Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2024 to Question 9646 on HIV Infection: Diagnosis, how many people living with diagnosed HIV infection there were whose country of birth was (a) in the UK and (b) not in the UK by region in each year since 2014.
Answered by Andrew Gwynne
The information is not available in the format requested, however HIV data are publicly accessible from the HIV data tables published on GOV.UK at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hiv-annual-data-tables.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance his Department provides to integrated care boards on the use of funding for dentistry; and whether such funding is required to be ring-fenced for the provision of dentistry services.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
NHS England has issued guidance on the ringfencing of dental budgets between 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025, which is available at the following link:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/revenue-finance-and-contracting-guidance-for-2024-25/
To ensure compliance against this requirement, and to strengthen oversight of funding that is used to deliver access to National Health Service dental care, NHS England will meet with and collect monthly returns from all integrated care boards to establish current and planned spend against the ringfenced dental allocations budget.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many GP premises there were in 2010.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
In 2010, there were 8,324 general practice (GP) premises. This data has been sourced from NHS England and only includes main practices. More data is available at the following link:
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many units of (a) orthodontic and (b) dental activity were (i) commissioned and (ii) delivered per head of population in each region in each year since 2006.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
We do not hold data on the units of dental activity delivered per head of population in each region and each year since 2006. Activity in National Health Service dentistry is measured by the number of Units of Dental Activity (UDAs) commissioned and delivered, and by the number of courses of treatment delivered. Data on the number of UDAs commissioned and delivered is published each month on the NHS Business Services Authority Open Data Portal, which us available at the following link:
https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/english-contractor-monthly-general-dental-activity
The data for 2023/24, and for the years prior to 2023/24, is respectively available at the following two links:
https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/statistical-collections/dental-england/dental-statistics-england-202324
https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-dental-statistics
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many new HIV diagnoses there were in each year since 2012, by world region of birth.
Answered by Andrew Gwynne
This data is published routinely on gov.uk.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people living with diagnosed HIV infection there are whose country of birth was (a) in the UK and (b) not in the UK by region.
Answered by Andrew Gwynne
The following table shows the number of people diagnosed and seen for care in 2023 presented by region and by whether country of birth was the United Kingdom:
| Region of residence | UK born | Born outside the UK | |||
| East Midlands | 2,392 | 3,876 | |||
| East of England | 3,242 | 5,325 | |||
| London | 11,025 | 26,035 | |||
| North East | 1,480 | 817 | |||
| North West | 6,590 | 4,305 | |||
| Scotland | 3,112 | 1,820 | |||
| South East | 5,873 | 6,321 | |||
| South West | 3,420 | 2,359 | |||
| Wales | 723 | 241 | |||
| West Midlands | 3,666 | 4,683 | |||
| Yorkshire and Humber | 2,883 | 3,208 | |||
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Source: UK Health Security Agency
Note: this excludes 4% people for whom we did not hold data for country of birth. Data for Northern Ireland was not reported in 2023. People born outside the UK includes people who acquired HIV after arriving in the UK.
HIV surveillance data in the UK by demographic characteristics and geographical region is available at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hiv-annual-data-tables
The latest update was published on 1 October 2024.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
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 (a) women and (b) men who received care for a diagnosed HIV infection were born in (i) the UK, (ii) Europe, (iii) Northern Africa, (iii) Eastern Africa, (iv) Middle Africa, (v) Southern Africa, (vi) Western Africa, (vii) Africa, (viii) Asia, (ix) Oceania, (x) Northern America, (xi) Latin America and the Caribbean and (xii) an unknown location, in each year since 2014.
Answered by Andrew Gwynne
The information requested could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people living with diagnosed HIV infection there were in (a) the period to 2014 from the earliest date for which data are available and (b) each year since 2014, by UK statistical region for people whose country of birth was (i) in the UK, (ii) in Europe, (iii) in Northern Africa, (iii) in Eastern Africa, (iv) in Middle Africa, (v) in Southern Africa, (vi) in Western Africa, (vii) in Africa, (viii) in Asia, (ix) in Oceania, (x) in Northern America, (xi) in Latin America and the Caribbean and (xii) unknown.
Answered by Andrew Gwynne
The information requested could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many times the Pharmacy First service has been used in each month since its launch.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Pharmacy First was launched on 31 January 2024, and the overall service consists of three core elements:
The following table shows a breakdown of all claimed consultations from February to May 2024:
| Number of claimed consultations | ||
| Clinical pathways | Urgent medicine supply | Minor illness |
February 2024 | 125,275 | 78,831 | 137,396 |
March 2024 | 144,389 | 95,789 | 131,715 |
April 2024 | 153,646 | 90,851 | 126,193 |
May 2024 | 168,447 | 110,710 | 127,706 |
Total | 591,757 | 376,181 | 523,010 |
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department spent on communications in the last year for which data is available.
Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Department of Health and Social Care Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23 is the latest version laid before Parliament. For spend on communications we have interpreted this to be publicity and advertising, which includes health promotion campaigns, for instance Better Health, childhood immunisations, and winter vaccinations. The costs in this year for the Department were £27,473,336.