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1125596

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2019
	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	Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what structures and procedures are in place to (a) monitor and (b) assess the effectiveness of the work of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
	tabling member constituency	Congleton
	tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
	uin	252526
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2019 answer text <p>The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) is a professional membership association, independent of government, working to improve health care for women both in the United Kingdom and worldwide.</p><p>The College is governed by a Royal Charter, from which are derived the College Regulations. These guide the governance, management and business arrangements of the College.</p><p>The RCOG is a registered charity in England and Wales and is subject to charity law. The Charity Commission is the independent regulator of charities.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 16/05/2019 11:46:05 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

1126132

	registered interest
	date	13/05/2019
	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	Department of Health and Social Care: Brexit
	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 staff in his Department who were transferred or seconded to work (a) in other departments or (b) on other departmental briefs on preparations for the UK to leave the EU, have since returned to his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	253461
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>The number of individuals who have been transferred or seconded to work in preparations for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union in other government departments is not recorded. Though we keep a record of Department of Health and Social Care members of staff who are out on loan or secondment, we do not record whether they are going to work on EU Exit. As of 23 April 2019, the Department has a total of 80 employees who are either out on loan or on secondment.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 21/05/2019 11:16:04 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

1126266

	registered interest
	date	13/05/2019
	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	Insulin
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether stocks of insulin will continue to be stockpiled to prepare for the UK leaving the EU without a deal.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh West
	tabling member printed	Christine Jardine
	uin	253706
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2019 answer text <p>The Department fully understands that maintaining access to insulin is vitally important to many people in this country.</p><p>The Government remains committed to leaving the European Union with a deal. We have now reached agreement with the EU on an extension to the Article 50 period until 31 October at the latest, with the option to leave earlier as soon as a Withdrawal Agreement has been ratified.</p><p>Under the terms of the Withdrawal Agreement, there will be an implementation period running till the end of 2020, during which there will be no changes to the current trading arrangements with the EU. Therefore, if the Withdrawal Agreement is ratified, the supply of medicines will continue on the same basis it does now during this period.</p><p>Leaving without a deal remains the legal default at the end of the extension period if no Withdrawal Agreement is agreed. Therefore, as a responsible Government, we will continue to prepare to minimise any disruption to the supply of medicines and medical products in a potential ‘no deal’ scenario.</p><p>We are continuing to work with trade bodies and other stakeholders to review the position carefully before sharing further guidance at the earliest opportunity. Stockpiled medicines were not procured by the Department as part of our ‘no deal’ plans and remain the property of medicines suppliers. On 26 April we wrote to pharmaceutical companies, including those who supply insulin, asking in the meantime, that all ‘no deal’ measures (such as stockpiles, additional buffer stocks etc) should remain in place but on hold until further guidance is available.</p><p>We are confident that if everyone, including suppliers, freight companies, our European neighbours, and the health and care system, does what they need to do, the supply of medicines and medical products should be uninterrupted in the event we leave the EU without a deal.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 16/05/2019 11:27:54 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	4634 label Biography information for Christine Jardine

1126267

	registered interest
	date	13/05/2019
	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	Insulin
	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 insulin procured before 29 March 2019 as part of preparations for the UK leaving the EU without a deal that has been (a) destroyed, (b) redistributed and (c) sold back to manufacturers.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh West
	tabling member printed	Christine Jardine
	uin	253707
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2019 answer text <p>The Department fully understands that maintaining access to insulin is vitally important to many people in this country.</p><p>The Government remains committed to leaving the European Union with a deal. We have now reached agreement with the EU on an extension to the Article 50 period until 31 October at the latest, with the option to leave earlier as soon as a Withdrawal Agreement has been ratified.</p><p>Under the terms of the Withdrawal Agreement, there will be an implementation period running till the end of 2020, during which there will be no changes to the current trading arrangements with the EU. Therefore, if the Withdrawal Agreement is ratified, the supply of medicines will continue on the same basis it does now during this period.</p><p>Leaving without a deal remains the legal default at the end of the extension period if no Withdrawal Agreement is agreed. Therefore, as a responsible Government, we will continue to prepare to minimise any disruption to the supply of medicines and medical products in a potential ‘no deal’ scenario.</p><p>We are continuing to work with trade bodies and other stakeholders to review the position carefully before sharing further guidance at the earliest opportunity. Stockpiled medicines were not procured by the Department as part of our ‘no deal’ plans and remain the property of medicines suppliers. On 26 April we wrote to pharmaceutical companies, including those who supply insulin, asking in the meantime, that all ‘no deal’ measures (such as stockpiles, additional buffer stocks etc) should remain in place but on hold until further guidance is available.</p><p>We are confident that if everyone, including suppliers, freight companies, our European neighbours, and the health and care system, does what they need to do, the supply of medicines and medical products should be uninterrupted in the event we leave the EU without a deal.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 16/05/2019 11:29:34 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	4634 label Biography information for Christine Jardine

1126507

	registered interest
	date	14/05/2019
	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, whether he holds information on when the hon. Member for West Lancashire will receive a response to correspondence sent to Lancashire Care Foundation Trust on 14 March 2018 on mental health care.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	254165
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>NHS Improvement has advised that the Trust responded to the hon. Member’s letter of 14 March 2019 on 17 May 2019.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 21/05/2019 11:09:33 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

1126621

	registered interest
	date	14/05/2019
	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: Mental Health
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what mental health support are NHS trusts required to make available to staff employed on neonatal intensive care units.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	254230
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>National Health Service trusts are responsible for ensuring that appropriate mental health support and provision is in place for all of their staff, including those on neonatal intensive care units. Mental health support services provided by trusts could include access to occupational health services, employee assistance programmes, confidential counselling helplines, processes for open sharing of experiences, crisis and trauma response provision and team and peer support structures.</p><p>The Department is supporting them in this through the NHS staff health and wellbeing framework and NHS Improvement’s NHS staff health and wellbeing collaborative. Both incorporate the mental health standards in ‘Thriving at Work – a review of mental health and employers’ produced by Mind.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 21/05/2019 11:11:35 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1126622

	registered interest
	date	14/05/2019
	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	Baby Care Units: Sick Leave
	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 holds figures on the number of neonatal unit clinical staff who have taken long term sick leave in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	254231
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not hold figures on the number of neonatal unit clinical staff who have taken long term sick leave in each of the last five years.</p><p>NHS Digital does not publish data on number of staff on sick leave. Whilst NHS Digital does publish the sickness absence rates by staff group, it is not to the level of detail of neonatal clinical staff.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 21/05/2019 13:08:01 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1126629

	registered interest
	date	14/05/2019
	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 and Care Professions Council: Fees and Charges
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will seek a guarantee from the Health and Care Professions Council that there will be no further increases to their registration fees for at least the next four years.
	tabling member constituency	Bridgend
	tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
	uin	254161
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) is independent of the Government and funded by registrants’ fees on a cost recovery basis. It is the responsibility of the HCPC to determine the level of fees that it charges registrants. It would therefore not be appropriate for the Government to seek a guarantee from the HCPC that it will not increase its fees for at least the next four years.</p><p>Following public consultation, the HCPC is planning to raise its annual fees by £16, from £90 to £106 a year from October 2019. HCPC registration fees will remain the lowest of any of the United Kingdom-wide health and care regulators. Registration fees are tax-deductible and this fee rise will amount to just over £1 a month extra for most of the HCPC’s registrants.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 21/05/2019 11:21:36 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

1126869

	registered interest
	date	15/05/2019
	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: 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 effect of the introduction of the (a) new NHS pension scheme in 2015, (b) reduction of the annual allowance for pension growth, (c) subsequent tapering of that allowance and (d) other cumulative changes in recent years to the NHS pension scheme on the (i) level of hours worked by practitioners and (ii) level of practitioner morale.
	tabling member constituency	Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
	tabling member printed	Bill Grant
	uin	254864
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2019 answer text <p>The 2015 NHS Pension Scheme is valuable part of staff reward packages and remains one of the best schemes available. The reforms to public service pensions ensured that schemes are sustainable and the costs are fair to both staff and the taxpayer.</p><p>Data is not collected on the impact of the new National Health Service pension scheme, other cumulative changes, or the annual allowance on the level of hours worked by practitioners, or practitioner morale.</p><p>The Department recognises that the tapered annual allowance may contribute to decisions by NHS staff to retire early or limit their NHS commitments. The Government is listening carefully to concerns raised by senior doctors and NHS employers about the impact of tapered annual allowance.</p><p>The Department has sought to make available to NHS Pension Scheme members all possible flexibility under Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs legislation and the current fiscal framework for public sector pension schemes. The Chancellor is considering the case for further flexibility in the NHS Pension Scheme.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 23/05/2019 12:27:22 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	4605 label Biography information for Bill Grant

1126905

	registered interest
	date	15/05/2019
	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	Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Migrant Workers
	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 the Answer of 13 May 2019 to Question 251433 on NHS: Migrant Workers, whether he has made an estimate of the number of EU nationals who left their jobs at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust between 2010 and 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
	tabling member printed	Layla Moran
	uin	254874
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2019 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 general practitioner surgeries, local authorities or other providers.</p><p>The following table shows the number of EU27 joiners and leavers, to and from, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as at September each year since 2009 to 2015, headcount.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Time Period</p></td><td><p>EU27 joiners to Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust</p></td><td><p>EU27 leavers from Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2009 – September 2010</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>27</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2010 – September 2011</p></td><td><p>45</p></td><td><p>17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2011 – September 2012</p></td><td><p>130</p></td><td><p>41</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2012 – September 2013</p></td><td><p>154</p></td><td><p>60</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2013 – September 2014</p></td><td><p>396</p></td><td><p>100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2014 – September 2015</p></td><td><p>599</p></td><td><p>165</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>In November 2011 Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre NHS Trust dissolved with services transferring its staff to Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Consequently, EU27 leavers from Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre NHS Trust joined Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in November 2011.</p><p>The following table shows the number of EU27 joiners and leavers, to and from, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre NHS Trust as at September each year since until November 2011, headcount.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Time Period</p></td><td><p>EU27 joiners to Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre NHS Trust</p></td><td><p>EU27 leavers from Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre NHS Trust</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2009 – September 2010</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2010 – September 2011</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2011 – November 2011</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>56</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Nationality is self-reported.</p><p>Joiners and leavers data from the trusts may include staff that have come from or left to join other National Health Service trusts.</p><p>Leavers data includes people leaving active service temporarily, this would include those going on maternity leave or career break.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 20/05/2019 14:46:55 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran