Asked by: Nick Fletcher (Conservative - Don Valley)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to publish the terms of reference and review team for the review into Relationship and Sex Education in Schools.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The Department is in the process of appointing the members of an independent expert panel to inform the wider review of the Relationships, Sex and Health Education statutory guidance. The Department expects the process to be completed shortly and will then make public more details of the panel and their work.
Asked by: Nick Fletcher (Conservative - Don Valley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve the quality of care for patients diagnosed with prostate cancer.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership commissions, develops and manages the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme, on behalf of NHS England, Wales and other devolved administrations.
This includes five national clinical audits focused on priority cancers, including one looking at prostate cancer. These audits have been introduced to reduce variation in treatment by demonstrating where care is being provided in line with standards and where a service is doing well or could be improved.
Asked by: Nick Fletcher (Conservative - Don Valley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to increase (a) rates of early detection and (b) diagnostic times for prostate cancer in the last 12 months.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Department is working with NHS England to improve early detection and diagnosis of prostate cancer. To increase rates of early detection for prostate cancer, NHS England is redesigning pathways to maximise capacity. In October 2022 NHS England published ‘Best Practice Timed Pathway’ for suspected prostate cancer. This guidance sets out how diagnosis can be achieved within 28 days for the suspected prostate cancer pathway. The guidance includes using a magnetic resonance imaging first strategy to reduce biopsy and move necessary biopsies from theatre into clinic. NHS England and NHS Improvement introduced a new financial incentive for 2022/23 through the Commissioning for Quality and Innovation scheme to support the delivery of the pathway.
Asked by: Nick Fletcher (Conservative - Don Valley)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many grants were awarded to local authorities for net zero projects in the last twelve months; and what the total value of those grants was.
Answered by Graham Stuart
The Government provides a wide range of funding to support local authorities in reaching net zero. Through their core settlement, grant funding schemes, and UK growth funding, the Government is enabling local authorities to tackle net zero goals.
The Government has established the UK Infrastructure Bank with an initial £12 billion of capital for the twin goals of tackling climate change and levelling-up. This includes a loan facility for local government to deliver net zero.
Asked by: Nick Fletcher (Conservative - Don Valley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps his Department has taken to help increase chemotherapy capacity for prostate cancer patients in (a) the UK and (b) each integrated care system.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
NHS England has set a target for systems to increase cancer treatment capacity by 13%, with the aim of further reducing cancer waiting lists. The latest statistics for February 2023 show that 98.04% of National Health Service patients have received their subsequent chemotherapy treatment within 31 days, against a target of 98%.
Asked by: Nick Fletcher (Conservative - Don Valley)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will issue guidance to local authorities on tackling the cloning of vehicle number plates for use in criminal activity; and if he will take steps to require the relevant authorities issuing motoring penalties to provide (a) photographic evidence and (b) contact information.
Answered by Richard Holden - Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)
The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) is currently working closely with the National Police Chiefs Council, Trading Standards, local authorities and other government departments to improve the identification and enforcement of number plate crime.
The police are responsible for on-road enforcement of vehicle offences, including cloned plates. Local authorities have procedures in place to deal with number plate cloning and registered keepers are advised to return any fines they receive to the issuing authorities along with any evidence to show that their vehicle was not in the area at the time. Registered keepers may also request photographic evidence and other information from the relevant authorities who have issued the penalty.
Asked by: Nick Fletcher (Conservative - Don Valley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many projects his Department is funding for research into (a) male and (b) female health; and what the cost of those programmes has been in the latest period for which data is available.
Answered by Will Quince
The National Institute for Health and Care Research welcomes funding applications for research into any aspect of human health, including men’s health and women’s health issues. It is not usual practice to ring-fence funds for particular topics or conditions. Applications are subject to peer review and judged in open competition, with awards being made on the basis of the importance of the topic to patients and health and care services, value for money and scientific quality.
Asked by: Nick Fletcher (Conservative - Don Valley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of prescriptions in England were issued to (a) men and (b) women.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
The proportion of prescriptions in England in 2022 issued to men and women is displayed in the table below.
Gender | Items Dispensed | Proportion (%) |
Female | 628,562,493 | 54.02% |
Male | 501,247,030 | 43.08% |
Unknown | 33,634,015 | 2.89% |
Indeterminate | 29,683 | 0.00% |
Source: NHS Business Services Authority Information Services Data Warehouse
“Unknown” is where no data is held. “Indeterminate” is where the data held does not confirm male or female.
Proportions have been rounded to two decimal places and may not total 100%.
Asked by: Nick Fletcher (Conservative - Don Valley)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of deaths in (a) 2021 and (b) 2022 were (i) male and (ii) female.
Answered by Jeremy Quin
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.
A response to the Hon Gentlemen’s Parliamentary Question of 27 March is attached.
Asked by: Nick Fletcher (Conservative - Don Valley)
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 GP surgery appointments were for (a) men and (b) women in England in the 2021-22 financial year.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
This data is not available in the format requested.