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1150992

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2019
	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	Department of Health and Social Care: Living Wage
	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 staff his Department are paid less than the London Living Wage; and what requirements his Department places on contractors to pay the London Living Wage to London-based staff.
	tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
	tabling member printed	Matthew Pennycook
	uin	2823
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2019 answer text <p>Whilst Government Departments do not seek accreditation to the Living Wage Foundation in relation to their rates of pay, the Department’s pay levels are above the current London Living Wage rates (as defined by the Living Wage Foundation) for directly employed members of staff and agency staff that are also sourced via the Crown Commercial Services Framework Contingent Labour Framework.</p><p>Contractor pay levels adhere to the statutory requirements to pay the National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage. We do not require pay levels for our contractors to be above London Living Wage levels.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 29/10/2019 17:29:31 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook

1127529

	registered interest
	date	20/05/2019
	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	Hospices: Finance
	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 ensure the financial sustainability of charitable hospices.
	tabling member constituency	Bury North
	tabling member printed	James Frith
	uin	256339
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2019 answer text <p>As part of the NHS Long Term Plan, NHS England committed to increase its investment in children’s palliative care over the next five years by match funding clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) who commit to increase their investment in local children’s palliative and end of life care services.</p><p> </p><p>Subject to CCGs increasing investment, NHS England will match this by up to £7 million a year by 2023/24. This increase is in addition to the Children’s Hospice Grant, which provides an annual contribution of £11 million. NHS England is currently establishing financial reporting systems to monitor the baseline investment of CCGs in children’s palliative and end of life care services. This will enable match funding payments made to CCGs where the investments are increased above the investment baseline in the previous year. As baselining will be ongoing through 2019/20, and therefore match funding will not be available in this year, NHS England will be increasing the children’s hospice grant to £12 million for this period.</p><p> </p><p>With regards to financial sustainability of hospices, these are primarily charity-funded but receive some statutory funding from CCGS for providing local services. The amount of funding varies between CCGs, but on average adult hospices receive approximately 30% of their overall funding from National Health Service sources. CCGs are responsible for determining the level of NHS-funded hospice care locally and they are responsible for ensuring that the services they commission meet the needs of their local population.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 256338 question first answered 23/05/2019 10:16:42 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

1169140

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2020
	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
	hansard heading	Fertility: Females
	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 support women with fertility problems.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	995
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2020 answer text <p>The level of provision of local health services available to patients, including fertility treatment, is, and has been since the 1990s, a matter for local healthcare commissioners. Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have a statutory responsibility to commission healthcare services including fertility services that meet the needs of their whole population.</p><p>The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority’s guidance for commissioners is a new tool to help them implement the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) fertility guidelines.</p><p>The Government’s position is that CCGs should be following the NICE fertility guidelines as part of their National Health Service service offer to local people. On 17 June 2019, the then Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Mental Health, Inequalities and Suicide Prevention (Jackie Doyle-Price MP) wrote to the Chief Executives of all CCGs in England to promote the guidance and benchmark price, and strongly encourage them to implement the NICE fertility guidelines in full.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 14/01/2020 15:33:48 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1174425

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2020
	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
	hansard heading	Learning Disabilities Mortality Review Programme
	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 the Answer of 23 January 2020 to Question 5379 on Learning Disabilities Mortality Review Programme, whether he plans to publish the last annual report from the Learning Disability Mortality Review.
	tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
	tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
	uin	9802
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>The third annual report is the latest report from Learning Disabilities Mortality Review (LeDeR) programme and was published on 21 May 2019. A further annual report will be published by the University of Bristol later this year. NHS England and NHS Improvement will also publish an action from learning report, setting out the work underway nationally in response to common themes raised through LeDeR reviews across the country.</p><p>We are taking action to address the recommendations set out in the third annual LeDeR report and will publish our formal response shortly.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 04/02/2020 13:38:47 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1150127

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2019
	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	Hysteroscopy
	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 plans to include outpatient hysteroscopy on the agenda of a future meeting of the Women's Health Taskforce for England.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	968
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2019 answer text <p>Since February 2019, the Taskforce has met on two further occasions on the following subjects:</p><p> </p><p>25 April 2019 on the menopause.</p><p>4 July 2019 on menstrual health.</p><p> </p><p>The draft Terms of Reference were revised after the Taskforce met on 31 January 2019, focusing on unplanned pregnancy. All of these meetings were held, and the draft Terms of Reference revised, when the Taskforce was co-chaired by the then Parliamentary Under Secretary for Mental Health, Inequalities and Suicide Prevention (Jackie Doyle-Price MP).</p><p> </p><p>The Taskforce has not worked directly with the campaign against painful hysteroscopies or other campaign groups. The Taskforce is co-chaired by the President the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.</p><p> </p><p>There are currently no plans to include outpatient hysteroscopy as an agenda item for a future meeting of the Women’s Health Taskforce; it is, of course, possible that the issue will be discussed under a different agenda item in the future.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 967 question first answered 25/10/2019 11:02:11 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1150126

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2019
	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	Women's Health Taskforce for England
	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 Answer of 7 March 2019 to Question 226643 on Women's Health Taskforce for England, on what dates the Women's Health Taskforce for England has met since February 2019; what the topics of discussion were at each meeting; whether the draft Terms of Reference for the Taskforce have been approved; and whether plans for information and involvement from (a) the Campaign Against Painful Hysteroscopy and (b) other campaign groups has been considered.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	967
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2019 answer text <p>Since February 2019, the Taskforce has met on two further occasions on the following subjects:</p><p> </p><p>25 April 2019 on the menopause.</p><p>4 July 2019 on menstrual health.</p><p> </p><p>The draft Terms of Reference were revised after the Taskforce met on 31 January 2019, focusing on unplanned pregnancy. All of these meetings were held, and the draft Terms of Reference revised, when the Taskforce was co-chaired by the then Parliamentary Under Secretary for Mental Health, Inequalities and Suicide Prevention (Jackie Doyle-Price MP).</p><p> </p><p>The Taskforce has not worked directly with the campaign against painful hysteroscopies or other campaign groups. The Taskforce is co-chaired by the President the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.</p><p> </p><p>There are currently no plans to include outpatient hysteroscopy as an agenda item for a future meeting of the Women’s Health Taskforce; it is, of course, possible that the issue will be discussed under a different agenda item in the future.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 968 question first answered 25/10/2019 11:02:11 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1174250

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2020
	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
	hansard heading	Psychiatric Hospitals: Standards
	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 his oral contribution, of 28 January 2020, Official Report, Column 665, if he will publish the number of people held under the Transforming Care programme in units rated as (a) Requires Improvement and (b) Inadequate by clinical commissioning group in (i) March 2015, (ii) March 2017 and (iii) December 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
	tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
	uin	9628
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2020 answer text <p>The attached tables outline the number of people with a learning disability or autism who were inpatients in March 2015, March 2017 and December 2019 according to the Assuring Transformation dataset.</p><p>The data regarding the number of people held under the Transforming Care programme in units rated as requires improvement or inadequate by clinical commissioning group is not currently available in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 9627 question first answered 03/02/2020 16:41:09 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage attachment 1 file name pq9627 628 tables.xlsx title pq9627 628 tables
	tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1174249

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2020
	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
	hansard heading	Psychiatric Patients
	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 his oral contribution, of 28 January 2020, Official Report, column 665, if he will publish the number of people held under the Transforming Care programme by clinical commissioning group in (a) March 2015, (b) March 2017 and (c) December 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
	tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
	uin	9627
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2020 answer text <p>The attached tables outline the number of people with a learning disability or autism who were inpatients in March 2015, March 2017 and December 2019 according to the Assuring Transformation dataset.</p><p>The data regarding the number of people held under the Transforming Care programme in units rated as requires improvement or inadequate by clinical commissioning group is not currently available in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 9628 question first answered 03/02/2020 16:41:09 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage attachment 1 file name pq9627 628 tables.xlsx title pq9627 628 tables
	tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1174341

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2020
	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
	hansard heading	Speech and Language Therapy: Expenditure
	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 his Department has had with the (a) Children’s Commissioner’s Office and (b) other partners on options for producing expenditure data on speech, language and communication services.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	9587
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2020 answer text <p>Departmental officials met with the Children’s Commissioner’s office in October 2019 to discuss the issues raised in her report ‘We need to talk: access to speech and language therapy’. The Department will continue to work with the Children’s Commissioner’s Office, the National Health Service and other stakeholders ahead of the intention to repeat a data gathering exercise within the next two years.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 03/02/2020 16:41:48 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1174340

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2020
	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
	hansard heading	Speech and Language Therapy: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time was from first outpatient appointment to second outpatient appointment for children receiving speech and language therapy in each of the last two years.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	9586
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2020 answer text <p>The information is not held in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 03/02/2020 16:27:06 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1174284

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2020
	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
	hansard heading	Stem Cells: Donors
	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 (a) raise awareness of the need for stem cell donations from the BAME communities and (b) encourage more people to join the stem cell donor register; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow West
	tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
	uin	9584
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2020 answer text <p>Since 2011 the Department has provided over £26.8 million in financial support to NHS Blood and Transplant and Anthony Nolan to enable the establishment of a unified United Kingdom Stem Cell Registry and improve access to and outcomes of stem cell donation. This includes improving equity of access to unrelated donor stem cell transplantation for black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) patients through targeted recruitment to the UK Stem Cell Registry.</p><p>Current funding includes very specific stipulations about the numbers of newly registered bone marrow donors, and the proportion of umbilical cords stored in the UK Cord Blood Bank that must be from BAME backgrounds (35-40%). There are now 1.6 million donors on the UK’s aligned stem cell registry and the proportion of BAME donors in the UK registry has gone up from 11% to 14% between 2014 and 2019. In 2018, 22% of newly registered potential donors were from BAME backgrounds.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 05/02/2020 14:58:56 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1169238

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2020
	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
	hansard heading	Continuing Care: Dorset
	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 applications using the NHS Continuing Healthcare Fast Track Pathway tool have been made in the Dorset CCG area in each of the last six months for which information is available; how many such applications were (a) successful and (b) rejected; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Christchurch
	tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
	uin	943
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2020 answer text <p>Data on NHS Continuing Healthcare Fast Track for clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) is routinely published quarterly on the NHS England statistical webpage.</p><p>The following table provides the last six months of information which is Q1 and Q2 2019/20.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Reporting period</p></td><td><p>CCG</p></td><td><p>Number of referrals completed (including discounted referrals)</p></td><td><p>Number assessed as eligible</p></td><td><p>Number of referrals discounted before assessment</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Q1 2019/20</p></td><td><p>NHS Dorset</p></td><td><p>438</p></td><td><p>381</p></td><td><p>57</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Q2 2019/20</p></td><td><p>NHS Dorset</p></td><td><p>533</p></td><td><p>412</p></td><td><p>121</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>In providing this response we have interpreted:</p><p>- “how many applications using the NHS Continuing Healthcare Fast Track Pathway tool have been made in the Dorset CCG area” as “Number of referrals completed (including discounted referrals)”;</p><p>- “how many such applications were successful” as “Number assessed as eligible”; and</p><p>- “rejected” as “Number of referrals discounted before assessment”.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 13/01/2020 16:28:26 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

1132766

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2019
	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	Social Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps he is taking to improve social care.
	tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
	tabling member printed	Kevin Hollinrake
	uin	911424
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>Local authorities have a duty to ensure people receive appropriate care and support. We have given them access to up to £3.9 billion more dedicated funding for adult social care this year, and a further £410 million has been made available for adult and children’s services.</p><p>We will set out our plans to reform the social care system at the earliest opportunity to ensure it is sustainable for the future.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 18/06/2019 15:02:18 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake

1132763

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2019
	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	Patients: Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps he is taking to ensure NHS patient safety.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	911420
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>Patient safety remains a key priority for the National Health Service. NHS Improvement and NHS England are developing a new National Patient Safety Strategy that will sit alongside the NHS Long Term Plan.</p><p>The strategy will be published this summer and will build on existing work to provide a coherent framework that the whole NHS can recognise and support</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 18/06/2019 15:03:47 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

1173935

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2020
	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
	hansard heading	Department of Health and Social Care: Families
	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 appointed an official responsible for leading on his Department's application of the Family Test.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Dorset and North Poole
	tabling member printed	Michael Tomlinson
	uin	9089
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2020 answer text <p>Each Department has a Family Test lead who is part of our Family Test Network. This Network is the central forum through which we have sought input and comments on the support departments need to help with Family Test implementation.</p><p>This includes Network members feeding into improvements to the existing guidance for officials in all departments on Family Test implementation.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 05/02/2020 14:01:23 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson

1173984

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2020
	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
	hansard heading	Care Homes: Fees and Charges
	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 his Department has made of the affordability of residential care for those that need it.
	tabling member constituency	South Leicestershire
	tabling member printed	Alberto Costa
	uin	9072
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2020 answer text <p>The Care Act 2014 placed a duty on local authorities to shape their local markets so that there is an adequate supply of provision which ensures all adult social care service users have a choice of high-quality services. In the case of state-funded care, local authorities negotiate with care providers to achieve a balance of quality, effectiveness and value for money for the public purse.</p><p>The level of fees charged to people who fund their own care is a private contractual matter.</p><p>The Care Act also placed a duty on local authorities to assess an individual’s finances to establish if they are able to pay for their care. This ensures everyone can rely on state support if they do not have the means to support themselves. The means test is reviewed annually.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 05/02/2020 13:42:24 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4439 label Biography information for Alberto Costa

1173902

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2020
	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
	hansard heading	Autism: Diagnosis
	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 work with NHS England & Improvement to establish an autism diagnosis waiting time standard.
	tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
	tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
	uin	9058
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2020 answer text <p>We are committed to ensuring people receive a timely diagnosis of autism in line with the clinical guideline set by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). This guideline recommends the length of time between referral and a first appointment to start an assessment should be no more than three months.</p><p>Whilst a diagnosis of autism should happen as soon as possible, it is important to recognise that a diagnosis is often complex and involves many different professionals and agencies. We are following the clinical guideline set by NICE.</p><p>Under the NHS Long Term Plan, over the next three years, autism diagnosis will be included alongside work with children and young people’s mental health services to test and implement the most effective ways to reduce waiting times for specialist services. This will be a step towards achieving timely diagnostic assessments in line with best practice guidelines. The Department will support NHS England and NHS Improvement’s work on this.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 05/02/2020 13:49:08 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

1174018

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2020
	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
	hansard heading	Department of Health and Social Care: Apprentices
	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 staff employed by his Department are apprentices.
	tabling member constituency	Wythenshawe and Sale East
	tabling member printed	Mike Kane
	uin	9042
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2020 answer text <p>The Department started offering apprenticeships in 2015 (pre-Levy and the introduction of Government targets). We have taken a proactive approach to apprenticeships and are working to embed apprenticeships so that they are a core part of our learning and development offer. We continue to increase the take up of apprenticeships year on year and apprentices currently make up 3.8% of the Department’s 1,743 workforce.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 03/02/2020 16:38:45 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane

1173904

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2020
	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
	hansard heading	Transplant Surgery: Ethnic Groups
	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 ensure that waiting times for BAME patients for organ transplants are reduced after the introduction of the Organ Donation (Deemed Consent) Act 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	9031
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2020 answer text <p>NHS Blood and Transplant works closely with black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities to encourage more people to register to donate and to address barriers to organ donation. Since its launch in April 2019, NHS Blood and Transplant’s communication campaign has developed specific materials to resonate with diverse audiences and communities, including translating materials into different languages and taking into account different faith and beliefs. In addition, the BAME Community Investment Scheme provides small grants to community-led organisations to raise awareness of the law change and the Government has so far provided £200,000 of funding for 26 projects.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 03/02/2020 16:42:19 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1173955

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2020
	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
	hansard heading	Social Services: Expenditure
	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 funding from the public purse was allocated by local authorities for adult social care in each year since 2009-10, by local authority.
	tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
	tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
	uin	9027
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2020 answer text <p>The amount of expenditure for adult social care by local authority is not available in the format requested. Funding for adult social care comes from several sources, including central Government grants, council tax revenue, business rates, and National Health Service funding through the Better Care Fund. Local authorities are responsible for setting their own overall budgets for adult social care.</p><p> </p><p>The attached table from the NHS Digital Activity and Finance Report 2018-19 provides an overview of expenditure in England on adult social care including a number of sources of funding. However, these are not available at the local authority level.</p><p> </p><p>A local authority level timeseries breakdown is not compiled centrally. However, raw data for local authority level breakdowns of expenditure is available on the NHS Digital website in their social care collections. Not all sources of funding are available at local authority level, such as the Better Care Fund. Links to the reports are below and include 2009-10 to 2018-19.</p><p> </p><p>2016/17 to 2018/19</p><p><a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/adult-social-care-activity-and-finance-report" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/adult-social-care-activity-and-finance-report</a></p><p> </p><p>Before 2016/17</p><p><a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/personal-social-services-expenditure-and-unit-costs" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/personal-social-services-expenditure-and-unit-costs</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 03/02/2020 16:36:46 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage attachment 1 file name PQ 9027 Attached Table formatted.docx title pq9027 table
	tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

1173824

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2020
	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
	hansard heading	National Institute for Health Research: Equality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will undertake an equality impact assessment of research funding spent by the National Institute for Health Research.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
	tabling member printed	Ian Murray
	uin	8996
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2020 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) is funded by the Department. As a public authority, the Department is required to adhere to the Public Sector Equality Duty in line with the Equality Act 2010. The Department takes its obligations under the Equality Act very seriously, specifically in ensuring that we give due regard to the impacts on people with protected characteristics. The NIHR Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Board is leading work on equality impact assessments and their applicability to the NIHR. A decision on whether and where to apply equality impact assessments will be made as a result of this work.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 03/02/2020 16:42:50 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

1150064

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2019
	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	Social Services: Fees and Charges
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance her Department issues to local authorities on the level of fees charged by social care providers; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Gedling
	tabling member printed	Vernon Coaker
	uin	882
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>The Care Act 2014 placed duties on local authorities to shape their local markets so that there is an adequate supply of provision which ensures all adult social care service users have a choice of high-quality services. In the case of state-funded care, local authorities negotiate with care providers to achieve a balance of quality, effectiveness and value for money for the public purse.</p><p>The level of fees charged to people who fund their own care is a private contractual matter.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 21/10/2019 14:17:20 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker

1150062

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2019
	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	Social Services: Contracts
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance he has issued to local authorities on awarding social care contracts; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Gedling
	tabling member printed	Vernon Coaker
	uin	881
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>Commissioning social care is a matter for local authorities who are best placed to understand the needs of local people and communities, and how to meet them</p><p>The Department supports local authorities to commission social care by funding a number of sector-led improvement activities. These are delivered in partnership with the Local Government Association and Association of Directors of Adult Social Services and offer all local areas support in meeting the challenges of adult social care delivery</p><p>We also fund the Social Care Institute for Excellence and Think Local, Act Personal to create best practice digital guidance about commissioning and to promote the principles of co-production and personalisation within social care commissioning.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 21/10/2019 14:16:10 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker

1150173

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2019
	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	Hearing Aids: Children
	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 deaf children have access to radio aids to help them communicate in their early years.
	tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
	tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
	uin	879
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2019 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally.</p><p>The Government recognises that early access to language support is essential to help children to learn and to thrive. It is vital that parents and carers who care for deaf and hearing impaired children and young people are supported to communicate with them.</p><p>In 2018 we announced new contracts worth more than £25 million to help provide children with special educational needs and disability – including those who are deaf or have a hearing impairment – access to excellent support.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 24/10/2019 10:46:07 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1150168

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2019
	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	Cystic Fibrosis: Research
	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 his Department has made of the progress made in research and response to cystic fibrosis in the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
	tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
	uin	876
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2019 answer text <p>No assessment has been made. The Department funds research through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). The NIHR welcomes research funding applications into any aspect of human health, including cystic fibrosis.</p><p> </p><p>Over the last five years, the NIHR has provided £8 million to fund 27 research studies into various aspects of cystic fibrosis and has provided just over £1 million to the Cochrane Cystic Fibrosis and Genetic Disorders Group to carry out systematic reviews in this area.</p><p> </p><p>The NIHR has also supported 124 studies and trials on cystic fibrosis via the NIHR Biomedical Research Centres, Units and other research infrastructure, and a further 125 studies in this area through the NIHR Clinical Research Network.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 24/10/2019 10:45:11 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes