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1172412

	registered interest
	date	21/01/2020
	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
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to issue guidance to NHS Property Services and NHS organisations to encourage the listing of NHS buildings of special architectural or historical interest through an application to Historic England.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL636
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2020 answer text <p>Guidance is provided to the National Health Service on the management of buildings of special architectural or historical interest in <em>Health Building Note 00-08 Part B: Supplementary information for Part A - Strategic framework for the efficient management of healthcare estates and facilities</em>. A copy of the guidance is attached.</p><p>There is no requirement under existing guidance Health Building Notes, the National Planning Policy Framework or at local level for any organisation, including the NHS, to request for an asset to be listed. There is only an obligation once something is listed by Heritage England (on behalf of the Secretary of State) or local listed status.</p><p>The Government’s policy for conserving and enhancing the historic environment including historic buildings is set out in the National Planning Policy framework. Trusts are responsible for implementing this guidance locally. Guidance is reviewed periodically to ensure it remains fit for purpose and at this time there are no current plans to amend or update this guidance.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford grouped question UIN HL633 question first answered 29/01/2020 17:13:38 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford attachment 1 file name HBN_08_Part_B.pdf title HBN_08_Part_B
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1172431

	registered interest
	date	21/01/2020
	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
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether pre-registration physiotherapy students (1) already studying, and (2) due to start a course, will qualify for maintenance grants of £5,000 and, where eligible, for further grants of up to £3,000 from 2020.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Thornton
	uin	HL655
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2020 answer text <p>All new and continuing students enrolled in an eligible pre-registration undergraduate or postgraduate physiotherapy course at an English university from September 2020 will be eligible for at least £5,000 of the new financial support package.</p><p>Extra payments worth up to £3,000 per academic year will be available for eligible students depending on their individual circumstances. For those studying physiotherapy, this could include £1,000 of financial support to help with childcare costs. Physiotherapy students will not be eligible for the £1,000 incentive funding announced on 19 January 2020 for students entering a pre-registration course in a shortage healthcare specialism. As set out in the announcement of 19 January, the Department is undertaking further work to develop the £1,000 incentive payment which will be targeted at specific regions or geographical areas and it is possible that some new physiotherapy students could be eligible for additional payments as part of this. Further information will be set out as soon as possible.</p><p>There are no current plans to limit the number of physiotherapy students who could receive funding they may be eligible for.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford grouped question UIN HL656 HL657 question first answered 29/01/2020 17:14:04 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
	tabling member	1782 label Biography information for Baroness Thornton

1172432

	registered interest
	date	21/01/2020
	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
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether pre-registration physiotherapy students participating on (1) BSc, and (2) MSc, courses will qualify for maintenance grants of £5,000 and, where eligible, for further grants of up to £3,000 from 2020.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Thornton
	uin	HL656
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2020 answer text <p>All new and continuing students enrolled in an eligible pre-registration undergraduate or postgraduate physiotherapy course at an English university from September 2020 will be eligible for at least £5,000 of the new financial support package.</p><p>Extra payments worth up to £3,000 per academic year will be available for eligible students depending on their individual circumstances. For those studying physiotherapy, this could include £1,000 of financial support to help with childcare costs. Physiotherapy students will not be eligible for the £1,000 incentive funding announced on 19 January 2020 for students entering a pre-registration course in a shortage healthcare specialism. As set out in the announcement of 19 January, the Department is undertaking further work to develop the £1,000 incentive payment which will be targeted at specific regions or geographical areas and it is possible that some new physiotherapy students could be eligible for additional payments as part of this. Further information will be set out as soon as possible.</p><p>There are no current plans to limit the number of physiotherapy students who could receive funding they may be eligible for.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford grouped question UIN HL655 HL657 question first answered 29/01/2020 17:14:04 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
	tabling member	1782 label Biography information for Baroness Thornton

1172433

	registered interest
	date	21/01/2020
	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
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether there will be a limit on the number of pre-registration physiotherapy students able to qualify for maintenance grants of £5,000 and, where eligible, for further grants of up to £3,000 from 2020.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Thornton
	uin	HL657
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2020 answer text <p>All new and continuing students enrolled in an eligible pre-registration undergraduate or postgraduate physiotherapy course at an English university from September 2020 will be eligible for at least £5,000 of the new financial support package.</p><p>Extra payments worth up to £3,000 per academic year will be available for eligible students depending on their individual circumstances. For those studying physiotherapy, this could include £1,000 of financial support to help with childcare costs. Physiotherapy students will not be eligible for the £1,000 incentive funding announced on 19 January 2020 for students entering a pre-registration course in a shortage healthcare specialism. As set out in the announcement of 19 January, the Department is undertaking further work to develop the £1,000 incentive payment which will be targeted at specific regions or geographical areas and it is possible that some new physiotherapy students could be eligible for additional payments as part of this. Further information will be set out as soon as possible.</p><p>There are no current plans to limit the number of physiotherapy students who could receive funding they may be eligible for.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford grouped question UIN HL655 HL656 question first answered 29/01/2020 17:14:04 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
	tabling member	1782 label Biography information for Baroness Thornton

1175804

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2020
	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
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what rights patients have to see their named GP.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Hodgson of Abinger
	uin	HL687
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2020 answer text <p>The legal responsibilities of the named accountable general practitioner (GP) are set out in the National Health Service (General Medical Services [GMS] Contracts) Regulations 2004 (as amended). The contract (and amendments) include a requirement for all patients to be assigned a named accountable GP who has overall responsibility for that patient’s care. This does not necessarily mean that patients will see their named accountable GP for every appointment. Patients can still request to see a particular GP, although they may have to wait longer for an appointment if they do so.</p><p>The Department has not made a formal assessment into the impact and role of named accountable GPs.</p><p>Under the terms of the GMS Regulations, the named accountable GP must take lead responsibility for the coordination of all services required under the contract and ensure they are delivered to each of their patients where required (based on the clinical judgment of the named accountable GP). The 2015/16 GMS Contract Guidance (published in March 2015) provides further information on named accountable GPs for all patients. A copy is attached. The guidance states: ‘Where the patient expresses a preference as to which GP they have been assigned, the practice must make reasonable efforts to accommodate this request’. This document provides guidance for commissioners, local medical committees and GP practices. This information is also of use to individuals because it explains how named accountable GPs should interact with their patients. The British Medical Association (BMA) has also provided guidance on how practices can fulfil the requirement to provide named accountable GPs for their patients.</p><p>Every patient can request to see a specific GP, including their named accountable GP. Under the terms of their contract (as set out in Schedule 3, Part 2 of the Regulations), the GP practice must endeavour to comply with all reasonable requests of patients to see a particular practitioner. Authorised family members have the same rights.</p><p>Data is not held centrally on the percentage of named accountable GPs in England who have seen the patients they are accountable for.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford grouped question UIN HL684 HL685 HL686 HL688 HL689 question first answered 05/02/2020 15:43:04 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford attachment 1 file name GMS-Guidance.pdf title General Medical Services (GMS) contract
	tabling member	4301 label Biography information for Baroness Hodgson of Abinger

1236498

	registered interest
	date	17/09/2020
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to his oral contribution of 15 September 2020, Official Report, column 185, if he will publish the source of the data which shows 484 people receiving covid-19 tests in Luton on 14 September 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Luton North
	tabling member printed	Sarah Owen
	uin	91730
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2021 answer text <p>The source of this data is the Test and Trace Weekly Statistical bulletin. The data provided immediately and there are some cases where a test is registered after the day it has been taken, which means that the number of tests can increase slightly over time.</p><p>The updated data is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/number-of-coronavirus-tests-processed-by-local-authority-england-28-may-to-16-september-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/number-of-coronavirus-tests-processed-by-local-authority-england-28-may-to-16-september-2020</a></p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 29/03/2021 13:10:29 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 49223 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4777 label Biography information for Sarah Owen

1313131

	registered interest
	date	11/05/2021
	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
	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 assessment he has made of the adequacy of funding allocated to the (a) mental health and (b) social care budgets in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
	tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
	uin	423
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2021 answer text <p>We have made no such assessment. However, funding for National Health Service mental health services has increased every year since 2018-19 in line with the commitments in the NHS Long Term Plan to invest at least £2.3 billion of extra funding a year in mental health services by 2023-24.</p><p>Public spending on adult social care services has increased in real terms in every year since 2015-16, reaching £18.8 billion in 2019-20. We are providing councils with access to over £1 billion of additional funding for social care in 2021-22. This includes £300 million of new grant funding for social care, on top of the £1 billion social care grant announced in 2019.</p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 22/06/2021 14:00:53 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
	tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1342249

	registered interest
	date	30/06/2021
	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
	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 covid-19 outbreak, whether he has plans to review the long-term infection prevention and control measures required by Intensive Care Units; what assessment his Department has made of the steps required to minimise the risk of hospital acquired infections; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	24968
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2021 answer text <p>There are no specific plans to review the long-term infection prevention and control (IPC) measures in intensive care units (ITU). However, we have committed to publish a National Infection Prevention Manual for England that will contain guidelines for IPC best practice across healthcare settings. All National Health Service providers will be expected to deliver care to the standards outlined in this guidance.</p><p>The United Kingdom IPC COVID-19 cell monitors and reviews emerging evidence and data and guidance on effective IPC. To support NHS trusts to assess compliance with COVID-19 guidelines in all clinical areas, including ITU, NHS England has a number of resources which are available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/publication/infection-prevention-and-control-supporting-documentation/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/publication/infection-prevention-and-control-supporting-documentation/</a></p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 19/07/2021 12:03:56 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1342884

	registered interest
	date	01/07/2021
	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
	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 people (a) over 60, (b) between 50 and 60 and (c) under 50 have been infected by covid-19 in each of the last two months.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	25816
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2021 answer text <p>The following table shows the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in people aged over 60 years old, between 50 and 60 years old and under 50 years old in England in May and June 2021.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Age</p></td><td><p>May 2021</p></td><td><p>June 2021</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Over 60 years old</p></td><td><p>3,551</p></td><td><p>9,385</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>50 to 60 years old</p></td><td><p>4,835</p></td><td><p>15,837</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Under 50 years old</p></td><td><p>46,942</p></td><td><p>201,566</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-flu-and-covid-19-surveillance-reports" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-flu-and-covid-19-surveillance-reports</a></p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 12/07/2021 12:58:05 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1344062

	registered interest
	date	06/07/2021
	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
	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 control the transmission of the South African variant of covid-19 in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	28188
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2021 answer text <p>The Beta variant accounts for a relatively small amount of COVID-19 cases and is on the list of current variants of concern (VOC) monitored by Public Health England and forms part of the wider approach to dealing with VOCs. This includes the continuous tracking and identification of new strains and assessing their impact on the United Kingdom population.</p><p> </p><p>In response to VOCs, including the Beta variant, support measures have been made available to local authorities, including surge testing, enhanced contact tracing, faster standard tracing for all cases in the area as well as direct reporting into a national incident management structure to ensure a consistent and timely response.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 14/07/2021 09:47:10 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon