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964662

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
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	Rheumatoid Arthritis: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to ensure that the treatment of NHS patients with rheumatoid arthritis is not interrupted in the event that the UK does not agree a withdrawal deal with the EU before March 2019.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	169798
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>We understand that disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs and other biological treatments including Etanercept is vitally important to many people in this country. Our contingency plans include sensible mitigations for medicines that come to the United Kingdom from or via the European Union, such as precautionary stockpiling by suppliers, to ensure that the supply of essential medicines to patients is not disrupted.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 11/09/2018 14:15:48 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

964663

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
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: 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, how many foreign nationals from (a) EU and (b) non-EU countries are employed by NHS trusts in the Kirklees area.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	169799
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups, but not staff working in primary care or in general practitoner surgeries, local authorities or other providers.</p><p> </p><p>The following table shows all staff employed in National Health Service trusts in the Kirklees area (Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust and Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust) by nationality, as at 31 May 2018, headcount.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p>Headcount</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>All nationalities</p></td><td><p>14,019</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>of which:</p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>United Kingdom</p></td><td><p>12,931</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>European Union (excluding UK)</p></td><td><p>297</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other European Economic Area countries</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rest of the World</p></td><td><p>526</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Unknown</p></td><td><p>262</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS HCHS monthly workforce statistics, NHS Digital</p><p> </p><p>Nationality is self-reported and may be a reflection of cultural heritage rather than country of birth.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 11/09/2018 11:07:02 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

938620

registered interest
date	11/07/2018
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: Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's recruitment target is for the nursing degree apprenticeship entry route, and what recent steps his Department has taken to meet that target.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	163191
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>There is no recruitment target for the nurse degree apprenticeship. The Government has a clear aspiration that once the apprentice route is established, up to 1,000 apprentice nurses could join the National Health Service each year.</p><p> </p><p>The registered nurse (degree) apprenticeship standard was approved for delivery on 9 May 2017. To date, there have been 260 starts on the registered nurse (degree) apprenticeship in the 2017 to 2018 academic year (August 2017 to April 2018) in England but this will continue to increase over the full year August 2017 to August 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has no immediate plans to provide additional funding for the costs of education for the nurse degree apprenticeship, which should be met from the apprentice levy.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay grouped question UIN 163192 question first answered 16/07/2018 17:04:33 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

938621

registered interest
date	11/07/2018
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: Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what additional finding his Department plans to provide to employers to cover the educational costs of nursing degree apprenticeships.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	163192
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>There is no recruitment target for the nurse degree apprenticeship. The Government has a clear aspiration that once the apprentice route is established, up to 1,000 apprentice nurses could join the National Health Service each year.</p><p> </p><p>The registered nurse (degree) apprenticeship standard was approved for delivery on 9 May 2017. To date, there have been 260 starts on the registered nurse (degree) apprenticeship in the 2017 to 2018 academic year (August 2017 to April 2018) in England but this will continue to increase over the full year August 2017 to August 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has no immediate plans to provide additional funding for the costs of education for the nurse degree apprenticeship, which should be met from the apprentice levy.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay grouped question UIN 163191 question first answered 16/07/2018 17:04:33 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

938657

registered interest
date	11/07/2018
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, when he plans to respond to the correspondence from the hon. Member for Colne Valley that was sent on the 23 May and again on 12 June 2018 on ambulance response times.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	163200
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2018 answer text <p>I replied to the hon. Member’s letters on 16 July.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 17/07/2018 13:48:21 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

873790

registered interest
date	28/03/2018
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: 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, with reference to the Government's mandate to NHS England for 2018-19, published on 20 March 2018, for reasons the elective surgery waiting time of 18 weeks and the emergency waiting time of 4 hours will not be met until 2020.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	134904
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2018 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Oxford West and Abingdon (Layla Moran MP) on 28 March 2018 to Question <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;uin=133890" target="_blank">133890</a>.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 18/04/2018 14:14:07 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

873791

registered interest
date	28/03/2018
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: 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, with reference to the Government's mandate to NHS England for 2018-19, published on 20 March 2018, what plans his Department has to ensure that the elective surgery and emergency waiting times will be maintained at levels set out in previous years' mandates to NHS England.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	134905
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2018 answer text <p>The 2018/19 mandate sets out the formal expectation that the National Health Service will meet the agreed constitutional standards on referral to treatment (RTT) and accident and emergency (A&amp;E) waiting times.</p><p> </p><p>The Government expects the NHS to deliver the actions set out in the NHS Planning Guidance for 2018/19 in full as key steps towards fully recovering the performance against these core access standards at the levels they are currently set (RTT 92% and A&amp;E 95%).</p><p> </p><p>We gave the NHS top priority in the 2017 budget with an additional £2.8 billion of funding for the NHS between 2017-18 and 2019-20, and this has been reflected in the mandate. It takes overall funding for the NHS to over half a trillion pounds between 2015 and 2020.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 18/04/2018 14:10:58 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

865140

registered interest
date	16/03/2018
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	Huddersfield Royal Infirmary
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 15 March to Question 131949 on Huddersfield Royal Infirmary, on what date the Independent Reconfiguration Panel's report on the potential downgrading of Huddersfield Royal Infirmary will be made public.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	133007
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2018 answer text <p>The Joint Chairs of the Calderdale and Kirklees Joint Health Scrutiny wrote to the Department last year formally referring the National Health Service proposal, Right Care Right Time Right Place – Proposed future arrangements for hospital and community health services in Calderdale and Greater Huddersfield. We referred the case to the Independent Reconfiguration Panel in January. An announcement will be made in due course.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 21/03/2018 16:35:07 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

860592

registered interest
date	12/03/2018
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	Huddersfield Royal Infirmary
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the timetable is for the Independent Reconfiguration Panels report on the potential downgrading of Huddersfield Royal Infirmary to be made public.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	131949
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2018 answer text <p>Last year, the Calderdale and Kirklees Joint Health Scrutiny Committee referred to the Secretary of State the Calderdale Clinical Commissioning Group’s and Greater Huddersfield Clinical Commissioning Group’s proposals entitled “Right Care Right Time Right Place – Proposed future arrangements for hospital and community health services in Calderdale and Greater Huddersfield” under the Local Authority (Public Health, Health and Wellbeing Boards and Health Scrutiny) Regulations 2013. The Secretary of State has asked the Independent Referral Panel for their advice on this matter, and an announcement will be made in due course.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 15/03/2018 14:12:24 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker