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819091

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2018
	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: Children
	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 ministerial responsibilities include children's social care.
	tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
	tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
	uin	121768
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>Children’s social care is the policy responsibility of the Department for Education.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 15/01/2018 16:00:26 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

819876

	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	Community 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 households have signed up to the Shared Lives initiative in (a) England and (b) North Cornwall constituency.
	tabling member constituency	North Cornwall
	tabling member printed	Scott Mann
	uin	121948
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 17/01/2018 14:37:32 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4496 label Biography information for Scott Mann

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

820831

	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	Dementia: Care Homes
	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 plans to make dementia training compulsory in care homes for older people.
	tabling member constituency	North West Durham
	tabling member printed	Laura Pidcock
	uin	122249
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2018 answer text <p>The Challenge on Dementia 2020, published in February 2015, set the expectation that social care providers deliver appropriate training on dementia to all relevant staff, however we have no plans to make dementia training compulsory in care homes for older people.</p><p> </p><p>Since April 2015, newly appointed health care assistants and social care support workers, including those who will provide care and support to people with dementia in care homes have been undergoing training as part of the national implementation of the Care Certificate. The Care Certificate equips new staff with the knowledge and skills which they need to provide safe, compassionate care across a range of areas, including the care of people with dementia.</p><p> </p><p>There is no statutory requirement for providers to implement the Care Certificate. Care Quality Commission inspectors do, however, have powers to enforce regulations covering staff induction and training. As such, they would expect to see induction programmes that are broadly equivalent to the Care Certificate standards.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 16/01/2018 12:29:41 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4665 label Biography information for Laura Pidcock

821479

	registered interest
	date	12/01/2018
	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	Health Services and 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 steps his Department is taking to integrate health and social care policy.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	122397
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>In March 2017, the Department of Health and Social Care and the Department for Communities and Local Government, working with the Local Government Association, Association of Directors of Adult Social Services and NHS England, published the Integration and Better Care Fund Policy Framework 2017-19. The document includes the policy framework for the implementation of the Better Care Fund (BCF), which is the first national, mandatory integration policy. The BCF has helped to join up health and care services so people can manage their own health and wellbeing, and live independently in their communities for as long as possible. In both 2015-16 and 2016-17, local areas voluntarily pooled more than the minimum required taking the total to £5.3 billion and £5.9 billion respectively.</p><p> </p><p>The Policy Framework also sets out our proposals for going beyond the BCF towards further integration, including that areas will be allowed to ‘graduate’ once they have demonstrated that they have moved beyond the requirements of BCF reporting and are exemplars of integration. To help local areas understand whether they are meeting our integration ambition, the Department is developing integration metrics for assessing progress, particularly at the interface where health and social care interact. The Department is working with the Social Care Institute for Excellence to better understand good practice in integrated care and how the Department could develop a more balanced set of measures of success in this area.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 22/01/2018 11:38:48 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

821509

	registered interest
	date	12/01/2018
	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	Care Homes: Closures
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effect of residential and care home closures on the ability of local authorities to fulfil their statutory obligations to provide care.
	tabling member constituency	Walsall South
	tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
	uin	122427
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2018 answer text <p>High quality care is not just about care home beds. Of those aged 65 and over who need local authority support, 62% are cared for in their own home. Since 2010 there has been a growth in home care agencies of more than 3,140.</p><p> </p><p>The total number of beds in care homes has remained broadly static since 2010.</p><p> </p><p>We have given local authorities in England an extra £2 billion over the next three years to maintain access for our growing aging population and allow councils to sustain a diverse care market including care home places.</p><p> </p><p>In addition the Government has announced we will consult on plans to improve the social care system and to put it on a more secure financial footing.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 17/01/2018 15:08:11 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4076 label Biography information for Valerie Vaz

821560

	registered interest
	date	12/01/2018
	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: Electric Vehicles
	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 vehicles in his Department's fleet are (a) electric vehicles and (b) ultra-low emission vehicles.
	tabling member constituency	Wakefield
	tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
	uin	122478
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not have a fleet of vehicles.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 22/01/2018 11:59:54 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

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