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1151313

registered interest
date	22/10/2019
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	Palliative Care: Expenditure
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 funding was allocated to palliative care in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Jarrow
tabling member printed	Mr Stephen Hepburn
uin	3568
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2019 answer text <p>Data on the total funding allocated to hospice services in England is not routinely collected centrally, as the vast majority of funding decisions are a matter for local commissioners. Funding in the constituent countries of the United Kingdom is a matter for the devolved administration of those countries.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 3569 3570 question first answered 30/10/2019 16:25:48 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	520 label Biography information for Mr Stephen Hepburn

1151314

registered interest
date	22/10/2019
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	Hospices: Closures
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 hospices have closed in the (a) North East and (b) UK in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Jarrow
tabling member printed	Mr Stephen Hepburn
uin	3569
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2019 answer text <p>Data on the total funding allocated to hospice services in England is not routinely collected centrally, as the vast majority of funding decisions are a matter for local commissioners. Funding in the constituent countries of the United Kingdom is a matter for the devolved administration of those countries.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 3568 3570 question first answered 30/10/2019 16:25:48 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	520 label Biography information for Mr Stephen Hepburn

1151319

registered interest
date	22/10/2019
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	General Practitioners: Tyne and Wear
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 practising GPs there were in (a) Jarrow constituency and (b) South Tyneside in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Jarrow
tabling member printed	Mr Stephen Hepburn
uin	3574
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2019 answer text <p>The number of headcount general practitioners (excluding locums), working in general practice for each year since September 2015 is available in the following table. General practitioner (GP) locums are excluded as improvements have been made to GP locum recording methodology and figures are not comparable prior to December 2017. Current data is not comparable to 2010. As such, September 2015-18 data has been provided. Figures are not available for Jarrow constituency.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>South Tyneside Clinical Commissioning Group Headcount GPs (excluding locums)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2015</p></td><td><p>106</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2016</p></td><td><p>104</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2017</p></td><td><p>99</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2018</p></td><td><p>99</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>Data as at 30 September 2015-2018.</li><li>Figures shown do not include GPs working in prisons, army bases, educational establishments, specialist care centres including drug rehabilitation centres and walk-in centres.</li><li>Figures contain estimates for practices that did not provide fully valid General Medical Practice staff records.</li><li>Headcount totals are unlikely to equal the sum of the components. Further information on the headcount methodology is available in the General Practice Workforce publication.</li><li>The figures for GPs excluding Locums as this data is not comparable across the time series.</li><li>Data must be compared from the same time point in the year, therefore September 2018 data is provided to allow comparison the earliest available data. Data covering 30 September 2019 will be published on 28 November 2019 and is available at the following link:</li></ol><p><a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/general-and-personal-medical-services" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/general-and-personal-medical-services</a></p><ol start="7"><li>Data collected and published prior to September 2015 is not comparable due to a change in data collection methodology.</li><li>“-” denotes zero, “0” denotes greater than 0, less than 0.5, “..” denotes not applicable.</li><li>Source – NHS Digital</li></ol><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 30/10/2019 17:45:12 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	520 label Biography information for Mr Stephen Hepburn

1151320

registered interest
date	22/10/2019
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	General Practitioners: Standards
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 waiting time was for a patient to see a GP in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) Tyne and Wear, (d) the North East and (e) England in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Jarrow
tabling member printed	Mr Stephen Hepburn
uin	3575
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2019 answer text <p>Data on appointments in general practice have only been available since November 2017. The most recent data on the time between booking an appointment with a general practice and having the appointment (in days) for South Tyneside Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), NHS England North East and Yorkshire (Cumbria and North East) Regional Local Office, and England are presented in the table below as the average over the 12 months from September 2018 to August 2019. NHS Digital is unable to provide data for all the geographical areas requested as the data is collected at CCG level, but has provided data for three included in the table.</p><p>The data is taken from the NHS Digital publication ‘Appointments in General Practice’. This is a new experimental data collection which is still being refined and improved.</p><p>It should be noted that the ‘time from booking to appointment’ refers only to the time elapsed between the successful booking of an appointment and the appointment actually taking place. The data does not take into consideration that many patients will be appropriately booking ahead as part of the continuity of care they receive for long-term conditions.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>South Tyneside CCG</p></td><td><p>NHS England North East and Yorkshire (Cumbria and North East) Regional Local Office</p></td><td><p>England</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="3"><p>Distribution of average time elapsed between booking an appointment and the appointment taking place, September 2018 to August 2019. (Numbers may not add to 100% due to rounding.)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Same Day</p></td><td><p>38%</p></td><td><p>40%</p></td><td><p>42%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 Day</p></td><td><p>9%</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2 to 7 Days</p></td><td><p>25%</p></td><td><p>21%</p></td><td><p>20%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>8 to 14 Days</p></td><td><p>13%</p></td><td><p>14%</p></td><td><p>14%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>15 to 21 Days</p></td><td><p>6%</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td><td><p>8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>22 to 28 Days</p></td><td><p>4%</p></td><td><p>5%</p></td><td><p>5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>More than 28 Days</p></td><td><p>3%</p></td><td><p>5%</p></td><td><p>5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>100.0%</p></td><td><p>100.0%</p></td><td><p>100.0%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes</p><ol><li>There are several factors that drive the time from a booking to an appointment. This includes appointment availability at the practice, patient availability, the urgency of the appointment and general practitioner (GP) advice.</li><li>The data does not differentiate between emergency and routine appointments in general practice.</li><li>The data does not include any information about the patients or clinical information</li><li>The data in the response includes appointments with all healthcare professional types, including GPs and other practice staff.</li><li>Not all practices in England are included in the appointments in general practice publication, meaning the total number of appointments is not known.</li><li>Same day and next day bookings are of particular interest so are presented here separately. Further bookings are presented grouped by weeks.</li><li>The number of appointments that have already happened is provided as recorded in participating practices in England. The data presented only contains information which was captured on the GP practice systems. This limits the activity reported on and does not represent all work happening within a primary care setting.</li></ol> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 30/10/2019 17:43:04 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	520 label Biography information for Mr Stephen Hepburn

1151322

registered interest
date	22/10/2019
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	Lumacaftor/ivacaftor
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 progress his Department has made on negotiations between NHS England and Vertex pharmaceuticals on making Orkambi available on the NHS for people diagnosed with cystic fibrosis.
tabling member constituency	Jarrow
tabling member printed	Mr Stephen Hepburn
uin	3577
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2019 answer text <p>On 24 October, NHS England and NHS Improvement announced that a deal had been agreed with the company Vertex to make Orkambi and its other licensed cystic fibrosis drugs available to National Health Service patients in England.</p><p> </p><p>This deal, while commercially confidential, constitutes good value for the NHS, is backed by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and will benefit around 5,000 patients with cystic fibrosis. NHS England and NHS Improvement have announced that there is no cap on patient numbers and all patients who might benefit can now get these treatments on the NHS. Clinicians will be able to begin prescribing these drugs within 30 days of this announcement.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 30/10/2019 17:51:13 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	520 label Biography information for Mr Stephen Hepburn

1151348

registered interest
date	22/10/2019
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	Lighting: Health Hazards
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 his Department has made of the correlation between LED lighting in offices and (a) migraines and (b) other health conditions.
tabling member constituency	Chatham and Aylesford
tabling member printed	Tracey Crouch
uin	3627
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2019 answer text <p>Public Health England (PHE) considers the impact of optical radiation on health, both from artificial and natural sources. There is currently insufficient evidence to develop specific advice on the link between the symptoms of migraines and other health conditions to Light Emitting Diode lighting in offices. PHE will continue to monitor the scientific literature in this area.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 30/10/2019 17:52:28 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch

1151367

registered interest
date	22/10/2019
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	Dental Services: 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 share of new funding under the NHS Long Term Plan is being assigned to increasing the capacity of NHS dental services.
tabling member constituency	York Outer
tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
uin	3637
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2019 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Plan published on 7 January 2019, set out a 10-year strategy for the National Health Service. It sets out how the NHS will spend the £33.9 billion cash terms annual increase going into the NHS budget by 2023/24.</p><p>It is for NHS England and NHS Improvement to make decisions about how to prioritise the how they meet the Long Term Plans commitments on dentistry from within the total settlement.</p><p>Over the NHS Long Term Plan period, to 2023/24, NHS England and NHS Improvement’s commissioning allocations for dental services are planned to increase to cover population growth, increasing demand for services and inflationary cost pressures.</p><p>NHS England and NHS Improvement are working closely with the Department to introduce a new NHS dental contract that will focus on achieving good oral health and increasing access to NHS dentistry, with a particular focus on improving the oral health of children, which are all key deliverables of the Long Term Plan.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 3638 question first answered 30/10/2019 17:46:47 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

1151370

registered interest
date	22/10/2019
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	Dental Services: North Yorkshire
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 new funding under the NHS Long Term Plan he plans to allocate to NHS dental services in the Vale of York.
tabling member constituency	York Outer
tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
uin	3638
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2019 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Plan published on 7 January 2019, set out a 10-year strategy for the National Health Service. It sets out how the NHS will spend the £33.9 billion cash terms annual increase going into the NHS budget by 2023/24.</p><p>It is for NHS England and NHS Improvement to make decisions about how to prioritise the how they meet the Long Term Plans commitments on dentistry from within the total settlement.</p><p>Over the NHS Long Term Plan period, to 2023/24, NHS England and NHS Improvement’s commissioning allocations for dental services are planned to increase to cover population growth, increasing demand for services and inflationary cost pressures.</p><p>NHS England and NHS Improvement are working closely with the Department to introduce a new NHS dental contract that will focus on achieving good oral health and increasing access to NHS dentistry, with a particular focus on improving the oral health of children, which are all key deliverables of the Long Term Plan.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 3637 question first answered 30/10/2019 17:46:47 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

1151394

registered interest
date	22/10/2019
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	Secure Accommodation: Autism
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 young people with autism placed in secure accommodation in England in 2018-2019 were held in seclusion.
tabling member constituency	Cynon Valley
tabling member printed	Ann Clwyd
uin	3584
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2019 answer text <p>The data is not held centrally in the format requested.</p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan commits to achieving at least a 50% reduction in the number of people with a learning disability or autism who are inpatients in mental health hospitals by 2023/24. The NHS Planning Guidance requires a 35% reduction as soon as possible in 2019/20.</p><p>In May 2019, the Care Quality Commission published their thematic review interim report regarding the use of restrictive interventions in settings that provide inpatient and residential care for people with, or who might have, mental health problems, learning disabilities and/or autism. We accepted all the recommendations and will undertake independent reviews of the care of everyone with a learning disability or autism detained in long-term segregation.</p><p>The Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Act 2018 applies in relation to the use of force (restraint) in mental health units which provide National Health Service-funded treatment.</p><p>The aim of the Act is to bring more rigour and accountability around the recording, reporting and training of staff in the use of force in mental health units, with a view to reducing the use of restrictive practices.</p><p>The Act applies to all patients, children, young people and adults, who are being assessed or receiving treatment in a mental health unit.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 3585 question first answered 30/10/2019 17:39:04 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	553 label Biography information for Ann Clwyd

1151398

registered interest
date	22/10/2019
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	Secure Accommodation: Autism
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 young people with autism placed in secure accommodation in England in 2015 were held in seclusion.
tabling member constituency	Cynon Valley
tabling member printed	Ann Clwyd
uin	3585
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2019 answer text <p>The data is not held centrally in the format requested.</p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan commits to achieving at least a 50% reduction in the number of people with a learning disability or autism who are inpatients in mental health hospitals by 2023/24. The NHS Planning Guidance requires a 35% reduction as soon as possible in 2019/20.</p><p>In May 2019, the Care Quality Commission published their thematic review interim report regarding the use of restrictive interventions in settings that provide inpatient and residential care for people with, or who might have, mental health problems, learning disabilities and/or autism. We accepted all the recommendations and will undertake independent reviews of the care of everyone with a learning disability or autism detained in long-term segregation.</p><p>The Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Act 2018 applies in relation to the use of force (restraint) in mental health units which provide National Health Service-funded treatment.</p><p>The aim of the Act is to bring more rigour and accountability around the recording, reporting and training of staff in the use of force in mental health units, with a view to reducing the use of restrictive practices.</p><p>The Act applies to all patients, children, young people and adults, who are being assessed or receiving treatment in a mental health unit.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 3584 question first answered 30/10/2019 17:39:04 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	553 label Biography information for Ann Clwyd