Asked by: Imran Hussain (Labour - Bradford East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department plans to commence the consultation on increasing the upper limit of the Disabled Facilities Grant.
Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
As with all aspects of the Disabled Facilities Grant, Government will continue to keep the upper limit under review. Local areas also already have discretion to increase the cap on the grant on a case-by-case basis or in line with a locally published housing assistance policy.
Asked by: Imran Hussain (Labour - Bradford East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if their Department will publish an Ethnicity Pay Gap Report for financial year 2023-24 in line with the Ethnicity Pay Gap reporting guidance for employers published on 17 April 2023.
Answered by Will Quince
The Ethnicity Pay Gap reporting guidance was published on 17 April 2023 and is voluntary. The Department is currently considering the best way to approach Ethnicity Pay Gap reporting and working with Civil Service human resource colleagues and other Government Departments to work through the details of the guidance. In line with Gender Pay Gap Reporting, the Civil Service is looking to develop a consistent methodology to be used in Departments to produce the data. The outcomes of this will inform whether we are able to publish a report for 2023/2024. More generally the Civil Service is undertaking extensive work both centrally and within Departments to promote diversity across its workplaces, including ethnicity.
Asked by: Imran Hussain (Labour - Bradford East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of GP surgeries were rated as good by the Care Quality Commission in Bradford East constituency as of 6 February 2023.
Answered by Neil O'Brien - Shadow Minister (Policy Renewal and Development)
As of 7 February 2023, 19 general practice surgeries (100%) were rated by Care Quality Commission as good in Bradford East constituency.
Asked by: Imran Hussain (Labour - Bradford East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of care homes were rated as good by the Care Quality Commission in Bradford East constituency as of February 2023.
Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
As of 7 February 2023, nine care homes (52.9%) were rated by Care Quality Commission as good in the Bradford East constituency.
Asked by: Imran Hussain (Labour - Bradford East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate his Department has made of the number of residential care homes that have closed in Bradford East constituency since May 2010.
Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
The Department does not collect data pertaining to care home closures. The below data has been recorded by the Care Quality Commission.
Since 2010, four nursing homes and 10 residential homes have been unregistered in Bradford East constituency, 14 in total.
Asked by: Imran Hussain (Labour - Bradford East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of trends in the level of healthy life expectancy in Bradford East constituency.
Answered by Neil O'Brien - Shadow Minister (Policy Renewal and Development)
The Government is committed to supporting individuals to live healthier lives and improving access to health and care services, including in Bradford East constituency. The Department continues to review how health disparities can be addressed and further information will be available in due course.
The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities also works with services in Bradford East constituency to support programmes to reduce health inequalities, including providing evidence and intelligence.
Asked by: Imran Hussain (Labour - Bradford East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps her Department has taken to help tackle health inequality in Bradford East constituency.
Answered by Neil O'Brien - Shadow Minister (Policy Renewal and Development)
The Government is committed to supporting individuals to live healthier lives and improving access to health and care services, including in Bradford East constituency. The Department continues to review how health disparities can be addressed and further information will be available in due course.
The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities also works with services in Bradford East constituency to support programmes to reduce health inequalities, including providing evidence and intelligence.
Asked by: Imran Hussain (Labour - Bradford East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people were diagnosed with diabetes in Bradford East constituency in each of the last five years.
Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
The following table shows the number of people diagnosed with diabetes in Bradford East constituency in each year from 2016 to 2020, by diabetes type.
Year of diagnosis | Type 1 | Type 2 and other |
2016 | 25 | 740 |
2017 | 25 | 595 |
2018 | 25 | 685 |
2019 | 20 | 770 |
2020 | 20 | 570 |
Source: National Diabetes Audit
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Asked by: Imran Hussain (Labour - Bradford East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate her Department has made of the number of FTE fully-qualified GPs excluding GPs in a training grade that were practicing in Bradford East constituency (a) on 26 October 2022 and (b) in 2013.
Answered by Neil O'Brien - Shadow Minister (Policy Renewal and Development)
This information is not collected in the format requested.
Asked by: Imran Hussain (Labour - Bradford East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help reduce waiting times for elective surgeries in Bradford East constituency.
Answered by Will Quince
The ‘Delivery plan for tackling the COVID-19 backlog of elective care’ how the National Health Service will recover and expand elective services over the next three years, including in Bradford East. We have allocated more than £8 billion from 2022/23 to 2024/25, in addition to the £2 billion Elective Recovery Fund and £700 million Targeted Investment Fund already made available in 2021/2022 to increase elective activity. This funding aims to deliver the equivalent of approximately nine million additional checks and procedures and 30% further elective activity by 2024/25 than pre-pandemic levels. A proportion of this funding will be invested in workforce capacity and training and we have committed to invest £5.9 billion for new beds, equipment and technology.
The target to eliminate waiting times of two years or more for elective procedures was met in July 2022 and we aim to eliminate waiting time of eighteen months or more by April 2023. This will be achieved through increasing capacity, seeking alternate capacity in other trusts or the independent sector and engaging with patients to understand choices made regarding their care.