Show Search Form

Search Results

registered interest	true false
date	exactly: or between: and
answering body
answering dept id
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
hansard heading
house id
legislature	pref label
question text
tabling member constituency
tabling member printed
uin
answer	is ministerial correction true false date of answer exactly: or between: and answer text answering member constituency answering member printed question first answered answering member label previous answer version answering member constituency answering member printed answering member label
tabling member	label

Search

1345955

registered interest
date	12/07/2021
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	Home Care Services
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 potential effect of a market failure in the domiciliary care sector on local authorities.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	31414
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2021 answer text <p>Under the Care Act 2014, local authorities are required to shape their local markets according to local needs, which includes securing the right balance of domiciliary, residential and other provision. Throughout the pandemic, we have made available over £2 billion in specific funding for adult social care, in addition to over £6 billion for local authorities to address pressures on their services. In partnership with the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services and the Local Government Association, we carried out a service continuity and care market review to understand the robustness of local authorities’ plans and the level of support needed to maintain continuity of provision through winter 2020-21.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 02/08/2021 12:31:04 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 14577 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1310714

registered interest
date	20/04/2021
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	Home Care Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance he has provided to the Care Quality Commission on examining the business history of providers of domiciliary care companies.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	184519
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2021 answer text <p>The Care Quality Commission (CQC) acts to ensure that all adult social care providers seeking to register their services comply with the registration requirements set out in the Health and Social Care Act 2008 and its associated regulations. The CQC (Registration) Regulations 2009 include a requirement that providers seeking to register are financially viable.</p><p>In addition, the Care Act 2014 provides for the CQC to monitor the financial health of the largest and most difficult-to-replace adult social care providers, including qualifying domiciliary care providers, through the Market Oversight Scheme. The scope of these provisions is set out by the Department in the Care Act 2014 statutory guidance.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 27/04/2021 11:07:44 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1310716

registered interest
date	20/04/2021
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	Home Care Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take against domiciliary care companies that do not meet their contractual obligations in paying their staff or pension contributions on time.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	184520
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2021 answer text <p>The vast majority of care workers are employed by private sector providers who set their pay and conditions, independent of central Government. However, we do expect all employers to meet their legal and contractual obligations. The law requires employers to enrol all eligible workers into a qualifying workplace pension scheme and make at least a minimum contribution to their pension. The Pensions Regulator is responsible for maximising employer compliance.</p><p>There is statutory protection for workers against unlawful deductions from wages, including complete non-payment. Workers who believe that unlawful deductions have been made from their wages may complain to an employment tribunal. Non-payment of wages is also likely to constitute a breach of contract and employees may be entitled to make a breach of contract claim through the civil courts or, if the employment has ended, the employment tribunals.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 27/04/2021 11:12:48 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1310718

registered interest
date	20/04/2021
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	Home Care 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 support local authorities insourcing domiciliary and residential social care.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	184521
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2021 answer text <p>The Care Act 2014 places a duty on local authorities to develop a diverse market in care and support services that meets the needs of their local communities and promotes the efficient and effective operation of the market for adult care and support as a whole.</p><p>We support local authorities to manage their local markets effectively. This includes funding the Local Government Association and the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services to deliver the Care and Health Improvement Programme, an annual programme of support to local authorities. In addition, the Department has worked with sector partners to produce guidance and support about market shaping, which is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/adult-social-care-market-shaping/adult-social-care-market-shaping" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/adult-social-care-market-shaping/adult-social-care-market-shaping</a></p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 27/04/2021 11:05:28 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1280062

registered interest
date	25/01/2021
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	Home Care Services
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 in England employ their own personal assistants for health and social care at home.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	142984
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2021 answer text <p>Data from Skills for Care’s ‘Individual Employers and the Personal Assistant Workforce’ report estimates that in 2019/20, approximately 70,000 people in England employed their own personal assistant/s (PAs) with funding from social care direct payments, dispersed by local authorities. The Department does not hold data on numbers of individuals who employ PAs outside of social care direct payments.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 03/02/2021 12:30:29 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 78260 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1235066

registered interest
date	16/09/2020
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	Home Care Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to add the category of domiciliary care to the organisation type page of the test booking website, supported by the CQC ID location number in the background database.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	91072
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2020 answer text <p>All residents in care homes and asymptomatic care home staff have been offered testing through the whole care home portal, as well as all patients discharged from hospital into care homes. All residential and domiciliary/homecare care staff, volunteers and unpaid carers can access testing via the self-referral or employer referral portal if they have symptoms, and everyone in the United Kingdom with symptoms can now be tested for COVID-19 through the self-referral portal at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://self-referral.test-for-coronavirus.service.gov.uk/antigen/name" target="_blank">https://self-referral.test-for-coronavirus.service.gov.uk/antigen/name</a></p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 10/11/2020 13:38:01 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1188699

registered interest
date	20/04/2020
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	Home Care Services
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 trends in the level of health of people reliant on care provided by domiciliary care staff; and what protection is being provided to those staff visiting multiple private homes in one day.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South West
tabling member printed	Stuart Anderson
uin	37975
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/05/2020 answer text <p>We do not currently hold data on trends in the level of health of those receiving domiciliary care. NHS Digital do however collect and publish an annual survey on the quality of life of individuals in state funded domiciliary care, their satisfaction with services, and other important outcomes which is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/adult-social-care-outcomes-framework-ascof" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/adult-social-care-outcomes-framework-ascof</a>.</p><p>Care staff visiting multiple private homes in one day should receive personal protective equipment (PPE) from the care provider they work for in line with the latest government recommendations. To support staff in using this equipment, Public Health England published tailored guidance on the use of PPE in domiciliary care on 27 April. This is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/882376/Domiciliary_guidance_England.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/882376/Domiciliary_guidance_England.pdf</a>.</p><p>It includes clear guidance and illustrative case studies that explain how care workers visiting multiple homes in one day should use PPE.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 05/05/2020 12:05:08 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4742 label Biography information for Stuart Anderson

1105144

registered interest
date	26/03/2019
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	Home Care Services
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 made an assessment of the implications for his policies of the recommendations in the Red Cross report entitled Home to the Unknown: Getting hospital discharge right; and whether he is taking steps to introduce an independence check prior to discharge or within 72 hours of going home, as recommended by the Red Cross.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	237050
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p>The Department agrees that it is important that there is appropriate support for patients on discharge from hospital. All patients should have a discharge assessment to determine the level of care they will need upon discharge from hospital, including whether a care plan is needed.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan makes clear the importance of moving care into the community, and this Government is committed to achieving this. It commits an extra £4.5 billion a year by 2023/24 of investment in primary care and community health services.</p><p> </p><p>The National Health Service is currently developing the Implementation Framework for the Long Term Plan. Improving discharge from hospital and supporting patients to recover their independence in the most appropriate setting will be taken into account within this framework.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 01/04/2019 11:45:27 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

997824

registered interest
date	30/10/2018
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	Home Care Services
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 average price paid for home care per hour is in (a) the West Midlands and (b) England.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	185729
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2018 answer text <p>NHS Digital data on the average hourly rate for home care services funded by local authorities shows in 2017/18 the average hourly rate paid to external providers of home care services commissioned by local authorities in England was £16.04.</p><p> </p><p>In 2017/18 the average hourly rate paid to external providers of home care services commissioned by local authorities in the West Midlands was £14.96.</p><p> </p><p>Source:</p><p> </p><p>NHS Digital, Adult Social Care Finance Return 2017/18, Table 49 – Unit costs, average weighted standard hourly rate for the provision of home care by activity provision, year on year comparison, 2016-17 and 2017-18</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/adult-social-care-activity-and-finance-report/2017-18" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/adult-social-care-activity-and-finance-report/2017-18</a></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 06/11/2018 16:58:35 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

922406

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	Home Care Services
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 patients have received homecare help under the NHS in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	David Simpson
uin	152705
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 19/06/2018 10:23:18 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson