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1038905

registered interest
date	10/01/2019
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	Neural Tube Defects
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many babies have been born in England with neural tube defects, such as spina bifida, in the last five years for which figures are available.
tabling member printed	Baroness Corston
uin	HL12742
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2019 answer text <p>Public Health England contributes to the European Surveillance of Congenital Anomalies (EUROCAT), which reports on congenital anomaly statistics by country.</p><p>The numbers of babies born with neural tube defects from 2012 to 2016 are displayed in the attached table, due to the size of the data. Data for 2017 and 2018 are not currently available. Validated data for 2017 will be available from April 2019.</p> answering member printed Baroness Manzoor question first answered 22/01/2019 16:13:47 answering member 4289 label Biography information for Baroness Manzoor attachment 1 file name HL12742 table formatted.docx title HL12742 table formatted
tabling member	215 label Biography information for Baroness Corston

1038911

registered interest
date	10/01/2019
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	Food: Imports
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many additional food inspectors will be put in place to ensure food imports from the EU are checked at transit ports in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
uin	HL12748
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>In the event of a ‘no deal’ European Union exit, there will be no additional controls on food and feed originating from the EU. However, third country high-risk food and feed consignments transiting the EU destined for the United Kingdom will be subject to controls and will need to enter the UK at ports with the required facilities to undertake those controls. Following detailed analysis to determine the possible number of such transits, there is sufficient existing capacity at UK ports with those facilities to undertake all relevant import controls.</p> answering member printed Baroness Manzoor question first answered 23/01/2019 11:50:51 answering member 4289 label Biography information for Baroness Manzoor
tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

1038929

registered interest
date	10/01/2019
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 Services: Travellers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, following the commitment to address health inequalities in the NHS Long Term Plan, published on 10 January, what steps they intend to take to tackle the health inequalities experienced by members of the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities.
tabling member printed	Baroness Whitaker
uin	HL12766
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>During 2019 all local health systems will be expected to set out how they will reduce health inequalities by 2023/24 and 2028/29 including, where applicable, for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) communities.</p><p>We are reviewing the collection of data within the National Health Service and working closely with NHS England to complete a scoping exercise to understand how information on protected characteristics is gathered in existing NHS datasets. The Department plans to complete an initial assessment later this year, which will form the basis for future decision-making on NHS data collection by ethnicity.</p><p>NHS England has produced guidance for general practices clarifying rights of patients and responsibilities of providers in registering with a general practitioner. It also co-produced a leaflet for members of the GRT communities on how to register. These will be kept under review.</p><p>The Department of Health and Social Care is also working closely with the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government and the Department for Education on six community-led pilot projects, two of which are looking to improve health outcomes for GRT communities.</p><p>The Government commissioned research from the universities of Dundee and York examining how trust in healthcare services could be enhanced amongst Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities. The report, <em>Enhancing Gypsy, Roma and Traveller peoples’ trust: using maternity and early years’ health services and dental health services as exemplars of mainstream service provision</em>, was published in September 2018. It has made eight key recommendations to the health sector and other key providers, which include increasing collaborative working with those that already have trusted relationships with GRT communities e.g. individuals from third sector organisations, individual health or other sector professionals; and suggested the introduction of literacy help-cards throughout the NHS. These are cards that can be presented to front line staff or receptionists to ask for discreet help with form-filling. A copy of the report is attached.</p> answering member printed Baroness Manzoor question first answered 23/01/2019 11:52:52 answering member 4289 label Biography information for Baroness Manzoor attachment 1 file name Report_on_GRT_health.pdf title Report_on_GRT_health.pdf
tabling member	2510 label Biography information for Baroness Whitaker

1038941

registered interest
date	10/01/2019
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	Hormone Replacement Therapy
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 Cabinet colleagues on reducing the cost of hormone replacement therapy for patients who pay multiple prescription charges for medication with more than one ingredient.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	207273
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>Unless a valid exemption has been declared the statutory applicable charge of £8.80 is payable for each prescription item, such as a quantity of a drug, dispensed in the community in England. The Government has no plans to change this position in respect of combination packs of hormone replacement therapy medication comprised of multiple drugs. Accordingly, no recent discussions about this matter have taken place at Cabinet level.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 15/01/2019 16:04:06 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1038946

registered interest
date	10/01/2019
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	Pancreatic Cancer
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 a target for increasing the early stage diagnosis rate for pancreatic cancer in the lifetime of this Parliament.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	207163
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Plan sets an ambition for three out of four cancers to be diagnosed at an early stage by 2028, compared to around one in two currently. This ambition applies to all cancers, including pancreatic cancer, not just the 10 currently in the Public Health Outcomes Framework early diagnosis metric. NHS England is keen to work with the charities representing some of the cancers not currently included in this metric on how best to measure progress towards the ambition moving forwards.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 15/01/2019 16:00:59 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1038952

registered interest
date	10/01/2019
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, if his Department will publish correspondence with (a) NHS England and (b) NHS Improvement on any (i) assessment and (b) analysis that indicates a funding shortfall of more than £1 billion in 2019-20.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	207213
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>We have had no correspondence with NHS England or NHS Improvement regarding the Nuffield Trust’s analysis, dated 26 October 2018. We do not agree there is a shortfall in 2019-20, and the aforementioned analysis concludes that once recurrent efficiencies are factored in, there is financial headroom within the National Health Service long term settlement.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 15/01/2019 12:30:56 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1038961

registered interest
date	10/01/2019
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 111
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 calls to 111 were abandoned in each month in 2018.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	207217
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>The volume of NHS 111 calls which were abandoned after at least 30 seconds connection time to the NHS 111 service from January to December 2018 is shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Month</p></td><td><p>Volume of calls abandoned after at least 30 seconds</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January 2018</p></td><td><p>75,488</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February 2018</p></td><td><p>88,544</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2018</p></td><td><p>113,244</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2018</p></td><td><p>45,718</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2018</p></td><td><p>43,485</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2018</p></td><td><p>46,702</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July 2018</p></td><td><p>62,784</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August 2018</p></td><td><p>41,646</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2018</p></td><td><p>37,697</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October 2018</p></td><td><p>44,697</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2018</p></td><td><p>50,703</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December 2018</p></td><td><p>57,375</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS England, NHS 111 minimum data set</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/nhs-111-minimum-data-set/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/nhs-111-minimum-data-set/</a></p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 17/01/2019 16:30:24 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1038962

registered interest
date	10/01/2019
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: Private Patients
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 income from private patients at each NHS Trust for each of the last ten years for which records are available.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	207218
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>The question is interpreted as requesting detail regarding the level of income generated from the treatment of private patients by each National Health Service trust. This is presented in the attached tables for the financial years 2010-11 to 2017-18.</p><p> </p><p>Prior to 2010-11 the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts did not report ‘income from private patients’ as a specific line item and thus comparable information for prior years is unable to be provided.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 17/01/2019 11:58:47 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond attachment 1 file name PQ207218 - Data tables.docx title PQ207218 attached document
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1038963

registered interest
date	10/01/2019
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	Nurses
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 nurses employed in the NHS per head of population for each of the last ten years for which records are available.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	207219
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not hold the information in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p>However, the following table shows the number of nurses and health visitors in National Health Service trusts and clinical commissioning groups in England in the last 10 years as at September each year, full time equivalent:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>September-2008</p></td><td><p>281,021</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September-2009</p></td><td><p>278,470</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September-2010</p></td><td><p>279,883</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September-2011</p></td><td><p>277,047</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September-2012</p></td><td><p>271,407</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September-2013</p></td><td><p>274,627</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September-2014</p></td><td><p>278,981</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September-2015</p></td><td><p>281,474</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September-2016</p></td><td><p>284,288</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September-2017</p></td><td><p>283,853</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September-2018</p></td><td><p>285,674</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS Hospital and Community Health Service workforce statistics, NHS Digital</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 17/01/2019 16:12:05 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1038964

registered interest
date	10/01/2019
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: Vacancies
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 vacancies in the NHS by 2030 based upon workforce assumptions in the NHS Long Term Plan.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	207220
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not hold the data requested.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will support the National Health Service to ensure that the right staff, with the right skills and experience, are available to deliver the high-quality care the public expects. This includes building on the work already underway to recruit, train and retain more staff to address shortages. This will involve more training places with increased flexibility, including for those high priority areas such as mental health and primary care, as well as new or expanded roles with greater opportunities for career progression for existing staff.</p><p> </p><p>To ensure a detailed plan that everyone in the NHS can get behind, the Secretary of State has commissioned Baroness Harding to lead a rapid and inclusive programme of work to set out a detailed workforce implementation plan to be published in the spring.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 17/01/2019 16:10:46 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders