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1601520

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date	06/03/2023
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	Public Health: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government when they plan to inform local authorities of their provisional public health grant budgets for 2023–24.
tabling member printed	Baroness Thornhill
uin	HL6168
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2023 answer text <p>We will announce 2023/24 Public Health Grant allocations to local authorities shortly.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 14/03/2023 16:20:15 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	4558 label Biography information for Baroness Thornhill

1601522

registered interest
date	06/03/2023
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	Public Health: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether the public health grant in (1) 2023–24, and (2) 2024–25 will increase in line with inflation as announced in the Spending Review 2021.
tabling member printed	Baroness Thornhill
uin	HL6169
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2023 answer text <p>We will announce 2023/24 Public Health Grant allocations to local authorities in England shortly.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 14/03/2023 16:20:34 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	4558 label Biography information for Baroness Thornhill

1601523

registered interest
date	06/03/2023
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	Public Health: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the adequacy of the level of funding of the public health grant to local authorities.
tabling member printed	Baroness Thornhill
uin	HL6170
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2023 answer text <p>At the Spending Review 2021, we considered the need for local authority public health funding and confirmed that the public health grant to local authorities in England would increase over the settlement period.  In 2022/23, the Grant increased by 2.81% to £3.417 billion. This is in addition to targeted investment through local Government in Start for Life support and drug and alcohol treatment services.</p><p> </p><p>We will announce 2023/24 Public Health Grant allocations to local authorities shortly, and in doing so will consider the impact of changes to pay and inflation trends and forecasts since the Spending Review.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 14/03/2023 16:53:05 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	4558 label Biography information for Baroness Thornhill

1386456

registered interest
date	08/12/2021
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	West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the re-development of the West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust’s plans for improvements at (1) Watford, (2) Hemel Hempstead, and (3) St Albans, have been paused; and so, what are the (a) reasons, and (b) rationale, for this pause.
tabling member printed	Baroness Thornhill
uin	HL4815
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2021 answer text <p>The overall delivery of the new hospital scheme has not been paused. We continue to work with West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust and all hospitals in the programme.</p> answering member printed Lord Kamall question first answered 16/12/2021 15:29:31 answering member 4909 label Biography information for Lord Kamall
tabling member	4558 label Biography information for Baroness Thornhill

1246683

registered interest
date	26/10/2020
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	Mental Health Act 1983 Independent Review
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how they monitor progress in implementing the recommendations of the final report of the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act 1983 Modernising the Mental Health Act: increasing choice, reducing compulsion, published on 6 December 2018; and what plans they have to report to Parliament on progress made.
tabling member printed	Baroness Thornhill
uin	HL9588
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2020 answer text <p>We remain committed to publishing a White Paper which will set out the Government’s response to Sir Simon Wessely’s Independent Review of the Mental Health Act 1983 and pave the way for reform of the Act. We aim to publish before the end of the year.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 05/11/2020 09:08:42 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
tabling member	4558 label Biography information for Baroness Thornhill

1189768

registered interest
date	21/04/2020
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: Homelessness
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have reissued COVID-19 guidance to those working with people who are homeless or drug or alcohol dependent; and, if not, whether they plan to do so.
tabling member printed	Baroness Thornhill
uin	HL3285
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2020 answer text <p>Public Health England (PHE) published guidance outlining COVID-19 advice for commissioners and service providers involved in assisting people who are dependent on drugs or alcohol or both. The guidance, <em>COVID-19: guidance for commissioners and providers of services for people who use drugs or alcohol</em>, was published on 15 April in an online only format on GOV.UK. PHE is reviewing the need for additional advice for staff working with people who are experiencing homelessness and living in hostels.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 14/05/2020 11:14:02 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
tabling member	4558 label Biography information for Baroness Thornhill

1175248

registered interest
date	22/01/2020
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	General Practitioners
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government how many GPs have been in practice for each year since 2010.
tabling member printed	Baroness Thornhill
uin	HL726
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2020 answer text <p>The number of full time equivalent (FTE) doctors working in general practice in each year since 2015 has been provided in the following table. Data is not included prior to 2015 as improvements were made to the methodology for recording all staff working in general practice in September 2015 and data prior to this is not comparable.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Number of all doctors in general practice</p></td><td><p>FTE</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2015</p></td><td><p>34,429</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2016</p></td><td><p>35,229</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2017</p></td><td><p>34,653</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2018</p></td><td><p>34,534</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2019</p></td><td><p>34,862</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Source:</em> NHS Digital</p><p><em>Notes: </em></p><ol><li>Data as at 30 September 2019.</li><li>Figures shown do not include general practice staff working in prisons, army bases, educational establishments, specialist care centres including drug rehabilitation centres, walk-in centres and other alternative settings.</li><li>Figures contain estimates, for practices that did not provide fully valid General Medical Practice general practitioner (GP), nurse or direct patient care staff records.</li><li>The figures presented include GP registrars and GP locums.</li><li>Data collected and published prior to September 2015 is not comparable due to a change in data collection methodology.</li><li>Data must be compared from the same time point in the year, therefore September data is provided to allow comparison for the earliest available data.</li><li>FTE refers to the proportion of full-time contracted hours that the post holder is contracted to work. 1 would indicate they work a full set of hours (37.5), 0.5 that they worked half time. In Registrars' contracts 1 FTE = 40 hours. To ensure consistency, these FTEs have been converted to the standard wMDS measure of 1 FTE = 37.5 hours in the table.</li></ol><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 05/02/2020 15:09:01 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	4558 label Biography information for Baroness Thornhill

1151182

registered interest
date	21/10/2019
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	Counselling and Psychiatry: Training
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to introduce legislation to regulate the qualifications and training of psychotherapists and counsellors.
tabling member printed	Baroness Thornhill
uin	HL259
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2019 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to extend professional regulation to psychotherapists or counsellors.</p><p>Statutory regulation should only be considered where the risks to public and patient protection cannot be addressed in other more proportionate ways (such as through employer oversight or accredited voluntary registration).</p><p>Any employed health or care practitioner, whether regulated or unregulated, will be subject to employer checks. Depending on the role they perform, in particular if their role brings them in contact with vulnerable people, this may include a Disclosure and Barring Service check in England or Wales or the equivalent check from Disclosure Scotland or Disclosure Northern Ireland.</p><p>The Professional Standards Authority currently accredits 10 voluntary registers relating to psychotherapy and counselling and covering approximately 50,000 talking therapy professionals.</p><p>We urge anyone seeking the services of a psychotherapist or counsellor to take the time to find a reputable, insured and appropriately qualified practitioner.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford grouped question UIN HL260 question first answered 30/10/2019 12:36:10 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	4558 label Biography information for Baroness Thornhill

1151183

registered interest
date	21/10/2019
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	Counselling and Psychiatry: Training
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact on vulnerable people of unqualified psychotherapists and counsellors providing treatment.
tabling member printed	Baroness Thornhill
uin	HL260
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2019 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to extend professional regulation to psychotherapists or counsellors.</p><p>Statutory regulation should only be considered where the risks to public and patient protection cannot be addressed in other more proportionate ways (such as through employer oversight or accredited voluntary registration).</p><p>Any employed health or care practitioner, whether regulated or unregulated, will be subject to employer checks. Depending on the role they perform, in particular if their role brings them in contact with vulnerable people, this may include a Disclosure and Barring Service check in England or Wales or the equivalent check from Disclosure Scotland or Disclosure Northern Ireland.</p><p>The Professional Standards Authority currently accredits 10 voluntary registers relating to psychotherapy and counselling and covering approximately 50,000 talking therapy professionals.</p><p>We urge anyone seeking the services of a psychotherapist or counsellor to take the time to find a reputable, insured and appropriately qualified practitioner.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford grouped question UIN HL259 question first answered 30/10/2019 12:36:10 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	4558 label Biography information for Baroness Thornhill