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1684009

registered interest
date	22/01/2024
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	Health Services: Children and Young People
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 she has had with NHS England about reducing waiting times for children and young people’s access to (a) community paediatric services, (b) occupational therapy and (c) speech and language therapy.
tabling member constituency	South Swindon
tabling member printed	Sir Robert Buckland
uin	10801
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2024 answer text <p>The Department holds regular meetings with NHS England on timely access to community health services. Addressing waiting times is a priority for both the National Health Service and the Department. In 2023, NHS England asked local systems to develop plans to reduce community waiting lists.</p><p>NHS England is working to improve community health services data to better understand waiting lists and identifying actions to reduce waits, including consideration of new pathways to improve effectiveness and productivity.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 30/01/2024 10:00:42 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland

1659252

registered interest
date	07/09/2023
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	Health Services: Children and Young People
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to reduce NHS treatment waiting times for children and young people.
tabling member printed	Baroness Merron
uin	HL9987
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2023 answer text <p>Cutting National Health Service waiting lists, including for elective child health services, is one of the Government’s top priorities. To support elective recovery, the Government plans to spend more than £8 billion from 2022/23 to 2024/25 to help drive up and protect elective activity. Steps taken include increasing capacity, seeking alternative capacity in other trusts or the independent sector and engaging with patients to understand their choices.</p><p>We met our target to virtually eliminate long waits of two years or more for elective procedures in July 2022. We also virtually eliminated waits of over 18 months by the end of June 2023, a reduction of over 94% from the peak of 125,000 in September 2021. Our next ambition is to eliminate waits of 65 and 52 weeks.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham grouped question UIN HL9988 question first answered 13/09/2023 16:09:06 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	347 label Biography information for Baroness Merron

1656648

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
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	Health Services: Children and Young People
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 steps his Department has taken to reduce treatment waiting times for children and young people.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	196415
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2023 answer text <p>Cutting National Health Service waiting lists, including for elective child health services, is one of this Government’s top priorities.</p><p>To support elective recovery, the Government plans to spend more than £8 billion from 2022/23 to 2024/25 to help drive up and protect elective activity. Steps taken include increasing capacity, seeking alternative capacity in other trusts or the independent sector and engaging with patients to understand their choices.</p><p>We met our target to virtually eliminate long waits of two years or more for elective procedures in July 2022. We also virtually eliminated waits of over 18 months by the end of June 2023, a reduction of over 94% from the peak of 125,000 in September 2021. Our next ambition is to eliminate waits of 65 and 52 weeks.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 196416 question first answered 06/09/2023 12:22:28 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1611292

registered interest
date	17/04/2023
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	Health Services: Children and Young People
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 he is taking to reduce waiting times for elective procedures relating to children and young people.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	180921
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2023 answer text <p>In February 2022, the National Health Service published a delivery plan setting out a clear vision for how the NHS will recover and reduce waiting times for elective services including treatment for children and young people.</p><p>To support this recovery the Government plans to spend more than £8 billion from 2022/23 to 2024/25, in addition to the £2 billion Elective Recovery Fund and £700 million Targeted Investment Fund already made available to systems in 2021/22 to help drive up and protect elective activity.</p><p>Steps being taken include increasing capacity, seeking alternate capacity in other trusts or the independent sector and engaging with patients to understand their choices.</p><p>Having virtually met our target to eliminate long waits of two years or more for elective procedures in July, we have also made significant progress in tackling waits of 78 weeks or more for elective services including child health services.</p><p>NHS England will soon publish statistics that demonstrate what has been achieved to date.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 20/04/2023 09:14:37 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1611328

registered interest
date	17/04/2023
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	Health Services: Children and Young People
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 steps his Department has taken to reduce treatment waiting times for children and young people.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	180956
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2023 answer text <p>In February 2022, the National Health Service published a delivery plan setting out a clear vision for how the NHS will recover and reduce waiting times for elective services including treatment for children and young people.</p><p>Steps being taken include increasing capacity, seeking alternate capacity in other trusts or the independent sector, and engaging with patients to understand their choices.</p><p>To support this recovery the Government plans to spend more than £8 billion from 2022/23 to 2024/25 and an additional £5.9 billion investment in capital for new beds, equipment and technology.</p><p>Additionally, the NHS Long Term plan commits to increase investment into mental health services by at least £2.3 billion a year by 2023/24. Part of this increased investment will enable an additional 345,000 children and young people to access NHS funded mental health support.</p><p>In September 2022 we also announced ‘our plan for patients’, which outlines how we will meet oral health needs and increase access to dental care, including access for children and young people.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 25/04/2023 16:25:08 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1611399

registered interest
date	17/04/2023
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	Health Services: Children and Young People
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 steps his Department has taken to reduce treatment waiting times for children and young people.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	181027
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2023 answer text <p>In February 2022, the National Health Service published a delivery plan setting out a clear vision for how the NHS will recover and reduce waiting times for elective services including treatment for children and young people. The steps being taken include increasing capacity, seeking alternate capacity in other trusts or the independent sector, and engaging with patients to understand their choices.</p><p>To support this recovery the Government plans to spend more than £8 billion from 2022/23 to 2024/25, and an additional £5.9 billion investment in capital for new beds, equipment and technology.</p><p>Additionally, the NHS Long Term plan commits to increase investment into mental health services by at least £2.3 billion a year by 2023/24. Part of this increased investment will enable an additional 345,000 children and young people to access NHS funded mental health support.</p><p>In September 2022 we also announced ‘Our plan for patients’, which outlines how we will meet oral health needs and increase access to dental care, including access for children and young people.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 20/04/2023 16:28:52 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1583338

registered interest
date	02/02/2023
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	Health Services: Children and Young People
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 his Department has taken to ensure that the Major Health Conditions Strategy will take into account the (a) views and (b) specific needs of children and young people who responded to the Mental Health and Wellbeing Plan.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	138422
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2023 answer text <p>We received over 5,000 submissions to our mental health and wellbeing call for evidence. We appreciate the engagement work many stakeholders carried out with children, young people and adults with lived experience, and more broadly, to inform their responses to the call for evidence. We have analysed these responses, and we will consider them as part of the process for developing the Major Conditions Strategy.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 08/02/2023 11:05:40 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1385230

registered interest
date	06/12/2021
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	Health Services: Children and Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment the Government has made of (a) the adequacy of the provision of therapeutic support for children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities and (b) the impact of any gaps in that provision on the education of young people.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	87730
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2021 answer text <p>No specific assessment has been made. However, we are working with the Department for Education and NHS England and NHS Improvement to improve the provision of health services, including therapies to disabled children. On 5 March 2021 we announced that as part of the £500 million for mental health recovery, £79 million will be used to expand mental health services for children, including disabled children. We have provided over £34 billion support for health services in response to COVID-19 in 2021/22. This includes £2 billion to tackle the elective backlog and reduce waiting times for patients, including disabled children. We have also invested £4.9 billion in the 2020/21 academic year to support the recovery of children and young people’s education.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 14/12/2021 13:48:23 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1364589

registered interest
date	29/10/2021
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	Health Services: Children and Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding has been allocated from the NHS Covid Recovery Fund for (a) additional capacity for children with disability and care needs, (b) children and adolescent mental health services and (c) SEND provision.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Kim Leadbeater
uin	66266
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2021 answer text <p>On 6 September 2021, the Government announced an additional £5.4 billion for the National Health Service to support the COVID-19 response over the next six months, bringing the total to over £34 billion in 2021/22. This includes £2 billion to tackle the elective backlog to reduce waiting times for patients, including disabled children.</p><p>On 5 March 2021, we announced that £79 million of the additional £500 million for mental health and NHS workforce will be used to significantly expand mental health services for children.</p><p>This year, councils have access to £51.3 billion to deliver their core services, including a £1.7 billion grant for social care. To support local areas, the Government has given over £6 billion in un-ringfenced funding directly to councils to support them with the immediate and longer-term impacts of COVID-19 spending pressures, including for children’s social care. On 27 October, the Government announced £1.8 billion to recover children and young people’s lost learning as a result of the pandemic. This brings total investment specifically to support education recovery to £4.9 billion since the 2020/21 academic year.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 08/11/2021 15:23:58 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan previous answer version 30371 answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	4923 label Biography information for Kim Leadbeater

1305671

registered interest
date	24/03/2021
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	Health Services: Children and Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the needs of babies, children and young people in decisions on the restructure of Public Health England.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
uin	174944
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/04/2021 answer text <p>On Monday 29 March, we published ‘Transforming the Public Health System: Reforming the Public Health System for the challenges of our times’, which sets out our reform plans for the public health system. The publication can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/transforming-the-public-health-system" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/transforming-the-public-health-system</a></p><p>We are proposing to move most of the Public Health England functions that directly support development and delivery of national health improvement policy into the new Office for Health Promotion in the Department of Health and Social Care, alongside existing Departmental capability on prevention and health improvement, as they are integral to policy development and delivery, and directly support national decision-making. This will include subject-matter expertise on a range of important public health issues, including but not limited to obesity and nutrition, physical activity, alcohol, tobacco, drugs, sexual health, public mental health, children and young people's public health.</p><p>Our proposals will strengthen the system and ensure it can meet the needs of the population. This means improving health throughout the life course; from pregnancy and early years, all the way through to old age. We will present more detail on our plans and ambitions for improving the public's health later in 2021.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 174943 question first answered 13/04/2021 09:07:19 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves