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1686966

	registered interest
	date	02/02/2024
	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: Continuing Care
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an estimate of the average length of time it takes for a person with Dementia to receive a completed care and support plan.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	12804
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2024 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">NHS England is committed to delivering high quality care and support for every person with dementia, and central to this is the provision of personalised care and support planning for post diagnostic support.</del> Information on the average length of time it takes for a person with dementia to receive a completed care and support plan is not collected centrally<ins class="ministerial">.</ins><del class="ministerial">, and there are no plans to do so.</del></p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 12/02/2024 11:23:22 question first ministerially corrected 13/02/2024 10:49:03 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 16983 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1639305

	registered interest
	date	22/05/2023
	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	Liver Diseases: Screening
	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 merits of introducing FibroScans in primary care to improve early diagnosis of non-alcohol related fatty liver disease.
	tabling member constituency	Darlington
	tabling member printed	Peter Gibson
	uin	186182
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/05/2023 answer text <p>The Department has not made a specific assessment of the potential merits of introducing FibroScans in primary care to improve early diagnosis of non-alcohol related fatty liver disease. However, a practice has clinical discretion to decide if a FibroScan is necessary and appropriate for a patient and can either provide directly or through a provider, typically a hospital out-patient appointment.</p><p><ins class="ministerial"> <p><ins class="ministerial">In addition, NHS England have confirmed they have begun to assess the introduction of FibroScans through Community Diagnostic Centres. £2.3 billion is being spent to increase the number of Community Diagnostic Centres by March 2025, these centres will offer a range of services, with some providing services to support liver diagnosis . This will boost capacity to diagnose liver disease and improve earlier diagnosis and health outcomes.</ins></p></ins></p><p><del class="ministerial">In addition, NHS England have confirmed they have begun to assess the introduction of FibroScans through Community Diagnostic Centres. £2.3 billion is being spent to increase the number of Centres diagnosing liver disease to at least 100 sites by March 2025. This will boost diagnostic capacity to diagnose liver disease and improve earlier diagnosis and health outcomes.</del></p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 30/05/2023 14:08:29 question first ministerially corrected 11/07/2023 15:48:09 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 77366 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4754 label Biography information for Peter Gibson

1601933

	registered interest
	date	07/03/2023
	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	Brain: Tumours
	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 has made an assessment of the potential merits of developing a strategic plan for the (a) funding and (b) other resourcing of (i) discovery, (ii) translational and (iii) clinical research into brain tumours.
	tabling member constituency	Wigan
	tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
	uin	160266
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2023 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The Department has published its Health Infrastructure Plan in September 2019 that sets out the Government’s strategy and priorities for investing in the National Health Service estate, including in cancer centres. We are at present working on an update to this strategy through to 2030.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> <p><ins class="ministerial">The Department-funded National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) invests in research, clinical expertise, specialist facilities, workforce and support services across a range of clinical areas, including brain tumour research.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">NIHR has recently announced the outcome of the Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) competition in which six BRCs have been funded to support brain tumour research. The NIHR BRCs works in partnership with other research centres such as the CRUK Brain Tumour Centre of Excellence to collect samples for research purposes as well as local and national sample storage facilities to support research into brain tumours.</ins></p></ins></p><p><del class="ministerial">Currently, we do not have a national capital programme strictly dedicated to cancer centres. However, there are several programmes, including the Targeted Investment Fund, the New Hospital Programme and the Hospital Upgrades Programme, that are funding upgrades to existing cancer centres. These schemes are assessed on a case-by-case basis.</del></p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 13/03/2023 11:09:49 question first ministerially corrected 14/03/2023 10:37:25 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 61183 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

1299764

	registered interest
	date	04/03/2021
	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	Midwives: EU Nationals
	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 midwives, expressed as a headcount, were employed by each NHS trust in England (a) in total and (b) who were nationals of an EU member state, at the most recent date for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
	uin	163274
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2021 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups, but not staff working in primary care, general practice surgeries, local authorities or other providers.</p><p>A table showing the total number of midwives and the number of those midwives who have self-reported their nationality as from the European Union employed by each National Health Service trust as at 30 November 2020, headcount, is attached.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately previous answer version 88722 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately 89049 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately question first answered 10/03/2021 14:56:16 question first ministerially corrected 10/03/2021 16:23:20 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately attachment 1 file name Midwives by nationality and organisation November 2020_PQ163274.xlsx FINAL - Copy.xlsx title Midwives by nationality 30 November 2020
	tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1286423

	registered interest
	date	11/02/2021
	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: Disability
	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 finding by the Office of National Statistics that 60 per cent of deaths involving covid-19 between 24 January and 20 November 2020 were disabled people, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that disabled people are protected from covid-19 in the future.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
	uin	153163
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2021 answer text <p><ins class="ministerial">We are protecting disabled people through a range of actions. We are advising people with specific health conditions, who are deemed to be clinically extremely vulnerable to COVID-19, to shield and providing direct support to the shielded population. Local councils are also providing support to people shielding. We are prioritising vaccinations for those who are most at risk and those who care for them, following the advice of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation. Many disabled people received social care. The Adult Social Care Winter Plan sets out our support to social care through the winter, so people can continue to receive care and be protected whilst protecting people from COVID-19. This includes providing free personal protective equipment to care homes and domiciliary care providers.</ins></p><p><del class="ministerial">The most recent monthly data from Skills for Care indicates that the vacancy rate of directly employed staff in social care has reduced to 6.9% in January 2021 from 8.0% in February 2020.</del></p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately previous answer version 83905 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately 84692 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately question first answered 24/02/2021 17:15:49 question first ministerially corrected 16/03/2021 11:57:17 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1282636

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2021
	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	Carers: Coronavirus
	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 merits of providing covid-19 testing and personal protective equipment to family carers on a similar basis to the provision of that equipment to care home staff.
	tabling member constituency	Newton Abbot
	tabling member printed	Anne Marie Morris
	uin	146895
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/02/2021 answer text <p><ins class="ministerial">In response to clinical advice and following a successful pilot, free personal protective equipment (PPE) for COVID-19 needs is now being provided to unpaid carers who do not live with the person they care for. In line with the Government’s commitment to provide free PPE for COVID-19 needs to the adult social care sector, this offer for unpaid carers is currently available until the end of June 2021 and can be accessed through local authorities and local resilience forums. <br />As of May 2020, the Government included unpaid carers in its list of essential workers and those prioritised for COVID-19 testing in England. If they have symptoms of COVID-19, unpaid carers can book a test directly online and access testing themselves or for members of their household who are experiencing symptoms. <br /></ins></p><p><del class="ministerial">The family leave guidance published by NHS Employers in October 2020 sets out what an employer may consider should a member of staff who is currently on family leave -maternity, adoption, or shared parental leave - indicate that they would like to return to work early or for a period of time to support the National Health Service during the pandemic.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">Employers will need to carry out a risk assessment and provide appropriate facilities in accordance with the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 for any employee returning from a period of maternity leave, in particular mothers who are breastfeeding.</del></p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately previous answer version 80169 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately 83098 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately question first answered 16/02/2021 16:42:36 question first ministerially corrected 19/02/2021 11:07:51 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4249 label Biography information for Anne Marie Morris

1243361

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2020
	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	Abortion: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data the Department holds on selective abortions on grounds of disability in England and Wales from January to June 2020.
	tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
	tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
	uin	103511
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2020 answer text <p>Under the Abortion Act 1967, a pregnancy may be lawfully terminated by a registered medical practitioner in approved premises, if two medical practitioners are of the opinion, formed in good faith, that the abortion is justified under one or more of grounds A to G. Ground E refers to cases where “there is substantial risk that if the child were born it would suffer from such physical or mental abnormalities as to be seriously handicapped”. There can be multiple reasons for an abortion for a fetal abnormality, therefore there can be more than one medical condition mentioned on a HSA4 form.</p><p>Selective abortions are abortions where the number of fetuses in the womb is reduced.</p><p>There were 55 mentions of medical conditions for selective abortions performed under ground E between January to June 2020, a breakdown of which is available in the attached table<em>.</em></p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 04/11/2020 12:57:44 question first ministerially corrected 09/11/2020 18:54:06 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately attachment 1 file name PQ103511 Table of Data 2020-10 .xlsx title Ground E abortions data previous answer version 58615 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon

1216345

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2020
	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	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many covid-19 tests performed at home were sent to testing centres on each day from 27 April 2020 to 5 May 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Central Ayrshire
	tabling member printed	Dr Philippa Whitford
	uin	62458
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2020 answer text <p>Using data from Royal Mail the number of home tests conducted in this time frame are shown in the following table. It should be noted that the Royal Mail’s data captures when the kit is delivered at their delivery office near the laboratory. For example, if the kit is ‘scanned as delivered’ on 4 May, it will then make it to the laboratory the following morning, 5 May, at the agreed ‘drop-off’ time.</p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">Tests returned are counted and reported only once they have been processed by the laboratory and will appear in the data for pillar 2.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Data on the number of tests processed by pillar is available at the following link:</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><a href="https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/testing" target="_blank">https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/testing</a></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Information on the methodology of how testing data is compiled is available at the following link:</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-test-and-trace-statistics-england-methodology/nhs-test-and-trace-statistics-england-methodology" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-test-and-trace-statistics-england-methodology/nhs-test-and-trace-statistics-england-methodology</a></ins></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Date</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Kits scanned as delivered</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">26 April 2020</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">954</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">27 April 2020</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">2,069</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">28 April 2020</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">2,762</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">29 April 2020</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">2,377</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">30 April 2020</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">2,966</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">1 May 2020</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">4,895</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">2 May 2020</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">5,907</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">3 May 2020</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">6,906</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">4 May 2020</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">7,110</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Total</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">35,946</ins></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong> </strong></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong> </strong></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong> </strong></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong> </strong></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong> </strong></ins></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately previous answer version 32209 answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries answering member 1481 62159 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately question first answered 18/11/2020 14:02:13 question first ministerially corrected 23/11/2020 10:54:50 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4385 label Biography information for Dr Philippa Whitford

1205182

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2020
	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	Nurses
	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 nurses were employed to care for adults in the NHS in each month from 2010 to 2018.
	tabling member constituency	South West Surrey
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Hunt
	uin	61454
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2020 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups, but not staff working in primary care, general practitioner surgeries, local authorities or other providers.</p><p>The attached table shows the number of adult nurses as at each month between 2010 and 2018. This data contains data on adult nurses and does not include mental health nurses or learning disability nurses.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately previous answer version 31444 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately 37980 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately question first answered 16/07/2020 19:34:15 question first ministerially corrected 02/09/2020 08:37:38 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately attachment 1 file name PQ61454 formatted table.docx title FTE Nurses 2010-2018
	tabling member	1572 label Biography information for Jeremy Hunt

1196642

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2020
	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	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people with covid-19 have been discharged from hospitals into care homes in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	48445
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/05/2020 answer text <p>Information is not available in the format requested.</p><p>The attached table shows a count of finished discharge episodes with any diagnosis of COVID-19 by discharge destination for each month in 2020 in England.</p><p>Health is a devolved matter within Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and the data requested is therefore unavailable.</p><p>The following codes have been used within the document:</p><p>- U07.1 – Covid-19, virus identified; and</p><p>- U07.2 – Covid-19, virus not identified</p><p>The data shows the number of completed episodes and not the number of people as some individuals may have been admitted and discharged on more than one occasion during the period.</p><p>The data is provisional and is subject to review.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 27/05/2020 10:48:42 question first ministerially corrected 02/06/2020 09:30:22 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately attachment 1 file name PQ48445-Jonathan Ashworth- Supporting data.xlsx title COVID 19 discharges by destination previous answer version 24010 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth