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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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 told they had been taken off of the cancer Patient Tracking List in each of the last 12 months.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The cancer Patient Tracking List (PTL) is a monitoring tool used by hospitals for management of their waiting lists. Data is not collected on whether patients are notified about their removal from the PTL. However, a patient is removed from the 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.
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 oversight of cancer Patient Tracking Lists is undertaken by (a) the UK Health Security Agency and (b) his Department.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
NHS England collects management information on the number of patients on the Patient Tracker Log waiting for cancer treatment and whether they have waited less than 62 days, more than 62 days or more than 104 days. This data is reviewed at weekly and monthly intervals by the Department. NHS England also publish national data on the number of people waiting more than 62 days each month.
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 full-time equivalent staff have been employed in Sexual Assault Referral Centres in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
Answered by Gillian Keegan - Secretary of State for Education
The information requested is not held centrally. Each Sexual Assault Referral Centre is delivered by an independent community-based healthcare provider.
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 much has his Department allocated in funding to Sexual Assault Referral Centres in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
Answered by Gillian Keegan - Secretary of State for Education
The following table shows expenditure by NHS England and NHS Improvement on Sexual Assault Referral Centres in each of the last five years.
2016/17 | £23,014,000 |
2017/18 | £24,312,000 |
2018/19 | £32,316,000 |
2019/20 | £33,186,000 |
2020/21 | £38,998,000 |
Note:
It should be noted that that due to a change in service commissioning, expenditure in 2020/21 also includes Sexual Assault and Abuse Services more widely.
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 assessment he has made of the impact of the covid-19 outbreak on levels of abuse experienced by GP staff in (a) Brent, (b) London and (c) England.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The Government has a zero-tolerance approach to abuse and harassment. We are investing in improved security at general practitioner surgeries and we are working with the National Health Service to ensure primary care workers are supported.