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1123140

registered interest
date	25/04/2019
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	Health and Care Professions Council: Fees and Charges
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 effectiveness of the Health and Care Professions Council equality impact assessment process for its recent decision to increase registrations fees.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	247580
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2019 answer text <p>The Government has made no assessment on the effectiveness of the Health and Care Professions Council’s (HCPC) equality impact assessment process for its recent decision to increase registration fees. The HCPC is independent of Government and funded by registrants’ fees on a cost recovery basis.</p><p>Following public consultation, the HCPC is planning to raise its annual fees by £16. If adopted, the HCPC’s annual registration fee will rise from £90 to £106 a year from October 2019. The HCPC registration fees will remain the lowest of any of the United Kingdom-wide health and care regulators. Registration fees are tax-deductible and this fee rise will amount to just over £1 a month extra for most of the HCPC’s registrants.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 30/04/2019 16:13:13 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1123150

registered interest
date	25/04/2019
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: Sexual Offences
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 compensation payments have been received by NHS staff as a result of sexual assaults committed against them by patients in the each of the last three years for which information is available.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	247669
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2019 answer text <p>NHS Resolution provides claims management services for National Health Service organisations. It is unable to provide the information as requested, as the figures were so small in some years that it could lead to the identification of individuals.</p><p>NHS trusts are responsible for dealing with cases of sexual assault by working with their staff, their security teams, their accredited security management advisors, the police and Crown Prosecution Service to ensure appropriate action is taken to prevent such misconduct in the first place and robust sanctions are taken against perpetrators.</p><p>The Government committed in its manifesto to “take vigorous and immediate action against those who abuse or attack the people who work for and make our NHS” and the Department is supporting NHS organisations in this through our programmes to tackle bullying, harassment, violence and abuse.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 01/05/2019 15:51:13 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1123257

registered interest
date	25/04/2019
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: Pensions
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 8 April 2019 to Question 240581 on NHS: Pensions, what level of interest is applied to annual allowance charges paid through the scheme pays facility of the NHS Pension.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	247725
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2019 answer text <p>The ‘Scheme Pays’ facility allows NHS Pension Scheme members to settle their annual allowance tax charges without needing to find funds upfront. However, HM Revenue and Customs requires that if a defined benefit pension scheme pays an annual allowance charge there must be an adjustment to the benefits the member has accrued. The value of the scheme pays charge, plus interest, is recouped from the value of the member’s pension on retirement. The interest rate for scheme pays charges is set at the scheme discount rate. The discount rate for public service pension schemes is currently consumer price index plus 2.4%, which represents the notional rate of investment return on contribution income.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 30/04/2019 16:21:04 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1122713

registered interest
date	24/04/2019
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: Pensions
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 make it his policy to recognise Humanist marriages for the purpose of paying an NHS survivors pension to spouses of deceased pension holders.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	247003
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>Whilst Humanist marriage ceremonies do not have legal force in England and Wales, the NHS Pension Schemes do provide generous survivor benefits for cohabiting couples who are not legally married. The Department routinely considers making changes to NHS Pension Scheme rules to take account of developments in the law governing marriage and civil partnerships.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 29/04/2019 14:23:27 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1122717

registered interest
date	24/04/2019
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: Disclosure of Information
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 non-disclosure agreements has each (a) NHS Trust and (b) Foundation Trust entered into with staff in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	247100
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2019 answer text <p>Information on how many non-disclosure agreements each National Health Service trust or NHS foundation trust has entered into with either staff or doctors in each of the last five years is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond grouped question UIN 247101 question first answered 01/05/2019 14:18:03 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1122718

registered interest
date	24/04/2019
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: Disclosure of Information
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 non-disclosure agreements has each (a) NHS Trust and (b) Foundation Trust entered into with hospital doctors in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	247101
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2019 answer text <p>Information on how many non-disclosure agreements each National Health Service trust or NHS foundation trust has entered into with either staff or doctors in each of the last five years is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond grouped question UIN 247100 question first answered 01/05/2019 14:18:03 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1122719

registered interest
date	24/04/2019
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	Doctors' and Dentists' Review Body
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, on how many occasions the Government implemented in full the recommendations of the Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration (DDRB) in the last 20 years.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	247102
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2019 answer text <p>During the last 20 years there was a two-year public sector pay freeze when the Government did not ask the Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration (DDRB) to make any pay recommendations.</p><p>Of the remaining 18 years, the DDRB’s recommendations were accepted in full on 11 occasions.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 01/05/2019 14:16:57 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1122721

registered interest
date	24/04/2019
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	Doctors: Equal 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 recent assessment he has made of the level of the ethnicity pay gap in medicine.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	247104
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2019 answer text <p>No assessment has been made of the level of the ethnicity pay gap in medicine. However, in October 2018, the Prime Minister announced a package of measures to make the workplace fairer for people from ethnic minorities, including a consultation on mandatory ethnicity pay reporting by employers with 250 or more employees. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, who are running the consultation, have received over 300 detailed responses to the consultation, which closed on 11 January 2019. They will be setting out next steps in due course.</p><p>The consultation requested views on the best approach to collect and publish ethnicity pay gap data including methodological proposals that mirror the current mandatory gender pay gap reporting requirements.</p><p>In addition to the mandatory gender pay gap reporting, the Department of Health and Social Care commissioned a review into the gender pay gap in medicine which commenced in April 2018 and is chaired by Professor Dame Jane Dacre. The review aims to examine qualitative and quantitative evidence to go on to produce a series of implementable recommendations which are expected to be published in September 2019. Once the report has been received, the Department will consider whether there would be value in a similar review of the ethnicity pay gap.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond grouped question UIN 247105 question first answered 01/05/2019 14:11:21 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1122722

registered interest
date	24/04/2019
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	Doctors: Equal 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 assessment he has made of the potential merits of the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association in its submission to the Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration for an independent review to be undertaken of the ethnicity pay gap in medicine, modelled on the ongoing Dacre review into the Gender Pay Gap; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	247105
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2019 answer text <p>No assessment has been made of the level of the ethnicity pay gap in medicine. However, in October 2018, the Prime Minister announced a package of measures to make the workplace fairer for people from ethnic minorities, including a consultation on mandatory ethnicity pay reporting by employers with 250 or more employees. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, who are running the consultation, have received over 300 detailed responses to the consultation, which closed on 11 January 2019. They will be setting out next steps in due course.</p><p>The consultation requested views on the best approach to collect and publish ethnicity pay gap data including methodological proposals that mirror the current mandatory gender pay gap reporting requirements.</p><p>In addition to the mandatory gender pay gap reporting, the Department of Health and Social Care commissioned a review into the gender pay gap in medicine which commenced in April 2018 and is chaired by Professor Dame Jane Dacre. The review aims to examine qualitative and quantitative evidence to go on to produce a series of implementable recommendations which are expected to be published in September 2019. Once the report has been received, the Department will consider whether there would be value in a similar review of the ethnicity pay gap.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond grouped question UIN 247104 question first answered 01/05/2019 14:11:21 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1122724

registered interest
date	24/04/2019
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: Pensions
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 interest was accrued in relation to annual allowance charges paid through the scheme pays facility of the NHS Pension in each quarter since 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	247107
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not calculated or held by the NHS Business Services Authority for the whole scheme membership. The ‘Scheme Pays’ facility allows NHS Pension Scheme members to settle their annual allowance tax charges without needing to find funds upfront. However, HM Revenue and Customs requires that if a defined benefit pension scheme pays an annual allowance charge there must be an adjustment to the benefits the member has accrued. The value of the scheme pays charge, plus interest, is recouped from the value of the member’s pension on retirement.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 01/05/2019 14:15:41 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders