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1235070

registered interest
date	16/09/2020
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Hospitals: Parking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the planned timescale is for ending free parking for NHS workers.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
uin	91129
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2020 answer text <p>As the Prime Minister said in his oral contribution of 8 July (<em>Official Report, column 966</em>), hospital car parks are free for National Health Service staff for this pandemic – they are free now – and we are going to get on with our commitment to make them free for patients who need them as well. This remains the Government’s position.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 22/09/2020 13:24:15 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar previous answer version 48808 answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1233936

registered interest
date	14/09/2020
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Cancer: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on additional funding being made available in the next Comprehensive Spending Review to ensure that the NHS has the cancer workforce it needs.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	89701
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2020 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care regularly engages his Cabinet colleagues on topics relating to health and social care.</p><p>Making sure the National Health Service is well staffed is a top priority for this Government and the next phase of the NHS People Plan will focus on workforce growth and ensuring it has the right skills mix in place for a flexible and modern NHS.</p><p>The Government is delivering on its historic five-year National Health Service settlement. The NHS budget will increase by £33.9 billion a year in cash terms by 2023-24 (compared to 2018-19), reflecting that the NHS is this Government’s top domestic spending priority and helping to fund the NHS Long Term Plan.</p><p>On 21 July the Chancellor launched the 2020 Comprehensive Spending Review which will set out the Government’s spending plans for health and social care for future years. The Government will set out the results of the Spending Review in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 22/09/2020 13:29:41 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1234006

registered interest
date	14/09/2020
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Ophthalmic Services: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what resources and funding he is allocating to restart ophthalmology services and provide increased ophthalmology capacity as a result of the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	89836
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2020 answer text <p>As part of the third phase of the National Health Service response to COVID-19, focus is on accelerating the return of non-COVID-19 health services, including ophthalmology, whilst also preparing for winter demand pressures.</p><p>To support with this, the Government is providing an additional £3 billion to the NHS, which includes funding for continued access to the independent sector to carry out routine treatments and procedures as well as provide additional capacity for COVID-19 patients, should it be needed.</p><p>The restoration of services will also be done alongside continued vigilance in light of any further COVID-19 spikes locally and possibly nationally.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 22/09/2020 13:33:54 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1234041

registered interest
date	14/09/2020
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Shotley Bridge Hospital: Domestic Visits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, prior to 14 September 2020, when (a) he and (b) another minister in his Department most recently visited Shotley Bridge Hospital in Consett, Co. Durham.
tabling member constituency	North West Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Richard Holden
uin	89871
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2020 answer text <p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care had not visited Shotley Bridge Hospital prior to 14 September 2020 in his Ministerial capacity. The Department of Health and Social Care can also find no record of the current Ministerial team visiting the hospital prior to 14 September 2020.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 22/09/2020 13:41:25 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar previous answer version 48088 answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden

1233742

registered interest
date	11/09/2020
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Charities: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the news story, £22 million awarded to life-saving health charities during virus outbreak, published on 22 May 2020, how much of that funding has been (a) allocated to and (b) received by organisations to date.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	88911
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2020 answer text <p>The Department can confirm that the £22 million has been fully allocated.</p><p>Payments to the value of £21.3 million have been made to date. Payments to charities are being made in staged payments and expenditure plans show that the grants will be fully paid by the end of October.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 22/09/2020 13:21:19 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1233765

registered interest
date	11/09/2020
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Surgery
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it the policy of the Government to require NHS hospitals to make provision for elective surgery seven days a week; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
uin	88810
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2020 answer text <p>As part of the third phase of the National Health Service response to COVID-19, focus is on accelerating the return of non-COVID-19 health services, including elective care, and the NHS will be looking to deliver the following elective activity levels in the coming months:</p><p>- In September, delivering at least 80% of last year’s activity for both overnight electives and for outpatient/daycase procedures, rising to 90% in October;</p><p>- Return to at least 90% of their last year’s levels of MRI/CT and endoscopy procedures, with the goal to reach 100% by October; and</p><p>- 100% of last year’s activity for first outpatient attendances and follow-ups (face to face or virtually) from September through the balance of the year (and aiming for 90% in August).</p><p>Providers, working as local systems, have been asked by 21 September to submit draft plans for how they intend to meet the key actions in the phase 3 guidance. The restoration of non-COVID-19 services will be done whilst also preparing for winter demand pressures and alongside continued vigilance in light of any further COVID-19 spikes locally and possibly nationally.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 22/09/2020 13:37:56 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar previous answer version 47748 answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

1233359

registered interest
date	10/09/2020
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Hospitals: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the correlation between the level of hospital admissions and positive tests for covid-19; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Wycombe
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Baker
uin	88300
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2020 answer text <p>Data on hospital admissions and positive tests are reviewed by Public Health England and published on a weekly basis through the weekly surveillance report, which can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-covid-19-surveillance-reports" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-covid-19-surveillance-reports</a></p><p>COVID-19 hospital admission and positive tests contribute to understanding of COVID-19 activity in the population and the targeting of interventions. Hospitalisations have remained relatively stable in recent weeks. However, there is typically a lag between an increase in disease activity and increases in hospitalisations. Following recent increases in case numbers, increases in hospitalisations can be seen in some parts of the country, such as the North West, in older adults.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 22/09/2020 13:34:08 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar previous answer version 47418 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527
tabling member	4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker

1232926

registered interest
date	09/09/2020
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Department of Health and Social Care: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many members of staff in their Department have one or more of the words equality, diversity, inclusion, gender, LGBT or race in their job title.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	87647
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2020 answer text <p>The Department is committed to Diversity and Inclusion (D&amp;I), with a strategy which aims to create an inclusive culture where difference is valued, diversity is harnessed, and everyone has equal opportunity to achieve their potential.</p><p>Within the Department we have 10 posts which have either ‘equality, diversity or inclusion, gender, LGBT or race’ in the job title. Seven of these roles are within Human Resources and the remaining are in the different business areas.</p><p>Within the Department, there are also five posts with ‘inequalities’ in the job title and two posts with ‘neurodiversity’ in the job title.</p><p>In addition to this, we have visible Senior D&amp;I Champions in place and their role includes sponsorship and aligning priorities and forward plans with staff networks, such as the Equality Matters network for race and PRISM network for LGBT+ matters. The Departmental Champions works with other Civil Service D&amp;I Champions to push forward the diversity and inclusion agenda across the Civil Service. In the Department, Champion roles include a LGBT+ Champion and Race Champion as well as Champions for other protected characteristics.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 22/09/2020 13:38:42 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1232420

registered interest
date	08/09/2020
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Coronavirus: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps NHS England is taking to monitor uptake of its Using patient initiated follow-ups as part of the NHS covid-19 recovery guidance published on 7 August 2020.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	86635
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2020 answer text <p>NHS England and NHS Improvement are working with a range of rapid adopter sites to implement patient-initiated follow-ups as part of the restoration of services following COVID-19. This includes joint work to monitor uptake in these sites. Alongside this, 50 trusts provided information detailing their implementation of patient-initiated follow-up this summer. For the longer term, NHS England and NHS Improvement are working with NHS Digital and other organisations to seek to capture further data on patient initiated follow-up usage in future.</p><p>The initial guidance was prepared in rapid response to the need to restore outpatient services following COVID-19. The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges patient lay committee was involved in the development of the guidance. We are working nationally with the NHS England and NHS Improvement personalised care group to engage further with patients and patient organisations as part of the ongoing development of supplementary guidance and tools for local systems. The guidance includes a recommendation that providers/systems carry out local patient engagement as part of implementation.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 86636 question first answered 22/09/2020 13:24:22 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1232422

registered interest
date	08/09/2020
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Coronavirus: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what role patient organisations have had in developing the guidance entitled Using patient initiated follow-ups as part of the NHS covid-19 recovery, published by NHS England on 7 August 2020.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	86636
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2020 answer text <p>NHS England and NHS Improvement are working with a range of rapid adopter sites to implement patient-initiated follow-ups as part of the restoration of services following COVID-19. This includes joint work to monitor uptake in these sites. Alongside this, 50 trusts provided information detailing their implementation of patient-initiated follow-up this summer. For the longer term, NHS England and NHS Improvement are working with NHS Digital and other organisations to seek to capture further data on patient initiated follow-up usage in future.</p><p>The initial guidance was prepared in rapid response to the need to restore outpatient services following COVID-19. The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges patient lay committee was involved in the development of the guidance. We are working nationally with the NHS England and NHS Improvement personalised care group to engage further with patients and patient organisations as part of the ongoing development of supplementary guidance and tools for local systems. The guidance includes a recommendation that providers/systems carry out local patient engagement as part of implementation.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 86635 question first answered 22/09/2020 13:24:22 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith