The National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS-funded Nursing Care sets out in paragraph 185 that, where an individual is eligible for NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC), the integrated care board (ICB) is responsible for care planning, commissioning services, and case management. The ICB is responsible for planning strategically, specifying outcomes, procuring services, and managing demand and provider performance in relation to CHC. The services commissioned must include ongoing case management, including review or reassessment of the individual’s needs.

NHS England holds ICBs accountable, and engages with them to ensure that they discharge their functions via timely and well-established assurance mechanisms. The national framework also sets out that those in receipt of CHC continue to be entitled to access to the full range of primary, community, secondary, and other health services.

The Department invests in health research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). As with other Government funders of health research, the NIHR does not allocate funding for specific disease areas.

The level of research spend in a particular area is driven by factors including scientific potential and the number and scale of successful funding applications. The NIHR welcomes funding applications for research into any aspect of human health, including screening for ovarian cancer.

However, it is worth noting that the NIHR has funded six research projects into screening for ovarian cancer since 2018, with a combined total funding value of £3.8 million. The NIHR also supports delivery in the health and care system for screening for ovarian cancer research funded by research funding partners in the charity and public sectors.

The Department commissions research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). Since 2018 the NIHR has funded 10 research projects on sepsis in children with a combined total funding value of over £14 million.

Since launching on 30 November 2021, the UK Tradeshow Programme has had 419 applications seeking support to exhibit at (258), or attend (161*), trade shows overseas.

The programme is currently running as a 16-month feasibility study, ending on 31 March 2023, and research to evaluate the programme is ongoing.

As outlined in our 2021 Export Strategy “Made in the UK, sold to the World”, the Department is committed to improving exporting opportunities for businesses and monitoring our performance in this area to ensure continuous improvement.

*Pursuant to my replies to the hon. Member for Torfaen on 9 February 2023, UIN 126730 and 126731, which stated 164 attendee applications had been received, three applications have since been resolved as incomplete.

The UK is at the forefront of pandemic preparedness research, including the development of advanced vaccines, building on the success of the Oxford AstraZeneca Vaccine. This includes allocating £354 million to life sciences manufacturing through the Global Britain Investment Fund to strengthen UK vaccine manufacturing resilience.

BEIS stands ready to support businesses through any future pandemic, tailored to the circumstances at the time. We are increasing public R&D spending to £20 billion per annum by 2024-25, reaffirming BEIS’ record £39.8 billion allocation to 2024-25. This includes £25.1 billion for UK Research and Innovation, which provides significant funding for pandemic preparedness.

Where a child cannot live with their birth family, local authorities have a legal duty to first consider family and friend carers. This may not always the best placement for the child, and the child may therefore be placed in the care of the local authority.

Statutory guidance on family and friends care, issued to local authorities in England, makes clear that children and young people should receive the support that they and their carers need to safeguard and promote their welfare. There is no limit on the level of support, including financial support, that local authorities can provide. All local authorities should have in place clear eligibility criteria in relation to the provision of support services for family and friend carers.

Foster carers, whether connected persons or unrelated, are entitled to an allowance to cover the costs of caring for a child. The ’Fostering Services: National Minimum Standards,’ set out the expectations that are placed on foster carers and their agencies in England. The national minimum standards set out that all foster carers should receive at least the national minimum allowance plus any agreed expenses to cover the full cost of caring for each child placed with them. These standards can be accessed here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/192705/NMS_Fostering_Services.pdf.

The Independent Review of Children’s Social Care made a set of bold and ambitious recommendations which seek to improve the financial and practical support kinship carers receive. These include recommendations on a financial allowance, a leave entitlement, and support and training for kinship carers.

The department is due to respond to these recommendations in early 2023.

The Department funds research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The NIHR has provided approximately £4.4 million for research on myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) since 2011. In addition, the NIHR and the Medical Research Council have jointly funded a £3.2 million study into genetics and ME/CFS. The study will analyse samples from 25,000 people with ME/CFS to search for genetic differences which may indicate underlying causes or an increased risk of developing the condition.

The Government takes all forms of hate crime seriously. We expect the police to fully investigate these hateful attacks and make sure the cowards who commit them feel the full force of the law.

We also welcome the apparent greater willingness to report hate crimes to the police and that the police are better at identifying them. That helps to explain the increase seen in hate crime this year.

Our priority is to get more police onto our streets, cut crime, protect the public and bring more criminals to justice. We are supporting police by providing them with the resources they need, including recruiting 20,000 extra police officers.

The Metropolitan Police Service's funding will be up to £3.24 billion in 2022/23, an increase of up to £169.3 million when compared to 2021/22.

As at 30 September 2022, the Metropolitan Police Service have recruited 3,109 additional uplift officers against a total three-year allocation of 4,557 officers. The deployment of all officers is an operational decision for Chief Constables.

In 2022-23, £291.7 million of the Better Care Fund is earmarked to provide short breaks and respite services for carers, as well as additional advice and support. This year, for the first time, local partnerships have had to set out how funding is being used to support unpaid carers in their Better Care Fund plans. These plans are currently being assured and moderated.

We are committed to supporting unpaid carers to balance their caring alongside work, and to do so in a way that supports their own health and wellbeing. On Friday 21 October, the Government confirmed its support for the hon. Member for North East Fife’s Private Members’ Bill which would introduce a new entitlement to one week of Carer’s Leave for all employees who are providing care for a dependant with a long-term care need.

Specific specialised NHS England services provide rebates on energy costs for patients using medical equipment at home, such as home oxygen concentrators. However, these arrangements are unique to the contracts or service specifications.

We will continue to monitor the situation to support home users of electrical medical equipment.

On the 24 June, HM Treasury published the review of the UK’s AML/CFT regulatory and supervisory regime, that set out the strengths and deficiencies of the UK’s regime. Alongside a forward-looking document, publication of two post-implementation reviews was legally required, assessing the effectiveness of the Money Laundering Regulations 2017 and the Oversight of Professional Body AML Supervision Regulations 2017.

The review is structured around systemic, regulatory and supervisory effectiveness and focuses on improving the effectiveness of the Money Laundering Regulations, ensuring the application of an effective risk-based controls across the regulated sector and continuing to develop a world-leading anti-money laundering supervision regime. The Treasury has also committed to issuing two further consultations, on supervisory reform and potential amendments to the MLRs.

No specific assessment has yet been made as data on the additional funding is not currently held centrally. We expect this information to be available shortly. There are no plans to announce additional funding for National Health Service dentistry in 2022 further to the £3 billion committed by NHS England each year.

We will shortly announce a range of measures to improve the NHS dental system to increase access, target care towards patients with higher oral care needs and reward dentists more fairly for the care they deliver. These improvements have been developed with the sector and the British Dental Association. Since July 2022, NHS England has asked practices to deliver 100% of contracted units of dental activity and 100% of units of orthodontic activity to safely improve access for patients.

Last year, the Government spent around £1.7bn on legal aid. We are also injecting more than £10 million of increased funding a year into housing legal aid through our reforms to the Housing Possession Court Duty Scheme. We keep the impact of the extension of fixed recoverable costs on legal aid under close review and have temporarily paused the extension to legally aided housing possession cases, to allow time for improvements to provision to be implemented.

There are currently no specific plans to do so. However, the NHS Long Term Plan commits to increasing funding for National Health Service mental health services by approximately £2.3 billion a year by 2023/24 to allow a further two million people, including those with a learning disability, to access mental health support. This is in addition to £31 million provided in 2021/22 to support learning disability and autism services, address the diagnostic backlog as a result of the pandemic and support intervention to prevent children and young people with learning disability and autism escalating into crisis.

We have also invested £1.4 million to develop and trial the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on learning disability and autism with over 8,000 participants in 2021. This training has been designed and delivered with autistic people, people with a learning disability, family, carers and subject matter experts and is intended to ensure that health and social care staff have the skills and knowledge to provide safe, compassionate and informed care.

No leaseholder living in their own flat above 11m will pay a penny to fix unsafe cladding and our new levy will protect leaseholders even if their developer has so far refused to sign up to our pledge.

The Government is also launching a new 11-18m cladding remediation scheme to fund work on buildings where a responsible developer cannot be identified. The new scheme will be funded by expanding the scope of the Building Safety Levy to raise an additional estimated £3 billion, providing the necessary funds to address cladding issues on these remaining buildings. We will announce further detail on the launch of the 11-18m Remediation Fund shortly.

Flood Re is designed to ensure domestic flood insurance is available and affordable. Landlord insurance is classified by the insurance industry as commercial business insurance. Such insurance, including that for the larger leasehold premises, is often bespoke and not covered by Flood Re. Nonetheless, tenants and leaseholders are able to obtain contents insurance supported by Flood Re.

There are a number of insurers who offer solutions to those struggling to access flood insurance, including parametric insurance and a scheme which amends a lease for the remaining lifetime of Flood Re to allow the individual leaseholders in a block to insure their individual flats. The Government has worked with industry to set up a new flood insurance directory which insurers and brokers can signpost customers to when they cannot offer flood cover. The directory can be found on the British Insurance Brokers’ Association website.

The Government will consider the impact and effectiveness of Build Back Better and any changes required in the future to drive the growth of the property flood resilience market.

We have no current plans to do so. In years one to four of an undergraduate course, domestic students can access student loans from Student Finance England. From year five of an undergraduate course and from year two of a graduate-entry course, the non-repayable NHS Bursary is available, comprising payment for tuition fees, a non-means-tested grant and a further means-tested award. Students eligible for the NHS Bursary can also apply for a reduced rate non-means tested maintenance loan for living costs from Student Finance England. The Travel and Dual Accommodation Expenses rates of payments are reviewed annually, prior to the start of the academic year.

Flood Re is a joint government and industry reinsurance scheme designed to help UK households at high risk of flooding to access affordable insurance. New regulations came into force on 1 April to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the scheme and promote uptake of Property Flood Resilience measures.

Flood Re can now pay claims from insurers which include an amount for resilient repair (Build-Back-Better) up to a value of £10,000 over and above the cost of like-for-like reinstatement for actual flood damage. This will help flooded households become more resilient and allow homeowners to return more quickly after any future flooding

Build-Back-Better will be available through a range of major insurance brands. To ensure consistency and fairness for all customers, insurers who choose to participate in Build-Back-Better are required to offer it on all policies across their home insurance offerings and not just on policies ceded to Flood Re.