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438504

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	care.data Advisory Group
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the current membership of the care.data Advisory Group.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL4600
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2015 answer text <p>The care.data Advisory Group met between March 2014 and October 2015 and has now been disbanded. The group was Chaired by Ciarán Devane, who at the time was a non-executive director of NHS England, and included representatives from the following organisations:</p><br /><p>- Academy of Medical Royal Colleges;</p><p>- Association of Medical Research Charities;</p><p>- Big Brother Watch;</p><p>- British Heart Foundation;</p><p>- British Medical Association;</p><p>- HealthWatch England;</p><p>- Hurley Group;</p><p>- Kings College London;</p><p>- Kings Fund;</p><p>- medConfidential;</p><p>- MIND;</p><p>- National Institute for Health Research;</p><p>- National Voices;</p><p>- Patients4Data;</p><p>- Royal College of General Practitioners;</p><p>- Royal College of Psychiatrists;</p><p>- Clinical Commissioning Groups;</p><p>- UCL Partners; and</p><p>- Wellcome Trust.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 21/12/2015 17:26:06 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

438502

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	UnitingCare Partnership
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they intend to establish an independent external assessment of the reasons for the failure of the contract for older people's services in Cambridge and Peterborough; and what plans they have for a moratorium on further large-scale procurements until lessons from that contract have been learnt.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL4598
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2015 answer text <p>NHS England advises that it will be commissioning an investigation into the circumstances leading up to the termination of the contract between Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group and UnitingCare Partnership LLP to deliver urgent care for the over 65s and adult community services. This will include the role of the Strategic Projects Team. NHS England is also considering how similar contracts will be managed and assured in the future.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL4597 question first answered 21/12/2015 17:22:33 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

438514

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Social Services: Finance
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what amount they plan to make available to local authorities to add to the Better Care Fund in each year from 2016–17 to 2019–20 inclusive, in the light of the commitment to make £1.5 billion available by 2019–20 set out in paragraph 2.124 of the Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015.
	tabling member printed	Lord Warner
	uin	HL4610
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2015 answer text <p>The annual breakdown of the £1.5 billion that will be made available to local authorities by 2019-20 to add to the Better Care Fund, as announced by the Chancellor in the 2015 Spending Review, has not yet been finalised. More detailed figures will be announced in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 21/12/2015 17:42:37 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	1732 label Biography information for Lord Warner

439125

	registered interest
	date	16/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Social Services
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps are being taken to increase the number of Wellbeing Hubs nationally to help individuals with complex care requirements to access support locally for their individual requirements.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Redfern
	uin	HL4667
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2015 answer text <p>Where commissioned, wellbeing hubs can provide a range services including lifestyle advice, information about self-management courses and help to access local support, including social care. It is for the local National Health Service to decide whether to commission wellbeing hubs and which services should be offered in order to best meet the needs of local populations.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 21/12/2015 17:49:56 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	4551 label Biography information for Baroness Redfern

435749

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2015
	answering body	Leader of the House of Lords
	answering dept id	92
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name	Leader of the House of Lords
	hansard heading	House of Lords: Debates
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask the Leader of the House whether she now considers the advisory time limit on speeches in debates should be compulsory, and if so, what recommendations she will bring forward for enforcement of the limit.
	tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
	uin	HL4324
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2015 answer text <p>It is already open to the House to time-limit debates in the Chamber or Grand Committee to a specific number of hours, with attendant compulsory time limits for speakers (Companion to the Standing Orders, Paras. 6.65-6.66). As this facility is already available, I do not plan to bring forward additional proposals.</p> answering member printed Baroness Stowell of Beeston question first answered 21/12/2015 17:52:14 answering member 4205 label Biography information for Baroness Stowell of Beeston
	tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

435699

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2015
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	House of Lords Composition
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by the Lord Privy Seal on 12 November (HL3121), how many members there were in the House of Lords of (1) the government party, or parties, and (2) the official opposition party, in each year since 1997.
	tabling member printed	Lord Grocott
	uin	HL4274
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2015 answer text <p>For each of the sessions requested, I have set out below the number of those peers eligible to take part in the work of the House of Lords sitting on the Government benches and those of the benches of HM Official Opposition.</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Governing Party/Parties</p></td><td><p>HM Official Opposition</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>97-98</p></td><td><p>Lab: 176</p></td><td><p>Con: 478</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>98-99</p></td><td><p>Lab: 193</p></td><td><p>Con: 484</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>99-00</p></td><td><p>Lab: 201</p></td><td><p>Con: 232</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>00-01</p></td><td><p>Lab: 195</p></td><td><p>Con: 225</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01-02</p></td><td><p>Lab: 190</p></td><td><p>Con: 217</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>02-03</p></td><td><p>Lab: 185</p></td><td><p>Con: 210</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>03-04</p></td><td><p>Lab: 201</p></td><td><p>Con: 202</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>04-05</p></td><td><p>Lab: 199</p></td><td><p>Con: 205</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>05-06</p></td><td><p>Lab: 212</p></td><td><p>Con: 208</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>06-07</p></td><td><p>Lab: 217</p></td><td><p>Con: 202</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>07-08</p></td><td><p>Lab: 214</p></td><td><p>Con: 199</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>08-09</p></td><td><p>Lab: 212</p></td><td><p>Con: 189</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>09-10</p></td><td><p>Lab: 211</p></td><td><p>Con: 185</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10-12</p></td><td><p>Con: 214 Lib Dem: 90</p></td><td><p>Lab: 235</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12-13</p></td><td><p>Con: 212 Lib Dem: 89</p></td><td><p>Lab: 222</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>13-14</p></td><td><p>Con: 220 Lib Dem: 99</p></td><td><p>Lab: 218</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>14-15</p></td><td><p>Con: 226 Lib Dem: 103</p></td><td><p>Lab: 216</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>15-16 (as at 21/12/15)</p></td><td><p>Con: 251</p></td><td><p>Lab: 213</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> answering member printed Baroness Stowell of Beeston question first answered 21/12/2015 17:51:32 answering member 4205 label Biography information for Baroness Stowell of Beeston
	tabling member	276 label Biography information for Lord Grocott

438505

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Hospitals
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government which hospitals (1) the Prime Minister, (2) the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and (3) the Secretary of State for Health, have visited in an official capacity over the last 12 months, and what was the date of each such visit.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL4601
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2015 answer text <p>The Prime Minister regularly visits hospitals and health centres and meets with medical professionals. Details of all the United Kingdom official visits which have been made by the Prime Minister are published quarterly. His UK official visits between 1 January 2015 and 31 March 2015 are attached can be found at:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prime-minister-official-visits-july-2014-to-march-2015" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/prime-minister-official-visits-july-2014-to-march-2015</a></p><p>Details of all the official UK visits which have been made by Chancellor of the Exchequer are published quarterly. His official visits between 1 January 2015 and 31 March 2015 are attached and can be found at:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hmt-ministers-meetings-hospitality-gifts-and-overseas-travel-1-january-to-31-march-2015" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/hmt-ministers-meetings-hospitality-gifts-and-overseas-travel-1-january-to-31-march-2015</a></p><p>The Secretary of State for Health has undertaken the following visits to hospitals in an official capacity since January 2015:</p><p>15 January 2015: Luton and Dunstable University Hospital</p><p>29 January 2015: Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust</p><p>5 February 2015: Colchester Hospital</p><p>5 February 2015: Queen's Hospital, Barking, Havering and Redbridge</p><p>12 February 2015: Hereford County Hospital</p><p>27 February 2015: Buccleuch Lodge - University Hospitals of South Manchester Trust</p><p>6 March 2015: Princess Alexandra Hospital</p><p>6 March 2015: Lister Hospital</p><p>20 March 2015: Dover Hospital</p><p>12 June 2015: Papworth Hospital</p><p>26 June 2015: Tameside Hospital</p><p>17 July 2015: National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery- University College London Hospital NHS Foundation Trust</p><p>23 July 2015: Royal Free Hospital</p><p>23 July 2015: Whipps Cross Hospital</p><p>30 July 2015: Royal London Hospital</p><p>9 September 2015: St Thomas Hospital</p><p>12 November 2015: Guy's and St Thomas Hospital</p><p>7 December 2015: Wrightington Hospital</p><p>9 December 2015: University College London Hospital</p><p>15 December 2015: Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton attachment 1 file name Prime Minister UK official visits July 2014 to March 2015.xlsx title PM Visits 2 file name HMT Ministers' meetings, hospitality, gifts and overseas travel 1 January to 31 March 2015.pdf title HMT Minister's Visits question first answered 21/12/2015 17:33:31 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

438497

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Fluoride: Drinking Water
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their view on the merits of reducing the concentration of fluoride in water supplies subject to fluoridation schemes from 1.0 to around 0.7 part per million, in the light of the experience of countries such as Canada, the Republic of Ireland, Hong Kong and Singapore.
	tabling member printed	Earl Baldwin of Bewdley
	uin	HL4593
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2015 answer text <p>Public Health England advise that there is no current evidence from monitoring data to support a variation of the target level for fluoride in drinking water.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 21/12/2015 17:25:48 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	3446 label Biography information for Earl Baldwin of Bewdley

439087

	registered interest
	date	16/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Doctors
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many NHS doctors qualified in each of the last 10 years, broken down by gender.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Byford
	uin	HL4633
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2015 answer text <p>The Department does not collect the data requested.</p><br /><p>The General Medical Council, as the independent regulator of doctors in the United Kingdom, will hold information on doctors currently registered with them which may include their gender and what year they qualified.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 21/12/2015 17:43:19 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	3343 label Biography information for Baroness Byford

439088

	registered interest
	date	16/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Doctors
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many doctors currently employed by the NHS qualified outside the UK.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Byford
	uin	HL4634
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2015 answer text <p>The latest data on the number of doctors who qualified outside the United Kingdom is in the following table. This is taken from the Health and Social Care Information Centre’s annual workforce census, which shows the data as at 30 September 2014. The next census will be published in March 2016.</p><br /><p>Headcount Data at 30 September 2014</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><br></p></td><td><p>Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) Drs</p></td><td><p>General Practitioners (GP)(excluding registrars and retainers)</p></td><td><p>GP registrars</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Qualified in the UK</p></td><td><p>70,470</p></td><td><p>27,807</p></td><td><p>3,585</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Qualified in other European Economic Area (EEA) Country</p></td><td><p>8,307</p></td><td><p>1,600</p></td><td><p>124</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Qualified outside EEA</p></td><td><p>27,398</p></td><td><p>6,403</p></td><td><p>803</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Unknown</p></td><td><p>463</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em></em></p><p><em>Source:</em> Health and Social Care Information Centre annual workforce census</p><br /><p><em>Notes:</em> The figures for HCHS doctors includes doctors in training</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 21/12/2015 17:45:54 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	3343 label Biography information for Baroness Byford