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820662

	registered interest
	date	11/01/2018
	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: Fees and Charges
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord O'Shaughnessy on 20 December 2017 (HL3994), what was the total number of fines issued for incorrectly claiming an exemption on NHS dental fees in the first six months of 2017–18.
	tabling member printed	Lord Colwyn
	uin	HL4632
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>The NHS Business Services Authority reports that a total of 217,539 fines were issued to patients on the grounds of incorrectly claiming an exemption from NHS Dental Patient Charges in the first six months of 2017–18.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 18/01/2018 12:24:23 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
	tabling member	3394 label Biography information for Lord Colwyn

820689

	registered interest
	date	11/01/2018
	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	Radioisotopes
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what arrangements are currently in place for ensuring (1) the safety and quality of medical isotopes used by the NHS when they leave production centres in mainland Europe, and (2) the safe handling of such isotopes following arrival in the UK; and what role Euratom plays in delivering those arrangements.
	tabling member printed	Lord Warner
	uin	HL4659
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>Radio pharmaceuticals (medical isotopes) used for diagnostic procedures are human medicines and are the subject of European medicines regulations which sets out a licensing regime and includes controls on the quality of materials used and processes followed during manufacture and the way they are distributed within Europe.</p><p> </p><p>In the United Kingdom, human medicines are subject to national human medicines legislation which transposes the requirements of the European regulatory regime.</p><p> </p><p>As a form of radioactive material, medical radioisotopes are covered by the European atomic energy community (Euratom) Treaty framework. However, they are not classified as special fissile material so they are not covered by the safeguards provisions of that Treaty.</p><p> </p><p>The use and disposal of medical radioisotopes are governed by a set of standards established in domestic legislation (and regulated by domestic regulators) that have in some cases been informed by Euratom standards.</p><p> </p><p>The UK already has robust, domestic regimes in place for the safety, security, transport, use and disposal of nuclear and radioactive materials – including medical radioisotopes – throughout their lifecycle. These regimes will remain in place as the UK leaves Euratom, ensuring we exit with certainty, clarity and control.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, relevant Euratom and European Union safety and transport legislation Directives have already been, or are in the process of being, transposed into UK law before the UK’s withdrawal. The EU Withdrawal Bill will convert all European law, including that made under the Euratom Treaty, as it stands at the moment of exit into UK law.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 18/01/2018 12:22:06 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
	tabling member	1732 label Biography information for Lord Warner

819983

	registered interest
	date	10/01/2018
	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	Allied Health Professions: Departmental Responsibilities
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which member of his ministerial team will have responsibility for the allied health professions.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	122055
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>I am the Minister responsible for the allied health professions.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 18/01/2018 14:02:16 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

820796

	registered interest
	date	11/01/2018
	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: Carers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has a carer's policy for its employees; and what other steps his Department has taken to support employees with caring responsibilities.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	122214
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department has a carers policy for staff who work in the Department.</p><p> </p><p>The Department recognises that care responsibilities are not static and is committed to supporting staff who have caring responsibilities away from the workplace. The caring commitments of staff may be long or short term.</p><p> </p><p>Other steps taken to support employees with caring responsibilities:</p><p> </p><p>The Department has a number of provisions available to its staff including paid special leave; emergency carer leave; unpaid career breaks.</p><p> </p><p>The Department operates a recently updated flexible working policy which can support those with caring responsibilities by giving some degree of flexibility on how, where and when employees work. It includes a range of working patterns including: part-time, job share, remote/ home working, compressed hours, part-year, annual hours and flexi-time. It also outlines support to managers on how to have conversations about flexible working. It also makes it clear to staff how they can raise a request or initiate a conversation.</p><p> </p><p>On the Departmental intranet site there are links to relevant sources of support and useful websites. Special events are publicised on the intranet including the campaign to help carers by the Charity for Civil Servants which was launched on ‘Carer’s rights day’ last November.</p><p> </p><p>The Department launched an employee assistance programme in October 2017, which gives all staff access to confidential, independent, professional information, counselling and emotional support.</p><p> </p><p>During Carers Week in June 2017, the Department highlighted a number of ways that carers could receive support including the carers passport provided by the Charity for Civil Servants.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 18/01/2018 13:42:16 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

822845

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2018
	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: Negligence
	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 his Department has spent from the public purse on legal fees excluding sums relating to clinical malpractice in each year since 2012.
	tabling member constituency	Central Ayrshire
	tabling member printed	Dr Philippa Whitford
	uin	122528
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>The question has been interpreted as relating to the core Department.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has separately identified expenditure on legal fees in its accounts from the 2014-15 financial year. For earlier financial years, expenditure on legal fees was included in ‘other’ expenditure, and cannot be separately identified. Expenditure on legal fees is not analysed by the purpose of the fees, and it is therefore not possible to exclude any amounts relating to clinical malpractice. The total expenditure incurred by the Department on legal fees is as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Total legal fees (£000s)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>18,266</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>19,771</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>29,485</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 18/01/2018 14:29:29 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4385 label Biography information for Dr Philippa Whitford

822847

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2018
	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: Procurement
	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 has been spent by his Department from the public purse on legal fees in relation to tendering and awarding contracts in each year since 2012.
	tabling member constituency	Central Ayrshire
	tabling member printed	Dr Philippa Whitford
	uin	122530
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>The following table shows the amount spent on external legal fees in each year since 2012:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial year</p></td><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>External legal fees</p></td><td><p>£9,863,377</p></td><td><p>£9,067,828</p></td><td><p>£5,281,455</p></td><td><p>£12,231,057</p></td><td><p>£3,863,217</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Information on the legal fees related to tendering and awarding contracts cannot be separately identified from the general data on legal fees held by the Department.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 122531 question first answered 18/01/2018 14:27:27 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4385 label Biography information for Dr Philippa Whitford

822848

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2018
	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: Legal Costs
	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 has been spent by his Department from the public purse on legal fees from external legal firms in each year since 2012.
	tabling member constituency	Central Ayrshire
	tabling member printed	Dr Philippa Whitford
	uin	122531
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>The following table shows the amount spent on external legal fees in each year since 2012:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial year</p></td><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>External legal fees</p></td><td><p>£9,863,377</p></td><td><p>£9,067,828</p></td><td><p>£5,281,455</p></td><td><p>£12,231,057</p></td><td><p>£3,863,217</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Information on the legal fees related to tendering and awarding contracts cannot be separately identified from the general data on legal fees held by the Department.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 122530 question first answered 18/01/2018 14:27:27 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4385 label Biography information for Dr Philippa Whitford

822897

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2018
	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, what information his Department holds on the number of care packages that were commissioned by Local Authorities in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
	tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
	uin	122580
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>The table below shows the number of people receiving care packages for the period 2010/11 to 2013/14.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>During year</p></td><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>2013/14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>1,574,590</p></td><td><p>1,462,290</p></td><td><p>1,327,910</p></td><td><p>1,273,280</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The method of collecting data around users of social care changed in 2014/15. The table below provides the figures for 2014/15 onwards which are published by NHS Digital.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>During year</p></td><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Completed Short Term Care Episodes</p></td><td><p>253,000</p></td><td><p>245,270</p></td><td><p>241,810</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Long Term Care Users</p></td><td><p>885,000</p></td><td><p>873,000</p></td><td><p>868,440</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The figures above show that there has been a reduction in local authority social care user numbers over the time period requested.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities have shifted their focus towards preventing people needing formal packages of care hence the drop in user numbers.</p><p> </p><p>All councils have statutory duties to look after their vulnerable elderly and disabled people. The Care Act 2014 introduced national eligibility criteria for access to adult social care that local authorities are required to meet.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 18/01/2018 14:01:02 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

822898

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2018
	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	Dementia
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to make available data about delayed transfers of care involving people with dementia for the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
	tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
	uin	122581
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>NHS England publishes monthly data on the number of delayed transfers of care. The latest data is for November 2017 and is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/delayed-transfers-of-care/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/delayed-transfers-of-care/</a></p><p> </p><p>There are currently no plans to collect patient condition specific data about delayed transfers of care.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 122583 question first answered 18/01/2018 14:31:43 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

822900

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2018
	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, what plans he has to make available data for each condition on delayed transfers of care for the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
	tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
	uin	122583
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>NHS England publishes monthly data on the number of delayed transfers of care. The latest data is for November 2017 and is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/delayed-transfers-of-care/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/delayed-transfers-of-care/</a></p><p> </p><p>There are currently no plans to collect patient condition specific data about delayed transfers of care.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 122581 question first answered 18/01/2018 14:31:43 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley