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731081

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many NHS staff members are from (1) EU member states other than the UK, and (2) countries outside the EU.
	tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
	uin	HL89
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2017 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes data on the nationality of staff working in the National Health Service in England. Nationality is self-reported within the NHS human resources and payroll system, the electronic staff record.</p><p>As of 31 March 2017, latest data available, there are now 61,934 (headcount) European Union nationals (excluding the United Kingdom), or 5.2% employed in the NHS trusts and clinical commissioning groups. There are 75,450 other overseas nationals, or 6.4% employed in the NHS. 80,822 NHS staff records do not contain nationality data, with people either choosing not to specify their nationality or not asked to.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 04/07/2017 15:50:03 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
	tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

1203558

	registered interest
	date	15/06/2020
	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	Insulin
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how they will ensure that there is sufficient insulin available when the UK leaves the EU.
	tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
	uin	HL5713
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2020 answer text <p>The United Kingdom left the European Union on 31 January and is now in a Transition Period until 31 December 2020. During this time, it remains our objective to negotiate a future relationship with the EU and in our respective published negotiating documents, we have both stated objectives to reach an agreement on trade in goods. The UK’s published approach sets out how we want to facilitate trade in medicinal products and support high levels of patient safety.</p><p>The Government, pharmaceutical industry and National Health Service will always work closely together to help ensure patients continue to have access, to the medicines and treatments they need, including insulin, under all scenarios.</p><p>The Department has well-established procedures to deal with medicine shortages and is working closely with industry, the NHS and others in the supply chain to reduce the likelihood of future shortages resulting from any cause.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bethell grouped question UIN HL5715 question first answered 30/06/2020 15:47:39 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
	tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

1203560

	registered interest
	date	15/06/2020
	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	Drugs
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made about whether any drugs or medicines will be in short supply after the UK leaves the EU.
	tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
	uin	HL5715
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2020 answer text <p>The United Kingdom left the European Union on 31 January and is now in a Transition Period until 31 December 2020. During this time, it remains our objective to negotiate a future relationship with the EU and in our respective published negotiating documents, we have both stated objectives to reach an agreement on trade in goods. The UK’s published approach sets out how we want to facilitate trade in medicinal products and support high levels of patient safety.</p><p>The Government, pharmaceutical industry and National Health Service will always work closely together to help ensure patients continue to have access, to the medicines and treatments they need, including insulin, under all scenarios.</p><p>The Department has well-established procedures to deal with medicine shortages and is working closely with industry, the NHS and others in the supply chain to reduce the likelihood of future shortages resulting from any cause.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bethell grouped question UIN HL5713 question first answered 30/06/2020 15:47:39 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
	tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

1241505

	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	Insulin: Procurement
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government from which (1) sources, and (2) countries, they purchase insulin.
	tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
	uin	HL8893
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2020 answer text <p>All medicines require a licence approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency. This includes information about the sites where the medicine may be manufactured and where components may be sourced. There may be multiple sites associated with each licence, which is gives manufacturers resilience in their supply chains, but means that it is not possible for the Department to determine accurately the proportion of medicines manufactured in any one country at any particular time. In addition, any information of this nature that suppliers do share with the Department is commercially confidential.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell grouped question UIN HL8894 question first answered 13/10/2020 15:52:48 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
	tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

1189421

	registered interest
	date	22/04/2020
	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	Doctors and Nurses: Migrant Workers
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many (1) nurses, and (2) doctors, whose countries of origin are outside the UK, are working in the NHS during the COVID-19 pandemic.
	tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
	uin	HL3064
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2020 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups, but not staff working in primary care or in general practitioner surgeries, local authorities or other providers.</p><p>The latest data shows that, on a headcount basis, as at December 2019 there were:</p><p>- 35,204 non-United Kingdom national doctors, that is 29% of all doctors (excluding unknowns); and</p><p>- 56,805 non-UK national nurses and health visitors, that is 18% of all nurses and health visitors (excluding unknowns).</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 04/05/2020 15:50:05 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
	tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

1314990

	registered interest
	date	17/05/2021
	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: Foreign Companies
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many GP medical practices in England are owned by US-based insurance and investment companies.
	tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
	uin	HL303
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2021 answer text <p>Information on general practitioner (GP) practice ownership is not held centrally. It is for local commissioners to arrange the provision of appropriate services, by contracting with providers, in order to best serve the needs of their patient population.</p><p>Legislation sets out which individuals and companies are eligible to hold contracts to provide primary medical services. Eligibility varies slightly between contract type but there is no distinction in the eligibility criteria between companies registered in the United Kingdom and those registered overseas.</p><p>All contract holders and providers of National Health Service core primary medical services are subject to the same requirements, regulation, and standards. Patients should receive high-quality NHS care when they need it, that is free at the point of use.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Lord Bethell grouped question UIN HL302 question first answered 24/05/2021 15:53:04 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
	tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

1347050

	registered interest
	date	14/07/2021
	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: Quarantine
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people have been told to isolate through the NHS Track and Trace app only to (1) show no symptoms, and (2) not need hospitalisation.
	tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
	uin	HL2039
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2021 answer text <p>The NHS COVID-19 app cannot be used to identify users, whether they showed symptoms or were hospitalised.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 22/07/2021 10:18:20 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
	tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

1187363

	registered interest
	date	23/03/2020
	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: Migrant Workers
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many staff employed in the National Health Service are not British citizens.
	tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
	uin	HL2825
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2020 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), but not staff working in primary care or in general practitioner surgeries, local authorities or other providers.</p><p>As at December 2019, the latest available data, there were 166,857 non-United Kingdom nationals (excluding unknowns) employed in National Health Service trusts and CCGs.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 27/04/2020 10:53:59 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
	tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

1189422

	registered interest
	date	22/04/2020
	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: Protective Clothing
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how much personal protection equipment the NHS has (1) received, and (2) purchased, from other countries.
	tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
	uin	HL3065
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2020 answer text <p>In March 2020 a new, dedicated unit was set up to focus on securing supplies of personal protective equipment (PPE). This unit identified PPE suppliers from across the globe to meet the increasing demand for a growing list of PPE products. We have now contracted with over 150 suppliers able to deliver at the scale and pace the United Kingdom requires.</p><p>The central database system for these new PPE contracts, implemented by Cabinet Office colleagues, does not identify non-UK suppliers by individual country; and many of the UK-based suppliers also import supplies from other countries for which the information is not held centrally. It is therefore not possible to supply complete information on how much PPE has been received or purchased from non-UK countries. Procurement Regulations require the publication of Contract Award Notices in the Official Journal of the European Union and certain information will be published on Contracts Finder about the contracts awarded.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 30/06/2020 14:38:13 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
	tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

1312507

	registered interest
	date	27/04/2021
	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	Travel: Coronavirus
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how often countries on the travel 'red list' are being reviewed; and how far in advance any changes to the red list will be announced.
	tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
	uin	HL15310
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2021 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before prorogation. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 29/04/2021 12:16:19 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
	tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno