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917122

registered interest
date	04/06/2018
answering body	Church Commissioners
answering dept id	9
answering dept short name	Church Commissioners
answering dept sort name	Church Commissioners
hansard heading	Jeremy Pemberton
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Honourable Member for Meriden, representing the Church Commissioners, how much the Church of England spent on the employment tribunal involving Jeremy Pemberton; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Exeter
tabling member printed	Mr Ben Bradshaw
uin	149586
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2018 answer text <p><em><em>It is not the practice of the Church Commissioners to disclose expenditure on the costs of legal proceedings of this kind (they are not required to do so under s.5 Episcopal Endowments and Stipends Measure 1943). The Church Commissioners have decided not to pursue the claimant for the costs they incurred as a result of his unsuccessful tribunal and subsequent appeals.</em></em></p> answering member constituency Meriden answering member printed Dame Caroline Spelman question first answered 06/06/2018 15:11:40 answering member 312 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Spelman
tabling member	230 label Biography information for Mr Ben Bradshaw

892258

registered interest
date	26/04/2018
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	Hospices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what representations he has received from the hospice movement on the effect of proposed increases in NHS pay; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Exeter
tabling member printed	Mr Ben Bradshaw
uin	138354
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2018 answer text <p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State has received two written representations from the hospice sector; raising concerns about the potential increase in their costs if they choose to increase pay in line with the proposed Agenda for Change pay rates.</p><p> </p><p>The Secretary of State has received one letter from a group of Chief Executives representing Hospice UK, Marie Curie and Together for Short Lives. He has also received representation from St John’s Hospice, Lancaster.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 01/05/2018 11:32:46 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	230 label Biography information for Mr Ben Bradshaw

892259

registered interest
date	26/04/2018
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	Hospices
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 his Department has made of the effect of proposed NHS pay increases on voluntary sector hospices.
tabling member constituency	Exeter
tabling member printed	Mr Ben Bradshaw
uin	138355
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2018 answer text <p>The proposed Agenda for Change pay framework, which includes contract reform and pay awards over three years, is currently out to consultation with the National Health Service trades unions and the outcome will be known in June.</p><p> </p><p>We are considering carefully the impact of the agreement on non-NHS organisations such as hospices that may be affected by the proposed deal however no decisions have been made.</p><p> </p><p>Staff in hospices do a fantastic job in delivering world-class care and the Department remains fully committed to improving palliative and end of life care.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 01/05/2018 11:30:35 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	230 label Biography information for Mr Ben Bradshaw

852638

registered interest
date	01/03/2018
answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
answering dept id	203
answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
hansard heading	Shanker Singham
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, whether the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, the hon. Member for Wycombe has held meetings with Shanker Singham in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Exeter
tabling member printed	Mr Ben Bradshaw
uin	130634
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2018 answer text <p>Details of ministerial meetings are published in the Department's Quarterly Transparency Returns, which are made publicly available on GOV.UK.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 06/03/2018 17:07:48 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	230 label Biography information for Mr Ben Bradshaw

846981

registered interest
date	22/02/2018
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	Hospitals: Consultants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what short-term steps his Department is taking to tackle the shortage of consultants.
tabling member constituency	Exeter
tabling member printed	Mr Ben Bradshaw
uin	129155
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2018 answer text <p>The most recent NHS Digital workforce statistics (for October 2017) show the number of consultants working in the National Health Service has increased by 28% since May 2010, with numbers at record levels.</p><p> </p><p>The Government currently funds over 6,000 medical school places in England each year. In addition, the Government has also committed to funding 1,500 more medical school places from 2019 at medical schools in England for domestic students to ensure we can train more doctors to meet the future need of our citizens as part of the historic medical expansion.</p><p> </p><p>‘Facing the Facts – Shaping the Future – a draft health and care workforce strategy for England to 2027’ sets out actions being taken to ensure sufficient supply of doctors across all grades and specialties. This includes working with a range of Royal Colleges and provider organisations to identify and support senior medical staff recruitment from European Economic Area (EEA) and non-EEA countries, and reforming postgraduate medical education to better support the development of the doctors of tomorrow.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Improvement provides Health Education England with support which includes looking at geographical variations in the number of doctors per head of population and correlating this to outcomes for selected specialties, and more efficient utilisation of consultants through e-rostering and job planning.</p><p> </p><p>Locally, responsibility for staffing levels, including the consultant workforce, rests with individual NHS trusts and their boards who are best placed to decide how many staff they need to provide a given service.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 28/02/2018 14:46:56 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	230 label Biography information for Mr Ben Bradshaw

837868

registered interest
date	06/02/2018
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	Hospitals: Consultants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to increase the NHS consultant workforce.
tabling member constituency	Exeter
tabling member printed	Mr Ben Bradshaw
uin	126898
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2018 answer text <p>There has been a 28% increase of consultants in post since May 2010 to October 2017.</p><p>Building on this, ‘Facing the Facts – Shaping the Future – a draft health and care workforce strategy for England to 2027’ sets out actions being taken to ensure sufficient supply of doctors across all grades and specialties, including a historic expansion of 1,500 undergraduate medical school places from 2019 and reform of postgraduate medical education to better support the development of the doctors of tomorrow.</p><p>Locally, responsibility for staffing levels, including the consultant workforce, rests with individual National Health Service trusts and their boards who are best placed to decide how many staff they need to provide a given service.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 13/02/2018 16:38:34 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	230 label Biography information for Mr Ben Bradshaw

837869

registered interest
date	06/02/2018
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	Geriatrics
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 his Department is taking to ensure a sufficient number of specialist trainees and consultants in geriatric medicine to deliver good patient outcomes.
tabling member constituency	Exeter
tabling member printed	Mr Ben Bradshaw
uin	126899
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2018 answer text <p>Nationally, there has been a 35% increase of consultants in geriatric medicine since May 2010.</p><p>As set out in ‘Facing the Facts, Shaping the Future: A draft health and care workforce strategy for England to 2027’, Health Education England is working with Royal Colleges, arm’s length bodies and others, to determine the numbers required for medical specialty training to produce the consultants and general practitioners of the future.</p><p>Locally, responsibility for staffing levels, including the number of consultant posts, rests with individual National Health Service trusts and their boards who are best placed to decide how many staff they need to provide a given service.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 13/02/2018 11:34:58 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	230 label Biography information for Mr Ben Bradshaw

834689

registered interest
date	01/02/2018
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	Genito-urinary Medicine
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 steps he has taken to ensure that sexual health services are (a) adequately funded, (b) sustainable and (c) accessible.
tabling member constituency	Exeter
tabling member printed	Mr Ben Bradshaw
uin	126137
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2018 answer text <p>The Department has mandated local authorities to commission comprehensive open access sexual health services, including free sexually transmitted infection testing and treatment, notification of sexual partners of infected persons and free provision of contraception. We are investing more than £16 billion in the provision of local authority public health services, including sexual health services, during the current spending period.</p><p> </p><p>In August 2017, Public Health England (PHE) published a report, ‘Sexual Health, Reproductive Health and HIV: A Review of Commissioning’, which identifies the commissioning challenges faced by commissioners and providers, and sets out an action plan that aims to reduce fragmentation of commissioning and resolve contracting systems barriers. As part of the action plan, PHE will take forward a range of activities aimed at strengthening commissioning. These activities include providing evidence and data to commissioners to support commissioning and the monitoring of outcomes, and building capacity and capability in sexual and reproductive health commissioning. The report can be viewed online at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/640578/Sexual_health_reproductive_health_and_HIV_a_survey_of_commissioning.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/640578/Sexual_health_reproductive_health_and_HIV_a_survey_of_commissioning.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 08/02/2018 14:44:36 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	230 label Biography information for Mr Ben Bradshaw

834690

registered interest
date	01/02/2018
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	HIV Infection
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 his Department has made of the social care (a) needs of and (b) provision for people aged 50 and over who are living with HIV.
tabling member constituency	Exeter
tabling member printed	Mr Ben Bradshaw
uin	126138
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2018 answer text <p>It is for local authorities to decide upon the appropriate provision of social care services for people aged 50 and over who are living with HIV, based on individual need and local circumstances.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities are subject to the Public Sector Equality duty, which requires them to take steps to meet the needs of people with protected characteristics, including people living with HIV, where they are different from the needs of others, and to minimise or remove disadvantages resulting from protected characteristics. Local authorities have a duty to ensure that, when someone has been assessed as being eligible for care and support, services are commissioned to meet those needs.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 08/02/2018 14:46:48 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	230 label Biography information for Mr Ben Bradshaw

825591

registered interest
date	18/01/2018
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	Medical Treatments
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 in the last three years have been referred by their GP for elective care but have been refused treatment due to clinical commissioning group policies to restrict access to treatment because a patient (a) has a BMI of more than 30 and (b) is a smoker.
tabling member constituency	Exeter
tabling member printed	Mr Ben Bradshaw
uin	123721
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2018 answer text <p>Information on how many patients who have been referred by their general practitioner for elective care but have been refused treatment due to clinical commissioning group policies to restrict access to treatment because a patient has a Body Mass Index of more than 30 and is a smoker is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 25/01/2018 13:46:02 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	230 label Biography information for Mr Ben Bradshaw