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Written Question
Hospitals: Discharges
Monday 23rd October 2023

Asked by: Richard Burgon (Labour - Leeds East)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) discharge patients from hospitals and (b) reduce the number of patients in hospital who do not meet residency criteria.

Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

The Government is investing £600 million this year and £1 billion next year through the Discharge Fund for local authorities and National Health Service integrated care boards to spend flexibly based on their local needs. This will include the purchase of short-term packages of care, community-based reablement capacity and building the workforce capacity needed to continue to support care users.

We are also supporting all systems to improve their care transfer hubs through the support offer set out in the 'Delivery plan for recovering urgent and emergency care', which includes webinars, actions learning sets and sharing best practice. Care transfer hubs link across health, social care, the voluntary sector and housing partners to coordinate complex discharges. This will help to ensure patients are discharged safely and to the right setting as soon as possible.


Written Question
Ambulance Services
Monday 23rd October 2023

Asked by: Richard Burgon (Labour - Leeds East)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the average ambulance response time to category two incidents is at least 30 minutes by the 2023-24 financial year.

Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

Our ‘Delivery plan for recovering urgent and emergency care services’ aims to reduce Category 2 response times to 30 minutes on average this year with further improvements towards pre-pandemic levels next year.

To grow capacity and improve response times, ambulance services are receiving £200 million of additional funding this year. This is alongside over 800 new dual-crewed ambulances and specialist mental health vehicles.

The delivery plan will also add 5,000 more permanent hospital beds this winter, supported by £1 billion of dedicated funding. This is alongside £1.6 billion of funding for social care to reduce the numbers of beds occupied by patients ready to be discharged. These measures will improve patient flow through hospitals, reducing crowding in accident and emergency and cutting down on delays in ambulances handing over patients so they can quickly get back on the roads.

We have seen significant improvements in performance, with average Category 2 response times in September over 10 minutes faster than the same month last year.


Written Question
Health Professions
Wednesday 21st June 2023

Asked by: Richard Burgon (Labour - Leeds East)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make an estimate of the total number of years' experience held by all NHS (a) nurses and (b) doctors in each year since 2010.

Answered by Will Quince

The information requested is not centrally collected.


Written Question
NHS: Finance
Tuesday 24th January 2023

Asked by: Richard Burgon (Labour - Leeds East)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of funding for the NHS.

Answered by Steve Barclay - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

The Government has and will continue to prioritise investment into the NHS. We worked closely with NHS leadership to agree £3.3 billion per year of new funding for the NHS in England at the Autumn Statement. This is on top of the historic funding settlement that the NHS received at the last spending review. All in all, The NHS resource budget in England will increase to £165.9 billion in 2024-25, up from £123.8 billion in 2019-20.


Written Question
Health Services and Social Services: Expenditure
Wednesday 18th January 2023

Asked by: Richard Burgon (Labour - Leeds East)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of GDP was spent on health and social care in each year since 2010.

Answered by Will Quince

The following table shows the overall Department of Health and Social Care’s spend in England as a proportion of England’s GDP in each year. This does not include spend on adult social care funded by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, funding for children’s social care funded by the Department for Education or spend on social care funded from council tax.

Financial year

Spend

2010/11

7.3%

2011/12

7.2%

2012/13

7.1%

2013/14

7.1%

2014/15

7.0%

2015/16

7.0%

2016/17

6.9%

2017/18

6.9%

2018/19

6.9%

2019/20

7.3%


Written Question
Nurses
Tuesday 10th January 2023

Asked by: Richard Burgon (Labour - Leeds East)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the cumulative number of years of experience held by all NHS nursing staff in each year since 2010.

Answered by Will Quince

The information requested is not collected centrally.


Written Question
NHS: Vacancies
Friday 9th December 2022

Asked by: Richard Burgon (Labour - Leeds East)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of below-inflation pay rises on the level of staff vacancies in the NHS.

Answered by Will Quince

The Pay Review Body (PRB) process is the established mechanism for determining pay uplifts in the public sector, including for staff working in the NHS.

In formulating their recommendations, the Review Bodies carefully consider evidence from a wide range of stakeholders, including NHS system partners and trade unions. In reaching their recommendations the independent PRBs consider a number of factors, including recruitment, retention, morale and motivation, alongside affordability and the economic context, including inflation.


Written Question
Public Service: Finance
Tuesday 6th December 2022

Asked by: Richard Burgon (Labour - Leeds East)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of cuts to public services on trends in the level of excess deaths.

Answered by Neil O'Brien

No specific assessment has been made.


Written Question
Test and Trace Support Payment
Tuesday 16th March 2021

Asked by: Richard Burgon (Labour - Leeds East)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 23 February 2021 to Question 110872 on the Test and Trace Support Payment, by what date the Government plans to have published the data on how many people have (a) applied for and (b) received the £500 Test and Trace Support Payment.

Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

The Government has not yet confirmed a publication date for this data.


Written Question
Department of Health and Social Care: Serco
Wednesday 3rd March 2021

Asked by: Richard Burgon (Labour - Leeds East)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 16 November 2020 to Question 108272 on Department of Health and Social Care: Serco, whether any (a) fines and (b) other financial penalties have been paid to his Department by (i) Serco and (ii) Serco subsidiaries as a result of contractual obligations with his Department not having been met.

Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

No fines or other financial penalties have been paid by Serco or sub-contractors.