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1047664

registered interest
date	24/01/2019
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	Learning Disability: 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, what proportion of people with learning disabilities whose care is paid for by the NHS are being cared for in facilities owned by private companies.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	212358
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>The Assuring Transformation (AT) dataset provides data on the numbers of people with learning disability and/or autism admitted and discharged from mental health hospitals each month. The following table shows patient numbers by provider type, with data taken from the most recent AT publication which uses December 2018 data.</p><p> </p><p>Patients by provider type as of December 2018</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Number of patients</p></td><td><p>% of patients</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Providers</p></td><td><p>1,130</p></td><td><p>49%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Independent Providers</p></td><td><p>1,165</p></td><td><p>51%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: Learning Disability Services Monthly Statistics - Data from the Assuring Transformation Collection, December 2018 (NHS Digital)</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 29/01/2019 17:31:58 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1047665

registered interest
date	24/01/2019
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	Clinical Commissioning Groups: Redundancy
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 cost to the public purse has been of staff redundancies in each CCG area since 2013.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	212359
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>The information is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 29/01/2019 17:13:00 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1047667

registered interest
date	24/01/2019
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	Non-departmental Public Bodies: Redundancy Pay
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 each of his Department's non-departmental bodies spent on redundancy payments in each financial year since 2010-11; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	212361
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is attached and covers spend for both current and historic non-Departmental public bodies.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 29/01/2019 17:33:43 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage attachment 1 file name PQ2121361 table.docx title PQ212361 attached table
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1047724

registered interest
date	24/01/2019
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	Breast Cancer: Screening
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an estimate of the number of missed breast cancer screening appointments by women whose employers have not allowed them to attend during working hours; and if will he make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Gedling
tabling member printed	Vernon Coaker
uin	212317
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>This information is not collected.</p><p>The NHS Breast Screening Programme offers all women in England who are aged from 50 up until their 71st birthday and registered with a general practitioner or resident in an area are automatically invited for screening every three years. Although in some areas women may be invited from the age of 47 as part of the age extension trial.</p><p>A timed appointment at a specific screening location and date is offered. If the appointment scheduled is inconvenient, women can telephone to reschedule their appointment. Otherwise, if they do not attend, they will be sent a further timed appointment to attend for screening.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 29/01/2019 17:24:22 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker

1047790

registered interest
date	24/01/2019
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	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, when he plans to publish social care green paper; and for what reasons the publication has been delayed.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	212355
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>As an ageing society, we need to reach a longer-term sustainable settlement for social care and we recognise that parliamentary colleagues will wish to engage thoroughly in the debate following publication. The Social Care Green Paper remains a priority for this Government, and the Department is working hard to publish the Green Paper at the earliest opportunity.</p><p> </p><p>Given wider events it was not possible to publish the Green Paper by the end of 2018 and, unfortunately, we cannot currently confirm a publication date.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 29/01/2019 17:34:33 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1045900

registered interest
date	22/01/2019
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, what criteria his Department uses to capture the costs of rurality in allocating NHS funding.
tabling member constituency	Newton Abbot
tabling member printed	Anne Marie Morris
uin	211202
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>NHS England is responsible for decisions on the weighted-capitation formula used to allocate resources between clinical commissioning groups. This process is independent of Government. NHS England takes advice from the Advisory Committee on Resource Allocation, a group of academics and other experts.</p><p> </p><p>Target allocations include three adjustments that specifically support remote or sparsely populated areas:</p><p>- an emergency ambulance costs adjustment to reflect longer travel times in sparsely populated areas;</p><p>- an adjustment to remove from the formula supply induced demand in urban areas where people live close to a hospital; and</p><p>- an adjustment to support continued provision by hospitals with 24 hours, seven days a week accident and emergency services that are remote from the wider hospital network and have unavoidably higher costs.</p><p> </p><p>The tendency for rural populations to be older, is naturally taken into account in the overall formula.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 29/01/2019 17:39:38 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4249 label Biography information for Anne Marie Morris

1046070

registered interest
date	22/01/2019
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 Trusts: Finance
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 meetings have taken place between NHS Improvement and NHS trusts to agree plans to improve the financial position of those trusts since 1 April 2018; which NHS trusts have had such meetings with NHS Improvement; and when each such meeting took place.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	211275
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is in the attached table. The information relates to formal meetings between NHS Improvement and those National Health Service trusts who are, or were, in financial special measures (FSM) since 1 April 2018. NHS Improvement is in regular contact with FSM providers on a range of issues, not just finance.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Improvement also works closely with these trusts in between these formal meetings.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 29/01/2019 17:37:44 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond attachment 1 file name PQ211275 attached table.docx title PQ211275 attached table
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1046077

registered interest
date	22/01/2019
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	Health Professions
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 and what proportion of (a) doctors and (b) nurses that completed training (a) no longer work in the NHS and (b) work abroad in the last year for which information is available; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	211282
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>Doctors can choose to leave the United Kingdom and work abroad at any point during their training or career.</p><p> </p><p>The UK Foundation Programme Office (UKFPO) undertakes an annual survey of doctors in the UK before they complete their two years of foundation training. It shows doctor’s career intentions for immediately after their foundation training. This is the only source of comprehensive data on this subject.</p><p> </p><p>The latest UKFPO Careers Destination report can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.foundationprogramme.nhs.uk/sites/default/files/2018-07/2017%20F2%20Career%20Destinations%20Report_0.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.foundationprogramme.nhs.uk/sites/default/files/2018-07/2017%20F2%20Career%20Destinations%20Report_0.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>The results show that, for those not going on to work in the National Health Service immediately after foundation training:</p><p>- Around 6% of the respondents (400) intended to practice overseas immediately after completing their foundation training. This has decreased from 11-12% in 2015 and 2016.</p><p>- Around 32% of the respondents (2,200) either:</p><p>- intended to go onto further study or work as doctors in non-NHS settings (10%);</p><p>- intended to take a career break (14%);</p><p>- intended to leave the profession (0.6%); and</p><p>- were still looking for employment at the time of the survey (7%).</p><p> </p><p>Note:</p><p>Many of the respondents are expected to return to the NHS in the next three years. Published research from the General Medical Council showed that over 88% of the doctors who finished foundation training in 2014 entered the NHS within three years.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not hold data on the number of nursing graduates in England who secured employment as nurses in the NHS. It does not hold data on the numbers who went to work abroad.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 29/01/2019 17:38:46 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1046080

registered interest
date	22/01/2019
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, what estimate he has made of the number of NHS and foundation trusts expected to be in deficit at the end of the 2018-19 financial year; and whether the NHS trust sector as a whole is expected to be in deficit at the end of the 2018-19 financial year.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	211285
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>The latest published information, as at Quarter 2 2018-19, forecasted that 111 National Health Service providers would end the year in deficit; with the provider sector overall forecasting a year-end deficit of £558 million.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 29/01/2019 17:35:47 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1045494

registered interest
date	21/01/2019
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, pursuant to the Answer of 11 January 2019 to Question 205247 on Drugs: refrigerators, what proportion of the (a) ambient storage pallets, (b) refrigerated storage pallets and (c) controlled drug storage pallets purchased as part of the Department's contingency planning in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal were manufactured in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
tabling member printed	Nick Smith
uin	210498
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department’s contingency planning is to ask industry to stockpile an additional six weeks’ supply of prescription-only and pharmacy medicines which come to the United Kingdom from or via the European Union/European Economic Area, over and above usual buffer stocks. No medicines or pallets have been purchased as part of the contingency planning.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 29/01/2019 17:12:16 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith