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451289

registered interest
date	08/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 5 February 2016 to Question 25603, on NHS: finance, with which seven trusts Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority have met since 15 January 2016.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
tabling member printed	Heidi Alexander
uin	26362
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority are unable to disclose the seven trust names that they have met since 15 January for commercial-in-confidence reasons.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 11/02/2016 15:58:37 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	4038 label Biography information for Heidi Alexander

451305

registered interest
date	08/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Junior Doctors: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 10 November 2015 to Question 14327, on junior doctors: conditions of employment, whether future junior doctors will receive a salary equivalent in real terms to the salary guaranteed to the current cohort of junior doctors to whom pay protection will apply.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
tabling member printed	Heidi Alexander
uin	26287
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>Average earnings for junior doctors will remain the same under the new contract as under the existing contract. This will apply equally to future junior doctors as to the current cohort.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 11/02/2016 10:15:22 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	4038 label Biography information for Heidi Alexander

450760

registered interest
date	04/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Professions: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his oral contribution of 5 January 2016, Official Report, column 18, what the baseline year is for the commitment to train 10,000 more nurses, midwives and other allied health professionals over the course of the Parliament.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
tabling member printed	Heidi Alexander
uin	26014
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2016 answer text <p>The Government has committed to remove the cap on the number of students studying nursing, midwifery and the allied health professions from 2017/18. This will enable universities to offer up to 10,000 additional places for students to start these courses by the end of the parliament.</p><p> </p><p>The Department of Health, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills with health and education partners will work together prior to implementation in 2017 to determine how these additional places are appropriately baselined (and monitored) against those commissioned for National Health Service workforce planning purposes.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 09/02/2016 16:33:29 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	4038 label Biography information for Heidi Alexander

450766

registered interest
date	04/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Professions: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much Health Education England spent on clinical placements for (a) nursing, (b) midwifery and (c) allied health students in the latest year for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
tabling member printed	Heidi Alexander
uin	26001
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2016 answer text <p>Health Education England’s (HEE) planned clinical placement expenditure for the year 2015/16 is estimated as follows[1]:</p><p> </p><p>(a) Nursing: £100 million</p><p>(b) Allied Health Professionals: £34 million</p><p>(c) Midwifery: £13 million</p><p><br></p><p>HEE is currently working towards a common coding structure to be applied by Local Educations and Training Boards to the composite parts of trust clinical placement payments to provide detailed breakdown of actual expenditure for healthcare trainees in future years.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] These figures are rounded to the nearest million.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 09/02/2016 14:37:46 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	4038 label Biography information for Heidi Alexander

450767

registered interest
date	04/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Professions: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what funding his Department has set aside for managing the transition from NHS bursaries to student loans for new nursing, midwifery and allied health students from 1 August 2017.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
tabling member printed	Heidi Alexander
uin	25999
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2016 answer text <p>The Department will be working with delivery organisations outside of the Department to assess a range of considerations for transition and implementation.</p><p> </p><p>The Department will be consulting on the health education funding reforms in due course.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 09/02/2016 16:34:50 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	4038 label Biography information for Heidi Alexander

450777

registered interest
date	04/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library copies of each Local Education and Training Board's workforce investment plan for 2016-17.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
tabling member printed	Heidi Alexander
uin	26002
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2016 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>Health Education England (HEE) will be publishing the local plans as an appendix to the <em>HEE commissioning and investment plan – 2016/17</em> and will be published on the HEE website before the end of February 2016.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 09/02/2016 13:53:24 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	4038 label Biography information for Heidi Alexander

449976

registered interest
date	02/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many meetings have taken place between NHS Improvement and NHS trusts to agree plans to improve their financial position since 15 January; which providers have had such meetings with NHS Improvement; and when each such meeting took place.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
tabling member printed	Heidi Alexander
uin	25603
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2016 answer text <p>Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority (NHS TDA) (becoming NHS Improvement from 1 April 2016) engage with National Health Service trusts and foundation trusts on a daily basis and staff regularly meet with these organisations to review and support their plans to improve their financial positions.</p><p> </p><p>Since 15 January, senior representatives have met with seven trusts for face to face meetings and have also attended events, with a number of trusts represented, to discuss the 2015/16 financial year and financial planning for 2016/17. In addition, senior representatives have also met with NHS Providers to discuss these issues and fed into their communications to the provider sector on these topics.</p><p> </p><p>All trusts will be submitting draft financial plans for 2016/17 to Monitor and the NHS TDA in due course. Monitor and the NHS TDA will continue to engage further with trusts as appropriate.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 05/02/2016 12:29:49 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	4038 label Biography information for Heidi Alexander

447240

registered interest
date	25/01/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Alcoholic Drinks: Misuse
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 to the NHS of alcohol misuse in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
tabling member printed	Heidi Alexander
uin	23895
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>Figures of the cost to the National Health Service of alcohol misuse for each of the past five years is not available. The most recent estimate from 2014 is that alcohol costs the NHS around £3.5 billion per annum(1), just under half of which is due to alcohol related inpatient admissions to hospital.</p><p><br></p><p>(1)<em>Source: </em>“Alcohol and drugs prevention, treatment and recovery: why invest?”, Public Health England, <a href="http://www.nta.nhs.uk/uploads/why-invest-2014-alcohol-and-drugs.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.nta.nhs.uk/uploads/why-invest-2014-alcohol-and-drugs.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 28/01/2016 16:16:04 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4038 label Biography information for Heidi Alexander

447241

registered interest
date	25/01/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Alcoholic Drinks: Consumption
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect on public health of rising levels of alcohol consumption in England.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
tabling member printed	Heidi Alexander
uin	23896
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>There has been a reduction in overall consumption in recent years which is welcome, but there is no room for complacency. Harms such as liver disease remain much too high.</p><br /><p>To help people understand how to keep health risks from alcohol consumption low, the United Kingdom Chief Medical Officers published new low risk alcohol guidelines on 8 January 2016.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 28/01/2016 16:08:49 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4038 label Biography information for Heidi Alexander

447242

registered interest
date	25/01/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Cancer Drugs Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 17 December 2015 to Question 20039, on cancer drugs, if he will place in the Library a copy of the draft impact assessment for NHS England's consultation on proposals for a new Cancer Drugs Fund; for what reasons NHS England has not published the draft impact assessment alongside its consultation on those proposals; what guidance his officials have given on whether draft impact assessments should accompany NHS England consultations; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
tabling member printed	Heidi Alexander
uin	23840
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>NHS England has advised that it will not complete its assessment of the impact of the proposals on the Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF) until the outcomes from the current consultation on the future of the CDF are known. The formal consultation, as well as the wider engagement activity in progress, will be critical in helping to understand the potential impacts of the proposed changes.</p><br /><p>The Better Regulation requirements, including the preparation of impact assessments, apply to the regulation of business. Where an impact assessment is required to accompany an NHS England consultation, the Department and NHS England work closely to prepare this.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 28/01/2016 15:46:29 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	4038 label Biography information for Heidi Alexander