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1041493

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2019
	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: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps he is taking to secure the long-term future of the NHS.
	tabling member constituency	Gillingham and Rainham
	tabling member printed	Rehman Chishti
	uin	908576
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>The National Health Service published its Long Term Plan last week, backed by £20.5 billion a year of taxpayers money, ensuring patients will be supported with world-class care at every stage of their life.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 15/01/2019 16:35:03 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	3987 label Biography information for Rehman Chishti

1041692

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2019
	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, with reference to the commitment in the NHS Long Term Plan to reduce administrative costs by £700 million across commissioners and providers, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of jobs as a result of that reduction.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	208909
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2019 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Plan is a 10-year strategy for our National Health Service. It sets out how the NHS will spend the £20.5 billion a year real terms annual increase going into the NHS budget by 2023/24.</p><p> </p><p>It is important that every additional penny of funding is being well spent. Through year-on-year improvements in efficiency and productivity, the NHS will continue to cut waste from the system. This includes delivering savings of over £700 million by 2023/24 across providers and commissioner administrative costs to ensure that an increasing share of the NHS budget is invested in frontline services including additional frontline workforce.</p><p> </p><p>Local health systems will be expected to engage with their local communities and delivery partners in developing local plans in 2019, setting out proposals for how they will deliver the outcomes in the Long Term Plan. These will be brought together in a detailed national implementation programme by the autumn.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 22/01/2019 17:26:55 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1041690

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2019
	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: Waiting Lists
	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 NHS Long-Term Plan, whether it remains his policy to meet the 92 per cent referral to treatment waiting time target in 2019-20.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	208907
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>Under the Long Term Plan, the local National Health Service is being allocated sufficient funds over the next five years to grow the amount of planned surgery year on year, to cut long waits, and reduce waiting lists.</p><p> </p><p>In parallel, NHS England are carrying out a clinical review of standards, which is due to report in the spring. This review will help to ensure that the NHS is focused on the right targets - for both physical and mental health - which incentivise the best care and outcomes for patients, and have the broad support of our health professionals.</p><p> </p><p>In the shorter term, NHS England’s ‘Operational and Planning Guidance for 2019/20’ sets out deliverables against key performance areas, including referral-to-treatment, and the Government expects the NHS to deliver these actions set – in full – as key steps towards fully recovering performance against core access standards.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 23/01/2019 13:47:41 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1041689

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2019
	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	Preventive Medicine: Finance
	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 NHS Long Term Plan, how much funding has been allocated to specific new evidence-based NHS prevention programmes to (a) cut smoking, (b) reduce obesity,(c) the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme, (d) limit alcohol related A&E admissions, (e) lower air pollution, and (f) in total; and whether that funding is (i) included and (ii) in addition to his Department’s public health grant to local authorities; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	208906
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>Following the publication of the NHS Long Term Plan, the National Implementation Framework, to be published in the spring, will provide further information on how the Long Term Plan will be implemented. Additional details, based on local health system five year plans, will be brought together in a detailed national implementation plan in the autumn. The specific National Health Service-led prevention programmes set out in the Long Term Plan will be funded from within the NHS settlement.</p><p> </p><p>This funding will be in addition to the public health grant to local authorities.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 23/01/2019 14:00:08 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1041691

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2019
	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 Professions: Recruitment
	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 NHS Long Term Plan how many (a) nurses and (b) doctors the NHS in England plan to recruit in each year up to 2022-24.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	208908
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2019 answer text <p>It is the responsibility of National Health Service trusts to have staffing arrangements in place that deliver safe and effective care. This includes recruiting the staff needed to support these levels and meet local needs.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan, published 7 January 2019, sets out a vital strategic framework to ensure that over the next 10 years the NHS will have the staff it needs so that nurses and doctors have the time they need to care, working in a supportive culture that allows them to provide the expert compassionate care they are committed providing.</p><p> </p><p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has commissioned Baroness Dido Harding, working closely with Sir David Behan, to lead a number of programmes to engage with key NHS interests to develop a detailed workforce implementation plan. These programmes will consider detailed proposals to grow the workforce, including consideration of additional staff and skills required, build a supportive working culture in the NHS and ensure first rate leadership for NHS staff.</p><p> </p><p>We are already increasing nurse training places by 25% - that is 5,000 additional nurse training places available every year from September 2018. In 2018 up to 5,000 Nursing Associates commenced training through the apprentice route and the Department has a commitment to train up to a further 7,500 in 2019.</p><p> </p><p>We have also made a commitment to have 5,000 additional doctors in general practice and we have started to roll out an extra 1,500 medical school places for domestic students, with the first 630 places taken up in September. By 2020, five new medical schools will have opened to help deliver the expansion.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 22/01/2019 15:01:32 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1041664

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2019
	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	Mental 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, with reference to proposals in the NHS Long Term Plan on expanding access to community-based mental health services, how many of the additional 345,000 children and young people expected to be accessing support via NHS funded mental health services and school or college-based Mental Health Support Teams are expected to be (a) 0-5, (b) 6-18 and, (c) 19-25 years old.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	208888
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2019 answer text <p>We expect that the majority of the 345,000 additional children and young people will access support via Mental Health Support Teams as these will provide brand new services, situated in schools and colleges and are intended to offer earlier help and intervention.</p><p> </p><p>We anticipate that many of the 345,000 additional children and young people will be of statutory education age i.e. aged between 5-18. However, given that Mental Health Support Teams will operate in and around primary schools and further education colleges, some at the younger and older end are likely to be outside of this group.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan also highlights that the structure of mental health services often creates gaps for young people undergoing the transition from children and young people’s mental health services to appropriate support including adult mental health services. To address this, NHS England has committed to extend current service models to create a comprehensive offer for 0-25 year olds that reaches across mental health services for children, young people and adults.</p><p> </p><p>The detailed implementation plan noted on page 10 of the Long Term Plan will contain more details on the roll-out of additional Children and Young People’s Mental Health services.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 208887 question first answered 21/01/2019 17:20:36 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1041682

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2019
	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	Clinical Commissioning Groups: Finance
	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 Clinical Commissioning Group place based allocations 2019/20 – 2023/24, what the real-term percentage increase in allocation from the 2018-19 adjusted baseline allocation to the 2023-24 final allocation for (a) England (b) each region of England is; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	208904
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>NHS England sets clinical commissioning group (CCG) allocations. The real-term percentage increase in CCG place based allocations from the 2018/19 adjusted baseline allocation to the 2023/24 final allocation for England and each National Health Service commissioning region of England is shown in the following table. To ensure comparability of real terms growth rates between regions with differing levels of population growth the increase is shown on a per registered head basis:</p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>NHS Commissioning Region</p></td><td><p>2018-19 adjusted baseline</p></td><td><p>2023-24 final allocation (2018/19 prices)</p></td><td><p>2018-19 allocation per registered head</p></td><td><p>2023-24 allocation per registered head (2018/19 prices)</p></td><td><p>% change 2018-19 to 2023-24</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£000</p></td><td><p>£000</p></td><td><p>£</p></td><td><p>£</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East and Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>15,620,061</p></td><td><p>17,699,422</p></td><td><p>1,748</p></td><td><p>1,954</p></td><td><p>11.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>13,565,139</p></td><td><p>15,473,589</p></td><td><p>1,825</p></td><td><p>2,044</p></td><td><p>12.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Midlands</p></td><td><p>17,976,071</p></td><td><p>20,854,515</p></td><td><p>1,631</p></td><td><p>1,840</p></td><td><p>12.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East of England</p></td><td><p>10,805,122</p></td><td><p>12,554,710</p></td><td><p>1,585</p></td><td><p>1,778</p></td><td><p>12.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>16,125,151</p></td><td><p>18,708,455</p></td><td><p>1,635</p></td><td><p>1,822</p></td><td><p>11.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East</p></td><td><p>14,713,843</p></td><td><p>16,971,234</p></td><td><p>1,592</p></td><td><p>1,783</p></td><td><p>12.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>9,444,423</p></td><td><p>10,963,251</p></td><td><p>1,637</p></td><td><p>1,841</p></td><td><p>12.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>98,249,809</p></td><td><p>113,225,176</p></td><td><p>1,663</p></td><td><p>1,863</p></td><td><p>12.0%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Note:</p><p> </p><p>All figures reflect total ‘place-based’ CCG allocations, and include other funding outside of pace of change.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 23/01/2019 13:53:51 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1041637

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2019
	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	Vijay Patel
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department’s official representative on the Honours health committee had discussions with the Honours economy committee on the OBE appointment of Vijay Patel in advance of the New Year’s Honours list 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Newton Abbot
	tabling member printed	Anne Marie Morris
	uin	208882
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2019 answer text <p>The honours system is independent. Recommendations are made by one of ten independent expert committees, with independent chairs and a majority of independent members, who assess the merits of all nominations. We are unable to comment on discussions held by committees on any nomination.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 22/01/2019 15:27:07 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4249 label Biography information for Anne Marie Morris

1041764

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2019
	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	Electronic Cigarettes
	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 plans to issue guidance to businesses and local authorities on vaping in public places and workplaces.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	208856
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2019 answer text <p>There are no plans to do so. Public Health England published advice on the use of e-cigarettes in public places and workplaces in 2016 which is available to access publicly at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/use-of-e-cigarettes-in-public-places-and-workplaces" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/use-of-e-cigarettes-in-public-places-and-workplaces</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 208838 question first answered 22/01/2019 15:05:04 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1041715

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2019
	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	Electronic Cigarettes
	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 plans to issue further guidance to (a) businesses and (b) local authorities in line with Public Health England's advice on vaping in public places and workspaces.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	208838
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2019 answer text <p>There are no plans to do so. Public Health England published advice on the use of e-cigarettes in public places and workplaces in 2016 which is available to access publicly at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/use-of-e-cigarettes-in-public-places-and-workplaces" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/use-of-e-cigarettes-in-public-places-and-workplaces</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 208856 question first answered 22/01/2019 15:05:04 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon