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1700793

registered interest
date	15/04/2024
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	Maternity Services: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding has been allocated to the Maternity and Newborn Safety Investigation programme; and whether that funding is time limited.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	21497
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2024 answer text <p>The Department has allocated £16 million to the Maternity and Newborn Safety Investigations Programme for this financial year, which is the last year of this spending review period. Future budgets will be allocated in the usual way as part of the next Spending Review.</p><p>The lifespan of the programme is under review and will continue to be overseen by the Care Quality Commission, until directed otherwise by the Department. The Department, through the National Institute for Health and Care Research, is funding an evaluation to understand whether Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch investigations and Perinatal Mortality Review Tool reviews have met their anticipated requirements, resulted in system level quality improvements in maternity care, and improved outcomes for parents and families.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 18/04/2024 11:00:26 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1693193

registered interest
date	04/03/2024
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	Maternity Services: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the additional £165 million of annual funding provided by NHS England to improve maternity and neonatal care, which will rise to £186 million a year this year, and how this will directly improve babies’ health and development outcomes.
tabling member printed	Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick
uin	HL3004
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2024 answer text <p>The investment within maternity and neonatal services supports the delivery of NHS England's three-year delivery plan, which will make maternity and neonatal care safer, more personalised, and more equitable for women and babies.</p><p>The plan outlines the investment we are making in listening to women and families, growing, retaining, and supporting our workforce, developing, and sustaining a culture of safety, and underpinning more personalised and equitable care. The plan sets out success measures for trusts, integrated care systems, and NHS England, to monitor the impacts and improvements at every level.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 13/03/2024 15:05:54 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	4130 label Biography information for Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick

1660903

registered interest
date	14/09/2023
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	Maternity Services: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what is the current annual (1) maternity, and (2) neonatal, budget for NHS England; and how much NHS England has expended annually in clinical negligence compensation for maternity care in each of the past five years.
tabling member printed	The Marquess of Lothian
uin	HL10187
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2023 answer text <p>The annual budget for the NHS England Maternity Programme is £122 million. NHS England does not commission or budget for Maternity Services which is the responsibility of integrated care boards (ICBs). NHS Providers, based on the latest available data which is 2021/22 Reference Costs, spent approximately £4 billion annually on Maternity Services. Neonatal services are commissioned and budgeted for through Specialised Commissioning. The latest available data shows an annual spend for 2023/24 of approximately £1 billion.</p><p>NHS Resolution manages clinical negligence and other claims against the National Health Service in England. The following table shows the cost of Clinical Negligence Claims Closed or otherwise Settled as a Periodical Payment Order (PPO) between 2018/19 and 2022/23 with damages paid (including PPOs paid to date), where the Specialty is 'Obstetrics', as advised by NHS Resolution:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year of Closure of case (Settlement Year for PPOs)</p></td><td><p>Damages Paid (£)</p></td><td><p>NHS Legal Costs Paid (£)</p></td><td><p>Claimant Legal Costs Paid (£)</p></td><td><p>Total Paid (£)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>605,688,009</p></td><td><p>25,560,735</p></td><td><p>78,394,471</p></td><td><p>709,643,216</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>495,458,879</p></td><td><p>22,536,708</p></td><td><p>72,295,468</p></td><td><p>590,291,055</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>501,965,729</p></td><td><p>22,080,962</p></td><td><p>68,796,850</p></td><td><p>592,843,541</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021/22</p></td><td><p>503,741,949</p></td><td><p>21,897,291</p></td><td><p>78,114,994</p></td><td><p>603,754,235</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022/23</p></td><td><p>596,598,917</p></td><td><p>25,039,074</p></td><td><p>84,939,593</p></td><td><p>706,577,584</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>2,703,453,483</p></td><td><p>117,114,772</p></td><td><p>382,541,376</p></td><td><p>3,203,109,631</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 28/09/2023 09:31:26 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	259 label Biography information for The Marquess of Lothian

1602820

registered interest
date	09/03/2023
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	Maternity Services: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Final report of the Ockenden review, published on 30 March 2022, when the Government plans to increase maternity funding by the £200 to 350 million per annum recommended by that report.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Feryal Clark
uin	162320
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2023 answer text <p>NHS England invested £127 million into the maternity system in 2022 which will go towards the National Health Service maternity workforce and improving neonatal care. We will keep further funding under review.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 15/03/2023 13:23:28 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4822 label Biography information for Feryal Clark

1519595

registered interest
date	10/10/2022
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	Maternity Services: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the £95 million of additional funding for maternity services in England announced by her Department in 2021, how many of the additional (a) 1,200 midwives and (b) 100 obstetricians have been recruited to the NHS in England as of 10 October 2022.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	59615
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/08/2023 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally in the format requested. However, data on the number of midwives and obstetricians as of July 2022 is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-workforce-statistics/july-2022" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-workforce-statistics/july-2022</a></p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 17/08/2023 09:42:29 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince previous answer version 22437 answering member constituency Sleaford and North Hykeham answering member printed Dr Caroline Johnson answering member 4592
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris