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1179891

registered interest
date	24/02/2020
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: Standards
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what changes will be required to the NHS Constitution for England as a result of the introduction of new operational targets for the NHS.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL1750
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2020 answer text <p>No formal assessment has been made of the report by NHS Health Scotland on minimum unit pricing (MUP) of alcohol. The Scottish Government is taking forward a comprehensive evaluation of the impact of introducing MUP. The Scottish legislation also includes a sunset clause and the Scottish Government are required to present a report on the impact of MUP to their Parliament five years after implementation which will be published in 2023.</p><p>There are no plans for the introduction of MUP in England. The Government will continue to monitor the progress of MUP in Scotland and will consider available evidence of its impact, including the report by NHS Scotland.</p><p><ins class="ministerial"> <p><ins class="ministerial">This is the answer for HL1750.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The clinically-led review of National Health Service access standards is ongoing. The NHS is currently trialling how these might work and any recommended changes will be based on clinical evidence to ensure the best outcome for patients. NHS England and NHS Improvement’s final recommendations to the Government are due by the spring.</ins></p></ins></p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 06/03/2020 14:07:52 question first ministerially corrected 09/03/2020 16:40:54 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell previous answer version 10821 answering member printed Lord Bethell answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1176877

registered interest
date	06/02/2020
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: Staff
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 full-time equivalent GP clinical staff there were in (a) Houghton and Sunderland South constituency, (b) the North East and (c) England in 2018-2019.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	13519
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2020 answer text <p>The number (headcount) of doctors (excluding locums), direct patient care practitioners and nurses in general practice who worked full time and part time according to their weekly contracted hours in general practices in NHS Sunderland Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), North East and Yorkshire NHS region and England on 30 September 2018 and 2019 is attached. NHS Sunderland CCG includes Houghton and Sunderland South constituency but does not map directly to the borders. North East and Yorkshire NHS region was formed in April 2019 therefore no data exists for this region prior to this date. The data is divided by those who are contracted to work 15 hours or less, more than 15 but less than 37.5 hours, and more than 37.5 hours per week. General practitioner (GP) locums are excluded as improvements have been made to GP locum recording methodology and figures are not comparable across the time series.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 11/02/2020 17:54:24 question first ministerially corrected 13/02/2020 17:17:47 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill attachment 1 file name PQ13519 TABLE Clinical staff in Sunderland, North East and England formatted.doc title PQ13519 TABLE Clinical staff previous answer version 6394 answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill attachment 1 file name PQ13519 TABLE Clinical staff in Sunderland, North East and England formatted.docx title Number of clinical staff in the north east
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1175015

registered interest
date	30/01/2020
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: South 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 the average waiting time was for a GP appointment in (a) Rotherham Borough, (b) South Yorkshire and (c) Rother Valley in each of the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
uin	10490
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2020 answer text <p>Data showing the time between booking an appointment with a general practice and the appointment taking place for practices in NHS Rotherham Clinical Commissioning Group and South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Sustainability and Transformation Partnership (STP) in the 12 months from January 2019 to December 2019 is presented in the attached table.</p><p>NHS Digital publishes ‘Appointments in General Practice’. This is an experimental data collection which is still being refined and improved. NHS Digital is unable to provide appointments in general practice data at the level requested. Rotherham Borough, South Yorkshire and Rother Valley do not align perfectly to a CCG; it has therefore provided data NHS Rotherham CCG and South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw STP.</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 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><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 07/02/2020 11:20:52 question first ministerially corrected 10/02/2020 10:20:35 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill attachment 1 file name PQ10490 TABLE formatted.docx title PQ10490 table previous answer version 5539 answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1171655

registered interest
date	17/01/2020
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: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 4 February 2019 to Question 214552, how much NHS England and clinical commissioning groups have spent in aggregate on (a) primary medical services, (b) community health services, (c) continuing healthcare and (d) other main areas of healthcare in each year since 2015-16; and how much those organisations plan to spend in aggregate in each of those areas in 2019-20.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	4739
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2020 answer text <p>The information requested is attached.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 28/01/2020 16:31:18 question first ministerially corrected 06/02/2020 15:29:52 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar attachment 1 file name PQ4739 PQ4749 CCG aggregate spend 2019-20 formatted.docx title CCG aggregate spend table previous answer version 3365 answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar attachment 1 file name pq4739 4740 table.docx title pq4739 4740 table
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1171656

registered interest
date	17/01/2020
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: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 4 February 2019 to Question 214552, how much NHS England and clinical commissioning groups have spent in aggregate on (a) mental health services and (b) acute health services, (c) social care services and (d) other main areas of spending in each year since 2015-16; and how much those organisations plan to spend in aggregate in each of those areas in 2019-20.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	4740
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2020 answer text <p>The information requested is attached.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 28/01/2020 16:31:18 question first ministerially corrected 06/02/2020 15:30:01 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar attachment 1 file name PQ4739 PQ4749 CCG aggregate spend 2019-20 formatted.docx title CCG aggregate spend previous answer version 3366 answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar attachment 1 file name pq4739 4740 table.docx title pq4739 4740 table
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1171143

registered interest
date	15/01/2020
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: Romford
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 new GPs in Romford constituency have started work in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	3693
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2020 answer text <p>The data is not available in the format requested. NHS Digital publishes data on the overall growth in the general practice workforce. However, it is not possible to use this publication to identify doctors or other general practice staff that are new. Therefore the total number of full-time-equivalent doctors in general practice has been provided for each of the last five years in the attached table. Romford constituency does not align to a clinical commissioning group (CCG).</p><p>Data covering the number of doctors working in Havering CCG, which included the town of Romford, in each year since 2015 has been provided in the attached table. General practitioner (GP) locums are excluded as improvements have been made to GP locum recording methodology and figures are not comparable across the time series. Data is not included prior to 2015 as improvements were made to the methodology for recording all staff working in general practice in September 2015 and data prior to this is not comparable.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 23/01/2020 14:50:04 question first ministerially corrected 24/01/2020 14:36:52 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill attachment 1 file name PQ 3693 Table Final .docx title Full time doctors in general practice 2015-2019 previous answer version 2506 answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1168877

registered interest
date	06/01/2020
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	Care Homes: Learning Disability
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 (a) unexpected deaths and (b) serious injuries have occurred in residential care homes among people with learning difficulties in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	432
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2020 answer text <p>The following table shows Unexpected Death and Serious Injury Notifications raised against 'Residential social care home' locations with a Service User Band of 'Learning disabilities or autistic spectrum disorder', from 1 April 2010, provided by the Care Quality Commission:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Number of Notifications</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Raised Year</p></td><td><p>16-1 Unexpected Death</p></td><td><p>18-2a,b Serious Injury</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>260</p></td><td><p>558</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>1,201</p></td><td><p>2,656</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>1,248</p></td><td><p>3,112</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>936</p></td><td><p>3,077</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>948</p></td><td><p>3,215</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>1,067</p></td><td><p>3,866</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>1,221</p></td><td><p>4,236</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>1,081</p></td><td><p>4,573</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>1,153</p></td><td><p>4,513</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>959</p></td><td><p>4,812</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>48</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grand Total</p></td><td><p>10,086</p></td><td><p>34,666</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>The data does not indicate whether a notification relates directly to someone with a learning disability or autism, only that the location has the Service User Band of 'Learning disabilities or autistic spectrum disorder'. A location may have more than one Service User Band.</li><li>'Residential social care home' locations are defined as locations with a Primary Inspection Category of 'Residential social care', or with an Organisation Type of 'Social Care Organisation' and any of the Service Types 'Care home services with nursing', 'Care home services without nursing' or 'Specialist college services'</li><li>This data is at location level only.</li><li>The data for 2010 reflects both an incomplete year of reporting, i.e. from 1 April<ins class="ministerial"> 2010</ins><del class="ministerial">, and</del> from a starting point of data from <del class="ministerial">the</del> National Health Service <ins class="ministerial">providers </ins>alone<ins class="ministerial">,</ins> before <ins class="ministerial">social care and independent healthcare </ins>providers across <del class="ministerial">the United Kingdom</del> <ins class="ministerial">England </ins>were included.</li><li>Data for 2020 is up to and including 7 January.</li></ol><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 09/01/2020 12:17:38 question first ministerially corrected 20/01/2020 16:11:31 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage previous answer version 388 answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1168585

registered interest
date	19/12/2019
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: Amazon
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government why several sections of the contract to share NHS data with Amazon were redacted when placed in the public domain.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL43
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2020 answer text <p>The agreement between the Department and Amazon is about using content from the National Health Service website to provide reliable and informative answers to basic health questions asked to Amazon’s virtual assistant voice service, Alexa. This content is already freely available on the NHS website. Patients already use Alexa and other devices to search for information on a range of health issues. This agreement ensures that the information they receive from Alexa is medically verified by the NHS instead of from a range of other sources, such as <ins class="ministerial">non-United Kingdom</ins><del class="ministerial">American</del> websites.</p><p>This agreement is not exclusive. There are over 2,000 other organisations that are accessing and using information from the NHS website in a similar way.</p><p>A limited number of clauses have been redacted due to being exempt under Section 43(2) of the Freedom Of Information Agreement, which exempts information where the release would, or would be likely to, prejudice the commercial interests of any entity, including the public authority holding the information.</p><p>In this case, we consider that the release of the redacted clauses would be likely to prejudice the commercial interests of Amazon on the basis that it would make public the non-standard terms that Amazon has been willing to enter into in respect of this agreement. Disclosure of the redacted clauses has potential to prejudice existing agreements between Amazon and other parties, which could result in other parties challenging Amazon over the terms and conditions of their agreements.</p><p>In addition, certain personal information has been redacted in the agreement. This information is exempt from disclosure under Section 40(2) of Freedom Of Information Agreement as disclosure of this personal information would breach the data protection principles. In particular, we consider that the disclosure of this personal information would be unfair and breach the first data principle.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 07/01/2020 17:54:33 question first ministerially corrected 09/01/2020 11:53:19 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford previous answer version 313 answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1151539

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	NHS and Social Services: Agency Workers
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 cost to the (a) NHS and (b) social care system of (i) fees, (ii) markups and (ii) commissions to supply agencies for (A) clinical and (B) other staff.
tabling member constituency	East Hampshire
tabling member printed	Mr Damian Hinds
uin	3731
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2019 answer text <p>In 2018/19, National Health Service trusts spent £2.40 billion on agency staff, including clinical and non-clinical staff. Between March 2018 and March 2019, £938 million was spent on agency medical staff, £950 million on agency nursing staff and £513 million on other staff.<sup>1 </sup></p><p>NHS Improvement’s agency rules include a cap which sets a ceiling for agency fees. Full details of the NHS Improvement price caps are attached.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not hold data that shows the breakdown of fees, markups and commissions.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not hold this data for social care. The Skills for Care programme estimates that in 2018/19 agency social care staff represented 7% of the 1.52 million people strong adult social care workforce.<sup>2 </sup></p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>[1]<a href="https://improvement.nhs.uk/documents/5404/Performance_of_the_NHS_provider_sector_for_the_quarter_4_1819.pdf" target="_blank">https://improvement.nhs.uk/documents/5404/Performance_of_the_NHS_provider_sector_for_the_quarter_4_1819.pdf</a></p><p><sup>2</sup><a href="https://www.skillsforcare.org.uk/adult-social-care-workforce-data/Workforce-intelligence/documents/State-of-the-adult-social-care-sector/State-of-Report-2019.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.skillsforcare.org.uk/adult-social-care-workforce-data/Workforce-intelligence/documents/State-of-the-adult-social-care-sector/State-of-Report-2019.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 30/10/2019 11:41:46 question first ministerially corrected 30/10/2019 17:01:43 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar attachment 1 file name Price_card_2019-20_v2.0.xlsx title PQ3731 previous answer version 2658 answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds

1149393

registered interest
date	15/10/2019
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	Health Services: North East
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding his Department plans to make available to (a) healthcare in the North East of England, (b) healthcare in Sunderland and (c) the South Tyneside and Sunderland Hospital Trust in the next five years.
tabling member constituency	Sunderland Central
tabling member printed	Julie Elliott
uin	607
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>CCG allocations for North East of England are shown in the attached table. The North East of England is expected to receive more than the England average per head per year in every year from 2019/20 to 2023/24.</p><p>In addition to the loans listed for Sunderland, the following trusts in the North East of England have secured capital loans:</p><p>- Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust: £1million</p><p>- North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust: £835,000</p><p>- Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust: £210,000 and £112,000</p><p>- Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust: £468,000</p><p>- The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: £500,000</p><p>On 5 August, the Government announced a further £1.8 billion increase to National Health Service capital spending. £1 billion of this funding will free up the NHS to take forward and expand their existing plans for investment in infrastructure and unlocking delivery of commitments already made; whilst £850 million of this increase allows 20 new hospital upgrades to start as soon as possible, including £41.6 million to Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for the transfer of Paediatric Cardiac Services from Freeman Hospital to Royal Victoria Infirmary.</p><p>In addition, as the Secretary of State recently set out, a new Health Infrastructure Plan will be brought forward to deliver a strategic major hospital rebuilding programme, providing the necessary health infrastructure across the country.</p><p>NHS Sunderland CCG’s allocations are shown in the attached table. By 2023-24, it will receive £1883.97 per head per year - £380.04 per head per year above the England average.</p><p>As part of the tranche 4 STP funding Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust will receive £54.2 million for a single integrated secure service centre of excellence and the re-provision of Newcastle and Gateshead adult acute inpatient services.</p><p>In 2019/20 South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust was allocated £2million Public Dividend Capital for GDE Fast Follower scheme.</p><p>The trust’s predecessor, City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust also secured a £887,000 Public Dividend Capital award as part of a national programme for Energy Efficient LED Lighting.</p><p>The Department are also aware of a likely award of Public Dividend Capital relating to Urgent and Emergency Care Services provision which is in the process of being allocated and there are a number of on-going capital funding programmes which the trust may be considering applications for.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 21/10/2019 13:13:38 question first ministerially corrected 21/10/2019 16:08:01 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar attachment 1 file name 191017 - PQ607 CCG allocations.xlsx title PQ607 CCG allocations previous answer version 322 answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4127 label Biography information for Julie Elliott