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Information between 14th February 2024 - 15th March 2024

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Division Votes
20 Feb 2024 - Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill - View Vote Context
George Howarth voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 155 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 286 Noes - 221
20 Feb 2024 - Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill - View Vote Context
George Howarth voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 161 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 226 Noes - 287
27 Feb 2024 - Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill - View Vote Context
George Howarth voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 150 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 179 Noes - 294
27 Feb 2024 - Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill - View Vote Context
George Howarth voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 151 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 169 Noes - 306
27 Feb 2024 - Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill - View Vote Context
George Howarth voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 151 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 170 Noes - 299
27 Feb 2024 - Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill - View Vote Context
George Howarth voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 152 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 171 Noes - 300
13 Mar 2024 - Business without Debate - View Vote Context
George Howarth voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 141 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 291 Noes - 147
13 Mar 2024 - National Insurance Contributions (Reduction in Rates) (No. 2) Bill - View Vote Context
George Howarth voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 147 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 170 Noes - 292
13 Mar 2024 - National Insurance Contributions (Reduction in Rates) (No. 2) Bill - View Vote Context
George Howarth voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 147 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 169 Noes - 293


Speeches
George Howarth speeches from: Oral Answers to Questions
George Howarth contributed 1 speech (40 words)
Tuesday 27th February 2024 - Commons Chamber
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero
George Howarth speeches from: Financial Risk Checks for Gambling
George Howarth contributed 2 speeches (22 words)
Monday 26th February 2024 - Westminster Hall
Department for Business and Trade


Written Answers
Cancer: Health Education
Asked by: George Howarth (Labour - Knowsley)
Wednesday 21st February 2024

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of targeted awareness campaigns for young people on the five main warning signs and symptoms of cancer.

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

The Children and Young People Cancer Taskforce has been set up to progress the Government’s mission to deliver world-leading cancer services. This dedicated work focusing on cancers affecting children and young people will explore detection and diagnosis, including improving awareness of the signs and symptoms of cancer in young people, as well as genomic testing and treatment, and research and innovation.

NHS England is focused on accelerating earlier and faster cancer diagnosis to achieve the NHS Long Term Plan ambition of diagnosing 75% of people at an early stage by 2028. NHS England’s comprehensive strategy includes raising awareness of cancer symptoms, tackling barriers to help-seeking, and encouraging people to get checked. Targeted awareness campaigns such as Help Us, Help You are a crucial component of this work. The campaigns address specific symptoms, including those linked to common, rare, and less-common cancers, cancer screening, and the fear-related barriers to seeking help from the National Health Service across all cancer types.

Cancer: Young People
Asked by: George Howarth (Labour - Knowsley)
Wednesday 21st February 2024

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to improve awareness of the (a) signs and (b) symptoms of cancer in young people.

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

The Children and Young People Cancer Taskforce has been set up to progress the Government’s mission to deliver world-leading cancer services. This dedicated work focusing on cancers affecting children and young people will explore detection and diagnosis, including improving awareness of the signs and symptoms of cancer in young people, as well as genomic testing and treatment, and research and innovation.

NHS England is focused on accelerating earlier and faster cancer diagnosis to achieve the NHS Long Term Plan ambition of diagnosing 75% of people at an early stage by 2028. NHS England’s comprehensive strategy includes raising awareness of cancer symptoms, tackling barriers to help-seeking, and encouraging people to get checked. Targeted awareness campaigns such as Help Us, Help You are a crucial component of this work. The campaigns address specific symptoms, including those linked to common, rare, and less-common cancers, cancer screening, and the fear-related barriers to seeking help from the National Health Service across all cancer types.

Turkey: Christianity
Asked by: George Howarth (Labour - Knowsley)
Tuesday 20th February 2024

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of changes in the level of violence against Christians in Turkey.

Answered by Leo Docherty - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for the Armed Forces)

We support the rights of all minority groups in Turkey, including Christians, and note that the right to freedom of religion and belief is clearly enshrined in the Turkish constitution. Our travel advice for Turkey notes that terrorists may target places of worship. The UK stands with Turkey against terrorism, and we welcome the Turkish authorities' swift response to security threats, such as the fatal shooting at Santa Maria Church in Istanbul on 28 January.

Blood Diseases: Medical Treatments
Asked by: George Howarth (Labour - Knowsley)
Wednesday 21st February 2024

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions she has had with (a) NICE and (b) NHS England on encouraging the adoption of new treatments for (i) sickle cell disease and (ii) beta-thalassaemia.

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

The Department regularly discusses a range of issues with colleagues in NHS England and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), related to patient access to new treatments.

The NICE appraises all new licensed medicines, and its recommendations are developed independently in line with its established methods and processes, on the basis of an assessment of the available evidence, and through extensive engagement with stakeholders. NHS England is legally required to fund treatments recommended in NICE technology appraisal guidance.

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence: Medical Treatments
Asked by: George Howarth (Labour - Knowsley)
Wednesday 21st February 2024

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions she has had with the (a) National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and (b) Chancellor of the Exchequer on the application of NICE's evaluation methods to support value assessment for one-off curative treatments for which health gains are accrued over time.

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

Department officials regularly discuss a range of issues with colleagues in the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and HM Treasury. The NICE is responsible for the methods and processes it uses to develop its recommendations, and concluded a comprehensive review of the methods and processes it uses for health technology evaluation, in January 2022. The NICE carried out the review through extensive engagement with stakeholders, including officials within the Department. The NICE introduced a number of changes that make its methods fairer, faster, more consistent, and appropriate to the evaluation of emerging new technologies, such as cell and gene therapies.

The NICE is monitoring the impact of the changes following the methods review and has committed to considering modular updates to its methods and processes in the future, including a planned update focussed on health inequalities in 2024. The NICE has been able to recommend several advanced therapeutic medicinal products, including one-off gene therapies, for National Health Service funding that are now available to NHS patients in line with NICE’s recommendations.

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence: Medical Treatments
Asked by: George Howarth (Labour - Knowsley)
Wednesday 21st February 2024

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions she has had with NICE on developing its methodologies to ensure future access to (a) innovative one-time treatments and (b) cell and genetic therapies.

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

Department officials regularly discuss a range of issues with colleagues in the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and HM Treasury. The NICE is responsible for the methods and processes it uses to develop its recommendations, and concluded a comprehensive review of the methods and processes it uses for health technology evaluation, in January 2022. The NICE carried out the review through extensive engagement with stakeholders, including officials within the Department. The NICE introduced a number of changes that make its methods fairer, faster, more consistent, and appropriate to the evaluation of emerging new technologies, such as cell and gene therapies.

The NICE is monitoring the impact of the changes following the methods review and has committed to considering modular updates to its methods and processes in the future, including a planned update focussed on health inequalities in 2024. The NICE has been able to recommend several advanced therapeutic medicinal products, including one-off gene therapies, for National Health Service funding that are now available to NHS patients in line with NICE’s recommendations.

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence: Medical Treatments
Asked by: George Howarth (Labour - Knowsley)
Wednesday 21st February 2024

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions she has had with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence on updates in the way that it assesses medicines that reduce health inequalities.

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

Department officials regularly discuss a range of issues with colleagues in the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and HM Treasury. The NICE is responsible for the methods and processes it uses to develop its recommendations, and concluded a comprehensive review of the methods and processes it uses for health technology evaluation, in January 2022. The NICE carried out the review through extensive engagement with stakeholders, including officials within the Department. The NICE introduced a number of changes that make its methods fairer, faster, more consistent, and appropriate to the evaluation of emerging new technologies, such as cell and gene therapies.

The NICE is monitoring the impact of the changes following the methods review and has committed to considering modular updates to its methods and processes in the future, including a planned update focussed on health inequalities in 2024. The NICE has been able to recommend several advanced therapeutic medicinal products, including one-off gene therapies, for National Health Service funding that are now available to NHS patients in line with NICE’s recommendations.

Diabetes: Medical Equipment
Asked by: George Howarth (Labour - Knowsley)
Wednesday 21st February 2024

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 patients with type 1 diabetes use (a) finger-pricking monitoring and (b) continuous monitoring to track their glucose levels.

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

Standard care for type 1 diabetes involves regularly measuring blood glucose levels by self-monitoring, blood testing, or by using a continuous glucose monitor, real-time or intermittently scanned.

The NHS Long Term Plan committed that 20% of people with type 1 diabetes would benefit from life changing flash glucose monitors. Data to quarter three of 2022/23 shows that 73% of people with type 1 diabetes were prescribed flash glucose monitoring, against the 20% target. As a result of the recent National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance that also recommended that insulin dependent patients with type 2 diabetes should benefit from flash or continuous glucose monitoring devices, we are now starting to see a growth in prescribing within the type 2 diabetes patient group.

Diabetes: Medical Equipment
Asked by: George Howarth (Labour - Knowsley)
Wednesday 21st February 2024

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 patients with type 1 diabetes use real time continuous glucose monitoring to manage their diabetes.

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

Standard care for type 1 diabetes involves regularly measuring blood glucose levels by self-monitoring, blood testing, or by using a continuous glucose monitor, real-time or intermittently scanned.

The NHS Long Term Plan committed that 20% of people with type 1 diabetes would benefit from life changing flash glucose monitors. Data to quarter three of 2022/23 shows that 73% of people with type 1 diabetes were prescribed flash glucose monitoring, against the 20% target. As a result of the recent National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance that also recommended that insulin dependent patients with type 2 diabetes should benefit from flash or continuous glucose monitoring devices, we are now starting to see a growth in prescribing within the type 2 diabetes patient group.



Early Day Motions
Tuesday 5th March

YMCA campaign

8 signatures (Most recent: 18 Mar 2024)
Tabled by: George Howarth (Labour - Knowsley)
That this House welcomes the YMCA’s Now’s Our Chance campaign; notes with approval its manifesto for affordable, good quality, safe and secure housing and for young people’s access to youth services all year round in their area, financial support to allow them to meet their essential needs, help to build …
Friday 1st March

Funding for children's hospices

9 signatures (Most recent: 14 Mar 2024)
Tabled by: George Howarth (Labour - Knowsley)
That this House is concerned that children’s hospices are yet to receive written confirmation of how and when they will receive their NHS England Children’s Hospice Grant in the 2024-25 financial year, nor how much they are likely to receive; is concerned about the impact that this is having on …


Early Day Motions Signed
Monday 18th March
George Howarth signed this EDM on Monday 25th March 2024

Roger Daltrey’s 24 years of Royal Albert Hall shows for Teenage Cancer Trust

13 signatures (Most recent: 26 Mar 2024)
Tabled by: Amy Callaghan (Scottish National Party - East Dunbartonshire)
That this House celebrates 24 years of the Teenage Cancer Trust concerts at the Royal Albert Hall which have raised over £32 million, money that has helped fund specialist nurses, hospital units and support services right across the UK; applauds the work of Teenage Cancer Trust’s Honorary Patron and the …
Monday 4th March
George Howarth signed this EDM as a sponsor on Tuesday 5th March 2024

Fracture liaison services and osteoporosis

27 signatures (Most recent: 14 Mar 2024)
Tabled by: Margaret Greenwood (Labour - Wirral West)
That this House notes 50% of women and 20% of men over 50 will suffer a fracture due to osteoporosis; further notes 81,000 people of working age suffer fractures every year and that a third of sufferers will have to leave their jobs as a result; highlights the invaluable work …
Wednesday 7th February
George Howarth signed this EDM on Friday 1st March 2024

Gellings Riding School

24 signatures (Most recent: 13 Mar 2024)
Tabled by: Ian Byrne (Labour - Liverpool, West Derby)
That this House supports Gellings Riding School in its efforts to acquire the land it is situated upon in order to secure its existence for future generations; notes that the school is a vital community asset which has been an integral part of the West Derby community for 30 years, …
Tuesday 20th February
George Howarth signed this EDM on Monday 26th February 2024

Household Support Fund (No. 2)

36 signatures (Most recent: 6 Mar 2024)
Tabled by: Ian Byrne (Labour - Liverpool, West Derby)
That this House expresses deep concern that the UK Government has not committed to extending the Household Support Fund (HSF) beyond March 2024; notes that via this fund the Government has invested significantly in local crisis support as a response to the cost-of-living crisis; further notes that more than £2 …



George Howarth mentioned

Parliamentary Debates
Draft Energy Bills Discount Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2024
11 speeches (2,874 words)
Tuesday 5th March 2024 - General Committees
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero
Oral Answers to Questions
167 speeches (10,123 words)
Tuesday 27th February 2024 - Commons Chamber
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero
Mentions:
1: Lindsay Hoyle (Spk - Chorley) I call Sir George Howarth. - Link to Speech

Financial Risk Checks for Gambling
118 speeches (27,212 words)
Monday 26th February 2024 - Westminster Hall
Department for Business and Trade
Mentions:
1: Conor McGinn (Ind - St Helens North) [Sir George Howarth in the Chair]I draw attention to my declaration in the Register of Members’ Financial - Link to Speech