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1174217

registered interest
date	29/01/2020
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	Ambulance Services: Emergency Calls
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 long waits were recorded since the new system for measuring 999 response times was introduced for the two highest priority groups by (a) West Midlands Ambulance Service and (b) East of England Ambulance Service in 2018.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	9655
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2020 answer text <p>This information is not held in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 03/02/2020 15:03:40 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1174321

registered interest
date	29/01/2020
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	Hospitals: Consultants
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 increase the number of consultants in hospitals.
tabling member constituency	Pontypridd
tabling member printed	Alex Davies-Jones
uin	9800
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2020 answer text <p>In England, there are 49,068 full time equivalent (FTE) consultants employed in NHS trusts and clinical commissioning groups, up by 34.1% (12,475 FTE) since 2010.</p><p>It is the responsibility of National Health Service trusts to have staffing arrangements in place that deliver safe and effective care. This includes recruiting the appropriate professionals needed to support these levels and meet local needs.</p><p>The number of post-registration specialty training places that are available each year is set by Health Education England, based on its assessment of service gaps and predicted workforce needs.</p><p>Decisions about the NHS workforce in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales are a matter for the devolved administrations of those countries.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 03/02/2020 17:45:10 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4849 label Biography information for Alex Davies-Jones

1174322

registered interest
date	29/01/2020
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	Hospitals: Consultants
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 a reduction in the recruitment of consultants on the rate of closures of A&E departments.
tabling member constituency	Pontypridd
tabling member printed	Alex Davies-Jones
uin	9801
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2020 answer text <p>Overall, there are 49,068 full time equivalent (FTE) consultants employed in National Health Service trusts and clinical commissioning groups in England, up by 34.1% (12,475 FTE) since 2010.</p><p>It is the responsibility of NHS trusts to have staffing arrangements in place that deliver safe and effective care. This includes recruiting the appropriate professionals needed to support these levels and meet local needs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 03/02/2020 13:49:37 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4849 label Biography information for Alex Davies-Jones

1173748

registered interest
date	28/01/2020
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	NHS: Buildings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to improve the NHS capital estate.
tabling member constituency	Sevenoaks
tabling member printed	Laura Trott
uin	900441
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2020 answer text <p>In September 2019, my Rt. Hon Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care unveiled the Health Infrastructure Plan: a long-term startegic investment programme in the future of our National Health Service.</p><p>This included the biggest hospital building programme in a generation: £2.8 billion funding for 40 new hospitals over the next ten years, with six in the first wave (HIP 1), on top of the 20 hospital upgrades announced by the Prime Minister in August 2019.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 28/01/2020 17:05:18 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott

1173753

registered interest
date	28/01/2020
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	NHS: Buildings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to improve the NHS capital estate.
tabling member constituency	Milton Keynes North
tabling member printed	Ben Everitt
uin	900449
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2020 answer text <p>In September 2019, my Rt. Hon Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care unveiled the Health Infrastructure Plan: a long-term startegic investment programme in the future of our National Health Service.</p><p>This included the biggest hospital building programme in a generation: £2.8 billion funding for 40 new hospitals over the next ten years, with six in the first wave (HIP 1), on top of the 20 hospital upgrades announced by the Prime Minister in August 2019.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 28/01/2020 17:05:58 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4836 label Biography information for Ben Everitt

1173980

registered interest
date	28/01/2020
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	Hospitals: Waiting Lists
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the number of patients that have waited for more than 18 weeks for treatment.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	9132
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2020 answer text <p>Latest official statistics show that at the end of November 2019, 690,096 patients had been waiting more than 18 weeks for first definitive treatment.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 03/02/2020 17:42:14 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1173989

registered interest
date	28/01/2020
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	NHS: Vacancies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the number of vacancies in the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	9133
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2020 answer text <p>NHS Improvement collects vacancy data for three staff groups; doctors, nurses and ‘other staff’. These vacancy statistics are published for England and at the regional level of North, Midlands and East, London and South.</p><p>NHS Digital published the latest NHS Improvement vacancy data which can be found in the following link:</p><p><a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-vacancies-survey/february-2015---september-2019-provisional-experimental-statistics" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-vacancies-survey/february-2015---september-2019-provisional-experimental-statistics</a></p><p>As at September 2019, the latest available data there were 105,518 vacancies in National Health Service trusts and clinical commissioning groups. A majority of vacancies are covered by bank and agency staff.</p><p>The NHS People Plan, which will be published by the NHS in early 2020, will set out a clear framework for collective action on workforce priorities, with a focus on growing and sustaining a well-skilled workforce across the whole NHS.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 03/02/2020 13:51:02 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1173521

registered interest
date	27/01/2020
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	IVF: Migrants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether people seeking leave to remain in the UK are eligible for NHS IVF treatment.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	8300
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2020 answer text <p>Non-European Economic Area nationals seeking leave to remain in the United Kingdom are not eligible for National Health Service in vitro fertilisation services free of charge.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 03/02/2020 15:48:27 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1173526

registered interest
date	27/01/2020
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	Surgery: Children
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 children's operations were cancelled in each NHS trust in each month of (a) 2019 and (b) 2018.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	8302
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>This information is not available in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 04/02/2020 11:28:55 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1173642

registered interest
date	27/01/2020
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	NHS Trusts: Subsidiary Companies
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 oral contribution of the Minister for Health on 9 January, Official Report, Column 727, what guidance his Department plans to issue to hospital trusts in receipt of funding for new buildings under the health infrastructure plan on the creation of subsidiary companies that will take ownership of those new buildings.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	8346
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2020 answer text <p>The Department wrote out to the finance directors of all National Health Service providers in September 2017 reminding them of their responsibilities around tax and advising that tax avoidance arrangements should not be entered into under any circumstances. We would expect all NHS providers to follow this guidance when considering any new arrangements or different ways of working.</p><p>The Department does not hold information on the decisions taken locally by NHS trusts and wholly owned subsidiary companies regarding the reward packages they offer to staff.</p><p>Staff who are compulsorily transferred from an NHS organisation to a wholly owned subsidiary retain their employment terms and conditions, in accordance with Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006, and access to the NHS Pension Scheme, in accordance with HM Treasury’s New Fair Deal guidance.</p><p>NHS trusts with wholly owned subsidiaries can choose to offer terms and conditional of service that are different to those on national terms for new starters. Trusts can also apply for access to the NHS Pension Scheme for new starters.</p><p>As part of its subsidiary review process, NHS England and NHS Improvement considers businesses cases from hospital trusts at the planning stage only and does not hold any data with regard to the future performance of wholly owned subsidiaries.</p><p>NHS England and NHS Improvement carried out a formal consultation on the Addendum to the transactions guidance published in November 2018. It does not intend to carry out a further consultation as part of the planned update to the Addendum to the transactions guidance, but has been engaging with the Department, NHS Providers, provider trusts, trade unions and internal subject matter experts as part of the planned update. <br> <br> NHS England and NHS Improvement plans to publish an updated Addendum to the transactions guidance in spring 2020.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 8348 8349 8350 8351 8352 question first answered 03/02/2020 15:34:07 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth