Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to page 70 of the Environment Agency's Annual Report and Accounts 2015/6, if she will provide a breakdown of the £50.2m spent by the Environment Agency in Hired and Contracted Services in 2015/6.
Answered by Emma Hardy - Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
Breakdown of the £50.2 million spent by the Environment Agency in Hired and Contracted Services in 2015/6:
Category | Amount (£m) |
Contracted services (including flood maintenance activities and maintenance of Flood, Hydrometry & Telemetry, and Waterways assets) | 30.8 |
Information Communications Technology (ICT) Contracted services (i.e. building, servicing and maintaining digital and communication technology systems and data) | 19.4 |
Total | 50.2 |
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department and the MHRA are taking to enforce restrictions on the advertising of cannabis-based products for medicinal use on social media.
Answered by James Frith - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
I refer the Hon Member to the answer provided on 1 June in response to Question 3220.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she considers the volume of prescriptions issued for cannabis-based products for medicinal use to be consistent with patient safety.
Answered by James Frith - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
I refer the Hon Member to the answer provided on 1 June in response to Question 3220.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients detained under Part III of the Mental Health Act 1983 are held in (a) low, (b) medium and (c) high secure hospitals as of the latest date for which figures are available.
Answered by Alison McGovern - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
NHS England publishes annual Mental Health Act Statistics, including the total number of people detained under the Mental Health Act on 31 March each year. The latest data is available at the link below, and new data for the year ending 31 March 2026 will be published on 15 October:
Table 8a in the Mental Health Act Statistics, Annual Figures, 2024-25, available at the following link, provides information on discharges from hospital under court and prison disposal provisions, excluding Community Treatment Orders, broken down by section:
Figures are provided for both the number of discharges, and the length of detention. Data on patients detained under Part III of the Mental Health Act 1983 is not broken down by hospital security level.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients detained under Part III of the Mental Health Act 1983 were discharged from hospital in the most recent 12 months for which data is available, broken down by section.
Answered by Alison McGovern - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
NHS England publishes annual Mental Health Act Statistics, including the total number of people detained under the Mental Health Act on 31 March each year. The latest data is available at the link below, and new data for the year ending 31 March 2026 will be published on 15 October:
Table 8a in the Mental Health Act Statistics, Annual Figures, 2024-25, available at the following link, provides information on discharges from hospital under court and prison disposal provisions, excluding Community Treatment Orders, broken down by section:
Figures are provided for both the number of discharges, and the length of detention. Data on patients detained under Part III of the Mental Health Act 1983 is not broken down by hospital security level.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients are currently detained under Part III of the Mental Health Act 1983, broken down by section.
Answered by Alison McGovern - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
NHS England publishes annual Mental Health Act Statistics, including the total number of people detained under the Mental Health Act on 31 March each year. The latest data is available at the link below, and new data for the year ending 31 March 2026 will be published on 15 October:
Table 8a in the Mental Health Act Statistics, Annual Figures, 2024-25, available at the following link, provides information on discharges from hospital under court and prison disposal provisions, excluding Community Treatment Orders, broken down by section:
Figures are provided for both the number of discharges, and the length of detention. Data on patients detained under Part III of the Mental Health Act 1983 is not broken down by hospital security level.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children were ineligible for government-funded childcare in 2023/4, 2024/5 and 2025/6 as a result of the £100,000 earnings limit; and what her Department's estimate is of the value of funded childcare unavailable to those families.
Answered by Paul Waugh - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
The £100,000 adjusted net income per year threshold applies to the working-parent entitlement and Tax-Free Childcare, rather than to all forms of government childcare support. Children aged three-and-four years old who were ineligible for the working parent entitlement due to the £100,000 threshold would have still been able to access 15 hours of childcare support through the 15-hour universal childcare entitlement.
We are able to release estimates of the number of children ineligible for working parent funded childcare entitlements, because of a parent exceeding the £100,000
threshold.
Year (July to following June) | 2019/ 2020 | 2020/ 2021 | 2021/ 2022 | 2022/ 2023 | 2023/ 2024 | 2024/ 2025 | 2025/ 2026 |
Total children (range, rounded to the nearest 100) | 11,800 - 23,400 | 12,300 - 24,300 | 13,800 - 27,100 | 15,500 - 28,900 | 15,600 - 30,800 | 46,400 - 91,300 | 50,500 - 99,000 |
Total value of hours (range, rounded to the nearest million) | £44m - £88m | £46m - £91m | £52m - £101m | £55m - £108m | £58m - £115m | £239-469m | £446m - £874m |
The following caveats should be noted for this analysis:
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how much her Department spent on external communications in each of the last three financial years.
Answered by Michael Shanks - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The Department’s expenditure on external communications is published in the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero's Annual Report and Accounts. Information for each of the last three financial years can be found in the relevant Annual Reports and Accounts, which are available on GOV.UK.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people in the custody of HM Prison and Probation Service are currently receiving medication to manage problematic sexual arousal (MMPSA).
Answered by Alison McGovern - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The information is not held in the format requested.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to Note 8. Purchase of Goods, Services and Other Expenditure on page 177 of the Whole of Government Accounts 2022-3, if she will provide a breakdown of expenditure in the financial years in (a) 2022/3 and (b) 2021/2 for (i) the category entitled Other in the Central government section by government department and (ii) the category entitled Other in the Public Corporations section by relevant body.
Answered by Emma Reynolds - Chief Secretary to the Treasury
The information requested is not publicly available.