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1676494

registered interest
date	07/12/2023
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: Staff
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to produce a strategy to recruit, retrain and develop a skilled project and change professional workforce, to ensure the successful delivery and sustainable long-term benefits of its healthcare policies and reforms.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL977
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2023 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan (LTWP) sets out the steps the National Health Service and its partners need to take to deliver an NHS workforce that meets the changing needs of the population over the next 15 years. It will put the workforce on a sustainable footing for the long term. We have committed to refreshing the modelling that underpins the plan every two years or in line with fiscal events to ensure that assessments of staff remain accurate against wider operational, financial, and educational planning needs.</p><p>At a local level, NHS organisations are best placed to determine their own recruitment needs, informed by their workforce, service and financial planning and ensuring there is sufficient skilled workforce around project and change management, digital product developers, data scientists and systems architects.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham grouped question UIN HL978 question first answered 14/12/2023 16:32:51 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1676495

registered interest
date	07/12/2023
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: Staff
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure the recruitment and training of essential non-clinical professionals including (1) digital product developers, (2) data scientists, (3) systems architects, and (4) project and change managers, to support the transformation of health and care services.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL978
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2023 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan (LTWP) sets out the steps the National Health Service and its partners need to take to deliver an NHS workforce that meets the changing needs of the population over the next 15 years. It will put the workforce on a sustainable footing for the long term. We have committed to refreshing the modelling that underpins the plan every two years or in line with fiscal events to ensure that assessments of staff remain accurate against wider operational, financial, and educational planning needs.</p><p>At a local level, NHS organisations are best placed to determine their own recruitment needs, informed by their workforce, service and financial planning and ensuring there is sufficient skilled workforce around project and change management, digital product developers, data scientists and systems architects.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham grouped question UIN HL977 question first answered 14/12/2023 16:32:51 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1675659

registered interest
date	05/12/2023
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: Staff
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 her Department’s contract Securing a Diverse Future for the NHS, procurement reference CF-2038900D0O000000rwimUAA, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the diversity in the NHS workforce.
tabling member constituency	Luton North
tabling member printed	Sarah Owen
uin	5426
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2023 answer text <p>The National Health Service has a diverse workforce. Latest data published by NHS England shows that as of June 2023, 27% of staff working in NHS trusts and other core organisations reported being from an ethnic minority group, compared with 18.3% of the United Kingdom’s population as shown in the 2021 Census. Over three quarters of staff working in NHS trusts and other core organisations are female.</p><p>However, there is always more that can be done, on these and other types of diversity. The contract ‘Securing a Diverse Future for the NHS’, which is being delivered by The Prince’s Trust, aims to bring people from more diverse backgrounds into the NHS, particularly people from areas of higher deprivation.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 11/12/2023 16:37:41 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4777 label Biography information for Sarah Owen

1674212

registered interest
date	29/11/2023
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: Staff
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government when they will publish a progress report on the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan, what the interim targets for the plan are, and how the impact of the plan will be measured.
tabling member printed	Baroness Merron
uin	HL720
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2023 answer text <p>We have established a Long Term Workforce Plan Governance Board which will ensure the delivery of the Plan.</p><p>The modelling that NHS England has used in the Plan is founded on data, evidence and analysis and provides a set of broad ranges to measure the potential impact of actions over its 15-year timeframe. We have committed to refreshing the modelling that underpins the plan every two years, or in line with fiscal events.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 11/12/2023 13:28:58 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	347 label Biography information for Baroness Merron

1671928

registered interest
date	21/11/2023
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: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an estimate of the number of NHS staff who have (a) no savings, (b) savings of less than £100 and (c) savings equivalent to less than (i) one and (ii) three month's salary.
tabling member constituency	Harrow West
tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
uin	2749
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2023 answer text <p>The Department has no plans to make a specific estimate.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 28/11/2023 10:03:41 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson previous answer version 3583 answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1668662

registered interest
date	08/11/2023
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: Staff
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have made representations to the Chief Executive of NHS England about the appropriateness of employing NHS staff who have supported calling for (1) a Jihad, or (2) the destruction of Israel.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL100
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2023 answer text <p>The Secretary of State has not made representations to the Chief Executive of NHS England about the appropriateness of employing National Health Service staff who have supported calling for a Jihad, or the destruction of Israel.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 22/11/2023 12:42:18 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

1666726

registered interest
date	23/10/2023
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: Staff
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 increase NHS staff workforce resilience.
tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
uin	203787
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p>No assessment has been made of the adequacy of staff workforce resilience in the National Health Service. The NHS People Plan and NHS People Promise published in July 2020 sets out a comprehensive range of actions that focusses on making the NHS a better place to work, helping increase staff resilience and improving retention.</p><p>Building on the work of the NHS People Plan and People Promise, the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan, published in June 2023, sets out the importance of ensuring we keep more of the staff we have within the health service. This will be achieved by supporting people through their careers, boosting the flexibilities we offer staff to work in ways that suit them and work for patients and ensuring access to health and wellbeing support. We also need to continue to improve the culture and leadership across NHS organisations.</p><p>Investment in health and wellbeing is vitally important in helping staff resilience. NHS England has developed a range of health and wellbeing initiatives which include a health and wellbeing guardian role, a focus on healthy working environments, empowering line managers to hold meaningful conversations with staff to discuss their wellbeing, and a comprehensive emotional and psychological health and wellbeing support package.</p><p>NHS England has also published a ‘Growing Occupational Health and Wellbeing Together’ strategy. This sets out a roadmap for the NHS and partner organisations to work together to develop and invest in occupational health and wellbeing services for NHS staff over the next five years.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 203788 question first answered 25/10/2023 14:24:42 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

1666727

registered interest
date	23/10/2023
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: Staff
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 adequacy of NHS staff workforce resilience.
tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
uin	203788
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p>No assessment has been made of the adequacy of staff workforce resilience in the National Health Service. The NHS People Plan and NHS People Promise published in July 2020 sets out a comprehensive range of actions that focusses on making the NHS a better place to work, helping increase staff resilience and improving retention.</p><p>Building on the work of the NHS People Plan and People Promise, the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan, published in June 2023, sets out the importance of ensuring we keep more of the staff we have within the health service. This will be achieved by supporting people through their careers, boosting the flexibilities we offer staff to work in ways that suit them and work for patients and ensuring access to health and wellbeing support. We also need to continue to improve the culture and leadership across NHS organisations.</p><p>Investment in health and wellbeing is vitally important in helping staff resilience. NHS England has developed a range of health and wellbeing initiatives which include a health and wellbeing guardian role, a focus on healthy working environments, empowering line managers to hold meaningful conversations with staff to discuss their wellbeing, and a comprehensive emotional and psychological health and wellbeing support package.</p><p>NHS England has also published a ‘Growing Occupational Health and Wellbeing Together’ strategy. This sets out a roadmap for the NHS and partner organisations to work together to develop and invest in occupational health and wellbeing services for NHS staff over the next five years.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 203787 question first answered 25/10/2023 14:24:42 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

1665720

registered interest
date	18/10/2023
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: Staff
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 publish a timescale for the implementation of the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	203296
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2023 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan sets out the steps the National Health Service and its partners need to take to deliver an NHS workforce that meets the changing needs of the population over the next 15 years.</p><p>The plan is backed by £2.4 billion over five years which will support the expansion and reform of education and training as set out in the plan.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 23/10/2023 14:46:41 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1663483

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
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: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether annual budget allocations have been made for 2024-25 in relation to the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
tabling member printed	Ian Murray
uin	201337
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2023 answer text <p>The Government is backing the plan with over £2.4 billion over the next five years to fund additional education and training places. This is on top of increases to education and training investment, reaching a record £6.1 billion over the next two years.</p><p>The education and training budget for 2024-25 was set at the last Spending Review and the Government is working with NHS England to finalise the budget to make sure it reflects recent pay deals.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 201338 question first answered 18/10/2023 15:13:09 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray