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1718484

registered interest
date	15/05/2024
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 Systems: 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 each NHS Integrated Care Systems owed to NHS England for historic deficits at the end of the 2023-24 financial year.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	26508
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2024 answer text <p>The final year-end financial position for the integrated care boards, National Health Service trusts, and foundation trusts has not yet been finalised. All figures are due to be audited and will be reported in the accounts for all organisations, as well as in the Department’s 2023/24 Annual Report and Accounts, to be published later this year.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson grouped question UIN 26506 26507 question first answered 20/05/2024 13:45:52 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth

1716148

registered interest
date	07/05/2024
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	Health Services: Costs
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 she has made of the cost to (a) integrated care boards and (b) NHS England of commissioning specialised services in the (i) 2022-23 and (ii) 2023-24 financial years.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	24952
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2024 answer text <p>The total spend on commissioning specialised services was £22.7 billion in 2022/23 and £25 billion in 2023/24. As formal delegation of specialised services to integrated care boards (ICBs) begins from 1 April 2024, all spend on commissioning these services in previous years has been the responsibility of NHS England, and not the ICBs. For 2024/25, NHS England is delegating £5.3 billion of commissioning resource to ICBs in the three regions, where delegation will begin from April 2024. This figure excludes high-cost drugs and devices spend.</p><p>The nine joint committee arrangements arose from a robust process, which included a readiness assessment, the Pre-Delegation Assessment Framework, made between the ICBs and NHS England regional teams, followed by a National Moderation Panel, and final decision taken by the NHS England Board. The NHS England Board papers for February 2023, December 2023, and March 2024 are available, respectively, at the following links:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/board-2-feb-23-item-7-delegation-of-spec-comm.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/board-2-feb-23-item-7-delegation-of-spec-comm.pdf</a></p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/specialised-commissioning-2024-25-next-steps-with-delegation-to-integrated-care-boards/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/specialised-commissioning-2024-25-next-steps-with-delegation-to-integrated-care-boards/</a></p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/specialised-commissioning-update-on-specialised-services-for-delegation/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/specialised-commissioning-update-on-specialised-services-for-delegation/</a></p><p>The process concluded that a transitional year of joint commissioning would offer the most secure and stable transition towards delegation. There is a comprehensive programme structure in place to support the ICBs in the four regions that are working towards delegation in April 2025, to support them in being ready to take on the responsibilities. NHS England is continuing to work alongside ICBs to ensure that delegation agreements are in place, including ensuring appropriate collaborative arrangements are developed to support ICB commissioning of specialised services. These arrangements will be monitored by NHS England through its assurance processes for specialised services.</p><p>A webinar series for commissioning staff, including colleagues in ICBs, was delivered in 2023 across different aspects of specialised services, and there are additional webinars planned in 2024. There has been, and will continue to be, local engagement between regional commissioning teams and ICB teams, as the future operating model is co-developed. A suite of support materials has been shared with teams and continues to be updated. As examples, these include: Commissioning Change Management Business Rules; Finance and Accounting Standard Operating Procedure; and the Contracting Standard Operating Procedure.</p><p>NHS England develops services specification and clinical policies through its Clinical Reference Groups. There are 250 published service specifications which include clinical pathway, quality, and other relevant standards, which are specific to the clinical service. Regional commissioning teams, overseen by the statutory joint committees, are responsible for implementing the specifications in their commissioning of services, along with assessing compliance against national standards. NHS England has developed Specialised Services Quality Dashboards alongside service specifications, which provide additional data to monitor the quality of services.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 24953 24954 24955 24956 question first answered 13/05/2024 19:02:20 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth

1714971

registered interest
date	30/04/2024
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	Hospitals: Construction
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 she is taking to help increase (a) internal expertise and (b) capacity in the New Hospitals Programme in (i) technical design and (ii) programme delivery.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	24259
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2024 answer text <p>As is usual for major Government programmes, the New Hospitals Programme (NHP) is using both internal and external resources to ensure the right capabilities and specialist skills are in place to deliver the programme. The NHP is procuring its long-term delivery partner, which will provide flexible external expertise in technical design, commercial functions, programme delivery capabilities, and other areas.</p><p> </p><p>The NHP is developing a Knowledge and Skills Transfer (KST) Strategy to embed the self-sustaining knowledge and skills required to deliver the programme, ensuring that as the balance within the team changes, the appropriate transfers take place.</p><p> </p><p>The NHP continues to support its employees' development and regularly reviews the Learning and Development offer available across the programme, to support staff in the successful delivery of the programme. This includes supporting staff within the NHP, and Project Directors from NHS England trusts, to take advantage of the Government’s Project Academy by participating in the Project Leadership Programme and Major Projects Leadership Academy.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson grouped question UIN 24261 question first answered 07/05/2024 14:14:54 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth

1714972

registered interest
date	30/04/2024
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	Hospitals: Construction
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 she is taking to improve staff retention on the New Hospitals Programme.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	24260
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2024 answer text <p>The New Hospital Programme (NHP) continues to recruit into outstanding vacancies and is making progress in line with its current plans, workforce planning and resource assumptions.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson grouped question UIN 24258 question first answered 20/05/2024 08:40:14 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson previous answer version 32554 answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth

1714973

registered interest
date	30/04/2024
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	Hospitals: Construction
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 she has made of the effectiveness of the roll out of the Government's Projects Academy for staff working on the New Hospitals Programme.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	24261
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2024 answer text <p>As is usual for major Government programmes, the New Hospitals Programme (NHP) is using both internal and external resources to ensure the right capabilities and specialist skills are in place to deliver the programme. The NHP is procuring its long-term delivery partner, which will provide flexible external expertise in technical design, commercial functions, programme delivery capabilities, and other areas.</p><p> </p><p>The NHP is developing a Knowledge and Skills Transfer (KST) Strategy to embed the self-sustaining knowledge and skills required to deliver the programme, ensuring that as the balance within the team changes, the appropriate transfers take place.</p><p> </p><p>The NHP continues to support its employees' development and regularly reviews the Learning and Development offer available across the programme, to support staff in the successful delivery of the programme. This includes supporting staff within the NHP, and Project Directors from NHS England trusts, to take advantage of the Government’s Project Academy by participating in the Project Leadership Programme and Major Projects Leadership Academy.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson grouped question UIN 24259 question first answered 07/05/2024 14:14:54 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth

1693508

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	Hospices: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how she plans to distribute the £25 million committed to children’s hospices in 2024-25.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	16773
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2024 answer text <p>NHS England currently supports palliative and end of life care for children and young people through the Children and Young People’s Hospice Grant. Last year, NHS England confirmed that it will be renewing the funding for 2024/25, once again allocating £25 million of funding for children’s hospices, using the same prevalence-based allocation approach as in 2022/23 and 2023/24. This prevalence-based approach ensures funding matches local need.</p><p>The distribution of the 2024/25 funding to children’s hospices will be via integrated care boards (ICBs), in line with the wider move to a devolved National Health Service, in which ICBs are best placed to meet the health and care needs of their local population.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 07/03/2024 16:49:14 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth

1693031

registered interest
date	01/03/2024
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	NHS: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has had discussions with social enterprises that employ front line staff on funding to cover lump sum payments.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	16491
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2024 answer text <p>The Department has not had recent discussions with social enterprises on funding to cover lump sum payments.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 07/03/2024 13:49:58 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson previous answer version 21828 answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth

1693032

registered interest
date	01/03/2024
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	NHS: Pay
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 her Department is taking to help ensure that the outcomes of applications for funding to cover one off lump sum payments for frontline NHS staff employed by social enterprises are decided by the end of the financial year.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	16492
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2024 answer text <p>The Department is working closely with NHS England to finalise the outcomes of the applications, and has committed to communicating these directly to the organisations, ahead of the end of the financial year.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 06/03/2024 10:53:28 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth

1693034

registered interest
date	01/03/2024
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	Drugs: Supported Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has had discussions with local authorities on how the targeted housing support interventions announced in the drug strategy housing support grant will be assessed.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	16494
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2024 answer text <p>As part of the Government’s 10-year drug strategy, 28 local authorities are receiving up to £53 million in this Spending Review period, from 2022/23 to 2024/25, to further strengthen evidence on what housing support interventions support recovery from drug and alcohol addiction. Local authorities have been implementing their services since funding was announced in February 2023, with funding currently confirmed until March 2025. Further information on funding allocation is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/drug-strategy-housing-support-funding-allocations-2022-to-2025" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/drug-strategy-housing-support-funding-allocations-2022-to-2025</a></p><p> </p><p>Assessing which interventions have improved drug and alcohol treatment as well as housing outcomes for this population, is a key strand of the independent evaluation of drug strategy investment into treatment and recovery, which is due to completed by December 2025.</p><p>Further information about the evaluation can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fd-sitar.org%2Fevaluations%2Fhousing-support-grant-evaluation&amp;data=05%7C02%7Celizabeth.paterson%40dhsc.gov.uk%7C51558fbb1f9b4dbbec6908dc3c66a121%7C61278c3091a84c318c1fef4de8973a1c%7C1%7C0%7C638451658695346657%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=rBKjQkbvGJy6XqmbUiFcfCIGM1Hdx16VvunbOEfcAew%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://d-sitar.org/evaluations/housing-support-grant-evaluation</a></p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom grouped question UIN 16493 question first answered 06/03/2024 17:49:01 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth

1690486

registered interest
date	20/02/2024
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	Prescriptions: Safety
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 prescription errors by NHS trusts were reported to the Learn from patient safety events service in 2023; and how many and what proportion of those errors were graded as causing (a) no harm, (b) low harm, (c) moderate harm, (d) severe harm and (e) death.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	14899
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2024 answer text <p>We have been informed by NHS England that this data has not been validated, and cannot be provided at this time.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 01/03/2024 13:03:13 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield previous answer version 19056 answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth