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1601411

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2023
	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	Consultants: Expenditure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the cost to the public purse was of spending on external consultants by (a) the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, (b) the UK Health Security Agency, (c) NHS England, and (d) NHS Digital in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021 and (iii) 2022; and whether any of that spending related to the preparation of funding bids to (A) his Department and (B) HM Treasury.
	tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
	tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
	uin	158842
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2023 answer text <p><strong>Suggested reply</strong></p><p>The following table shows the expenditure on consultancy on external consultants in the financial years 2019/20 to 2021/22. Expenditure values for 2022/23 are not yet available. The Department does not hold the detail behind the expenditure.</p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>Organisation</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>Expenditure on consultancy (£ million)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>2021/22</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)</p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">Not available</del> <ins class="ministerial">0.3</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">Not available</del> <ins class="ministerial">0.8</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">Not available</del> <ins class="ministerial">6.4</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA)</p></td><td><p>Not applicable</p></td><td><p>Not applicable</p></td><td><p>10.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS England - Group</p></td><td><p>45.8</p></td><td><p>51.6</p></td><td><p>75.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Digital</p></td><td><p>1.4</p></td><td><p>0.9</p></td><td><p>0.3</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Note:</p><ol><li>The definition for consultancy is in line with HM Treasury Guidance</li><li>The Office for National Statistics re-categorised MHRA as falling within the Departmental Group from April 2022. In years 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22 this body was not incorporated into the Department’s accounting boundary and, therefore, the Department does not hold requested data.</li><li>UKHSA was formed in April 2021 and became fully operational in October 2021.</li></ol><p>Source:</p><p>UK Health Security Agency Annual Report and Accounts 2021/22.</p><p>NHS Commissioning Board Annual Report and Accounts 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22. Expenditure for the NHSE Group including Commissioning Support Units and Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs).</p><p>NHS Digital Annual Report and Accounts 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 30/03/2023 14:37:21 question first ministerially corrected 04/04/2023 11:16:39 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince previous answer version 66497 answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1599365

	registered interest
	date	27/02/2023
	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	Health and Care Professions Council: Registration
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he intends to advise the Privy Council to reject the Health and Care Professions Council decision to increase their registrants’ fees by 20 per cent.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	153854
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2023 answer text <p>The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) is independent of Government and is funded by its registrants’ fees on a cost recovery basis. The HCPC has concluded its consultation on the proposed fee rise and its Council has agreed to seek parliamentary approval for increasing annual registration fees by £19.62 from 1 July 2023. The proposal is subject to the <del class="ministerial">affirmative</del> <ins class="ministerial">negative </ins>parliamentary process in both the Westminster and the Scottish Parliaments.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 02/03/2023 15:11:36 question first ministerially corrected 21/03/2023 16:06:44 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince previous answer version 59007 answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1589108

	registered interest
	date	24/02/2023
	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 England: Thompson
	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 article in the Health Service Journal entitled Branding agency hired to help cultivate new personality for NHSE, published on 7 February 2023, what the value of NHS England's contract with Thompson for work referenced in that article is; and if he will publish the interim update for senior leaders.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
	tabling member printed	Ed Davey
	uin	152180
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2023 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">We are unable to provide the information requested on NHS England's contract with Thompson as it is commercially sensitive.<del class="ministerial"> </del></del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">As part of the implementation of the legal merger of NHS England with Health Education England and NHS Digital approved by Parliament through the Health and Care Act 2022, Thompson were contracted to provide independent support and advice to minimise the risk of disruption to communications with the wider health and care system, operational and strategic partners and stakeholders, and staff patients and the public from the new combined organisation. The value of the contract was £80,000.</ins></p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince previous answer version 59228 answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince 59813 answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince question first answered 06/03/2023 17:28:35 question first ministerially corrected 21/03/2023 16:06:55 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	188 label Biography information for Ed Davey

1586279

	registered interest
	date	17/02/2023
	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	Fenwick Hospital
	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 make it his policy to hold back the proposed sale by the NHS of the site and buildings of the Fenwick Hospital, Lyndhurst until (a) documentation is produced specifying (i) who owns the title and (ii) what the terms were under which the original gift of ownership to the Lyndhurst community came under control of the NHS in 1948 and (b) sufficient time has been given to the League of Friends of the Fenwick Hospital further to develop plans for its future and assemble financial support to implement them.
	tabling member constituency	New Forest East
	tabling member printed	Sir Julian Lewis
	uin	146747
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2023 answer text <p>The future use of Fenwick Community Hospital is subject to the plans set out by Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board <del class="ministerial">who are the legal owners of the land and buildings. It</del> <ins class="ministerial">and NHS England and </ins>is not a matter for the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.</p><p>Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board and NHS England have offered a meeting to League of Friends and Julian Lewis MP, in order that all information relating to the legal title of the Fenwick Hospital, Lyndhurst can be shared and discussed. Following this meeting, date to be confirmed, a decision relating to the auction sale of the site and its timing can be made.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince previous answer version 56928 answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince 57380 answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince question first answered 24/02/2023 11:50:44 question first ministerially corrected 21/03/2023 16:06:31 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	54 label Biography information for Sir Julian Lewis

1582931

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2023
	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	General Practitioners
	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 fully-qualified GPs were working in General Practice in England in (a) 2019 and (b) the most recent period for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Slough
	tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
	uin	137924
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2023 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The Government has considered the link between changes to the volume-based rebate payments in our medicine pricing schemes and various kinds of investment, along with any associated impacts on employment in the life sciences industry in the United Kingdom, in our impact assessment of recent updates to the statutory scheme for branded medicines pricing, which operates alongside the voluntary scheme for branded medicines pricing and access (VPAS).</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">The Government’s 2023 impact assessment of updates to the statutory scheme is available at the following link:</del></p><p><del class="ministerial"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/proposed-update-to-the-2023-statutory-scheme-to-control-the-costs-of-branded-health-service-medicines" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/proposed-update-to-the-2023-statutory-scheme-to-control-the-costs-of-branded-health-service-medicines</a></del></p><p><del class="ministerial">With regard to the impact of medicine price regulation schemes on the level of foreign direct investment into the UK’s life sciences research and development, the evidence on this issue is uncertain. The impact assessment considered this issue, and sets out the Government’s assessment that, while price regulation schemes such as VPAS may be a consideration in the decision to locate such investments, these are complex decisions based on multiple factors. Supply side factors such as the availability of skilled labour are considered likely to be of greater significance.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">With regard to the impact of price regulation on the placement of clinical trials in the UK, the Government’s assessment is that price control schemes in general are more likely to impact decisions about the location of late-stage than early-stage trials, as the location of late-stage trials may be more influenced by commercial considerations about where to launch a new medicine. However, VPAS includes strong commercial incentives to launch new products in the form of freedom of list pricing and exemptions from payments for innovative medicines containing a new active substance.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> <p><ins class="ministerial">The information requested is publicly available and can be accessed here: </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/general-and-personal-medical-services/31-december-2022.</ins></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">Notes</ins></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">· Data includes estimates for practices that did not provide fully valid staff records.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">· In December 2022, 2.1% of fully qualified GP FTE was estimated where practices had not provided fully valid staff records.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">· Before July 2021, data was only available quarterly for the following months: March, June, September and December.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">· Full-time equivalent (FTE) refers to the proportion of full time contracted hours that the post holder is contracted to work. 1 would indicate they work a full set of hours (37.5), 0.5 that they worked half time.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">TARGET DATE 09/02/2023</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">· Figures shown do not include staff working in prisons, army bases, educational establishments, specialist care centres including drug rehabilitation centres, walk-in centres and other alternative settings outside of traditional general practice such as urgent treatment centres and minor injury units.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">· Figures include GP partners, salaried GPs, GP retainers and GP regular locums.</ins></p></ins></p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 14/03/2023 17:35:51 question first ministerially corrected 15/03/2023 13:35:30 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince previous answer version 62066 answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1580822

	registered interest
	date	25/01/2023
	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	Voluntary Scheme for Branded Medicines Pricing and Access
	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 received evidence from the life sciences industry of the impact on UK R&D investment and potential increases in payment rates under the voluntary and statutory schemes for branded medicines; and if it will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	South Basildon and East Thurrock
	tabling member printed	Stephen Metcalfe
	uin	132374
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2023 answer text <p>The Department has been consulting on a proposed update to the <ins class="ministerial">s</ins><del class="ministerial">S</del>tatutory <ins class="ministerial">s</ins><del class="ministerial">S</del>cheme for branded medicines and the life sciences industry has been able to <ins class="ministerial">give evidence</ins><del class="ministerial">express its views</del> as part of this consultation process.</p><p><del class="ministerial">In considering the responses, the Department is carefully taking into account any evidence submitted on potential impacts for the United Kingdom life sciences sector.</del></p><p>The Government remains firmly committed to the <ins class="ministerial">s</ins><del class="ministerial">S</del>tatutory and <ins class="ministerial">v</ins><del class="ministerial">V</del>oluntary schemes for branded medicines and to working with the pharmaceutical industry to deliver on the ambitions set out in the Life Sciences Vision to create an environment that facilitates innovation for the development of medicines in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 01/02/2023 11:22:27 question first ministerially corrected 01/02/2023 11:38:17 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince previous answer version 51971 answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4092 label Biography information for Stephen Metcalfe

1568760

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2023
	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: Staff
	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 make an estimate of the number of NHS staff who have emigrated to work in Australia in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Ilford North
	tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
	uin	127844
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2023 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">There are no plans to make an estimate.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The department does not hold an estimate of the information requested.</ins></p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince previous answer version 50765 answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince 51754 answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince question first answered 31/01/2023 16:17:40 question first ministerially corrected 01/02/2023 09:22:00 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

1566002

	registered interest
	date	11/01/2023
	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	Whipps Cross Hospital: Repairs and Maintenance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reasons his Department has not made a decision on the scheme-specific business case for the redevelopment of Whipps Cross Hospital.
	tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
	tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
	uin	121043
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2023 answer text <p>Whipps Cross Hospital is one of the Pathfinder schemes within the New Hospital Programme, these will be the first of the larger and more complex schemes to be taken forward. Decisions on specific business cases for schemes which are expected to <ins class="ministerial">be funded</ins><del class="ministerial">commence</del> after 2025 are dependent on the approval of the programme wide business case.</p><p>The New Hospital Programme continues to work closely with Barts Health NHS Trust to develop their new hospital scheme at Whipps Cross Hospital in line with the national programme approach to standardisation which will reduce end to end delivery timescales for individual schemes. The national approach will ensure efficient delivery of the new hospitals and provide value for money so that patients and staff have access to world class facilities.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince previous answer version 47296 answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince 47596 answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince question first answered 17/01/2023 16:25:24 question first ministerially corrected 26/01/2023 10:05:45 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

1566026

	registered interest
	date	11/01/2023
	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	Unispace Global: Contracts
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether Unispace Global Ltd fulfilled its contractual obligations on all PPE contracts it was awarded prior to its novation to Sante Global LLP.
	tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
	tabling member printed	Nick Smith
	uin	120948
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2023 answer text <p>The Department contract with Unispace Global Ltd for gloves was not fulfilled prior to that contract being novated to Sante Global LLP. However, in July <ins class="ministerial">2022</ins><del class="ministerial">2021</del>, a settlement was reached and the contract has now performed.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince previous answer version 48228 answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince 51549 answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince question first answered 31/01/2023 12:42:58 question first ministerially corrected 06/02/2023 10:23:39 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith

1564778

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2023
	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	Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
	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 made an assessment of the potential merits of funding the cost of medicines regulation undertaken by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	119066
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2023 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">No assessment has been made.</del> The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is a largely fee charging regulator with approximately three quarters of its income derived from fees levied on applicants. This is a standard form of cost recovery for regulators worldwide. The MHRA has recently concluded a public consultation on its statutory fees to ensure all costs involved in delivery are recovered, which concluded on 23 November 2022.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 16/01/2023 15:48:08 question first ministerially corrected 16/01/2023 18:02:12 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince previous answer version 47021 answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake