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Written Question
Gambling: Females
Wednesday 17th February 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 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.


Written Question
NHS: Directors
Monday 9th September 2019

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.


Written Question
NHS: Directors
Monday 9th September 2019

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.


Written Question
NHS: Standards
Monday 9th September 2019

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.


Written Question
NHS: Directors
Monday 9th September 2019

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.


Written Question
Nurses and Social Services: Pay
Thursday 20th December 2018

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.


Written Question
Nurses: Pay
Thursday 20th December 2018

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.


Written Question
Social Services: Pay
Thursday 20th December 2018

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.


Written Question
Social Services: North East
Wednesday 23rd March 2016

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.


Written Question
Department of Health: Public Appointments
Friday 24th July 2015

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