Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when HS2 safeguarding measures will be removed from land in Bolsover constituency.

Answered by Lilian Greenwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

The Government is thoroughly reviewing the position it has inherited on HS2 and wider rail infrastructure before setting out more detailed plans in due course, including future plans for HS2 Phase 2b Eastern Leg safeguarding.

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made a recent assessment of the safety of vehicles queuing on the carriageway as they exit the motorway at junction 28 of the M1.

Answered by Lilian Greenwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

National Highways is currently working on proposals to improve the junction to address congestion and safety issues as well as to support local growth. One of the main reasons for the proposed improvements to Junction 28 of the M1 is to improve safety risks and hazards related to traffic and congestion at the junction, particularly the queuing on the main carriageway which can occur during peak periods.

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of upgrading Junction 28 of the M1 on the implementation of the Government's missions.

Answered by Lilian Greenwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

National Highways is currently working on a business case for these proposals. As part of this, they will consider a wide range of potential impacts including how upgrading the junction would align with Government Missions, such as improving regional economic growth from reduced delays.

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will take steps to upgrade Junction 28 of the M1.

Answered by Lilian Greenwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

Improvements to Junction 28 of the M1 form part of the pipeline of projects being developed for possible delivery in a future Road Investment Strategy (RIS) period. Schemes in this pipeline are at this stage uncommitted, and the Department will need to decide which are the most viable for delivery. The Department expects to confirm which schemes remain in the pipeline, and will therefore continue to be developed during the next period, when RIS3 is published early next year.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many registered care homes received a Care Quality Commission assessment as (a) requires improvement and (b) inadequate, in each of the last five years in Bolsover constituency.

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

In the last five years, the Care Quality Commission carried out ten inspections or re-inspection activity, across the time frame, for six care homes in the Bolsover constituency. Seven assessments of care homes resulted in a rating of “requires improvement” and three resulted in a rating of “inadequate”. This data has been taken from the five-year period starting 1 July 2020.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children have been hospitalised needing treatment for dental decay in (a) Bolsover constituency, (b) Derbyshire and (c) England in each of the last five years.

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

The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) publishes annual official statistics on tooth extractions in zero- to 19-year-olds that take place in a National Health Service hospital setting in England. The following table shows the number of finished consultant episodes (FCEs) for tooth extraction with dental caries, also known as tooth decay, as the primary diagnosis code between the 2019/20 and 2023/24 financial years, for children aged zero to 19 years old in England, in the Derbyshire upper tier local authority, and in the Bolsover lower tier local authority:

Source: the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities’ annual statistics on tooth extractions zero to 19 year olds that take place in an NHS hospital setting in England, available at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hospital-based-tooth-extractions-in-0-to-19-year-olds

Notes:

1. the information requested is not available for Bolsover constituency, as OHID does not publish data at constituency level;
2. Derbyshire refers to the Derbyshire upper tier local authority, the Derbyshire County Council;
3. Bolsover refers to Bolsover lower tier local authority, the Bolsover District Council, not the Bolsover constituency;
4. England’s total FCE counts are unrounded and include activity with invalid or missing region and local authority codes;
5. All sub-national FCE counts are rounded to the nearest five as per NHS Digital’s disclosure controls;
6. figures show the number of FCEs, not the number of individual children who received these treatments, and therefore one child may have had more than one FCE; and
7. a quality note on the data is available at the following link:
   https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/analysis-of-tooth-extractions-in-hospital-methods-and-data-quality/data-quality-and-disclosure-control-for-hospital-based-tooth-extraction-data

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of parents with three and four-year-olds from (a) Bolsover, (b) Derbyshire and (c) England have used their entitlement to 15 hours of free childcare in each of the last three years.

Answered by Stephen Morgan - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)

Figures on the number and estimated percentage of 3 and 4-year-olds who were registered for the universal entitlement in Derbyshire and England between January 2022 and 2024 can be accessed at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/14518f2b-6429-434f-1c45-08ddbd6c4867. Figures for Bolsover are not readily available.

Figures on the number of eligible children aged from 9 months registered for the working parent entitlement, at national and local authority level, are currently scheduled to be published on 17 July. Figures on the percentage of eligible children aged from 9 months registered for the working parent entitlement, at national level only, are also currently planned to be published in this statistics release. Due to data limitations around the reliability of the survey based data underpinning the calculations, sub-national estimates will not be available.

Figures on the number and estimated percentage of 2-year-olds registered for the disadvantaged entitlement in Derbyshire and England between January 2022 and 2024 can be viewed at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/5b816a38-7e84-48f9-492d-08ddbdf042eb. Figures for Bolsover are not available.

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of eligible working parents with children aged from nine months have accessed 15 hours of free childcare per week in (a) Bolsover constituency and (b) England since September 2024.

Answered by Stephen Morgan - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)

Figures on the number and estimated percentage of 3 and 4-year-olds who were registered for the universal entitlement in Derbyshire and England between January 2022 and 2024 can be accessed at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/14518f2b-6429-434f-1c45-08ddbd6c4867. Figures for Bolsover are not readily available.

Figures on the number of eligible children aged from 9 months registered for the working parent entitlement, at national and local authority level, are currently scheduled to be published on 17 July. Figures on the percentage of eligible children aged from 9 months registered for the working parent entitlement, at national level only, are also currently planned to be published in this statistics release. Due to data limitations around the reliability of the survey based data underpinning the calculations, sub-national estimates will not be available.

Figures on the number and estimated percentage of 2-year-olds registered for the disadvantaged entitlement in Derbyshire and England between January 2022 and 2024 can be viewed at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/5b816a38-7e84-48f9-492d-08ddbdf042eb. Figures for Bolsover are not available.

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of of free childcare hours for disadvantaged two-year-olds were taken up in (a) Bolsover, (b) Derbyshire and (c) England in each of the past three years.

Answered by Stephen Morgan - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)

Figures on the number and estimated percentage of 3 and 4-year-olds who were registered for the universal entitlement in Derbyshire and England between January 2022 and 2024 can be accessed at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/14518f2b-6429-434f-1c45-08ddbd6c4867. Figures for Bolsover are not readily available.

Figures on the number of eligible children aged from 9 months registered for the working parent entitlement, at national and local authority level, are currently scheduled to be published on 17 July. Figures on the percentage of eligible children aged from 9 months registered for the working parent entitlement, at national level only, are also currently planned to be published in this statistics release. Due to data limitations around the reliability of the survey based data underpinning the calculations, sub-national estimates will not be available.

Figures on the number and estimated percentage of 2-year-olds registered for the disadvantaged entitlement in Derbyshire and England between January 2022 and 2024 can be viewed at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/5b816a38-7e84-48f9-492d-08ddbdf042eb. Figures for Bolsover are not available.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of dental care provision in Bolsover constituency.

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

The responsibility for commissioning primary care services, including National Health Service dentistry, to meet the needs of the local population has been delegated to the integrated care boards (ICBs) across England. For the Bolsover constituency, this is the Derby and Derbyshire ICB.

We will deliver 700,000 extra urgent dental appointments per year, and ICBs have been making extra appointments available from 1 April 2025. The Derby and Derbyshire ICB is expected to deliver 16,298 additional urgent dental appointments as part of the scheme.

ICBs are recruiting posts through the Golden Hello scheme. This recruitment incentive will see dentists receiving payments of £20,000 to work in those areas that need them most for three years.

The Government’s ambition is to deliver fundamental contract reform before the end of this Parliament.

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 help improve access to NHS dentistry in Bolsover constituency.

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

The responsibility for commissioning primary care services, including National Health Service dentistry, to meet the needs of the local population has been delegated to the integrated care boards (ICBs) across England. For the Bolsover constituency, this is the Derby and Derbyshire ICB.

We will deliver 700,000 extra urgent dental appointments per year, and ICBs have been making extra appointments available from 1 April 2025. The Derby and Derbyshire ICB is expected to deliver 16,298 additional urgent dental appointments as part of the scheme.

ICBs are recruiting posts through the Golden Hello scheme. This recruitment incentive will see dentists receiving payments of £20,000 to work in those areas that need them most for three years.

The Government’s ambition is to deliver fundamental contract reform before the end of this Parliament.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many additional urgent dental appointments have been made available in Bolsover constituency in 2025.

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

The responsibility for commissioning primary care services, including National Health Service dentistry, to meet the needs of the local population has been delegated to the integrated care boards (ICBs) across England. For the Bolsover constituency, this is the Derby and Derbyshire ICB.

We will deliver 700,000 extra urgent dental appointments per year, and ICBs have been making extra appointments available from 1 April 2025. The Derby and Derbyshire ICB is expected to deliver 16,298 additional urgent dental appointments as part of the scheme.

ICBs are recruiting posts through the Golden Hello scheme. This recruitment incentive will see dentists receiving payments of £20,000 to work in those areas that need them most for three years.

The Government’s ambition is to deliver fundamental contract reform before the end of this Parliament.

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