Asked by: Scott Benton (Independent - Blackpool South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of immediate closure of abortion clinics that fail to ensure proper safety procedures are in place for under 16 year olds.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
There are no plans to change the existing systems in place to ensure that under 16 year olds receive safe, age appropriate abortion care. All independent sector services wishing to perform termination of pregnancy must be approved by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and be registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) before they are able to provide abortion services. The CQC inspect independent sector abortion services. If a CQC inspection identifies instances of non-compliance, then appropriate regulatory action will be taken.
The Department expects all abortion providers to have due regard to the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health national guidance on safeguarding under 18 year olds accessing early medical abortion services, which will ensure that robust safeguarding processes are embedded across all abortion services. This guidance is available at the following link:
Asked by: Scott Benton (Independent - Blackpool South)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to issue guidance on the new buffer zone provision in the Public Order Bill.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
Ahead of the commencement of the Public Order Bill, expected to be in Spring/Summer 2023, the College of Policing and the Crown Prosecution Service are updating relevant public order guidance and training to reflect the inclusion of the offence of interference with access to or provision of abortion services.
Asked by: Scott Benton (Independent - Blackpool South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of eligible patients with end stage kidney failure in (a) Blackpool South constituency and (b) NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated care board and its predecessor were given access to home based haemodialysis in each year since 2019.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The requested data is not held in the format requested.
Asked by: Scott Benton (Independent - Blackpool South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people were living with chronic kidney disease with classification of categories G3a to G5 in (a) Blackpool South and (b) NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated care board and its predecessor in each year since 2019.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The requested data is not held in the format requested.
Asked by: Scott Benton (Independent - Blackpool South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people in (a) Blackpool South constituency and (b) NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated care board and its predecessor were(i) assessed as being at high risk of kidney disease through the NHS Health Check and (ii) diagnosed with kidney disease following referral from the NHS Health Check in each year since 2019.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The information requested is not held centrally.
Asked by: Scott Benton (Independent - Blackpool South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people were diagnosed with chronic kidney disease in (a) Blackpool South constituency and (b) NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated care board and its predecessor in each year since 2019.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Data is not held at the individual constituency level. Data is available from the NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board and its predecessor, the Blackpool Clinical Commissioning Group, which is comprised of Blackpool South, Blackpool North and Cleveleys constituencies. The following table shows the number of people diagnosed with chronic kidney disease within the geographical footprints of the NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board and the Blackpool Clinical Commissioning Group in each year since 2019.
Year | Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board | Blackpool Clinical Commissioning Group |
2019/20 | 69,282 | 9,574 |
2020/21 | 66,411 | 8,779 |
2021/22 | 66,355 | 8,534 |
Asked by: Scott Benton (Independent - Blackpool South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of people with diabetes in (a) Blackpool South constituency and (b) NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated care board and its predecessor had a urine-to-albumin ratio test in the last year.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The following table shows the number of people with diabetes in Blackpool South Parliamentary Constituency that had a urine-to-albumin ratio (UACR) test during the audit year, January 2021 to March 2022, broken down by diabetes type.
| Blackpool South | England | ||||
Diabetes type | Total | UACR | Percentage | Total | UACR | Percentage |
Type 1 | 380 | 150 | 39.5 | 250,125 | 124,440 | 49.8 |
Type 2 and other | 5,725 | 3185 | 55.6 | 3,289,925 | 1,997,825 | 60.7 |
Source: National Diabetes Audit
The following table shows the number of people with diabetes in NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board that had a urine-to-albumin ratio (UACR) test during the audit year, January 2021 to March 2022, broken down by diabetes type.
| NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board | England | ||||
Diabetes type | Total | UACR | Percentage | Total | UACR | Percentage |
Type 1 | 7,645 | 3,230 | 42.2 | 250,125 | 124,440 | 49.8 |
Type 2 and other | 102,135 | 60,635 | 59.4 | 3,289,925 | 1,997,825 | 60.7 |
Source: National Diabetes Audit
Asked by: Scott Benton (Independent - Blackpool South)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of public spaces protection orders around abortion clinics.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
Public Space Protection Orders (PSPOs) are designed to stop individuals or groups committing anti-social behaviour in a public space.
Several local authorities have imposed PSPOs outside of abortion clinics. Decisions regarding restrictions imposed are for the local authority which is required to consider people’s rights under the European Convention.
Asked by: Scott Benton (Independent - Blackpool South)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of public spaces protection orders.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
Public Space Protection Orders (PSPOs) are designed to stop individuals or groups committing anti-social behaviour in a public space.
Several local authorities have imposed PSPOs outside of abortion clinics. Decisions regarding restrictions imposed are for the local authority which is required to consider people’s rights under the European Convention.
Asked by: Scott Benton (Independent - Blackpool South)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what the average time was for the Office for Product Safety and Standards to conduct an investigation into a regulator for repeated breaches of the regulators code in the latest period for which data is available.
Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
The Regulators Code is established under the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006. It provides a clear, flexible and principles-based framework for how regulators should engage with those they regulate.
The Act does not make provision for sanctions, penalties or investigations in respect of adherence by a regulator with the principles of the Code.
Routine enquires in respect of the Code received by the Office for Product Safety and Standards are managed within internal service standard time limits of five working days.