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Written Question
Mental Illness: Children
Thursday 6th February 2020

Asked by: Lord Bradley (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford on 23 January (HL451), in what format the data is held.

Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford

The number of individual patients aged under 18 cannot be provided, only the number of unplanned accident and emergency (A&E) attendances for patients aged under 18 with a primary diagnosis in A&E of ‘35 – Psychiatric Condition’.

Information can only be provided on the distance between a patient’s postcode and the A&E where they presented and not the hospital where the patient was subsequently admitted from A&E.


Written Question
Mental Health Services: Finance
Thursday 30th January 2020

Asked by: Lord Bradley (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the proportion of the revenue resources specified in the NHS Funding Bill that will be allocated to mental health services for each year of the settlement.

Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford

This NHS Funding Bill enshrines in law the biggest cash boost in National Health Service history, ensuring the NHS will get an extra £33.9 billion a year by 2023/24. The Bill does not limit the amount of funding we can put in the NHS, but instead sets that the budget must be “at least” what we have committed to.

The NHS Long Term Plan sets out that mental health will receive a growing share of the NHS budget, worth in real terms at least a further £2.3 billion a year by 2023/24.

Tables showing how NHS funding and mental health funding will increase year-on-year to 2023/24 are attached, due to the size of the data.


Written Question
Mental Illness: Children
Thursday 23rd January 2020

Asked by: Lord Bradley (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many children with mental illness who presented at an accident and emergency department were admitted into hospital within (1) three miles, (2) five miles, (3) 10 miles, (4) 20 miles, and (5) more than 20 miles, from their homes, in each of the last five years.

Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford

The data is not held in the format requested.


Written Question
Mental Illness: Children
Thursday 23rd January 2020

Asked by: Lord Bradley (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many children with mental illness were admitted into hospital following attendance at Accident and Emergency departments in each of the last five years.

Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford

The data is not held in the format requested.


Written Question
Mental Illness: Children
Thursday 23rd January 2020

Asked by: Lord Bradley (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many children with mental illness presented to Accident and Emergency departments in each of the last five years.

Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford

The data is not held in the format requested.


Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 09 Jan 2020
Queen’s Speech

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 22 Oct 2019
Queen’s Speech

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Written Question
North Manchester Hospital
Tuesday 8th October 2019

Asked by: Lord Bradley (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how much capital money will be allocated for the (1) rebuilding, and (2) refurbishment, of North Manchester General Hospital in each of the next five years.

Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford

On Sunday 29 September, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care announced the next stage in our strategic investment in the National Health Service, with the Health Infrastructure Plan (HIP) to ensure that our health infrastructure is fit-for-purpose for decades to come. The Prime Minister set out on Wednesday 2 October his plan that “in the next ten years we will build 40 new hospitals in the biggest investment in hospital infrastructure for a generation.” As a step towards this, we have committed funding for six new hospitals as well as seed funding to support the initial stage of a further 34 building projects.

North Manchester General Hospital scheme is one of the projects that are green-lighted to proceed to the next level of their development plan. A total pot of £100 million of seed money is being made available to help kick start the next stage of developing these plans. All schemes however will need to present a clear investment case to move onto the next stage, and funding will be subject to future spending reviews. Other projects will be able to bid into this and other future waves too.


Written Question
Accident and Emergency Departments: Greater Manchester
Monday 9th September 2019

Asked by: Lord Bradley (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford on 7 August (HL17449), in what format the data are available for average annual waiting times for each accident and emergency department in Greater Manchester in each of the last five years.

Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford

Data is not available in the format of average waiting times at individual accident and emergency (A&E) units. Data is available at a National Health Service trust provider level as some NHS trusts have more than one A&E unit. The data for providers in Greater Manchester, 2013-14 to 2018-19 (provisional) is attached, due to the size of the data. 2018-19 data is provisional and subject to change.


Written Question
Accident and Emergency Departments: Greater Manchester
Wednesday 7th August 2019

Asked by: Lord Bradley (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what were the average annual waiting times for each accident and emergency department in Greater Manchester in each of the last five years.

Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford

Data is not available in the format requested.