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Written Question
Royal Free Hospital: Maternity Services
Monday 18th March 2024

Asked by: Dawn Butler (Labour - Brent Central)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has undertaken an impact assessment on the potential impact of closing maternity services at the Royal Free Hospital.

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

The Department has not undertaken such an assessment. The North Central London Integrated Care Board has conducted an impact assessment on the proposals as part of its consultation on proposed changes to maternity, neonatal, and children’s surgical services in North Central London, which is due to close on 17 March 2024. This impact assessment is available at the following link:

https://nclhealthandcare.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/ALT-TEXT_Maternity-Neonates-IIA-1.pdf


Written Question
Breast Cancer: Screening
Thursday 2nd March 2023

Asked by: Dawn Butler (Labour - Brent Central)

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 merits of using radio wave imaging technology, including the MARIA system, to screen people for breast cancer.

Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) has looked at the evidence for offering extra breast screening tests, including breast density, in addition to standard mammography.

So far, the committee has found that the evidence for such technologies, although promising, is not yet strong enough for it to recommend that they be introduced into the NHS Breast Screening Programme. It has not looked specifically at the MARIA system.

The UK NSC continually monitors progress and remains interested in significant evidence that will allow improvements in breast screening. Any member of the public can submit a proposal to modify a screening programme during the UK NSC’s annual call.


Written Question
Unispace Global: Protective Clothing
Tuesday 21st June 2022

Asked by: Dawn Butler (Labour - Brent Central)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the value for money of purchases of PPE from Unispace Global Ltd; and if he will make a statement.

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

Contracts between the Department and Unispace Global Ltd were novated to Unispace Health Products LLP in December 2020, which is now known as Sante Global LLP. We are unable to provide the information requested as it is commercially sensitive. However, the Department has established a contract dissolution team to maximise the value obtained from contracts for personal protective equipment.


Written Question
Unispace Global: Protective Clothing
Monday 13th June 2022

Asked by: Dawn Butler (Labour - Brent Central)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, from which companies Unispace Global Ltd purchased personal protective equipment in (a) 2020 and (b) 2021.

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

We are unable to provide the information requested as it is commercially sensitive.


Written Question
Unispace Global: Protective Clothing
Thursday 28th April 2022

Asked by: Dawn Butler (Labour - Brent Central)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 20 April 2022 to Question 117746 on Unispace Global: Protective Clothing, what proportion of the supplies purchased by the Government under the £603 million Unispace Global Ltd contract (a) were received and (b) met safety standards.

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

We are unable to provide the information requested as it is commercially sensitive.


Written Question
Ministry of Justice: Written Questions
Monday 25th April 2022

Asked by: Dawn Butler (Labour - Brent Central)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to respond to Question 117746 on Unispace Global: Protective Clothing tabled by the hon. Member for Brent Central on 3 March 2022.

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

I refer the hon Member to the answer to Question 117746.


Written Question
Unispace Global: Protective Clothing
Wednesday 20th April 2022

Asked by: Dawn Butler (Labour - Brent Central)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department paid £600 million to Unispace Global Ltd for the purchase of personal protective equipment in 2020; and if he will provide a breakdown of the supplies purchased under contracts awarded by the Department to Unispace Global Ltd.

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

The Department paid £603 million to Unispace Global Ltd for the purchase of personal protective equipment in 2020 and the remaining amount in 2021.

The supplies purchased under contracts awarded by Unispace Global Ltd by the Department were gloves and face masks. We are unable to provide a further breakdown of the supplies as this information is commercially sensitive.


Written Question
Coronavirus: Greater London
Friday 8th April 2022

Asked by: Dawn Butler (Labour - Brent Central)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have received the covid-19 vaccinations at walk-in and pop up clinics in London; and how many and what proportion of those people (i) did not have a NHS number and (ii) were not registered with a GP.

Answered by Maggie Throup

The information requested is not held centrally.


Written Question
Cancer: Waiting Lists
Wednesday 6th April 2022

Asked by: Dawn Butler (Labour - Brent Central)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people were on the (a) 31 day cancer Patient Tracking List and (b) 62 day cancer Patient Tracking List as of 22 March 2022; and how many people were taken off each of those lists in each of the last 12 months.

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

This information is not available in the format requested. The cancer Patient Tracking List (PTL) is a monitoring tool used by hospitals for management of their waiting lists and is not centrally validated. A patient is removed from the 31 day or 62 day pathway and PTL monitoring when:

- the organisation communicates to the patient that a cancer diagnosis has been excluded;

- a first definitive treatment has been completed or permitted enabling treatment;

- a patient declines treatment;

- a patient chooses to receive treatment privately; and

- death occurs before treatment.


Written Question
General Practitioners
Tuesday 5th April 2022

Asked by: Dawn Butler (Labour - Brent Central)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the number of full time employed (a) qualified GPs and (b) training grade GPs in the general practice workforce in (i) London and (ii) England in each year since 2010.

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

The following table shows the number of qualified salaried general practitioners (GPs) employed in the general practice workforce on a full time basis of 37.5 hours a week in England since 2015, headcount.

Number of headcount salaried GPs working 37.5 hours and over per week

September 2015

1,480

September 2016

1,569

September 2017

1,554

September 2018

1,541

September 2019

1,497

September 2020

1,483

September 2021

1,554

Notes:

  1. Data from September 2015 and September 2016 should be treated with caution as the data submission rates from practices were appreciably lower than for subsequent reporting periods. In September 2015, which was the first extract from the new Workforce Minimum Data Set, three of four Health Education England regions submitted data. Consequently, September 2015 figures should be treated with additional caution.
  2. Figures shown do not include regular GP locums or 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. Though there is no specific data for salaried GPs, other GPs were defined as GPs who worked within partnerships and were formerly known as GMS or PMS Others. These practitioners are generally remunerated by salary.
  4. The FTE figures for GPs from September 2015 onwards are not directly comparable with FTE figures from the National Health Application and Infrastructure Services (NHAIS) and manual collection due to NHAIS having a default value of 1.0 FTE whereas the Primary Care Web Tool (PCWT) has no default value. NHAIS capped individual GP FTE at 1.28 (48 hours); in the PCWT the cap is 2.0 FTE (75 hours). NHAIS has instances of GPs working at multiple practices each with the default value of 1.0. For example, a GP working at five practices would have an FTE of 5.0 from NHAIS which was capped at 1.28 for the publication. NHAIS has instances of GPs recorded against specific practices at which they no longer work but their records have not yet been removed. If these GPs had multiple records, they would have been capped at 1.28 FTE in the publication. NHAIS FTE field is non-mandatory, PCWT FTE is mandatory and the data provider has to complete it in order to pass data quality checks and enable submission of their data. NHAIS FTE field was mainly used for the annual census and was not used for payment purposes

The following table shows the number of GPs employed in the general practice workforce on a full time basis in England in each year between 2010 and 2014, headcount. This data was collected through the general practice census, which recorded the details of GPs in England along with information on their practices, staff, patients and the services they provide. General practice workforce statistics from prior to 2015 are not comparable to the official statistics produced since September 2015, due to differences in data sources and methodologies.

Number of headcount other GPs working 37.5 hours and over per week

September 2010

5,109

September 2011

4,608

September 2012

5,298

September 2013

6,343

September 2014

7,266

As independent contractors to the National Health Service, GP partners are not considered to be employed by their practice. The information requested for GPs in London and those in training grade is not held centrally.