Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how the Government determines the level at which the immigration health surcharge is set.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The Department’s most recent assessment looked at actual data on surcharge-payers’ use of the National Health Service between April 2015 and September 2019 and their length of stay in the United Kingdom. This estimated the total costs to the NHS of treating the average surcharge-payer to be around £624 per person per annum.
Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)
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 10 February 2020 to Question 12296, on Special Educational Needs: Nurses, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that Clinical Commissioning Groups ensure their commissioning arrangements are adequate to provide the ongoing support essential to the safety of vulnerable children whilst in school in line with the guidance.
Answered by Jo Churchill - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
Clinical commissioning groups (CCG) should ensure that commissioning arrangements are adequate to provide the ongoing support essential to the safety of vulnerable children whilst in school.
NHS England have advised that CCG Chief Operating Officers are now co-signatories for Local Safeguarding Partnership plans which should include collaborative governance processes and partnership solutions for the commissioning arrangements for children with special needs.
Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Prime Minister, what the timeframe is for the establishment of the Intelligence and Security Committee.
Answered by Boris Johnson
I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave to the Hon. Member the Member for St Albans on 3 February 2020, UIN 9144.
Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many buildings across the NHS estate have High Pressure Laminate cladding.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
Fifteen National Health Service buildings are currently understood to have High Pressure Laminate cladding and these are being reviewed to determine their specific situation.
Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many buildings in the National Health Service estate have High Pressure Laminate cladding.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The safety of patients, visitors and staff has always been the top priority of the National Health Service. Guidance on fire safety is provided to the NHS through the Health Technical Memorandum (HTM) 05 series - Firecode.
The BS 8414 test methods were developed by the British Standards Institute in conjunction with the Building Research Establishment and they evaluate whether a cladding system subject to fire breaking out of an opening (such as a window) in an external wall, will result in excessive fire spread via the outside of the building and the potential for fire to re-enter at a higher level. The BS 8414 test and associated pass/fail guidance represents one route by which cladding systems may be judged as meeting the necessary standards in certain circumstances. However other means of demonstrating compliance with the required standard may be equally valid. Cladding systems used in the NHS should meet the requirements of the Building Regulations.
Fifteen NHS buildings are currently understood to have High Pressure Laminate cladding and these are being reviewed to determine their specific situation.
Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it is his Department's policy that the cladding systems used on buildings throughout the National Health Service estate are required to have passed a BS8414 test.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The safety of patients, visitors and staff has always been the top priority of the National Health Service. Guidance on fire safety is provided to the NHS through the Health Technical Memorandum (HTM) 05 series - Firecode.
The BS 8414 test methods were developed by the British Standards Institute in conjunction with the Building Research Establishment and they evaluate whether a cladding system subject to fire breaking out of an opening (such as a window) in an external wall, will result in excessive fire spread via the outside of the building and the potential for fire to re-enter at a higher level. The BS 8414 test and associated pass/fail guidance represents one route by which cladding systems may be judged as meeting the necessary standards in certain circumstances. However other means of demonstrating compliance with the required standard may be equally valid. Cladding systems used in the NHS should meet the requirements of the Building Regulations.
Fifteen NHS buildings are currently understood to have High Pressure Laminate cladding and these are being reviewed to determine their specific situation.
Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many buildings across the National Health Service estate currently have Aluminium Composite Material cladding.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The safety of patients, visitors and staff has always been the top priority of the National Health Service. Across the National Health Service, there are nine buildings identified as having Aluminium Composite Material cladding. These include residential buildings over two storeys and non-residential ones over 18 metres. This cladding is being remediated by the trusts that are responsible for the buildings.
Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with representatives from Croydon University Hospital in relation to the pause in recruitment for (a) gay and (b) bisexual men for the PrEP impact trial.
Answered by Jo Churchill - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is currently provided in England through the three-year PrEP Impact Trial. Participation in the trial is on a voluntary basis and it is for clinics and local authorities to decide the number of allocated places they can accept. The Department has held no discussions with representatives from Croydon University Hospital in relation to the pause in recruitment for gay and bisexual men.
Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the longest time is that an applicant has had to wait for the renewal of an S1 form in 2019.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
I laid a Written Ministerial Statement HCWS1832 on 26 September 2019, setting out the transitional healthcare arrangements across the European Union that the Department has put in place if we are unable to secure a deal. The contingency arrangements will cover all those living in an EU or European Free Trade Area member state who are eligible for a healthcare S1 form at the time the United Kingdom leaves the EU even if they have not yet obtained that form at the time the UK leaves the EU.
The NHS Business Services Authority only issues healthcare S1s. It does not issue S1 forms for posted workers which are issued by HM Revenue and Customs. Pensioners do not need to apply to renew their form. When the NHS Business Services Authority record a registered S1, there is no ability to capture the date the S1 was received, only the date it was processed.
At the end of calendar year 2018, the UK had outstanding reciprocal healthcare claims valued at £307 million, including for the S1 scheme.
The NHS Business Services Authority does not have data regarding the number of UK citizens that have a right to healthcare cover in the EU. The total number of registered UK S1s is 152,000 (excluding Ireland). For the period 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2019, there were a total of 35,535 S1 applications, of which 10,908 have been registered on NHS Business Services Authority systems.
Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many outstanding claims for healthcare cover under the S1 scheme there were on 25 September 2019.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
I laid a Written Ministerial Statement HCWS1832 on 26 September 2019, setting out the transitional healthcare arrangements across the European Union that the Department has put in place if we are unable to secure a deal. The contingency arrangements will cover all those living in an EU or European Free Trade Area member state who are eligible for a healthcare S1 form at the time the United Kingdom leaves the EU even if they have not yet obtained that form at the time the UK leaves the EU.
The NHS Business Services Authority only issues healthcare S1s. It does not issue S1 forms for posted workers which are issued by HM Revenue and Customs. Pensioners do not need to apply to renew their form. When the NHS Business Services Authority record a registered S1, there is no ability to capture the date the S1 was received, only the date it was processed.
At the end of calendar year 2018, the UK had outstanding reciprocal healthcare claims valued at £307 million, including for the S1 scheme.
The NHS Business Services Authority does not have data regarding the number of UK citizens that have a right to healthcare cover in the EU. The total number of registered UK S1s is 152,000 (excluding Ireland). For the period 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2019, there were a total of 35,535 S1 applications, of which 10,908 have been registered on NHS Business Services Authority systems.