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Written Question
UK Health Security Agency: Finance
Tuesday 26th March 2024

Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 8 March 2024 to Question 16638 on UK Health Security Agency: Finance, on what basis the information requested is considered to be commercially sensitive.

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

Further breakdown of customers groupings would identify individual customers and the value of individual vaccine sales. These grouping are varied and include customers such as wholesalers, hospitals, medical centres, travel clinics and other providers of vaccination services. To break this information down to a level that would identify individual purchases could prejudice future commercial relations with the UK Health Security Agency customers.


Written Question
Department of Health and Social Care: Offenders
Tuesday 12th March 2024

Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many civil servants in her Department have a criminal conviction.

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

The information requested is not held centrally by the Department. The Department undertakes Baseline Personnel Security Standard pre-employment checks for all new joiners. A minimal number of roles also require National Security Vetting clearance prior to joining. In the event of a declared criminal conviction, a risk assessment is completed on a case-by-case basis.


Written Question
Members: Correspondence
Tuesday 12th March 2024

Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when she plans to respond to the correspondence from the hon. Member for Shipley of 21 June 2023.

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

We have received the hon. Member’s correspondence of 21 June 2023 and will respond shortly.


Written Question
UK Health Security Agency: Finance
Friday 8th March 2024

Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 26 February 2024 to Question 13942 on UK Health Security Agency: Finance, if she will break down the (a) sources and (b) amounts of the Other customers section.

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

The UK Health Security Agency is unable to provide the information requested because it is commercially sensitive.


Written Question
UK Health Security Agency: Finance
Wednesday 7th February 2024

Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 22 January 2024 to Question 9342 on UK Health Security Agency: Finance, if she will publish a breakdown of the source of the vaccines income.

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

The vaccine income within the annual report and accounts for the UK Health Security Agency breaks down between devolved administrations, alongside a small amount of income from third parties.


Written Question
Members: Correspondence
Wednesday 7th February 2024

Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the Minister for Mental Health and Women’s Health Strategy plans to reply to the letter of the hon. Member for Shipley dated 3 November 2023.

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

I replied to the hon. Member on 31 January 2024.


Written Question
UK Health Security Agency: Finance
Monday 22nd January 2024

Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much external funding the UK Health Security Agency has received in each year since it was formed; and who provided that funding.

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

The following table shows the details of the external funding received by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) in 2021/22:

2021/22 (£,000)

Sale of Goods and Services

Laboratory and other services

41,237

Products and royalties

24,230

Education and training

959

Vaccines income

56,525

Total sale of goods and services

122,951

Other operating income

Research and related contracts and grants

6,543

Grants from the United Kingdom government

2,280

Grants from the European Union

749

Rental from investment property

212

Other operating income

9,057

Absorption gain

-

Total other operating income

18,841

Finance income

Interest receivable

272

Total finance income

272

Income Total

142,064

Note: Details of how much external funding UKHSA received in 2022/23 will be published in the UKHSA Annual Report and Accounts 2022/23.


Written Question
Tobacco: Trading Standards
Monday 11th December 2023

Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department plans to provide guidance to retailers on preventing proxy sales of tobacco products under proposals for a generational ban on the sale of those products.

Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

Smoking is responsible for around 80,000 deaths a year in the United Kingdom and causes around one in four cancer deaths in the UK. It also costs our country £17 billion a year and puts a huge burden on the National Health Service.

This is why the Government is planning to create a smokefree generation by bringing forward legislation so that children turning 14 years old or younger this year will never be legally sold tobacco products. The Government plans to provide guidance for retailers on the smokefree generation proposal before it begins to take effect on 1 January 2027.


Written Question
Tobacco: Trading Standards
Monday 11th December 2023

Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)

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 potential impact of the proposed generational ban on the sale of tobacco products on trading standards.

Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

Smoking is responsible for around 80,000 deaths a year in the United Kingdom and causes around one in four cancer deaths in the UK. It also costs our country £17 billion a year and puts a huge burden on the National Health Service.

This is why the Government is planning to create a smokefree generation by bringing forward legislation so that children turning 14 years old or younger this year will never be legally sold tobacco products.

The Government is providing an additional £30 million a year for enforcement agencies such as trading standards, Border Force and HM Revenue and Customs to implement and enforce the law. The Smokefree generation consultation also proposes to introduce new powers for local authorities to issue on-the-spot fines, otherwise known as fixed penalty notices.

We will publish our Impact Assessment in due course.


Written Question
Tobacco: Enforcement
Monday 11th December 2023

Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she plans to introduce smoking wardens to enforce the generational ban on tobacco products.

Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

Smoking is responsible for around 80,000 deaths a year in the United Kingdom and causes around one in four cancer deaths in the UK. It also costs our country £17 billion a year and puts a huge burden on the National Health Service.

This is why the Government is planning to create a smokefree generation by bringing forward legislation so that children turning 14 years old or younger this year will never be legally sold tobacco products.

The Government is providing an additional £30 million a year for enforcement agencies such as trading standards, Border Force and HM Revenue and Customs to implement and enforce the law. The Smokefree generation consultation also proposes to introduce new powers for local authorities to issue on-the-spot fines, otherwise known as fixed penalty notices.