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1189252

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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	Dental 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 capacity of urgent dental care hubs to treat referred patients.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	38977
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/06/2020 answer text <p>The Government is working to support and protect all our frontline National Health Services health and care staff during the COVID-19 pandemic, including dentists.</p><p>NHS dentistry was reorganised in late March along with other NHS primary care services to minimise face to face care to contain the spread of COVID-19 during the peak of the pandemic. Dentists were asked to suspend all routine treatment and instead to offer urgent advice and, where required, prescriptions for antibiotics by telephone. Urgent treatment was made available through urgent dental centres (UDCs) set up in each NHS region.</p><p>As of 25 May there are currently over 550 UDCs open across England. Patients are triaged into UDCs by their own dentistry or through NHS 111. The urgent dental centres are expected to provide, where urgently needed, the full range of dental treatment normally available on the NHS.</p><p>NHS England and NHS Improvement announced on 28 May that NHS dentistry outside urgent care centres will begin to restart from 8 June with the aim of increasing levels of service as fast as is compatible with maximising safety. A copy of the letter that was published can be found on the NHS England website.</p><p>The latest COVID-19 guidance for dental practices can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/primary-care/dental-practice" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/primary-care/dental-practice</a></p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 03/06/2020 16:01:37 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill previous answer version 17006 answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1189254

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	Protective Clothing: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which UK businesses have contacted the Government with offers to produce personal protective equipment (PPE); what process the Government used to assess these offers; which offers were accepted; and when PPE from those successful offers will be available for use.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	38883
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2020 answer text <p>As of 15 May, over 13,000 businesses have contacted the Government with offers of help on supplying personal protective equipment (PPE). Many are related to the manufacture of PPE for the National Health Service and care sectors, a vast majority of which we are taking forward, predominantly from United Kingdom-based companies but also including multinational companies. Some offers were not progressed due to financial and capability considerations.</p><p>The Department engages directly with potential manufacturers to qualify and prioritise the opportunity, based on availability of/access to raw supplies, lead-times to manufacture, and other commercial considerations. Product prototypes are submitted to a Technical Product Review process, to ensure they meet essential health, safety and quality standards for PPE. Financial due diligence and fraud prevention measures are also undertaken, after which the Department can contract with the manufacturer.</p><p>Lord Deighton is leading the Government’s efforts to secure sufficient PPE and ensure this gets to where it is needed. He is also driving forward coordination of the end-to-end process design and manufacture of new domestic PPE supplies. As at 15 May, the Department has entered into contract and placed orders with eight manufacturers to provide millions of items of PPE products to the National Health Service and carers. Details of this work can be found in the links below. The volumes will increase in the coming weeks.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/millions-more-items-of-ppe-for-frontline-staff-from-new-business-partnerships" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/millions-more-items-of-ppe-for-frontline-staff-from-new-business-partnerships</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/70-million-face-masks-for-nhs-and-care-workers-through-new-industry-deal" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/70-million-face-masks-for-nhs-and-care-workers-through-new-industry-deal</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 38446 38447 38448 38449 question first answered 22/05/2020 09:35:07 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill previous answer version 17135 answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1189255

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	Care Homes: Coronavirus
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 publish on a daily basis the number of deaths from covid-19 in care home settings.
tabling member constituency	North East Bedfordshire
tabling member printed	Richard Fuller
uin	38886
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2020 answer text <p>On 29 April 2020 the Government introduced a new method of reporting daily COVID-19 deaths so that it now includes reporting of deaths in all settings, including care homes. More information can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/daily-death-reporting-now-includes-all-positive-covid-19-deaths" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/daily-death-reporting-now-includes-all-positive-covid-19-deaths</a></p><p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes all deaths registered with COVID-19 in each week including in care homes. More information can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/deathsregisteredweeklyinenglandandwalesprovisional/weekending24april2020" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/deathsregisteredweeklyinenglandandwalesprovisional/weekending24april2020</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 15/05/2020 10:58:13 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller

1189260

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	Protective Clothing: Manufacturing Industries
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 businesses based in Luton South have (a) made offers to his Department to manufacture Personal Protective Equipment and (b) received orders from his Department to manufacture that equipment.
tabling member constituency	Luton South
tabling member printed	Rachel Hopkins
uin	38983
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2020 answer text <p>The Department does not hold the information in the format requested, identifiable to a specific location. <br></p><p>Lord Deighton is leading the Government’s efforts to secure sufficient PPE and ensure this gets to where it is needed. He is also driving forward coordination of the end-to-end process design and manufacture of new domestic PPE supplies. The Department has entered into contract and placed orders with several manufacturers to provide millions of items of PPE products to the National Health Service and carers. Details of this work can be found at the following link:<br></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/millions-more-items-of-ppe-for-frontline-staff-from-new-business-partnerships" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/millions-more-items-of-ppe-for-frontline-staff-from-new-business-partnerships</a><br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/70-million-face-masks-for-nhs-and-care-workers-through-new-industry-deal" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/70-million-face-masks-for-nhs-and-care-workers-through-new-industry-deal<br></a></p><p>The volumes will increase in the coming weeks.</p><p /><p /> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 09/06/2020 09:33:12 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins

1189261

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	Protective Clothing: Manufacturing Industries
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 discussions he has had with the British companies manufacturing personal protective equipment for European countries on the production of that equipment for the UK.
tabling member constituency	Luton South
tabling member printed	Rachel Hopkins
uin	38984
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2020 answer text <p>We have allowed personal protective equipment (PPE) exports by private companies where such exports do not undermine the level of PPE within the United Kingdom, and no PPE has been issued from pandemic supplies to other countries.</p><p>Lord Deighton is leading the Government effort by British industry to manufacture PPE. The Government is currently in contact with over 350 potential UK manufacturers and has signed contracts to manufacture over 2 billion items of PPE through UK-based manufacturers. More new manufacturers are expected to commit to producing PPE in the coming weeks.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 25/06/2020 11:13:51 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins

1189262

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	Protective Clothing: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate the Government has made of the number of items of personal protective equipment that will be procured for use in the UK by the end of April.
tabling member constituency	Luton South
tabling member printed	Rachel Hopkins
uin	38985
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2020 answer text <p>The combined DIT, FCO and DHSC efforts have resulted in DHSC ordering over 28.7 billion items of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), direct from new relationships with suppliers in source countries; and to build up UK manufacturing this includes signed contracts to manufacture over 2 billion items of PPE through UK-based manufacturers.</p><p>The Government has rapidly processed over 24,000 cases from over 15,000 suppliers to ensure they meet the safety and quality standards that our NHS staff need, as well as prioritising offers of larger volumes. The Government has so far actively engaged with over 99% of the companies that have offered PPE and has contracted with over 175 new suppliers able to deliver at the scale and pace the UK requires.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 17/07/2020 11:09:35 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins

1189264

registered interest
date	22/04/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Electronic Tagging: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Secretary of State for Justice, what procedures are in place for tagging offenders by police services in England and Wales during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
tabling member printed	Andrew Bowie
uin	38987
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2020 answer text <p>The MOJ has no procedures in place for offenders to be tagged by police services during the covid-19 outbreak. The tagging of offenders released from custody as a requirement of a licence or subject to court imposed electronic monitoring is carried out by the Electronic Monitoring Service (EMS) not by police services during the covid-19 outbreak or otherwise. EMS is continuing to fulfil all the tagging requirements that it is responsible for and its staff have been designated key workers as their work is essential to the running of the justice system.</p><p> </p><p>Those being released under the End of Custody Temporary Release scheme, which has been established for low-risk offenders within two months of release, as part of the national plan to protect the NHS and save lives, are being fitted with a GPS tag on release and are subject to conditions requiring them to adhere to a curfew and the Government’s Covid-19 measures.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 01/05/2020 12:08:45 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4601 label Biography information for Andrew Bowie

1189265

registered interest
date	22/04/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Universities: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to support UK universities affected by reduced international recruitment as a result of the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Luton South
tabling member printed	Rachel Hopkins
uin	38988
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2020 answer text <p>We understand that the COVID-19 outbreak and a possible reduction in the number of international students poses significant financial challenges to the sector and are extremely grateful for the work that universities are doing in response.</p><p>My right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has announced an unprecedented package of support. This support includes the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and a range of business loan schemes to help pay wages, keep staff employed and support businesses whose viability is threatened by the outbreak. We recently confirmed universities’ eligibility for these schemes.</p><p>We are also working closely with the sector, the Office for Students and across the government to understand the financial risks that providers are facing and to stabilise the admissions system and help providers to access the support on offer.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 01/05/2020 13:10:44 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins

1189266

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	Coronavirus: Ethnic Groups
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 reasons why covid-19 disproportionately affects people from BAME communities; and what steps he is taking to mitigate those effects.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	38917
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/08/2020 answer text <p>The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Equalities (Kemi Badenoch MP) is reviewing the findings from Public Health England’s reports to better understand the drivers behind the disparities and the relationships between the different risk factors. Her work will help us to improve understanding of the virus and who it affects so we can build on the existing action we are taking to tackle health inequalities. This includes our childhood obesity plan, NHS health checks, our tobacco control plan and diabetes prevention programme.</p><p>In addition, the NHS Long Term Plan commits all major national programmes and every local area across England to set out specific measurable goals and mechanisms by which they will contribute to narrowing health inequalities over the next five and ten years.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 25/08/2020 10:22:45 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1189267

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 Trusts: Ventilators
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 additional ventilators have been provided (a) in total and (b) to each NHS Trust since 31 January 2020.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	38918
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2020 answer text <p>At the start of the COVID-19 outbreak in March there were more than 8,000 mechanical ventilators in hospitals across the United Kingdom. As of 4 May, we have around 10,900 mechanical ventilators available to National Health Service patients. In addition, there are also 6,291 non-invasive ventilators available to the NHS across the UK which were not available before the start of the crisis in mid-March plus a further 73 from the private sector.</p><p>These figures will continue to rise as we procure further equipment and more products from the Prime Minister’s ventilator challenge become available.</p><p>Mechanical ventilators are allocated pro rata between England and the devolved administrations, but then within each nation decisions of where to send ventilators are based on clinical need. In England hospitals can make a bid for ventilators and these are discussed and allocated with regional NHS England and NHS Improvement teams. Details can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2020/04/C0233-ventilator-consumables-8-april.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2020/04/C0233-ventilator-consumables-8-april.pdf</a></p><p>The following table shows the distribution of the new mechanical ventilators to date.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Mechanical Ventilators dispatched from Donnington Warehouse as of 4 May 2020<strong> <br> </strong>(this excludes those still in warehouses and those made and held by the private sector)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Location</p></td><td><p>Number of Mechanical Ventilators</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Airedale General Hospital</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Basildon University Hospital</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Countess of Chester Hospital</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Surrey Hospital</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Essex and Herts Air Ambulance</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gloucester Royal Hospital</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Guernsey</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Isle of Man</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jersey</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kings Mill Hospital</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leighton Hospital</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lister Hospital</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London Ambulance Service</p></td><td><p>19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London NHS Nightingale</p></td><td><p>168</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Manchester General Hospital</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Manchester Royal Infirmary</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Manchester General Hospital</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northern Ireland</p></td><td><p>28</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Royal Lancaster Infirmary</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Royal Oldham Hospital</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Royal Papworth Hospital</p></td><td><p>54</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>77</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Central Amublance</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Southport General Hospital</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>St George’s University Hospital Foundation Trust</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>St Mary’s Hospital</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tameside General Hospital</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>UK Overseas Territories</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>46</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS London (for onward distribution)</p></td><td><p>125</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Harrogate NHS Nightingale</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West Region (for onward distribution)</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bristol NHS Nightingale</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East NHS Nightingale</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Warwick Hospital</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grand Total</p></td><td><p>665</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 38532 question first answered 11/05/2020 12:48:51 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth