Asked by: Lord Dobbs (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many instances there were of a delayed transfer of care occurring where the patient subject to the delayed transfer of care was waiting for longer than one day for a family member or friend to collect them in each year from 2007 to 2017.
Answered by Lord O'Shaughnessy
The average number of available beds and the average number of delayed transfer of care (DTOC) beds in each financial year from 2010-11 is shown in the following table. Data prior to 2010 is not held centrally.
Financial Year | Average number of available beds | Average number of DTOC beds1 |
2010-11 | 142,446 | 3,783 (Partial year) |
2011-12 | 138,572 | 3,753 |
2012-13 | 136,758 | 3,783 |
2013-14 | 135,943 | 3,874 |
2014-15 | 135,498 | 4,453 |
2015-16 | 131,069 | 4,946 |
2016-17 | 130,452 | 6,181 |
2017-18 (year to date) | 129,029 | 5,579 |
Note:
1The number of DTOC beds is an estimate and is calculated by dividing the number of delayed days during the month by the number of calendar days in the month.
NHS England publishes DTOC data showing the number of delayed days by the following reasons: awaiting completion of assessment; awaiting public funding; awaiting further non-acute NHS care; awaiting residential home placement or availability; awaiting nursing home placement or availability; awaiting care package in own home; awaiting community equipment and adaptations; patient or family choice; disputes; housing – patients not covered by NHS or Community Care Act; or other.
Data on whether patients with delayed transfers of care are either homeless or waited in excess of a day for collection from hospital by a family member or friend is not held centrally.
Asked by: Lord Dobbs (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many instances there were of a delayed transfer of care occurring where the patient subject to the delayed transfer of care was homeless in each year from 2007 to 2017.
Answered by Lord O'Shaughnessy
The average number of available beds and the average number of delayed transfer of care (DTOC) beds in each financial year from 2010-11 is shown in the following table. Data prior to 2010 is not held centrally.
Financial Year | Average number of available beds | Average number of DTOC beds1 |
2010-11 | 142,446 | 3,783 (Partial year) |
2011-12 | 138,572 | 3,753 |
2012-13 | 136,758 | 3,783 |
2013-14 | 135,943 | 3,874 |
2014-15 | 135,498 | 4,453 |
2015-16 | 131,069 | 4,946 |
2016-17 | 130,452 | 6,181 |
2017-18 (year to date) | 129,029 | 5,579 |
Note:
1The number of DTOC beds is an estimate and is calculated by dividing the number of delayed days during the month by the number of calendar days in the month.
NHS England publishes DTOC data showing the number of delayed days by the following reasons: awaiting completion of assessment; awaiting public funding; awaiting further non-acute NHS care; awaiting residential home placement or availability; awaiting nursing home placement or availability; awaiting care package in own home; awaiting community equipment and adaptations; patient or family choice; disputes; housing – patients not covered by NHS or Community Care Act; or other.
Data on whether patients with delayed transfers of care are either homeless or waited in excess of a day for collection from hospital by a family member or friend is not held centrally.
Asked by: Lord Dobbs (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many beds were available in NHS hospitals in each year from 2007 to 2017; and what was the total number of instances where a delayed transfer of care occurred in an NHS hospital in each year from 2007 to 2017.
Answered by Lord O'Shaughnessy
The average number of available beds and the average number of delayed transfer of care (DTOC) beds in each financial year from 2010-11 is shown in the following table. Data prior to 2010 is not held centrally.
Financial Year | Average number of available beds | Average number of DTOC beds1 |
2010-11 | 142,446 | 3,783 (Partial year) |
2011-12 | 138,572 | 3,753 |
2012-13 | 136,758 | 3,783 |
2013-14 | 135,943 | 3,874 |
2014-15 | 135,498 | 4,453 |
2015-16 | 131,069 | 4,946 |
2016-17 | 130,452 | 6,181 |
2017-18 (year to date) | 129,029 | 5,579 |
Note:
1The number of DTOC beds is an estimate and is calculated by dividing the number of delayed days during the month by the number of calendar days in the month.
NHS England publishes DTOC data showing the number of delayed days by the following reasons: awaiting completion of assessment; awaiting public funding; awaiting further non-acute NHS care; awaiting residential home placement or availability; awaiting nursing home placement or availability; awaiting care package in own home; awaiting community equipment and adaptations; patient or family choice; disputes; housing – patients not covered by NHS or Community Care Act; or other.
Data on whether patients with delayed transfers of care are either homeless or waited in excess of a day for collection from hospital by a family member or friend is not held centrally.
Asked by: Lord Dobbs (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the operational budget for the British Council in each of the last ten years.
Answered by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
The British Council has provided the following figures from their Annual Reports which reflect the total resources expended for each of the last ten years.
| 2007-08 | 2008-09 | 2009-10 | 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 |
Total resources expended (£'000) | 557,402 | 621,579 | 708,083 | 665,321 | 720,413 | 785,333 | 880,410 | 975,880 | 971,363 | 1,085,934 |
Further information on the British Council’s finances are available from their Annual Reports which are online and in the parliamentary library.
Asked by: Lord Dobbs (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how much the BBC World Service received in government subsidy in each of the last ten years.
Answered by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
Prior to 2013/14 the Government provided the BBC World Service with Grant-in-Aid funding through the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. From 2014/15 onwards core World Service activity was funded through the Licence Fee. In 2015 the Government announced additional funding for the World Service for the BBC World 2020 programme. £291 million will be invested from 2016/17 to 2019/20 to expand provision, including the creation of 12 new language services. New and enhanced services for BBC World Service will provide more people around the world with access to accurate, impartial and independent information.
The published BBC figures for government funding to the World Service, including Grant-in-Aid prior to 2014/15 and BBC World 2020 funding from 2016/17, are therefore as follows:
Financial Year | £m |
2008/09 | 265.0 |
2009/10 | 268.0 |
2010/11 | 265.5 |
2011/12 | 255.2 |
2012/13 | 244.2 |
2013/14 | 238.5 |
2014/15 | 0 |
2015/16 | 0 |
2016/17 | 34.0 |
2017/18 | 85.0 |
Asked by: Lord Dobbs (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people in full-time education took their own lives in each of the last ten years.
Answered by Lord Young of Cookham
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply and I will place a copy of their letter in the Library of the House.
Asked by: Lord Dobbs (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people below the age of 26 took their own lives in each of the last ten years.
Answered by Lord Young of Cookham
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply and I will place a copy of their letter in the Library of the House.
Asked by: Lord Dobbs (Conservative - Life peer)
Question
To ask the Leader of the House how many government defeats there have been on delegated legislation in the House of Lords, (1) in total, and (2) in each Session, since 1950.
Answered by Baroness Stowell of Beeston
Since 1950, there have been 35 Government defeats on motions relating to delegated legislation in the House of Lords. There have been five such defeats in this session to date - a fifth of the total over the last 65 years.
The number of government defeats on motions relating to delegated legislation since 1950, broken down by session, is detailed below:
Session | Total | Session | Total | Session | Total |
1950 | 1972-73 | 1994-95 | |||
1950-51 | 1973-74 | 1995-96 | 1 | ||
1951-52 | 1974 | 1996-97 | |||
1952-53 | 1974-75 | 1997-98 | 1 | ||
1953-54 | 1975-76 | 1998-99 | |||
1954-55 | 1976-77 | 1999-00 | 2 | ||
1955-56 | 1977-78 | 2 | 2000-01 | ||
1956-57 | 1978-79 | 2001-02 | |||
1957-58 | 1979-80 | 2002-03 | 4 | ||
1958-59 | 1980-81 | 2003-04 | |||
1959-60 | 1981-82 | 2004-05 | 1 | ||
1960-61 | 1982-83 | 2005-06 | 1 | ||
1961-62 | 1983-84 | 1 | 2006-07 | 2 | |
1962-63 | 1984-85 | 1 | 2007-08 | ||
1963-64 | 1985-86 | 2008-09 | 2 | ||
1964-65 | 1986-87 | 2009-10 | 4 | ||
1965-66 | 1987-88 | 2010-12 | |||
1966-67 | 1988-89 | 2012-13 | 4 | ||
1967-68 | 1 | 1989-90 | 2013-14 | ||
1968-69 | 1990-91 | 2014-15 | |||
1969-70 | 1991-92 | 2015-6 | 5 | ||
1970-71 | 1992-93 | 3 | |||
1971-72 | 1993-94 | TOTAL | 35 |
Asked by: Lord Dobbs (Conservative - Life peer)
Question
To ask the Leader of the House, further to her Written Answer on 16 November 2015 (HL3174), what percentage of House of Lords divisions resulted in Government defeats in (1) the 1997–2001 Parliament, and (2) the current Parliament.
Answered by Baroness Stowell of Beeston
The rate of defeats in the present Parliament is more than twice that of the 1997-2001 Parliament: the Government were defeated in 22% of divisions in that Parliament, compared to 49% in the present one (up to Thursday 21 April). These figures are based on statistics compiled by the Journal Office.
Asked by: Lord Dobbs (Conservative - Life peer)
Question
To ask the Leader of the House, further to her Written Answer on 17 February (HL5966), how many statutory instruments have now been laid before Parliament in the 2015–16 session to date.
Answered by Baroness Stowell of Beeston
As of 21 April, 706 UK statutory instruments had been laid before the House of Commons/Parliament in the 2015-16 session. For completeness, the numbers of statutory instruments laid in previous sessions since 1997 are detailed below:
1997-98: 1856
1998-99: 1479
1999-00: 1456
2000-01: 868
2001-02: 1788
2002-03: 1474
2003-04: 1281
2004-05: 793
2005-06: 1885
2006-07: 1361
2007-08: 1319
2008-09: 1302
2009-10: 823
2010-12: 1809
2012-13: 964
2013-14: 1173
2014-15: 1378
2015-16: 706 (so far in this session)