Asked by: Maya Ellis (Labour - Ribble Valley)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps the Treasury is taking to support capital investment by manufacturing businesses.
Answered by Dan Tomlinson - Exchequer Secretary (Cabinet Office) (Jointly with HM Treasury)
This government wants the UK to be one of the best places in the world to invest, build and grow a business – and that starts with a tax system that is competitive, predictable and stable. This government has maintained the lowest rate of corporate tax in the G7, topped the rankings for OECD countries in terms of capital allowances for plant and machinery due to our generous full expensing offer, and led a flexible and competitive regime for intangible assets.
Through delivery of our 10-year Advanced Manufacturing sector plan, this government also aims to nearly double annual business investment in the advanced manufacturing sector to £39bn by 2035.
That’s why we backed our Advanced Manufacturing sector with up to £4.3 billion in funding out to 2030, including up to £2.8 billion in R&D. Alongside this, we have provided a further £2 billion of R&D and capital funding available for automotive from 2030 to 2035 and up to £2.3bn for the UK’s aerospace industry over the 10 year period.
Asked by: Maya Ellis (Labour - Ribble Valley)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether home educated children and young people are included within the Government's national strategy for suicide prevention training in schools.
Answered by Paul Waugh - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
The government’s ‘Suicide prevention in England: 5-year cross-sector strategy’ identifies children and young people as a priority group for suicide prevention. The plan sets out a range of actions to improve mental health support, strengthen early intervention and ensure that children and young people can access appropriate support when needed.
Home educated children and young people are included within the strategy’s focus on children and young people and can access the wider mental health and suicide prevention support available through health services, local suicide prevention arrangements and voluntary and community sector organisations.
More broadly, the government is committed to improving mental health support and preventing suicide among all children and young people. This includes action across education, health and community services, as well as investment in earlier intervention through the development of Young Futures Hubs.
Asked by: Maya Ellis (Labour - Ribble Valley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what budget has been allocated for water fluoridation over the next five years; and if she will provide a breakdown of the amount proposed to be spent on (a) upgrading or replacing existing fluoridation infrastructure, (b) annual revenue costs for operating existing fluoridation schemes, (c) introducing new fluoridation schemes, including the proposed expansion in the North East of England, and (d) feasibility studies for potential future expansion of water fluoridation, including the locations where such studies are being undertaken.
Answered by James Frith - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
Further to the answer provided on 16 February in response to Question HL14539, I can confirm that, over the current Spending Review period, £136 million has been earmarked for community water fluoridation, but I am unable at this stage to provide the Hon. Member with the specific requested breakdown of that spending. Further information on feasibility studies is published at the following links:
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/001947-2026
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/056982-2026
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/002996-2026
Asked by: Maya Ellis (Labour - Ribble Valley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, in what way national guidance, training frameworks and service specifications for maternity, health visiting and perinatal mental health services support the use of evidence based observational approaches to parent–infant relationships, such as the Newborn Behavioural Observations and the Neonatal Behavioural Assessment Scale.
Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
National guidance and service specifications recognise the importance of early parent-infant relationships and helping parents understand and respond to their baby’s needs. The refreshed Healthy Child Programme guidance and Best Start Family Hubs and Healthy Babies guidance promote evidence-based support for parent-infant relationships, including practitioner observation of interactions between babies and their parents and carers. The Healthy Child Programme guidance and the Best Start Family Hubs and Healthy Babies guidance are available at the following two links:
Through Healthy Babies, we are investing in national workforce development initiatives to increase practitioner skills and confidence in supporting parent-infant relationships in 75 local authorities with high levels of deprivation. These local authorities are expected to train their workforce in evidence-based approaches, such as Video Interaction Guidance.
NHS England also routinely identifies and disseminates best practice and learning across National Health Services and clinical networks to support local delivery of parent-infant relationship support.
Decisions on the use of specific observational approaches, including tools such as Newborn Behavioural Observations and the Neonatal Behavioural Assessment Scale, are made locally by services and appropriately trained practitioners.
Asked by: Maya Ellis (Labour - Ribble Valley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how the Single Patient Record could improve the recording of miscarriage across NHS services; and what steps are being taken to reduce the risk of double counting the same miscarriage recorded by different services.
Answered by Alison McGovern - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
It has historically been difficult to gather accurate and comprehensive data on miscarriages. While data is collected on those miscarriages that occur during hospital stays, the majority occur outside of healthcare settings, and it is the choice of the woman affected whether she discloses that information to healthcare professionals.
The Single Patient Record (SPR) aims to provide a more joined-up view of a patient’s health and care history, reducing the need for the same information to be recorded multiple times across different systems. Maternity is one of the priority care pathways for the roll out of the SPR, with early implementation starting in 2027.
The SPR will help to address the lack of miscarriage data by better enabling the National Health Service and supporting organisations to record miscarriages wherever they may be reported across different care settings. We will continue to consider this as implementation progresses.
It is not currently mandatory for trusts to record second trimester miscarriage through the Maternity Services Data Set (MSDS). The requirements for the next iteration of the MSDS include more detailed data collection around pregnancy outcomes, including on miscarriage.
Timescales for this next iteration will be confirmed in due course. We will also consider what changes may be required to the Digital Maternity Record Standard as part of wider maternity data architecture design work, which will also support the MSDS and the SPR.
Asked by: Maya Ellis (Labour - Ribble Valley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how the Single Patient Record could improve the recording of miscarriage across NHS services and what steps he is taking to help reduce the risk of double counting the same miscarriage recorded by different services.
Answered by Alison McGovern - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
It has historically been difficult to gather accurate and comprehensive data on miscarriages. While data is collected on those miscarriages that occur during hospital stays, the majority occur outside of healthcare settings, and it is the choice of the woman affected whether she discloses that information to healthcare professionals.
The Single Patient Record (SPR) aims to provide a more joined-up view of a patient’s health and care history, reducing the need for the same information to be recorded multiple times across different systems. Maternity is one of the priority care pathways for the roll out of the SPR, with early implementation starting in 2027.
The SPR will help to address the lack of miscarriage data by better enabling the National Health Service and supporting organisations to record miscarriages wherever they may be reported across different care settings. We will continue to consider this as implementation progresses.
It is not currently mandatory for trusts to record second trimester miscarriage through the Maternity Services Data Set (MSDS). The requirements for the next iteration of the MSDS include more detailed data collection around pregnancy outcomes, including on miscarriage.
Timescales for this next iteration will be confirmed in due course. We will also consider what changes may be required to the Digital Maternity Record Standard as part of wider maternity data architecture design work, which will also support the MSDS and the SPR.
Asked by: Maya Ellis (Labour - Ribble Valley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether an update to the Digital Maternity Record Standard is planned to limit birth outcome to coded values and ensure that a value is included for second trimester miscarriage.
Answered by Alison McGovern - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
It has historically been difficult to gather accurate and comprehensive data on miscarriages. While data is collected on those miscarriages that occur during hospital stays, the majority occur outside of healthcare settings, and it is the choice of the woman affected whether she discloses that information to healthcare professionals.
The Single Patient Record (SPR) aims to provide a more joined-up view of a patient’s health and care history, reducing the need for the same information to be recorded multiple times across different systems. Maternity is one of the priority care pathways for the roll out of the SPR, with early implementation starting in 2027.
The SPR will help to address the lack of miscarriage data by better enabling the National Health Service and supporting organisations to record miscarriages wherever they may be reported across different care settings. We will continue to consider this as implementation progresses.
It is not currently mandatory for trusts to record second trimester miscarriage through the Maternity Services Data Set (MSDS). The requirements for the next iteration of the MSDS include more detailed data collection around pregnancy outcomes, including on miscarriage.
Timescales for this next iteration will be confirmed in due course. We will also consider what changes may be required to the Digital Maternity Record Standard as part of wider maternity data architecture design work, which will also support the MSDS and the SPR.
Asked by: Maya Ellis (Labour - Ribble Valley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to improve the recording of miscarriage experienced by women engaged with NHS services.
Answered by Alison McGovern - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
It has historically been difficult to gather accurate and comprehensive data on miscarriages. While data is collected on those miscarriages that occur during hospital stays, the majority occur outside of healthcare settings, and it is the choice of the woman affected whether she discloses that information to healthcare professionals.
The Single Patient Record (SPR) aims to provide a more joined-up view of a patient’s health and care history, reducing the need for the same information to be recorded multiple times across different systems. Maternity is one of the priority care pathways for the roll out of the SPR, with early implementation starting in 2027.
The SPR will help to address the lack of miscarriage data by better enabling the National Health Service and supporting organisations to record miscarriages wherever they may be reported across different care settings. We will continue to consider this as implementation progresses.
It is not currently mandatory for trusts to record second trimester miscarriage through the Maternity Services Data Set (MSDS). The requirements for the next iteration of the MSDS include more detailed data collection around pregnancy outcomes, including on miscarriage.
Timescales for this next iteration will be confirmed in due course. We will also consider what changes may be required to the Digital Maternity Record Standard as part of wider maternity data architecture design work, which will also support the MSDS and the SPR.
Asked by: Maya Ellis (Labour - Ribble Valley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans NHS England has to improve the collection of second trimester miscarriage data through the Maternity Services Dataset.
Answered by Alison McGovern - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
It has historically been difficult to gather accurate and comprehensive data on miscarriages. While data is collected on those miscarriages that occur during hospital stays, the majority occur outside of healthcare settings, and it is the choice of the woman affected whether she discloses that information to healthcare professionals.
The Single Patient Record (SPR) aims to provide a more joined-up view of a patient’s health and care history, reducing the need for the same information to be recorded multiple times across different systems. Maternity is one of the priority care pathways for the roll out of the SPR, with early implementation starting in 2027.
The SPR will help to address the lack of miscarriage data by better enabling the National Health Service and supporting organisations to record miscarriages wherever they may be reported across different care settings. We will continue to consider this as implementation progresses.
It is not currently mandatory for trusts to record second trimester miscarriage through the Maternity Services Data Set (MSDS). The requirements for the next iteration of the MSDS include more detailed data collection around pregnancy outcomes, including on miscarriage.
Timescales for this next iteration will be confirmed in due course. We will also consider what changes may be required to the Digital Maternity Record Standard as part of wider maternity data architecture design work, which will also support the MSDS and the SPR.
Asked by: Maya Ellis (Labour - Ribble Valley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to address the decline in the recruitment of learning disability nurses.
Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
We recognise the vital role that learning disability nurses play in supporting people with a learning disability and reducing health inequalities.
To support recruitment, the Department provides eligible healthcare students with a non-repayable grant of at least £5,000 per academic year via the NHS Learning Support Fund. Students undertaking priority specialisms, including learning disability nursing, can receive an additional incentive payment.
NHS England has also established a learning disability nurse expert group which aims to work with stakeholders to consider how we ensure sustainability of education programmes and attract people onto learning disability nursing and grow the workforce.
More widely, the Government is investing £65 million to deliver 2,000 additional nursing degree apprenticeships over the next three years. We will prioritise areas of greatest need and ensure that communities relying most on the National Health Service benefit from a stronger, more resilient workforce. The forthcoming 10 Year Workforce Plan will set out how we ensure the NHS has the right people in the right places, with the right skills to care for patients, when they need it.