Asked by: Wendy Chamberlain (Liberal Democrat - North East Fife)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer on 1 February 2024 to Question 11651 on Minimum Wage, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies of the recommendations relating to minimum wage for early years and elder care in the University of Manchester report entitled Working Futures, published in October 2023.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Department has no current plans to make an assessment of the recommendations in the Working Futures report.
Asked by: Wendy Chamberlain (Liberal Democrat - North East Fife)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the implications for his policies of the recommendations relating to minimum wage for early years and elder care in the University of Manchester report entitled Working Futures, published in October 2023.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Department has made no assessment of the recommendations in the report.
Asked by: Wendy Chamberlain (Liberal Democrat - North East Fife)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the oral statement of the Secretary of State for the Home Department on legal migration of 4 December 2023, Official Report, column 41, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of reducing net migration on (a) recruitment and (b) retention in the social care sector.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
My Rt hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for the Home Department, has committed to put estimates of the impact of these announcements in the House of Commons Library. This will be done in due course.
Asked by: Wendy Chamberlain (Liberal Democrat - North East Fife)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) has been found within their Department's estate.
Answered by Will Quince
No reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) has been found within the Department’s estate.
Asked by: Wendy Chamberlain (Liberal Democrat - North East Fife)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, on how many occasions a request for a meeting by an hon. Member was not agreed to by (a) a Minister and (b) their office on behalf of a Minister in the last 12 months.
Answered by Will Quince
This information is not centrally collated and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. Ministers will regularly seek to engage with hon. Members, whilst balancing wider Ministerial and Parliamentary responsibilities.
Asked by: Wendy Chamberlain (Liberal Democrat - North East Fife)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps with (a) the Cystic Fibrosis Trust and (b) other patient organisations to implement his Department's Life Sciences Vision.
Answered by Will Quince
The Office for Life Sciences engage with patient representative organisations to deliver on ambitions in the Life Sciences Vision, including the healthcare missions and genomics. On cystic fibrosis specifically, we will soon be consulting the United Kingdom clinical trials community, individual medical research charities and the Association of Medical Research Charities, of which the Cystic Fibrosis Trust is a member, to implement the headline commitments and inform a full response to the independent Lord James O’Shaughnessy review into UK clinical trials.
Asked by: Wendy Chamberlain (Liberal Democrat - North East Fife)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many sewage leaks have been recorded within their Department's estate in the last twelve months.
Answered by Will Quince
There have been no sewage leaks recorded within in the last twelve months on the Department's estate.
Asked by: Wendy Chamberlain (Liberal Democrat - North East Fife)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) adults and (b) minors with learning disabilities or autism are held in secure medical facilities in England; and if he will publish a breakdown of those figures by the average length of residency in those types of facility among those groups.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
At the end of March 2023, there were 895 adults with a learning disability and autistic people in a secure (low, medium and high secure) mental health inpatient setting. The average length of stay for adults for current hospital spell in a secure mental health inpatient setting in days was 1,275.
At the end of March 2023, there were 35 under-18-year-olds with a learning disability and autistic under-18-year-olds in a secure (low and medium secure) mental health inpatient setting. There were no under-18-year-olds in high secure units. The average length of stay for under-18-year-olds for current hospital spell in a secure mental health inpatient setting was 419 days.
Asked by: Wendy Chamberlain (Liberal Democrat - North East Fife)
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 the implications for his policies of the PANS/PANDAS Working Group statement on medical guidelines published 24 February 2023; and whether it is his policy to endorse those guidelines for use in NHS settings.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
We are aware of the recent guidance published by PANS PANDA UK. No assessment of existing policies against the new guidance has been made currently.
Asked by: Wendy Chamberlain (Liberal Democrat - North East Fife)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, at what cost his Department procured the Pfizer-BionTech covid-19 vaccine as of 9 December.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
We are unable to provide the information requested as it is commercially sensitive.