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1041248

registered interest
date	14/01/2019
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, whether his Department's plans to ensure the supply of medicines in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal (a) have been or (b) will be subjected to an independent evaluation.
tabling member constituency	Ilford North
tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
uin	208297
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department’s plans to ensure the supply of medicines in the event of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union without a deal have been subject to scrutiny by a number of Parliamentary Committees, including the Public Accounts Committee, the Health and Social Care Committee, the EU Exit Committee and the House of Lords EU Home Affairs Sub-Committee. The Department is also working closely with suppliers, their supply chains, health services and devolved administrations to maintain the continuity of medicines supply in a ‘no deal’ EU exit scenario.</p><p> </p><p>We are unable to publish the list of medicines requested. 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 contingency programme. That means not introducing information about a specific company, medicine or supply route into the public domain.</p><p> </p><p>On 23 August 2018, the Department wrote to all pharmaceutical companies that supply prescription-only and pharmacy medicines to the UK that come from, or via, the EU or European Economic Area (EEA), asking them to ensure a minimum of six weeks’ additional supply in the UK, over and above existing business-as-usual buffer stocks, by 29 March 2019. We recognise, however, that certain medicines with short shelf lives, including medical radioisotopes, cannot be reasonably stockpiled. Where these medicines are imported from the EU or EEA, we have asked that suppliers ensure in advance plans to air freight these medicines from the EU in the event of a ‘no deal’ exit.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, on 7 December 2018, the Department wrote to pharmaceutical companies that supply licensed medicines to the UK from or via the EU/EEA and/or manufacture medicines in the UK, informing them of the updated reasonable worst-case scenario border disruption planning assumptions and asking them about their current transportation routes and their ability to re-route their supply chains if they currently rely on Dover and/or Folkestone.</p><p> </p><p>We have received very good engagement from industry who share our aims of ensuring continuity of medicines supply for patients is maintained and that suppliers are able to cope with any potential delays at the border that may arise in the short term in the event of a ‘no deal’ exit.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond grouped question UIN 208298 question first answered 17/01/2019 16:27:06 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

1041249

registered interest
date	14/01/2019
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 (a) a list of medicines for which there is a supply risk in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal and (b) a plan to mitigate those supply risks.
tabling member constituency	Ilford North
tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
uin	208298
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department’s plans to ensure the supply of medicines in the event of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union without a deal have been subject to scrutiny by a number of Parliamentary Committees, including the Public Accounts Committee, the Health and Social Care Committee, the EU Exit Committee and the House of Lords EU Home Affairs Sub-Committee. The Department is also working closely with suppliers, their supply chains, health services and devolved administrations to maintain the continuity of medicines supply in a ‘no deal’ EU exit scenario.</p><p> </p><p>We are unable to publish the list of medicines requested. 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 contingency programme. That means not introducing information about a specific company, medicine or supply route into the public domain.</p><p> </p><p>On 23 August 2018, the Department wrote to all pharmaceutical companies that supply prescription-only and pharmacy medicines to the UK that come from, or via, the EU or European Economic Area (EEA), asking them to ensure a minimum of six weeks’ additional supply in the UK, over and above existing business-as-usual buffer stocks, by 29 March 2019. We recognise, however, that certain medicines with short shelf lives, including medical radioisotopes, cannot be reasonably stockpiled. Where these medicines are imported from the EU or EEA, we have asked that suppliers ensure in advance plans to air freight these medicines from the EU in the event of a ‘no deal’ exit.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, on 7 December 2018, the Department wrote to pharmaceutical companies that supply licensed medicines to the UK from or via the EU/EEA and/or manufacture medicines in the UK, informing them of the updated reasonable worst-case scenario border disruption planning assumptions and asking them about their current transportation routes and their ability to re-route their supply chains if they currently rely on Dover and/or Folkestone.</p><p> </p><p>We have received very good engagement from industry who share our aims of ensuring continuity of medicines supply for patients is maintained and that suppliers are able to cope with any potential delays at the border that may arise in the short term in the event of a ‘no deal’ exit.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond grouped question UIN 208297 question first answered 17/01/2019 16:27:06 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

1041370

registered interest
date	14/01/2019
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: Food
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 he has taken to ensure the continued supply of medical food in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
uin	208261
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government is working to ensure that the United Kingdom is able to cope with any potential delays at borders that may arise in the short term in the event we leave the European Union without a deal. Our planning will ensure that from the day the UK leaves the EU, we will have the necessary resources and contingencies in place to ensure uninterrupted supplies of medical foods.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond grouped question UIN 208262 question first answered 17/01/2019 16:28:16 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1041372

registered interest
date	14/01/2019
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: Food
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 adequacy of medical food supplies in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
uin	208262
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government is working to ensure that the United Kingdom is able to cope with any potential delays at borders that may arise in the short term in the event we leave the European Union without a deal. Our planning will ensure that from the day the UK leaves the EU, we will have the necessary resources and contingencies in place to ensure uninterrupted supplies of medical foods.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond grouped question UIN 208261 question first answered 17/01/2019 16:28:16 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1039587

registered interest
date	11/01/2019
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	Department of Health and Social Care: Brexit
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 10 January to Question 205797 on Department of Health and Social Care: Brexit, when his Department plans to publish the data transparency releases referred to in that answer.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	207543
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>All spending over £25,000 is published in line with current guidance on a quarterly basis.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 17/01/2019 16:29:10 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

1039594

registered interest
date	11/01/2019
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	Department of Health and Social Care: Brexit
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 money his Department has allocated for preparations for the UK leaving the EU without a deal to date; how much of that funding has been made by way of ministerial direction; and for what functions that funding has been allocated.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Sir Vince Cable
uin	207547
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2019 answer text <p>At Autumn Budget 2017, HM Treasury made an additional £3 billion of funding available over the next two years – £1.5 billion in each year – so that departments and the devolved administrations can continue to prepare effectively for European Union exit.</p><p> </p><p>That is in addition to the £700 million previously made available to prepare for EU exit at Autumn Budget 2016.</p><p> </p><p>In the Spring Statement on 13 March 2018, my Rt. hon. Friend the Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Elizabeth Truss MP) laid a Written Ministerial Statement, <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statements/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;uin=HCWS540" target="_blank">HCWS540</a>, setting out the full Departmental allocations of the £1.5 billion for 2018/19.</p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury approved £21.1 million of funding for the Department of Health and Social Care’s preparations for EU exit in 2018/19, including planning for ‘no deal’. Spend against this allocation for 2018/19 will be included in the 2018/19 financial accounts in due course.</p><p> </p><p>The Autumn Budget 2018 confirmed an additional £500 million of cross-Government funding for 2019/20, meaning the Government will have invested over £4 billion in preparing for EU exit since 2016. This funding will help departments manage pressures and contingencies arising from EU exit preparations which fall in the 2019/20 financial year, as well as ensuring that the United Kingdom is prepared to seize the opportunities available when we leave the EU. The Department of Health and Social Care has been allocated £50 million from this budget, as set out in the Chief Secretary’s Written Ministerial Statement <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statements/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;uin=HCWS1205" target="_blank">HCWS1205</a>, laid before Parliament on the 19 December 2018.</p><p> </p><p>No written ministerial direction for expenditure on contingency planning for ‘no deal’ has been sought by the Accounting Officer for the Department.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is preparing for all eventualities and the resources available to support preparations are kept under constant review.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 16/01/2019 12:40:06 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	207 label Biography information for Sir Vince Cable

1038952

registered interest
date	10/01/2019
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: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will publish correspondence with (a) NHS England and (b) NHS Improvement on any (i) assessment and (b) analysis that indicates a funding shortfall of more than £1 billion in 2019-20.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	207213
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>We have had no correspondence with NHS England or NHS Improvement regarding the Nuffield Trust’s analysis, dated 26 October 2018. We do not agree there is a shortfall in 2019-20, and the aforementioned analysis concludes that once recurrent efficiencies are factored in, there is financial headroom within the National Health Service long term settlement.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 15/01/2019 12:30:56 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1038961

registered interest
date	10/01/2019
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 111
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 calls to 111 were abandoned in each month in 2018.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	207217
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>The volume of NHS 111 calls which were abandoned after at least 30 seconds connection time to the NHS 111 service from January to December 2018 is shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Month</p></td><td><p>Volume of calls abandoned after at least 30 seconds</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January 2018</p></td><td><p>75,488</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February 2018</p></td><td><p>88,544</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2018</p></td><td><p>113,244</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2018</p></td><td><p>45,718</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2018</p></td><td><p>43,485</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2018</p></td><td><p>46,702</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July 2018</p></td><td><p>62,784</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August 2018</p></td><td><p>41,646</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2018</p></td><td><p>37,697</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October 2018</p></td><td><p>44,697</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2018</p></td><td><p>50,703</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December 2018</p></td><td><p>57,375</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS England, NHS 111 minimum data set</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/nhs-111-minimum-data-set/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/nhs-111-minimum-data-set/</a></p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 17/01/2019 16:30:24 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1038962

registered interest
date	10/01/2019
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: Private Patients
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 he has made of income from private patients at each NHS Trust for each of the last ten years for which records are available.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	207218
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>The question is interpreted as requesting detail regarding the level of income generated from the treatment of private patients by each National Health Service trust. This is presented in the attached tables for the financial years 2010-11 to 2017-18.</p><p> </p><p>Prior to 2010-11 the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts did not report ‘income from private patients’ as a specific line item and thus comparable information for prior years is unable to be provided.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 17/01/2019 11:58:47 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond attachment 1 file name PQ207218 - Data tables.docx title PQ207218 attached document
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1038963

registered interest
date	10/01/2019
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	Nurses
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 he has made of the number of nurses employed in the NHS per head of population for each of the last ten years for which records are available.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	207219
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not hold the information in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p>However, the following table shows the number of nurses and health visitors in National Health Service trusts and clinical commissioning groups in England in the last 10 years as at September each year, full time equivalent:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>September-2008</p></td><td><p>281,021</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September-2009</p></td><td><p>278,470</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September-2010</p></td><td><p>279,883</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September-2011</p></td><td><p>277,047</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September-2012</p></td><td><p>271,407</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September-2013</p></td><td><p>274,627</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September-2014</p></td><td><p>278,981</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September-2015</p></td><td><p>281,474</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September-2016</p></td><td><p>284,288</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September-2017</p></td><td><p>283,853</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September-2018</p></td><td><p>285,674</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS Hospital and Community Health Service workforce statistics, NHS Digital</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 17/01/2019 16:12:05 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders