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1200295

registered interest
date	03/06/2020
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	NHS and Social Services: Coronavirus
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to introduce systematic regular COVID-19 testing of all NHS and care staff and patients.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jolly
uin	HL5199
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2020 answer text <p>Current clinical advice is that asymptomatic testing can be conducted in any setting where clinically appropriate, for outbreak investigation and infection control. For example, we are testing all emergency admissions to hospital, and all care home residents before they are discharged into a social care setting.</p><p>For staff, for example, an asymptomatic staff member could be tested when a patient they had been treating unexpectedly tests positive for COVID-19, in order to reduce the risk of spreading infection in healthcare organisations.</p><p>It is not always appropriate to routinely test asymptomatic staff, and so we currently suggest a more strategic and specific approach. These decisions are made by local decision makers.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 23/06/2020 09:54:24 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
tabling member	4203 label Biography information for Baroness Jolly

1200296

registered interest
date	03/06/2020
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	Coronavirus: Screening
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government, if a reliable COVID-19 antibody test is found, (1) which, (2) when, (3) how, (4) by whom, and (5) with what frequency, people will be tested.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jolly
uin	HL5200
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2020 answer text <p>Antibody testing is a key part of the Government’s testing programme and will play an increasingly important role as we move into the next phase of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.</p><p> </p><p>A positive antibody test result indicates that a person has previously had the virus and developed some form of immune response. However, we do not currently know how long an antibody response to the virus lasts, nor whether having antibodies means a person cannot transmit the virus to others. Our understanding of the virus will grow as new scientific evidence and studies emerge.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 27/07/2020 15:38:11 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
tabling member	4203 label Biography information for Baroness Jolly

1200297

registered interest
date	03/06/2020
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	Coronavirus: Contact Tracing
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the COVID-19 test and trace system on easing the lockdown.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jolly
uin	HL5201
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2020 answer text <p>The NHS Test and Trace service forms a central part of the COVID-19 recovery strategy, which seeks to return life to as close to normal as possible, for as many people as possible, in a way that is safe and protects the National Health Service and social care.</p><p>Our ability to go further in easing restrictions, or the need to reintroduce further restriction measures, will depend on a range of factors, including most critically whether people following social distancing guidance and regulations. The more people follow the instructions, the safer we will be, and the faster we can safely lift the lockdown.</p><p>We are continuously assessing the impact of NHS Test and Trace and making improvements to the system. On 11 June, we published data on the first week of operation of the contact tracing element of the system, and we will be updating this on a weekly basis.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 30/06/2020 14:11:02 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
tabling member	4203 label Biography information for Baroness Jolly

1200298

registered interest
date	03/06/2020
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	Health Services: Coronavirus
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to balance COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 care and treatment; whether those steps include making systemic and consistent testing available for patients and staff; and if not, how they plan to ensure the provision of all care and treatment without such testing.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jolly
uin	HL5202
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2020 answer text <p>To provide a more comprehensive response to a number of outstanding Written Questions, this has been answered by an information factsheet <em>Testing – note for House of Lords</em> which is attached, due to the size of the data. A copy has also been placed in the Library</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 29/07/2020 15:51:36 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell attachment 1 file name Testing - note for House of Lords.pdf title Testing information factsheet
tabling member	4203 label Biography information for Baroness Jolly

1199374

registered interest
date	02/06/2020
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	Coronavirus: Screening
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to improve access to COVID-19 testing for key workers.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jolly
uin	HL5002
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2020 answer text <p>Anyone with symptoms can now get a test, regardless of whether they are an essential worker. Essential workers still have a dedicated access route through the essential worker self-referral portal and are able to access testing through multiple channels such as regional test sites, home testing, mobile testing units, and through the care home portal if they are care home members of staff.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 23/06/2020 09:54:00 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
tabling member	4203 label Biography information for Baroness Jolly

1199375

registered interest
date	02/06/2020
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	Coronavirus: Screening
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government how COVID-19 testing capacity will be prioritised when they reach their target of 200,000 daily tests.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jolly
uin	HL5003
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2020 answer text <p>To provide a more comprehensive response to a number of outstanding Written Questions, this has been answered by an information factsheet <em>Testing – note for House of Lords</em> which is attached, due to the size of the data. A copy has also been placed in the Library</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 29/07/2020 07:56:13 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell attachment 1 file name Testing - note for House of Lords.pdf title Testing information factsheet
tabling member	4203 label Biography information for Baroness Jolly

1199376

registered interest
date	02/06/2020
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	Contact Tracing: Software
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what role the NHS COVID-19 App is expected to play in the test and trace system.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jolly
uin	HL5004
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2020 answer text <p>The National Health Service COVID-19 app is new technology to assist with the well-established technique of contact tracing, including online and local public experts, supplemented by 25,000 dedicated contact tracing staff.</p><p>The test and trace system aims to reduce transmission of the virus by alerting people who may have been exposed to the virus so they can take action to protect themselves, the people they care about and the NHS.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 10/06/2020 10:44:23 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
tabling member	4203 label Biography information for Baroness Jolly

1195235

registered interest
date	12/05/2020
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: Learning Disability
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many adults with a learning disability live in a care setting.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jolly
uin	HL4238
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/05/2020 answer text <p>2018-19 is the latest year for which data on the number of clients with a Primary Support Reason of Learning Disability Support receiving long term support by care setting is available. According to the 2018-19 dataset 2,065 adults with a learning disability lived in a nursing care setting whilst 30,410 adults with a learning disability lived in a residential care setting. Therefore, a total of 32,4765 adults with a learning disability lived in a care setting between 2018-19.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 27/05/2020 11:17:49 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
tabling member	4203 label Biography information for Baroness Jolly

1195236

registered interest
date	12/05/2020
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: Learning Disability
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many (1) adults with a learning disability living in a care setting, (2) people over the age of 70 living in a care setting, and (3) people over the age of 70 not in a care setting, were issued a shielding letter in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jolly
uin	HL4239
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2020 answer text <p>Those identified as extremely clinically vulnerable are put on the Shielded Patient List (SPL), based on a set of specific conditions set out by the Chief Medical Officer. The SPL has been developed based on national data and local clinical judgement.</p><p>We only hold sufficient information on the SPL to allow us to identify those people who are clinically extremely vulnerable, to ensure that they have the right guidance and support to help them shield. We do not have additional data on whether that are currently in care settings or not. This means we are unable to identify adults with a learning disability in a care setting from the SPL, nor split the over 70s on the SPL between those in care settings and those not.</p><p>The SPL does include date of birth, so as of 7 May we know that 944,134 people aged 70 and over were on the SPL, and therefore should have received a shielding letter.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 08/06/2020 10:55:42 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
tabling member	4203 label Biography information for Baroness Jolly

1195237

registered interest
date	12/05/2020
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: Older People
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people over the age of 70 live in a care setting.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jolly
uin	HL4240
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/06/2020 answer text <p>The Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, formerly the Personal Social Services Research Unit, provide long term demand projections for adult social care, based on current service use and trends in disability rates. They estimate that in 2020 there are 330,000 care home residents aged 65 and over in care homes in England. These estimates are not broken down any further by age.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 03/06/2020 15:42:36 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
tabling member	4203 label Biography information for Baroness Jolly