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Written Question
Care Homes: Government Assistance
Tuesday 29th December 2020

Asked by: Flick Drummond (Conservative - Meon Valley)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make additional support available to care homes as a result of increasing insurance premiums and mortgage costs.

Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

We recognise that the adult social care sector is facing significant pressures in light of the pandemic and we are working closely across Government and with care providers to better understand the impact of cost increases across the sector. We have already made £4.6 billion of support available to local authorities so they can address pressures on local services caused by the pandemic, including in adult social care. In addition, we have made £1.1 billion available to social care, the majority for care homes, to support them with additional infection prevention and control costs related to Covid-19, and a further £149 million to help with additional costs of testing

As part of the 2020 Spending Review, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced that the Government will provide councils with access to an additional £1 billion for social care next year and we also expect to provide them with estimated funding of around £3 billion to help manage the impact of COVID-19 across their services, including in adult social care and to compensate for income losses.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 19 Nov 2020
DHSC Answers to Written Questions

"May I thank you, Mr Speaker, for allowing so many urgent questions and statements, which allow so many Back Benchers to ask questions? I am very grateful for that.

All Departments have had a higher volume of questions, not least the Department of Health and Social Care, because of the …..."
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Written Question
Income Support
Thursday 23rd July 2020

Asked by: Flick Drummond (Conservative - Meon Valley)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has plans to increase the level of the (a) personal expense allowance and (b) minimum income guarantee in line with the 2020 benefits up-rating.

Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

The financial allowances including the personal expense allowance and minimum income guarantee rates are reviewed annually.

Future funding for social care will be set out at the next spending review.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 24 Jun 2020
Testing of NHS and Social Care Staff

"As other Members have said this afternoon, all through this crisis the staff across the health and care system, whether NHS staff or those working in the private sector, have made huge efforts and sacrifices to look after people who need their help. I therefore welcome this opportunity to pay …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 17 Jun 2020
Coronavirus

"I welcome the psychological first aid training that my right hon. Friend launched this week so that frontline workers can support people with mental health problems. However, I am also concerned about the mental health of key workers themselves, particularly those in the NHS who have been working non-stop since …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 19 May 2020
Coronavirus and Care Homes

"Will the Secretary of State join me in praising the work of the Hampshire and Isle of Wight local resilience forum, which has meant that no care home has been without personal protective equipment during the pandemic? Will he also join me in thanking the resilience and hard work of …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 05 May 2020
Oral Answers to Questions

" What steps he is taking to support children and young people to continue learning at home while nurseries, schools and colleges are partially closed as a result of the covid-19 outbreak. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 05 May 2020
Oral Answers to Questions

"Will my right hon. Friend join me in congratulating schools in Hampshire on their success in ensuring that 31% of vulnerable children are attending school, and in thanking all the teachers, school staff and children, particularly those in Meon Valley, for their hard work both in school and at home? …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 25 Feb 2020
Social Care

"I am pleased that Labour has chosen this important debate as one of its Opposition day topics. Social care impacts on people from all backgrounds across the whole country, and it is right that we continue to debate it, so I hope that we can seek some consensus and look …..."
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Written Question
Health Services
Thursday 27th April 2017

Asked by: Flick Drummond (Conservative - Meon Valley)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the costs to the NHS and social care system of treatment for (a) alcohol abuse, (b) obesity and (c) viral hepatitis in each of the last five years.

Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford

Data on costs is not available in the format requested. However the health costs associated with alcohol misuse are estimated to cost the National Health Service in England around £3.5 billion each year and the latest estimate of the cost to the NHS in England of overweight or obesity related ill-health is £5.1 billion each year.

Data is not available by cause of condition to provide an expenditure estimate requested for viral hepatitis.