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
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
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
We are unable to provide the information requested as it is commercially sensitive.
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, for what reason there was redacted specific contractual information concerning the (a) price of vaccine doses, (b) the use of doses, liability rules, and (c) the ownership of IP and industrial trade secrets within the UK’s Government’s procurement contracts for covid-19 vaccines; and what assessment he has made of the impacts of reduced transparency in such documents.
Answered by Maria Caulfield
Specific contractual information was redacted in the published contracts for COVID-19 vaccines, as it is commercially sensitive. This redaction ensures that commercially confidential and personal data is not disclosed.
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, for what reason the Government's contract with Pfizer specified that any contractual dispute would be determined by three private arbitrators rather than a court.
Answered by Maria Caulfield
It is standard practice for contractual disputes to be settled under the International Chamber of Commerce’s Rules of Arbitration.
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, for what reason his Department paid a higher price for the Pfizer-BioNTech covid-19 vaccine for the booster campaign in winter 2021 than in 2020.
Answered by Maria Caulfield
We are unable to provide the information requested as it is commercially sensitive.