Asked by: Kate Green (Labour - Stretford and Urmston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to her Answer of 21 April 2022 to Question 151099 on Health Services: ICT, whether her Department holds the names of any providers of patient-facing digital services used by NHS organisations that are not DTAC compliant.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The information requested is not held centrally. However, following analysis of the recently launched NHS Digital Health Technology Standards Audit, we will work with relevant stakeholders to deliver guidance for National Health Service organisations and suppliers to ensure that any non-compliance is resolved and all digital health products used are fit for purpose. NHS England is working with existing providers of non-compliant products to ensure this is achieved as soon as possible.
Asked by: Kate Green (Labour - Stretford and Urmston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 21 April 2022 to Question 151099 on Health Services: ICT, when each provider of digital services used by NHS organisations to deliver patient-facing services became Digital Technology Assessment Criteria (DTAC) compliant.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The information requested is not held centrally. However, following analysis of the recently launched NHS Digital Health Technology Standards Audit, we will work with relevant stakeholders to deliver guidance for National Health Service organisations and suppliers to ensure that any non-compliance is resolved and all digital health products used are fit for purpose. NHS England is working with existing providers of non-compliant products to ensure this is achieved as soon as possible.
Asked by: Kate Green (Labour - Stretford and Urmston)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many men in prison aged (a) 18-25 years old and (b) 26 years old and above were on the (i) basic, (ii) standard and (iii) enhanced incentives status in each month between 1 March 2021 and 31 March 2022.
Answered by Rob Butler
Data on the incentive scheme are published in the HMPPS Annual Digest. The requested disaggregation by month and age group does not form part of the published data and could not be provided without incurring disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Kate Green (Labour - Stretford and Urmston)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many women in prison aged (a) 18-25 years old and (b) 26 years old and above were on the (i) basic, (ii) standard and (iii) enhanced incentives status in each month between 1 March 2021 and 31 March 2022.
Answered by Rob Butler
Data on the incentive scheme are published in the HMPPS Annual Digest. The requested disaggregation by month and age group does not form part of the published data and could not be provided without incurring disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Kate Green (Labour - Stretford and Urmston)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much (a) capital and (b) other funding he has allocated to the planned national SEND and alternative provision implementation strategy.
Answered by Kelly Tolhurst
The Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Alternative Provision (AP) Green Paper set out investments in the SEND and AP system, including:
Asked by: Kate Green (Labour - Stretford and Urmston)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing funding for Teachers of the Deaf under the planned national SEND and alternative provision implementation strategy.
Answered by Kelly Tolhurst
The department remains committed to publishing the government’s response to the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Alternative Provision (AP) Green Paper consultation in a national SEND and AP improvement plan in due course. This will set out the government’s response to the consultation, including how we are supporting the workforce to meet the needs of children and young people. The department will not be commenting on individual policy proposals ahead of the response being issued.
Asked by: Kate Green (Labour - Stretford and Urmston)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans to publish a specialist special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) workforce strategy as part of the planned national SEND and alternative provision implementation strategy.
Answered by Kelly Tolhurst
The department remains committed to publishing the government’s response to the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Alternative Provision (AP) Green Paper consultation in a national SEND and AP improvement plan in due course. This will set out the government’s response to the consultation, including how we are supporting the workforce to meet the needs of children and young people. The department will not be commenting on individual policy proposals ahead of the response being issued.
Asked by: Kate Green (Labour - Stretford and Urmston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of trends in rates of perinatal mortality in Stretford and Urmston constituency.
Answered by Caroline Johnson
No specific assessment has been made. The Government’s national maternity safety ambition aims to halve the 2010 rates of stillbirths, neonatal and maternal deaths and brain injuries in babies occurring during or soon after birth, by 2025. Since 2010, the rate of stillbirths has reduced by 19.3%, the rate of neonatal mortality for babies born over 24 weeks gestational age of viability has reduced by 36% and maternal mortality has reduced by 17%.
We have introduced targeted interventions to accelerate progress, such as the Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle and the Brain Injury Reduction Programme. NHS England has also invested £127 million in National Health Service maternity workforce and improving neonatal care. This is in addition to the £95 million investment made in 2021 to fund the establishment of a further 1,200 midwifery and 100 consultant obstetrician posts. NHS England is offering funding and support to trusts to recruit an additional 300 to 500 overseas midwives in the next 12 months.
Asked by: Kate Green (Labour - Stretford and Urmston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help improve access to NHS dental services in Stretford and Urmston constituency.
Answered by Will Quince
In September, we announced ‘Our plan for patients’, which outlines how we will meet oral health needs and increase access to dental care, including in Stretford and Urmston.
The plan includes improvements to ensure dentists are renumerated fairly for more complex work, allowing greater flexibility to reallocate resources and to utilise dentists with greater capacity to deliver National Health Service treatment, whilst enabling full use of the dental team. The plan also includes streamlining processes for overseas dentists and holding the local NHS to account for dentistry provision. In addition, Health Education England is also reforming dental education to improve the recruitment and retention of dental professionals.
Asked by: Kate Green (Labour - Stretford and Urmston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many calls the Healthy Start helpline received in each of last six months for which data is available.
Answered by Caroline Johnson
The following table shows the number of calls to the Healthy Start helpline in each month from April to September 2022.
Month | Number of calls |
September 2022 | 322,351 |
August 2022 | 334,180 |
July 2022 | 297,852 |
June 2022 | 372,036 |
May 2022 | 426,480 |
April 2022 | 215,358 |