Asked by: Gill Furniss (Labour - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what action his Department is taking to improve the (a) information on and (b) resources for aortic stenosis provided to (i) women and (ii) primary healthcare professionals.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Department does not provide information on Aortic Stenosis. Local services in the National Health Service are responsible for providing information to patients on ways to reduce their risk of heart disease including Aortic Stenosis, including reference to the NHS website.
NHS England have considered research that has evidenced that women tend to present symptoms of Aortic Stenosis at an older age than men. Both men and women exhibit the same symptoms of aortic stenosis, with dizziness and breathlessness more common in women.
NHS England have recently published an adult breathlessness pathway tool for clinicians working in Primary Care. This will help support diagnosis of chronic breathlessness which is a more common symptom of Aortic Stenosis in women.
NHS England have developed and published a new heart failure and heart valve disease e-learning for healthcare (e-LfH) course for primary care and community and enable health care professionals to better recognise the symptoms of Aortic Stenosis in both men and women, and to diagnose, manage, and support heart failure and heart valve disease patient.
Asked by: Gill Furniss (Labour - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 2 May 2023 to Question 182917 on Motorways: Safety Measures, in what format his Department holds data on the distance between emergency refuge areas on dynamic hard shoulder smart motorways; and if he will publish that data.
Answered by Richard Holden - Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)
National Highways holds extensive mapping data of assets across its network. However, this data is not held in the format requested.
The Stocktake and Action Plan in 2020 launched a new standard to achieve closer spacing of places of relative safety (PRS), at 0.75 mile where feasible, up to a maximum of one mile. This was made a requirement for new All Lane Running (ALR) smart motorways schemes which entered the design phase from November 2020.
Therefore, any ALR smart motorway scheme that entered the design phase after this date is required to meet these standards.
Asked by: Gill Furniss (Labour - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what data his Department holds on the number and proportion of electric vehicle charging devices (a) on roads and (b) in motorway service stations able to be used by only one vehicle make.
Answered by Jesse Norman
The information requested is not held.
Data on public electric vehicle charging devices in the UK held by the Department for Transport, is sourced from the electric vehicle charging platform ZapMap. This includes the number of public “charging devices” but the data does identify whether a device is capable of charging only one vehicle make.
Asked by: Gill Furniss (Labour - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many additional emergency refuge areas have been added to all lane running smart motorways in operation since January 2022.
Answered by Richard Holden - Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)
Since January 2022, 108 emergency areas have been added to all lane running (ALR) motorways.
Asked by: Gill Furniss (Labour - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of all lane running smart motorways have places of relative safety spaced at an average of less than 0.75 miles apart.
Answered by Richard Holden - Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)
Current design standards require places of relative safety to be spaced between 0.75 and 1 mile.
Asked by: Gill Furniss (Labour - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what proportion of (a) all-lane running and (b) dynamic hard shoulder smart motorways have an emergency refuge area at least every (i) three-quarters of and (ii) one mile.
Answered by Richard Holden - Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)
Currently just over a third of ALR smart motorways in operation have places of relative safety (PRS), including Emergency Areas, spaced at an average of less than one mile. The average spacing between PRS on operational ALR schemes is currently approximately 0.97 miles. National Highways does not hold the data available for dynamic hard shoulder (DHS) smart motorways in the format requested.
In the Government’s response to the Transport Select Committee in 2022, £390m was committed to constructing an additional 150 Emergency Areas to ALR smart motorways in operation over the duration of the second Road Investment Strategy to reduce the spacing between places to stop in an emergency in line with the new standard.
Asked by: Gill Furniss (Labour - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding his Department has provided for (a) walking and (b) cycling in the (i) 2021-22 and (ii) 2022-23 financial year.
Answered by Jesse Norman
The table below summarises the amounts of dedicated funding for active travel provided by the Department for Transport in the current and previous financial year. It is not possible to provide separate totals for investment in walking schemes and investment in cycling schemes. The figures do not include the funding for active travel that comes from wider funding streams such as the City Region Sustainable Transport Settlements (CRSTS). The Department’s highways maintenance funding for local authorities provides further funding for roads and pavements and so also benefits cyclists and pedestrians.
Year | Dedicated capital funding for active travel (£ million) | Dedicated revenue funding for active travel (£ million) |
2021-22 | 209 | 70 |
2022-23 | 200 | 71 |
Asked by: Gill Furniss (Labour - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding his Department will provide for active travel in this Parliament.
Answered by Jesse Norman
In total, the Government expects to provide around £3 billion of funding for active travel over this Parliament from a wide range of Departmental and cross-Government funding streams. Further detail is provided in the second statutory Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy (CWIS2), published in July 2022, a copy of which is in the House libraries. The figure will be updated in the next Report to Parliament on the delivery of CWIS2.
Asked by: Gill Furniss (Labour - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 16 March 2023 to Question 165429 on Active Travel: Finance, when he plans to publish the next report on the delivery of the cycling and walking investment strategy.
Answered by Jesse Norman
The Department expects to publish the next statutory report to Parliament in due course, alongside the publication of the third Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy (CWIS3).
Asked by: Gill Furniss (Labour - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Written Statement of 9 March 2023 on Transport Update, HCWS625, whether the policies set out in the Answers to Questions (a) 147238, (b) 147239 and (c) 147243 on Travel: Finance remain his policies.
Answered by Jesse Norman
Yes.