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Liz Kendall
LAB✓ Current MP
🏛️ Leicester West
📅 2010–2026
1,108 speeches on Hansard record
⚠️ Votes attended: 69.98% (#396 of 650 MPs)
🟢 Rebelled against party: 0.23%
📝 Topics: Hospitals: Discharges, Care Homes, Social Services: Finance
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Attorney General
To ask the Attorney General, how many people of each gender work in the Law Officers' Departments.
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Cabinet Office
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people of each gender work in his Department.
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To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people died as a result of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in England in each year from 2009-10 to 2014-15.
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To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 29 October 2014 to Question 211917, how many people (a) under and (b) over the age of 18 died as a result of asthma in England and Wales in 2014.
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To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people (a) under and (b) over the age of 18 died of epilepsy in (i) England and (ii) the UK in each of the last five years.
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Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many people of each gender work in his Department.
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Department for Communities and Local Government
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many people of each gender work in his Department.
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Department for Culture, Media and Sport
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many people of each gender work in his Department.
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Department for Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 20 July 2022 to Question 37614 on Schools: Buildings, which schools in (a) Leicester West, (b) Leicester East and (c) Leicester South constituencies had at least one construction element in condition grade (i) C and (ii) D when…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding was allocated to the Office of the Children’s Commissioner in each of the last five years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people of each gender work in her Department.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the disparity in reading ability between different socio-economic groups at age four in each of the last five years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of early years educators qualified to level 3 were working with children aged (a) two, (b) three and (c) four in each of the last five years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of early years educators qualified to Level 6 were working with children aged (a) two, (b) three and (c) four in each of the last five years.
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Department for Energy and Climate Change
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many people of each gender work in her Department.
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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many people of each gender work in her Department.
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Department for International Development
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether her Department has provided support to developing countries to formulate regulations on mobile financial services.
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To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether her Department has provided support to developing countries to encourage financial inclusion.
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To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of mobile financial services on levels of extreme poverty in developing countries.
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To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many people of each gender work in her Department.
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Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many and what proportion of people over 65 years old live in housing with care developments in England.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when the taskforce on Older People’s Housing will be launched.
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Department for Transport
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people of each gender work in his Department.
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Department for Work and Pensions
No child should be in poverty, and we are determined to ensure a better start for every child in Newcastle-under-Lyme, where nearly a quarter are in relative poverty. Ahead of our Child Poverty Strategy, we have tripled our investment in breakfast clubs to over £30 million in 2025/26, and…
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It is vital that our social security system, including PIP, is sustainable now and into the future.That is why we are reforming the system, so we protect those who can never work and so that those who can work get the help they need and deserve – including by investing an additional £1…
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It is vital that workplaces are inclusive so disabled people have the same opportunities to get work, stay in work and progress in their careers. That is why I have asked Sir Charlie Mayfield, the former boss of John Lewis, to lead an independent review into what more employers and Government can…
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Disabled people in Southport deserve the same choices and chances to work as anyone else.That is why we will transform support for disabled people who can work to get the jobs they want and deserve, including by investing an additional £1 billion a year through our Pathways to work employment…
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The Child Poverty Action Group estimates 38% of children in My Hon Friend’s constituency are now growing up in povertyIncreasing the employment rate for lone parents, and increasing the number of second earners in couples, is absolutely crucial to tackling this problem.Our Get Britain Working…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on what evidential basis he stated to The Telegraph on 20 March 2024 that GPs were signing people off work for feeling down and bluesy.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to paragraph 4.58 of the Office for Budget Responsibility publication entitled Economic and Fiscal Outlook, published in March 2024, whether he has made an estimate of future trends in the level of fraud in Universal Credit claims.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 20 March 2024 to Question 18113 on Jobcentres: Finance, what the individual incentives are in the two incentive pilot programmes for work coaches supporting people into work.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 20 March 2024 to Question 18113 on Jobcentres: Finance, what the cost to the public purse was of the two incentive pilot programmes.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to offer financial incentives for Jobcentre work coaches to get people into work.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Office for Budget Responsibility publication entitled Economic and Fiscal Outlook, published in March 2024, whether he has made a comparative assessment of the potential impact of the projected labour participation rate on…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason the increase in the maximum repayment period on new budgeting advance loans starts is scheduled for December 2024.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an estimate of the number and proportion of tax credit claimants that have closed a claim rather than migrate to Universal Credit in each of the last three years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of Universal Credit claimants have received a budgeting advance in each of the last three years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to paragraphs 7.16 and 7.17 of the Ministerial Code, on how many occasions Ministers in his Department have informed the Law Officers that they are the defendants in a libel action in (a) their personal capacity, (b) their official…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his Department's spend on the youth offer was in the last financial year.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many times (a) the Secretary of State and (b) each Minister in his Department has visited a (i) Government Hub and (ii) ministerial office outside of London in the last 12 months.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with a health condition affecting their hearing have received support from Access to Work grants to (a) start work, (b) stay in work and (c) move into self-employment.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people of each gender work in his Department.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average length of time was that his Department took to process a personal independence payment from (a) a motor neurone disease sufferer and (b) another disabled person in the most recent period for which data is available.
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Department of Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people with learning disabilities are on the waiting list for a Care and Treatment Review.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people with a diagnosis of autism have been held on mental health wards in each of the last three years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people with learning disabilities have been held on mental health wards in each of the last three years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the (a) average and (b) longest wait was for a carers' assessment after an initial request was made since the introduction of the Carers Act 2014.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people are currently on the waiting list for a carers' assessment.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have received a carers' assessment since the introduction of the Carers Act 2014.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the (a) average and (b) longest length of time was that patients with a diagnosis of autism who were (i) adults and (ii) children were held on mental health wards in each of the last three years because they could not get a suitable living placement.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients with a diagnosis of autism have been held on mental health wards in each of the last three years because they could not get a suitable living placement; and how many of those patients were (a) children and (b) adults.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people of each gender work in his Department.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many finished consultant episodes with a primary or secondary diagnosis of (a) age-related macular degeneration, (b) glaucoma, (c) diabetic retinopathy and (d) cataracts there were in the NHS in England in each of the last five years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the rate was of (a) age-related macular degeneration, (b) glaucoma and (c) diabetic retinopathy per 100,000 population by age group in (i) 2013-14 and (ii) 2014-15 to date.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many finished hospital admission episodes with a primary or secondary diagnosis of fractures attributable to osteoporosis there were amongst (a) women under, (b) women over, (c) men under and (d) men over the age of 50 in 2013-14.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many free sight tests were provided on the NHS to people aged (a) under and (b) over 60 in England in each of the last five years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average length of stay in hospital was for people with a primary diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in England in each year from 2009-10 to 2014-15.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was spent on the prescription of drugs to manage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the NHS in each year from 2009-10 to 2014-15.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were recorded on a general practice register with a diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in England in each year from 2009-10 to 2014-15.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the Government has allocated to development of new drugs and treatments for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease each year from 2009-10 to 2014-15.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of safeguarding concerns responded to by the Care Quality Commission were responded to within the target time frame in each year since 2010-11.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many finished hospital admission episodes with a primary diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease there were in each year since 2009-10.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS patients in England with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease were subject to a delayed transfer of care from an acute care setting in each year since 2009-10.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the spending per in-patient in England on NHS meals was per (a) hospital stay and (b) day in each year since 2009-10.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much each of his Department's non-departmental public bodies spent on consultancy services in (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2014-15 to date.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on how many staff members employed by Arriva to deliver patient transport are paid less than the living wage.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much commissioning support units spent on consultancy services in (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2014-15 to date.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much clinical commissioning groups spent on consultancy services in (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2014-15 to date.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many finished hospital episodes with a primary diagnosis of epilepsy there were among people aged (a) under and (b) over 18 in England in each of the last five years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much public money has been granted into research into epilepsy in each of the last five years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much public money has been invested into development of new drugs and treatments for epilepsy in each of the last five years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much money has been spent on the prescription of drugs to manage epilepsy in the NHS in each of the last five years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average cost of hospital stay was for people admitted with a primary diagnosis of asthma in each of the last five years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 28 October 2014 to Question 211703, how many people were recorded on a general practice register with a diagnosis of asthma in 2013-14.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many contracts Arriva holds for patient transport services; and what area each such contract covers.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 28 October 2014 to Question 211702, how many finished hospital admission episodes with a primary diagnosis of asthma there were among people aged (a) under and (b) over 18 years in 2013-14.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 1 July 2014 to Question 202551, how many residents of care homes had an emergency admission to a hospital in 2013-14.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many asthma patients in England have been prescribed short-acting reliever inhalers in each of the last five years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients in England have been prescribed more than 12 short-acting reliever inhalers in each of the last five years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many prescriptions for asthma medications were issued in each of the last five years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many short-acting reliever inhalers for the treatment of asthma have been prescribed in each of the last five years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average length of stay in hosptial was for people admitted with a primary diagnosis of asthma in each of the last five years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 16 December 2014 to Question 218494, what the reasons were for the reduction in the number of flexible sigmoidoscopy tests carried out in 2013-14 compared to 2012-13.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 11 December 2014 to Question 218419 on radiotherapy, how many individual funding requests were (a) received and (b) declined for stereotactic radiosurgery/radiotherapy in each of the last five years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the Government spent in (a) cash terms, (b) real terms and (c) per person in (i) cash and (ii) real terms on older people's social care in England in each of the last five years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the Government spent in (a) cash terms, (b) real terms and (c) per person in (i) cash and (ii) real terms on social care in England in each of the last five years.
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Department of Health and Social Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many care workers were recruited through the Made with Care recruitment campaign in each of the two years that that campaign has run.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the measurable impacts were of the Made with Care recruitment campaign in each of the two years that that campaign has run.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the key performance indicators were of the Made with Care recruitment campaign in each of the two years that the campaign has run.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the total amount spent has been on the Made with Care recruitment campaign in each of the two years that that campaign has run.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people visited the Made with Care campaign website in each of the two years that the campaign has run.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people visited the Made with Care campaign website and used it to search for jobs in their area in each of the two years that the campaign has run.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients moved into a step down bed purchased using the £750 million allocated by his Department for freeing up beds during winter 2022-23; what was the average duration of their package; and how many of these patients were…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Next steps to put People at the Heart of Care report published in March 2023, whether the amount of money she plans to spend on supporting people to remain in their homes by adapting or maintaining them, including…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients remained in hospital who no longer met the criteria to reside for each day between 1 May 2023 and 17 May 2023 for which data is available.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many discharges from step down beds were there in (a) October 2022, (b) November 2022, (c) December 2022, (d) January 2023, (e) February 2023 and (f) March 2023.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many step down beds were purchased using the £750 million of funding allocated by his Department for freeing up beds in hospitals during winter 2022-23.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much of the of the £750 million pledged to speed up hospital discharges in winter 2022-23 was spent before 31 March 2023; and where the unspent funds have been reallocated to.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many hours of respite the funding allocated to unpaid carers in the Next Steps to put People at the Heart of Care report will provide.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason statistics on discharge delays are not broken down on a daily and weekly basis for the 2023-24 financial year.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding has been allocated to speed up delayed discharges in the 2023-24 financial year; and where those funds have been derived from.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients were readmitted to an inpatient setting from a step down bed procured through the £750 million allocated by his Department for freeing up hospital beds in winter 2022-23.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding was allocated to support the social care workforce in the People at the Heart of Care White Paper in December 2021 compared to the Next steps to put People at the Heart of Care report in March 2023.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the remit will be of the Older People’s Taskforce.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the unallocated funding in the Next steps to put People at the Heart of Care report will be used for; and when that funding will allocated.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much of the £250 million initiative to speed up hospital discharges announced on 9 January 2023 has been spent.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the press notice entitled Up to £250 million to speed up hospital discharge, published by his Department on 9 January 2023, how this money has been spent.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which (a) NHS trusts and (b) local authorities have received funding from the £250 million initiative to speed up hospital discharges announced on 9 January 2023; and how much each of those bodies received.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many delayed discharges there were from NHS (a) elective, (b) non-elective, (c) high dependency, (d) standard ward and (e) other beds in February 2023.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 20 February 2023 to Question 135229 on Hospitals: Discharges, how many and what proportion of delayed discharges were due to (a) hospital process delays, (b) patients awaiting the start of (i) home-based, (ii)…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people in hospital who have been identified as medically fit for discharge are waiting for (a) a care package at home, (b) a short-term rehabilitation bed, (c) a permanent bed in a care home, (d) a permanent bed in a nursing home…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people receive a personal budget for their social care.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have received a personal budget for their social care in each of the last 13 years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what was the cost to the public purse of personal budgets for social care in each of the last 13 years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people currently in receipt of personal budgets have their local authority manage their budget for them.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people currently in receipt of personal budgets ask their local authority to pay the money to another organisation.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people currently in receipt of personal budgets receive this support as a direct payment.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people in receipt of personal budgets receive the support as a combination of direct payments, payments to organisations or funding managed by the local authority.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people in receipt of personal budgets have received this support as a direct payment in each of the last 13 years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what was the cost to the public purse of direct payments for personal budgets for social care in each of the last 13 years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 1 March 2023 to Question 146908 on Hospital Beds: Costs, what the unit cost per day is for NHS (a) elective, (b) non-elective, (c) high dependency and (d) standard ward beds.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February 2023 to Question 135225 on Social Services: Agency Workers, what the value is of agency staff costs as a proportion of total staff costs in non-specialist care homes.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made on launching the taskforce on Older People’s Housing.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 7 February 2023 to Question 135230 on Care Quality Commission: Finance, how much funding from the public purse was allocated to the Care Quality Commission in each year since 2010.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients were waiting to be discharged from hospital for one week or more despite being identified as medically fit for discharge on 13 March 2023.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients had been waiting to be discharged from hospital for two weeks or more despite being identified as medically fit for discharge on 13 March 2023.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients were waiting to be discharged from hospital for three weeks or more despite being identified as medically fit for discharge on 13 March 2023.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients were waiting to be discharged from hospital for four weeks or more despite being identified as medically fit for discharge on 13 March 2023.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average time between a patient being identified as medically fit for discharge and being discharged was in each of the last 12 months.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which (a) NHS trusts and (b) local authorities have received funding from the £250 million initiative to speed up hospital discharges announced on 9 January 2023; and how much each of those bodies received.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the press notice entitled Up to £250 million to speed up hospital discharge, published by his Department on 9 January 2023, how this money has been spent.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the press notice entitled Up to £250 million to speed up hospital discharge, published by his Department on 9 January 2023, whether there is a deadline by which that funding needs to be spent.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the white paper entitled People at the Heart of Care, published on 1 December 2021, how much and what proportion of the £150 million of funding for the adoption of technology in the social care sector has been received…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the white paper entitled People at the Heart of Care, published on 1 December 2021, how much and what proportion of the £500 million of funding to help improve the training and qualifications of the social care…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the white paper entitled People at the Heart of Care, published on 1 December 2021, how much and what proportion of the £25 million of funding to help support services for unpaid carers has been received by (a) local…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the white paper entitled People at the Heart of Care, published on 1 December 2021, how much and what proportion of the £300 million of funding to integrate housing into local health and care strategies has been…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the white paper entitled People at the Heart of Care, published on 1 December 2021, how much and what proportion of the £30 million of funding for the innovation of support and care has been received by (a) local…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the white paper entitled People at the Heart of Care, published on 1 December 2021, how much and what proportion of the £70 million of funding to help improve the delivery of care and support services has been received…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 7 February to Question 135222, what the average length of service was for those carers who left the adult social care sector.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the white paper entitled People at the Heart of Care, published on 1 December 2021, whether it is still his policy to invest £500 million to improve the training and qualifications of the social care workforce.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the unit cost per day for an NHS bed is.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many women aged 50-69 are waiting for NHS treatment for (a)) Osteoarthritis, (b) Osteoporosis and (c) Arthritis; and how many of those women have been waiting over a year for treatment for each of those conditions.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of nursing care homes were rated as inadequate in (a) January 2023 and (b) each of the last 13 years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of nursing care homes were rated as requires improvement in (a) January 2023 and (b) each of the last 13 years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of nursing care homes were rated as good in (a) January 2023 and (b) each of the last 13 years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of nursing care homes were rated as outstanding in (a) January 2023 and (b) each of the last 13 years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the (a) number of people awaiting a care and support assessment and (b) the potential impact of delayed assessments on those requiring that assessment.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 7 February to Question 135221, how much funding was provided for (a) short breaks and (b) respite services to carers by the Government in each of the last 13 years; and how many carers benefited from this funding…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 7 February to Question 135221, how many (a) hours of respite care will be provided and (b) carers will benefit from that funding.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of residential care homes were rated as inadequate in (a) January 2023 and (b) in each of the last 13 years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of residential care homes were rated as requires improvement in (a) January 2023 and (b) each of the last 13 years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of residential care homes were rated as good in (a) January 2023 and (b) each of the last 13 years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of residential care homes were rated as outstanding in (a) January 2023 and (b) each of the last 13 years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February to Question 135225, if he will make an estimate of the annual spend of social care providers on agency care workers in each of the last 13 years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February to Question 135225, how many of the total number of staff employed were agency care workers in each of the last 13 years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February to Question 135225, how many and what proportion of care workers were agency domiciliary care workers in each of the last 13 years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February to Question 135225, how many and what proportion of care workers were agency residential care workers in each of the last 13 years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many social care contracts were returned to local authorities in each of the last five years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the most common reasons for delayed discharges of patients who no longer meet the criteria to reside in hospital.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of the Better Care Fund will be spent on supporting unpaid family carers.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS patients were in hospital waiting to be discharged in the first week of January 2023 in each NHS Trust in England.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the (a) average age, (b) gender breakdown and (c) ethnicity of the social care workforce.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many days' worth of respite care services have been received by family carers in each of the last 13 years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what was the average number of days of respite care services received by family carers in each of the last 13 years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many family carers received respite breaks in each of the last 12 months.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average hourly cost of (a) local authority-funded and (b) self-funded home care was in each of the last 13 years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what was the average weekly cost of (a) local authority funded and (b) self-funded residential care in each of the last 13 years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what was the average annual cost of (a) local authority funded and (b) self-funded residential care in each of the last 13 years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what was the average hourly cost of (a) local authority funded and (b) self-funded nursing care in each of the last 13 years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what was the average weekly cost of (a) local authority funded and (b) self-funded nursing care in each of the last 13 years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding has been allocated to the Care Quality Commission in each of the last five years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what was the average length of stay in hospital for patients who no longer met the criteria to reside in hospital and were waiting to be discharged in the last 12 months.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of paid care workers have left the social care sector in each of the last 13 years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the number and proportion of social care staff who have left the sector and moved to a job in (a) retail, (b) hospitality and (c) the NHS in each of the last 13 years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS patients were waiting to be discharged from hospital in the (a) first week of January 2023 and (b) the same time period for each of the last 13 years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the annual spend of social care providers on agency care workers in 2022.
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many people of each gender work in his Department.
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HM Treasury
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people of each gender work in his Department.
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To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential effects of the proposed increase in inheritance tax thresholds on property prices (a) nationally and (b) in each region of the UK.
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To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the name is of each social care provider being investigated by HM Revenue and Customs for non-compliance with national minimum wage regulations.
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Home Office
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people of each gender work in her Department.
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Ministry of Defence
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people of each gender work in his Department.
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Ministry of Justice
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people of each gender work in his Department.
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Northern Ireland Office
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many people of each gender work in her Department.
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Scotland Office
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many people of each gender work in his Department.
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Treasury
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 14 March 2024 to Question 17582 on National Insurance Contributions: State Retirement Pensions, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of abolishing, rather than reducing, national insurance…
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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to his Financial Statement from 6 March 2024, Official Report, column 851, whether his Department has made an assessment of potential alternative funding mechanisms for the State Pension.
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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of abolishing national insurance contributions on state pension entitlements.
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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on the potential impact of abolishing National Insurance contributions on (a) calculating and (b) accounting pension entitlements.
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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of abolishing National Insurance contributions on how qualifying years for pension entitlement would be (a) calculated and (b) accounted.
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Wales Office
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many people of each gender work in his Department.
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Women and Equalities
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how many people of each gender have worked as special advisers in the Government Equalities Office since 2010.
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To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what the highest salary is of a (a) woman and (b) man in the Government Equalities Office.
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To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how many people of each gender work in the Government Equalities Office.
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To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what the average salary is of a (a) male and (b) female special adviser in the Government Equalities Office.
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To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how many (a) men and (b) women have been promoted within the Government Equalities Office in each year since 2010.
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To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how many people of each gender work as special advisers in the Government Equalities Office.
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To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how many people of each gender work in the Government Equalities Office.
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To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how many people of each gender have worked as special advisers in the Government Equalities Office in each year from 2010-11 to 2014-15.
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To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how many people of each gender have worked in the Government Equalities Office in each year from 2010-11 to 2014-15.
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