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1035125

registered interest
date	04/01/2019
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	Radiology
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 newly qualified radiologists there have been in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Mitcham and Morden
tabling member printed	Siobhain McDonagh
uin	205131
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2019 answer text <p>The number of doctors who received certificates of completion of training in radiology are shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><p>Number of newly qualified radiologists in England between 2014 and 2018</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>2018</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Radiologist qualifiers</p></td><td><p>176</p></td><td><p>162</p></td><td><p>168</p></td><td><p>171</p></td><td><p>166</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Health Education England</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 10/01/2019 13:43:06 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	193 label Biography information for Dame Siobhain McDonagh

1035142

registered interest
date	04/01/2019
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	Naproxen
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 adequacy of supplies of naproxen.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	205406
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2019 answer text <p>Supplies of naproxen tablets are currently available but are limited due to a manufacturing issue that has affected the availability of the active pharmaceutical ingredient. The Department is working closely with all suppliers to resolve the situation and expedite further deliveries as soon as possible. Additional deliveries of naproxen are expected throughout January and February.</p><p> </p><p>As a responsible Government, we continue to prepare proportionately for all scenarios following our exit from the European Union in March 2019, including a ‘no-deal’ scenario. This includes asking pharmaceutical companies to have six weeks additional supply of all pharmacy and prescription-only medicines which enter the United Kingdom from, or via, the European Union or European Economic Area over and above their business as usual stocks.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond grouped question UIN 205407 question first answered 09/01/2019 16:31:57 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1035143

registered interest
date	04/01/2019
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	Naproxen
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 taken steps to stockpile Naproxen.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	205407
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2019 answer text <p>Supplies of naproxen tablets are currently available but are limited due to a manufacturing issue that has affected the availability of the active pharmaceutical ingredient. The Department is working closely with all suppliers to resolve the situation and expedite further deliveries as soon as possible. Additional deliveries of naproxen are expected throughout January and February.</p><p> </p><p>As a responsible Government, we continue to prepare proportionately for all scenarios following our exit from the European Union in March 2019, including a ‘no-deal’ scenario. This includes asking pharmaceutical companies to have six weeks additional supply of all pharmacy and prescription-only medicines which enter the United Kingdom from, or via, the European Union or European Economic Area over and above their business as usual stocks.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond grouped question UIN 205406 question first answered 09/01/2019 16:31:57 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1035146

registered interest
date	04/01/2019
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	Accident and Emergency Departments: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he expects the A&E four hour waiting target to be met 95% of the time.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	205299
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government’s Mandate to NHS England for 2018-19 sets out the timetable for the accident and emergency (A&amp;E) waiting time standard to be improved.</p><p> </p><p>2018/19 year to date figures to November 2018, show that 89.3% of patients were seen within four hours at A&amp;E departments. The data is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ae-waiting-times-and-activity/ae-attendances-and-emergency-admissions-2018-19/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ae-waiting-times-and-activity/ae-attendances-and-emergency-admissions-2018-19/</a></p><p> </p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan published on 7 January 2019 ensures that work will continue to reduce pressure on emergency hospital services, by expanding and reforming urgent and emergency care with the goal of ensuring patients get the care they need quickly whilst relieving the pressure on A&amp;E departments.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has provided £1.6 billion to further support the National Health Service this year, allowing it to treat even more patients in A&amp;E. In addition, £420million to redevelop A&amp;Es, improve emergency care and help get patients home quicker has been provided in advance of the winter period.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 10/01/2019 14:26:54 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1035197

registered interest
date	04/01/2019
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 Services: East Midlands
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 resilience of healthcare providers in the East Midlands during the winter period.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	205421
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department is supporting the National Health Service to prepare as robustly as possible for the coming winter and has been working closely with NHS England and NHS Improvement to ensure all trusts have plans in place. Providers and commissioners across the East Midlands have been working closely together to prepare for the winter period, supported by regional teams in NHS Improvement and NHS England. The Department has invested an additional £420 million this winter aimed at increasing the resilience and capacity of healthcare providers, including in the East Midlands. Moreover, the region is also benefiting from extended general practitioner hours to give patients more choice and take pressure off emergency departments, as well as the extensive national campaigns undertaken to make people aware of NHS 111 services and pharmacy services and encouraging the public to use the most appropriate NHS service for their needs.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 11/01/2019 12:16:14 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1035219

registered interest
date	04/01/2019
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: Drugs
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 publish the locations at which the refrigerators purchased by his Department for the preservation of medicines as part of contingency planning in the event the UK leaves the EU without a deal will be stored.
tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
tabling member printed	Nick Smith
uin	205242
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>As part of the Department’s ‘no deal’ European Union exit contingency planning, a tender process to procure additional warehouse space built in the mainland United Kingdom to store stockpiled medicines, including ambient, refrigerated and controlled drug storage, was undertaken in October 2018. Contract agreements for storage have recently been signed or will be signed imminently. This is expected to cost the Government in the low tens of millions of pounds with the refrigerated storage expected to cost circa £1 million.</p><p> </p><p>The contracts will cover additional capacity including 53,000 pallets of ambient storage, 5,000 pallets of refrigerated storage and 850 pallets of controlled drug storage. We have agreed funding on the condition that the additional medicine warehousing capacity is in place in time to accommodate stockpiled medicines by the beginning of February 2019, lasting for a period of between 12 and 18 months. For security reasons the locations of the additional warehouse capacity will not be published.</p><p> </p><p>The Department’s funding for additional warehouse capacity is on the condition that it is exclusively for the storage of additional stockpiles of prescription only and pharmacy medicines that come into the UK from or via the EU. The Department recognises that through our ‘no deal’ EU exit medicines contingency programme. We are requesting sensitive commercial information from pharmaceutical suppliers. To reassure participating companies, we have committed to treating all information received confidentially, securely and to using it only for the purposes of the Department’s programme. That means not introducing information about specific medicines into the public domain.</p><p> </p><p>As with many contracts involving capital investment, the Department will be liable for some capital costs already incurred by the contractors in the event of a deal being approved by parliament. In that scenario, warehouse providers are required to decommission the additional capacity. The Department has also put in place measures to minimise pre-committed expenditure in the event of a deal being achieved.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond grouped question UIN 205243 205244 205245 205246 205247 205248 205249 205250 question first answered 11/01/2019 12:13:04 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith

1035290

registered interest
date	04/01/2019
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: Drugs
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 refrigerators his Department plans to purchase for each forthcoming calendar month as part of contingency planning in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
tabling member printed	Nick Smith
uin	205243
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>As part of the Department’s ‘no deal’ European Union exit contingency planning, a tender process to procure additional warehouse space built in the mainland United Kingdom to store stockpiled medicines, including ambient, refrigerated and controlled drug storage, was undertaken in October 2018. Contract agreements for storage have recently been signed or will be signed imminently. This is expected to cost the Government in the low tens of millions of pounds with the refrigerated storage expected to cost circa £1 million.</p><p> </p><p>The contracts will cover additional capacity including 53,000 pallets of ambient storage, 5,000 pallets of refrigerated storage and 850 pallets of controlled drug storage. We have agreed funding on the condition that the additional medicine warehousing capacity is in place in time to accommodate stockpiled medicines by the beginning of February 2019, lasting for a period of between 12 and 18 months. For security reasons the locations of the additional warehouse capacity will not be published.</p><p> </p><p>The Department’s funding for additional warehouse capacity is on the condition that it is exclusively for the storage of additional stockpiles of prescription only and pharmacy medicines that come into the UK from or via the EU. The Department recognises that through our ‘no deal’ EU exit medicines contingency programme. We are requesting sensitive commercial information from pharmaceutical suppliers. To reassure participating companies, we have committed to treating all information received confidentially, securely and to using it only for the purposes of the Department’s programme. That means not introducing information about specific medicines into the public domain.</p><p> </p><p>As with many contracts involving capital investment, the Department will be liable for some capital costs already incurred by the contractors in the event of a deal being approved by parliament. In that scenario, warehouse providers are required to decommission the additional capacity. The Department has also put in place measures to minimise pre-committed expenditure in the event of a deal being achieved.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond grouped question UIN 205242 205244 205245 205246 205247 205248 205249 205250 question first answered 11/01/2019 12:13:04 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith

1035291

registered interest
date	04/01/2019
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: Drugs
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 cost to the public purse of purchasing refrigerators for the preservation of medicines as part of contingency planning for the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
tabling member printed	Nick Smith
uin	205244
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>As part of the Department’s ‘no deal’ European Union exit contingency planning, a tender process to procure additional warehouse space built in the mainland United Kingdom to store stockpiled medicines, including ambient, refrigerated and controlled drug storage, was undertaken in October 2018. Contract agreements for storage have recently been signed or will be signed imminently. This is expected to cost the Government in the low tens of millions of pounds with the refrigerated storage expected to cost circa £1 million.</p><p> </p><p>The contracts will cover additional capacity including 53,000 pallets of ambient storage, 5,000 pallets of refrigerated storage and 850 pallets of controlled drug storage. We have agreed funding on the condition that the additional medicine warehousing capacity is in place in time to accommodate stockpiled medicines by the beginning of February 2019, lasting for a period of between 12 and 18 months. For security reasons the locations of the additional warehouse capacity will not be published.</p><p> </p><p>The Department’s funding for additional warehouse capacity is on the condition that it is exclusively for the storage of additional stockpiles of prescription only and pharmacy medicines that come into the UK from or via the EU. The Department recognises that through our ‘no deal’ EU exit medicines contingency programme. We are requesting sensitive commercial information from pharmaceutical suppliers. To reassure participating companies, we have committed to treating all information received confidentially, securely and to using it only for the purposes of the Department’s programme. That means not introducing information about specific medicines into the public domain.</p><p> </p><p>As with many contracts involving capital investment, the Department will be liable for some capital costs already incurred by the contractors in the event of a deal being approved by parliament. In that scenario, warehouse providers are required to decommission the additional capacity. The Department has also put in place measures to minimise pre-committed expenditure in the event of a deal being achieved.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond grouped question UIN 205242 205243 205245 205246 205247 205248 205249 205250 question first answered 11/01/2019 12:13:04 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith

1035292

registered interest
date	04/01/2019
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: Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has for the use of refrigerators purchased for the storage of medicines in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal after a deal has been secured.
tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
tabling member printed	Nick Smith
uin	205245
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>As part of the Department’s ‘no deal’ European Union exit contingency planning, a tender process to procure additional warehouse space built in the mainland United Kingdom to store stockpiled medicines, including ambient, refrigerated and controlled drug storage, was undertaken in October 2018. Contract agreements for storage have recently been signed or will be signed imminently. This is expected to cost the Government in the low tens of millions of pounds with the refrigerated storage expected to cost circa £1 million.</p><p> </p><p>The contracts will cover additional capacity including 53,000 pallets of ambient storage, 5,000 pallets of refrigerated storage and 850 pallets of controlled drug storage. We have agreed funding on the condition that the additional medicine warehousing capacity is in place in time to accommodate stockpiled medicines by the beginning of February 2019, lasting for a period of between 12 and 18 months. For security reasons the locations of the additional warehouse capacity will not be published.</p><p> </p><p>The Department’s funding for additional warehouse capacity is on the condition that it is exclusively for the storage of additional stockpiles of prescription only and pharmacy medicines that come into the UK from or via the EU. The Department recognises that through our ‘no deal’ EU exit medicines contingency programme. We are requesting sensitive commercial information from pharmaceutical suppliers. To reassure participating companies, we have committed to treating all information received confidentially, securely and to using it only for the purposes of the Department’s programme. That means not introducing information about specific medicines into the public domain.</p><p> </p><p>As with many contracts involving capital investment, the Department will be liable for some capital costs already incurred by the contractors in the event of a deal being approved by parliament. In that scenario, warehouse providers are required to decommission the additional capacity. The Department has also put in place measures to minimise pre-committed expenditure in the event of a deal being achieved.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond grouped question UIN 205242 205243 205244 205246 205247 205248 205249 205250 question first answered 11/01/2019 12:13:04 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith

1035293

registered interest
date	04/01/2019
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: Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which medicines his Department plans to store in the refrigerators purchased by his Department as part of contingency planning for UK leaving the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
tabling member printed	Nick Smith
uin	205246
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>As part of the Department’s ‘no deal’ European Union exit contingency planning, a tender process to procure additional warehouse space built in the mainland United Kingdom to store stockpiled medicines, including ambient, refrigerated and controlled drug storage, was undertaken in October 2018. Contract agreements for storage have recently been signed or will be signed imminently. This is expected to cost the Government in the low tens of millions of pounds with the refrigerated storage expected to cost circa £1 million.</p><p> </p><p>The contracts will cover additional capacity including 53,000 pallets of ambient storage, 5,000 pallets of refrigerated storage and 850 pallets of controlled drug storage. We have agreed funding on the condition that the additional medicine warehousing capacity is in place in time to accommodate stockpiled medicines by the beginning of February 2019, lasting for a period of between 12 and 18 months. For security reasons the locations of the additional warehouse capacity will not be published.</p><p> </p><p>The Department’s funding for additional warehouse capacity is on the condition that it is exclusively for the storage of additional stockpiles of prescription only and pharmacy medicines that come into the UK from or via the EU. The Department recognises that through our ‘no deal’ EU exit medicines contingency programme. We are requesting sensitive commercial information from pharmaceutical suppliers. To reassure participating companies, we have committed to treating all information received confidentially, securely and to using it only for the purposes of the Department’s programme. That means not introducing information about specific medicines into the public domain.</p><p> </p><p>As with many contracts involving capital investment, the Department will be liable for some capital costs already incurred by the contractors in the event of a deal being approved by parliament. In that scenario, warehouse providers are required to decommission the additional capacity. The Department has also put in place measures to minimise pre-committed expenditure in the event of a deal being achieved.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond grouped question UIN 205242 205243 205244 205245 205247 205248 205249 205250 question first answered 11/01/2019 12:13:04 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith