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1178961

	registered interest
	date	21/02/2020
	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	Mental Health Services: Finance
	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 through the NHS Long Term Funding Bill to ensure parity in the funding of physical and mental health support services.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Zarah Sultana
	uin	18873
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>The purpose of the NHS Long Term Funding Bill is simply to enshrine in law the funding set out in the Long Term Plan, providing an extra £33.9 billion by 2023-24. That provides the National Health Service with the financial certainty it needs to get on and deliver the plan. The Bill does not set out the details of the plan itself or place restrictions on how the NHS should use the funding to support delivery.</p><p>However, at the heart of the NHS Long Term plan is the largest expansion of mental health services in a generation. This Government remains committed to putting mental health services on an equal footing with physical health. We are putting more money in and taking more action on mental health than any previous Government. We have committed at least a further £2.3 billion a year to mental health services by 2023/24 which will see spending for children and young people’s mental health services growing faster than the overall spend on mental health, which will itself be growing faster than the overall NHS budget.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 02/03/2020 13:25:26 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4786 label Biography information for Zarah Sultana

1178962

	registered interest
	date	21/02/2020
	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	Lung Diseases: Air Pollution
	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 the Government is taking to tackle the effects poor air quality and pollution on lung health.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Zarah Sultana
	uin	18874
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>The Government’s Clean Air Strategy, published in January 2019, sets out an ambitious programme of action to reduce pollutant emissions from a wide range of sources including transport, industry, agriculture and domestic settings. These actions will reduce the impact of air pollution on human health. The Strategy sits alongside the 2017 UK Plan for Tackling Roadside Nitrogen Dioxide Concentrations, which focuses on reducing emissions from road transport.</p><p>The Government’s proposed Environment Bill, reintroduced on 30 January, will deliver key aspects of the Strategy and includes a commitment to set a legally binding target for PM2.5, with the aim of driving action to reduce long-term exposure to fine particulate matter, which impacts on human health, including lung health.</p><p>Public Health England works closely with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to provide alerts and advice during high air pollution episodes to ensure that key health messages are communicated to vulnerable groups, including those with existing lung conditions.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 02/03/2020 15:40:30 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	4786 label Biography information for Zarah Sultana

1183283

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2020
	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	Dementia: Social 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 assessment he has made of the implications for his policies on social care funding of dementia care costs.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Zarah Sultana
	uin	26186
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2020 answer text <p>Future funding for social care will be set out at the next Spending Review. The upcoming Spending Review will consider a broad range of factors that influence the demand for and cost of providing adult social care services.</p><p>Putting social care on a sustainable footing, where everyone is treated with dignity and respect, is one of the biggest challenges we face as a society.</p><p>In 2020/21 we are providing councils with access to an additional £1.5 billion for adults and children’s social care.</p><p>This £1.5 billion is on top of maintaining £2.5 billion of existing social care grants and will support local authorities to meet rising demand and continue to stabilise the social care system.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 16/03/2020 11:31:24 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4786 label Biography information for Zarah Sultana

1183285

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2020
	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	NHS: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the NHS bursary will be paid retrospectively to students who did not receive that funding between 2017 and 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Zarah Sultana
	uin	26188
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2020 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for St Helens North (Conor McGinn MP) on 27 February 2020 to Question <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2020-02-24/19994/" target="_blank">19994</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 12/03/2020 11:02:08 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4786 label Biography information for Zarah Sultana

1144332

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2019
	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	Cervical 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, how many and what proportion of women with a disability have attended cervical cancer screening through the NHS in the last period for which information is available.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	286102
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 09/09/2019 16:33:26 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1144689

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2019
	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	General Practitioners: Standards
	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 estimate he has made of the average waiting time for an appointment to see a GP in (a) England and Wales and (b) Coventry.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	286633
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>The most recent data on the time between booking an appointment with a general practice and having the appointment (in days) for Coventry and Rugby Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) as well as for England are presented in the following table as the average over the 12 months from August 2018 to July 2019.</p><p>The data is taken from the NHS Digital publication ‘Appointments in General Practice’. This is a new experimental data collection which is still being refined and improved.</p><p>It should be noted that the ‘time from booking to appointment’ refers only to the time elapsed between the successful booking of an appointment and the appointment actually taking place. The data does not take into consideration that many patients will be appropriately booking ahead as part of the continuity of care they receive for long-term conditions.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Coventry and Rugby CCG</p></td><td><p>England</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Distribution of average time elapsed between booking an appointment and the appointment taking place, August 2018 to July 2019</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Same Day</p></td><td><p>47%</p></td><td><p>42%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 Day</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2 to 7 Days</p></td><td><p>21%</p></td><td><p>20%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>8 to 14 Days</p></td><td><p>12%</p></td><td><p>14%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>15 to 21 Days</p></td><td><p>6%</p></td><td><p>8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>22 or more</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td><td><p>10%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>100.0%</p></td><td><p>100.0%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br> Notes:</p><ol><li>There are several factors that drive the time from a booking to an appointment. This includes appointment availability at the practice, patient availability, the urgency of the appointment and general practitioner (GP) advice.</li><li>The data does not differentiate between emergency and routine appointments in general practice.</li><li>The data does not include any information about the patients or clinical information.</li><li>The data in the response includes appointments with all healthcare professional types, including GPs and other practice staff.</li><li>Not all practices in England are included in the appointments in general practice publication, meaning the total number of appointments is not known.</li><li>Same day and next day bookings are of particular interest so are presented here separately. Further bookings are presented grouped by weeks.</li><li>The number of appointments that have already happened is provided as recorded in participating practices in England. The data presented only contains information which was captured on the GP practice systems. This limits the activity reported on and does not represent all work happening within a primary care setting.</li></ol><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 09/09/2019 15:11:04 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1144692

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2019
	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	General Practitioners: Termination of Employment
	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 trends of the number of GPs (a) retiring and (b) leaving the profession in each of the last ten years.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	286635
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>The Department is unable to make an assessment on the trends in the number of general practitioners (GPs) retiring in each of the last 10 years.</p><p> </p><p>The data in the following table shows the headcount and full-time equivalent for the number of GPs who joined or left the workforce between the beginning and the end of the specified period in 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18, as reported by GP practices in England to NHS Digital. The numbers exclude Registrars, Locums and GPs transferring between practices. This data should be treated with caution as it is incomplete. Data on the number of GPs leaving the profession is only available from September 2015.</p><p>NHS Digital define a workforce joiner as a GP who was recorded as working in a practice at the end of the specified time period, but not at its beginning. A workforce leaver is defined as a GP who was recorded as working in a GP practice at the beginning but not at the end of the specified time period. The number of leavers includes GPs who retired as well as those who left general practice for other reasons, such as to join a National Health Service organisation (non-GP practice).</p><p>The recording of leavers and joiners depends on accurate recording by the employing practice of a GP’s General Medical Council (GMC) number. Hence the data should be treated with caution, because a GP could be incorrectly recorded as joining or leaving the workforce if they move between practices and their GMC number is not correctly recorded by one or both practices.</p><p>The figures are experimental statistics and are based only on a cohort of GP practices that were open at both the beginning and end of the specified time period and supplied GMC Numbers for 100% of their relevant GP staff.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p> </p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>Number of GP practices supplying data</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Full-Time-Equivalent</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Headcount</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Joiners</p></td><td><p>Leavers</p></td><td><p>Joiners</p></td><td><p>Leavers</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2015 to September 2016</p></td><td><p>5,663 practices (74.9% of all practices)</p></td><td><p>1,708</p></td><td><p>1,793</p></td><td><p>2,393</p></td><td><p>2,473</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2016 to September 2017</p></td><td><p>6,323 practices (86.0% of all practices)</p></td><td><p>1,441</p></td><td><p>1,535</p></td><td><p>2,103</p></td><td><p>2,080</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2017 to September 2018</p></td><td><p>5,914 practices (82.9% of all practices)</p></td><td><p>1,397</p></td><td><p>1,521</p></td><td><p>2,120</p></td><td><p>2,111</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS Digital General Practice Workforce, Final 31 March 2019, experimental statistics</p><p>Note:</p><p>Full time equivalent (FTE) refers to the proportion of full time contracted hours that the post holder is contracted to work. 1 would indicate they work a full set of hours (37.5), 0.5 that they worked half time. In Registrars' contracts 1 FTE = 40 hours. To ensure consistency, these FTEs have been converted to the standard wMDS measure of 1 FTE = 37.5 hours in the table.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 09/09/2019 15:08:43 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1144708

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2019
	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	HIV Infection
	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 proportion of people diagnosed with HIV at a late stage of infection.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	286636
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>Public Health England routinely collects data on people newly diagnosed with HIV in the United Kingdom. In 2018, 43% (1,480/3,465) of people newly diagnosed with HIV were diagnosed at a late stage of infection. The proportion of people diagnosed late has declined steadily over the last decade, since 2009 when 52% (2,875/5,553) of people were diagnosed at a late stage of infection. This data can be viewed at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hiv-annual-data-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hiv-annual-data-tables</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 09/09/2019 15:09:48 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1144711

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2019
	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	HIV Infection: Drugs
	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 widen access to the drug PrEP.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	286637
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is currently funded through the three-year PrEP Impact Trial. Following my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care’s announcement on 30 January that the number of places on the trial would be doubled to 26,000, expansion of the Trial is now underway across the country. A core function of the PrEP Impact Trial Community Advisory Board (CAB) is to raise awareness and uptake of PrEP in key populations including black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities. Further information about PrEP Impact Trial CAB activities and participating community groups can be found at the following links:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/spec-services/npc-crg/blood-and-infection-group-f/f03/prep-trial-updates/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/spec-services/npc-crg/blood-and-infection-group-f/f03/prep-trial-updates/</a></p><p><a href="https://www.prepimpacttrial.org.uk/faqs" target="_blank">https://www.prepimpacttrial.org.uk/faqs</a></p><p>In addition, Public Health England’s Innovation Fund has supported a number of community based projects aimed at increasing PrEP awareness in women, BAME groups and trans communities. Information on the projects funded in 2018 can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/innovative-hiv-prevention-projects-reached-170000-people-in-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/innovative-hiv-prevention-projects-reached-170000-people-in-2018</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 09/09/2019 15:13:30 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1145874

	registered interest
	date	25/09/2019
	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: Standards
	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 that all mental health units provide their vulnerable patients with a good level of care.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	290642
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2019 answer text <p>Everybody has the right to receive safe, high-quality care. If care has fallen short of this, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) can use its powers to take action against those responsible.</p><p> </p><p>The CQC has a key responsibility in the overall assurance of safety and quality of health and adult social care services in England. The latest annual State of Care report, published in October 2018, found that the majority of National Health Service mental health trusts and independent providers were continuing to provide good quality care.</p><p> </p><p>We are working with the CQC to look at ways in which we can improve the way we hold large independent sector mental health providers with complex structures to account for quality and safety.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 30/09/2019 12:04:55 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham