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Written Question
St Peter's Hospital Maldon
Wednesday 13th March 2024

Asked by: John Whittingdale (Conservative - Maldon)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients received intermediate inpatient care in St Peter's Hospital Maldon in each year since 2000.

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

NHS England does not collect the data requested.


Written Question
St Peter's Hospital Maldon: Out-patients
Tuesday 12th March 2024

Asked by: John Whittingdale (Conservative - Maldon)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many outpatient appointments took place at St Peter's Hospital Maldon in each year since 2000.

Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

The quality of the data is not sufficient to provide a breakdown of outpatient appointments at a hospital-level. However, trust-level data is available at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/hospital-outpatient-activity


Written Question
St Peter's Hospital Maldon: Repairs and Maintenance
Wednesday 6th March 2024

Asked by: John Whittingdale (Conservative - Maldon)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what work has been undertaken to (a) refurbish and (b) repair St Peter's Hospital in Maldon in each year since 2000.

Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

This information is not held centrally, as the Department does not routinely track investments made to individual sites. It can however be confirmed that the trust that runs St Peter’s Hospital, Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, has received significant amounts of capital funding from national programmes in recent years, including: £20.4 million in accident and emergency funding across 2020/21 and 2021/22; £17.9 million from our Targeted Investment Fund in 2021/22 and 2022/23; and £7.2 million in community diagnostic centre funding in 2021/22 and 2022/23, for schemes within the trust as a whole.

Furthermore, Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust’s Integrated Care Board (ICB), Mid and South Essex ICB, received £61 million in operational capital in 2023/24, and £182 million across the 2021 Spending Review, which it can use for capital projects and works. This funding is prioritised by the ICB, in accordance with local needs.


Written Question
St Peter's Hospital Maldon: Capital Investment
Wednesday 6th March 2024

Asked by: John Whittingdale (Conservative - Maldon)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will detail the capital expenditure on St Peter's Hospital in Maldon in each year since 2000.

Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

This information is not held centrally, as the Department does not routinely track investments made to individual sites. It can however be confirmed that the trust that runs St Peter’s Hospital, Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, has received significant amounts of capital funding from national programmes in recent years, including: £20.4 million in accident and emergency funding across 2020/21 and 2021/22; £17.9 million from our Targeted Investment Fund in 2021/22 and 2022/23; and £7.2 million in community diagnostic centre funding in 2021/22 and 2022/23, for schemes within the trust as a whole.

Furthermore, Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust’s Integrated Care Board (ICB), Mid and South Essex ICB, received £61 million in operational capital in 2023/24, and £182 million across the 2021 Spending Review, which it can use for capital projects and works. This funding is prioritised by the ICB, in accordance with local needs.


Written Question
St Peter's Hospital Maldon
Wednesday 6th March 2024

Asked by: John Whittingdale (Conservative - Maldon)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients received stroke rehabilitation inpatient care in St Peter's Hospital Maldon in each year since 2000.

Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

Over the years, St Peter’s Hospital has provided valuable capacity for patients across Mid and South Essex to receive inpatient stroke rehabilitation in community beds. The volume of beds, and therefore patients treated on site, has changed over the years due to shifting demand and, in recent years, the impact of the pandemic.

In 2022/23, 118 patients received inpatient stroke rehabilitation care at St Peter’s Hospital. However, there are currently no inpatient stroke rehabilitation beds at St Peter’s hospital in Maldon, as the 16 stroke rehabilitation beds that were on site were moved to Brentwood Community Hospital in October 2023, to ensure the safe provision of care through this winter.

The current consultation being undertaken by Mid and South Essex Integrated Care Board has set out options to increase community inpatient stroke rehabilitation capacity from 24 to 27, which would total 50 beds across the system. This increase is based on data that shows around 2,000 people in Mid and South Essex have a stroke each year, of which around 500 need a stay in a community hospital for specialist rehabilitation support.


Written Question
St Peter's Hospital Maldon: Childbirth
Wednesday 6th March 2024

Asked by: John Whittingdale (Conservative - Maldon)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many births took place in the Maternity Unit at St Peter's Hospital Maldon in each year since 2000.

Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)

The following table shows the number of births each year since 2000 in the maternity units at St Peter’s Hospital Maldon:

Year

Number of births

2000

193

2001

187

2002

161

2003

197

2004

264

2005

226

2006

233

2007

252

2008

272

2009

305

2010

383

2011

337

2012

326

2013

252

2014

241

2015

228

2016

196

2017

167

2018

147

2019

165

2020

151

2021

144

2022

127

2023

77

TOTAL

5231


Written Question
Sepsis: Hospitals
Wednesday 21st February 2024

Asked by: John Whittingdale (Conservative - Maldon)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many cases of hospital-acquired sepsis there were in each of the last 10 years.

Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)

The Department and NHS England do not centrally hold information on hospital acquired sepsis, although incidents of this may be held by local providers. The Office for National Statistics publishes the number of death registrations where sepsis is mentioned anywhere on the death certificate, in England and Wales. The following table shows the number of deaths registered where sepsis was mentioned anywhere on the death certificate in England and Wales, in each of the last ten years until 2022:

Year

Number of Deaths

2013

22,967

2014

22,826

2015

24,784

2016

24,973

2017

23,709

2018

23,185

2019

21,458

2020

19,324

2021

21,947

2022

25,542

The figures for 2023 have not yet been published.


Written Question
Inshore Fishing
Thursday 1st February 2024

Asked by: John Whittingdale (Conservative - Maldon)

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to support the inshore fishing industry.

Answered by Mark Spencer - Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

We took the opportunities of Brexit to allocate a greater proportion of the additional quota received under the Trade and Cooperation Agreement to the inshore fleet. They now get double the quota share they did than before.

And, since opening in 2021, we have supported the inshore fleet from the Fisheries and Seafood Scheme which overall has invested £27 million in over 1,300 projects.


Written Question
Ukraine: Defence Equipment
Monday 12th December 2022

Asked by: John Whittingdale (Conservative - Maldon)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what defensive weaponry his Department is supplying to Ukraine.

Answered by Ben Wallace

We have provided a range of weapons to Ukraine, including air defence systems with thousands of missiles to protect critical infrastructure, almost 100,000 artillery rounds, more than 10,000 anti-tank missiles, Multiple-Launch Rocket Systems and around three million rounds of small-arms ammunition. This financial year we expect to spend £2.3 billion on operations and support for Ukraine and we are prepared to deliver similar support next year.


Written Question
Technology: Copyright
Thursday 21st July 2022

Asked by: John Whittingdale (Conservative - Maldon)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of proposals on the expansion of the text and data mining exception on the financial gains of non-UK based technology companies.

Answered by Jane Hunt

The exception only applies to copying for data mining conducted in the UK. The new exception will make the UK one of the most attractive nations for businesses to carry out data mining, whether basing their whole business here or the part which conducts data mining. An impact assessment will be published alongside the legislation when laid.

This provision supports the National AI Strategy by helping to capture the benefits of AI innovation in the UK and ensure that AI technologies benefit all sectors and regions. This applies to all sizes of firms, whether established, start-up, growing, or even unicorn.