The National Health Service provides polio, typhoid, hepatitis A and cholera travel vaccines free of charge, and these are available from general practitioner (GP) surgeries. GPs can also offer appropriate routine immunisation catch-ups ahead of travelling if any have been missed.

There are record numbers of GPs in training and we are investing at least £1.5 billion to create 50 million more general practice appointments a year by 2024. The Delivery Plan for Recovering Access to Primary Care, published on 9 May, supports practices to address access challenges. Our Modern General Practice Access approach, backed by £240 million of retargeted funding, will simplify online requests, improve digital telephony, strengthen care navigation and continuity, and improve assessment and response times.

Information on the number of people in receipt of Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (IIDB) by residence-based geography is available on StatXplore in the IIDB assessments in payment dataset.

As of June 2022 (the most recently published data), there were 860 claimants in receipt of an Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit payment in the constituency of Barnsley Central.

It is the responsibility of integrated care boards (ICBs) to make available appropriate provision to meet the health and care needs of their local population. We are supporting them to expand mental health services through the NHS Long Term Plan, which commits to increasing investment into mental health services by at least £2.3 billion a year by 2023/24 so that an additional 345,000 children and young people are able to access National Health Service funded mental health support, including in the Barnsley Central constituency.

We aim to increase the mental health workforce by an additional 27,000 healthcare professionals by 2023/24 to support the expansion and transformation of services.

We also provided an additional £79 million for 2021/22 to allow around 22,500 more children and young people to access community health services.

Assessments for autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may also happen through child and adolescent mental health services. Building on last year’s investment of £13 million (through the NHS Long Term Plan and COVID-19 Mental Health Recovery Plan), we will invest £2.5 million in 2022/23 to test and embed improved autism diagnostic pathways.

NHS England are developing a national framework to set out the process of how children, young people and adults should receive an autism diagnosis. The aim of this work is to improve the quality of these diagnostic processes and reduce waiting times.

ICBs and NHS trusts should have due regard to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s (NICE’s) guideline ‘Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: diagnosis and management’. The guideline aims to improve the diagnosis of ADHD and to improve the quality of care and support for people of all ages who are diagnosed with ADHD.

Social landlords have a legal obligation to ensure their homes are decent and safe. The Secretary of State has written to social housing providers, and to Chief Executives of local authorities on these issues. In line with the practice of successive administrations, details of internal discussions are not normally disclosed.

Social landlords have a legal obligation to ensure their homes are decent and safe. The Secretary of State has written to social housing providers, and to Chief Executives of local authorities on these issues. In line with the practice of successive administrations, details of internal discussions are not normally disclosed.

The department is committed to improving the cost, choice, and availability of childcare. We continue to look at ways to make childcare more affordable and to encourage families to use the government-funded support they are entitled to.

The department collects data on the main characteristics of childcare and early years provision in England, and fees data can be broken down to local authority level. Barnsley Central, which falls under Barnsley local authority, shows latest data on the average hourly fee band for childcare to be £4.75 for two-year-old children and £4.75 for three and four-year-old children.

The Department does not hold information on Tuition Partners or Academic Mentors in the required format at constituency level for the 2021/22 academic year.

School-led tutoring grant allocations by school and local authority for the 2021/22 academic year have been published. These can be found here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1071234/School_Led_Funding_Publication_File_flat_values_v1.ods.

Payment information relating to school-led tutoring for the 2021/22 academic year will be published by the Education Schools and Funding Agency once the reconciliation process has been completed for that period.

National Tutoring Programme grant allocations for the 2022/23 academic year have been published. These are available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-tutoring-programme-ntp-allocations-for-2022-to-2023-academic-year.

Between November 2020 and June 2022, over 2 million tuition courses were started. The Government has committed more than £1 billion to support tutoring over the academic years from 2020/21 to 2023/24, during which the Department aims to offer up to six million tutoring courses.

Following the 2021 Spending Review, we are investing £560 million in youth services in England over the next 3 years, including the Youth Investment Fund and ongoing support for the National Citizen Service. This will transform the government’s offer for young people and level up opportunities right across the country.

£368 million of our investment has been dedicated to the Youth Investment Fund, which will see 45 local authorities and around 600 district wards in deprived parts of England eligible to apply, paving the way for up to 300 youth facilities to be built or redeveloped over the next three years.

The areas qualifying for the Youth Investment Fund were chosen on the basis of need using publicly available data sources. The data sets chosen were local authority level rates of young people not in Education or Employment (NEET), the proportion of children living in low income households from the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IDACI scores), and the returns from local authorities to government on the levels of spend on youth services (Section 251 data).

The details of how this formula has been applied are available on the GOV.UK website.

Following the 2021 Spending Review, we are investing £560 million in youth services in England over the next 3 years, including the Youth Investment Fund and ongoing support for the National Citizen Service. This will transform the government’s offer for young people and level up opportunities right across the country.

£368 million of our investment has been dedicated to the Youth Investment Fund, which will see 45 local authorities and around 600 district wards in deprived parts of England eligible to apply, paving the way for up to 300 youth facilities to be built or redeveloped over the next three years.

The areas qualifying for the Youth Investment Fund were chosen on the basis of need using publicly available data sources. The data sets chosen were local authority level rates of young people not in Education or Employment (NEET), the proportion of children living in low income households from the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IDACI scores), and the returns from local authorities to government on the levels of spend on youth services (Section 251 data).

The details of how this formula has been applied are available on the GOV.UK website.

The review of the business rates system concluded at Autumn Budget 2021 with the publication of the Final Report.

The Final Report reaffirmed the importance of business rates for raising revenue for essential local services, introduced substantive interventions to the business rates system, and announced a package of measures worth £7 billion over the next 5 years.

The review set out new measures to reduce the burden of business rates on firms, including further relief for high street businesses, including extending Transitional Relief for an additional year, restricting bill increases to 15 per cent for small properties (up to £20,000 Rateable Value), and 25 per cent for medium properties (up to £100,000 Rateable Value), subject to subsidy control limits.

Local authorities have discretion to determine how much funding they provide to businesses and have the flexibility to target local businesses that are important to their local economies.

The statutory duty to provide sufficient school places, including for those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), sits with local authorities. We are supporting local authorities to fulfil this duty by investing £300 million in the 2021-22 financial year to support local authorities to deliver new places and improve existing provision for children with SEND or who require alternative provision.

On 9 April 2021 we announced that Barnsley has been allocated almost £1.5 million of this funding via its High Needs Provision Capital Allocation. It will be for Barnsley to determine how best to use this funding to address their local priorities and local authorities are free to work with any schools in their area.

This funding is on top of the £365 million we invested nationally through the Special Provision Capital Fund between the 2018-19 and 2020-21 financial years, and our continued investment in the free schools programme. We are also providing an increase in revenue funding for those children and young people with more complex needs, of nearly a quarter (24%) over 2 years, bringing the total high needs budget to more than £8 billion in the 2021-22 financial year.

Further funding for new high needs places will be subject to the outcomes of the next government spending review, where we will have a chance to consider how we can best support the sector in the round.

The Government published the ‘Carers Action Plan 2018 – 2020 supporting carers today’ which sets out a cross-Government programme of targeted work to support all carers in England over two years until the end of June this year.

A final report on the action plan will be produced later this year and, alongside this report, the Government will consider the best next steps to support carers.

In addition to the Carers Action Plan, most local authorities have their own individual care plans to support unpaid carers in their areas.

The Government recognises the crucial role unpaid carers play, especially during this difficult period.

On 8th April we published guidance for unpaid carers on GOV.UK, which includes general advice on infection control, advice on caring where someone has symptoms, how to create care plans, make alternative care arrangements at short notice and access links to various NHS resources.

We have provided additional funding to Carers UK’s helpline, information and support services, to help more carers access trusted information and advice. We also continue to signpost carers to the charity’s website for additional information and support during this pandemic.

We are committed to supporting carers in Barnsley Central and across the country to remain in work, recognising the challenges of balancing work and care also in the longer term.

This is why the Government is now consulting on proposals to introduce Carer’s Leave, to support working people who are also carers to balance employment with their caring responsibilities.

This Government is also clear about the benefits of flexible working for employers and for their employees, including those with caring responsibilities. In our manifesto we said that, subject to consultation, we would introduce measures to make flexible working the default.

Automatic enrolment has achieved a quiet revolution through getting employees into the habit of pension saving, and reversing the decline in workplace pension participation in the decade prior to these reforms. Since automatic enrolment started in 2012 participation rates have been transformed with 87% of eligible employees saving into a workplace pension in 2018, up from 55% in 2012.

The Department does not hold data for individual constituencies in relation to opt outs or the number of individuals who have saved above the automatic enrolment minimum contribution level. However, we do know that overall around 9% of automatically enrolled workers have chosen to opt out which is significantly below original estimates; and our latest evaluation report shows that, in April 2017, approximately 5.9 million eligible employees were already meeting the April 2019 minimum contribution rates¹.

I am providing the following information about the impact of automatic enrolment in your constituency, as at end of September 2019²:

In the Barnsley Central constituency since 2012, approximately 10,000 eligible jobholders have been automatically enrolled and 1410 employers have met their duties.

¹Automatic Enrolment Evaluation Report 2018, available via the following weblink: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/764964/Automatic_Enrolment_Evaluation_Report_2018.pdf.

²The Pensions Regulator’s data on Automatic enrolment declaration of compliance by constituency, available via the following weblink:

https://www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk/en/document-library/research-and-analysis/data-requests

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.