Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how the cost of redundancies during the NHS restructure will be met.

Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

Following the Prime Minister’s announcement of the abolition of NHS England, we are clear on the need for a smaller centre, as well as scaling back integrated care board running costs and National Health Service provider corporate costs reductions in order to reduce waste and bureaucracy. Good progress is being made with the Department and NHS England having announced voluntary exit or redundancy schemes.

Provision for redundancy costs will be considered alongside the multi-year planning round.

Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, when he plans to respond to correspondence from the hon. Member for Wolverhampton West dated 1 May 2025 on a constituent's concerns with auditors.

Answered by Feryal Clark - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)

The Department apologies for the delay in our response on this occasion. Our response was issued on 4^th July 2025.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help reduce the number of missing children in the West Midlands; and what steps she is taking to help reduce the number of Black and Asian missing children.

Answered by Jess Phillips - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The Missing Persons Authorised Professional Practice, issued by the College of Policing, sets out best practice guidance for all missing person investigations, including missing children.

The Government recognises the need for an effective multi-agency response to missing person investigations. To this end, the Home Office and Department for Education have been supporting the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) lead for Missing Persons in the development of a ‘Missing Children from Care’ framework, which has been piloted in West Yorkshire. This framework outlines good practice that can be adopted by local areas when setting up their own multi-agency protocols for the strategic and operational response to a missing incident, with an aim to ensure that the appropriate safeguarding partner responds in the best interest of the missing person.

The Home Office has also funded the NPCC for Missing Persons to conduct research to explore disproportionality and discrimination in police missing persons investigations; comparing how risk is categorised in different ethnic groups. The final report is nearing completion.

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Found: repression by the Indian government targeting Sikh activists was raised on the floor of the House by Warinder Juss

Found: Andy Slaughter (Chair); Josh Babarinde; Matt Bishop; Pam Cox; Linsey Farnsworth; Sir Ashley Fox; Warinder Juss

Found: Watch the meeting Members present: Andy Slaughter (Chair); Matt Bishop; Pam Cox; Sir Ashley Fox; Warinder Juss

Found: Warinder Juss: I am Warinder Juss, MP for Wolverhampton West.

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This inquiry will examine how advice and legal services are adapting to secure access to justice across civil, criminal, and family law, and the impacts of the cyber-attack on the Legal Aid Agency.