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	registered interest
	date	12/06/2018
	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	Department of Health and Social Care: Re-employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	Can the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many staff made redundant by his Department between January and March 2017 have been reemployed by his Department on (a) permanent, (b) agency or (c) contractor contracts.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	152853
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2018 answer text <p>No staff have been reemployed by the Department who previously left under compulsory or voluntary redundancy, between January and March 2017.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 20/06/2018 11:09:19 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

923570

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2018
	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	Vulnerable Adults
	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 safeguarding adults reviews have been launched since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	153424
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2018 answer text <p>For the year 2015-16 there were 90 Safeguarding Adult Reviews, the following year 2016-17 there were 110. The Department does not hold data for years prior to 2015, this was the first year data was recorded on Safeguarding Adult Reviews.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 20/06/2018 10:55:26 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

923259

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2018
	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	Social Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will ensure that the forthcoming Green Paper on Social Care will include greater (a) support for carers and (b) funding and other support for the social care system to meet increasing demand in terms of complexity of care requirements and overall demand.
	tabling member constituency	Blackburn
	tabling member printed	Kate Hollern
	uin	153301
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2018 answer text <p>Carers are vital partners in the health and social care system, and they need to be at the heart of discussions on a sustainable settlement for social care. The Green Paper will include a focus on carers and how society supports them.</p><p> </p><p>Social care continues to be a key priority for this Government. In addition to the £2 billion announced at Spring Budget 2017, we have announced a further £150 million for 2018/19, giving councils access to up to £9.4 billion more dedicated funding for adult social care in total over three years.</p><p> </p><p>An ageing society means that we need to reach a longer-term sustainable settlement for social care. That is why the Government has committed to publishing a Green Paper by autumn 2018 setting out our proposals for reform.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 20/06/2018 11:15:30 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4363 label Biography information for Kate Hollern

923531

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2018
	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	Sleeping Rough: Death
	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 value of the process of safeguarding adult reviews into the deaths of people sleeping rough.
	tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
	tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
	uin	153311
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2018 answer text <p>The Department has not made any specific assessment of the value of the process of safeguarding adult reviews into the deaths of people sleeping rough.</p><p> </p><p>The Care Act statutory guidance states that Safeguarding Adult Boards are required to order a Safeguarding Adult Review if an adult dies in their area and there is concern that partner agencies could have done more to prevent the death and protect the adult. This is because Safeguarding Adult Reviews are about learning and improving to prevent future deaths.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 20/06/2018 11:00:36 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

923331

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2018
	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	Hospitals: Patients
	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 cost to the public purse of delayed discharge of a patient.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
	tabling member printed	Royston Smith
	uin	153395
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2018 answer text <p>Despite the National Health Service being busier than ever with hospital admissions, the majority of patients are discharged quickly. The Government has already taken significant action to help reduce delayed transfers of care, including providing an additional £2 billion of funding for social care, setting expectations locally for reductions in delayed transfers of care and asking the Care Quality Commission to undertake a series of local system reviews to evaluate the boundary between health and social care’s functionality. The Department are also working with system partners to provide a package of support to help local areas improve transfers out of hospital and reduce delays. Overall, there are 1,827 more beds available each day since February 2017. But there is still more to do.</p><p> </p><p>Data surrounding the proportion of patients in hospital with a delayed discharge is not collected centrally. NHS England publishes monthly reports on the total delayed days during the month for all patients delayed throughout the month and this can be found at their website:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/delayed-transfers-of-care/statistical-work-areas-delayed-transfers-of-care-delayed-transfers-of-care-data-2018-19/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/delayed-transfers-of-care/statistical-work-areas-delayed-transfers-of-care-delayed-transfers-of-care-data-2018-19/</a></p><p> </p><p>Data is shown at provider organisation level, from NHS trusts, NHS foundation trusts and primary care trusts. Data is also shown by local authority that is responsible for each patient delayed.</p><p> </p><p>No formal assessment has been made of the cost to the public purse of delayed discharge of a patient.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 153393 153394 question first answered 20/06/2018 11:18:54 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

923998

	registered interest
	date	14/06/2018
	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	Carers
	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 saving to the public purse of unpaid carers.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
	tabling member printed	Royston Smith
	uin	153900
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2018 answer text <p>No substantive assessment of the savings to the public purse of unpaid carers has been made. Estimates of the value of unpaid care are frequently based on the cost of providing formal social care services as a direct substitute for unpaid care, and range widely.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 20/06/2018 11:13:05 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

923352

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2018
	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	Medical Equipment
	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 his Department has made of the cost to the public purse of reusable medical equipment that was not returned in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	St Albans
	tabling member printed	Mrs Anne Main
	uin	153238
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2018 answer text <p>The return, reuse or recycling of equipment is decided locally between the relevant commissioners and providers of equipment. There is a responsibility on National Health Service trusts to make the best use of all resources and items including recycling and reuse of equipment where it is safe and cost effective to do so.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not collect data on expenditure on reusable medical equipment and no estimate has been made of these costs.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 153237 question first answered 20/06/2018 11:02:47 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1568 label Biography information for Mrs Anne Main

923996

	registered interest
	date	14/06/2018
	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	Palliative Care
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding is available for palliative care services.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
	tabling member printed	Royston Smith
	uin	153898
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2018 answer text <p>As with the vast majority of NHS services, the commissioning of palliative and end of life care is a local matter, over which individual clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have responsibility. CCGs are best placed to understand the needs of local populations and fund services to meet those needs from the overall resource allocations they receive.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 20/06/2018 11:10:55 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

923330

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2018
	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	Hospitals: Patients
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of patients in hospital had a delayed discharge in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
	tabling member printed	Royston Smith
	uin	153394
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2018 answer text <p>Despite the National Health Service being busier than ever with hospital admissions, the majority of patients are discharged quickly. The Government has already taken significant action to help reduce delayed transfers of care, including providing an additional £2 billion of funding for social care, setting expectations locally for reductions in delayed transfers of care and asking the Care Quality Commission to undertake a series of local system reviews to evaluate the boundary between health and social care’s functionality. The Department are also working with system partners to provide a package of support to help local areas improve transfers out of hospital and reduce delays. Overall, there are 1,827 more beds available each day since February 2017. But there is still more to do.</p><p> </p><p>Data surrounding the proportion of patients in hospital with a delayed discharge is not collected centrally. NHS England publishes monthly reports on the total delayed days during the month for all patients delayed throughout the month and this can be found at their website:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/delayed-transfers-of-care/statistical-work-areas-delayed-transfers-of-care-delayed-transfers-of-care-data-2018-19/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/delayed-transfers-of-care/statistical-work-areas-delayed-transfers-of-care-delayed-transfers-of-care-data-2018-19/</a></p><p> </p><p>Data is shown at provider organisation level, from NHS trusts, NHS foundation trusts and primary care trusts. Data is also shown by local authority that is responsible for each patient delayed.</p><p> </p><p>No formal assessment has been made of the cost to the public purse of delayed discharge of a patient.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 153393 153395 question first answered 20/06/2018 11:18:53 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

923329

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2018
	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	Hospitals: Patients
	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 he (a) is taking and (b) plans to take to reduce the number of patients that are discharged from hospital late.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
	tabling member printed	Royston Smith
	uin	153393
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2018 answer text <p>Despite the National Health Service being busier than ever with hospital admissions, the majority of patients are discharged quickly. The Government has already taken significant action to help reduce delayed transfers of care, including providing an additional £2 billion of funding for social care, setting expectations locally for reductions in delayed transfers of care and asking the Care Quality Commission to undertake a series of local system reviews to evaluate the boundary between health and social care’s functionality. The Department are also working with system partners to provide a package of support to help local areas improve transfers out of hospital and reduce delays. Overall, there are 1,827 more beds available each day since February 2017. But there is still more to do.</p><p> </p><p>Data surrounding the proportion of patients in hospital with a delayed discharge is not collected centrally. NHS England publishes monthly reports on the total delayed days during the month for all patients delayed throughout the month and this can be found at their website:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/delayed-transfers-of-care/statistical-work-areas-delayed-transfers-of-care-delayed-transfers-of-care-data-2018-19/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/delayed-transfers-of-care/statistical-work-areas-delayed-transfers-of-care-delayed-transfers-of-care-data-2018-19/</a></p><p> </p><p>Data is shown at provider organisation level, from NHS trusts, NHS foundation trusts and primary care trusts. Data is also shown by local authority that is responsible for each patient delayed.</p><p> </p><p>No formal assessment has been made of the cost to the public purse of delayed discharge of a patient.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 153394 153395 question first answered 20/06/2018 11:18:53 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith