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Written Question
NHS: Crimes against the Person
Monday 25th April 2022

Asked by: Dan Poulter (Conservative - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on the number of physical assaults reported on NHS staff at the James Paget Hospital in 2020-21.

Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)

The information requested is not collected centrally.

Written Question
NHS: Crimes Against the Person
Monday 25th April 2022

Asked by: Dan Poulter (Conservative - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on the number of physical assaults reported on NHS staff at the East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust in 2020-21.

Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)

The information requested is not collected centrally.

Written Question
NHS: Crimes against the Person
Monday 25th April 2022

Asked by: Dan Poulter (Conservative - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many physical assaults on NHS staff were reported in England in (a) 2020 and (b) 2021.

Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)

The information requested is not collected centrally.

Written Question
NHS: Crimes against the Person
Monday 25th April 2022

Asked by: Dan Poulter (Conservative - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many physical assaults on NHS staff were reported in Suffolk in (a) 2020 and (b) 2021.

Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)

The information requested is not collected centrally.

Written Question
NHS: Workplace Pensions
Monday 25th April 2022

Asked by: Dan Poulter (Conservative - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich)

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 potential impact of the annual pension contribution cap has had on retention and recruitment of staff in the NHS.

Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)

In 2020, the Government increased thresholds by £90,000 to remove all staff with threshold income below £200,000 from scope of the tapered annual allowance. An estimated 96% of general practitioners and 98% of consultants are out of scope of the taper based on National Health Service earnings.

An individual may choose to reduce their working hours or take early retirement for a range of reasons. The Department monitors retirement patterns and hours worked by senior doctors. NHS Digital’s workforce statistics show the participation rate, or average contracted hours per person, for consultants has been stable for several years. Data from the NHS Business Services Authority shows that while the number of consultants taking voluntary early retirement as a proportion of all consultant retirements has increased since 2012, it has not changed significantly in more recent years.

Written Question
Psychiatry: Training
Thursday 21st April 2022

Asked by: Dan Poulter (Conservative - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is planning to take to help increase the number of therapists trained in dialectic behavioural therapy working in the NHS.

Answered by Gillian Keegan - Secretary of State for Education

The NHS Long Term Plan sets out an ambition to expand community mental health services for adults, including increasing access to evidence-based psychological therapies for people with severe mental health problems, such as dialectical behaviour therapy. A national curriculum has been developed for training additional National Health Service staff and an England-wide training programme has been established. To date, 325 staff have entered this two-year programme. Health Education England will continue to commission this training to expand access to dialectic therapy in NHS-commissioned services.

Written Question
Psychiatry
Thursday 21st April 2022

Asked by: Dan Poulter (Conservative - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is planning to take to help improve access to dialectic behavioural therapy through the NHS.

Answered by Gillian Keegan - Secretary of State for Education

The NHS Long Term Plan sets out an ambition to expand community mental health services for adults, including increasing access to evidence-based psychological therapies for people with severe mental health problems, such as dialectical behaviour therapy. A national curriculum has been developed for training additional National Health Service staff and an England-wide training programme has been established. To date, 325 staff have entered this two-year programme. Health Education England will continue to commission this training to expand access to dialectic therapy in NHS-commissioned services.

Written Question
General Practitioners
Monday 11th April 2022

Asked by: Dan Poulter (Conservative - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many full time equivalent general practitioners, excluding those still in training, there were per head of population in England (a) in each year since 2015 and (b) to date in 2022.

Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)

The information is not held in the format requested.

Written Question
General Practitioners
Wednesday 6th April 2022

Asked by: Dan Poulter (Conservative - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many full time equivalent general practitioners in England excluding those still in training (a) there were in each year since 2015 and (b) there are in 2022 to date.

Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)

The following table shows all full-time equivalent (FTE) general practitioners (GPs), excluding GPs in training grade from September 2015 to September 2021, the most recent comparable data available.

September 2015

29,364

September 2016

29,474

September 2017

29,129

September 2018

28,489

September 2019

28,182

September 2020

27,939

September 2021

27,920

Source:

General Practice Workforce, 31 December 2021 NHS Digital

Notes:

  1. FTE refers to the proportion of full time contracted hours that the post holder is contracted to work. 1 would indicate they work a full set of hours (37.5), 0.5 that they worked half time. In GPs in Training Grade contracts 1 FTE = 40 hours and in this table these FTEs have been converted to the standard wMDS measure of 1 FTE = 37.5 hours for consistency. It is not recommended that comparisons be made between quarterly or monthly figures due to the unknown effect of seasonality on workforce numbers.
  2. Figures shown do not include staff working in prisons, army bases, educational establishments, specialist care centres including drug rehabilitation centres, walk-in centres and other alternative settings outside of traditional general practice such as urgent treatment centres and minor injury units.
  3. Data includes estimates for practices that did not provide fully valid staff records. The percentage of FTE that is estimated is presented for each staff group, and includes full and partial estimates.
  4. Full Estimation: Estimates are made for both headcount and FTE for those practices which did not provide any valid data for one or more of the four staff groups (or in the case of practices providing no valid direct patient care staff data, estimates are only made for those practices also failing to provide valid data for at least one other staff group). The absence of data for a staff group could be due to poor data quality or no submitted data. For these practices, clinical commissioning group-level estimations are made.
  5. Partial Estimation: In some cases, practices provide valid records about their staff but do not include information about their working hours. In these cases, the record is retained and estimates calculated for their working hours and full-time equivalence based upon the national averages for the job role. These figures are referred to as ‘partial estimates’ and the scale of these estimates varies by staff group.

Written Question
Members: Correspondence
Tuesday 22nd March 2022

Asked by: Dan Poulter (Conservative - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the length of time taken by his Department to respond to correspondence from hon Members.

Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)

The Government attaches great importance to the effective and timely handling of correspondence from hon. Members, either directly or on behalf of their constituents. There has been a high degree of parliamentary interest on delays in response times both to correspondence and written questions across Government, but in particular the Department of Health and Social Care. The Procedure Committee is monitoring the Department’s performance.

We are doing our utmost to reduce the backlog of 3,500 overdue ministerial cases.

Data on the timeliness of responses to correspondence from Parliamentarians is published on GOV.UK, which is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/data-on-responses-to-correspondence-from-mps-and-peers

Data for 2021 will be published by the Cabinet Office in due course.