Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average wait time for an ambulance was in (a) Coventry and (b) Warwickshire in each winter since 2010-2011.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The information is not available in the format requested.
Ambulance response times are measured by response time category down to regional ambulance trust level. Coventry and Warwickshire are both served by the West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS).
The current ambulance response time standards were introduced in 2017 following extensive clinical trials and include average response times by response time category. Prior to this average response times were not centrally collected.
The following table shows average ambulance response times for WMAS in December, January and February between 2017 and 2023.
Year | Month | Category 1 mean | Category 2 mean | Category 3 mean | Category 4 mean |
2017/18 | December | 00:07:03 | 00:13:12 | 0:39:49 | 1:04:30 |
| January | 00:06:48 | 00:12:22 | 0:35:20 | 0:57:11 |
| February | 00:07:03 | 00:13:14 | 0:41:35 | 1:00:51 |
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2018/19 | December | 0:06:48 | 0:12:29 | 0:36:14 | 0:51:31 |
| January | 0:06:44 | 0:12:11 | 0:35:17 | 0:51:40 |
| February | 0:06:46 | 0:12:32 | 0:38:22 | 0:51:10 |
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2019/20 | December | 0:07:02 | 0:14:56 | 1:01:08 | 1:16:39 |
| January | 0:06:59 | 0:12:29 | 0:32:47 | 0:48:36 |
| February | 0:07:09 | 0:13:06 | 0:41:16 | 0:56:45 |
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2020/21 | December | 0:06:57 | 0:14:46 | 0:47:41 | 1:01:10 |
| January | 0:06:51 | 0:14:48 | 0:51:45 | 1:03:04 |
| February | 0:06:35 | 0:12:01 | 0:25:06 | 0:35:28 |
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2021/22 | December | 0:08:19 | 0:48:19 | 3:20:50 | 3:46:03 |
| January | 0:08:10 | 0:34:44 | 2:35:07 | 2:54:24 |
| February | 0:08:11 | 0:33:36 | 2:26:14 | 3:15:26 |
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2022/23 | December | 0:09:14 | 1:31:10 | 4:48:31 | 4:33:46 |
| January | 0:08:11 | 0:27:21 | 1:39:18 | 1:51:52 |
| February | 0:08:18 | 0:25:49 | 1:54:42 | 2:37:55 |
Source: NHS England Ambulance Quality Indicators.
Note: The national standards for Category 3 and 4 incidents are 90th percentile response times, rather than mean response.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the number of universities the (a) Chairman and (b) Chief Executive of the Office for Students has visited since (i) 1 January 2018, (ii) 3 March 2023 and (iii) 5 September 2023.
Answered by Robert Halfon
The department does not hold this information as visits to universities by the Chair and Chief Executive of the Office for Students are a matter for that organisation as an independent arms-length body.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children have had an appointment with a NHS dentist in Warwick and Leamington constituency in each year since 2010.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This data is not published at constituency level. We have therefore presented the data which is available at ICB level in the following table.
For Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Board (ICB):
Year | Number of children seen in previous 12 months to June of each year | Number of children seen as a proportion of total population of children |
2016 | 109,691 | 59% |
2017 | 112,120 | 60% |
2018 | 114,960 | 55% |
2019 | 117,002 | 61% |
2020 | 107,114 | 55% |
2021 | 68,697 | 35% |
2022 | 99,569 | 50% |
2023 | 113,822 | 57% |
Source: https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-dental-statistics
Note: The methodology to count how many children have been seen changed in 2016. We therefore have not included figures for the years before 2016 as they are not comparable.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding has been allocated to mental health services in Warwickshire in each year since 2010.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
It is for individual local commissioners to allocate funding to mental health services to meet the needs of their local populations and this information is not collected centrally. Integrated care boards are expected to continue to meet the Mental Health Investment Standard by increasing their investment in mental health services in line with their overall increase in funding for the year.
Spending on NHS mental health services in England continues to increase each year from almost £11 billion in 2015/16 to almost £16 billion in 2022/23.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department allocates (a) personnel and (b) financial resources to monitoring the political views of educationalists.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)
As part of government business, the department works with a wide range of educationalists in order to inform effective policymaking. The department recognises it is important to listen to and consider a wide variety of views and perspectives.
The department does not allocate specific personnel or financial resources to monitor the political views of educationalists.
As is standard practice in most organisations, the department does carry out due diligence before engaging experts and speakers on a case-by-case basis.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the recent technical issue with the processing and issuing of Biometric Resident Permits has been; what steps his Department is taking to resolve that issue; and what estimate he has made of when that work will be complete.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
Incidences of technical issues preventing BRP card production are extremely low, and no systemic issues have been identified.
Where individual card requests do fail, operational case working teams and IT Support endeavour to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.
For any case that cannot be resolved immediately, the Employer Checking and Landlord Checking Services are available to provide support to customers to verify their immigration status and permission to work and rent properties in the UK.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many times she has met the Director of Free Speech of the Office for Students since his appointment.
Answered by Robert Halfon
The Secretary of State met with Susan Lapworth, CEO of the Office for Students (OfS), and Lord Wharton, Chair of the OfS on 25 January 2023.
In my capacity as the Minister for Skills, Apprenticeships and Higher Education, I have also met with the CEO once, and Chair of the OfS twice, in 2023. My noble friend Baroness Barran has also met with the CEO once.
My Right hon. Friend, The Secretary of State for Education has not met with Arif Ahmed, Director of Free Speech and Academic Freedom of the OfS, since his appointment in June 2023. The Rt Hon Claire Coutinho MP, the previous Minister responsible for freedom of speech in the department, met with Arif Ahmed once in 2023 following his appointment.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of extending the length of time for which a driving theory test certificate is valid.
Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
It is important road safety knowledge and hazard perception skills are up to date at the critical point a person drives unsupervised for the first time.
The maximum duration of two years between passing the theory test and a subsequent practical test is in place to ensure a candidate’s road safety knowledge and ability to identify developing hazards is current. This validity period is set in legislation and the Government has no current plans to lay further legislation to extend it.
Ensuring new drivers have current relevant knowledge and skills is a vital part of the preparation of new drivers, who are disproportionality represented in casualty statistics. Learners will therefore need to pass another theory test if their certificate expires.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients have been waiting for 12 months or longer for NHS treatment in Warwick and Leamington constituency.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The information is not held in the format requested as it is not available at a constituency level.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many international students withdrew their application to study at universities before enrolment in 2023.
Answered by Robert Halfon
The department does not hold data on the number of international students who withdrew their application to study at universities in 2023.