Asked by: Lord Clark of Windermere (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the accuracy of United Utilities' monitoring of the ecology of lake Windermere.
Answered by Baroness Hayman of Ullock - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
In England, the Environment Agency (EA) undertakes monitoring and reporting on water ecology and publish these results via the ‘Water Hub’.
United Utilities (UU) monitor their discharges under Operator Self-Monitoring (OSM). The EA audits this monitoring and may take appropriate compliance and enforcement action in relation to the results of this monitoring.
UU also monitor spills from assets including Combined Sewer Overflows (CSO) via Event Duration Monitoring. The EA checks this data and the equipment used to collate it. All eight operational Wastewater Treatment works and Pumping Stations in the Windermere catchment have been inspected in the last 13 months, in some cases on multiple occasions. The EA also responds to reports of environmental incidents and takes appropriate action.
Asked by: Lord Clark of Windermere (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government what was the total amount paid for all agency staff in the NHS, including hiring and organisational costs, for (1) April 2019, and (2) April 2023.
Answered by Lord Markham - Shadow Minister (Science, Innovation and Technology)
NHS England advised costs for agency staff of £594.8 million for the quarter including April 2019, as reported in the NHS England and Improvement Financial Performance Report, First Quarter 2019/20, a copy of which is attached. The data has not been finalised for publication for 2023/24.
NHS England does not collect hiring costs at an organisational level.
Asked by: Lord Clark of Windermere (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government what was the total wage bill for all NHS staff for (1) April 2019, and (2) April 2023.
Answered by Lord Markham - Shadow Minister (Science, Innovation and Technology)
Data submitted to the NHS Pay Review Body shows that National Health Service provider permanent and bank staff spend was £55.7 billion in 2019/20, while in 2021/22 the spend was £66.2 billion. Data for 2022/23 is not yet available.
Asked by: Lord Clark of Windermere (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government what is the value of equipment procured for NHS Nightingale Hospitals in response to the COVID-19 pandemic which has now been transferred to other NHS facilities.
Answered by Lord Markham - Shadow Minister (Science, Innovation and Technology)
The information requested is not held centrally by the department. NHS England advises that each host trust is responsible for managing a list of assets and equipment including beds and medical equipment from the Nightingale hospitals, some of which will have been absorbed by host trusts. The remaining surplus stock has been collected and made available for national redistribution under the existing warehousing, asset tracking and logistics contracts.
Asked by: Lord Clark of Windermere (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government how much resource has been expended on NHS Nightingale Hospitals.
Answered by Lord Markham - Shadow Minister (Science, Innovation and Technology)
The total cost for the Nightingale hospital programme was £362 million, all of which was incurred during financial year 2020/21.
Asked by: Lord Clark of Windermere (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many NHS Nightingale Hospitals established in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have been decommissioned, and when.
Answered by Lord Markham - Shadow Minister (Science, Innovation and Technology)
Seven temporary Nightingale hospitals were established in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and these were decommissioned during 2021. Validated data on the total number of patients treated in Nightingale hospitals is not available centrally.
Asked by: Lord Clark of Windermere (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many NHS Nightingale Hospitals were started and how many completed during the response to COVID-19.
Answered by Lord Markham - Shadow Minister (Science, Innovation and Technology)
Seven temporary Nightingale hospitals were established in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and these were decommissioned during 2021. Validated data on the total number of patients treated in Nightingale hospitals is not available centrally.
Asked by: Lord Clark of Windermere (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many patients have been treated in NHS Nightingale Hospitals.
Answered by Lord Markham - Shadow Minister (Science, Innovation and Technology)
Seven temporary Nightingale hospitals were established in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and these were decommissioned during 2021. Validated data on the total number of patients treated in Nightingale hospitals is not available centrally.
Asked by: Lord Clark of Windermere (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 25 April 2019 (HL15227), what progress they have made in considering whether current legislation and associated guidance are effective for protecting sunbed users.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
The Department, with expert advisers, is continuing to consider whether the current legislation and associated guidance produced by the Department, Public Health England and the Health and Safety Executive to support the enforcement of the regulations by local authorities and the safe use of sunbeds, are effective for protecting sunbed users.
Public Health England (PHE) is updating the guidance to sunbed users on the gov.uk website, with an expected publication date of spring 2020.
PHE is also developing an information poster for sunbed users. This is expected to be ready for publication before summer 2020.
Asked by: Lord Clark of Windermere (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 25 April 2019 (HL15227), what timetable they have set for reviewing sunbed legislation and associated guidance.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
The Department, with expert advisers, is continuing to consider whether the current legislation and associated guidance produced by the Department, Public Health England and the Health and Safety Executive to support the enforcement of the regulations by local authorities and the safe use of sunbeds, are effective for protecting sunbed users.
Public Health England (PHE) is updating the guidance to sunbed users on the gov.uk website, with an expected publication date of spring 2020.
PHE is also developing an information poster for sunbed users. This is expected to be ready for publication before summer 2020.