Asked by: Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what research they have commissioned into the most common pathways to gambling disorder for women.
Answered by Lord Bethell
Public Health England is currently carrying out an evidence review on the prevalence, determinants and harms associated with gambling, and the social and economic burden of gambling-related harms. This includes reviewing the evidence on young people, men and women. The review is expected to be completed in March 2021.
Asked by: Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to appoint a "turnaround director" for NHS England and NHS Improvement; and to whom such a director would be accountable.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
NHS England and NHS Improvement are not in the process of recruiting a turnaround director for the organisation.
Asked by: Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether regional directors of NHS England and NHS Improvement are responsible for tackling bullying in their regions; and whether regional directors are responsible for the conduct of any "turnaround directors" appointed in their regions.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
Individual National Health Service organisations are primarily responsible for addressing and preventing bullying in the workforce and for the conduct of all their employees including temporary staff or specialist contractors.
To ensure consistency the performance management of NHS organisations is underpinned by a single oversight framework, which is overseen by Regional Directors.
The NHS Constitution also sets out the rights and responsibilities of all NHS staff to be free from harassment, bullying or violence.
Asked by: Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the cost to the NHS of the Turnaround Programme in each of the last three years.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
The information requested is not held centrally.
Asked by: Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the average daily rate earned by "turnaround directors" in the NHS.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
The information requested is not held centrally.
Asked by: Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the cost of uprating the salaries of (1) NHS nurses, and (2) those working in the social care sector in England to £30,000 or more.
Answered by Lord O'Shaughnessy
The Department has made no estimate of the costs of uprating the salaries of National Health Service nurses and those working in the social care sector in England to £30,000 or more.
Asked by: Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many NHS nurses in England earn less than £30,000 per year; and what proportion of all NHS nurses in England this represents.
Answered by Lord O'Shaughnessy
NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics for England. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), but not staff working in primary care or in general practitioner surgeries, local authorities or other providers.
Nurses’ earnings are made up of basic pay plus, where applicable, unsocial hours payments, on call payments and high cost area supplements.
The latest figures at June 2018 show that almost 60% of nurses receive unsocial hours payments in addition to their basic pay.
The following table shows nurses and health visitors whose total annual earnings is under £30,000, in National Health Service trusts, CCGs, support organisations and central bodies in England, between 31 July 2017 and 30 June 2018, headcount and percentage:
All nurses and health visitors | Nurses and health visitors whose total annual earnings are under £30,000 | Proportion of nurses and health visitors whose total annual earnings are under £30,000 |
258,676 | 107,715 | 41.6% |
These figures use the total annual earnings of staff which includes basic pay and non-basic pay elements. These total figures include staff working on a part time basis, who tend to have lower annual earnings than those on full time contracts.
Basic pay data has been extracted at a point in time, whereas total earnings include data from staff working throughout the period. This explains the discrepancies in the total number of nurses and health visitors.
Asked by: Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of how many of those working in the social care sector in England earn less than £30,000 per year; and what proportion of all those working in that sector in England this represents.
Answered by Lord O'Shaughnessy
The data is not available in the format requested.
Asked by: Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what proportion of people receiving social care in each of the seven authorities in the Northeast Local Economic Partnership area are entitled to public funding to support that care.
Answered by Lord Prior of Brampton
The following table contains estimates of the proportion of residential social care service users in each of the seven authorities in the Northeast Local Economic Partnership area who are in receipt of public funding.
Local Authority | Approximate proportion who are state supported |
Durham | 71% |
Gateshead | 69% |
Newcastle upon Tyne | 64% |
North Tyneside | 61% |
Northumberland | 69% |
South Tyneside | 89% |
Sunderland | 67% |
Total | 70% |
This information is an estimate based on internal analysis derived from the National Adult Social Care Intelligence Service and Care Quality Commission occupancy data for residential social care – data is not available for domiciliary care. This estimate uses 2012/13 data, which provides the most recent comparable data sets for this purpose.
Asked by: Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will list those persons appointed as chairs of non-departmental public bodies by the Department of Health.
Answered by Lord Prior of Brampton
A list of chairs of the Department’s non-departmental public bodies is as follows:
Organisation Chair
Administration of Radioactive Substances Advisory Committee | John Rees |
Advisory Committee on Clinical Excellence Awards | William Worth |
British Pharmacopoeia Commission | Kevin Taylor |
Care Quality Commission | Michael Mire |
Commission on Human Medicines | Stuart Ralston |
Committee on Mutagenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment | David Lovell |
Food Standards Agency | Tim Bennett |
Health and Social Care Information Centre | Kingsley Manning |
Health Education England | Keith Pearson |
Health Research Authority | Jonathan Montgomery |
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority | Sally Cheshire |
Human Tissue Authority | Sharmila Nebhrajani |
Independent Reconfiguration Panel | Bernard Ribeiro |
Medicine and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency | Michael Rawlins |
Monitor | Joan Hanham |
National Institute for Health & Care Excellence | David Haslam |
NHS Blood and Transplant | John Pattullo |
NHS Business Services Authority | Silla Maizey |
NHS Commissioning Board | Malcolm Grant |
NHS Litigation Authority | Ian Dilks |
NHS Pay Review Body | Jerry Cope |
NHS Pensions Board | Rachel Court |
NHS Trust Development Authority | Peter Carr |
Public Health England | David Heymann |
Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration | Paul Curran |
Standing Commission on Carers | David Croisdale- Appleby |
Further details about appointments made to the Department of Health’s public bodies are published routinely at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dh-non-executive-appointments