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101887

registered interest
date	30/10/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS Trusts: Insurance
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 number of NHS trusts which do not have adequate buildings insurance.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	212752
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2014 answer text <p>All National Health Service trusts and foundation trusts in England are members of the NHS Litigation Authority’s Property Expenses Scheme (PES). PES covers losses for material damage to buildings and contents from a variety of causes, including fire, theft and water damage, valued at up to £1 million per claim.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>There is a general prohibition on NHS trusts entering into insurance arrangements with commercial insurers therefore they will normally self-insure any losses above the £1 million limit.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS foundation trusts may enter into insurance arrangements with commercial insurers for any risks not covered by the scheme, and will consider whether to do so in accordance with their individual standing financial instructions.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter grouped question UIN 212749 212750 212751 question first answered 06/11/2014 13:29:33 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

101900

registered interest
date	30/10/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Insurance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions Ministers in his Department have had with the insurance industry on cover for NHS buildings in the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	212749
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2014 answer text <p>All National Health Service trusts and foundation trusts in England are members of the NHS Litigation Authority’s Property Expenses Scheme (PES). PES covers losses for material damage to buildings and contents from a variety of causes, including fire, theft and water damage, valued at up to £1 million per claim.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>There is a general prohibition on NHS trusts entering into insurance arrangements with commercial insurers therefore they will normally self-insure any losses above the £1 million limit.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS foundation trusts may enter into insurance arrangements with commercial insurers for any risks not covered by the scheme, and will consider whether to do so in accordance with their individual standing financial instructions.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter grouped question UIN 212750 212751 212752 question first answered 06/11/2014 13:29:33 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

101901

registered interest
date	30/10/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS Trusts: Insurance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of NHS trusts do not have buildings insurance cover in excess of £5 million.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	212750
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2014 answer text <p>All National Health Service trusts and foundation trusts in England are members of the NHS Litigation Authority’s Property Expenses Scheme (PES). PES covers losses for material damage to buildings and contents from a variety of causes, including fire, theft and water damage, valued at up to £1 million per claim.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>There is a general prohibition on NHS trusts entering into insurance arrangements with commercial insurers therefore they will normally self-insure any losses above the £1 million limit.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS foundation trusts may enter into insurance arrangements with commercial insurers for any risks not covered by the scheme, and will consider whether to do so in accordance with their individual standing financial instructions.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter grouped question UIN 212749 212751 212752 question first answered 06/11/2014 13:29:33 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

101902

registered interest
date	30/10/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS Trusts: Insurance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of NHS trusts do not have buildings insurance cover in excess of £1 million.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	212751
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2014 answer text <p>All National Health Service trusts and foundation trusts in England are members of the NHS Litigation Authority’s Property Expenses Scheme (PES). PES covers losses for material damage to buildings and contents from a variety of causes, including fire, theft and water damage, valued at up to £1 million per claim.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>There is a general prohibition on NHS trusts entering into insurance arrangements with commercial insurers therefore they will normally self-insure any losses above the £1 million limit.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS foundation trusts may enter into insurance arrangements with commercial insurers for any risks not covered by the scheme, and will consider whether to do so in accordance with their individual standing financial instructions.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter grouped question UIN 212749 212750 212752 question first answered 06/11/2014 13:29:34 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

101142

registered interest
date	27/10/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Reorganisation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much funding his Department allocated to the Health Reform Evaluation Programme for 2014-15; and how much was allocated in each of the five previous years.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	211976
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>Research projects on health reform were commissioned during 2007 and 2008 and brought together within the framework of the independent Health Reform Evaluation Programme. Following a supplementary call for research proposals in 2013, four new projects are commencing during the period October 2014 to January 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Expenditure by the Department on the Health Reform Evaluation Programme is shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>£ million</em></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2009-10</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><p>Planned</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1.5</p></td><td><p>2.2</p></td><td><p>2.0</p></td><td><p>0.4</p></td><td><p>0.0</p></td><td><p>0.4</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 03/11/2014 17:53:57 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

101143

registered interest
date	27/10/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Orphan Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the NHS spent on orphan medicines in each of the last three years; and what proportion of total medicines expenditure that represented in each year.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	211977
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>The information is not collected because it could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 03/11/2014 17:56:30 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

101144

registered interest
date	27/10/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	General Practitioners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the cost of Health Education England's third round of recruitment for general practice training posts.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	211940
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>The third round of national recruitment was one of the initiatives undertaken by Health Education England (HEE) to support recruitment into general practitioner (GP) training places. HEE continues to work with its partners to reach its mandate commitment of ensuring 3,250 trainees enter ST1 GP training by 2016.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The estimated breakdown of costs is below:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Description</p></td><td><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stage 2 Assessment</p></td><td><p>£10,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stage 3 Venue</p></td><td><p>£24,230</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Printing costs</p></td><td><p>£893</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Assessors - clinical</p></td><td><p>£29,088</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Assessors - non-clinical</p></td><td><p>£3,636</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Moderators - clinical</p></td><td><p>£1,212</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Moderators - non clinical</p></td><td><p>£606</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Trainee expenses</p></td><td><p>£25,200</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Role Players</p></td><td><p>£18,920</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>£113,785</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 03/11/2014 16:41:24 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

100716

registered interest
date	23/10/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Assistive Technology: Annual Reports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish the Risk Assessment for his Department's decision to bring the production of the annual report on Research and Development Work Relating to Assistive Technology in house from 2015.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	211709
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2014 answer text <p>Section 22 of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970 sets out the following requirement:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>“The Secretary of State shall as respects each year lay before Parliament a report on the progress made during that year in research and development work carried out by or on behalf of any Minister of the Crown in relation to equipment that might increase the range of activities and independence or well-being of disabled persons, and in particular such equipment that might improve the indoor and outdoor mobility of such persons.”</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In recent years the report has been produced by the Foundation for Assistive Technology and this contract expired in June 2014 following production of the report for 2013-14. Future reports will be produced by the Department and it is expected that the report for 2014-15 will be laid before Parliament and published in July 2015.</p><p> </p><p>There has been no specific impact or risk assessment. The Government will continue to meet the requirement set out in section 22.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman grouped question UIN 211707 211708 211710 question first answered 30/10/2014 16:13:24 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

100717

registered interest
date	23/10/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Assistive Technology: Annual Reports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish the Impact Assessment for his Department's decision to bring the production of the annual report on Research and Development Work Relating to Assistive Technology in house from 2015.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	211710
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2014 answer text <p>Section 22 of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970 sets out the following requirement:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>“The Secretary of State shall as respects each year lay before Parliament a report on the progress made during that year in research and development work carried out by or on behalf of any Minister of the Crown in relation to equipment that might increase the range of activities and independence or well-being of disabled persons, and in particular such equipment that might improve the indoor and outdoor mobility of such persons.”</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In recent years the report has been produced by the Foundation for Assistive Technology and this contract expired in June 2014 following production of the report for 2013-14. Future reports will be produced by the Department and it is expected that the report for 2014-15 will be laid before Parliament and published in July 2015.</p><p> </p><p>There has been no specific impact or risk assessment. The Government will continue to meet the requirement set out in section 22.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman grouped question UIN 211707 211708 211709 question first answered 30/10/2014 16:13:24 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

100718

registered interest
date	23/10/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Assistive Technology: Annual Reports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to publish the next annual report on Research and Development Work Relating to Assistive Technology.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	211707
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2014 answer text <p>Section 22 of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970 sets out the following requirement:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>“The Secretary of State shall as respects each year lay before Parliament a report on the progress made during that year in research and development work carried out by or on behalf of any Minister of the Crown in relation to equipment that might increase the range of activities and independence or well-being of disabled persons, and in particular such equipment that might improve the indoor and outdoor mobility of such persons.”</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In recent years the report has been produced by the Foundation for Assistive Technology and this contract expired in June 2014 following production of the report for 2013-14. Future reports will be produced by the Department and it is expected that the report for 2014-15 will be laid before Parliament and published in July 2015.</p><p> </p><p>There has been no specific impact or risk assessment. The Government will continue to meet the requirement set out in section 22.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman grouped question UIN 211708 211709 211710 question first answered 30/10/2014 16:13:23 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne