Correspondence Oct. 18 2023
Committee: Work and Pensions Committee (Department: Department for Work and Pensions)Found: Correspondence with the Minister for Social Mobility, Youth and Progression relating to RAAC and buildings
Correspondence May. 01 2024
Committee: Social Justice and Social Security CommitteeFound: and clubs will help to tackle social isolation and loneliness.
Asked by: Julian Knight (Independent - Solihull)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much the Social Mobility Commission spent on equality and diversity training in the 2022-23 financial year.
Answered by Jeremy Quin
On 2 October, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced a value for money audit of all EDI (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion) spending in the Civil Service.
The audit will dovetail with the public sector productivity review, aiming at delivering a leaner, more efficient government. The audit forms part of our drive to improve productivity across the public sector by driving down waste and improving performance.
The findings and actions of the audit will be announced in due course.
Correspondence Sep. 06 2023
Committee: Work and Pensions Committee (Department: Department for Work and Pensions)Found: Correspondence to Minister for Social Mobility, Youth and Progression relating to asbestos Correspondence
Written Evidence May. 23 2024
Inquiry: Boys’ attainment and engagement in educationFound: The Trust works to improve social mobility from birth to the workplace so that every young person
Correspondence Apr. 30 2024
Committee: Social Justice and Social Security CommitteeFound: Independent Age recommend that in line with the Social Security principles of continuous improvement
Asked by: Stephen Morgan (Labour - Portsmouth South)
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 merits of ensuring that adequate training is provided to people with mobility scooters.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
My Rt hon. Friend, the Secretary of State does not currently have any plans to make an assessment of either the potential merits of ensuring that adequate training is provided to people with mobility scooters or of the potential merits of allowing National Health Service patients who require mobility scooters or other aids to choose the provider and retailer of those aids.
Mobility scooters are not generally available on the NHS in England. The NHS provides other mobility aids including wheelchairs, walking sticks, and walking frames. Walking frames and some types of walking sticks can be borrowed from the NHS. Advice on how to access these aids is available at the following link:
The Government is supporting the roll-out of a nationwide certified powered wheelchair and mobility scooter assessment and training scheme. Through the Department for Transport Road Safety Research programme, funding has been provided to Driving Mobility, a registered charity with a network of driving assessment centres covering the whole of the United Kingdom. The training scheme that Driving Mobility is providing will train retail and hire businesses to assess the safe driving ability of individuals purchasing a mobility scooter, including NHS patients. The scheme will also provide retailers with information on best practice and recommendations on how to convey safe driving knowledge to individuals purchasing mobility scooters. Short tests will be included in order to judge competency so that extra support can be provided where needed. Driving Mobility launched the scheme in summer 2023.
For NHS patients who require wheelchairs, integrated care boards (ICBs) are responsible for the provision and commissioning of local wheelchair services and the development of their local wheelchair service eligibility criteria based on the needs of their local population. NHS England is committed to supporting ICBs to implement personal wheelchair budgets. A personal wheelchair budget is a resource available to support people’s choice and provider of wheelchair, either within or outside NHS commissioned services. Since 2 December 2019, people who access wheelchair services, whose posture and mobility needs impact their wider health and social care needs, have a legal right to a personal wheelchair budget. The legal right was created by the National Health Service Commissioning Board and Clinical Commissioning Groups (Responsibilities and Standing Rules) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2019.
Asked by: Stephen Morgan (Labour - Portsmouth South)
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 merits of allowing NHS patients who require a mobility (a) scooter and (b) other aids to choose the (i) provider and (ii) retailers of those aids.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
My Rt hon. Friend, the Secretary of State does not currently have any plans to make an assessment of either the potential merits of ensuring that adequate training is provided to people with mobility scooters or of the potential merits of allowing National Health Service patients who require mobility scooters or other aids to choose the provider and retailer of those aids.
Mobility scooters are not generally available on the NHS in England. The NHS provides other mobility aids including wheelchairs, walking sticks, and walking frames. Walking frames and some types of walking sticks can be borrowed from the NHS. Advice on how to access these aids is available at the following link:
The Government is supporting the roll-out of a nationwide certified powered wheelchair and mobility scooter assessment and training scheme. Through the Department for Transport Road Safety Research programme, funding has been provided to Driving Mobility, a registered charity with a network of driving assessment centres covering the whole of the United Kingdom. The training scheme that Driving Mobility is providing will train retail and hire businesses to assess the safe driving ability of individuals purchasing a mobility scooter, including NHS patients. The scheme will also provide retailers with information on best practice and recommendations on how to convey safe driving knowledge to individuals purchasing mobility scooters. Short tests will be included in order to judge competency so that extra support can be provided where needed. Driving Mobility launched the scheme in summer 2023.
For NHS patients who require wheelchairs, integrated care boards (ICBs) are responsible for the provision and commissioning of local wheelchair services and the development of their local wheelchair service eligibility criteria based on the needs of their local population. NHS England is committed to supporting ICBs to implement personal wheelchair budgets. A personal wheelchair budget is a resource available to support people’s choice and provider of wheelchair, either within or outside NHS commissioned services. Since 2 December 2019, people who access wheelchair services, whose posture and mobility needs impact their wider health and social care needs, have a legal right to a personal wheelchair budget. The legal right was created by the National Health Service Commissioning Board and Clinical Commissioning Groups (Responsibilities and Standing Rules) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2019.
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1: None We provide independent scrutiny of the Scottish social security system. - Speech Link
2: None aids and, potentially, a mobility scooter. - Speech Link
3: None or disability benefit and they receive a mobility component at 65, they will not get it at 67. - Speech Link
4: None We know that take-up of social security is an issue for older people. - Speech Link
Jun. 26 2023
Source Page: Chair of the Social Mobility Commission appointedFound: Chair of the Social Mobility Commission appointed