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Written Question
Members: Correspondence
Monday 22nd May 2023

Asked by: Tony Lloyd (Labour - Rochdale)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to reply to the email of the 8 of March 2023 from the hon. Member for Rochdale on sexual offences in Greater Manchester.

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

I replied to the hon. Member on 18 May 2023.


Written Question
Social Workers: Vacancies
Wednesday 26th April 2023

Asked by: Tony Lloyd (Labour - Rochdale)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department collects on the provision of social care workers compared to the population of local authorities.

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

Skills for Care publishes estimates of filled posts in adult social care and the Office for National Statistics publishes estimates of population size at local authority level. However, the Department does not make an assessment on the sufficiency of current workforce capacity in each local authority. Local authorities should work with care providers to meet care needs in their area.


Written Question
Social Workers: Vacancies
Wednesday 26th April 2023

Asked by: Tony Lloyd (Labour - Rochdale)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of needs of social care workers in each local authority.

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

No assessment has been made.


Written Question
Social Workers: Vacancies
Wednesday 26th April 2023

Asked by: Tony Lloyd (Labour - Rochdale)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department routinely collects on shortages of social care workers in each local authority.

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

Skills for Care collect data on advertised vacancies on behalf of the Department and publish vacancy estimates. Vacancy rates in the care sector are determined by natural churn, independent providers’ ambitions to grow, demand for care, trends in the wider labour market and workforce capacity pressures. As a result, vacancies may not be a good measure of workforce shortages and are not used as such by the Department.


Written Question
Social Workers
Wednesday 26th April 2023

Asked by: Tony Lloyd (Labour - Rochdale)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department collects on the caseloads of social care workers in each local authority.

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

The Department does not measure the caseloads of social care workers.


Written Question
Members: Correspondence
Monday 17th April 2023

Asked by: Tony Lloyd (Labour - Rochdale)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to reply to the email of 31 January 2023 from the hon. Member for Rochdale relating to accident and emergency departments.

Answered by Will Quince

I replied to the hon. Member on 29 March 2023.


Written Question
Accident and Emergency Departments
Tuesday 31st January 2023

Asked by: Tony Lloyd (Labour - Rochdale)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will list the (a) hospital trusts and (b) individual hospitals that lost their accident and emergency departments but have subsequently had them reinstated as a result of Government action in the last 10 years; and if he will publish the criteria used to determine when a hospital should have its accident and emergency department reinstated after closure.

Answered by Will Quince

This information is not held in the format requested.


Written Question
Hormone Pregnancy Tests Expert Working Group
Wednesday 30th November 2022

Asked by: Tony Lloyd (Labour - Rochdale)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to publish the findings of the Expert Working Group review on Hormone Pregnancy Tests.

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

The ‘Report of the Commission on Human Medicines’ Expert Working Group on Hormone Pregnancy Tests’ was published on 15 November 2017 and is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/report-of-the-commission-on-human-medicines-expert-working-group-on-hormone-pregnancy-tests


Written Question
Pregnancy Tests
Wednesday 30th November 2022

Asked by: Tony Lloyd (Labour - Rochdale)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent reassessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the recommendations in the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review for victims of hormone pregnancy tests.

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

The Government published its response to the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety review in July 2021. We will provide an update on progress on implementing the response in due course.


Written Question
Pregnancy Tests
Wednesday 30th November 2022

Asked by: Tony Lloyd (Labour - Rochdale)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of providing redress for victims of Hormone Pregnancy Tests.

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

The Government’s response to the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review did not accept the recommendation relating to redress, including for hormone pregnancy tests. We are prioritising improving the future safety of medicines and medical devices through high standards for industry to market and manufacture products.