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1199360

	registered interest
	date	02/06/2020
	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	Care Homes: Coronavirus
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government (1) what assessment they have made of the number of COVID-19 related deaths in care homes in England and Wales between 10 April and 29 May as documented by the Office of National Statistics; (2) what assessment they have made of the statistics published by the Data Analysis Bureau and Person Centred Software that, since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, 15 per cent of care home staff have been tested and 62 per cent of care homes have not had any staff receive tests; and (3) what plans they have to review their statement on 15 May that they would ensure the testing of residents and employees at all care homes in England by the beginning of June.
	tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
	uin	HL4897
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2020 answer text <p>To provide a more comprehensive response to a number of outstanding Written Questions, this has been answered by an information factsheet <em>Testing – note for House of Lords</em> which is attached, due to the size of the data. A copy has also been placed in the Library</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 29/07/2020 15:25:28 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell attachment 1 file name Testing - note for House of Lords.pdf title Testing information factsheet
	tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

753958

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Radioisotopes: Imports
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government (1) what assessment they have made of the potential impact of not reaching agreement with the EU by April 2019 on the supply of the radioisotope molybdenum-99 used to produce technetium-99m which is required for over 80 per cent of diagnostic medicine procedures in the UK; (2) what assessment they have made of the potential impact of delays or disruption to the supply of diagnostic medicine procedures that may result; and (3) what contingency plans they have put in place to mitigate such delays or disruption to that supply after Brexit.
	tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
	uin	HL1104
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government is fully aware of the importance of molybdenum-99 and the reliance on this medical radioisotope for diagnostic procedures in the National Health Service. The United Kingdom’s ability to import medical isotopes from Europe and the rest of the world will not be affected by withdrawal from Euratom. It is in everyone’s interest to not disrupt the timely access of treatment to patients and to ensure that cross-border trade with the European Union and Euratom is as frictionless as possible.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 31/07/2017 13:38:56 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
	tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

1200715

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2020
	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	Health Services: EU Countries
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government (1) what is their policy on the negotiation of reciprocal healthcare agreements with (a) the European Union and (b) each member country of the European Union, and (2) what progress has been made in each case.
	tabling member printed	Lord Greaves
	uin	HL5300
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2020 answer text <p>The United Kingdom Government is currently negotiating with the European Union Commission on future reciprocal healthcare arrangements with the European Union as part of the negotiating group on ‘mobility and social security coordination’. Negotiating rounds have been constructive. The Government published <em>The Future Relationship with the EU: The UK’s Approach to Negotiations</em> in February 2020 and the draft legal text of a social security agreement, including reciprocal healthcare, in May 2020. A copy is attached.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 15/06/2020 12:49:19 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell attachment 1 file name DRAFT Social Security Coordination Agreement May 2020.pdf title Draft legal text May 2020
	tabling member	2569 label Biography information for Lord Greaves

1204228

	registered interest
	date	16/06/2020
	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	Health Services: Migrants
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government (1) when the immigration healthcare surcharge for health and care workers and their families will be removed, (2) whether those who have already paid the surcharge in the current year will receive a refund, and (3) whether any such refund will be backdated to the day on which the Prime Minister made the announcement that the surcharge would be removed.
	tabling member printed	Lord Jones of Cheltenham
	uin	HL5777
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2020 answer text <p>The Department of Health and Social Care and the Home Office are working at pace to deliver this exemption. Any National Health Service or care worker that has paid the surcharge since the Prime Minister’s announcement on 21 May will receive a refund. We will announce further details on the scope of the arrangements shortly.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell grouped question UIN HL5778 question first answered 29/06/2020 10:38:12 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
	tabling member	248 label Biography information for Lord Jones of Cheltenham

1199375

	registered interest
	date	02/06/2020
	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	Coronavirus: Screening
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how COVID-19 testing capacity will be prioritised when they reach their target of 200,000 daily tests.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Jolly
	uin	HL5003
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2020 answer text <p>To provide a more comprehensive response to a number of outstanding Written Questions, this has been answered by an information factsheet <em>Testing – note for House of Lords</em> which is attached, due to the size of the data. A copy has also been placed in the Library</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 29/07/2020 07:56:13 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell attachment 1 file name Testing - note for House of Lords.pdf title Testing information factsheet
	tabling member	4203 label Biography information for Baroness Jolly

1203095

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2020
	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	Coronavirus: Contact Tracing
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how long it will take, under the test and trace service, to trace people's contacts following a COVID-19 test; and what assessment they have made of whether this is quick enough to isolate people before infection spreads.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL5604
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2020 answer text <p>The Government launched its new NHS Test and Trace service on 28 May 2020.</p><p>If someone experiences symptoms of COVID-19 and gets tested, systems are in place to ensure that the NHS Test and Trace service automatically receives information if their test result is positive. Providing NHS Test and Trace have contact details, such as email, text or landline, they will aim to contact people within 24 hours of receiving the test result.</p><p> </p><p>The more rapidly we can identify people who may have been at risk of infection and, if necessary, tell them to self-isolate, the more effectively we can reduce the R rate and the spread of the virus and maintain transmission at low levels.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 24/06/2020 10:33:19 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

1199210

	registered interest
	date	02/06/2020
	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	Neurology
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many (1) outpatient neurology appointments have been cancelled to date, and (2) neurology inpatients were sent home from hospital early in England, as a result of COVID-19.
	tabling member printed	Lord Dubs
	uin	HL4955
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2020 answer text <p>NHS England and NHS Improvement have advised that this information is not collected.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 18/06/2020 11:16:42 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
	tabling member	805 label Biography information for Lord Dubs

1200312

	registered interest
	date	03/06/2020
	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	Coronavirus: Screening
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many COVID-19 tests are currently being completed each week in (1) NHS and other public sector, and (2) private, laboratories.
	tabling member printed	Lord Warner
	uin	HL5259
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2020 answer text <p>To provide a more comprehensive response to a number of outstanding Written Questions, this has been answered by an information factsheet <em>Testing – note for House of Lords</em> which is attached, due to the size of the data. A copy has also been placed in the Library</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 29/07/2020 16:01:36 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell attachment 1 file name Testing - note for House of Lords.pdf title Testing information factsheet
	tabling member	1732 label Biography information for Lord Warner

1201046

	registered interest
	date	08/06/2020
	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	Coronavirus: Screening
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many COVID-19 tests have been dispatched for each day since postal distribution began.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bassam of Brighton
	uin	HL5349
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2020 answer text <p>To provide a more comprehensive response to a number of outstanding Written Questions, this has been answered by an information factsheet <em>Testing – note for House of Lords</em> which is attached, due to the size of the data. A copy has also been placed in the Library</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 29/07/2020 16:06:14 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell attachment 1 file name Testing - note for House of Lords.pdf title Testing information factsheet
	tabling member	3504 label Biography information for Lord Bassam of Brighton

1175248

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2020
	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	General Practitioners
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many GPs have been in practice for each year since 2010.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Thornhill
	uin	HL726
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2020 answer text <p>The number of full time equivalent (FTE) doctors working in general practice in each year since 2015 has been provided in the following table. Data is not included prior to 2015 as improvements were made to the methodology for recording all staff working in general practice in September 2015 and data prior to this is not comparable.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Number of all doctors in general practice</p></td><td><p>FTE</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2015</p></td><td><p>34,429</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2016</p></td><td><p>35,229</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2017</p></td><td><p>34,653</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2018</p></td><td><p>34,534</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2019</p></td><td><p>34,862</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Source:</em> NHS Digital</p><p><em>Notes: </em></p><ol><li>Data as at 30 September 2019.</li><li>Figures shown do not include general practice staff working in prisons, army bases, educational establishments, specialist care centres including drug rehabilitation centres, walk-in centres and other alternative settings.</li><li>Figures contain estimates, for practices that did not provide fully valid General Medical Practice general practitioner (GP), nurse or direct patient care staff records.</li><li>The figures presented include GP registrars and GP locums.</li><li>Data collected and published prior to September 2015 is not comparable due to a change in data collection methodology.</li><li>Data must be compared from the same time point in the year, therefore September data is provided to allow comparison for the earliest available data.</li><li>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.</li></ol><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 05/02/2020 15:09:01 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
	tabling member	4558 label Biography information for Baroness Thornhill