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447402

registered interest
date	25/01/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Respiratory System: Diseases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the National Institute for Health Research has invested in research into (a) lung cancer, (b) adult asthma, (c) pneumonia, (d) chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, (e) idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, (f) mesothelioma and (g) childhood wheezing and childhood respiratory infection in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	23925
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not available. Spend on research funded directly by the Department’s National Institute for Health Research is categorised by Health Research Classification System (HRCS) health categories including ‘cancer’ and ‘respiratory’. There are no HRCS health sub-categories, such as for specific cancer sites or respiratory diseases.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 28/01/2016 15:41:24 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

445541

registered interest
date	18/01/2016
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, pursuant to the Answer of 18 January 2016 to Question 22318, what estimate his Department has made of the total value of NHS Bursaries issued to medical students in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	22872
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2016 answer text <p>Information of the total value of National Health Service maintenance bursaries issued to medical students in each of the last five complete financial years is shown in the following table.</p><br /> <br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p><br> Financial Year<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p><br> Bursary Expenditure (£)<sup>3</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>22,228,317</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>21,887,045</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>22,966,804</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>23,424,694</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>23,235,955</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em></em></p><p><em>Source:</em> NHS Business Services Authority</p><p><sup>1</sup>Covers the period 1 April to 31 March.</p><p><sup>2</sup>Figures extracted from Annual Report for the respective financial year.</p><p><sup>3</sup>The NHS Bursary includes the basic maintenance award, all supplementary allowances and one off payments.</p><br /><p>NHS Bursaries are available to undergraduate medical students from the fifth year of the undergraduate degree and to graduates from the second year of the four year accelerated degree.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 26/01/2016 12:06:00 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

445020

registered interest
date	14/01/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Doctors
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) junior doctors and (b) consultants were employed by the NHS in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	22674
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2016 answer text <p>The number of junior doctors and consultants employed by the National Health Service in each of the last 10 years is in the attached table.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 19/01/2016 10:48:57 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer attachment 1 file name PQ22674 Table.xlsx title Junior doctors and consultants employed by the NHS
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

444686

registered interest
date	13/01/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Doctors: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of finance options available to doctors to cover their training costs; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	22318
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) and the Department of Health have joint responsibility for the funding of students on medical courses. For the first four years of the five or six year undergraduate degree, medical students receive the same maintenance and tuition fee loans as mainstream students under the BIS Education (Student Support) Regulations.</p><br /><p>In the fifth year of study funding is provided by the National Health Service Bursary Scheme and eligible medical students can receive a means tested NHS Bursary and a non-means tested grant of £1,000. The NHS will also meet the cost of their tuition, so medical students do not have to pay tuition fees in the final years of their course.</p><br /><p>Health Education England (HEE) has responsibility for determining the amount of funding available to students via the NHS Bursary Scheme.</p><br /><p>HEE also support doctors in training by funding clinical placements for undergraduate students which is paid directly to the NHS providers at an agreed national tariff price, and postgraduate training at 50% of trainee salary and a placement fee of £12,400.</p><br /><p>Funding support is reviewed on an annual basis.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 18/01/2016 15:53:49 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

444701

registered interest
date	13/01/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Department of Health: Advertising
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the amount it will spend on (a) television, (b) print, (c) online and (d) billing advertising in the next 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	22271
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2016 answer text <p>The Department does not hold an advertising budget.</p><br /><p>As such there is no expected spend on advertising over the next 12 months other than that for the advertisement of public appointments.</p><br /><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 22/01/2016 14:48:48 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

444255

registered interest
date	12/01/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Junior Doctors: Working Hours
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will commission a review into the working hours of junior doctors; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	22117
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2016 answer text <p>The Working Time Regulations provide the same protection to junior doctors as to other workers, limiting working hours to an average of 48 per week. Junior doctors, as is the case for all workers, may choose to opt-out of the Working Time Regulations and work beyond the limits; however, where they do so, their contract imposes a limit of 56 hours per week.</p><br /><p>The vast majority – 99% - of junior doctors are working within these current limits. Under the proposed new contract the limits on average weekly hours will continue to apply and there will also be limits that go further than the legislation including a cap on the maximum number of hours that junior doctors can work in any one week – the legislation permits 91 hours but the contract will limit this to 72. Under the new contract junior doctors will have work schedules setting out their duties, expected training opportunities and contracted hours. These will be regularly reviewed and junior doctors will be able to request a review at any time. There will be a system of exception reporting where work varies regularly and/or significantly from the work schedule. Junior doctors will also be able to report exceptions and concerns to a guardian of safe working for each organisation - whose appointment will be agreed with the British Medical Association - and request a review if they are not treated as promised.</p><br /><p>1% (around 500) of junior doctors has working patterns that are in breach of the current contractual limits on hours or rest. The new contract will bring an end to that.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 18/01/2016 17:18:31 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

437165

registered interest
date	10/12/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Nurses: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of finance options available to student nurses; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	19564
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>From 1 August 2017, new nursing, midwifery and allied health students will no longer receive NHS bursaries. Instead, they will have access to the same student loans system as other students.</p><br /><p>We intend that students studying nursing, midwifery and the allied health subjects as a second degree will also be able to get student loans.</p><br /><p>The change will only affect new students commencing their courses from 1 August 2017.</p><p>We plan to run a consultation in early 2016 to ask how we can successfully deliver the reforms.</p><br /><p>Under the loans system, students on nursing, midwifery and allied health courses will receive around a 25% increase in the financial support available to them for living costs. The precise change for individuals will be dependent on their circumstances – for example, where they study, the length of the course, income and residency.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 15/12/2015 15:17:35 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

436766

registered interest
date	09/12/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the total number of recipients of NHS bursaries in each of the last five years; how much has been so allocated; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	19479
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2015 answer text <p>Information on the number of students who were in receipt of a bursary and the total cost of all bursaries made in each of the last five complete financial years is shown in the following table.</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year <sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>2010/11 <br></p></td><td><p>2011/12 <br></p></td><td><p>2012/13 <br></p></td><td><p>2013/14 <br></p></td><td><p>2014/15 <br></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of NHS Bursary recipients<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>107,966</p></td><td><p>100,906</p></td><td><p>102,186</p></td><td><p>102,791</p></td><td><p>100,097</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total expenditure (£000)<sup>3</sup></p></td><td><p>521,456</p></td><td><p>509,422</p></td><td><p>482,219</p></td><td><p>452,134</p></td><td><p>430,349</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS Business Services Authority</p><p>Notes:</p><p><sup>1</sup>Covers the period 1 April to 31 March</p><p><sup>2</sup>The figures relate to the number of students paid any bursary element in the period. As such figures exclude nil award holders (European Union) fees only students and students whose award was fully abated by means-testing. <sup>3</sup>Covers all bursary award elements.</p><br /> <br /><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 14/12/2015 17:05:18 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

436780

registered interest
date	09/12/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Nurses: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the total number of student nurses in England and Wales in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	19467
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2015 answer text <p>The following table shows the total number of student nurses in England, in training places as at 31 March in each year, for the period 2010/11 to 2014/15. The Department and Health Education England do not hold data for students undertaking their training in Wales.</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>2014/15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nurses</p></td><td><p>53,101</p></td><td><p>51,824</p></td><td><p>52,914</p></td><td><p>48,484</p></td><td><p>50,139</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong></strong></p><p><em>Source: </em>multi professional education and training budget monitoring returns</p><p><strong></strong></p><p>In 2015 the National Health Service has seen record numbers of nurses and midwives in post. The latest data from the Health and Social Care Information Centre’s Hospital and Community Health Services monthly workforce statistics, which does not include nurses working in general practice, shows a total of 303,600 full time equivalent nurses and midwives, in post in England in August 2015.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 14/12/2015 17:11:06 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

433811

registered interest
date	02/12/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Cancer Drugs Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what type of drugs were financed by the Cancer Drugs Fund in each year since 2011.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	18597
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2015 answer text <p>The Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF) has helped over 84,000 people in England to access life-extending cancer drugs that would not otherwise have been available to them.</p><br /><p>Prior to April 2013, the Fund was administered through clinical panels based in each of the 10 strategic health authorities (SHAs). Cumulative information on the number of different treatments financed by SHAs through the CDF for this period is as follows:</p><br /><p>2011-12: approximately 89 treatments<sup>1</sup></p><p>2012-13: approximately 114 treatments<sup>1</sup></p><p><sup></sup></p><p><sup>1</sup>Information on the type of cancer being treated was not collected</p><p><em>Source:</em> Information provided to the Department by SHAs as part of financial monitoring arrangements</p><br /><p>Since April 2013, NHS England has had responsibility for the Fund and it publishes information on CDF activity routinely on its website at:</p><br /><p><a href="http://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/pe/cdf/" target="_blank">www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/pe/cdf/</a></p><p><strong></strong></p><p>The National Audit Office report, <em>Investigation into the Cancer Drugs Fund</em>, details the number of treatments available through the national CDF list from April 2013 as follows:</p><br /><p>April 2013: 24 treatments covering 53 indications</p><p>April 2014: 40 treatments covering 78 indications</p><p>April 2015: 39 treatments covering 67 indications</p><br /><p><em>Source:</em> National Audit Office report <em>Investigation into the Cancer Drugs Fund</em><em>, </em>published 17 September 2015</p><p><em></em></p><p>Decisions on which treatments are included on the national CDF list are made by the expert CDF clinical panel because it is right these decisions are clinically led. NHS England periodically reviews the national CDF list, adding new drugs or drugs indications to the list and/or removing drug indications from the list, for example when the indications have been recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence for routine commissioning. Currently, 33 treatments covering 47 indications are listed.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 07/12/2015 17:30:55 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham