Asked by: Priti Patel (Conservative - Witham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what processes his Department has put in place to (a) monitor, (b) collate cost information on, (c) review and (d) respond to requests to amend or revoke regulations introduced by his Department.
Answered by Steve Barclay - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The changes to regulations affecting business during the 2010-15 Parliament are recorded in Statements of New Regulation that were published every six months. These are available at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/one-in-two-out-statement-of-new-regulation
For the 2015-17 Parliament, the Government will shortly publish its final report on the savings to business delivered during that Parliament.
For the current Parliament, the Government is committed to maintaining a proportionate approach to regulation to enable business growth while maintaining public protections. This will be monitored through the target that the Government is required to set under the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015.
Asked by: Priti Patel (Conservative - Witham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the title was of each set of regulations introduced by his Department in each month since May 2010; which of those regulations have been (a) subject to the (i) one in one out and (ii) one in two out procedure and (b) (i) revoked and (ii) amended; and what the net cost to (A) the public purse; and (B) business of those regulations is.
Answered by Steve Barclay - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The changes to regulations affecting business during the 2010-15 Parliament are recorded in Statements of New Regulation that were published every six months. These are available at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/one-in-two-out-statement-of-new-regulation
For the 2015-17 Parliament, the Government will shortly publish its final report on the savings to business delivered during that Parliament.
For the current Parliament, the Government is committed to maintaining a proportionate approach to regulation to enable business growth while maintaining public protections. This will be monitored through the target that the Government is required to set under the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015.
Asked by: Priti Patel (Conservative - Witham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which EU (a) Directives, (b) Regulations and (c) other legislation affecting his Department he is planning to propose (i) revocation and (ii) amendment of after the UK leaves the EU.
Answered by Steve Barclay - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The European Union (Withdrawal) Bill will retain EU law as it applies in the United Kingdom on exit day.
We expect between 800 and 1,000 statutory instruments will be required across Government to correct this retained EU law to ensure the statute book functions appropriately outside the EU. All Departments are engaged in this process.
Once we leave the EU, we will make our own laws. As we leave the EU, the Government’s EU exit legislative programme is designed to cater for the full range of negotiated and non-negotiated outcomes.
Asked by: Priti Patel (Conservative - Witham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients are registered with each General Practitioner in each Clinical Commissioning Group area in Essex.
Answered by Steve Brine
Since 2004 general practitioners (GPs) no longer hold an individual list of registered patients as patients now register with a practice.
Data for the number of general practitioners (headcount) working in each clinical commissioning group (CCG) in Essex, and the number of patients registered at each CCG is set out below. General practitioner headcount figures include GP Providers, Salaried GPs, Registrars, Retainers and Locums.
CCG Name | All GP Headcount | Number of registered patients at 1 October 2017 | Average number of patients per GP |
NHS Mid Essex CCG | 219 | 390,061 | 1,781 |
NHS North East Essex CCG | 181 | 348,600 | 1,926 |
NHS Thurrock CCG | 84 | 175,112 | 2,085 |
NHS West Essex CCG | 201 | 311,063 | 1, 548 |
NHS Basildon and Brentwood CCG | 146 | 277,607 | 1, 901 |
NHS Castle Point and Rochford CCG | 101 | 184,834 | 1, 830 |
NHS Southend CCG | 143 | 188,009 | 1, 315 |
Asked by: Priti Patel (Conservative - Witham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what funding he has allocated from the public purse to support the development of new (a) primary care centres and (b) healthcare hubs.
Answered by Philip Dunne
Funding for new primary care centres and healthcare hubs is primarily provided from two sources: the Estates and Technology Transformation Fund (ETTF) which is administered by NHS England; and additional money for schemes that has been announced from the capital Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STPs) budget funding.
The ETTF has committed to spend at least £700 million of capital and revenue between 2015/16 to 2019/20 to support investment in infrastructure in general practices, increasing capacity and flexibility of premises to be fit for the future and to implement technology solutions to enable new and improved ways of working. The programme includes new premises, but the split between categories is not centrally available.
The following schemes have been announced to receive funding from the STP capital provided in the Spring Budget and Autumn Budget and relate to the development of primary care centres and healthcare hubs. The funding is contingent on completing the established business case approvals, and the amounts will be finalised at that time.
Spring Budget
- Cotgrave Surgery Integrated Care Hub scheme (Nottingham and Nottinghamshire STP) to provide a new integrated health component of multi-service centre benefitting 12,000 residents of new homes developed in the area.
- North Clacton Primary Care Hub scheme (Suffolk and North East Essex STP) to create three general practitioner practices, Care Closer to home services and a Renal Dialysis Unit.
- Bedford Hospital Primary Care Hub scheme (Milton Keynes, Bedfordshire and Luton STP) to improve GP access for local communities and support urgent care at the hospital’s accident and emergency department.
- Strelley Health Centre Redevelopment (Nottinghamshire STP) to accommodate future growth of existing services plus additional primary, community and social care services including a pharmacy, utilising the current site.
Autumn Budget
- Frimley Out of Hospital Integrated Care Hubs scheme (Frimley Health STP) to enable patients to be treated out of hospital.
- Chiltern and Aylesbury Vale Primary Care Hub scheme (Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West STP) to allow the expansion of community teams and care provision outside of traditional hospital settings in primary care hubs.