Asked by: John Whittingdale (Conservative - Maldon)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will take steps to donate confiscated (a) vessels and (b) motors held at the Border Force storage facility in Dover to the Ukrainian armed forces.
Answered by Michael Tomlinson - Minister of State (Minister for Illegal Migration)
I refer the Rt. Hon. Member to the answer given to PQ HL3009 on 18 March 2024
Asked by: John Whittingdale (Conservative - Maldon)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps he has taken to help recruit and retain police officers.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
We delivered our commitment to recruit 20,000 additional police officers. There are now over 149,000 officers in England and Wales, higher than the previous peak in 2010. Forces have been fully funded to maintain this uplift.
Retention is a key priority. Voluntary resignation rates, at around 3%, are low compared to other sectors and 72% of new recruits say they intend to stay until retirement.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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 |
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.
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.