Asked by: Gareth Davies (Conservative - Grantham and Stamford)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the prevalence is of healthcare associated infections in hospitals in England.
Answered by Jo Churchill - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
Public Health England publishes data on hospital-onset bloodstream infection as incidence rates. However, prevalence data are not available.
Asked by: Gareth Davies (Conservative - Grantham and Stamford)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment the Government has made of the potential benefits to SMEs of codifying the legal doctrine of passing off.
Answered by Amanda Solloway - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
Passing off is a well-established principle in common law and is used to protect businesses (including SMEs) who operate in the UK against other businesses misrepresenting themselves to the public as that first business. It is often seen as a flexible and entirely appropriate mechanism to deal with unregistered trade mark infringement. The Government has not made any specific assessment of the potential benefits to SMEs of codifying the legal doctrine of passing off.
Owners of registered and unregistered trade marks, in particular SMEs have various affordable avenues to address trade mark infringement, including passing off claims. These avenues include the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court which includes a small claims track specifically designed to help SMEs address IP disputes in a more affordable way. SMEs may also take advantage of the IP Pro Bono initiative and mediation services, including the mediation service offered by the Intellectual Property Office (IPO). Full guidance for SMEs on how to address IP infringement, including affordable access to justice is available at the IPO’s website (www.ipo.gov.uk).
Asked by: Gareth Davies (Conservative - Grantham and Stamford)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment the Government has made of the potential benefits to SMEs of creating unfair competition legislation similar to the German Unfair Competition Act of 2004 or the US Trademark Dilution Revision Act 2006.
Answered by Paul Scully
The Government is committed to tackling unfair business practices and keeps competition law under constant review to ensure that it is as effective as possible in protecting the interests of consumers and businesses.
Asked by: Gareth Davies (Conservative - Grantham and Stamford)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effect of the use of drone devices on the rate of home burglaries in England; and how many crimes were recorded involving drones in (a) 2017, (b) 2018 and (c) 2019.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The long-term trend in burglaries recorded by the police in England has been downward and the number recorded in 2019 was 7% lower than in 2018.
The Home Office does not hold information on the number of recorded crimes, including burglaries, which involved drones.
The Government recognises the particularly invasive nature of burglary and the impact it can have on victims. Whilst police recorded crime statistics for England and Wales showed that burglary had fallen, too many people experience this traumatic crime each year. We are taking a proactive approach to driving down these crimes and have announced a £25m Safer Streets Fund to help prevent these crimes as well as supporting the recruitment of 20,000 new police officers to ensure they have the resources to deal with these crimes when they do occur. We are working to combat burglary in a number of areas, including: making homes more secure, working with the police to examine what more can be done to prevent offenders disposing of stolen goods, and improving the police and wider criminal justice system response.
Asked by: Gareth Davies (Conservative - Grantham and Stamford)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will take steps to ensure that students in (a) Lincolnshire and (b) other rural areas have an adequate transport service to reach their place of work under the T-level requirement to do 315 hours of work experience.
Answered by Gillian Keegan - Secretary of State for Education
Decisions about transport, including in Lincolnshire, are a matter for local transport authorities, working with transport operators.
However, students should not be prevented from undertaking a T Level industry placement due to the additional transport costs. Therefore we are taking a number of steps to ensure that students are able to access placements regardless of where they live. We have increased the travel bursaries that young people can draw on to help with travel costs and providers can use the T Level Capacity and Delivery Fund to help with travel costs. Additionally, the National Apprenticeships Service has been looking to encourage more employers including small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to offer placements as SMEs make up the majority of employers in rural areas.
We are also looking at imaginative and innovative approaches to student transport which already exist and enable greater access to placements, in particular for students in rural areas, and how we can foster these approaches more widely for T Levels.
Asked by: Gareth Davies (Conservative - Grantham and Stamford)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
What diplomatic steps his Department is taking to help improve the security situation in the Sahel.
Answered by James Duddridge
The UK is working with partners to address instability. I attended international meetings on the Sahel earlier this month and in Mauritania in February. I stressed the importance of improving governance and respecting human rights.
As part of our efforts, the UK is deploying 250 peacekeeping troops to Mali and has 3 RAF Chinook helicopters deployed to a Counter Terrorism operation. We are also one of largest humanitarian donors to the Sahel. Between 2015 and 2019, the UK provided humanitarian aid to 2.3 million across the region.
Asked by: Gareth Davies (Conservative - Grantham and Stamford)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding will be allocated to the Primary PE and Sport Premium in academic year 2020-21.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The Government will confirm arrangements for the PE and Sport Premium in the 2020/21 academic year as soon as possible.
Asked by: Gareth Davies (Conservative - Grantham and Stamford)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps the Government is taking to help ensure that (a) public and (b) hospitality venue toilet facilities accessible for people with hidden disabilities and disabled children.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The Government, via the Cabinet Office Disability Unit, is supporting the British Standards Institute in its development of a public information symbol to support disabled people with non-visible disabilities.
The Government has consulted on proposals to increase the number of Changing Places toilet facilities through mandating them in a range of public buildings, using the statutory building regulations framework. Changing Places toilets meet the needs of people with profound and multiple learning disabilities, as well as people with other physical disabilities such as spinal injuries, muscular dystrophy and multiple sclerosis.
Asked by: Gareth Davies (Conservative - Grantham and Stamford)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many accidents there were on the Lincolnshire stretch of the A1 since 2015; and how much funding the Government plans to allocate for highways in Lincolnshire to improve road safety in the next 12 months.
Answered by George Freeman
The Department holds information on personal injury accidents only and the latest available statistics on road safety are for the calendar year 2018. 2019 statistics will be available in September 2020.
Reported road accidents with a personal injury on the A1, Lincolnshire, 2015-2018 |
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2015 | 49 |
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2016 | 44 |
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2017 | 38 |
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The second Road Investment Strategy will confirm the Government’s plans for the strategic road network. We expect this to be published in due course.
Asked by: Gareth Davies (Conservative - Grantham and Stamford)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients attended A&E at (a) Grantham and District Hospital, (b) Pilgrim Hospital Boston and (c) Lincoln County Hospital in (i) 2016, (ii) 2017, (iii) 2018 and (iv) 2019.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The information is not available in the format requested. The available information in the following table shows the number of unplanned accident and emergency (A&E) attendance, at Grantham and District Hospital, Pilgrim Hospital Boston and Lincoln County Hospital in 2016/17, 2017/18 and 2018/19.
It should be noted that the number of admissions will include those patients that attended A&E more than once.
National Health Service Provider | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 |
Lincoln County Hospital | 71,455 | 67,825 | 70,650 |
Pilgrim Hospital Boston | 57,360 | 57,235 | 52,635 |
Grantham and District Hospital | 24,115 | 22,750 | 23,755 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, NHS Digital