Asked by: Navendu Mishra (Labour - Stockport)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many nursing associates were employed by the NHS in England in each of the last 10 years; and if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of trends in the number of nursing associates employed by the NHS in England in the last 10 years.
Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Data on the workforce employed in NHS trusts and integrated care boards in England, including information on the number of nursing associates, is published at the following link:
https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-workforce-statistics
As we said in the 10-Year Health Plan, the Government is committed to publish a 10 Year Workforce Plan as well as a new long term professional strategy for nursing and midwifery, and further details on both will be set out to the House in due course.
Asked by: Navendu Mishra (Labour - Stockport)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department will consider the potential merits of requesting a formal review of domiciliary dental provision across Greater Manchester, including an assessment of (a) population requirements, (b) waiting times, (c) commissioned capacity and (d) access for (i) care-home residents and (ii) housebound patients.
Answered by James Frith - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
I refer the Hon. Member to the answer given on 8 July in response to Question 15669, which sets out our approach to domiciliary dental provision across the country, including in Greater Manchester.
Asked by: Navendu Mishra (Labour - Stockport)
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 7 September 2026 to Question 21932 on Social Services, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of establishing a fund or investment mechanism to support locally owned and community-based care providers to expand and modernise their services.
Answered by Alison McGovern - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Baroness Casey has made clear that one of the core purposes of the Big Conversation on Care that she is leading is to hear from all individuals and organisations with proposals on how to reform the social care system, improve the provision of care, and fund those improvements. The Government will wait for the outcome of Baroness Casey’s review before considering next steps.
Asked by: Navendu Mishra (Labour - Stockport)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment her Department has made of trends in levels of (a) anti-Hindu sentiment and (b) Hinduphobia.
Answered by Florence Eshalomi - Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
We monitor trends in religious and racial hatred closely, working across Government, with the police and community partners to understand emerging issues and impacts. In the year ending March 2026, police recorded 210 religious hate crimes targeting Hindus, representing 2% of all religious hate crimes and a 15% increase from the previous year.
Whilst the number of hate crimes targeting Hindus remains relatively low compared with other forms of religious hatred, every incident represents an unacceptable attack on an individual’s right to live and practise their faith freely. One hate crime is one too many and this Government is committed to tackling all forms of racial and religious hatred wherever it occurs, including that directed at Hindus.
The Government is delivering targeted interventions to tackle hatred at its root across all corners of society. This includes investing in places of worship and protective security funding, strengthening hate crime reporting and enforcement, ensuring online hate crime offences are swiftly investigated and that hate crimes are prosecuted with the full force of the law.
Asked by: Navendu Mishra (Labour - Stockport)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to ensure that reuse and repair are integrated into waste services.
Answered by Emma Hardy - Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
Defra recognises that repair and reuse are fundamental tenets of any circular economy, and a successful transition aims to eliminate waste and promote sustainability through reuse and resource efficiency. We established a Circular Economy Taskforce to co-design our approach and will outline our next steps shortly.
Asked by: Navendu Mishra (Labour - Stockport)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the fiscal circumstances would allow the return to spending 0.7% of Gross National Income on the Official Development Assistance.
Answered by Uma Kumaran - Assistant Whip
The Government is committed to returning to spending 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI) on Official Development Assistance (ODA) as soon as fiscal circumstances allow. I refer the Honourable Member to Written Ministerial Statement HLWS291 of 16 July 2026 (0.7 per cent of GNI on ODA target 2025) for further detail.
Asked by: Navendu Mishra (Labour - Stockport)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment has been made of (a) the potential impact of proposed changes to the Nutrient Profiling Model on manufacturers’ investment in product reformulation and innovation and (b) of the adequacy of the proposed 12-month implementation period for the 2018 Nutrient Profiling Model, including the time required by manufacturers for reformulation, product testing and associated investment.
Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Initial assessments of the impact of the existing restrictions on the advertising and promotion of less healthy food and drink products were included in the consultation published in March. The consultation exercise also invited stakeholders to contribute their own views and evidence on the impact of the existing restrictions to help inform any decision to apply the new Nutrient Profiling Model to them. The Government is carefully considering the responses to that consultation prior to taking any decisions on next steps.
Asked by: Navendu Mishra (Labour - Stockport)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her department has made of the potential merits of revising the funding methodology for the gambling harm prevention grant.
Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
No such assessment is considered necessary at present, but the Government will always keep these matters under review.
Asked by: Navendu Mishra (Labour - Stockport)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to ensure the National Cancer Plan’s proactive case-finding measures reach people at risk of liver cancer in alcohol services, diabetes clinics and primary care.
Answered by James Frith - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
I refer the Hon. Members to the answer provided on 19 October in response to Question 33157.
Asked by: Navendu Mishra (Labour - Stockport)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the barriers to early diagnosis of lung cancer among people who have never smoked.
Answered by James Frith - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
I refer the Hon Member to the answer provided on 25 February 2025 in response to Question HL4716.