to access nutritious, and locally sourced food.

Our ambition, set out in our election manifesto, is for half of all food supplied into the public sector to be from local British producers, or certified to higher environmental standards whilst being in line with World Trade Organisation and domestic procurement obligations.

The department strongly supports retailer efforts to promote British food. Defra officials regularly engage with major supermarkets to understand their work to promote British produce.

In addition, the Government currently protects 93 British food and drink product names through its Geographical Indications schemes and welcomes further applications from British producers. Consumers can find these products with unique links to Britain’s gastronomic heritage by looking out for the black and gold ‘Protected Designation of Origin’, ‘Protected Geographical Origin,’ and ‘Traditional Specialty Guaranteed’ logos.

Disclosure and Barring Service checks for hon. Members and Peers

25th anniversary of the Coalfields Regeneration Trust

Violence against women and girls

National Sherwood Forest Day