Asked by: Gareth Bacon (Conservative - Orpington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) NHS and (b) social care workers took sick leave due to a covid-19 infection in the latest period for which data is available.
Answered by Will Quince
This information is not held in the format requested. However, data on the number of staff absent due to any COVID-19 related reasons, including the need to self-isolate, is available.
As of 30 November 2022, there were 6,865 National Health Service hospital trust staff in England reporting absences for COVID-19 related reasons. As of 14 November 2022, there were 2,128 of directly employed care home staff and 2,043 of domiciliary care home staff with face-to-face contact absent due to COVID-19 related reasons in England.
Asked by: Gareth Bacon (Conservative - Orpington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 7 March 2022 to Question 132393 on civil service staff networks, what recognised staff groups have been running in his Department over the last three years.
Answered by Edward Argar
The information requested is not held centrally.
Asked by: Gareth Bacon (Conservative - Orpington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 7 March 2022 to Question 132393 on civil service staff networks, what information he holds on (a) FTE staff time and (b) budgets available to recognised staff groups within each of the last three years.
Answered by Edward Argar
The information requested is not held centrally.
Asked by: Gareth Bacon (Conservative - Orpington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on the number of diversity and equality staff employed in NHS England trusts.
Answered by Edward Argar
The information requested is not held centrally.
Asked by: Gareth Bacon (Conservative - Orpington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding has been allocated to the Equality Delivery System, commissioned by the Equality and Diversity Council, since July 2011.
Answered by Edward Argar
The Equality Delivery System (EDS) does not have a separate budget and has been supported by NHS England since 2013. National Health Service organisations are expected to deliver the EDS within existing budget allocations as part of the standard contract.
Asked by: Gareth Bacon (Conservative - Orpington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding has been allocated to implementing (a) the Workforce Race and Equality Standard, (b) the Workforce Disability and Equality Standard and (c) Workforce Equality and Inclusion since 2011.
Answered by Edward Argar
The information requested is not held centrally. NHS England and NHS Improvement and individual National Health Service trusts have allocated resources to support these initiatives and promote equality and diversity in the NHS. However, this funding is not separately identifiable within budgets.
Asked by: Gareth Bacon (Conservative - Orpington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the NHS spent on diversity and inclusion roles in 2020-21; what NHS average annual spending on those roles has been since 2011; and what the budgeted spending for those roles is for 2021-22.
Answered by Edward Argar
The information requested is not collected centrally.
Asked by: Gareth Bacon (Conservative - Orpington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will provide a list of (a) professional staff networks and (b) social clubs operating within his Department; and if he will provide the (i) budgets and (ii) FTE staff time allocated to each group within each of the last three years.
Answered by Edward Argar
The Department has the following established staff networks:
- EnABLE (disability);
- Autism;
- Diversity of Thought;
- Race Equality Matters Network;
- PRISM (LGBT+);
- Women’s;
- Parents’;
- Age Diversity;
- Carers’,
- EU Nationals;
- Social Mobility;
- Men’s Health;
- Christian;
- Muslim;
- Jewish;
- Hinduism and Sikhism;
- Healthy Humanists;
- Flexible Working;
- Green;
- Science and Engineering;
- Apprenticeship;
- Personal Assistant;
- Fast Stream;
- Domestic Abuse Support;
- Eating Disorder Support;
- AO/EO;
- HEO/SEO; and
- Grade 6/7.
Information on social clubs is not held in the format requested. There is no specific budget allocated to staff networks, although networks can access the central diversity and inclusion budget if required. No full time equivalent staff time has been allocated to each network or group in the last three years.
Asked by: Gareth Bacon (Conservative - Orpington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has (a) commissioned or (b) plans to commission research on the health and welfare of women who have used home-administered early medical abortion during the covid-19 outbreak; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
The Department has no plans to commission research on this specific issue.
The Government’s public consultation on whether to make permanent the temporary measure allowing for home use of both pills for early medical abortion up to 10 weeks gestation for all eligible women asked questions about the impact on the provision of services for women and girls with particular regard to safety. The consultation has now closed and we are considering all evidence submitted and plan to publish our response later this year.