The NHS Health Check Online (NHSHC-O) is in the private Beta testing phase and is being piloted in 11 local authorities across England. As part of the NHSHC-O, users receive a self-sampling capillary blood testing kit, delivered to their home, to measure cholesterol, and, if appropriate, HbA1c. Samples are then sent to a United Kingdom Accreditation Service accredited laboratory for assessment.

All results from the NHSHC-O are automatically written back into the patient's electronic health record. General practices are notified if a patient's results indicate that further assessment is necessary and, if required, undertake further clinical investigation and treatment where appropriate, in line with existing clinical pathways.

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 15 July 2026 to Question UIN 16082.

A number of local authorities withdrew their applications to participate in flexible voting pilots for the May 2026 elections following the planned postponement of their polls, which meant pilots could no longer be delivered as intended, despite the elections going ahead.

In addition, Plymouth City Council withdrew due to safety concerns arising from a planned protest outside the proposed pilot venue on the day of the pilot.

The total provided in respect of pilot delivery activity that could not proceed following a local authority's withdrawal from the May 2026 flexible voting pilots was £394,272. Funding was also provided for the development of wider pilot capability that was not deployed at the May 2026 elections but may be used to support potential future pilots.

We have considered the findings of the trial and there are no plans to publish the department's review.

While there is not an explicit timeline, we will closely review the results of Tommy's Study into the Graded Model of Miscarriage Care, as set out in the Renewed Women’s Health Strategy.

My Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, is chairing a Maternity and Neonatal Taskforce to develop a national action plan that will reform maternity and neonatal services to deliver lasting change for women, families, and their babies. They will consider all stages of maternity and neonatal care, and the plan will be published by the end of the year.

The equality and environmental impacts of the proposal were considered through the policy process. This included identifying no adverse impacts on protected characteristics arising from increased compliance with traffic laws through enforcement by LAs, the potential for illegal parking displacement outside the trial area to affect protected groups and that any negative impacts on equality were not disproportionate. Consequent air quality benefits were also considered, as reducing parking overstays can improve the availability and turnover of parking spaces, thereby reducing the need for vehicles to circulate while searching for parking.

The government recognises that targeted support within schools can play a major role in identifying young people at higher risk of homelessness and providing support to them and their families at a much earlier stage. We continue to engage with Centrepoint on their Upstream pilots as part of our work to prevent youth homelessness.

As scheme administrator for packaging Extended Producer Responsibility, PackUK will conduct annual local authority effectiveness assessments on behalf of the four nations from 2028. Following this assessment, a local authority may be subject to an Improvement Action Process (IAP), as set out in the regulations. PackUK has completed six IAP pilot programmes with volunteer local authorities across the UK to test how this process can support LAs to improve services, especially in relation to the management of household packaging waste. Findings from the pilots will inform development of the effectiveness assessments, an LA Support Framework and the final IAP process. PackUK is working closely with stakeholders, and a summary of the IAP pilot interim outcomes is available for interested stakeholders.

We will publish more information on Community Power Pilots, including the places we will be working with and the criteria that will be used, in due course.

The Department for Work and Pensions has published management information on the number of claimants referred to and who attended the Jobcentre Plus Midlife MoT group sessions since the launch of the policy in January 2023 to June 2025. See “Jobcentre Plus Midlife MOT Group Sessions, January 2023 to June 2025”. Table 1 below provides a yearly breakdown of these figures. Providing data beyond June 2025 would exceed the cost limits in answering Parliamentary Questions.

Table 1 – Number of referrals and attendees to JCP Midlife MoT group sessions

Table 2 below shows an age breakdown of the volumes of individuals referred to and who attended a JCP Midlife MOT group session during January 2023 to June 2025. Providing data beyond June 2025 and by individual year would exceed the cost limits in answering Parliamentary Questions.

Table 2 Age group breakdown of referrals and starts to JCP Midlife MoT group sessions, January 2023 to June 25

The DWP Midlife MOT website and the JCP Midlife MOT group sessions cover similar topics but are not directly comparable in terms of content. Figures for the two policies are as follows. From January 2024 to June 2025 there have been 85,142 individuals referred to and 64,105 individuals who have attended a Jobcentre Plus Midlife MoT group session.

Figures for the number of visitors to the DWP Midlife MoT website have been published as part of the evaluation of the DWP Midlife MoT website, see “Evaluation evidence from policies aimed at claimants aged 50 plus”. This report provides figures from Nov 2023 to March 2026. During this period the website was accessed by users 59,968 times by a total of 38,554 individuals. The evaluation did not collect any data on whether visits to the DWP Midlife MOT website influenced users’ behaviour. Providing further data on the JCP Midlife MoT group sessions and the DWP Midlife MoT website would exceed the costs limits for answering Parliamentary Questions.

DWP has published an evaluation of the Private Sector Midlife MOT scheme. See “Private Sector Midlife MOT Pilots qualitative research interim findings”. Low employer and participant uptake resulted in the pilots concluding early.

The Department for Transport does not routinely publish such correspondence.

My Department is evaluating the performance and impact of AI planning tools to ensure they deliver benefits for local planning authorities and the communities they serve.

Our Digital Planning Programme is developing an AI planning prototype in partnership with Google and Faculty. The tool analyses householder applications to help planning officers make faster and more consistent decisions. It aims to halve processing times, freeing up officers to focus on more complex applications.

We are testing the tool with a small number of local planning authorities. Performance measures, milestones, and success criteria have been put in place. The contract is outcomes-based, with built in reviews at each stage of development, and we will only progress to full national rollout if key milestones are met.

Implementation risks are being managed through phased testing with partner local planning authorities and decisions on publishing evaluation findings will be taken as the project progresses. Any decision on wider rollout will be informed by evidence and robust evaluation.

My Department is also supporting other AI-enabled planning tools, including the in-house Extract tool, which converts planning documents into structured data and thereby reduces manual processing, and PlanAI, which helps local planning authorities analyse and summarise consultation responses more efficiently. These tools are helping reduce administrative burdens and improve productivity within local planning authorities.

At this stage, discussions are primarily internal. The Government will engage with other relevant stakeholders as appropriate as future piloting proposals are developed further.

The reason for approving Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council’s August 2025 trial of higher-level Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) was in response to concerns raised by the Council about the impact on the local community of inappropriate parking.

Headteachers and leaders are central to driving improvement in schools and ensuring all children achieve and thrive no matter where they are in the country. To attract and support the best headteachers to stay in the areas that need them most, the department announced a new place-based headteacher retention incentive pilot in the ‘Every child achieving and thriving’ Schools White Paper. We will invest £1 million each year starting next year to support newly appointed headteachers with an annual retention payment of up to £15,000 in areas where retention is particularly difficult.

The department is currently analysing available data to further develop the policy and ensure the pilot is targeted in areas of highest need. As part of our policy development, we are working with key stakeholders, including school leaders, on the scope and design of the pilot.

The higher-level Penalty Charge Notice levels applied only during the August 2025 trial carried out by Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council.

I have placed a copy of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council’s request to trial higher-level Penalty Charge Notices in the Libraries of the House.