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Written Question
Prince's Trust: Contracts
Friday 24th May 2024

Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Minister without Portfolio's article of 12 May 2024 in The Sunday Telegraph, when her Department is expected to terminate its contract with the Prince's Trust, order reference C191156; and whether a notice period is required under the provisions of clause 10.2.2 of that contract.

Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Dissolution.


Written Question
Tomography
Friday 24th May 2024

Asked by: Karin Smyth (Labour - Bristol South)

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 (a) CT and (b) MRI scanners have been in operation for longer than 10 years.

Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Dissolution.


Written Question
Surgical Mesh Implants: Compensation
Friday 24th May 2024

Asked by: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review report First Do No Harm, published on 8 July 2020, what steps they will take to provide monetary compensation for people adversely affected by clinical and surgical pelvic mesh.

Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Dissolution. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.


Written Question
Breast Cancer: Health Services
Friday 24th May 2024

Asked by: Baroness Merron (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the findings of the first quarterly report of the National Audit of Metastatic Breast Cancer, published on 10 April, what steps they are taking to address gaps in data collection for secondary breast cancer patients.

Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Dissolution. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.


Written Question
Anaesthetics: Vacancies
Friday 24th May 2024

Asked by: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to address anaesthetic workforce shortages.

Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Dissolution. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.


Written Question
Crimes of Violence: Women
Friday 24th May 2024

Asked by: Jim Shannon (Democratic Unionist Party - Strangford)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of trends in the number of convictions for violence against women in the last 12 months.

Answered by Laura Farris - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Ministry of Justice) (jointly with Home Office)

It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.


Written Question
Rape: Trials
Friday 24th May 2024

Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of rape trials were postponed (a) once, (b) twice and (c) three times in each year since 2010.

Answered by Laura Farris - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Ministry of Justice) (jointly with Home Office)

It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.


Written Question
Social Services: Pay
Friday 24th May 2024

Asked by: Baroness Altmann (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government, in light of the report Who Cares Wins published by Community Integrated Care in March, what assessment they have made of how improving pay for front-line care and support workers would reduce vacancy rates and staff turnover in the care sector to the average within the NHS; and whether they will develop a plan for parity of pay between front-line care and support workers in the social care sector and equivalent roles in the NHS.

Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Dissolution. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.


Written Question
Mental Capacity
Friday 24th May 2024

Asked by: Lord Kempsell (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have an update on when Liberty Protection Safeguards will be introduced; and when they anticipate that these safeguards will replace the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, as recommended by the Law Commission.

Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Dissolution. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.


Written Question
Mental Capacity
Friday 24th May 2024

Asked by: Lord Kempsell (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many Deprivation of Liberty orders have been made in England and Wales since their inception; and whether they will provide a geographical breakdown of their prevalence across regions.

Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Dissolution. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.