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919155

registered interest
date	07/06/2018
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: West Midlands
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 address NHS workforce shortages in the West Midlands.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	151032
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2018 answer text <p>Locally, responsibility for assessing and managing staffing levels, including specialty staff, rests with individual National Health Service trusts and their boards who are best placed to decide how many staff they need to provide a given service.</p><p> </p><p>‘Facing the Facts – Shaping the Future – a draft health and care workforce strategy for England to 2027’, sets out actions being taken to ensure sufficient supply of staff across all grades and specialties, including an expansion of undergraduate medical school places and expansions of available nursing and midwifery training places.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, NHS Improvement has launched a programme to improve staff retention in trusts across England and bring down the leaver rates in the NHS by 2020.</p><p> </p><p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care also announced measures to support staff recruitment and retention, including arrangements to support flexible working to help staff to balance work-life commitments and a 'Homes for Nurses' scheme — which will give 3,000 NHS workers first refusal on affordable housing generated through the sale of surplus NHS land.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay grouped question UIN 151034 question first answered 12/06/2018 11:18:52 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

919158

registered interest
date	07/06/2018
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: Staff
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 he has made of the adequacy of the speciality staff workforce in the NHS; and what steps he is taking to ensure that vacancies in that workforce are filled as quickly as possible.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	151034
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2018 answer text <p>Locally, responsibility for assessing and managing staffing levels, including specialty staff, rests with individual National Health Service trusts and their boards who are best placed to decide how many staff they need to provide a given service.</p><p> </p><p>‘Facing the Facts – Shaping the Future – a draft health and care workforce strategy for England to 2027’, sets out actions being taken to ensure sufficient supply of staff across all grades and specialties, including an expansion of undergraduate medical school places and expansions of available nursing and midwifery training places.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, NHS Improvement has launched a programme to improve staff retention in trusts across England and bring down the leaver rates in the NHS by 2020.</p><p> </p><p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care also announced measures to support staff recruitment and retention, including arrangements to support flexible working to help staff to balance work-life commitments and a 'Homes for Nurses' scheme — which will give 3,000 NHS workers first refusal on affordable housing generated through the sale of surplus NHS land.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay grouped question UIN 151032 question first answered 12/06/2018 11:18:52 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

919207

registered interest
date	07/06/2018
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	Breast Cancer: Screening
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has contacted any next of kin for women who had their lives shortened as a result of missing their breast cancer screening.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	151184
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2018 answer text <p>Public Health England has not yet made contact with any next of kin as patient details are under review in order to ensure that correct identification of the affected group takes place.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 12/06/2018 11:05:21 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

919208

registered interest
date	07/06/2018
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	Breast Cancer
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 the regional differences in breast cancer (a) rates and (b) outcomes.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	151185
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2018 answer text <p>NHS England has established 19 Cancer Alliances across the country to bring together influential local decision-makers, reduce variation in the availability of good care and treatment for all people with cancer, including breast cancer, and deliver continuous improvement and reduction in inequality of experience.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England has committed to providing Cancer Alliances with £200 million in transformation funding over two years to undertake initiatives to diagnose cancer earlier and improve the lives of people living with cancer.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England and Public Health England have also set up the Cancer Alliance Data, Evidence and Analysis Service to help drive evidence-based local decisions in the delivery of improved cancer outcomes, using a whole pathway and cross-organisational approach.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 12/06/2018 11:06:23 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

919299

registered interest
date	07/06/2018
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: Learning Disability
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 ensure the adequacy of the transfer of alerts relating to patients with learning difficulties between different health care providers.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	151171
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2018 answer text <p>NHS England is working in partnership with NHS Digital to develop a reasonable adjustment flag to be added to the medical records of patients with a learning disability.</p><p> </p><p>This will alert clinicians across the health service to an individual’s specific needs, allowing them to make reasonable adjustments, and see what adjustments have already been made, to facilitate a more bespoke approach for the individual to access healthcare more easily.</p><p> </p><p>Reasonable adjustment flags will support the implementation of the Accessible Information Standard, which sets out a specific, consistent approach to identifying, recording, flagging, sharing and meeting the information and communication support needs of service users, and which all organisations providing National Health Service care are legally required to follow.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 12/06/2018 11:40:01 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

919301

registered interest
date	07/06/2018
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	Endoscopy
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 and what proportion of patients waited more than six weeks for an endoscopy test in each year since 2010-11.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	151173
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2018 answer text <p>Data is not available in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England collects and publishes monthly data on waiting times and activity for diagnostic tests, including endoscopy tests which encompass four tests: colonoscopy, flexible sigmoidoscopy, cystoscopy and gastroscopy.</p><p> </p><p>Data on how many, and what proportion of patients waited more than six weeks for these tests from 2010-11 to 2017-18 is available in the attached table.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 12/06/2018 11:16:34 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay attachment 1 file name Data for 151173 6 weeks plus.xlsx title PQ151173 attached data
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

919302

registered interest
date	07/06/2018
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: Staff
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 total cost to NHS hospitals was of using (a) agency staff and (b) bank staff in each year since 2010-11.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	151174
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2018 answer text <p>Comparable figures for agency expenditure are available from 2012-13 in the following table.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>£ million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>2,113</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>2,589</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>3,190</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>3,635</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>2,935</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>2,407</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Comparable figures for bank staff expenditure are available from 2015-16 in the following table.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>£ million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>1,768</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>2,511</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>2,935</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 12/06/2018 11:10:27 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

919327

registered interest
date	07/06/2018
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	Obesity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the Obesity Review Group last met.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	151098
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2018 answer text <p>The Obesity Review Group last met in January 2015 and is no longer active.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 151099 question first answered 12/06/2018 11:07:46 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

919328

registered interest
date	07/06/2018
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	Obesity: Children
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 the Obesity Review Group has played in shaping the child obesity strategy due to be released.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	151099
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2018 answer text <p>The Obesity Review Group last met in January 2015 and is no longer active.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 151098 question first answered 12/06/2018 11:07:47 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

918394

registered interest
date	06/06/2018
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: Construction
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 10 May 2018 to Question 139949, when work on the Midland Metropolitan Hospital is planned to restart.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	150571
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2018 answer text <p>The Government remains committed to the Midland Metropolitan Hospital project. Ministers across Government are determined to finish construction as quickly as possible in a way that secures best value for the tax payer. We are in active discussions with all relevant parties to restart the project as soon as possible.</p><p> </p><p>The lenders that finance the private finance initiative company put forward a proposal to restart the project. That would have involved a further contribution of public capital. Ministers concluded that this proposal was not acceptable to the Government, for a number of reasons, and that only a contractual solution could be considered.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 11/06/2018 15:56:14 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar