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1105875

registered interest
date	28/03/2019
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	East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust: Legal Costs
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 the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust spent on legal fees on its appeal to the First Tier Tribunal with respect to the Information Commissioner's Office's decision notices on patient safety and welfare information.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	238289
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>The East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust spent £4,655.29 on legal fees on its appeal to the First Tier Tribunal with respect to the Information Commissioner's Office's decision notices on patient safety and welfare information.</p><p> </p><p>The amount East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust has spent on legal fees defending employment tribunal cases in each year since 2016 is set out in the following table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Amount</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>£267,037.81</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>£213,414.20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>£325,640.03 (year to date)</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond grouped question UIN 238290 question first answered 02/04/2019 14:05:46 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

1105876

registered interest
date	28/03/2019
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	East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust: Legal Costs
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 the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust spent on legal fees defending employment tribunal cases in each year since 2016.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	238290
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>The East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust spent £4,655.29 on legal fees on its appeal to the First Tier Tribunal with respect to the Information Commissioner's Office's decision notices on patient safety and welfare information.</p><p> </p><p>The amount East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust has spent on legal fees defending employment tribunal cases in each year since 2016 is set out in the following table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Amount</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>£267,037.81</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>£213,414.20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>£325,640.03 (year to date)</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond grouped question UIN 238289 question first answered 02/04/2019 14:05:46 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

1105900

registered interest
date	28/03/2019
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	Autism and Learning Disability: Psychiatric Hospitals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what baseline figure his Department will use to measure progress in reducing the number of people with a learning disability and/or autism in mental health hospitals by 50 per cent by end of March 2024 as set out in the NHS 10-year plan for people (a) under 18 years old, (b) between 18-24 years old, (c) aged 25 and over and (d) in all age groups.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	238347
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>The NHS Digital Assuring Transformation dataset is used to measure the reduction in the numbers of children, young people and adults with a learning disability and/or autism who are inpatients in mental health settings in line with the national plan, ‘Building the Right Support’.</p><p> </p><p>Assuring Transformation is a live data collection, and the data at the time of publication each month is subject to change with retrospective updates and additions. Patients may be reported on long after admission, for example, due to late diagnosis, leading to changes in the baseline count. The most recent patient count for March 2015, published by NHS Digital for the end of February 2019 is 2,890. This is the baseline for planned reductions in inpatient numbers and against which progress in meeting the aims set out in ‘Building the Right Support’ is measured.</p><p> </p><p>The ambition for March 2020 is that we will reduce the rate of inpatients with a learning disability and/or autism to 18.5 adult inpatients in clinical commissioned group-commissioned beds per million adult population, and 18.5 adult inpatients in NHS England-commissioned beds per adult million population.</p><p> </p><p>This will equate to a 35% reduction from March 2015 in the total number of inpatients. The NHS Long Term Plan commits to going further, with a net 50% reduction from March 2015 in the number of people with a learning disability, autism or both in specialist inpatient hospitals, by 2023/24. For every one million adults, there will be no more than 30 people with a learning disability and/or autism cared for in an inpatient unit. For children and young people there will be no more than 12 to 15 children with a learning disability, autism or both by 2023/24.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 238348 238349 question first answered 02/04/2019 14:01:32 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1105902

registered interest
date	28/03/2019
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	Autism and Learning Disability: Psychiatric Hospitals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of people with a learning disability and/or autism in inpatient units (a) who will be (i) under 18 years old, (ii) between 18-24 years old and (iii) aged 25 and over and (b) in total at the end of March 2020.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	238348
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>The NHS Digital Assuring Transformation dataset is used to measure the reduction in the numbers of children, young people and adults with a learning disability and/or autism who are inpatients in mental health settings in line with the national plan, ‘Building the Right Support’.</p><p> </p><p>Assuring Transformation is a live data collection, and the data at the time of publication each month is subject to change with retrospective updates and additions. Patients may be reported on long after admission, for example, due to late diagnosis, leading to changes in the baseline count. The most recent patient count for March 2015, published by NHS Digital for the end of February 2019 is 2,890. This is the baseline for planned reductions in inpatient numbers and against which progress in meeting the aims set out in ‘Building the Right Support’ is measured.</p><p> </p><p>The ambition for March 2020 is that we will reduce the rate of inpatients with a learning disability and/or autism to 18.5 adult inpatients in clinical commissioned group-commissioned beds per million adult population, and 18.5 adult inpatients in NHS England-commissioned beds per adult million population.</p><p> </p><p>This will equate to a 35% reduction from March 2015 in the total number of inpatients. The NHS Long Term Plan commits to going further, with a net 50% reduction from March 2015 in the number of people with a learning disability, autism or both in specialist inpatient hospitals, by 2023/24. For every one million adults, there will be no more than 30 people with a learning disability and/or autism cared for in an inpatient unit. For children and young people there will be no more than 12 to 15 children with a learning disability, autism or both by 2023/24.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 238347 238349 question first answered 02/04/2019 14:01:32 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1105904

registered interest
date	28/03/2019
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	Autism and Learning Disability: Psychiatric Hospitals
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 used the (a) Assuring Transformation or (b) MHSDS LDA data set to calculate its on the reduction of inpatient provision for children, young people and adults with a learning disability or autism by (i) end of March 2020 and (ii) end of March 2024.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	238349
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>The NHS Digital Assuring Transformation dataset is used to measure the reduction in the numbers of children, young people and adults with a learning disability and/or autism who are inpatients in mental health settings in line with the national plan, ‘Building the Right Support’.</p><p> </p><p>Assuring Transformation is a live data collection, and the data at the time of publication each month is subject to change with retrospective updates and additions. Patients may be reported on long after admission, for example, due to late diagnosis, leading to changes in the baseline count. The most recent patient count for March 2015, published by NHS Digital for the end of February 2019 is 2,890. This is the baseline for planned reductions in inpatient numbers and against which progress in meeting the aims set out in ‘Building the Right Support’ is measured.</p><p> </p><p>The ambition for March 2020 is that we will reduce the rate of inpatients with a learning disability and/or autism to 18.5 adult inpatients in clinical commissioned group-commissioned beds per million adult population, and 18.5 adult inpatients in NHS England-commissioned beds per adult million population.</p><p> </p><p>This will equate to a 35% reduction from March 2015 in the total number of inpatients. The NHS Long Term Plan commits to going further, with a net 50% reduction from March 2015 in the number of people with a learning disability, autism or both in specialist inpatient hospitals, by 2023/24. For every one million adults, there will be no more than 30 people with a learning disability and/or autism cared for in an inpatient unit. For children and young people there will be no more than 12 to 15 children with a learning disability, autism or both by 2023/24.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 238347 238348 question first answered 02/04/2019 14:01:32 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1105911

registered interest
date	28/03/2019
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	Dyspraxia
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 people were referred by their GP for a Dyspraxia assessment in each of the last ten years; how many of those assessments resulted in a diagnosis of Dyspraxia; and the average length of time between GP referral and diagnosis was in that same time period.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	238359
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>The information requested on referrals for a dyspraxia assessment is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p><p>We have made no assessment of the efficacy of the route to diagnosis for dyspraxia in adults. Arrangements for referrals for diagnosis of dyspraxia are a matter for local determination with services commissioned by clinical commissioning groups to meet local need.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 238360 238361 question first answered 02/04/2019 11:45:26 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1105912

registered interest
date	28/03/2019
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	Dyspraxia
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 people were referred by their GP to (a) a private occupational therapist, (b) an occupational therapist on the NHS, (c) a private physio-therapist, and (b) a physio-therapist on the NHS for a Dyspraxia assessment in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	238360
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>The information requested on referrals for a dyspraxia assessment is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p><p>We have made no assessment of the efficacy of the route to diagnosis for dyspraxia in adults. Arrangements for referrals for diagnosis of dyspraxia are a matter for local determination with services commissioned by clinical commissioning groups to meet local need.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 238359 238361 question first answered 02/04/2019 11:45:26 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1105914

registered interest
date	28/03/2019
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	Dyspraxia
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 efficacy of the route to diagnosis for dyspraxia for adults.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	238361
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>The information requested on referrals for a dyspraxia assessment is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p><p>We have made no assessment of the efficacy of the route to diagnosis for dyspraxia in adults. Arrangements for referrals for diagnosis of dyspraxia are a matter for local determination with services commissioned by clinical commissioning groups to meet local need.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 238359 238360 question first answered 02/04/2019 11:45:26 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1105918

registered interest
date	28/03/2019
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	Dermatology: Consultants
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 improve the national coverage of consultant dermatologists, particularly in rural or remote areas.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	238299
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>Dermatology is a highly competitive specialty training pathway and often oversubscribed. Nationally and locally there has been a 100% fill rate in dermatology training for the past four years.</p><p> </p><p>There has been a 22% increase in full time equivalent (FTE) dermatologists (doctors at the consultant grade) in post since September 2010, with 1,049 FTE dermatologists working in the National Health Service in November 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The number of medical specialty training places that are available each year is set by Health Education England and is based on their assessment of service gaps and predicted workforce needs.</p><p> </p><p>It is the responsibility of individual NHS trusts to have staffing arrangements in place that deliver safe and effective care. This includes recruiting the staff needed to support these levels and meet local needs.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 02/04/2019 14:06:56 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1105933

registered interest
date	28/03/2019
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	NHS: Sexual Offences
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of sexual misconduct claims in the NHS since 2010-11; what the cost was of settling those claims; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	238351
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>National Health Service trusts are responsible for dealing with cases of sexual misconduct working with their staff, their security teams, their accredited security management advisors, the police and Crown Prosecution Service to ensure appropriate action is taken to prevent such misconduct in the first place and robust sanctions are taken against perpetrators.</p><p> </p><p>We are supporting NHS organisations through our programmes to tackle bullying, harassment, violence and abuse.</p><p> </p><p>The following data was obtained from NHS Resolution.</p><p> </p><p>The following table sets out the number of sexual misconduct/harassment/abuse claims received by NHS Resolution from 2010/11 to 2017/18, the latest available information.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number of claims (patients)</p></td><td><p>Number of claims (public)</p></td><td><p>Number of claims (staff)</p></td><td><p>Grand Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>49</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>50</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>23</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>32</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>29</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>37</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>49</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>49</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>62</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>33</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>41</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grand total</p></td><td><p>263</p></td><td><p>38</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>323</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Note:</p><p>The data excludes where numbers are less than five to mitigate the risk of individuals involved in incidents being identified.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 02/04/2019 15:48:47 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth