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Tuesday 23rd April 2024
Matt Hancock (Independent - West Suffolk)

Ten Minute Rule Motion - Main Chamber
Subject: Neurodivergent Conditions and Teacher Training
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Division Votes
14 Mar 2024 - Asylum and Migration - View Vote Context
Matt Hancock voted No and in line with the House
One of 2 Independent No votes vs 2 Independent Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 36 Noes - 220


Speeches
Matt Hancock speeches from: SEND Provision
Matt Hancock contributed 4 speeches (1,843 words)
Thursday 14th March 2024 - Commons Chamber
Scotland Office
Matt Hancock speeches from: Financial Risk Checks for Gambling
Matt Hancock contributed 10 speeches (1,661 words)
Monday 26th February 2024 - Westminster Hall
Department for Business and Trade


Written Answers
Special Educational Needs: Neurodiversity
Asked by: Matt Hancock (Independent - West Suffolk)
Monday 26th February 2024

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what early identification tools will be used in the Early Language and Support for Every Child pathfinder aimed at improving the identification of neurodivergent children in early years settings and primary schools.

Answered by David Johnston - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)

As part of the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Alternative Provision (AP) Change Programme, the Early Language Support for Every Child (ELSEC) pilots are testing innovative workforce models. The pilots aim to improve identification and support for children with speech, language and communication needs in early years and primary schools. ELSEC is not designed to identify neurodivergent children, although some of the speech, language and communication needs being addressed are likely to be associated with neurodivergence.

Partnerships for Inclusion of Neurodiversity in Schools (PINS) is a jointly funded programme between NHS England, the Department of Health and Social Care and the Department for Education. It will deploy specialists from both health and education workforces to upskill mainstream primary schools and build their capacity to identify and meet the needs of children with neurodivergent needs. Adopting a whole-school approach, PINS is needs rather than diagnosis-led, and will include children without a formal diagnosis. Individual assessment or intervention or specific diagnostic tools are therefore not part of the programme.

Both programmes aim to intervene at an early stage in the child's education journey. Both will be formally evaluated to provide quantitative and qualitative information on impact. Learning from the programmes will be used to inform future policy development on how services and schools can support children with speech, language and communication needs or who are neurodiverse.

Special Educational Needs: Neurodiversity
Asked by: Matt Hancock (Independent - West Suffolk)
Monday 26th February 2024

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that the Early Language and Support for Every Child pathfinders in partnership with NHS England effectively evaluate the impact of the programme on (a) neurodivergent children and (b) their families; and what plans she has to use this evidence to inform future (i) policy and (ii) practice in early years education and child development for neurodivergent children.

Answered by David Johnston - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)

As part of the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Alternative Provision (AP) Change Programme, the Early Language Support for Every Child (ELSEC) pilots are testing innovative workforce models. The pilots aim to improve identification and support for children with speech, language and communication needs in early years and primary schools. ELSEC is not designed to identify neurodivergent children, although some of the speech, language and communication needs being addressed are likely to be associated with neurodivergence.

Partnerships for Inclusion of Neurodiversity in Schools (PINS) is a jointly funded programme between NHS England, the Department of Health and Social Care and the Department for Education. It will deploy specialists from both health and education workforces to upskill mainstream primary schools and build their capacity to identify and meet the needs of children with neurodivergent needs. Adopting a whole-school approach, PINS is needs rather than diagnosis-led, and will include children without a formal diagnosis. Individual assessment or intervention or specific diagnostic tools are therefore not part of the programme.

Both programmes aim to intervene at an early stage in the child's education journey. Both will be formally evaluated to provide quantitative and qualitative information on impact. Learning from the programmes will be used to inform future policy development on how services and schools can support children with speech, language and communication needs or who are neurodiverse.

Special Educational Needs: Neurodiversity
Asked by: Matt Hancock (Independent - West Suffolk)
Monday 26th February 2024

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that the Early Language and Support for Every Child pathfinders in partnership are effectively (a) reaching and (b) engaging (i) neurodivergent children and (ii) their families; and what steps she is taking to evaluate the effectiveness of the trials.

Answered by David Johnston - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)

As part of the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Alternative Provision (AP) Change Programme, the Early Language Support for Every Child (ELSEC) pilots are testing innovative workforce models. The pilots aim to improve identification and support for children with speech, language and communication needs in early years and primary schools. ELSEC is not designed to identify neurodivergent children, although some of the speech, language and communication needs being addressed are likely to be associated with neurodivergence.

Partnerships for Inclusion of Neurodiversity in Schools (PINS) is a jointly funded programme between NHS England, the Department of Health and Social Care and the Department for Education. It will deploy specialists from both health and education workforces to upskill mainstream primary schools and build their capacity to identify and meet the needs of children with neurodivergent needs. Adopting a whole-school approach, PINS is needs rather than diagnosis-led, and will include children without a formal diagnosis. Individual assessment or intervention or specific diagnostic tools are therefore not part of the programme.

Both programmes aim to intervene at an early stage in the child's education journey. Both will be formally evaluated to provide quantitative and qualitative information on impact. Learning from the programmes will be used to inform future policy development on how services and schools can support children with speech, language and communication needs or who are neurodiverse.

Special Educational Needs: Neurodiversity
Asked by: Matt Hancock (Independent - West Suffolk)
Monday 26th February 2024

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when her Department plans to announce the trials that will be conducted as part of the Early Language and Support for Every Child pathfinder to enhance the early identification and support for neurodivergent children in early years settings and primary schools.

Answered by David Johnston - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)

As part of the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Alternative Provision (AP) Change Programme, the Early Language Support for Every Child (ELSEC) pilots are testing innovative workforce models. The pilots aim to improve identification and support for children with speech, language and communication needs in early years and primary schools. ELSEC is not designed to identify neurodivergent children, although some of the speech, language and communication needs being addressed are likely to be associated with neurodivergence.

Partnerships for Inclusion of Neurodiversity in Schools (PINS) is a jointly funded programme between NHS England, the Department of Health and Social Care and the Department for Education. It will deploy specialists from both health and education workforces to upskill mainstream primary schools and build their capacity to identify and meet the needs of children with neurodivergent needs. Adopting a whole-school approach, PINS is needs rather than diagnosis-led, and will include children without a formal diagnosis. Individual assessment or intervention or specific diagnostic tools are therefore not part of the programme.

Both programmes aim to intervene at an early stage in the child's education journey. Both will be formally evaluated to provide quantitative and qualitative information on impact. Learning from the programmes will be used to inform future policy development on how services and schools can support children with speech, language and communication needs or who are neurodiverse.

Laboratories: Disease Control
Asked by: Matt Hancock (Independent - West Suffolk)
Friday 8th March 2024

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the National Audit Office's value for money investigation into the UKHSA’s health security campus programme, published on 28 February 2024, what recent progress her Department has made on the UK Health Security Agency’s health security campus programme in Harlow; what her plans are for the programme; and for what reason the (a) cost estimate and (b) proposed timeline for the programme has been revised.

Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)

The Department and UK Health Security Agency are currently considering the plans for developing a health security campus in Harlow, and the alternatives for developing laboratory facilities at Porton Down. This acknowledges the post-pandemic landscape and reflects continuing annual investment in lab infrastructure. In addition, further assessments of scope, investment costs, lifecycle costs, and delivery risks are being conducted to assure plans for the programme.

As set out in the National Audit Office’s report, the cost estimate for the programme has increased for many reasons, including prolongation, inflation, additional VAT, delays caused by organisational change and the pandemic, as well as essential design changes due to regulatory and technological change.

Detailed design evaluations with construction partners resulted in a reset and extension of the schedule in 2020. Since then, cycles of strategic review, high level investment appraisal, organisational change, and learning from the pandemic have led to further delays to the schedule.

Dstl: Health and Safety
Asked by: Matt Hancock (Independent - West Suffolk)
Friday 8th March 2024

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to enforcement notice 310819694 served against the UK Health Security Agency on 31 July 2020 by the Health and Safety Executive, what steps she is taking to ensure that laboratories at Porton Down continue to comply with relevant safety requirements.

Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)

In July 2020 the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) issued a Crown Improvement Notice in relation to the information, instruction, and training for the handling and restraint of animals infected with hazardous biological agents. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) complied with this notice to the satisfaction of the HSE, by their deadline of November 2020. The UKHSA has built upon this through a dedicated human factors specialist in its corporate health and safety function, and a compliance team within the Science Group.

The UKHSA Porton Down high security laboratories meet current HSE guidance. This is tested on a regular basis by site evidence-based inspections, conducted by the HSE.

UK Health Security Agency
Asked by: Matt Hancock (Independent - West Suffolk)
Friday 8th March 2024

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report by the National Audit Office entitled Investigation into the UKHSA’s health security campus programme, published on 28 February 2024, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the UK Health Security Agency has adequate capabilities for (a) identifying, (b) studying and (c) responding to dangerous pathogens.

Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)

The UK Health Security Agency’s (UKHSA) scientific expertise and facilities are maintained to ensure it has sufficient capacity and capability to identify, study, and respond to outbreaks of dangerous pathogens. The Department continues to actively consider options for investment, to modernise and enhance the UKHSA’s capabilities.

Dstl
Asked by: Matt Hancock (Independent - West Suffolk)
Friday 8th March 2024

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the current condition of the high-security laboratories at Porton Down is.

Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)

All of the UK Health Security Agency’s (UKHSA) high security laboratories at Porton Down, including the Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens’ (ACDP) Containment Level 4 facility, are operational and compliant with all health, safety, and security requirements. The Health and Safety Executive conducts annual inspections of the ACDP Containment Level 4 facilities, and a recent assessment by the UKHSA has also confirmed that with proper maintenance, the high containment facilities can remain operational for at least another decade until they are replaced.

Laboratories: Disease Control
Asked by: Matt Hancock (Independent - West Suffolk)
Friday 8th March 2024

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies of the findings in the report by the National Audit Office entitled Investigation into the UKHSA’s health security campus programme, published on 28 February 2024, on the adequacy of funding for (a) facilities at Porton Down and (b) other pandemic infrastructure.

Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)

The Department remains committed to ensuring that the United Kingdom retains world class secure laboratories, which play a vital role in understanding new threats and developing and evaluating the diagnostic tools, vaccines, and wider clinical countermeasures to combat them.

The Department continues to work closely with the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) to ensure that there are appropriate plans in place to respond to future pandemics. This includes critical national infrastructure maintained by UKHSA that provides the specialist capabilities required to respond to emerging and high consequence infectious diseases, such as high containment laboratories and specialist diagnostic equipment.

Laboratories: Disease Control
Asked by: Matt Hancock (Independent - West Suffolk)
Friday 8th March 2024

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make it her policy to (a) replace and (b) modernise the laboratories at Porton Down.

Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)

The Government is actively considering its options for investment to replace and modernise the UK Health Security Agency’s laboratories, including those at Porton Down, to ensure the best public health outcomes and value for money.




Matt Hancock mentioned

Parliamentary Debates
SEND Provision
50 speeches (15,740 words)
Thursday 14th March 2024 - Commons Chamber
Scotland Office
Mentions:
1: David Johnston (Con - Wantage) Member for West Suffolk (Matt Hancock). - Link to Speech
2: Munira Wilson (LD - Twickenham) Member for West Suffolk (Matt Hancock). - Link to Speech
3: Tom Hunt (Con - Ipswich) Member for West Suffolk (Matt Hancock). - Link to Speech

Oral Answers to Questions
140 speeches (8,777 words)
Thursday 29th February 2024 - Commons Chamber
Cabinet Office
Mentions:
1: Jonathan Ashworth (LAB - Leicester South) Member for West Suffolk (Matt Hancock), told me at the Dispatch Box“where a contract is not delivered - Link to Speech

Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
97 speeches (30,419 words)
Report stage
Tuesday 27th February 2024 - Commons Chamber
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities
Mentions:
1: Stephen Timms (Lab - East Ham) Member for West Suffolk (Matt Hancock) who have added their names to the new clause on the Order Paper.I - 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: Danny Kruger (Con - Devizes) Friend the Member for West Suffolk (Matt Hancock) was Secretary of State—I saw how policy making is done - Link to Speech
2: David Mundell (Con - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale) Member for West Suffolk (Matt Hancock), the former Culture Secretary, set out the concerns about illegal - Link to Speech
3: George Freeman (Con - Mid Norfolk) Friend the Member for West Suffolk (Matt Hancock), who represents Newmarket, to bring offshore betting - Link to Speech
4: Stephanie Peacock (Lab - Barnsley East) Member for West Suffolk (Matt Hancock) with Newmarket, the hon. - Link to Speech



Select Committee Documents
Thursday 29th February 2024
Report - Second Report - Assisted Dying/Assisted Suicide

Health and Social Care Committee

Found: whether the restrictions on movement would stop someone from travelling to access AD/AS, the Rt Hon Matt



Bill Documents
Feb. 27 2024
Consideration of Bill Amendments as at 27 February 2024
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill 2023-24
Amendment Paper

Found: _NC24 Sir Stephen Timms Jane Hunt Matt Hancock To move the following Clause— “Asbestos remediation