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1260134

registered interest
date	10/12/2020
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	Department of Health and Social Care: Written Questions
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 reply to named day Question 114249, tabled by the hon. Member for Bristol West on 11 November 2020.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	128201
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2020 answer text <p>We take parliamentary scrutiny incredibly seriously and it is fundamentally important that hon. Members are provided with accurate and timely information to enable them to hold the Government to account. We are working rapidly to provide all Members with accurate answers to their questions, as well as supporting the Government’s response to the unprecedented challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic.</p><p>The hon. Member’s question will be answered as soon as possible.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 14/12/2020 12:28:04 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1260138

registered interest
date	10/12/2020
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	Gender Dysphoria: Children and Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether (a) his Department and (b) NHS England undertook an equalities impact assessment of the amendments to NHS England’s service specification for Gender Identity Development Services for children and adolescents published on 1 December 2020; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Reigate
tabling member printed	Crispin Blunt
uin	128047
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2021 answer text <p>No equalities impact assessment was undertaken by the Department or NHS England and NHS Improvement.</p><p>NHS England and NHS Improvement took immediate action following the High Court Ruling on 1 December. Their amendment to the service specification for gender identity services for children and young people was published on the day of the judgement in order to protect patients and clinicians given the significant safeguarding, clinical and legal issues raised. The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust will be conducting a clinical risk assessment of every young person who is immediately affected by the decision.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 126776 question first answered 14/01/2021 16:21:29 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill previous answer version 69532 answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	104 label Biography information for Crispin Blunt

1260147

registered interest
date	10/12/2020
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: Protective Clothing
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 average cost per thousand of individual face coverings purchased for NHS staff in (a) September (b) October 2020 and (c) November 2020 from suppliers (i) inside the UK and (ii) outside the UK where the orders were for in excess of 100,000 face coverings.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	128093
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2021 answer text <p>No contracts were awarded to suppliers by the Department for face coverings or face masks in the months of September, October and November 2020.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 27/01/2021 14:53:14 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill previous answer version 69536 answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1260150

registered interest
date	10/12/2020
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	Coronavirus: Liverpool
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how his Department is evaluating the effectiveness of the mass covid-19 testing pilot in Liverpool; and when he plans to publish the findings of that evaluation.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	128235
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2021 answer text <p>The Liverpool COVID-19 Community Testing Pilot Evaluation Interim evaluation report is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/2020/12/23/covid-19-liverpool-community-testing-pilot-interim-findings-published/" target="_blank">https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/2020/12/23/covid-19-liverpool-community-testing-pilot-interim-findings-published/</a></p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 21/01/2021 17:53:25 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 69548 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1260158

registered interest
date	10/12/2020
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	Coronavirus: Halton
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 covid-19 vaccine doses have been allocated for Halton residents in December 2020.
tabling member constituency	Halton
tabling member printed	Derek Twigg
uin	128073
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2021 answer text <p>NHS England and NHS Improvement also publish weekly data for vaccinations in England. This provides data on vaccinations by local authority and constituency and is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/covid-19-vaccinations" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/covid-19-vaccinations</a></p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 16/03/2021 17:31:08 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi previous answer version 69534 answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	429 label Biography information for Derek Twigg

1260179

registered interest
date	10/12/2020
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 Workers: Sick 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 steps he is taking to improve (a) guidance and (b) support for care providers to ensure that full occupational sick pay is paid to social care workers who are having to self-isolate due to the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	128210
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2020 answer text <p>‘COVID-19: our action plan for adult social care’, published in April, was clear that adult social care providers should pay staff who are self-isolating their normal wages. We reiterated this expectation in the ‘Adult social care: our COVID-19 winter plan 2020 to 2021’, when we also announced that we are providing an additional £546 million to extend the Infection Control Fund. The Infection Control Fund can be used to cover the costs of paying staff to self-isolate.</p><p> </p><p>We are working with local government, stakeholders and care providers to ensure as many providers as possible are following our guidance. Officials in the Department are working directly with local areas on this, including by identifying and contacting those local areas and providers who are not yet paying staff to self-isolate.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 17/12/2020 17:00:19 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 69545 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1260180

registered interest
date	10/12/2020
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	Adult Social Care Infection Control Fund
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 funding from the Infection Control Fund has been allocated to date to support the wages of social care workers who have had to self-isolate due to the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	128211
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2020 answer text <p>The Infection Control Fund, set up in May, has been extended until March 2021, with an extra £546 million for the care sector to take key steps to improve infection prevention and control, including restricting staff movement in care homes and paying the wages of staff who are isolating. This means we have provided over £1.1 billion of ring-fenced funding for infection control throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.</p><p>The Department is still assuring the information that local authorities have provided on the final expenditure against the initial fund, which ran from May to September 2020. However, on 27 July, we published data that shows that 18.7% of the funding spent by 23 July was allocated to paying staff to self-isolate following a positive COVID-19 diagnosis, totalling over £47 million.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 17/12/2020 17:04:10 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 69546 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1260185

registered interest
date	10/12/2020
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	Autism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support NHS leaders to bring down Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service waiting lists for autism diagnosis in (a) Leicestershire and (b) the UK.
tabling member constituency	Bosworth
tabling member printed	Dr Luke Evans
uin	128290
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/12/2020 answer text <p>In line with commitments in the NHS Long Term Plan, NHS England and NHS Improvement are working to test and implement the most effective ways to reduce waiting times for an autism diagnosis for children in England over the next three years. To support NHS leaders in England, NHS England and NHS Improvement have commissioned work to evaluate how different autism diagnostic pathways work for children and young people. This includes considering the workforce requirements to deliver effective diagnostic pathways and the appropriate pre and post-diagnostic support.</p><p>The Leicestershire Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service is working to reduce the length of time children and young people wait for an autism diagnosis through the introduction of additional capacity.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 29/12/2020 16:15:19 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4781 label Biography information for Dr Luke Evans

1260186

registered interest
date	10/12/2020
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	Coronavirus: Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to tackle misinformation on the covid-19 vaccine.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
uin	128077
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2021 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that people have access to accurate information about COVID-19 vaccines. The Department is leading extensive communications activity to reassure the public, providing advice for anyone who has questions about the vaccination process.</p><p>The Government’s Counter Disinformation Unit looks for trends on social media platforms to respond to misleading content rapidly. This can be a range of actions from labelling, to ‘downranking’, to removal where there is significant risk of harm, in line with the platform’s terms and conditions.</p><p>We have developed the SHARE checklist which aims to educate and empower those who see, inadvertently share and are affected by false and misleading information.</p><p>Facebook, Twitter and Google agreed to the principle that no company should profit from or promote COVID-19 anti-vaccine misinformation and disinformation and to respond to flagged content more swiftly.</p><p>The major platforms have updated their terms of service and taken positive steps to reduce the spread of harmful and misleading narratives and to promote Government and National Health Service messaging, including around anti vaccination content.</p><p>The Government’s response to the Online Harms White Paper consultation includes details of new laws to deal with harmful content and behaviour online, such as misinformation and disinformation that could cause significant physical or psychological harm to an individual.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 15/01/2021 12:44:17 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

1260189

registered interest
date	10/12/2020
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	Mental Health Services: Telemedicine
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that mental health providers are able to offer online consultations to patients who need them.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
uin	128080
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2020 answer text <p>Talking therapies delivered by Improving Access to Psychological Therapies services will continue to be made available remotely so people can access help safely from home with face-to-face support provided to people, where appropriate, from within COVID-19 secure settings. Children and young people’s community mental health services will also continue to offer digital and remote access to maintain support and accept new referrals over the winter.</p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 21/12/2020 09:34:52 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick