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755834

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Medicine: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to support the development and growth of smaller and non-London medical schools.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	7288
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>The Government has announced a historic expansion of medical school places in England, with an increase of 1,500 medical school places in England. The first 500 places have already been allocated and will be available to students in September 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The Government response to the recent consultation was published on 9 August 2017, confirming that 1,000 additional medical school places would be available to medical schools in England via a competitive bidding process to be managed jointly by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and Health Education England (HEE).</p><p> </p><p>It also set out the priority areas bidding criteria would need to focus that include aligning the expansion to local National Health Service workforce need with an emphasis on priority geographical areas, including rural and coastal areas.</p><p> </p><p>HEFCE and HEE are currently finalising the design of the bidding process and will publish details in the autumn.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne grouped question UIN 6980 6981 7224 7567 7816 question first answered 12/09/2017 09:18:09 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

757037

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Medicine: Higher Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to announce the criteria and timetable for allocating additional undergraduate medical student places.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	7567
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>The Government has announced a historic expansion of medical school places in England, with an increase of 1,500 medical school places in England. The first 500 places have already been allocated and will be available to students in September 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The Government response to the recent consultation was published on 9 August 2017, confirming that 1,000 additional medical school places would be available to medical schools in England via a competitive bidding process to be managed jointly by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and Health Education England (HEE).</p><p> </p><p>It also set out the priority areas bidding criteria would need to focus that include aligning the expansion to local National Health Service workforce need with an emphasis on priority geographical areas, including rural and coastal areas.</p><p> </p><p>HEFCE and HEE are currently finalising the design of the bidding process and will publish details in the autumn.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne grouped question UIN 6980 6981 7224 7288 7816 question first answered 12/09/2017 09:18:09 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

757038

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Medicine: Overseas Students
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he plans to take to prevent London medical schools from cross-subsidising the education of international students from their Service Increment for Teaching fund allocated to students from the UK and other EU countries.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	8133
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>The Education and Training tariff guidance document for 2017-18 is clear that funding for placements commissioned by Health Education England (HEE) must not be used to subsidise any element of the cost of placements for non-National Health Service funded students/trainees.</p><p> </p><p>The responsibility for implementing these funding arrangements resides with HEE which commissions the placement activity from the provider.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 12/09/2017 14:56:27 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

757039

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Medicine: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of extra UK medical school places that will be made available to international medical students after the removal of the cap on the number of such places.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	7815
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>The Government has announced a historic expansion in domestic supply of the medical workforce by funding an additional 1,500 medical school places in England available to domestic students from 2018-19. In addition, from 2019-20 English universities will not be limited in the number of international students they can recruit on a full fee paying basis.</p><p> </p><p>For medical school intake targets, the only distinction that is made is between home or European Union students and those from outside the EU. As such, the additional 1,500 medical school places the Government is funding will be available to students from across the United Kingdom and all European Economic Area countries subject to the usual residency requirements.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne grouped question UIN 8135 question first answered 11/09/2017 14:06:42 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

757040

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Medicine: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when allocating the 1000 additional undergraduate medical student places, what steps he plans to take to ensure that medical schools outside London receive a fair allocation of those places.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	7816
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>The Government has announced a historic expansion of medical school places in England, with an increase of 1,500 medical school places in England. The first 500 places have already been allocated and will be available to students in September 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The Government response to the recent consultation was published on 9 August 2017, confirming that 1,000 additional medical school places would be available to medical schools in England via a competitive bidding process to be managed jointly by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and Health Education England (HEE).</p><p> </p><p>It also set out the priority areas bidding criteria would need to focus that include aligning the expansion to local National Health Service workforce need with an emphasis on priority geographical areas, including rural and coastal areas.</p><p> </p><p>HEFCE and HEE are currently finalising the design of the bidding process and will publish details in the autumn.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne grouped question UIN 6980 6981 7224 7288 7567 question first answered 12/09/2017 09:18:09 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

757041

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Medicine: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reasons the Service Increment for Teaching funding allocation process is subject to the market forces factor; and what steps he plans to take to ensure that there is not an excessive regional disparity in allocations of that funding between London and non-London medical schools.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	7817
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>The funding for training placements in secondary care is allocated to placement providers by Health Education England using a tariff payment mechanism. These tariffs are calculated on the basis of average costs and do not take into account some features of cost that are likely to vary across the country. The tariffs are therefore adjusted by the Market Forces Factor in order to compensate for the cost differences of providing training placements in different parts of the country.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 11/09/2017 13:30:16 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

757042

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Medicine: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he plans to take to ensure that additional medical student places are fairly allocated to students from (a) the UK and (b) other EU countries.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	8135
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>The Government has announced a historic expansion in domestic supply of the medical workforce by funding an additional 1,500 medical school places in England available to domestic students from 2018-19. In addition, from 2019-20 English universities will not be limited in the number of international students they can recruit on a full fee paying basis.</p><p> </p><p>For medical school intake targets, the only distinction that is made is between home or European Union students and those from outside the EU. As such, the additional 1,500 medical school places the Government is funding will be available to students from across the United Kingdom and all European Economic Area countries subject to the usual residency requirements.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne grouped question UIN 7815 question first answered 11/09/2017 14:06:42 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

747780

registered interest
date	28/06/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Services: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect of the capped expenditure process on patient care.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	900197
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2017 answer text <p>Providers have managed to reduce the deficit from £2.4 billion (in 2015-16) to £791 million this year.</p><p> </p><p>This success isn’t universal. Some areas consistently exceed budgets, requiring increased savings by others.</p><p> </p><p>14 areas have joined a ‘Capped Expenditure Process’ with commissioners and providers working together to achieve budgets assured by their Boards. Their proposals involve patients and staff; placing patient safety and constitutional rights at the heart of decision making.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 04/07/2017 16:32:35 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

720511

registered interest
date	13/04/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Junior Doctors: Conditions of Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment was made prior to the implementation of the junior doctors' contract in 2016 of the additional financial and administrative cost associated with (a) pay protection, (b) additional hours payments, (c) guardian fines, (d) guardian of safe working hours role and (e) exception reporting management.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	70932
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2017 answer text <p>The contract will be recurrently cost-neutral with the exception of additional employer pension contributions arising from the increase in basic pay that was agreed with the British Medical Association as a condition for them entering negotiations in 2013 and was honoured by the Government. This is expected to rise to around £25 million per annum recurrently at the end of transition (circa 0.6% of total contract value).</p><p> </p><p>In addition, there are limited non-recurrent costs of pay protection during transition. Upfront assessments of these costs are uncertain.</p><p> </p><p>Additional hours payments and any fines reflect additional work carried out and are therefore outside the cost neutral funding envelope and will depend on how trusts manage juniors locally. Exception reporting is managed through rota management software. The role of the Guardian of safe working typically takes up a portion of the time of one consultant in each trust. This is seen as an investment in improving safe working for trainees.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 25/04/2017 14:14:36 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

720512

registered interest
date	13/04/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Social Services: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the forthcoming Green Paper on adult social care funding will look at the needs of everyone who receives adult social care.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	70933
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2017 answer text <p>Following the announcement of the General Election on 8 June, decisions on the future reform and funding of adult social care will be taken by the new Government.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat grouped question UIN 70934 70935 question first answered 24/04/2017 15:56:09 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston