Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children are (a) registered and (b) not registered with a NHS dentist in the (a) Morecambe Bay and (b) North Cumbria Clinical Commissioning Group area.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This information is not available as patients are not required to register with a National Health Service dental practice to access services.
Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding from the National Insurance increase will be allocated to care home provision in Cumbria.
Answered by Gillian Keegan - Secretary of State for Education
We are investing an additional £5.4 billion over three years, funded from revenues generated by the Health and Social Care Levy. Specific allocations of this funding at local authority level, including in Cumbria, have not yet been decided.
Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the North West Ambulance Service's average response time has been for (a) category 1 calls, (b) category 2 calls, (c) category 3 calls and (d) category 4 calls in each of the last 12 months.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The following table shows the average ambulance response times for the North West Ambulance Service for Category 1, 2, 3 and 4 calls in hours, minutes and seconds in each of the last 12 months. Information on Category 4 calls is unavailable from May 2021 due to a reporting error.
| Category 1 | Category 2 | Category 3 | Category 4 |
October 2020 | 8:03 | 45:40 | 2:18:38 | 2:59:01 |
November 2020 | 7:51 | 28:57 | 1:23:30 | 2:29:16 |
December 2020 | 7:36 | 26:29 | 1:17:46 | 2:56:38 |
January 2021 | 8:12 | 35:35 | 1:44:39 | 3:37:39 |
February 2021 | 7:12 | 21:04 | 49:52 | 1:48:36 |
March 2021 | 7:13 | 20:44 | 56:37 | 2:05:39 |
April 2021 | 7:29 | 23:52 | 1:21:43 | 3:08:16 |
May 2021 | 7:51 | 27:13 | 1:52:11 | 4:23:45 |
June 2021 | 8:19 | 38:15 | 3:18:28 | - |
July 2021 | 9:02 | 56:16 | 4:07:48 | - |
August 2021 | 8:42 | 49:05 | 3:14:19 | - |
September 2021 | 9:12 | 57:12 | 3:46:43 | - |
Source: NHS England
Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what North Cumbria CCG's average ambulance response time is over the last 12 months for (a) category 1 calls, (b) category 2 calls, (c) category 3 calls and (d) category 4 calls.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The information requested is not held centrally.
Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what Morecambe Bay CCG's average ambulance response time has been for (a) category 1 calls, (b) category 2 calls, (c) category 3 calls and (d) category 4 calls in each of the last 12 months.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The information requested is not held centrally.
Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of category 4 calls received by Morecambe Bay CCG and North Cumbria CCG were responded to within 180 minutes in each of the last 12 months.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The information requested is not held centrally.
Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of category 3 calls received by Morecambe Bay CCG and North Cumbria CCG were responded to within 120 minutes in each of the last 12 months.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The information requested is not held centrally.
Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of category 1 calls received by Morecambe Bay CCG and North Cumbria CCG were responded to within 18 minutes in each of the last 12 months.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The information requested is not held centrally.
Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of category 1 calls received by Morecambe Bay CCG and North Cumbria CCG were responded to within 7 minutes over the last 12 months.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The information requested is not held centrally.
Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to address the imbalance between chemotherapy and radiotherapy spending.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The differential level of spending between different services and treatments is a feature of cost and volume. Levels of spending on chemotherapy is due to greater activity, drug, staff, equipment and facility costs.
However, significant investment has been made in radiotherapy, including £32 million to replace 17 Linear Accelerators aged over 10 years by the end of March 2022. Progress ontinues to be made in the range and availability of innovative radiotherapy, where the evidence base supports it through NHS England and NHS Improvement’s clinical commissioning policy process.