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732269

registered interest
date	23/06/2017
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the Government's policy is on social care.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	922
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2017 answer text <p>Social care is vital to enable people to live healthy and independent lives. This is why, against the context of tough public sector finances, we have taken steps to protect social care services.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has already invested an additional £2 billion to put social care on a more stable footing and alleviate short-term pressures across the health and care system. However, further reform is required to ensure that the system is prepared to meet the challenges of the increasing numbers of over 75s.</p><p> </p><p>We will work to address the challenges of social care for our ageing population, bringing forward proposals for consultation to build widespread support. We have committed to a wide and open consultation on our proposals, and want to work collaboratively with partners on these critical issues.</p><p> </p><p>We will provide further details on the next steps on social care in due course.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 27/06/2017 10:17:45 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

731694

registered interest
date	22/06/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Social Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many social workers are directly employed by the NHS in adult social care.
tabling member constituency	Gateshead
tabling member printed	Ian Mearns
uin	691
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2017 answer text <p>Most social workers are not employed by the National Health Service, however there are a small number who work within the Social Services care setting.</p><p> </p><p>As of March 2017 NHS Digital data shows there are 4,144 full time equivalent social workers directly employed by the NHS.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 29/06/2017 13:31:29 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4000 label Biography information for Ian Mearns

731696

registered interest
date	22/06/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Social Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many social workers are employed in the adult social care sector.
tabling member constituency	Gateshead
tabling member printed	Ian Mearns
uin	743
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2017 answer text <p>Skills for Care workforce data shows that there are 17,000 social worker job roles in the adult social care sector. This data is as at March 2016 for the independent sector and September 2015 for statutory local authorities.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 29/06/2017 14:48:10 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4000 label Biography information for Ian Mearns

731697

registered interest
date	22/06/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Social Workers: Private Sector
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many social workers are employed by private adult social care providers carrying out NHS contracts.
tabling member constituency	Gateshead
tabling member printed	Ian Mearns
uin	744
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2017 answer text <p>The information is not available in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p>The National Health Service can only identify social workers who are directly employed by the NHS.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 29/06/2017 13:29:13 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4000 label Biography information for Ian Mearns

731698

registered interest
date	22/06/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Commission on the Funding of Care and Support
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost to the public purse was of the Commission on funding of Care and Support which published its final report in July 2011.
tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
uin	774
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2017 answer text <p>The total cost of the Commission on Funding of Care and Support was £813,035.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 27/06/2017 10:09:56 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

731862

registered interest
date	22/06/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Cybersecurity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will provide an update on how sensitive data is protected in the NHS; and what steps he has taken to improve cyber-security in the NHS since the ransomware attack on 12 May 2017.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	780
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2017 answer text <p>Cyber resilience in the health and care system is an issue that the Government takes very seriously.</p><p> </p><p>We have changed the National Health Service standard contract to include, from April 2017, cyber security requirements.</p><p> </p><p>Evidence shows that the use of unsupported systems is continuing to reduce in health and care, as organisations replace older hardware. Latest estimates suggest the usage of Windows XP in the NHS has reduced from 15-18% at December 2015, to 4.7% of systems currently.</p><p> </p><p>The 12 May 2017 ransomware incident affected the NHS in the United Kingdom. It is standard practice to review any major incident in the NHS. Further, the Chief Information Officer for health and care is undertaking a review into the May 2017 cyber-attack which is expected to conclude in the autumn.</p><p> </p><p>The identifiable cost of emergency measures put in place to specifically address the NHS ransomware attack on 12 May 2017 was approximately £180,000. These costs were borne by NHS Digital and NHS England from internal budgets. Information relating to any expenditure incurred by individual local NHS trusts or other NHS organisations is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p><p>We do not comment more widely on matters of security.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 781 782 784 question first answered 27/06/2017 16:39:59 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

731863

registered interest
date	22/06/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Cybercrime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to establish an inquiry into the cyber-attack on the NHS on 12 May 2017.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	781
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2017 answer text <p>Cyber resilience in the health and care system is an issue that the Government takes very seriously.</p><p> </p><p>We have changed the National Health Service standard contract to include, from April 2017, cyber security requirements.</p><p> </p><p>Evidence shows that the use of unsupported systems is continuing to reduce in health and care, as organisations replace older hardware. Latest estimates suggest the usage of Windows XP in the NHS has reduced from 15-18% at December 2015, to 4.7% of systems currently.</p><p> </p><p>The 12 May 2017 ransomware incident affected the NHS in the United Kingdom. It is standard practice to review any major incident in the NHS. Further, the Chief Information Officer for health and care is undertaking a review into the May 2017 cyber-attack which is expected to conclude in the autumn.</p><p> </p><p>The identifiable cost of emergency measures put in place to specifically address the NHS ransomware attack on 12 May 2017 was approximately £180,000. These costs were borne by NHS Digital and NHS England from internal budgets. Information relating to any expenditure incurred by individual local NHS trusts or other NHS organisations is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p><p>We do not comment more widely on matters of security.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 780 782 784 question first answered 27/06/2017 16:39:59 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

731864

registered interest
date	22/06/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Cybersecurity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the total cost was of emergency measures put in place to address the NHS ransomware attack on 12 May 2017 and from which budgets those costs were met.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	782
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2017 answer text <p>Cyber resilience in the health and care system is an issue that the Government takes very seriously.</p><p> </p><p>We have changed the National Health Service standard contract to include, from April 2017, cyber security requirements.</p><p> </p><p>Evidence shows that the use of unsupported systems is continuing to reduce in health and care, as organisations replace older hardware. Latest estimates suggest the usage of Windows XP in the NHS has reduced from 15-18% at December 2015, to 4.7% of systems currently.</p><p> </p><p>The 12 May 2017 ransomware incident affected the NHS in the United Kingdom. It is standard practice to review any major incident in the NHS. Further, the Chief Information Officer for health and care is undertaking a review into the May 2017 cyber-attack which is expected to conclude in the autumn.</p><p> </p><p>The identifiable cost of emergency measures put in place to specifically address the NHS ransomware attack on 12 May 2017 was approximately £180,000. These costs were borne by NHS Digital and NHS England from internal budgets. Information relating to any expenditure incurred by individual local NHS trusts or other NHS organisations is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p><p>We do not comment more widely on matters of security.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 780 781 784 question first answered 27/06/2017 16:39:59 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

731865

registered interest
date	22/06/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much has been spent on IT infrastructure in the NHS in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	783
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2017 answer text <p>The Department does not hold the information in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 27/06/2017 16:02:57 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

731867

registered interest
date	22/06/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Cybercrime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cyber-security incidents have taken place in the NHS since 2010; and how many incidents there have been where (a) patient data has been accessed or compromised and (b) patient care has been interrupted or halted.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	784
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2017 answer text <p>Cyber resilience in the health and care system is an issue that the Government takes very seriously.</p><p> </p><p>We have changed the National Health Service standard contract to include, from April 2017, cyber security requirements.</p><p> </p><p>Evidence shows that the use of unsupported systems is continuing to reduce in health and care, as organisations replace older hardware. Latest estimates suggest the usage of Windows XP in the NHS has reduced from 15-18% at December 2015, to 4.7% of systems currently.</p><p> </p><p>The 12 May 2017 ransomware incident affected the NHS in the United Kingdom. It is standard practice to review any major incident in the NHS. Further, the Chief Information Officer for health and care is undertaking a review into the May 2017 cyber-attack which is expected to conclude in the autumn.</p><p> </p><p>The identifiable cost of emergency measures put in place to specifically address the NHS ransomware attack on 12 May 2017 was approximately £180,000. These costs were borne by NHS Digital and NHS England from internal budgets. Information relating to any expenditure incurred by individual local NHS trusts or other NHS organisations is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p><p>We do not comment more widely on matters of security.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 780 781 782 question first answered 27/06/2017 16:39:59 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth