Asked by: Caroline Johnson (Conservative - Sleaford and North Hykeham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what number of UK citizens have obtained a primary medical degree outside the UK by country in each of the last five years.
Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Department of Health and Social Care has indicated that it will not be possible to answer this question within the usual time period. An answer is being prepared and will be provided as soon as it is available.
Asked by: Caroline Johnson (Conservative - Sleaford and North Hykeham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many additional medical places are funded in start in 2026 compared with 2025.
Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Department of Health and Social Care has indicated that it will not be possible to answer this question within the usual time period. An answer is being prepared and will be provided as soon as it is available.
Asked by: Caroline Johnson (Conservative - Sleaford and North Hykeham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of (a) home students and (b) non-home students who graduated from the UK with a primary medical degree from 2010 to 2020 remain working in the NHS.
Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Department of Health and Social Care has indicated that it will not be possible to answer this question within the usual time period. An answer is being prepared and will be provided as soon as it is available.
Asked by: Caroline Johnson (Conservative - Sleaford and North Hykeham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many staff responsible for UK Foundation programme allocation process are (a) NHS employees, (b) civil servants and (c) people involved in direct clinical care.
Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Department of Health and Social Care has indicated that it will not be possible to answer this question within the usual time period. An answer is being prepared and will be provided as soon as it is available.
Asked by: Caroline Johnson (Conservative - Sleaford and North Hykeham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of UK primary medical degree graduates were (a) British and (b) non-British by country in each of the last five years.
Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Department of Health and Social Care has indicated that it will not be possible to answer this question within the usual time period. An answer is being prepared and will be provided as soon as it is available.
Asked by: Caroline Johnson (Conservative - Sleaford and North Hykeham)
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 adequacy of training for people performing (a) newborn hearing tests and (b) audiology testing in children.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Newborn Hearing Screening in England for babies before the age of 12 weeks is part of the nationally approved commissioned screening services. The services are monitored by the Screening Quality Assurance Service (SQAS) to ensure they meet national standards. The SQAS undertakes a continuous improvement cycle of pathway reviews and onsite quality assurance visits to identify areas for improvement across antenatal and newborn screening programmes where a concern is identified, involving appropriate professional clinical advisors from each screening discipline to support the process. Continuous performance data monitoring of services and representation at screening governance boards by the SQAS and commissioners supports this process and there is ongoing targeted work with services identified as needing improvements.
There are no nationally approved screening hearing services for children over 12 weeks of age.
For clinical referrals, integrated care board commissioners are responsible for ensuring NHS Audiology services meet the needs of patients and that they are delivered to the appropriate quality.
My Rt. Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, commissioned the recently published, independent Kingdon review of children’s hearing services in England. Twelve recommendations were made, including focus on commissioning, governance, data and training amongst others. No assessment has yet been made of the potential implications on policies for the recommendations. We are progressing an early analysis of implementation requirements for the recommendations, including resource.
Staff working in newborn hearing screening services are required to achieve the training standards set out in national guidance, and regional commissioners work with services to assure compliance with both minimum staffing levels and training requirements.
Audiologist training is supported via pathways including the Scientist Training Programme and Higher Specialist Scientific Training programmes. NHS England has undertaken a skills survey across services to assess current capacity and training needs. Support has been put in place for training to ensure practitioners meet nationally agreed standards. This work will provide targeted support to strengthen delivery, and ensure safe, consistent care for children and families.
Asked by: Caroline Johnson (Conservative - Sleaford and North Hykeham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve audiology screening for (a) children and (b) newborns.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Newborn Hearing Screening in England for babies before the age of 12 weeks is part of the nationally approved commissioned screening services. The services are monitored by the Screening Quality Assurance Service (SQAS) to ensure they meet national standards. The SQAS undertakes a continuous improvement cycle of pathway reviews and onsite quality assurance visits to identify areas for improvement across antenatal and newborn screening programmes where a concern is identified, involving appropriate professional clinical advisors from each screening discipline to support the process. Continuous performance data monitoring of services and representation at screening governance boards by the SQAS and commissioners supports this process and there is ongoing targeted work with services identified as needing improvements.
There are no nationally approved screening hearing services for children over 12 weeks of age.
For clinical referrals, integrated care board commissioners are responsible for ensuring NHS Audiology services meet the needs of patients and that they are delivered to the appropriate quality.
My Rt. Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, commissioned the recently published, independent Kingdon review of children’s hearing services in England. Twelve recommendations were made, including focus on commissioning, governance, data and training amongst others. No assessment has yet been made of the potential implications on policies for the recommendations. We are progressing an early analysis of implementation requirements for the recommendations, including resource.
Staff working in newborn hearing screening services are required to achieve the training standards set out in national guidance, and regional commissioners work with services to assure compliance with both minimum staffing levels and training requirements.
Audiologist training is supported via pathways including the Scientist Training Programme and Higher Specialist Scientific Training programmes. NHS England has undertaken a skills survey across services to assess current capacity and training needs. Support has been put in place for training to ensure practitioners meet nationally agreed standards. This work will provide targeted support to strengthen delivery, and ensure safe, consistent care for children and families.
Asked by: Caroline Johnson (Conservative - Sleaford and North Hykeham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to inform families of his plans for (a) interim and (b) main payment compensation before the second anniversary of the publication of the Hughes Report.
Answered by Zubir Ahmed - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Government is carefully considering the work by the Patient Safety Commissioner and her report, which set out options for redress for those harmed by valproate and pelvic mesh.
This is a complex issue involving input from different Government departments. Since taking up my post, I have met with the patient safety commissioner to discuss her recommendations and discussed how we may respond in the near term to recommendations regarding improving the outcomes and lives of people harmed by Valproate and Pelvic mesh. The Government will provide a further update to the Patient Safety Commissioner’s report.
Asked by: Caroline Johnson (Conservative - Sleaford and North Hykeham)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential effect of cuts to teacher training bursaries in 26/27 on teacher recruitment in Lincolnshire.
Answered by Georgia Gould - Minister of State (Education)
The government committed, in our Plan for Change, to recruiting an additional 6,500 new expert teachers across secondary and special schools, and in colleges, over the course of this parliament.
We are making progress. The latest workforce data reported over 2,300 more secondary and special school teachers in 2024/25 than in 2023/24, and this year over 32,000 trainees began training, a rise of 11% on the previous year.
Initial teacher training (ITT) bursaries are offered to incentivise more applications to ITT courses. In reviewing these annually, we take account of historic recruitment, forecast economic conditions, and teacher supply need in each subject. We are continuing to offer bursaries worth up to £29,000 tax-free to encourage more talented people to train to teach key subjects such as mathematics, physics, chemistry and computing.
In addition, we offer a Targeted Retention Incentive worth up to £6,000 after tax for mathematics, physics, chemistry and computing teachers in the first five years of their careers who work in disadvantaged schools. In Lincolnshire, there are 56 schools where teachers are eligible for these payments.
Asked by: Caroline Johnson (Conservative - Sleaford and North Hykeham)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what (a) proportion and (b) number of people imprisoned for death by careless driving obtain a driving licence within five years after release.
Answered by Lilian Greenwood - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
The information requested is not held. The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency is not informed when an individual is released from prison, and endorsements ordered upon conviction by the courts for the offences of causing death by careless driving or causing death by dangerous driving are removed from the driver’s record after four years in line with the retention periods for these offences.