Asked by: Lord Lisvane (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Prior of Brampton on 16 November (HL2985), if the information about the number of NHS consultant appointments cancelled is not held in the format requested, in what format that information is held.
Answered by Lord Prior of Brampton
NHS Digital publishes information on the number of cancelled outpatient appointments as part of Outpatient Hospital Episode Statistics which are published annually. Not all appointments are consultant-led and it is not possible to separately identify the number of cancelled consultant-led appointments.
In 2015-16, 7.6 million outpatient appointments were cancelled by hospitals, representing 6.8% of all appointments.
Asked by: Lord Lisvane (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many NHS consultant appointments were cancelled, other than by patients, in the last year for which figures are available.
Answered by Lord Prior of Brampton
This information is not held in the format requested.
Asked by: Lord Lisvane (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many of the measures announced in the Queen's Speech will be published in draft and subject to pre-legislative scrutiny.
Answered by Baroness Evans of Bowes Park
The Government is committed to facilitating pre-legislative scrutiny when it is possible to do so. In the last session five draft Bills or packages of draft legislation were published. Announcements will be made in due course about draft legislation to be published in the current session.
Asked by: Lord Lisvane (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what their policy is towards the commencement of the Easter Act 1928.
Answered by Baroness Neville-Rolfe - Minister of State (Cabinet Office)
The Easter Act 1928 would set the date for Easter to fall on the Sunday that follows the second Saturday in April (i.e. between 9 and 15 April). The Act has not been brought into force. To do so would require an Order in Council, with the approval of both Houses of Parliament. The Act requires that, before the Order is made, “regard shall be had to any opinion officially expressed by any Church or other Christian Body." If the Christian churches were to agree on moving to a fixed date for Easter then the Government would consider, depending on what date is agreed, whether to bring into force the Easter Act 1928 or to make such other legislative provision as may be needed.