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173929

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Accident and Emergency Departments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many vacant A&E consultant posts there were in the NHS excluding London (a) on the most recent date for which figures are available and (b) in each of the previous six years.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Dame Tessa Jowell
	uin	220878
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2015 answer text <p>Information on vacancies is not collected by the Department. The last annual National Health Service vacancy survey in England was undertaken by the Health and Social Care Information Centre in 2010. The survey was suspended in 2011 and then discontinued in 2013 following the publication of the Fundamental Review of Data Returns, which aimed to reduce the burden of the collection of data from NHS organisations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The attached table provides vacancy data for 2009 and 2010, the only two years within the last six years for which data is available.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 20/01/2015 16:08:26 question first ministerially corrected 20/01/2015 16:16:23 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter attachment 1 file name Table PQ220878 Vacancy data.xlsx title Vacancy data 2009-10 A&E Consultants previous answer version 39309 answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	159 label Biography information for Baroness Jowell

173930

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Accident and Emergency Departments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many vacant A&E consultant posts there are in (a) London and (b) England; and how many such vacant posts there are in each category in each of the last six years.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Dame Tessa Jowell
	uin	220879
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2015 answer text <p>Information on vacancies is not collected by the Department. The last annual National Health Service vacancy survey in England was undertaken by the Health and Social Care Information Centre in 2010. The survey was suspended in 2011 and then discontinued in 2013 following the publication of the Fundamental Review of Data Returns, which aimed to reduce the burden of the collection of data from NHS organisations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The attached table provides vacancy data for 2009 and 2010, the only two years within the last six years for which data is available.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 20/01/2015 16:08:26 question first ministerially corrected 20/01/2015 16:55:53 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter attachment 1 file name Table PQ220878 Vacancy data.xlsx title Vacancy data 2009-10 A&E Consultants previous answer version 39310 answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	159 label Biography information for Baroness Jowell

169515

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Health Professions: Regulation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what amount each of the healthcare regulators charged for annual registration fees in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Copeland
	tabling member printed	Mr Jamie Reed
	uin	218058
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2014 answer text <p>The regulatory bodies are independent and it is therefore for them to set their fees appropriately. All professional regulators, are aware of the Governments position, as set out in the 2011 Command Paper, `Enabling Excellence’, that we would not expect registration fees to increase, unless there is a clear and strong case that any increase is essential to ensure the exercise of statutory duties.</p><p> </p><p>There are eight Healthcare Professions Regulatory Bodies (excluding the Pharmaceutical Society in Northern Ireland where responsibility is devolved to the Northern Ireland Assembly). The Department does not hold information on the fees of the regulatory bodies. However, we have obtained data from each of the regulatory bodies on the Annual Retention Fee for the last five years which shows:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Annual Retention Fee for Healthcare Professions Regulatory Bodies 2010-2015</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Nursing and Midwifery Council</p></td><td><p>Health and Care Professions Council</p></td><td><p>General Optical Council</p></td><td><p>General Medical Council</p></td><td><p>General Osteopathic Council</p></td><td><p>General Pharmaceutical Council</p></td><td><p>General Dental Council</p></td><td><p>General Chiropractic Council</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>£100</p></td><td><p>£80</p></td><td><p>£290</p></td><td><p>£390</p></td><td><p>£570</p></td><td><p>£240</p></td><td><p>£576</p></td><td><p>£800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>£100</p></td><td><p>£76</p></td><td><p>£260</p></td><td><p>£390</p></td><td><p>£610</p></td><td><p>£240</p></td><td><p>£576</p></td><td><p>£800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£76</p></td><td><p>£76</p></td><td><p>£260</p></td><td><p>£390</p></td><td><p>£655</p></td><td><p>£240</p></td><td><p>£576</p></td><td><p>£800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>£76</p></td><td><p>£76</p></td><td><p>£270</p></td><td><p>£390</p></td><td><p>£750</p></td><td><p>£267</p></td><td><p>£576</p></td><td><p>£800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010 -11</p></td><td><p>£76</p></td><td><p>£76</p></td><td><p>£280 (Dispensing optician)</p><p>£325 (Optometrist)</p></td><td><p>£420</p></td><td><p>£750</p></td><td><p>£262</p></td><td><p>£438</p></td><td><p>£1,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department does not hold data on the number of investigations that have been carried out by each of the healthcare professions regulatory bodies. We understand that this information is published by each of the regulatory bodies.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has five national bodies which have regulatory functions. They are the Care Quality Commission, Monitor, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, the Human Tissue Authority and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency. None of these bodies charge an annual registration fee but <ins class="ministerial">all except Monitor </ins><del class="ministerial">they do</del> receive income from a range of fees that are applied.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 15/12/2014 17:43:27 question first ministerially corrected 18/12/2014 14:09:00 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter previous answer version 33732 answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	1503 label Biography information for Mr Jamie Reed

170098

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Public Relations
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much (a) NHS England, (b) Public Health England, (c) Monitor and (d) the Care Quality Commission spent on public relations and communications staff in (i) each year since 2010 and (ii) 2014 to date.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	218532
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2015 answer text <p>Below are details of how much each of the four bodies has spent on public relations and communications staff since 2010 or from when the data are available.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>To ensure consistency all organisations have provided data according to the following criteria for public relations (PR) and communications staff:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- Press and PR</p><p> </p><p>- Stakeholder relations</p><p> </p><p>- Campaigns (not behaviour change policy)</p><p> </p><p>- Digital Comms (not IT/digital service teams)</p><p> </p><p>- Internal Comms</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>(a) NHS England</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>On 1 October 2012, the functions of the Board Authority transferred to the NHS Commissioning Board (also known as NHS England), which was formally established as an executive non departmental public body. NHS England took on all of its statutory functions in April 2013. Figures have been given from 1 October 2012.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>NHS England</p></td><td><p>2012/13</p><p>(October – April)</p></td><td><p>2013/14</p><p>(April – March)</p></td><td><p>2014/15</p><p>(April – November)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>National Communications</p></td><td><p>£253,963</p></td><td><p>£584,419</p></td><td><p>£1,040,240</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Communications in local areas</p></td><td> </td><td><p>£3,558,677</p></td><td><p>£2,595,881</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Improving Quality (NHS IQ)</p></td><td> </td><td><p>£325,265</p></td><td><p>£461,232</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>(b) Public Health England (PHE)</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>PHE was formed on 1 April 2013 - figures from predecessor bodies are not provided.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Public Health England</p></td><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>2014/15</p><p>(to November)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>PR and Communications staff expenditure</p></td><td><p>£2,888,000</p></td><td><p>£2,323,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>(c) Monitor</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Monitor</p></td><td><p>2010<del class="ministerial">/11</del></p><p>(April – December)</p></td><td><p>2011<del class="ministerial">/12</del></p></td><td><p>2012<del class="ministerial">/13</del></p></td><td><p>2013<del class="ministerial">/14</del></p></td><td><p>2014<del class="ministerial">/15</del></p><p>(to November)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>PR and Communications staff expenditure</p></td><td><p>£398,973.20</p><p> </p></td><td><p>£526,784.85</p></td><td><p>£486,320.81</p></td><td><p>£1,066,790.92</p></td><td><p>£1,223,775.43</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>(d) Care Quality Commission (CQC)</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>CQC</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>(to November)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>PR and Communications staff expenditure</p></td><td><p>£568,951</p></td><td><p>£736,238</p></td><td><p>£1,188,519</p></td><td><p>£1,039,669</p></td><td><p>£780,195</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 05/01/2015 15:28:13 question first ministerially corrected 07/01/2015 11:11:25 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter previous answer version 36869 answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

172236

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Mental Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer to Question 219055, which areas are piloting enhanced access to mental health practitioners.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	219813
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2015 answer text <p>All NHS 111 areas receive mental health calls and use algorithms within NHS Pathways to enable assessment; receiving additional support from nurses as required.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>There are <del class="ministerial">four</del> <ins class="ministerial">six </ins>areas that are piloting enhanced access to mental health practitioners, either within the NHS 111 call centre or by transferring to teams outside. NHS England is in the process of finalising which locations will take forward the NHS 111 pilot areas and NHS England will make an announcement when this process has been completed.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 09/01/2015 13:44:16 question first ministerially corrected 03/02/2015 11:25:01 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter previous answer version 37717 answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

224722

	registered interest
	date	03/03/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what (a) public dividend capital and (b) other non-tariff payments have been made to the Mid-Stafforshire NHS Foundation Trust in (i) 2009-10, (ii) 2010-11, (iii) 2011-12, (iv) 2012-13, (v) 2013-14 and (vi) 2014-15 to date.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	225961
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department holds records of the total capital allocated to the respective recipient bodies as a result of the transfer of Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust services but does not have details of the breakdown by individual hospital site.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The capital provided to date is as follows:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust</p></td><td><p>£12,109,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust</p></td><td><p>£12,153,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust</p></td><td><p>£4,000,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grand Total</p></td><td><p>£28,262,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Revenue funding provided to date is set out in the following table:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust</ins></p><p> </p></td><td><p>£32,420,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust</ins></p></td><td><p>£5,480,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grand Total</p></td><td><p>£37,900,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The amount of public dividend capital issued to the Trust by the Department is as follows:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>£214,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>£21,000,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>£21,385,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>£30,397,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>£64,425,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department does not hold central records of non-tariff payments made by local commissioning bodies to NHS providers.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The work of the trust special administrators (TSAs) to secure safe and sustainable services at Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust cost Monitor almost £19.5 million, including VAT, over 18 months.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The first phase of trust special administration cost £9 million, including expenses and VAT. During this phase there was a team of up to 30 members of staff who carried out three core tasks - to help to run the Trust, to design the future of services provided at Stafford and Cannock hospitals, and to run a large public consultation involving thousands of responses and a series of public meetings.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The second phase cost £10.5 million, including expenses and VAT. We are informed by Monitor that this second phase included a team of up to 50 people, which was required to continue to help run the hospital and implement the TSA’s recommendations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are also informed by Monitor that trust special administration at Mid-Staffordshire NHS Trust amounted to the rounded figure of 10,900 person-days for teams working on both phases of the process.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In the table below, expenses incurred during the TSA process are split by the two phases of the TSA and totals are also provided. These expenses include:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>(a) accommodation;</p><p> </p><p>(b) travel (car, taxi and train);</p><p> </p><p>(c) subsistence; and</p><p> </p><p>(d) other expenses incurred; and what other costs to the TSA were incurred</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Breakdown of expenses, these exclude VAT:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p>TSA1</p></td><td><p>TSA2</p></td><td><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Accommodation</p></td><td><p>£82,242.89</p></td><td><p>£170,622.67</p></td><td><p>£252,865.56</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Travel</p></td><td><p>£144,122.38</p></td><td><p>£226,600.29</p></td><td><p>£370,722.67</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Subsistence</p></td><td><p>£16,171.73</p></td><td><p>£43,176.88</p></td><td><p>£59,348.61</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other (incidentals such as printing, room hire and meeting refreshments)</p></td><td><p>£1,939.11</p></td><td><p>£3052.73</p></td><td><p>£4991.84</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>£244,476.11</p></td><td><p>£443,452.57</p></td><td><p>£687,928.68</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 10/03/2015 17:13:10 question first ministerially corrected 17/03/2015 16:58:22 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter previous answer version 49060 answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

224727

	registered interest
	date	03/03/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Hospitals: West Midlands
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department has provided to implement the recommendations of the Trust Special Administration of Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust on (a) capital investment in Stafford Hospital, (b) capital investment in Royal Stoke University Hospital, (c) capital investment in Cannock Hospital, (d) capital investment in New Cross Hospital, (e) other capital investment, (f) revenue support for the University Hospitals of the North Midlands NHS Trust, (g) revenue support for the Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals Trust and (h) other revenue support.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	226012
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department holds records of the total capital allocated to the respective recipient bodies as a result of the transfer of Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust services but does not have details of the breakdown by individual hospital site.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The capital provided to date is as follows:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust</p></td><td><p>£12,109,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust</p></td><td><p>£12,153,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust</p></td><td><p>£4,000,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grand Total</p></td><td><p>£28,262,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Revenue funding provided to date is set out in the following table:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust</ins></p></td><td><p>£32,420,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust</ins></p></td><td><p>£5,480,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grand Total</p></td><td><p>£37,900,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The amount of public dividend capital issued to the Trust by the Department is as follows:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>£214,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>£21,000,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>£21,385,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>£30,397,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>£64,425,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department does not hold central records of non-tariff payments made by local commissioning bodies to NHS providers.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The work of the trust special administrators (TSAs) to secure safe and sustainable services at Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust cost Monitor almost £19.5 million, including VAT, over 18 months.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The first phase of trust special administration cost £9 million, including expenses and VAT. During this phase there was a team of up to 30 members of staff who carried out three core tasks - to help to run the Trust, to design the future of services provided at Stafford and Cannock hospitals, and to run a large public consultation involving thousands of responses and a series of public meetings.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The second phase cost £10.5 million, including expenses and VAT. We are informed by Monitor that this second phase included a team of up to 50 people, which was required to continue to help run the hospital and implement the TSA’s recommendations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are also informed by Monitor that trust special administration at Mid-Staffordshire NHS Trust amounted to the rounded figure of 10,900 person-days for teams working on both phases of the process.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In the table below, expenses incurred during the TSA process are split by the two phases of the TSA and totals are also provided. These expenses include:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>(a) accommodation;</p><p> </p><p>(b) travel (car, taxi and train);</p><p> </p><p>(c) subsistence; and</p><p> </p><p>(d) other expenses incurred; and what other costs to the TSA were incurred</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Breakdown of expenses, these exclude VAT:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p>TSA1</p></td><td><p>TSA2</p></td><td><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Accommodation</p></td><td><p>£82,242.89</p></td><td><p>£170,622.67</p></td><td><p>£252,865.56</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Travel</p></td><td><p>£144,122.38</p></td><td><p>£226,600.29</p></td><td><p>£370,722.67</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Subsistence</p></td><td><p>£16,171.73</p></td><td><p>£43,176.88</p></td><td><p>£59,348.61</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other (incidentals such as printing, room hire and meeting refreshments)</p></td><td><p>£1,939.11</p></td><td><p>£3052.73</p></td><td><p>£4991.84</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>£244,476.11</p></td><td><p>£443,452.57</p></td><td><p>£687,928.68</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 10/03/2015 17:13:10 question first ministerially corrected 17/03/2015 16:58:03 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter previous answer version 49059 answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

224870

	registered interest
	date	03/03/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Billing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of undisputed invoices his Department and its agencies and non-departmental public bodies paid within five days in the last period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Streatham
	tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
	uin	226077
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2015 answer text <p>The last period for which complete figures are available is the 2013-14 financial-year i.e. 12 months ended 31 March 2014. The table below details the proportion (%) of undisputed payments made, by individual body:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Body</p></td><td><p>Proportion of invoices paid within 5 days</p><p>(% to nearest 1%)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Department of Health</p></td><td><p>95</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency</p></td><td><p>76</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Human Tissue Authority</p></td><td><p>95</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Monitor</p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">92</del><ins class="ministerial">0*</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Public Health England</p></td><td><p>81</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Care Quality Commission</p></td><td><p>89</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Litigation Authority</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Health Education England</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Health Research Authority</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Health and Social Care Information Centre</p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>National Institute for Health &amp; Care Excellence</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Blood and Transplant</p></td><td><p>24</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Property Services</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Business Services Authority</p></td><td><p>24</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS England</p></td><td><p>54</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><ins class="ministerial">*Monitor return is 0% because it works towards paying all valid invoices within 10 working days not five. The 10-day compliance for 2013-14 was 92%.</ins></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 10/03/2015 16:36:28 question first ministerially corrected 16/03/2015 17:31:17 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter previous answer version 49032 answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

164499

	registered interest
	date	24/11/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	NHS: Negligence
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government by how much the provision for clinical negligence claims against the National Health Service has grown in the last year; why it has grown; and what strategy is in place for reducing that amount.
	tabling member printed	Lord Sharkey
	uin	HL3092
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2014 answer text <p>As at 31 March 2014, the National Health Service Litigation Authority (NHS LA) estimates that it has potential liabilities of £26.1 billion, of which £25.7 billion relates to clinical negligence. This is an increase of £3.1 billion from 31 March 201<del class="ministerial">4<ins class="ministerial">3</ins></del>, which can mainly be attributed to a continual rise in clinical negligence claims over recent years. There are a number of factors driving this increase, including the rise in the number of patients cared for and in the complexity of their care; and the general rise in litigation across a number of sectors including the NHS, driven in part by ‘no win, no fee’ agreements. It is anticipated that the effect of the latter is likely to diminish as a result of the Government’s Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act of 2012.</p><p> </p><p>The Department believes the best way to reduce negligence claims is to improve patient care and safety. In March 2014, the Secretary of State for Health issued a call to action to make the NHS the safest healthcare system in the world and achieve a three-year goal to halve avoidable harm and save 6,000 lives. The Sign up to Safety campaign embodies the ambition of the NHS to build a culture of safety, bringing together individuals and organisations with a contribution to make towards the patient safety goal. Elements of this campaign will focus on a reduction in avoidable harm that can lead to compensation claims. Organisations that sign up are setting out what they will do to strengthen patient safety, including a safety improvement plan which shows how their organisation intends to save lives and reduce harm for patients over the next three years. The NHS Litigation Authority, which already provides a “safety and learning service” to trusts<strong>,</strong> will support those organisations which have patient safety improvement plans that show a likely reduction in their higher volume, higher value claims.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 04/12/2014 16:04:05 question first ministerially corrected 13/01/2015 14:37:59 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe previous answer version 31769 answering member printed Earl Howe answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
	tabling member	4196 label Biography information for Lord Sharkey

177981

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Passive Smoking
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their estimate of the number of people who died as a result of passive smoking in each of the last five years.
	tabling member printed	Lord Laird
	uin	HL4692
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/02/2015 answer text <p>Exposure to secondhand smoke is a serious health hazard. More than 50 carcinogens have been identified in secondhand smoke.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The report of the United States Surgeon General titled “<em>The health consequences of involuntary exposure to tobacco smoke”</em> concluded that secondhand smoke causes premature death and disease in children and adults who do not smoke. The scientific evidence indicates that there is no risk-free level of exposure to secondhand smoke. Children exposed to secondhand smoke are at an increased risk for sudden infant death syndrome, acute respiratory infections, ear problems and more severe asthma. Smoking by parents causes respiratory symptoms and slows lung growth in children. Exposure of adults to secondhand smoke has immediate adverse effects on the cardiovascular system and causes coronary heart disease and lung cancer. Legislation to stop smoking in vehicles carrying children will come into force in England on 1 October 2015.</p><p> </p><p><br /> The report of the Royal College of <ins class="ministerial">Physicians </ins><del class="ministerial">Surgeons</del> titled “<em>Going smoke-free: The medical case for clean air in the home, at work and in public places”</em> included estimates that secondhand smoke exposure caused approximately 12<del class="ministerial">2</del>,200 deaths in the United Kingdom in 2003, and that the majority of these deaths occurred as a result of exposure to secondhand smoke in the home. These estimates were made prior to the introduction of smokefree legislation in England in 2007. Over the past decade, the proportion of smokers who say that they do not smoke in the home has increased.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The evidence is clear that smokefree legislation in England has had beneficial effects on health, as set out in the report “<em>The Impact of smokefree legislation in England: evidence review”</em> which was published alongside the Government’s <em>“Tobacco Control Plan for England”</em> in March 2011.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The reports referred to have been placed in the Library.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 17/02/2015 16:08:25 question first ministerially corrected 12/03/2015 12:34:25 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe previous answer version 45462 answering member printed Earl Howe answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
	tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird