Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much has been paid out by NHS clinical commissioning groups in compensation for deficiencies in the contract tendering procedure.
Answered by Steve Brine
NHS England has advised that they do not collect this information centrally.
Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on how many occasions an NHS clinical commissioning group has been pursued by a care or health provider over deficiencies in the contract tendering procedure.
Answered by Steve Brine
NHS England has advised that they do not collect this information centrally.
Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in his Department with responsibility for social media are employed on an (a) full and (b) part-time basis.
Answered by Philip Dunne
The Department does not have any members of staff who have social media as their sole responsibility. There is a wide range of people in the department who have some responsibility for social media, including the monitoring of social media activity, as well as posting content on official Departmental channels. Because this responsibility is spread so widely, it means we are not able to give a specific number of full-time or part-time staff who have responsibility for social media.
Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many public engagements for which a media calling notice was issued were attended by a departmental Minister in each of the last 12 months.
Answered by Philip Dunne
The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department has spent on advertising on social media in each month since January 2016.
Answered by Philip Dunne
The information is not held in the format requested.
Detailed information for spend on advertising by each individual category such as ‘social media’ is not available within the Department’s Business Management System centrally and to provide an answer by specific categories would require a review of each individual contract and invoice payment, and would result in disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to implement his Department's plans on childhood obesity.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
The Department is confident our world leading plan, Childhood Obesity: A Plan for Action, will make a real difference to obesity rates in this country.
The Government is currently consulting on the soft drinks industry levy and a broad sugar reduction programme has been launched.
The Department will continue to work with the National Health Service, local authorities and other partners as we move into the delivery phase of the plan.
Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he plans to bring forward proposals to change any aspect of current legislation on food, animal feed safety and food hygiene formerly dealt with by the EU after the UK's withdrawal from the EU.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
Until we leave, the United Kingdom will remain a full member of the European Union, with all of the rights and obligations. The content of future food and feed legislation will be dependent on the outcome of negotiations on the UK’s exit from the European Union. The Food Standard Agency’s priority will remain the same: to protect the interests of consumers in relation to food.