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Jon Trickett:To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many of their Department's officials have been seconded from (a) the Institute for Economic Affairs, (b) the Policy Exchange, (c) the Adam Smith Institute and (d) Labour Together since July 2024. \p Ian Murray: No officials in the Scotland Office have been seconded from the Institute for Economic Affairs, the Policy Exchange, the Adam Smith Institute or Labour Together since July 2024.
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Mike Wood:To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 7 July 2025 to Question 63325 on Armed Forces Day: Flags, whether 10 Downing Street flew the Armed Forces Day flag on Armed Forces Day in June 2025. \p Nick Thomas-Symonds: The Armed Forces flag was flown in Downing Street for Armed Forces Day.
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Kevin Hollinrake:To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether President Trump was offered the opportunity to address Parliament during his state visit. \p Nick Thomas-Symonds: This is a matter for Parliament. The House of Commons was in recess during the state visit of President Trump.
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Mr Andrew Snowden:To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many special advisers left government employment as a result of the government reshuffle; and what was the total cost of (a) severance and (b) compensation payments to those individuals. \p Nick Thomas-Symonds: In line with the Model Contract for Special Advisers, when a special adviser’s appointing minister leaves office special advisers’ contracts are automatically terminated.

The Model Contract states special adviser severance entitlement. The cost of severance payments is stated in the Annual Report on Special Advisers.
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Mr Andrew Snowden:To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much has the Government spent on updating (a) government websites, (b) signage, (c) stationery and (d) other branded materials as a result of changes in (i) ministerial titles and (ii) departmental structures following the reshuffle. \p Nick Thomas-Symonds: The Cabinet Office does not centrally hold information or data on this topic.
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Sir John Hayes:To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many days the Union Flag was flown on 10 Downing Street in (a) 2024 and (b) 2025 to date. \p Nick Thomas-Symonds: The Union Flag is flown in Downing Street every day, weather permitting.
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Mike Wood:To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 21 July 2025 to Question HL9163 on Government Departments: Regulation, how many authorisations have been made within this Department. \p Nick Thomas-Symonds: I refer the Hon gentleman to the answer for PQ HL9163 of 21 July 2025.
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Kevin Hollinrake:To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 28 July 2025 to Question 57266 on Domestic Visits: Doncaster, which events the special advisers who travelled with the Prime Minister to Doncaster took part in on 10 April 2025. \p Nick Thomas-Symonds: I refer the Hon Member to my answer of 28 July 2025, Official Report, PQ 57266.
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Dave Doogan:To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Prime Minister's oral contribution in response to the hon. Member for Glasgow South West during Prime Minister's Questions on 3 September 2025, Official Report, column 291, what his evidential basis is for the statement that the First Minister has not welcomed the deal. \p Nick Thomas-Symonds: I refer the Hon Member to the Prime Minister's words on 3 September 2025, Official Report, column 291.
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Sir John Hayes:To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if 10 Downing Street has spent money on social media influencers since July 2024. \p Nick Thomas-Symonds: 10 Downing Street has not spent money on social media influencers since July 2024.
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Kevin Hollinrake:To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much the Prime Minister has spent from the annual allowance on the official residence in Downing Street since 4 July 2024. \p Nick Thomas-Symonds: Any associated costs would be noted in the next Cabinet Office Annual Report and Accounts in the usual way.
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Kevin Hollinrake:To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether Ministers who left government in the reshuffle were spoken to directly by the Prime Minister. \p Nick Thomas-Symonds: It would not be appropriate to comment on private conversations held with Ministers who left the Government.
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Martin Wrigley:To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance was in use in 2019 on keeping written records of meetings between Ministers and external stakeholders. \p Nick Thomas-Symonds: Guidance for the Management of Private Office Information and Records is published on www.gov.uk. The guidance was last updated in December 2023. Previous versions are available on the website of The National Archives.
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Kevin Hollinrake:To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which ministers will have an official residence following the reshuffle. \p Nick Thomas-Symonds: Allocation of official residences will be confirmed in due course.
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Sir Gavin Williamson:To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish any official correspondence between Lord Mandelson and the Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff between 4 July 2024 and 11 September 2025. \p Nick Thomas-Symonds: In line with longstanding process, it would not be appropriate to comment on individual members of staff.
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Mike Wood:To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to his Department's news story entitled Appointment to Cabinet Office Board, published on 19 August 2025, whether Greg Jackson (a) made a declaration of political activity and (b) was selected through open and fair competition. \p Nick Thomas-Symonds: Greg Jackson has disclosed his interests in line with all of the relevant guidance and has declared no political activity.

Greg was appointed via a fair and open recruitment competition in accordance with the Governance Code on Public Appointments, overseen by the Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments.
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Mike Wood:To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Prime Minister's oral contribution of 3 September 2025 in response to the Rt hon. Member for North West Essex during Prime Minister's Questions, Official Report, Column 281, on what date the Deputy Prime Minister informed the Independent Adviser on Ministerial Standards that she had not correctly paid stamp duty. \p Nick Thomas-Symonds: The former Deputy Prime Minister referred herself to the Independent Advisor on Ministerial Standards on Wednesday 3 September.
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Mike Wood:To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what his Department's planned timetable is for the publication of the seventh UK National Action Plan for Open Government; and what consultation his Department has undertaken in relation to the sixth UK National Action Plan for Open Government since it was published in December 2023. \p Nick Thomas-Symonds: The Seventh National Action Plan for Open Government (NAP7) will be developed next year with final publication by 31 December 2026. Simultaneously, the UK is co-chairing the OGP Action Framework Task Force with the goal of making the action framework more user-friendly, agile and less bureaucratic.

During the implementation of the UK National Action Plan for Open Government 2024-2025 (NAP6), the UK Multi-Stakeholder Forum for Open Government (MSF) met on two occasions on 24th January 2024, and 17th July 2024, with further meetings under development, and Government teams responsible for commitments continued engagement with their stakeholders throughout implementation.
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Mr Richard Holden:To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether Downing Street uses renewable energy for its electricity. \p Nick Thomas-Symonds: Downing Street is connected to the National Grid, which uses a range of energy sources, including renewable energy.
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Kevin Hollinrake:To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department has issued revised guidance on assessing the potential local dimension of future announcements undertaken in a pre-election period. \p Nick Thomas-Symonds: Elections guidance for civil servants is kept under review and will be published in advance of local elections in 2026.
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Mike Wood:To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 3 July 2025 to Question 62992 on Civil Servants: Media and Public Speaking, what representations has the Cabinet Office received in relation to the new guidance on civil servants speaking in public. \p Nick Thomas-Symonds: Three FOIs, two PQs and a number of letters have been received regarding the guidance in question.
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Mr Richard Holden:To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 23 June 2025 to Question HL8406 on Civil Servants: Performance Related Pay, what is his Department's policy on performance-related pay for the Junior Civil Service; and what is the maximum value of a performance reward in a financial year. \p Nick Thomas-Symonds: I refer the Hon Member to the answer on 23 June 2025 (HL 8406).

As has been the practice in previous administrations, the arrangements for performance-related pay for the Senior Civil Service (SCS) are published in annual SCS pay practitioner guidance. The 2025-26 guidance, including the controls on performance related pay, can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-on-the-senior-civil-service-pay-award-202526

For grades below the SCS, departments have delegated authority to determine their own performance-related pay arrangements.

The Cabinet Office annual pay awards are not performance related.

The Department operates an in-year reward and recognition scheme throughout the year.

The total value of all in-year rewards received during this period should not exceed £2000. This does not include Long Term Service Awards.
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Martin Wrigley:To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the then Prime Minister met Peter Thiel between July 2019 and September 2022. \p Nick Thomas-Symonds: Details of official meetings held in a ministerial capacity with external organisations or individuals are declared quarterly on GOV.UK. This includes the meetings of the former Prime Minister.
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Mr Richard Holden:To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many child deaths were recorded where parental consanguinity was (a) identified and (b) not identified in England in each year since 2019. \p Josh Simons: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.

A response to the Hon Gentleman’s Parliamentary Question of 2nd September is attached.

Letter from the National Statistician (pdf, 94.2KB)
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Mike Wood:To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, further to the PCS press release entitled PCS industrial action escalated at ONS, published on 7 August 2025, what steps are being taken by the Office of National Statistics in response to the zero-office attendance policy. \p Josh Simons: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.

A response to the Hon Gentleman’s Parliamentary Question of 29th August is attached.

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Rupert Lowe:To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many pubs have closed each year since 2015. \p Josh Simons: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.

A response to the Hon Gentleman’s Parliamentary Question of 2nd September is attached.

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Shaun Davies:To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the average yearly earnings of women in the UK were broken down by income decile in each of the last three years. \p Josh Simons: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.

A response to the Hon gentleman’s Parliamentary Question of 8th September is attached.

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Charlie Dewhirst:To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much funding (a) his Department and (b) the Crown Commercial Service has provided to the DigiGov Expo 2025. \p Josh Simons: No funding has been provided to DigiGov Expo 2025 by either the Crown Commercial Service or the Cabinet Office.
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Rachael Maskell:To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with the external actors to the war in Sudan. \p Chris Elmore: The Foreign Secretary's speech at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) confirmed that the UK will continue to use its leadership at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to advocate for increased international efforts on Sudan, including pushing the warring parties to implement the humanitarian pause, the wider ceasefire and the political transition that the Sudanese people need.
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Callum Anderson:To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what role UK diplomatic posts in the Gulf region will play in monitoring and supporting implementation of the enhanced partnership with the United Arab Emirates on illicit finance. \p Mr Hamish Falconer: The UK-UAE Partnership to Tackle Illicit Financial Flows, chaired by the Home Office, is a cross-governmental effort to strengthen operational cooperation and disrupt financial crime. A senior UAE delegation visited the UK on 2 and 3 September to advance this work. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) sets and evaluates countries against global standards, which is a separate and technical process. Our bilateral engagement complements implementation of the FATF standards and supports international financial integrity.
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Max Wilkinson:To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to support defence companies. \p Luke Pollard: The Defence Industrial Strategy is the defence sector plan for the Modern Industrial Strategy and underlines this Government’s commitment to making defence an engine for growth

The DIS outlines how the Government will back UK-based businesses by launching the offsets consultation, increase spending on SMEs, create a Defence Office for SME Growth, and provide additional support to companies to export. It announced an ambitious skills package of £182million to enable industry to recruit and build the well-paid jobs that will keep the UK secure in the future. The DIS also outlines how the MOD will conduct early market engagement with industry to inform procurement decisions.
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Ben Obese-Jecty:To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the contribution of Typhoon jets to GDP. \p Luke Pollard: The biggest contribution of defence to GDP is peace and security. My Department has made no estimate of the contribution to GDP of any individual programmes and capabilities.

The Defence Industrial Strategy published on 8 September 2025 clearly set out how we are making defence an engine for growth - Investing more money in key defence areas and regions across the UK to create good jobs. This year my Department has announced further multi-year contracts with UK companies for the support of in-service Typhoon EJ200 engines and the continuing development of the ECRS Mk2 radar upgrade programme that will be embodied on the RAF fleet. A resilient UK industrial base strengthens Britain's defence companies and supply chains to make us more secure and boost our economy, which will support making NATO stronger.
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Dame Harriett Baldwin:To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department have included mandatory commitments to equality, diversity and inclusion training as part of it's procurement contracts awarded since 5 July 2024. \p Josh MacAlister: In accordance with government commercial policy, the department uses centrally maintained frameworks provided by Crown Commercial Service and otherwise uses the suite of standard contracts maintained by Cabinet Office, for the majority of contracts. These terms and conditions require the supplier to perform its obligations under the contract in accordance with equality law, but do not include a requirement to undertake mandatory training.
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Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi:To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of the availability of mental health support within schools. \p Olivia Bailey: 41% of schools and colleges in Slough constituency were supported by an NHS-funded Mental Health Support Team (MHST) in March 2025. Data on the coverage of MHSTs in England in 2024/25 can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/transforming-children-and-young-peoples-mental-health-provision. This has been available since 16 May 2025 at national, regional and local authority level and at constituency level since 10 July 2025.

Data on MHST coverage is collected annually, as part of the government’s commitment to expand MHSTs to every school, so every child and young person has access to early support to address problems before they escalate.

Around six in ten pupils nationally are expected to have access to an MHST by March 2026.
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Liz Jarvis:To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure children in foster care are provided access to mental health support. \p Josh MacAlister: Children in foster care should be provided with access to mental health support at home and at school.

The National Minimum Standards for fostering sets out that children should ‘live in a healthy environment where their physical, emotional and psychological health is promoted.’

Children should have prompt access to doctors and other health professionals, including specialist services, when they need these services.

The government is committed to providing access to specialist mental health professionals in every school by expanding Mental Health Support Teams.

Alongside the Department of Health and Social Care, the department is reviewing and updating current statutory guidance on promoting the health and wellbeing of children in care.

As part of the statutory guidance review, we are considering what changes are needed to better ensure that children in care, including those in foster care, and care leavers receive the necessary support for their mental health and wellbeing.
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James McMurdock:To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of SEND support for children without education, health and care plans. \p Georgia Gould: This government’s ambition is that every child or young person receives the best possible educational experience, one that is academically stretching, where every child or young person feels like they belong, and that sets them up for life and work.

As part of our Plan for Change, we are determined to fix the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system and restore parents’ trust by ensuring schools have the tools to better identify and support children before issues escalate.

We will build a better system which is grounded in evidence, identifies and supports need at the earliest opportunity, and ensures families can secure support swiftly without a fight. There will always be a legal right to the additional support that children with SEND need.

Our new regional improvement for standards and excellence (RISE) teams will work with mainstream schools to help them become more inclusive places as one of four priority areas for improvement.

The newly published RISE Inclusive Mainstream webpage provides schools with programmes and resources to help mainstream schools improve inclusivity and support for those with SEND, and is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/rise-support-for-inclusive-mainstream-education/rise-support-for-inclusive-mainstream-education.
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Mr Lee Dillon:To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to review the financial support available to kinship carers. \p Josh MacAlister: There is a duty on children’s services to arrange special guardianship support services in the local areas. Under section 14F of the Children Act 1989, “each local authority must make arrangements for the provision within their area of special guardianship support services, which includes financial support.”

The department is going further to increase the level of support offered to kinship carers through the trial of a new kinship allowance to support with the costs of raising a child.

At the Autumn Budget 2024, the government announced £40 million to pilot a new Kinship Allowance in some local authorities in England, to support up to 5,000 eligible children in kinship care.

As this is a pilot scheme, the allowance will not be universal at this stage. It is important that robust evidence underpins any future national rollout to ensure the best outcomes for children and families and value for money for the taxpayer.
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Tom Morrison:To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 23 July 2025 to Question 67189Pre-school Education: Accidents and Death, what steps she is taking to ensure that early years foundation stage safeguarding requirements are (a) implemented within early years settings, (b) read by staff on a mandatory basis and (c) communicated (i) consistently and (ii) coherently when changed. \p Olivia Bailey: The early years foundation stage (EYFS) statutory framework sets the standards and requirements all early years providers must legally follow to ensure that children have the best start in life and are kept healthy and safe. The framework is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-foundation-stage-framework--2.

Ofsted is responsible for the registration, regulation and inspection of childcare provision in England. Ofsted, as a regulator, has a responsibility to check that providers meet the EYFS requirements.

The EYFS framework states that early years providers must ensure that practitioners are supported and confident to implement the setting’s safeguarding policy and procedures on an ongoing basis.

The safeguarding changes to the EYFS framework in September 2025 were supported by a programme of communications and engagement, including webinars and vodcasts via the Foundation Years website. We worked with the sector and local authorities to ensure they understood the changes being made and how to implement them. The Foundation Years website is available here: https://www.foundationyears.org.uk/2025/07/early-years-foundation-stage-eyfs-safeguarding-reforms-2025/.
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Lee Anderson:To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for what purposes their Department has used artificial intelligence in the last year. \p Samantha Dixon: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to Question UIN 65073 on 14 July 2025, Question UIN 57235 on 9 June 2025, Question UIN 27966 on 13 February 2025, Question UIN 27102 on 7 February 2025, Question UIN 24137 on 4 March 2025 and the answer to Question UIN 12978 on 15 November 2024.

In addition to the uses outlined in the answers above, MHCLG has developed the Safer Greener Buildings Image Recognition Tool which uses an algorithm to ascertain an accurate estimate of residential building height and understanding of the external wall system materials. This is published as part of the government’s Algorithmic Transparency Recording Standard (ATRS) in line with the mandatory obligation for central government departments to report where algorithmic tools are used in decision-making.
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Sir James Cleverly:To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 3 July 2025 to Question 62978 on MHCLG: Travel, if he will provide the (a) date, (b) cost and (c) approximate location of each Ministerial journey. \p Samantha Dixon: This information is not held centrally and can only be collated at a disproportionate cost to the department.
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Derek Twigg:To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 27 June 2025 to Question 61488 on Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Radiology, what the requirement for radiographers is at Warrington and Halton University Hospitals Trust. \p Karin Smyth: Decisions about staffing levels are a matter for individual National Health Service trusts. NHS trusts manage their workforce planning and recruitment at a local level, ensuring they have the right number of staff in place with the right skills mix, to deliver safe and effective care. The Department does not hold data on the planned radiographer workforce at the Warrington and Halton University Hospitals Trust.
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Mr Andrew Snowden:To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support his Department is providing to people with Alzheimer's disease in (a) Fylde constituency and (b) Lancashire. \p Stephen Kinnock: The provision of dementia health care services is the responsibility of local integrated care boards (ICBs). We would expect ICBs to commission services based on local population needs, taking account of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s guidelines.

A review of the currently commissioned dementia post diagnostic support service for Lancashire and South Cumbria took place in 2023/24. The outcome of the review was a newly designed service specification, ensuring a consistent service model for all individuals who receive a diagnosis of dementia and who are currently living with dementia, and their carers, from point of diagnosis to end of life.

Under this new service, individuals will be systematically referred upon diagnosis into a post diagnostic support service and will then be contacted by a named dementia navigator who will be the contact for the individual throughout their journey with dementia.

Additionally, the Government’s 10-Year Health Plan will address the challenges diagnosed by Lord Darzi and will set the vision for what good joined-up care looks like for people with a combination of complex health and care needs. It will set out how we support and enable health and social care services to work together better to provide that joined-up care.
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Adam Jogee:To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the potential cost to the public purse of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. \p Stephen Kinnock: I refer the hon. Member to the impact assessment.
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Adam Jogee:To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has discussed the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill with his counterpart in the Welsh Government. \p Stephen Kinnock: The Government remains neutral on the matter of assisted dying and the passage of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. The Bill remains a matter for the hon. Member for Spen Valley who, as its sponsor, leads on policy and engagement in relation to the Bill.

Ministers in the Department have had no discussions about the Bill with counterparts in the Welsh Government.
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Alice Macdonald:To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve adult mental health services in Norfolk. \p Stephen Kinnock: Long waits for mental health services are being driven by increasing demand in a system in desperate need of change, including in Norfolk

The Government is piloting innovative models of care in the community, including six neighbourhood adult mental health centres that are open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and which bring together community, crisis, and inpatient care.

We are also improving data quality so we can support providers in understanding demand across their areas.

Our 10-Year Health Plan will inform the future vision and delivery plan for mental health services in England. Earlier intervention remains a key focus of the plan with the aim of reducing pressure on mental health services.
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Jim Shannon:To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support women with postpartum psychosis. \p Stephen Kinnock: The Government continues to increase spending on specialist community perinatal mental health services every year. Integrated care boards spent £212 million in 2024/25, which is an increase of £18 million compared to the £194 million spent in 2023/24. In addition, £58 million was spent on mother and baby units in 2023/24.

Mother and baby units are specialist, in-patient units for some women who experience severe mental health difficulties during pregnancy, or after the birth of their child. These units specialise in treating severe mental conditions, including postpartum psychosis. Care is provided by specialist professionals, including perinatal mental health nurses, nursery nurses, perinatal psychiatrists, psychologists, and occupational therapists.
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Sir John Hayes:To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of patients at (a) Pilgrim Hospital Boston and (b) Peterborough City Hospital were discharged to social care in each of the last three years. \p Stephen Kinnock: NHS England publishes data on the number of patients discharged by discharge pathway, at a trust level, which is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/discharge-delays/acute-discharge-situation-report/

Pathway 1 is discharges home or to a usual place of residence with new or additional health and/or social care needs. Pathway 3 is discharges to a new residential or nursing home setting, for people who are considered likely to need long-term residential or nursing home care.
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Shockat Adam:To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what baseline figure his Department will use to measure progress on reducing the number of (a) people with a learning disability and (b) autistic people in mental health hospitals by 10 per cent within 2025-26. \p Stephen Kinnock: National Health Service planning guidance for 2025/26 includes a focus on improving care for people with a learning disability and autistic people and contains the objective to deliver a minimum 10% reduction in the use of mental health inpatient care for people with a learning disability and autistic people in 2025/26. The baselines being used to measure progress against operational planning guidance are: adults with a learning disability, including those who may also be autistic, in mental health inpatient care as of 31 March 2024, based on Assuring Transformation data extracted from 31 March 2024; and adults who are autistic, with no learning disability, in mental health inpatient care as of 31 March 2024, based on Assuring Transformation data extracted from 31 March 2024.

The expectation is that integrated care boards will have been working towards achieving a 10% reduction from the 31 March 2024 baseline by 31 March 2025, and will build on this during 2025/26. They are therefore expected to achieve a 20% reduction from the 31 March 2024 baseline by 31 March 2026.
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Sir John Hayes:To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support neuro diverse children in (a) Lincolnshire and (b) other rural areas. \p Stephen Kinnock: It is the responsibility of integrated care boards to make available appropriate provision to meet the health and care needs of their local population, including support services for neurodiverse children.

NHS England has established an attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) taskforce, bringing together those with lived experience with experts from the National Health Service, education, charity and justice sectors to get a better understanding of the challenges affecting those with ADHD, including in accessing services and support. An interim report was published on 20 June 2025, with the final report expected later in summer 2025.

The Government is also supporting inclusive environments and earlier intervention for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) through the ‘Early Language Support for Every Child’ and ‘Partnerships for Inclusion of Neurodiversity in Schools’ programmes. The Government will invest in support for pupils with SEND more widely, enabling transformation of the SEND system to make mainstream schools more inclusive and improve outcomes.
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Sir Mark Hendrick:To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many ADHD assessments are outstanding for (a) children and (b) adults in Lancashire; and what steps he is taking to ensure that people receive a timely assessment. \p Stephen Kinnock: For the first time, NHS England published management information on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) waits at a national level, on 29 May 2025, as part of its ADHD data improvement plan. It has also released technical guidance to integrated care boards (ICBs) to improve the recording of ADHD data, with a view to improving the quality of ADHD waiting time data and to publishing more localised data in future. NHS England has also captured examples from ICBs who are trialling innovative ways of delivering ADHD services and is using this information to support systems to tackle ADHD waiting lists and provide support to address people’s needs.

NHS England has established an ADHD taskforce which is bringing together those with lived experience with experts from the National Health Service, education, charity, and justice sectors, to get a better understanding of the challenges affecting those with ADHD, including in accessing services and support. An interim report was published on 20 June 2025, with the final report expected later in the summer.
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Maya Ellis:To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to (a) increase the provision of and (b) improve autism services in (i) Ribble Valley constituency and (ii) Lancashire. \p Stephen Kinnock: On 5 April 2023, NHS England published a national framework and operational guidance to help integrated care boards (ICBs) and the National Health Service to deliver improved outcomes for children, young people and adults referred to an autism assessment service. The guidance also sets out what support should be available before an assessment and what support should follow a recent diagnosis of autism, based on the available evidence. Since publication, NHS England has been supporting systems and services to identify where there are challenges for implementation and how they might overcome these.

The NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB has secured £1.8 million in funding to improve the Neurodivergent Pathway across Lancashire and South Cumbria, which the ICB has decided will primarily focus on children and young people (CYP) in the first instance, given the complexities and inconsistency of current CYP pathways. This investment will support frontline services, digital systems, a redesign of clinical pathways, and an increase in direct support available for families and young people. The ICB is working closely with Lancashire County Council and local schools to ensure the offer is joined up. The ICB has also commissioned an all-age online pre- and post-diagnostic support resource.
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Zöe Franklin:To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of changes to the employers' National Insurance Contributions on providers of adult social care. \p Stephen Kinnock: The Department routinely conducts assessments of cost pressures for local authority funded adult social care, which include the costs associated with changes to employers’ National Insurance contributions.

To enable local authorities to deliver key services such as adult social care, the Government has made available up to £3.7 billion of additional funding for social care authorities in 2025/26. There is also an extra £502 million of support for local authorities in England to manage the impact of changes to employer National Insurance contributions, as announced at the Autumn Budget.

In addition, the Spending Review allows for an increase of over £4 billion of funding available for adult social care in 2028/29 compared to 2025/26.
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Calum Miller:To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has had discussions with (a) NHS England and (b) local Integrated Care Boards on the impact of rent under-valuation by the Valuation Office Agency. \p Stephen Kinnock: NHS England and the Valuation Office work collectively on a practical level to provide support to integrated care boards in instances where rental levels for new primary care investments are deemed insufficient or unviable, and jointly test options and variation of terms to create financial viability, where possible.

There is no under-valuation presented by the District Valuer Service, as rents are assessed based on Current Market Rent and are relative to comparable value-significant attributes and evidence within the market.
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Sadik Al-Hassan:To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure a sufficient number of Designated Prescribing Practitioners to mentor all new non-medical prescribers. \p Stephen Kinnock: NHS England is investing in training for independent prescribers, as well as initiatives to support the development and safe practice of designated prescribing practitioners (DPPs) and educational supervisors. A DPP is a healthcare professional with legal independent prescribing rights who will mentor and supervise the pharmacist during the period of learning in practice. This will ensure the National Health Service is ready to support and mentor foundation trainee pharmacists from the 2025/26 academic year, alongside training existing pharmacists that are learning to be independent prescribers.

Reforms to pharmacist education and training will allow for the development of prescriber pharmacists from the point of registration from 2026. This will enable a career-long focus on prescriber services and an associated expansion of the DPP workforce, to support multi-professional teams and the expansion of cross-sector prescribing services.

NHS England has funded 3,000 training places for existing pharmacists to become independent prescribers, and is training 1,000 DPP and educational supervisors to support the training of pharmacist independent prescribers.
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Rachel Gilmour:To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to provide financial support for local community-based (a) rehabilitation and (b) reablement services for brain injury survivors. \p Stephen Kinnock: We intend to develop an acquired brain injury (ABI) Action or Delivery Plan, with input from NHS England and other Government departments, to be published in autumn 2025. The 10-Year Health Plan will provide the overarching plan for the future of the National Health Service, and a subsequent ABI Plan would then focus on specific actions and deliverables for ABI against the backdrop of the 10-Year Health Plan.

Community rehabilitation for people with neurological conditions is named as one the integrated care board-funded core components of community health services. Further information on Standardising community health services planning guidance is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/standardising-community-health-services/

The Department launched the Adult Social Care Learning and Development Support Scheme (LDSS) in September 2024, providing funding for eligible care staff to complete courses and qualifications. The scheme is backed by up to £12 million this financial year.

We have published a list of over 200 training courses and qualifications which are eligible for funding from the LDSS, including training to enable staff to support care users with specific needs and medical conditions. It also includes qualifications to enhance quality of care more broadly, including the new Level 2 Adult Social Care Certificate (L2ASCC).

The L2ASCC is an accredited occupational qualification for all eligible non-regulated care staff aged 19 years old and over. It is based on the Care Certificate standards and ensures that those working in the sector have the right skills to provide the right care for individuals who draw on care and support.

While brain injuries are not explicitly mentioned, the L2ASCC and the Care Certificate standards provide a foundation of knowledge and skills necessary to support individuals in the adult social care sector safely and effectively.