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1404415

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2022
	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	Care Homes and Hospitals: Visits
	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 his Answer of 18 January 2022 to Question 905095 on Care Homes: Visits, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to guarantee regular and safe visiting to (a) residents in care homes and (b) patients in hospitals.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
	tabling member printed	Dan Carden
	uin	107696
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2022 answer text <p>We have no plans to bring forward legislative proposals. Decisions on how to facilitate visiting are best taken locally, in the context of national guidance. Care homes, National Health Service trusts or other NHS bodies should make an assessment in the context of local prevalence of COVID-19 and the specific design of their facilities.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong><br> </strong></p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 25/01/2022 14:39:35 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1416871

	registered interest
	date	26/01/2022
	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	Cancer: Nurses
	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 is taking to encourage the (a) recruitment and (b) retention of cancer specialist nurses.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
	tabling member printed	Dan Carden
	uin	112676
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2022 answer text <p>We have provided £52 million in 2021/22 for Health Education England to invest in the cancer and diagnostics workforce, including offering training grants for 250 nurses wishing to become cancer clinical nurse specialists and for an additional 100 nurses wishing to become chemotherapy nurses. Following the Spending Review in 2021, individual budgets for 2022/23 to 2024/25, including for training the cancer workforce, will be subject to a detailed financial planning exercise and finalised in due course.</p><p>The NHS People Plan includes a programme to retain staff through prioritising health and wellbeing. All staff have access to resources such as health and wellbeing apps, a helpline and text service and 40 mental health hubs. The NHS Retention Programme is also targeting interventions to support staff to stay in the profession.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 31/01/2022 10:04:05 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1457426

	registered interest
	date	14/04/2022
	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	NHS: Workplace Pensions
	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 potential impact of the annual pension contribution cap has had on retention and recruitment of staff in the NHS.
	tabling member constituency	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
	tabling member printed	Dr Dan Poulter
	uin	153887
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2022 answer text <p>In 2020, the Government increased thresholds by £90,000 to remove all staff with threshold income below £200,000 from scope of the tapered annual allowance. An estimated 96% of general practitioners and 98% of consultants are out of scope of the taper based on National Health Service earnings.</p><p>An individual may choose to reduce their working hours or take early retirement for a range of reasons. The Department monitors retirement patterns and hours worked by senior doctors. NHS Digital’s workforce statistics show the participation rate, or average contracted hours per person, for consultants has been stable for several years. Data from the NHS Business Services Authority shows that while the number of consultants taking voluntary early retirement as a proportion of all consultant retirements has increased since 2012, it has not changed significantly in more recent years.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 25/04/2022 11:10:22 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter

1462159

	registered interest
	date	11/05/2022
	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	NHS Trusts: Resignations
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which NHS Trusts conduct exit interviews for departing staff.
	tabling member constituency	South West Wiltshire
	tabling member printed	Dr Andrew Murrison
	uin	645
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2022 answer text <p>The information requested on trusts undertaking exit interviews is not held centrally. While exit interviews are recommended in the National Health Service learning handbook, it may not be appropriate for all staff, such as in cases of redundancy or dismissal. An updated, online, self-exit questionnaire was launched in October 2021, which includes staff survey questions and allows staff to explain their reasons for leaving. This is currently being promoted to all NHS trusts and is in use in approximately 83 organisations.</p><p>Reasons for leaving are noted in the Electronic Staff Record. Where detailed information for leaving was available, in 2021 the most frequent reasons were retirement; end of fixed term contract; work/life balance; relocation; and pay or reward.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 646 647 648 question first answered 17/05/2022 10:57:08 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison

1462160

	registered interest
	date	11/05/2022
	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	NHS Trusts: Resignations
	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 findings of exit interviews by NHS Trusts for departing staff are collated centrally.
	tabling member constituency	South West Wiltshire
	tabling member printed	Dr Andrew Murrison
	uin	646
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2022 answer text <p>The information requested on trusts undertaking exit interviews is not held centrally. While exit interviews are recommended in the National Health Service learning handbook, it may not be appropriate for all staff, such as in cases of redundancy or dismissal. An updated, online, self-exit questionnaire was launched in October 2021, which includes staff survey questions and allows staff to explain their reasons for leaving. This is currently being promoted to all NHS trusts and is in use in approximately 83 organisations.</p><p>Reasons for leaving are noted in the Electronic Staff Record. Where detailed information for leaving was available, in 2021 the most frequent reasons were retirement; end of fixed term contract; work/life balance; relocation; and pay or reward.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 645 647 648 question first answered 17/05/2022 10:57:08 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison

1462161

	registered interest
	date	11/05/2022
	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	Staff: Resignations
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what evidence is used to determine the cause of early departure of staff from the NHS.
	tabling member constituency	South West Wiltshire
	tabling member printed	Dr Andrew Murrison
	uin	647
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2022 answer text <p>The information requested on trusts undertaking exit interviews is not held centrally. While exit interviews are recommended in the National Health Service learning handbook, it may not be appropriate for all staff, such as in cases of redundancy or dismissal. An updated, online, self-exit questionnaire was launched in October 2021, which includes staff survey questions and allows staff to explain their reasons for leaving. This is currently being promoted to all NHS trusts and is in use in approximately 83 organisations.</p><p>Reasons for leaving are noted in the Electronic Staff Record. Where detailed information for leaving was available, in 2021 the most frequent reasons were retirement; end of fixed term contract; work/life balance; relocation; and pay or reward.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 645 646 648 question first answered 17/05/2022 10:57:09 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison

1462162

	registered interest
	date	11/05/2022
	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	Staff: Resignations
	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 most frequent reasons are given by staff for early departure from the NHS in order of frequency.
	tabling member constituency	South West Wiltshire
	tabling member printed	Dr Andrew Murrison
	uin	648
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2022 answer text <p>The information requested on trusts undertaking exit interviews is not held centrally. While exit interviews are recommended in the National Health Service learning handbook, it may not be appropriate for all staff, such as in cases of redundancy or dismissal. An updated, online, self-exit questionnaire was launched in October 2021, which includes staff survey questions and allows staff to explain their reasons for leaving. This is currently being promoted to all NHS trusts and is in use in approximately 83 organisations.</p><p>Reasons for leaving are noted in the Electronic Staff Record. Where detailed information for leaving was available, in 2021 the most frequent reasons were retirement; end of fixed term contract; work/life balance; relocation; and pay or reward.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 645 646 647 question first answered 17/05/2022 10:57:09 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison

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

1484405

	registered interest
	date	28/06/2022
	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 Services: Foreign Nationals
	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 publish the report on the Policy Assessment on the NHS (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations.
	tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
	tabling member printed	Kate Green
	uin	26760
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2022 answer text <p>There are currently no plans to publish a report relating to the internal policy assessment on these Regulations. The Department is considering the emerging evidence to ensure that the policy continues to protect National Health Service resources, while maintaining a humanitarian approach to the provision of healthcare. This assessment considers the effect on the most vulnerable migrants and overseas visitors, pregnant women and new mothers, as well as destitute migrants. It also focussed on ensuring that we continue to meet our obligations under the Equality Act 2010 with regards to individuals or groups with protected characteristics, including but not limited to race, disability, sex and gender and maternity.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 26761 question first answered 04/07/2022 14:14:23 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

1607120

	registered interest
	date	24/03/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Pre-sentence Reports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether it is his Department's policy to encourage the use of Standard Delivery formats in Pre-Sentence Reports.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
	tabling member printed	Janet Daby
	uin	173091
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2023 answer text <p>The Probation Service is responsible for producing Pre-Sentence Reports (PSRs) when they are requested by the Court. A PSR includes a sentencing recommendation based on an offender's individual circumstances and consideration of public protection concerns, alongside suitable rehabilitative and punitive requirements.</p><p>A PSR can be delivered to Courts in a range of formats including the longer written Standard Delivery Report (SDR), and the Short Format Report (SFR) which can be delivered in written or oral format.</p><p>The key principles for decisions on the format of report delivery to Court are:</p><ol><li>What information is available to the PSR author and the Court on the day of sentence. Access to information regarding risk from other agencies does inform the risk assessment and so can affect proposals to the court. Where this information is not available on the day, the impact of this needs to be assessed to determine whether a longer adjournment is needed.</li><li>Complexity of the risk assessment. The presence of factors that require additional assessment, professional discussion, and / or multiple enquiries to aid risk assessment has an important bearing on whether reports should be delivered on the day of request or adjourned for further assessment.</li></ol><p>As a general rule all report types are suitable for use across the sentencing thresholds. Guidance is available for probation staff to assist them in determining when to request for a longer adjournment to facilitate an SDR report.</p><p>The Probation Service is working on a range of initiatives to increase the number of cases in which the Courts receive written reports. These are:</p><ul><li>A pilot scheme across fifteen courts, aimed at targeting written reports at specific cohorts where a more detailed exploration of complex issues relating to trauma, maturity and the loss of liberty may be needed.</li><li>Rolling out across England and Wales a scheme to provide PSRs on committal from magistrates’ courts to the Crown Court, following a successful pilot in Bristol. The Probation Service continues to utilise a PSR before plea process, which enables PSRs to be prepared on cases ahead of the first hearing if an indication of an intended guilty plea is given.</li><li>Supporting case progression in appropriate cases with PSRs prepared in advance of first hearing at both Crown and Magistrates’ Courts.</li></ul> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 29/03/2023 16:45:40 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby