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1470737

	registered interest
	date	15/06/2022
	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
	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 clinical jobs there are in the NHS; what proportion of those jobs are staffed by overseas workers; and how many vacancies in clinical roles there are, as of 15 June 2022. .
	tabling member constituency	Delyn
	tabling member printed	Rob Roberts
	uin	19019
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2022 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in England, but not staff working in primary care or in general practice surgeries, local authorities or other providers. The information requested as of 15 June 2022 is not currently held. However, as of December 2021, there were 642,560 full-time equivalent (FTE) professionally qualified clinical staff working in National Health Service trusts and CCGs. This includes 127,959 doctors and 339,942 nurses, midwives and health visitors.</p><p>The following table shows the FTE number and proportion of professionally qualified clinical staff by self-reported nationality as at December 2021. Nationality does not imply that workers were trained or previously worked overseas.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Staff group</p></td><td><p>Total FTE</p></td><td><p>Number of staff with non-United Kingdom nationalities</p></td><td><p>Proportion of staff with non-UK nationalities</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Professionally qualified clinical staff</p></td><td><p>642,560</p></td><td><p>133,848</p></td><td><p>20.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Including:</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ambulance staff</p></td><td><p>18,042</p></td><td><p>1,199</p></td><td><p>6.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HCHS doctors</p></td><td><p>127,959</p></td><td><p>40,660</p></td><td><p>31.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scientific, therapeutic and technical staff</p></td><td><p>156,617</p></td><td><p>17,708</p></td><td><p>11.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nurses, midwives and health visitors</p></td><td><p>339,942</p></td><td><p>74,281</p></td><td><p>21.9%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS Digital Workforce Statistics</p><p>NHS Digital publishes quarterly vacancy data collected by NHS England and NHS Improvement for NHS hospital trusts for three staff groups: doctors, registered nurses and ‘other staff’. The following table shows the number of FTE nursing vacancies and medical vacancies as of March 2022. Many of the vacancies will be filled by bank and agency staff.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Nursing</p></td><td><p>38,972</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Medical</p></td><td><p>8,016</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other staff</p></td><td><p>58,867</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total workforce</p></td><td><p>105,855</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS Digital Vacancy Statistics</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 20/06/2022 14:34:54 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4810 label Biography information for Mr Rob Roberts

1461288

	registered interest
	date	10/05/2022
	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	Members: Correspondence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to respond to the enquiry from the hon. Member for High Peak dated 10 March 2022, reference RL32288.
	tabling member constituency	High Peak
	tabling member printed	Robert Largan
	uin	530
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2022 answer text <p>We replied to the hon. Member on 16 June 2022.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 20/06/2022 13:26:49 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4852 label Biography information for Robert Largan

1469019

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2022
	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: 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 improve ambulance response times.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
	tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
	uin	15333
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2022 answer text <p>Ambulance trusts receive continuous central monitoring and support from the NHS England and NHS Improvement’s National Ambulance Coordination Centre. An additional £150 million has been allocated in 2022/23 to improve response times through additional call handler recruitment, retention and relieving other funding pressures.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the average response time in England is not collected in the format requested. Ambulance response times are measured by category at regional ambulance trust level since the introduction of the current national response time standards in 2017/18. Average ambulance response times were not collected under the previous ‘Category A’ national response time standards. The following table shows the mean average ambulance waiting times in hours, minutes and seconds for Category 1, 2, 3 and 4 incidents in England in each year from 2017/18 to May 2022.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Category 1</p></td><td><p>Category 2</p></td><td><p>Category 3</p></td><td><p>Category 4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>0:08:23</p></td><td><p>0:25:51</p></td><td><p>1:04:36</p></td><td><p>1:30:32</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>0:07:18</p></td><td><p>0:21:47</p></td><td><p>1:01:46</p></td><td><p>1:25:42</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>0:07:18</p></td><td><p>0:23:50</p></td><td><p>1:11:04</p></td><td><p>1:26:09</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>0:07:03</p></td><td><p>0:20:57</p></td><td><p>0:54:41</p></td><td><p>1:22:51</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021/22</p></td><td><p>0:08:39</p></td><td><p>0:41:17</p></td><td><p>2:13:40</p></td><td><p>2:49:43</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April to May 2022</p></td><td><p>0:08:36</p></td><td><p>0:39:58</p></td><td><p>2:09:32</p></td><td><p>2:47:57</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: NHS Ambulance Quality Indicators.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 15334 15335 question first answered 20/06/2022 10:52:21 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1469020

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2022
	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: 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 the average ambulance response time was in England in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
	tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
	uin	15334
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2022 answer text <p>Ambulance trusts receive continuous central monitoring and support from the NHS England and NHS Improvement’s National Ambulance Coordination Centre. An additional £150 million has been allocated in 2022/23 to improve response times through additional call handler recruitment, retention and relieving other funding pressures.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the average response time in England is not collected in the format requested. Ambulance response times are measured by category at regional ambulance trust level since the introduction of the current national response time standards in 2017/18. Average ambulance response times were not collected under the previous ‘Category A’ national response time standards. The following table shows the mean average ambulance waiting times in hours, minutes and seconds for Category 1, 2, 3 and 4 incidents in England in each year from 2017/18 to May 2022.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Category 1</p></td><td><p>Category 2</p></td><td><p>Category 3</p></td><td><p>Category 4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>0:08:23</p></td><td><p>0:25:51</p></td><td><p>1:04:36</p></td><td><p>1:30:32</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>0:07:18</p></td><td><p>0:21:47</p></td><td><p>1:01:46</p></td><td><p>1:25:42</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>0:07:18</p></td><td><p>0:23:50</p></td><td><p>1:11:04</p></td><td><p>1:26:09</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>0:07:03</p></td><td><p>0:20:57</p></td><td><p>0:54:41</p></td><td><p>1:22:51</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021/22</p></td><td><p>0:08:39</p></td><td><p>0:41:17</p></td><td><p>2:13:40</p></td><td><p>2:49:43</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April to May 2022</p></td><td><p>0:08:36</p></td><td><p>0:39:58</p></td><td><p>2:09:32</p></td><td><p>2:47:57</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: NHS Ambulance Quality Indicators.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 15333 15335 question first answered 20/06/2022 10:52:21 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1469021

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2022
	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: 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 address regional disparities in ambulance response times.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
	tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
	uin	15335
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2022 answer text <p>Ambulance trusts receive continuous central monitoring and support from the NHS England and NHS Improvement’s National Ambulance Coordination Centre. An additional £150 million has been allocated in 2022/23 to improve response times through additional call handler recruitment, retention and relieving other funding pressures.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the average response time in England is not collected in the format requested. Ambulance response times are measured by category at regional ambulance trust level since the introduction of the current national response time standards in 2017/18. Average ambulance response times were not collected under the previous ‘Category A’ national response time standards. The following table shows the mean average ambulance waiting times in hours, minutes and seconds for Category 1, 2, 3 and 4 incidents in England in each year from 2017/18 to May 2022.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Category 1</p></td><td><p>Category 2</p></td><td><p>Category 3</p></td><td><p>Category 4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>0:08:23</p></td><td><p>0:25:51</p></td><td><p>1:04:36</p></td><td><p>1:30:32</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>0:07:18</p></td><td><p>0:21:47</p></td><td><p>1:01:46</p></td><td><p>1:25:42</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>0:07:18</p></td><td><p>0:23:50</p></td><td><p>1:11:04</p></td><td><p>1:26:09</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>0:07:03</p></td><td><p>0:20:57</p></td><td><p>0:54:41</p></td><td><p>1:22:51</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021/22</p></td><td><p>0:08:39</p></td><td><p>0:41:17</p></td><td><p>2:13:40</p></td><td><p>2:49:43</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April to May 2022</p></td><td><p>0:08:36</p></td><td><p>0:39:58</p></td><td><p>2:09:32</p></td><td><p>2:47:57</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: NHS Ambulance Quality Indicators.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 15333 15334 question first answered 20/06/2022 10:52:21 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1469288

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2022
	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, whether he has had discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on releasing funds that would allow progress on new hospital provision for the eight Pathfinder Trusts.
	tabling member constituency	St Albans
	tabling member printed	Daisy Cooper
	uin	15765
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2022 answer text <p>We have regular discussions with HM Treasury regarding the delivery of the New Hospitals Programme. Since its establishment, we have worked with trusts to establish how each scheme can maximise efficiencies enabled by the programme. The full individual funding allocations for schemes are confirmed once the respective Full Business Cases have been reviewed and agreed, including with HM Treasury.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 20/06/2022 14:10:09 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4769 label Biography information for Daisy Cooper

1469304

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2022
	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	West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, on what date he plans to release funds for enabling works for the West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospital NHS Trust transformation programme.
	tabling member constituency	St Albans
	tabling member printed	Daisy Cooper
	uin	15766
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2022 answer text <p>West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has received £38 million for enabling works, from of a total £52 million provided to the end of 2021/22. Further requests for funding will be considered, subject to the appropriate governance process to ensure maximum value for money.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 20/06/2022 13:41:46 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4769 label Biography information for Daisy Cooper

1469306

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2022
	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	Supply Chain Coordination
	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 operational cost of running each Category Tower of NHS Supply Chain Coordination Limited was in NHS financial years (a) 2020-21 and (b) 2021-22 as of 10 June 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Northampton South
	tabling member printed	Andrew Lewer
	uin	15758
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2022 answer text <p>The operational cost of each Category Tower of NHS Supply Chain was £60 million in 2020/21 and £61 million in 2021/22. An estimated £390 million to £400 million has been spent on services provided by Unipart Logistics in each year since the start of the contract.</p><p>The Department has spent an estimated £13 billion through the Category Tower Model by NHS Supply Chain, with an estimated £1.4 billion in savings.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 15759 15760 question first answered 20/06/2022 13:58:49 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4659 label Biography information for Andrew Lewer

1469307

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2022
	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	Unipart Logistics
	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 has been spent on services provided by Unipart Logistics as part of NHS Supply Chain in each year since the start of that contract to 10 June 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Northampton South
	tabling member printed	Andrew Lewer
	uin	15759
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2022 answer text <p>The operational cost of each Category Tower of NHS Supply Chain was £60 million in 2020/21 and £61 million in 2021/22. An estimated £390 million to £400 million has been spent on services provided by Unipart Logistics in each year since the start of the contract.</p><p>The Department has spent an estimated £13 billion through the Category Tower Model by NHS Supply Chain, with an estimated £1.4 billion in savings.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 15758 15760 question first answered 20/06/2022 13:58:49 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4659 label Biography information for Andrew Lewer

1469308

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2022
	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	Supply Chain Coordination
	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 his Department has made of the amount of money (a) spent and (b) saved through the use of the Category Tower model by NHS Supply Chain Coordination Limited.
	tabling member constituency	Northampton South
	tabling member printed	Andrew Lewer
	uin	15760
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2022 answer text <p>The operational cost of each Category Tower of NHS Supply Chain was £60 million in 2020/21 and £61 million in 2021/22. An estimated £390 million to £400 million has been spent on services provided by Unipart Logistics in each year since the start of the contract.</p><p>The Department has spent an estimated £13 billion through the Category Tower Model by NHS Supply Chain, with an estimated £1.4 billion in savings.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 15758 15759 question first answered 20/06/2022 13:58:49 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4659 label Biography information for Andrew Lewer