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1466507

	registered interest
	date	26/05/2022
	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	University Hospital of North Durham: Hospital Beds
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of bed capacity at University Hospital North Durham in relation to the local population.
	tabling member constituency	City of Durham
	tabling member printed	Mary Kelly Foy
	uin	10013
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2022 answer text <p>No specific assessment has been made. However, NHS England and NHS Improvement advise that County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust assessed the demand on services and reviewed current bed capacity at University Hospital North Durham as part of its annual planning requirement. In response, an additional 24 beds will be made available during the second half of 2022/23.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 13/06/2022 10:00:54 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar previous answer version 4654 answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4753 label Biography information for Mary Kelly Foy

1241328

	registered interest
	date	07/10/2020
	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: Annual Reports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department's annual report and accounts 2019-20 will be published.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	100399
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2020 answer text <p>The Department intends to lay its 2019-20 Annual Report and Accounts by the end of November 2020.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 21/10/2020 16:29:52 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar previous answer version 53709 answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1401242

	registered interest
	date	10/01/2022
	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	Members: Correspondence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to respond to the correspondence from the hon. Member for Basildon and Billericay of 20 October 2021, 17 November and 17 December 2021 regarding his constituent with reference JB34702.
	tabling member constituency	Basildon and Billericay
	tabling member printed	Mr John Baron
	uin	100446
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2022 answer text <p>We replied to the hon. Member on 13 January 2022.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 18/01/2022 11:03:53 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar previous answer version 43183 answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	1390 label Biography information for Mr John Baron

1241160

	registered interest
	date	07/10/2020
	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 Trusts: VAT
	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 pause proposals for NHS trusts to (a) form or (b) make changes to subsidiary companies until after the Government has concluded its assessment of its proposals to reform VAT refund rules.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol South
	tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
	uin	100454
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2020 answer text <p>The Health and Social Care Act 2012 established a level playing-field in which any qualified provider can provide National Health Service-funded services to encourage greater diversity of supply and improve patient choice. As such, it is vital that all providers, be they NHS or private sector, operate within existing VAT legislation as applicable to their particular entity.</p><p>Initial responses to the HM Treasury consultation on changes to S41 of the 1994 VAT Act are due by 19 November 2020. There are no plans to pause proposals for NHS trusts to form or make changes to subsidiary companies.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 19/10/2020 09:35:16 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar previous answer version 54057 answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth

1241288

	registered interest
	date	07/10/2020
	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	Dementia: Research
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps his Department has taken to implement the Government’s commitment to double dementia research funding to over £160 million a year.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	100517
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2020 answer text <p>The Government remains strongly committed to supporting research into dementia and the United Kingdom research community is playing a significant role in the global effort to find a cure or a major disease-modifying treatment by 2025.</p><p>The Government’s 2020 Challenge contained the commitment to spend £300 million on dementia research over the five years to March 2020. This commitment was delivered a year early with £341 million spent on dementia research over the four years to 31 March 2019. We are currently working on ways to boost significantly further research on dementia at all stages on the translation pathway including medical and care interventions.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 16/10/2020 07:46:00 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar previous answer version 53714 answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1241300

	registered interest
	date	07/10/2020
	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	Alcoholic Drinks: Misuse
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of ambulance service callouts by NHS trust that were alcohol-related in each of the last four years.
	tabling member constituency	Twickenham
	tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
	uin	100547
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2020 answer text <p>The information requested is not centrally collected.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 05/11/2020 10:24:28 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar previous answer version 53720 answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1241873

	registered interest
	date	08/10/2020
	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	Coronavirus: Health 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 publish the contracts between NHS England and the private hospital companies which he announced on 21 March 2020 for the provision of healthcare services and facilities to support the covid-19 response.
	tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
	tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
	uin	100994
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2020 answer text <p>A Contract Award Notice in respect of each of the 26 individual contracts entered into by NHS England with independent sector hospital providers has been published on 16 October 2020 by the Official Journal of the European Union. The Notice can be viewed at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:492193-2020:TEXT:EN:HTML" target="_blank">https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:492193-2020:TEXT:EN:HTML</a><br> <br> Under the agreement, latest figures show that from 30 March until 30 August 2020 over 967,000 National Health Service patient appointments have taken place within independent facilities. We cannot provide a breakdown of the amounts paid to each independent sector Provider, however, the total for this period is estimated at £1 billion.</p><p>As part of preparing for winter, the Government has provided an additional £3 billion to the NHS. This includes additional funding to the NHS to allow them to continue to use additional hospital capacity from the independent sector, and to maintain the Nightingale hospitals, in their current state, until the end of March 2021.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 100995 question first answered 27/10/2020 13:04:02 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar previous answer version 54069 answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

1241874

	registered interest
	date	08/10/2020
	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: Private Sector
	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 publish the amounts paid to each of the private hospital companies under the arrangements announced on 21 March 2020 for the provision of healthcare services and facilities to support the covid-19 response.
	tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
	tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
	uin	100995
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2020 answer text <p>A Contract Award Notice in respect of each of the 26 individual contracts entered into by NHS England with independent sector hospital providers has been published on 16 October 2020 by the Official Journal of the European Union. The Notice can be viewed at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:492193-2020:TEXT:EN:HTML" target="_blank">https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:492193-2020:TEXT:EN:HTML</a><br> <br> Under the agreement, latest figures show that from 30 March until 30 August 2020 over 967,000 National Health Service patient appointments have taken place within independent facilities. We cannot provide a breakdown of the amounts paid to each independent sector Provider, however, the total for this period is estimated at £1 billion.</p><p>As part of preparing for winter, the Government has provided an additional £3 billion to the NHS. This includes additional funding to the NHS to allow them to continue to use additional hospital capacity from the independent sector, and to maintain the Nightingale hospitals, in their current state, until the end of March 2021.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 100994 question first answered 27/10/2020 13:04:02 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar previous answer version 54070 answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

1241875

	registered interest
	date	08/10/2020
	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: Private Sector
	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 publish the number of NHS patients treated by each private hospital under the arrangements announced on 21 March 2020 for the provision of healthcare services and facilities to support the covid-19 response.
	tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
	tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
	uin	100996
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2020 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>National Health Service patients are benefitting from an unprecedented partnership with private hospitals as we battle the COVID-19 outbreak. The Department and NHS England and NHS Improvement have worked with the independent sector to secure all appropriate inpatient capacity and other resource across England.</p><p>Information on the number of NHS patients treated by each private hospital under the arrangements announced on 21 March 2020 for the provision of healthcare services and facilities to support the COVID-19 response is not available. However, latest collected information shows that over 215,000 patient contacts nationally had taken place under the contract</p><p><br> Recoverable costs payable to each independent sector hospital provider are paid on account, with reconciliation adjustments made on a monthly basis to reflect actual recoverable costs incurred by the provider as verified by KPMG on NHS England’s behalf on an open book basis and in accordance with <em>International Financial Reporting Standards</em> accounting principles.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 100997 question first answered 03/11/2020 13:02:10 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar previous answer version 54071 answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

1241876

	registered interest
	date	08/10/2020
	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: Private Sector
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the payments to each of the private hospital companies under the arrangements announced on 21 March 2020 were made after the costs had first been verified by external auditors on an open book accountancy basis.
	tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
	tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
	uin	100997
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2020 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>National Health Service patients are benefitting from an unprecedented partnership with private hospitals as we battle the COVID-19 outbreak. The Department and NHS England and NHS Improvement have worked with the independent sector to secure all appropriate inpatient capacity and other resource across England.</p><p>Information on the number of NHS patients treated by each private hospital under the arrangements announced on 21 March 2020 for the provision of healthcare services and facilities to support the COVID-19 response is not available. However, latest collected information shows that over 215,000 patient contacts nationally had taken place under the contract</p><p><br> Recoverable costs payable to each independent sector hospital provider are paid on account, with reconciliation adjustments made on a monthly basis to reflect actual recoverable costs incurred by the provider as verified by KPMG on NHS England’s behalf on an open book basis and in accordance with <em>International Financial Reporting Standards</em> accounting principles.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 100996 question first answered 03/11/2020 13:02:10 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar previous answer version 54072 answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy