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1687665

registered interest
date	05/02/2024
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	Innovative Medicines Fund
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what is the breakdown of utilisation of the Innovative Medicines Fund for (1) interim funding for medicines recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, and (2) managed access, since June 2022.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL2187
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2024 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has not yet made a recommendation for managed access under the Innovative Medicines Fund (IMF), and so the fund has been used exclusively for interim funding to accelerate patient access to medicines recommended by NICE for routine commissioning. To date, four medicines have received interim funding through the IMF.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 09/02/2024 12:26:41 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1687666

registered interest
date	05/02/2024
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	Innovative Medicines Fund
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government when NHS England will start publishing quarterly activity updates on expenditure and patient notifications for the Innovative Medicines Fund.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL2188
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2024 answer text <p>A report on expenditure and activity under the Innovative Medicines Fund for the period up to the end of 2023 will be released in Spring 2024, and at regular intervals thereafter.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 09/02/2024 12:26:59 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1687667

registered interest
date	05/02/2024
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	Rare Diseases: Medical Treatments
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 impact of changes to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence's Methods and Process on patients with rare and ultra-rare diseases.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL2189
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2024 answer text <p>A number of the changes made by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to its methods and processes for health technology evaluation are expected to benefit medicines for rare diseases, including the introduction of a severity modifier and greater flexibility in responding to uncertainty. NICE has committed to assessing the impact of the changes on patients with rare diseases.</p><p>Due to length of the medicine’s evaluation process and number of rare disease topics using older methods or processes, the analysis of the impact of changes will take some time to assess. Data is being collected which will allow, for example, the percentage of positive NICE recommendations made following old methods and processes compared with new methods and processes for rare diseases, to be assessed. NICE will be in a position to publish the impact of the 2022 manual changes in a report by the end of 2024.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 09/02/2024 12:24:54 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1687668

registered interest
date	05/02/2024
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	National Institute for Health and Care Excellence: Medical Treatments
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government when the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence's plans to report on the impact of changes to the health technology evaluation manual introduced in 2022.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL2190
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2024 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s (NICE) board considered a report on the implementation of the updated health technology evaluation manual, at its public meeting in December 2023. A copy of the report, Update on development, alignment and implementation of changes to NICE methods and processes, has been attached.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 09/02/2024 12:31:06 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham attachment 1 file name december-23-pbm-methods and processes (1) (1) (1) (2).docx title december-23-pbm-methods and processes
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1686501

registered interest
date	31/01/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	National Tutoring Programme
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to provide one-to-one and small group tuition in education settings following the conclusion of the National Tutoring Programme in August.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL2076
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2024 answer text <p>The department acted swiftly in helping all children to recover from the impact of the pandemic and made available almost £5 billion for its ambitious multi-year programmes to support education recovery. These programmes were principally targeted at disadvantaged pupils, supporting the narrowing of the disadvantage gap to pre-pandemic levels as quickly as possible. Crucially, they were also designed to have a legacy beyond the multi-year period of exceptional and additional support.</p><p>Over £1 billion has been invested in tutoring over four years through the National Tutoring Programme (NTP). This has seen nearly 5 million tutoring courses commence since the programme started in November 2020, including over 2 million in each of the last two academic years. In the current academic year, 346,000 courses have started up to 5 October 2023.</p><p>The department anticipates that tutoring will continue to be a staple offer from schools, with schools using core budgets and pupil premium funding to provide targeted support for those children who will benefit.</p><p>Raising attainment for pupils is at the heart of this government’s agenda. The department knows that disadvantaged children have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic and are committed to narrowing the attainment gap.</p><p>The department is continuing to support pupils’ needs by investing an extra £2 billion into core schools funding both this year and next year, over and above what it had already announced at the 2021 Spending Review. The department has also announced an additional £525 million this year to support schools with the teachers’ pay award, with a further £900 million in 2024/25. This means that by next year, school funding will be more than £59.6 billion, which is the highest ever level in real terms per pupil.</p><p>Schools receive the pupil premium to enable them to provide extra support to improve disadvantaged pupils’ academic and personal achievements. Pupil premium funding will rise to over £2.9 billion in 2024/25, which is an increase of £80 million from 2023/24. This represents a 10% increase in per pupil rates from 2021/22 to 2024/25.</p><p>Additionally, the department is investing in 55 Education Investment Areas, where outcomes in literacy and numeracy are the poorest, including £86 million in trust capacity funding to help strong trusts to expand into areas most in need of improvement.</p><p>Furthermore, students in 16-19 education during the 2024/25 academic year will continue to receive the additional 40 learning hours that the department is funding to help them catch up on the vital teaching and learning they need to progress. It is estimated that the additional hours will support the recovery of approximately one month of lost learning per academic year.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran grouped question UIN HL2077 question first answered 14/02/2024 17:50:38 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1686502

registered interest
date	31/01/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Education: Coronavirus
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to provide COVID-19 catch-up learning for most disadvantaged pupils following the cessation of the National Tutoring Programme in August.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL2077
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2024 answer text <p>The department acted swiftly in helping all children to recover from the impact of the pandemic and made available almost £5 billion for its ambitious multi-year programmes to support education recovery. These programmes were principally targeted at disadvantaged pupils, supporting the narrowing of the disadvantage gap to pre-pandemic levels as quickly as possible. Crucially, they were also designed to have a legacy beyond the multi-year period of exceptional and additional support.</p><p>Over £1 billion has been invested in tutoring over four years through the National Tutoring Programme (NTP). This has seen nearly 5 million tutoring courses commence since the programme started in November 2020, including over 2 million in each of the last two academic years. In the current academic year, 346,000 courses have started up to 5 October 2023.</p><p>The department anticipates that tutoring will continue to be a staple offer from schools, with schools using core budgets and pupil premium funding to provide targeted support for those children who will benefit.</p><p>Raising attainment for pupils is at the heart of this government’s agenda. The department knows that disadvantaged children have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic and are committed to narrowing the attainment gap.</p><p>The department is continuing to support pupils’ needs by investing an extra £2 billion into core schools funding both this year and next year, over and above what it had already announced at the 2021 Spending Review. The department has also announced an additional £525 million this year to support schools with the teachers’ pay award, with a further £900 million in 2024/25. This means that by next year, school funding will be more than £59.6 billion, which is the highest ever level in real terms per pupil.</p><p>Schools receive the pupil premium to enable them to provide extra support to improve disadvantaged pupils’ academic and personal achievements. Pupil premium funding will rise to over £2.9 billion in 2024/25, which is an increase of £80 million from 2023/24. This represents a 10% increase in per pupil rates from 2021/22 to 2024/25.</p><p>Additionally, the department is investing in 55 Education Investment Areas, where outcomes in literacy and numeracy are the poorest, including £86 million in trust capacity funding to help strong trusts to expand into areas most in need of improvement.</p><p>Furthermore, students in 16-19 education during the 2024/25 academic year will continue to receive the additional 40 learning hours that the department is funding to help them catch up on the vital teaching and learning they need to progress. It is estimated that the additional hours will support the recovery of approximately one month of lost learning per academic year.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran grouped question UIN HL2076 question first answered 14/02/2024 17:50:38 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1686503

registered interest
date	31/01/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Inspections
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 merits of bringing school improvement within the terms of reference of regular Ofsted inspections.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL2078
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2024 answer text <p>Ofsted plays an important role within the government’s strategies for accountability and school improvement.</p><p> </p><p>Ofsted is not an improvement agency, but its work encourages improvement through effective inspection. There are several aspects to this, including: the publication of Ofsted’s inspection frameworks and handbooks, which help to set standards and expectations; the engagement and feedback that takes place during inspections; the reporting of strengths and areas that need improvement; and the publication and dissemination of insights gained though inspection, for example through thematic surveys and reports.</p><p> </p><p>Ofsted inspections provide a diagnosis and in some cases may trigger support and intervention mechanisms, but the primary responsibility for improvement rests with schools and trusts, with support and intervention from others where necessary, including through the department’s Regional Directors. This separation of responsibilities is important in maintaining the independence of inspection.</p><p> </p><p>The government’s primary strategy for school and trust improvement is to commission growth in the highest quality trusts, as they have the best levers to secure sustainable improvement and are directly accountable for the performance of their schools. More information about high quality trusts can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/commissioning-high-quality-trusts" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/commissioning-high-quality-trusts</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 12/02/2024 16:13:47 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1686100

registered interest
date	30/01/2024
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	Integrated Care Boards: Procurement
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether the Chief Commercial Officer of NHS England has undertaken a review of the procurement policies and practices of the integrated care boards who were defendants in Consultant Connect Ltd v NHS Bath et al.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL2034
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2024 answer text <p>Each commissioning organisation involved in the procurement process produced their own lessons learnt report, and the decisions around the publication of lessons learned reports are for individual integrated care boards (ICBs). With reference to guidance and support to ICBs on procurement, NHS England published the Strategic framework for the NHS Commercial Sector on 28 November 2023, a copy of which is attached.</p><p>The framework aims to encourage regional collaboration between integrated care systems by creating regional collaborative commercial organisations. These will operate as group procurement organisations in providing the necessary system leadership, capability and capacity to deliver strategic commercial outcomes and supply chain efficiencies, and will be designed against a national blueprint to ensure consistency.</p><p>Every National Health Service provider will be expected to be a member of a collaborative organisation and a senior, experienced, qualified commercial leader will be appointed to run and promote each organisation at an executive-level, with ownership for commercial strategy and all non-pay spend.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham grouped question UIN HL2035 HL2036 question first answered 06/02/2024 14:16:10 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham attachment 1 file name 2034, 2035 and 2036 - Lord Hunt - NHS England Strategic framework for NHS Commercial - 2-2-24.pdf title Strategic framework for NHS Commercial
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1686101

registered interest
date	30/01/2024
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	Integrated Care Boards: Procurement
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, following the judgment in Consultant Connect Ltd v NHS Bath et al of 29 July 2022, what assessment they have made of whether the integrated care boards who were defendants in that case have since established procurement policies and practices so as to reduce the risk of possible similar legal action in the future.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL2035
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2024 answer text <p>Each commissioning organisation involved in the procurement process produced their own lessons learnt report, and the decisions around the publication of lessons learned reports are for individual integrated care boards (ICBs). With reference to guidance and support to ICBs on procurement, NHS England published the Strategic framework for the NHS Commercial Sector on 28 November 2023, a copy of which is attached.</p><p>The framework aims to encourage regional collaboration between integrated care systems by creating regional collaborative commercial organisations. These will operate as group procurement organisations in providing the necessary system leadership, capability and capacity to deliver strategic commercial outcomes and supply chain efficiencies, and will be designed against a national blueprint to ensure consistency.</p><p>Every National Health Service provider will be expected to be a member of a collaborative organisation and a senior, experienced, qualified commercial leader will be appointed to run and promote each organisation at an executive-level, with ownership for commercial strategy and all non-pay spend.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham grouped question UIN HL2034 HL2036 question first answered 06/02/2024 14:16:10 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham attachment 1 file name 2034, 2035 and 2036 - Lord Hunt - NHS England Strategic framework for NHS Commercial - 2-2-24.pdf title Strategic framework for NHS Commercial
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1686102

registered interest
date	30/01/2024
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	Integrated Care Boards: Procurement
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, following the judgment in Consultant Connect Ltd v NHS Bath et al of 29 July 2022, what actions the integrated care boards who were defendants in that case have taken to ensure that members of the public and commercial suppliers have confidence in their procurement processes.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL2036
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2024 answer text <p>Each commissioning organisation involved in the procurement process produced their own lessons learnt report, and the decisions around the publication of lessons learned reports are for individual integrated care boards (ICBs). With reference to guidance and support to ICBs on procurement, NHS England published the Strategic framework for the NHS Commercial Sector on 28 November 2023, a copy of which is attached.</p><p>The framework aims to encourage regional collaboration between integrated care systems by creating regional collaborative commercial organisations. These will operate as group procurement organisations in providing the necessary system leadership, capability and capacity to deliver strategic commercial outcomes and supply chain efficiencies, and will be designed against a national blueprint to ensure consistency.</p><p>Every National Health Service provider will be expected to be a member of a collaborative organisation and a senior, experienced, qualified commercial leader will be appointed to run and promote each organisation at an executive-level, with ownership for commercial strategy and all non-pay spend.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham grouped question UIN HL2034 HL2035 question first answered 06/02/2024 14:16:10 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham attachment 1 file name 2034, 2035 and 2036 - Lord Hunt - NHS England Strategic framework for NHS Commercial - 2-2-24.pdf title Strategic framework for NHS Commercial
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath