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822845

registered interest
date	15/01/2018
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: Negligence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department has spent from the public purse on legal fees excluding sums relating to clinical malpractice in each year since 2012.
tabling member constituency	Central Ayrshire
tabling member printed	Dr Philippa Whitford
uin	122528
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>The question has been interpreted as relating to the core Department.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has separately identified expenditure on legal fees in its accounts from the 2014-15 financial year. For earlier financial years, expenditure on legal fees was included in ‘other’ expenditure, and cannot be separately identified. Expenditure on legal fees is not analysed by the purpose of the fees, and it is therefore not possible to exclude any amounts relating to clinical malpractice. The total expenditure incurred by the Department on legal fees is as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Total legal fees (£000s)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>18,266</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>19,771</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>29,485</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 18/01/2018 14:29:29 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4385 label Biography information for Dr Philippa Whitford

822847

registered interest
date	15/01/2018
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	Department of Health and Social Care: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much has been spent by his Department from the public purse on legal fees in relation to tendering and awarding contracts in each year since 2012.
tabling member constituency	Central Ayrshire
tabling member printed	Dr Philippa Whitford
uin	122530
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>The following table shows the amount spent on external legal fees in each year since 2012:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial year</p></td><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>External legal fees</p></td><td><p>£9,863,377</p></td><td><p>£9,067,828</p></td><td><p>£5,281,455</p></td><td><p>£12,231,057</p></td><td><p>£3,863,217</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Information on the legal fees related to tendering and awarding contracts cannot be separately identified from the general data on legal fees held by the Department.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 122531 question first answered 18/01/2018 14:27:27 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4385 label Biography information for Dr Philippa Whitford

822848

registered interest
date	15/01/2018
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	Department of Health and Social Care: Legal Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much has been spent by his Department from the public purse on legal fees from external legal firms in each year since 2012.
tabling member constituency	Central Ayrshire
tabling member printed	Dr Philippa Whitford
uin	122531
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>The following table shows the amount spent on external legal fees in each year since 2012:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial year</p></td><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>External legal fees</p></td><td><p>£9,863,377</p></td><td><p>£9,067,828</p></td><td><p>£5,281,455</p></td><td><p>£12,231,057</p></td><td><p>£3,863,217</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Information on the legal fees related to tendering and awarding contracts cannot be separately identified from the general data on legal fees held by the Department.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 122530 question first answered 18/01/2018 14:27:27 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4385 label Biography information for Dr Philippa Whitford

822897

registered interest
date	15/01/2018
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	Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of care packages that were commissioned by Local Authorities in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
uin	122580
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>The table below shows the number of people receiving care packages for the period 2010/11 to 2013/14.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>During year</p></td><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>2013/14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>1,574,590</p></td><td><p>1,462,290</p></td><td><p>1,327,910</p></td><td><p>1,273,280</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The method of collecting data around users of social care changed in 2014/15. The table below provides the figures for 2014/15 onwards which are published by NHS Digital.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>During year</p></td><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Completed Short Term Care Episodes</p></td><td><p>253,000</p></td><td><p>245,270</p></td><td><p>241,810</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Long Term Care Users</p></td><td><p>885,000</p></td><td><p>873,000</p></td><td><p>868,440</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The figures above show that there has been a reduction in local authority social care user numbers over the time period requested.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities have shifted their focus towards preventing people needing formal packages of care hence the drop in user numbers.</p><p> </p><p>All councils have statutory duties to look after their vulnerable elderly and disabled people. The Care Act 2014 introduced national eligibility criteria for access to adult social care that local authorities are required to meet.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 18/01/2018 14:01:02 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

822898

registered interest
date	15/01/2018
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	Dementia
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 he has to make available data about delayed transfers of care involving people with dementia for the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
uin	122581
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>NHS England publishes monthly data on the number of delayed transfers of care. The latest data is for November 2017 and is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/delayed-transfers-of-care/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/delayed-transfers-of-care/</a></p><p> </p><p>There are currently no plans to collect patient condition specific data about delayed transfers of care.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 122583 question first answered 18/01/2018 14:31:43 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

823013

registered interest
date	15/01/2018
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	Continuing Care
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 people have applied for continuing healthcare; and how many people have received such care since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	122696
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>The number of individuals who were referred for a full NHS Continuing Healthcare assessment and those who became eligible for NHS Continuing Healthcare during the years from 2014/15 to 2016/17 is shown in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td>Year</td><td>Number Agreed Eligible</td><td>Number of Referrals Recieved</td></tr><tr><td>2014/15</td><td>96,691</td><td>153,883</td></tr><tr><td>2015/16</td><td>100,960</td><td>160,151</td></tr><tr><td>2016/17</td><td>103,902</td><td>165,365</td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>NHS England does not have the same data for the years prior to 2014/15.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 18/01/2018 13:56:04 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

821509

registered interest
date	12/01/2018
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	Care Homes: Closures
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 residential and care home closures on the ability of local authorities to fulfil their statutory obligations to provide care.
tabling member constituency	Walsall South
tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
uin	122427
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2018 answer text <p>High quality care is not just about care home beds. Of those aged 65 and over who need local authority support, 62% are cared for in their own home. Since 2010 there has been a growth in home care agencies of more than 3,140.</p><p> </p><p>The total number of beds in care homes has remained broadly static since 2010.</p><p> </p><p>We have given local authorities in England an extra £2 billion over the next three years to maintain access for our growing aging population and allow councils to sustain a diverse care market including care home places.</p><p> </p><p>In addition the Government has announced we will consult on plans to improve the social care system and to put it on a more secure financial footing.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 17/01/2018 15:08:11 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4076 label Biography information for Valerie Vaz

820796

registered interest
date	11/01/2018
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	Department of Health and Social Care: Carers
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 a carer's policy for its employees; and what other steps his Department has taken to support employees with caring responsibilities.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	122214
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department has a carers policy for staff who work in the Department.</p><p> </p><p>The Department recognises that care responsibilities are not static and is committed to supporting staff who have caring responsibilities away from the workplace. The caring commitments of staff may be long or short term.</p><p> </p><p>Other steps taken to support employees with caring responsibilities:</p><p> </p><p>The Department has a number of provisions available to its staff including paid special leave; emergency carer leave; unpaid career breaks.</p><p> </p><p>The Department operates a recently updated flexible working policy which can support those with caring responsibilities by giving some degree of flexibility on how, where and when employees work. It includes a range of working patterns including: part-time, job share, remote/ home working, compressed hours, part-year, annual hours and flexi-time. It also outlines support to managers on how to have conversations about flexible working. It also makes it clear to staff how they can raise a request or initiate a conversation.</p><p> </p><p>On the Departmental intranet site there are links to relevant sources of support and useful websites. Special events are publicised on the intranet including the campaign to help carers by the Charity for Civil Servants which was launched on ‘Carer’s rights day’ last November.</p><p> </p><p>The Department launched an employee assistance programme in October 2017, which gives all staff access to confidential, independent, professional information, counselling and emotional support.</p><p> </p><p>During Carers Week in June 2017, the Department highlighted a number of ways that carers could receive support including the carers passport provided by the Charity for Civil Servants.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 18/01/2018 13:42:16 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

820831

registered interest
date	11/01/2018
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	Dementia: Care Homes
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 plans to make dementia training compulsory in care homes for older people.
tabling member constituency	North West Durham
tabling member printed	Laura Pidcock
uin	122249
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2018 answer text <p>The Challenge on Dementia 2020, published in February 2015, set the expectation that social care providers deliver appropriate training on dementia to all relevant staff, however we have no plans to make dementia training compulsory in care homes for older people.</p><p> </p><p>Since April 2015, newly appointed health care assistants and social care support workers, including those who will provide care and support to people with dementia in care homes have been undergoing training as part of the national implementation of the Care Certificate. The Care Certificate equips new staff with the knowledge and skills which they need to provide safe, compassionate care across a range of areas, including the care of people with dementia.</p><p> </p><p>There is no statutory requirement for providers to implement the Care Certificate. Care Quality Commission inspectors do, however, have powers to enforce regulations covering staff induction and training. As such, they would expect to see induction programmes that are broadly equivalent to the Care Certificate standards.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 16/01/2018 12:29:41 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4665 label Biography information for Laura Pidcock

819876

registered interest
date	10/01/2018
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	Community Care
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 households have signed up to the Shared Lives initiative in (a) England and (b) North Cornwall constituency.
tabling member constituency	North Cornwall
tabling member printed	Scott Mann
uin	121948
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 17/01/2018 14:37:32 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4496 label Biography information for Scott Mann