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922324

registered interest
date	12/06/2018
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	Learning Disability: Death
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 has been briefed on the contents of the Learning Disabilities Mortality Review Annual Report 2017, published on 4 May 2018.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	152690
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2018 answer text <p>My Rt. hon. Friend, the Secretary of State, is aware of the findings of the Learning Disabilities Mortality Review Annual Report 2017.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to learning from every avoidable death and the Department has been working with its partners to see how the report’s recommendations may be implemented to support improvements to services and to the quality of care that people with a learning disability receive.</p><p> </p><p>In my Oral Statement on 8 May, Official Report Column 554, I committed to respond to each of the report’s recommendations and will report back to Parliament shortly.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 152691 152692 question first answered 15/06/2018 09:30:23 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

922325

registered interest
date	12/06/2018
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	Learning Disability: Death
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the findings of the Learning Disabilities Mortality Review Annual Report 2017, published on 4 May 2018.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	152691
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2018 answer text <p>My Rt. hon. Friend, the Secretary of State, is aware of the findings of the Learning Disabilities Mortality Review Annual Report 2017.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to learning from every avoidable death and the Department has been working with its partners to see how the report’s recommendations may be implemented to support improvements to services and to the quality of care that people with a learning disability receive.</p><p> </p><p>In my Oral Statement on 8 May, Official Report Column 554, I committed to respond to each of the report’s recommendations and will report back to Parliament shortly.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 152690 152692 question first answered 15/06/2018 09:30:23 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

922326

registered interest
date	12/06/2018
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	Learning Disability: Death
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 take steps to implement the recommendations of the Learning Disabilities Mortality Review Annual Report 2017, published on 4 May 2018.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	152692
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2018 answer text <p>My Rt. hon. Friend, the Secretary of State, is aware of the findings of the Learning Disabilities Mortality Review Annual Report 2017.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to learning from every avoidable death and the Department has been working with its partners to see how the report’s recommendations may be implemented to support improvements to services and to the quality of care that people with a learning disability receive.</p><p> </p><p>In my Oral Statement on 8 May, Official Report Column 554, I committed to respond to each of the report’s recommendations and will report back to Parliament shortly.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 152690 152691 question first answered 15/06/2018 09:30:24 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

922340

registered interest
date	12/06/2018
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	Surgery: Waiting Lists
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 people were on the national elective waiting list on 31 March in each year from 2011 to 2018 inclusive.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	152771
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2018 answer text <p>NHS England publishes monthly data on Consultant-led Referral to Treatment (RTT) waiting times. This includes the volume of patients on the national elective waiting list. The following table shows the information requested as at the end of March in each year.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Month</p></td><td><p>Total waiting (million)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2011</p></td><td><p>2,455,424</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2012</p></td><td><p>2,413,969</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2013</p></td><td><p>2,661,165</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2014</p></td><td><p>2,911,442</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2015</p></td><td><p>3,006,877</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2016</p></td><td><p>3,504,595</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2017</p></td><td><p>3,734,833</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2018</p></td><td><p>3,843,182</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: published NHS England statistics - Unify2 data collection – RTT</p><p> </p><p>Comparing 2010-11 to 2016-17, the number of operations performed increased by 1.8 million (latest Hospital Episode Statistics data available is 2016-17).</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 15/06/2018 11:36:34 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

922342

registered interest
date	12/06/2018
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	Ambulance Services: Standards
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 category 1 mean response time has been in each quarter since the classification of ambulance response times changed.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	152772
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2018 answer text <p>Mainland National Health Service ambulance trusts individually adopted the new response time standards between August and December 2017. The Isle of Wight NHS Trust will adopt the standards in autumn 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The mean Category 1 response time for mainland ambulance trusts for Quarter 4 2017/18 was seven minutes and 42 seconds.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 15/06/2018 11:19:38 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

922343

registered interest
date	12/06/2018
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	Clostridium
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 trust-apportioned Clostridium Difficile cases were reported in each year since 2010-11.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	152773
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2018 answer text <p>Public Health England publishes the annual counts and rates of Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infections by acute trust and clinical commissioning group in patients aged two years and over at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/clostridium-difficile-infection-annual-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/clostridium-difficile-infection-annual-data</a></p><p> </p><p>A copy of the table showing the financial year counts and rates of C. difficile infection for patients aged two years and over by acute trust (trust apportioned cases only) is attached</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 15/06/2018 14:56:12 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine attachment 1 file name Copy of C_Difficile_annual tables_April 2007-March 2017_.xlsx title PQ152773 attached document
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

922345

registered interest
date	12/06/2018
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	Health Professions: Vacancies
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 FTE vacancies there were for (a) registered nurses and (b) medical staff in each year since 2010-11.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	152774
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not hold the information as requested.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Improvement published quarterly performance of the National Health Service provider sector since Quarter 1 2017/18.</p><p> </p><p>The latest NHS Improvement vacancy figures are available at the following link on page 24 of the report.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/quarterly-performance-nhs-provider-sector-quarter-4-201718/" target="_blank">https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/quarterly-performance-nhs-provider-sector-quarter-4-201718/</a></p><p> </p><p>The information is outlined in the following table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Whole Time Equivalent (WTE)</p></td><td><p>2017/18 Q1</p></td><td><p>2017/18 Q2</p></td><td><p>2017/18 Q3</p></td><td><p>2017/18 Q4</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>Registered Nursing and Midwifery</p></td><td><p>Total temporary workforce</p></td><td><p>30,619</p></td><td><p>33,110</p></td><td><p>31,415</p></td><td><p>37,689</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Vacancies</p></td><td><p>38,328</p></td><td><p>39,154</p></td><td><p>35,934</p></td><td><p>35,794</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>Medical</p></td><td><p>Total temporary workforce</p></td><td><p>8,441</p></td><td><p>8,889</p></td><td><p>8,780</p></td><td><p>9,640</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Vacancies</p></td><td><p>10,848</p></td><td><p>10,096</p></td><td><p>9,676</p></td><td><p>9,982</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br>The information above represents management information only and not an official statistic.</p><p> </p><p>Nursing: NHS trusts employ over 314,000 WTE registered nursing staff. In addition to this substantive workforce, at Q4 2017/18 there are over 35,000 WTE vacancies of which approximately 95% is currently being filled by a combination of bank (65%) and agency staff (35%). This vacancy position has remained relatively static since Q3.</p><p> </p><p>Medical: NHS trusts employ over 112,000 WTE medical staff. In addition to this substantive workforce, as at Q4 2017/18 there are over 9,500 WTE vacancies of which approximately 98% is currently being filled by a combination of bank (45%) and agency (locum) staff (55%). This vacancy position has marginally increased since Q3.</p><p> </p><p>However, the bank and agency staff in addition to covering the vacancy gap is also used to backfill for sickness, maternity, and secondments so that we cannot assume that the temporary workforce (bank and agency) is being used purely to fill the vacancy gap.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay grouped question UIN 152775 question first answered 15/06/2018 11:26:34 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

922346

registered interest
date	12/06/2018
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: Agency Workers
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 FTE vacancies for (a) registered nurses and (b) medical staff were filled by bank or agency staff in each year since 2010-11.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	152775
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not hold the information as requested.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Improvement published quarterly performance of the National Health Service provider sector since Quarter 1 2017/18.</p><p> </p><p>The latest NHS Improvement vacancy figures are available at the following link on page 24 of the report.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/quarterly-performance-nhs-provider-sector-quarter-4-201718/" target="_blank">https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/quarterly-performance-nhs-provider-sector-quarter-4-201718/</a></p><p> </p><p>The information is outlined in the following table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Whole Time Equivalent (WTE)</p></td><td><p>2017/18 Q1</p></td><td><p>2017/18 Q2</p></td><td><p>2017/18 Q3</p></td><td><p>2017/18 Q4</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>Registered Nursing and Midwifery</p></td><td><p>Total temporary workforce</p></td><td><p>30,619</p></td><td><p>33,110</p></td><td><p>31,415</p></td><td><p>37,689</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Vacancies</p></td><td><p>38,328</p></td><td><p>39,154</p></td><td><p>35,934</p></td><td><p>35,794</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>Medical</p></td><td><p>Total temporary workforce</p></td><td><p>8,441</p></td><td><p>8,889</p></td><td><p>8,780</p></td><td><p>9,640</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Vacancies</p></td><td><p>10,848</p></td><td><p>10,096</p></td><td><p>9,676</p></td><td><p>9,982</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br>The information above represents management information only and not an official statistic.</p><p> </p><p>Nursing: NHS trusts employ over 314,000 WTE registered nursing staff. In addition to this substantive workforce, at Q4 2017/18 there are over 35,000 WTE vacancies of which approximately 95% is currently being filled by a combination of bank (65%) and agency staff (35%). This vacancy position has remained relatively static since Q3.</p><p> </p><p>Medical: NHS trusts employ over 112,000 WTE medical staff. In addition to this substantive workforce, as at Q4 2017/18 there are over 9,500 WTE vacancies of which approximately 98% is currently being filled by a combination of bank (45%) and agency (locum) staff (55%). This vacancy position has marginally increased since Q3.</p><p> </p><p>However, the bank and agency staff in addition to covering the vacancy gap is also used to backfill for sickness, maternity, and secondments so that we cannot assume that the temporary workforce (bank and agency) is being used purely to fill the vacancy gap.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay grouped question UIN 152774 question first answered 15/06/2018 11:26:34 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

922366

registered interest
date	12/06/2018
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	Pharmacy
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 pharmacies there have been in England in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	152637
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is in the following table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Number of community pharmacies in England for 2007/08 to 2016/17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Number of community pharmacies</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007/08</p></td><td><p>10,312</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008/09</p></td><td><p>10,506</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>10,691</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>10,951</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>11,236</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>11,495</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>11,647</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>11,674</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>11,688</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>11,699</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS Digital</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 15/06/2018 14:58:56 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

922368

registered interest
date	12/06/2018
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 Walk-in Centres: Closures
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 walk-in centres have closed in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	152638
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2018 answer text <p>The requested information is not centrally held.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 15/06/2018 11:20:24 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham