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1691658

registered interest
date	26/02/2024
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	NHS: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether (a) her Department or (b) NHS England has issued instructions to Integrated Care Boards to freeze any uncommitted expenditure.
tabling member constituency	Ilford North
tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
uin	15709
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2024 answer text <p>NHS England asked integrated care systems in November 2023 to produce revised plans for the remainder of the financial year in order to address their financial challenges in 2023/24. The actions required were communicated in a letter, which is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/addressing-the-significant-financial-challenges-created-by-industrial-action-in-2023-24/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/addressing-the-significant-financial-challenges-created-by-industrial-action-in-2023-24/</a></p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 06/03/2024 11:48:01 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 21240 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

1691112

registered interest
date	22/02/2024
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	Accident and Emergency Departments: Admissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 21 February 2024 to Question 13332, if she will publish the correspondence sent from NHS England to systems and trusts on 25 January on improving A&E performance.
tabling member constituency	Ilford North
tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
uin	15308
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2024 answer text <p>NHS England has published the correspondence to integrated care systems and trusts. The letters are available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/76-four-hour-standard-regional-letters/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/76-four-hour-standard-regional-letters/</a></p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 29/02/2024 13:57:28 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

1687740

registered interest
date	06/02/2024
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	Accident and Emergency Departments: Admissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will publish the correspondence to NHS trusts requiring emergency departments to prioritise patients not in need of admission to hospital.
tabling member constituency	Ilford North
tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
uin	13332
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2024 answer text <p>No such correspondence has been issued to NHS Trusts.</p><p>NHS England wrote to systems and trusts on 25 January reiterating the need to improve A&amp;E performance for all patients requiring emergency care, and emphasised some of the known best practice in emergency department processes to ensure delays to patient care are minimised.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 21/02/2024 15:08:51 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 18085 answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson answering member 4044
tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

1685872

registered interest
date	30/01/2024
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	Integrated Care Boards
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 Integrated Care Boards delivered value-based activity of at least 104% of the 2019/20 baseline in 2022/23; and which Integrated Care Boards did not.
tabling member constituency	Ilford North
tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
uin	12092
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2024 answer text <p>Nine integrated care boards (ICBs) delivered value-weighted activity (VWA) of at least 104% of the 2019/20 baseline in 2022/23, they are:<br></p><p>- NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough ICB;</p><p>- NHS South East London ICB;</p><p>- NHS North East London ICB;</p><p>- NHS North Central London ICB;</p><p>- NHS North West London ICB;</p><p>- NHS Coventry and Warwickshire ICB;</p><p>- NHS North East and North Cumbria ICB;</p><p>- NHS Humber and North Yorkshire ICB; and</p><p>- NHS Kent and Medway ICB.</p><p> </p><p>The following 10 ICBs delivered VWA of at least 100% of the 2019/20 baseline in 2022/23:</p><p>- NHS Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes ICB;</p><p>- NHS South West London ICB;</p><p>- NHS Lincolnshire ICB;</p><p>- NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICB;</p><p>- NHS Northamptonshire ICB;</p><p>- NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB;</p><p>- NHS West Yorkshire ICB;</p><p>- NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB;</p><p>- NHS Devon ICB; and</p><p>- NHS Somerset ICB.</p><p> </p><p>The remaining 23 ICBs did not deliver a VWA over 100% of the 2019/20 baseline in 2022/23.</p><p>Lower levels of elective activity were due to ongoing COVID-19 pressures and longer lengths of stay, as well as extended industrial action which started in December 2022. Providers were therefore allowed to retain elective funding to cover these costs. The department has put in place additional measures to monitor Elective Recovery Funding and related spending.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 15/03/2024 12:07:21 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 16006 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

1680647

registered interest
date	08/01/2024
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	Ambulance Services: Private Sector
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of the amount of money spent by the NHS on private ambulances in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Ilford North
tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
uin	8540
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2024 answer text <p>This information is not collected centrally by the Department.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 15/01/2024 16:32:36 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

1667914

registered interest
date	07/11/2023
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	Care Workers: Minimum Wage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number and proportion of care workers earning the minimum wage.
tabling member constituency	Ilford North
tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
uin	328
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2023 answer text <p>All care workers aged 23 years old and over are entitled to the National Living Wage. The National Minimum Wage applies to workers who are school leaving age and aged 22 years old and under.</p><p>The Department has made no estimate; however, we commission Skills for Care to provide information and intelligence on adult social care providers and their workforce. Skills for Care reported that in March 2023, 17% of care workers in the independent sector were paid at the National Living Wage, which was £9.50 at the time, corresponding to 140,000 filled posts.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 21/11/2023 11:19:52 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 1022 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

1665887

registered interest
date	18/10/2023
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	Social Services: Vacancies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of vacancies in the social care sector in each of the past 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Ilford North
tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
uin	203364
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 26/10/2023 11:11:49 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 101607 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

1665117

registered interest
date	16/10/2023
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	Care Workers: Zero-hours Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of care workers on zero-hours contracts.
tabling member constituency	Ilford North
tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
uin	202810
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2023 answer text <p>The Department has made no estimate. However, we commission Skills for Care to provide information and intelligence on adult social care providers and their workforce. Skills for Care report that 32% of care workers were on zero-hours contracts in 2022/23.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 23/10/2023 15:53:31 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 98778 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

1663408

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
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	Virtual Wards
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 virtual beds are in use in the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Ilford North
tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
uin	201262
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2023 answer text <p>Published data from NHS England for virtual wards show that in September 2023, there were 6,807 patients treated in virtual beds. The total number of virtual beds available in September was 10,421.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 201263 question first answered 24/10/2023 14:47:08 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

1663409

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
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	Virtual Wards
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 patients were treated in virtual beds in the NHS in England in September 2023.
tabling member constituency	Ilford North
tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
uin	201263
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2023 answer text <p>Published data from NHS England for virtual wards show that in September 2023, there were 6,807 patients treated in virtual beds. The total number of virtual beds available in September was 10,421.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 201262 question first answered 24/10/2023 14:47:08 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting