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	registered interest
	date	21/10/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	NHS: Reorganisation
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the cost to date of the reorganisation of the National Health Service as a result of the reforms in the Health and Social Care Act 2012.
	tabling member printed	Baroness McDonagh
	uin	HL2241
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p>I announced in my Written Ministerial Statement of 23 July 2014, columns WS135-136, that the costs of implementing policies in the Health and Social Care Act incurred to 31 March 2014 were £1,316 million. This is the latest available figure.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>These costs have been more than covered by the savings arising from the Health and Social Care Act, which up to 31 March 2014, were approximately £4.9 billion.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 04/11/2014 12:33:57 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
	tabling member	3701 label Biography information for Baroness McDonagh

1012138

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Carillion: Insolvency
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the speech given by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster at the Business Services Association Annual Chairman’s Dinner on 19 November, what "key information’ would have "smoothed the management of liquidation" following the collapse of Carillion.
	tabling member printed	Baroness McDonagh
	uin	HL11665
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government maintained the continuity of key public services after Carillion announced its decision to initiate insolvency proceedings in January 2018. The Official Receiver was appointed by the court as liquidator, along with PwC as Special Managers.</p><p>The Government took immediate action to minimise the impact on employees and employers by providing reassurance that those working on public sector contracts would continue to be paid and providing the necessary funding required to maintain public services while Carillion’s public sector contracts were transferred to alternative providers.</p><p>In future we will require, all providers of critical services to provide sufficient management information, for example, corporate structure, intra-group trading arrangements and dependencies (including details of shared services), key subcontractor and workforce information.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 04/12/2018 14:50:29 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	3701 label Biography information for Baroness McDonagh

1012139

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Contracts
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the speech given by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster at the Business Services Association Annual Chairman’s Dinner on 19 November, what are the Key Performance Indicators for critical government contracts; which contracts the Key Performance Indicators will apply to; and whether there will be a statutory duty on suppliers to publish Key Performance Indicators.
	tabling member printed	Baroness McDonagh
	uin	HL11666
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>We will be publishing performance data on our most important contracts in the coming months and are currently working with departments and industry to finalise the details of publication. The published performance data will be contract specific and depend on the service provision.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham grouped question UIN HL11667 question first answered 04/12/2018 14:49:59 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	3701 label Biography information for Baroness McDonagh

1012140

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Contracts
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the speech given by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster at the Business Services Association Annual Chairman’s Dinner on 19 November, how the Key Performance Indicators for critical government contracts were selected; which stakeholders were consulted; and whether the Key Performance Indicators will be reviewed.
	tabling member printed	Baroness McDonagh
	uin	HL11667
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>We will be publishing performance data on our most important contracts in the coming months and are currently working with departments and industry to finalise the details of publication. The published performance data will be contract specific and depend on the service provision.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham grouped question UIN HL11666 question first answered 04/12/2018 14:49:59 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	3701 label Biography information for Baroness McDonagh

1012141

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Contracts
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the speech given by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster at the Business Services Association Annual Chairman’s Dinner on 19 November, what criteria determined the selection of Serco, Capita, Sopra Steria, Engie and Interserve in producing the first set of "living wills".
	tabling member printed	Baroness McDonagh
	uin	HL11668
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>Serco, Capita, Sopra Steria, Engie and Interserve all volunteered to pilot the use of “living wills”. We will reflect the results of this pilot as we deploy “living wills” across all suppliers providing critical services.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 04/12/2018 14:49:37 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	3701 label Biography information for Baroness McDonagh

1012142

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Contracts
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the speech given by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster at the Business Services Association Annual Chairman’s Dinner on 19 November, for how long the Cabinet Office anticipates that pilots of new outsourced services will last.
	tabling member printed	Baroness McDonagh
	uin	HL11669
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>The nature of the pilots for new outsourced services will depend on the specific service provision. Individual departments will consider the most appropriate route and timeframe for piloting new outsourced services as part of the Business Case approval process which will include the appropriate governance and approval process in departments and central approvals through HM Treasury and Cabinet Office.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 04/12/2018 14:34:01 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	3701 label Biography information for Baroness McDonagh

1012143

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2018
	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: Private Finance Initiative
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Chancellor of the Exchequer's Budget announcement that a new Private Finance Initiative unit will be established within the Department of Health and Social Care, how many staff will work in that unit; whether additional resources are being made available for that unit; and how many contracts that unit will be responsible for monitoring.
	tabling member printed	Baroness McDonagh
	uin	HL11670
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2018 answer text <p>The Chancellor announced in the 2018 Budget that the Department would be establishing a Centre of Best Practice to improve the management of existing Private Finance Initiative contracts in the National Health Service. The Department and Her Majesty’s Treasury are currently discussing the configuration and resourcing of the Centre of Best Practice.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 05/12/2018 17:35:17 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
	tabling member	3701 label Biography information for Baroness McDonagh

1036932

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2019
	answering body	Leader of the House of Lords
	answering dept id	92
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name	Leader of the House of Lords
	hansard heading	Trade Bill
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask the Leader of the House why dates for the committee stage of the Trade Bill in the House of Lords were not scheduled more quickly after the bill's second reading.
	tabling member printed	Baroness McDonagh
	uin	HL12574
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2019 answer text <p>The committee stage of the Trade bill has been arranged in the usual way, having been subject to ongoing discussions in the Usual Channels. So far the three of an anticipated four dates for Committee stage are 21, 23 and 30 January and they have been advertised in Forthcoming Business. The remaining day will be rescheduled as a day had to be set aside for for the House to have a further debate under section 13 of the EU (Withdrawal) Act, which is now scheduled for 28 January. The recommended intervals between Bill stages are minimums, and it is not unusual for there to be a longer pause between stages than the recommended minimum interval.</p> answering member printed Baroness Evans of Bowes Park question first answered 21/01/2019 15:48:32 answering member 4329 label Biography information for Baroness Evans of Bowes Park
	tabling member	3701 label Biography information for Baroness McDonagh

1140480

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children's Centres: Closures
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the closure of Sure Start centres.
	tabling member printed	Baroness McDonagh
	uin	HL17313
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2019 answer text <p>Since 18 September 2017, data on Sure Start children’s centres has been supplied by local authorities via the department’s Get Information about Schools database portal, which can be found at the following link: <a href="https://www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/</a>.</p><p>Based on information supplied by local authorities as at 30 June 2019, 587 Sure Start children’s centres had closed since April 2010[1]. However, councils are reconfiguring services to deliver them more efficiently. If a council decides to close a Sure Start children’s centre, statutory guidance requires them to demonstrate that local children and families will not be adversely affected. There were more children's centres open in spring 2019 than at any time under Tony Blair's premiership.</p><p>Since 2010, the government has extended the entitlement to free early years education so that more children than ever can benefit from this. We introduced an entitlement to 15 hours a week of free early education for the most disadvantaged 2-year-olds (a programme that was not available before 2010). More than 850,000 disadvantaged 2-year-olds have benefitted from free early education places since the introduction of the programme in 2013. There are now more than 22,000 providers delivering places for disadvantaged 2-year-olds.</p><p>The department is already starting to see progress. Take-up of places for disadvantaged 2-year-olds has risen from 58% in 2015 to 68% in 2019. The department remains committed to increasing take up. In addition, the 2017/18 Early Years Foundation Stage Profile results show that the proportion of all children achieving a ‘good level of development’ improved in 2018, with 71.5% of children achieving a good level of development, up from 51.7% in 2013.</p><p> </p><p>[1] Based on information supplied by local authorities as at 1 July 2019. These figures may be different to previous answers, and could change again in the future, as local authorities may update the database at any time.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 29/07/2019 15:48:14 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
	tabling member	3701 label Biography information for Baroness McDonagh

1140481

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2019
	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	Nurses
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many nurses were employed by the NHS in England in each year since 2004.
	tabling member printed	Baroness McDonagh
	uin	HL17314
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2019 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics for England. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), but not staff working in primary care, local authorities or other providers.</p><p>The following table shows the number of nurses and health visitors and midwives who work in National Health Service trusts and CCGs in England, as at September each year since 2004 and March 2019 (latest available data), full time equivalent. Nurses and health visitors are recorded together so we are unable to provide data solely for nurses.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Nurses and health visitors in NHS Trusts and CCGs</p></td><td><p>Midwives in NHS Trusts and CCGS</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2004</p></td><td><p>268,704</p></td><td><p>18,137</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2005</p></td><td><p>276,086</p></td><td><p>18,326</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2006</p></td><td><p>277,387</p></td><td><p>18,380</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2007</p></td><td><p>275,211</p></td><td><p>18,751</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2008</p></td><td><p>281,021</p></td><td><p>18,896</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2009</p></td><td><p>278,470</p></td><td><p>18,959</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2010</p></td><td><p>279,883</p></td><td><p>19,487</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2011</p></td><td><p>277,047</p></td><td><p>19,878</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2012</p></td><td><p>271,407</p></td><td><p>20,214</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2013</p></td><td><p>274,627</p></td><td><p>20,537</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2014</p></td><td><p>278,981</p></td><td><p>20,838</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2015</p></td><td><p>281,474</p></td><td><p>20,934</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2016</p></td><td><p>284,288</p></td><td><p>21,038</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2017</p></td><td><p>283,853</p></td><td><p>21,206</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2018</p></td><td><p>285,674</p></td><td><p>21,323</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2019</p></td><td><p>290,010</p></td><td><p>21,870</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Sources: Non-Medical Workforce Census, NHS Digital workforce statistics </em></p><p>The following table shows the number of nursing students commissioned by the Department/Health Education England (HEE) in each year since 2004 and the number of acceptances to nursing degree courses via the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS). Following student finance reform, students starting courses after August 2017 were no longer directly commissioned by HEE.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Nursing students commissioned by the Department/HEE</p></td><td><p>Number of acceptances to nursing degree courses via UCAS</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2004/05</p></td><td><p>22,933</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005/06</p></td><td><p>20,183</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006/07</p></td><td><p>20,917</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007/08</p></td><td><p>19,147</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008/09</p></td><td><p>20,323</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>20,366</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>19,908</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>17,633</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>17,115</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>17,568</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>19,147</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>19,951</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>20,888</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>19,515</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>19,035</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Sources: HEE-Education Commissioning Dataset, UCAS end of cycle data 2018</em></p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford grouped question UIN HL17315 HL17316 question first answered 25/07/2019 16:45:56 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
	tabling member	3701 label Biography information for Baroness McDonagh