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926796

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2018
	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: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps he is taking to support hospitals in special measures.
	tabling member constituency	Cleethorpes
	tabling member printed	Martin Vickers
	uin	905932
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2018 answer text <p>Trusts in Special Measures are receiving increased support and intensive oversight from NHS Improvement to turn around their performance, including tailored improvement packages and Improvement Directors.</p><p> </p><p>22 trusts are now out of Special Measures for Quality since the programme began in 2013.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 19/06/2018 13:14:01 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	3957 label Biography information for Martin Vickers

926797

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2018
	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	Mental Health Services: Out of Area Treatment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps he has taken to reduce inappropriate out-of-area placements for mental health services.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Withington
	tabling member printed	Jeff Smith
	uin	905936
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2018 answer text <p>Inappropriately placing people away from their home area is unacceptable and the Government is committed to eliminating these in non-specialist, acute mental health care by 2020/21. NHS England and NHS Improvement now have a comprehensive national programme supporting reductions in inappropriate placements. Every part of the country now has a clear, realistic plan for ending out of area placements safely by 2021, with many areas having already ended this practice altogether.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 19/06/2018 15:48:35 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4456 label Biography information for Jeff Smith

926889

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2018
	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	NHS: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Prime Minister’s speech of 18 June 2018 on the NHS, whether revenue dedicated to the Better Care Fund was included in NHS England’s budget in the baseline year for the purposes of calculating that NHS England’s budget would be £394 million a week higher in real terms by 2023-24.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	155297
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>Revenue dedicated to the Better Care Fund was included in the 2018-19 baseline for NHS England’s resource budgets for the five-year funding agreement announced by the Prime Minister.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 25/06/2018 15:16:10 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

926888

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2018
	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	NHS: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Prime Minister’s of 18 June 2018 on the NHS, what (a) baseline year and (b) baseline NHS England budget was used to calculate that NHS England’s budget would be £394 million a week higher in real terms by 2023-24.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	155296
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>The baseline year for the five-year funding agreement, covering NHS England resource budgets, is 2018-19. The 2018-19 baseline has been uplifted by £800 million to take account of additional funding that the Government will provide to the National Health Service in the current financial year to cover Agenda for Change pay deal costs – as previously announced. This baseline excludes NHS England revenue budgets for depreciation and impairments, which will be handled separately.</p><p> </p><p>This information is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/prime-minister-sets-out-5-year-nhs-funding-plan" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/prime-minister-sets-out-5-year-nhs-funding-plan</a></p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 25/06/2018 16:00:14 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

926890

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2018
	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	NHS: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his oral statement of 18 June 2018 on NHS Long-Term Plan, Official Report, column 51, on what date he plans to place in the Library details of the NHS funding settlement.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	155298
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>The details of the National Health Service funding settlement were placed in the Library on Tuesday 19 June 2018.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 25/06/2018 15:22:30 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

926869

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2018
	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: Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's publication, Carers Action Plan 2018-2020, published June 2018, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on providing employment rights to unpaid carers.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford South
	tabling member printed	Judith Cummins
	uin	155311
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>The Carers Action Plan set out our commitment to raising the profile of carers with employers to encourage them to improve their practices to enable carers to continue to work alongside their caring role.</p><p> </p><p>Ministers meet regularly to discuss labour market issues. The question of dedicated employment rights for carers (alongside existing employment rights - such as the right to request flexible working and the right to time off for family and dependents) has been part of those discussions. The Carers Action Plan makes a specific commitment to consider the crucial questions around introducing dedicated employment rights.</p><p> </p><p>The Action Plan makes the following explicit commitment on employment rights for informal carers:</p><p>- The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy are considering the question of dedicated employment rights for carers alongside existing employment rights (such as the right to request flexible working and the right to time off for family and dependents);</p><p>- We have set up an official level working group (the Department of Health and Social Care, the Department for Work and Pensions, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and HM Treasury) to work on this; and</p><p>- This includes considering the crucial questions that arise around introducing dedicated employment rights with the support of analysts so that any emerging carers leave proposal is most effective.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 25/06/2018 14:03:18 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4391 label Biography information for Judith Cummins

927024

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2018
	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	NHS: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to Lord O’Shaughnessy’s statement on the BBC Daily Politics on 18 June 2018 that the scheduled £22bn of NHS efficiency savings are on target, if he will place in the Library (a) an assessment of efficiency savings made by the NHS since 2015 and (b) an estimate of the total value of efficiency savings made by the NHS since 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	155313
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>The National Health Service’s ‘Next Steps on the Five Year Forward View’ document sets out a 10 point plan for how efficiencies in Spending Review 2015 will be delivered. Progress on the 10 point efficiency plan is being monitored through provider Cost Improvement Programmes (CIPs), and commissioner Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention plans (QIPPs). These are not directly comparable to the original £22 billion savings target. That is because the £22 billion was the best estimate of savings at the time of the Spending Review 2015 settlement, but subsequent changes in activity, inflation, workforce and other factors have altered counterfactuals and calculations of efficiency opportunities. Nor do CIPs/QIPPs include an estimate of the savings from public sector pay restraint. The total value of efficiency savings made in this Spending Review period using CIPs/QIPPs is shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Provider CIPs</p></td><td><p>£3.1 billion</p></td><td><p>£3.2 billion</p></td><td><p>£6.3 billion</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Commissioner QIPPs</p></td><td><p>£2.5 billion</p></td><td><p>£3.0 billion</p></td><td><p>£5.5 billion</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>£5.6 billion</p></td><td><p>£6.2 billion</p></td><td><p>£11.8 billion</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br> <br>Copies of NHS England’s board paper on their consolidated 2017/18 year end position, and NHS Improvement’s publication on performance in the provider sector for 2017/18 are attached. These include a more detailed assessment of CIP and QIPP delivery for that year.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay attachment 1 file name NHS I Performance report.pdf title PQ155313 attached document 1 2 file name NHS E consolidated-2017-18-year-end-financial-report.pdf title PQ155313 attached document 2 question first answered 25/06/2018 15:12:08 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

926998

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2018
	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	Autism: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to take steps to reduce waiting times for autism assessments for children.
	tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
	tabling member printed	David Simpson
	uin	155244
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2018 answer text <p>Children should not have to face long waits for an autism diagnosis and we are continuing to work with our partners to help localities address long waiting times for an autism diagnosis.</p><p> </p><p>We have included autism indicators in the Mental Health Services Dataset, with data beginning to be collected from 1 April 2018. The data will include waiting times for an assessment for autism to begin. The current plan is to publish the dataset after a year of data has been collected.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 26/06/2018 10:00:12 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

926997

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2018
	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	Epilepsy: Medical Treatments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has any plans to carry out research on treatments for epilepsy patients.
	tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
	tabling member printed	David Simpson
	uin	155243
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2018 answer text <p>The Department funds research through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). The NIHR currently funds seven active projects with a focus on epilepsy, with a total value of £9,914,239. This figure reflects the total amount of funding allocated to each project for its entire duration. In addition, the NIHR provides infrastructure funding (£512,019 for the period 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2020) to the Cochrane Epilepsy Group, which undertakes a high number of reviews in this area.</p><p> </p><p>The NIHR welcomes funding applications for research into any aspect of human health, including epilepsy. It is not usual practice to ring-fence funds for particular topics or conditions. Applications are subject to peer review and judged in open competition, with awards being made on the basis of the importance of the topic to patients and health and care services, value for money and scientific quality.</p><p> </p><p>On 21 June 2018, the NIHR launched a global health research call to fund research in three areas, including epilepsy. This call is funded by the Department’s Official Development Assistance allocation.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 26/06/2018 11:35:29 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

926857

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2018
	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	Bowel Cancer: Screening
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the relevant Clinical Reference Group plans to make its decision in relation to NICE guidance on testing for Lynch syndrome.
	tabling member constituency	Crewe and Nantwich
	tabling member printed	Laura Smith
	uin	155379
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2018 answer text <p>As part of their work programmes during 2018/19, NHS England will be working with clinical commissioning groups pathology service commissioners to determine whether they can jointly develop a policy position relating to genetic testing and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance on testing for Lynch syndrome. A specific date has not yet been set for this.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 27/06/2018 11:18:43 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4648 label Biography information for Laura Smith