Asked by: Adam Afriyie (Conservative - Windsor)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to publish the recommendations of the Independent Review on Tobacco Control; and whether he plans to hold a consultation on those recommendations.
Answered by Maggie Throup
The Independent Review is due to be published shortly and we will consider its findings following publication. We will assess which recommendations will inform the forthcoming health disparities white paper and the new Tobacco Control Plan to be published later this year. This will include an assessment on any potential consultation.
Asked by: Adam Afriyie (Conservative - Windsor)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the level of backlog maintenance has been in NHS mental health services in each of the last ten years (a) in total and (b) by category of risk.
Answered by Gillian Keegan - Secretary of State for Education
Information on backlog maintenance was not collected in the format requested prior to 2015/16. Since 2015/16, data has been categorised by site type, which allows an estimate of the level of backlog maintenance in the mental health estate. The attached table shows the level of backlog maintenance in total and by category of risk in sites categorised as ‘Mental Health’, ‘Mental Health (including Specialist services)’, ‘Learning Disabilities’ and ‘Mental Health and Learning Disabilities’.
Asked by: Adam Afriyie (Conservative - Windsor)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) inpatient child and (b) adolescent mental health beds have there been in the NHS in each of the last 12 years.
Answered by Gillian Keegan - Secretary of State for Education
This information is not collected in the format requested, as the data does not differentiate between child and adolescent mental health beds. Information was not collected centrally prior to 2017/18. However, the following table shows the number of child and adolescent inpatient mental health beds commissioned by NHS England and NHS Improvement at the beginning of each financial year from 2017/18.
2017/18 | 1,476 |
2018/19 | 1,511 |
2019/20 | 1,534 |
2020/21 | 1,438 |
2021/22 | 1,366 |
2022/23 | 1,401 |
Source: NHS England and NHS Improvement
Asked by: Adam Afriyie (Conservative - Windsor)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that people can access face-to-face GP services.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
NHS England and NHS Improvement’s guidance states that general practices should provide face to face appointments, alongside remote consultations. Patient input should be sought on the type of consultation with preferences for face to face care respected, unless there are good clinical reasons to the contrary. Excluding COVID-19 vaccinations, in February 2022 61.3% of appointments were conducted in person.
We have made £520 million available to improve access and expand general practice capacity during the pandemic. This is in addition to £1.5 billion announced in 2020 to create an additional 50 million general practice appointments by 2024 by increasing and diversifying the workforce.
Asked by: Adam Afriyie (Conservative - Windsor)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children and young people have been waiting to start treatment for an eating disorder in each quarter since the first quarter of 2016-17, broken down by (a) urgent and (b) routine cases; and what the average waiting time for a child or young person to start treatment for an eating disorder has been in each quarter since the first quarter of 2016-17.
Answered by Gillian Keegan - Secretary of State for Education
The information is not held in the format requested.
However, the attached table shows the number of children and young people waiting at intervals of up to one week, one to four weeks, four to 12 weeks and 12 weeks and over for eating disorder treatment since the first quarter of 2016/17.
Asked by: Adam Afriyie (Conservative - Windsor)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make a comparative assessment of prevalence of oral cancer amongst (a) South Asian women and (b) the adult population; and if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of creating a product standard for chewed tobacco products as recommended in the 2006 study entitled Levels of toxins in oral tobacco products in the UK published in the journal Tobacco Control, volume 15, issue 1.
Answered by Maggie Throup
‘Oral cancer in England’, published in May 2020, compared the incidence of oral cancer in Asian/Asian British people with other ethnic groups in the adult population, although it made no specific assessment of prevalence in South Asian women. We have no plans to make such an assessment.
No assessment of creating a product standard has been made. Products standards for tobacco are contained in The Tobacco and Related Products (Amendment) Regulations 2016. The Department is due to publish its post implementation review of the Regulations shortly.
Asked by: Adam Afriyie (Conservative - Windsor)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many hospital admissions there have been in each of the last five years for (a) adults and (b) children with a (i) primary and (ii) secondary diagnosis of autism.
Answered by Gillian Keegan - Secretary of State for Education
The following table shows a count of finished admission episodes (FAEs) with a primary or secondary diagnosis of autism for those aged 0 to 17 years old and aged 18 years old and over in each year from 2016/17 to 2020/21.
Year | Age | Primary diagnosis | Secondary diagnosis |
2016/17 | 0 to 17 years old | 456 | 20,295 |
2016/17 | 18 years old and over | 165 | 11,975 |
2017/18 | 0 to 17 years old | 465 | 24,065 |
2017/18 | 18 years old and over | 230 | 14,766 |
2018/19 | 0 to 17 years old | 513 | 29,790 |
2018/19 | 18 years old and over | 234 | 19,652 |
2019/20 | 0 to 17 years old | 594 | 33,908 |
2019/20 | 18 years old and over | 242 | 24,105 |
2020/21 | 0 to 17 years old | 377 | 25,427 |
2020/21 | 18 years old and over | 215 | 23,607 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), NHS Digital.
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Asked by: Adam Afriyie (Conservative - Windsor)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the capital expenditure was on NHS community mental health services in each of the last ten years (a) in total and (b) as a proportion of all NHS capital expenditure.
Answered by Gillian Keegan - Secretary of State for Education
Capital expenditure on National Health Service mental health and community trusts over the last ten years totals £5,109,000,000. The following table shows the information requested.
Financial year | Capital expenditure on NHS mental health and community trusts £ million | Proportion of total capital expenditure |
2011/12 | 373 | 15% |
2012/13 | 419 | 16% |
2013/14 | 495 | 16% |
2014/15 | 510 | 15% |
2015/16 | 514 | 17% |
2016/17 | 451 | 16% |
2017/18 | 336 | 11% |
2018/19 | 547 | 14% |
2019/20 | 674 | 15% |
2020/21 | 790 | 11% |
Asked by: Adam Afriyie (Conservative - Windsor)
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 of his policies of the findings of the Research Report entitled Estimating the Harms of Nicotine-Containing Products Using the MCDA , by Professor David Nutt and others, published in European Addiction Research, ref 20:218-225, that using snus causes only 5 percent of the harm of smoking cigarettes.
Answered by Maggie Throup
No formal assessment has been made.