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1110533

registered interest
date	09/04/2019
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: Staff
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 is taking to support NHS staff with (a) stress and (b) depression.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	242841
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2019 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 10 April 2019 to Question <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2019-04-02/239989/" target="_blank">239989</a>.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 12/04/2019 13:51:06 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1110546

registered interest
date	09/04/2019
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	Breast Cancer: 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 there are breast cancer medicines that are not expected to have a six-week supply stockpiled by 12 April 2018.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	242661
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2019 answer text <p>Leaving the European Union with a deal remains the Government’s top priority. However, as a responsible Government we must plan for every possible outcome including ‘no deal’.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has been working closely with industry to ensure the supply of medicines, including medical radioisotopes, can continue uninterrupted in the event of a ‘no deal’ EU exit.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is unable to discuss specific companies and medicines because, to reassure participating companies, we have committed to treating all information received confidentially, securely and to use it only for the purposes of the Department’s programme. However, we continue to work with all suppliers to ensure their plans remain on track.</p><p> </p><p>We are confident that, if everyone does what they need to do, the supply of medicines and medical products will be uninterrupted.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 15/04/2019 12:50:14 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

1110749

registered interest
date	09/04/2019
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	Pregnancy
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 are taken by the relevant professional regulators to follow- up and address the non-compliance of the Pregnancy Prevention Program by Healthcare professionals.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	242871
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2019 answer text <p>All United Kingdom registered healthcare professionals are expected to meet the professional standards set out in guidance by healthcare professional regulators, and work in line with the principles and values set out in that guidance.</p><p> </p><p>Guidance on consent for healthcare professionals prescribing medication, requires them to ensure that patients are aware of the potential for harmful side effects including, where relevant, the role of the Pregnancy Prevention Programme.</p><p> </p><p>Failure to meet or comply with standards set out in healthcare professional regulator guidance can put a healthcare professionals’ registration at risk.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not hold the information on what steps are taken by the relevant professional regulators to follow-up and address the non-compliance of the Pregnancy Prevention Program.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 12/04/2019 13:55:15 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1110834

registered interest
date	09/04/2019
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: Property
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 current occupancy levels for properties owned by NHS property services.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	242862
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2019 answer text <p>NHS Property Services has responsibility for a large mixed estate of approximately 3000 properties, across approximately 3 million square metres, and with approximately 7000 individual tenancies. Occupiers range from general practitioners, providers, arm’s length bodies and many other organisations supporting health and social care services. With such a large and diverse portfolio that is subject to constant change both as business as usual and in support of transformational change, parts of the estate do become under-utilised or vacant. In terms of recorded vacant space this varies as space is re-occupied/disposed, new space becomes vacant or new buildings come into the portfolio.</p><p> </p><p>The overall average figures for occupancy levels for the years where data is available is shown in the following table:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2017/18 Average</p></td><td><p>2018/19 Average</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>88.07%</p></td><td><p>89.31%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>In terms of the ‘average occupancy levels’, NHS Property Services does not hold the data for 2015/16 and 2016/17 as property information was captured on numerous different platforms many of which were not able to report on occupancy levels.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond grouped question UIN 242863 question first answered 12/04/2019 13:54:03 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1110835

registered interest
date	09/04/2019
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: Property
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 average occupancy levels for properties owned by NHS property services were in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17, (c) 2017-18 and (d) 2018-19.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	242863
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2019 answer text <p>NHS Property Services has responsibility for a large mixed estate of approximately 3000 properties, across approximately 3 million square metres, and with approximately 7000 individual tenancies. Occupiers range from general practitioners, providers, arm’s length bodies and many other organisations supporting health and social care services. With such a large and diverse portfolio that is subject to constant change both as business as usual and in support of transformational change, parts of the estate do become under-utilised or vacant. In terms of recorded vacant space this varies as space is re-occupied/disposed, new space becomes vacant or new buildings come into the portfolio.</p><p> </p><p>The overall average figures for occupancy levels for the years where data is available is shown in the following table:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2017/18 Average</p></td><td><p>2018/19 Average</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>88.07%</p></td><td><p>89.31%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>In terms of the ‘average occupancy levels’, NHS Property Services does not hold the data for 2015/16 and 2016/17 as property information was captured on numerous different platforms many of which were not able to report on occupancy levels.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond grouped question UIN 242862 question first answered 12/04/2019 13:54:03 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1110173

registered interest
date	08/04/2019
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	Dermatology: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment the Government has made of the quality of (a) undergraduate level and (b) specialist general practice dermatology training.
tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
tabling member printed	Nick Smith
uin	242084
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2019 answer text <p>Each individual medical school sets its own undergraduate medical curriculum. These have to meet the standards set by the General Medical Council (GMC) in ‘Promoting excellence’, who then monitor and check to make sure that these standards are maintained. The curricula for postgraduate specialty training is set by individual royal colleges and faculties, and the GMC approves curricula and assessment systems for each training programme.</p><p> </p><p>There are no specific medical dermatology undergraduate training pathways, as all medical students complete a medical degree and foundation training to the point of GMC registration, and then students can specialise in dermatology as part of a postgraduate core medical training and higher specialty training programme. Dermatology is one of 30 specialties within the medicine specialty group. It is a highly competitive specialty and often oversubscribed.</p><p> </p><p>The number of medical specialty training places in England that are available each year is set by Health Education England and is based on their assessment of service gaps and predicted workforce needs. There has been a 100% fill rate in dermatology training in England for the past six years.</p><p> </p><p>Dermatologist education and training and recruitment in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland is a matter for the devolved administrations.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 12/04/2019 13:56:35 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith

1110239

registered interest
date	08/04/2019
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: Managers
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 prevent poorly performing NHS managers from being re-employed in the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
tabling member printed	Dr Dan Poulter
uin	242090
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2019 answer text <p>The fit and proper person regulation requirements came into force for all National Health Service trusts and NHS foundation trusts in November 2014. The regulations require trusts to seek the necessary assurance that all directors are suitable and fit to undertake the responsibilities of their role.</p><p> </p><p>The Government asked Tom Kark QC to review the fit and proper persons test. The report on the review was published on 6 February 2019 and the Government has accepted two of the recommendations. These relate to standards of competence for directors of NHS organisations and the setting up of a database.</p><p> </p><p>We have asked NHS Improvement to develop proposals for implementing these recommendations, as well as reviewing if and how the other recommendations should be taken forwards. NHS Improvement is expected to provide advice on these issues in the summer.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 11/04/2019 16:10:07 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter

1110240

registered interest
date	08/04/2019
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: Pay
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 close the pay gap in the NHS which affects outsourced staff.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	242038
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2019 answer text <p>It is a matter for individual trusts and foundation trusts to agree with their outsourced service providers what level of pay increase they wish to fund for staff delivering services under contract to the National Health Service. For a number of outsourced services, we are aware that agreements are in place to implement the Agenda for Change (AfC) agreement for their staff.</p><p> </p><p>Funding has been provided for the AfC pay deal to NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts from 2019/20 onwards through the normal funding routes from commissioners. This funding also covers services that trusts and foundation trusts have chosen to outsource.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 11/04/2019 16:07:52 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1110245

registered interest
date	08/04/2019
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 discussions he has had with Scotland’s Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport on the stockpiling of drugs in preparation for the UK’s departure from the EU.
tabling member constituency	Central Ayrshire
tabling member printed	Dr Philippa Whitford
uin	242155
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2019 answer text <p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care regularly discusses ‘no deal’ contingency plans, including those relating to the supply of medicines and medical products, with a number of stakeholders, the National Health Service and other Government Departments. Furthermore, I engage with Ministerial counterparts in both the Welsh and Scottish Governments, as well as the Permanent Secretary for the Department of Health in the Northern Ireland Civil Service, on European Union exit ‘no deal’ preparations.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has overall responsibility to ensure the continuity of supply of medicines and medical products for the whole of the United Kingdom; close engagement and cooperation with colleagues in the devolved administrations reflects this.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond grouped question UIN 242156 242157 question first answered 11/04/2019 16:09:07 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4385 label Biography information for Dr Philippa Whitford

1110280

registered interest
date	08/04/2019
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 discussions he has had with Scotland’s Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport on what processes will be in place to add a drug to the list of those deemed to be in short supply following the UK’s departure from the EU.
tabling member constituency	Central Ayrshire
tabling member printed	Dr Philippa Whitford
uin	242156
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2019 answer text <p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care regularly discusses ‘no deal’ contingency plans, including those relating to the supply of medicines and medical products, with a number of stakeholders, the National Health Service and other Government Departments. Furthermore, I engage with Ministerial counterparts in both the Welsh and Scottish Governments, as well as the Permanent Secretary for the Department of Health in the Northern Ireland Civil Service, on European Union exit ‘no deal’ preparations.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has overall responsibility to ensure the continuity of supply of medicines and medical products for the whole of the United Kingdom; close engagement and cooperation with colleagues in the devolved administrations reflects this.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond grouped question UIN 242155 242157 question first answered 11/04/2019 16:09:07 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4385 label Biography information for Dr Philippa Whitford