Asked by: Adam Afriyie (Conservative - Windsor)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many non-crime hate incidents the police have recorded in 2022.
Answered by Rachel Maclean
I refer the Hon member to the previous answer given to UIN 153861 on 26 April 2022.
Asked by: Adam Afriyie (Conservative - Windsor)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps the Government is taking to help ensure that open banking is able to benefit as many consumers as possible.
Answered by John Glen - Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office
Open Banking is a great UK success story that has brought significant benefits to the 5.5 million UK consumers and businesses who now use products and services enabled by this technology.
The government recently set out its plan for the future of UK Open Banking in a joint statement with the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), and the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR), including a cross-authority committee for oversight of a new entity to succeed the Open Banking Implementation Entity. Through this Joint Authority Oversight Committee the government and regulators will work closely together to maintain the UK’s leadership in Open Banking. The government is seeking to build on the initial success of UK Open Banking to help unlock and realise further benefits for consumers, businesses, and the wider economy. Open Banking should continue to support innovation and greater competition for consumers and businesses.
Asked by: Adam Afriyie (Conservative - Windsor)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the level of backlog maintenance has been in NHS mental health services in each of the last ten years (a) in total and (b) by category of risk.
Answered by Gillian Keegan - Secretary of State for Education
Information on backlog maintenance was not collected in the format requested prior to 2015/16. Since 2015/16, data has been categorised by site type, which allows an estimate of the level of backlog maintenance in the mental health estate. The attached table shows the level of backlog maintenance in total and by category of risk in sites categorised as ‘Mental Health’, ‘Mental Health (including Specialist services)’, ‘Learning Disabilities’ and ‘Mental Health and Learning Disabilities’.
Asked by: Adam Afriyie (Conservative - Windsor)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) inpatient child and (b) adolescent mental health beds have there been in the NHS in each of the last 12 years.
Answered by Gillian Keegan - Secretary of State for Education
This information is not collected in the format requested, as the data does not differentiate between child and adolescent mental health beds. Information was not collected centrally prior to 2017/18. However, the following table shows the number of child and adolescent inpatient mental health beds commissioned by NHS England and NHS Improvement at the beginning of each financial year from 2017/18.
2017/18 | 1,476 |
2018/19 | 1,511 |
2019/20 | 1,534 |
2020/21 | 1,438 |
2021/22 | 1,366 |
2022/23 | 1,401 |
Source: NHS England and NHS Improvement
Asked by: Adam Afriyie (Conservative - Windsor)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that people have (a) access to cash and (b) the ability to use cash.
Answered by John Glen - Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office
The government recognises that cash is an important part of daily life for millions of people across the UK, and remains committed to legislating to protect access to cash.
As part of the Financial Services Act 2021, the government made legislative changes to support the widespread offering of cashback without a purchase by shops and other businesses. The government's view is that cashback without a purchase has the potential to be a valuable facility to cash users.
From 1 July to 23 September last year, the government held the Access to Cash Consultation on further proposals for new laws to make sure people only need to travel a reasonable distance to pay in or take out cash. The government’s proposals intend to support the continued use of cash in people’s daily lives and help to enable local businesses to continue accepting cash by ensuring they can access deposit facilities. The government has carefully considered responses to the consultation and will set out next steps in due course.
Following the government’s commitment to legislate, firms are working together through the Cash Action Group to develop new initiatives to provide shared services. The government welcomes the direction set by industry’s commitments at the end of last year and looks forward to seeing what results they deliver in protecting cash facilities for local communities across the UK.
Asked by: Adam Afriyie (Conservative - Windsor)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many non-crime hate incidents the police have recorded in 2022.
Answered by Rachel Maclean
The Home Office collects and publishes information on the number of hate crime offences recorded by the police in England and Wales. Information is not collected on non-hate crime incidents.
Asked by: Adam Afriyie (Conservative - Windsor)
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 ensure that people can access face-to-face GP services.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
NHS England and NHS Improvement’s guidance states that general practices should provide face to face appointments, alongside remote consultations. Patient input should be sought on the type of consultation with preferences for face to face care respected, unless there are good clinical reasons to the contrary. Excluding COVID-19 vaccinations, in February 2022 61.3% of appointments were conducted in person.
We have made £520 million available to improve access and expand general practice capacity during the pandemic. This is in addition to £1.5 billion announced in 2020 to create an additional 50 million general practice appointments by 2024 by increasing and diversifying the workforce.
Asked by: Adam Afriyie (Conservative - Windsor)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children and young people have been waiting to start treatment for an eating disorder in each quarter since the first quarter of 2016-17, broken down by (a) urgent and (b) routine cases; and what the average waiting time for a child or young person to start treatment for an eating disorder has been in each quarter since the first quarter of 2016-17.
Answered by Gillian Keegan - Secretary of State for Education
The information is not held in the format requested.
However, the attached table shows the number of children and young people waiting at intervals of up to one week, one to four weeks, four to 12 weeks and 12 weeks and over for eating disorder treatment since the first quarter of 2016/17.
Asked by: Adam Afriyie (Conservative - Windsor)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make a comparative assessment of prevalence of oral cancer amongst (a) South Asian women and (b) the adult population; and if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of creating a product standard for chewed tobacco products as recommended in the 2006 study entitled Levels of toxins in oral tobacco products in the UK published in the journal Tobacco Control, volume 15, issue 1.
Answered by Maggie Throup
‘Oral cancer in England’, published in May 2020, compared the incidence of oral cancer in Asian/Asian British people with other ethnic groups in the adult population, although it made no specific assessment of prevalence in South Asian women. We have no plans to make such an assessment.
No assessment of creating a product standard has been made. Products standards for tobacco are contained in The Tobacco and Related Products (Amendment) Regulations 2016. The Department is due to publish its post implementation review of the Regulations shortly.
Asked by: Adam Afriyie (Conservative - Windsor)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many hospital admissions there have been in each of the last five years for (a) adults and (b) children with a (i) primary and (ii) secondary diagnosis of autism.
Answered by Gillian Keegan - Secretary of State for Education
The following table shows a count of finished admission episodes (FAEs) with a primary or secondary diagnosis of autism for those aged 0 to 17 years old and aged 18 years old and over in each year from 2016/17 to 2020/21.
Year | Age | Primary diagnosis | Secondary diagnosis |
2016/17 | 0 to 17 years old | 456 | 20,295 |
2016/17 | 18 years old and over | 165 | 11,975 |
2017/18 | 0 to 17 years old | 465 | 24,065 |
2017/18 | 18 years old and over | 230 | 14,766 |
2018/19 | 0 to 17 years old | 513 | 29,790 |
2018/19 | 18 years old and over | 234 | 19,652 |
2019/20 | 0 to 17 years old | 594 | 33,908 |
2019/20 | 18 years old and over | 242 | 24,105 |
2020/21 | 0 to 17 years old | 377 | 25,427 |
2020/21 | 18 years old and over | 215 | 23,607 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), NHS Digital.
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