Asked by: Kate Green (Labour - Stretford and Urmston)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Category D prisoners are held in (a) open and (b) closed prison environments.
Answered by Damian Hinds
Cat D prisoners housed in: |
| % of Cat D Population |
Number of prisoners | ||
Open conditions | 4731 | 76.75% |
Closed conditions | 1433 | 23.25% |
Total | 6164 | 100.00% |
The data provided above cover only adult prisoners (21+) in male prisons. Prisoners living in the open units of closed prisons (i.e. at HMP Norwich and HMP Stoke Heath) are included in the open conditions figure.
It should not be inferred that all Category D prisoners in closed conditions are necessarily awaiting a transfer to open conditions in the short to medium term. A proportion may have returned from open conditions as not being assessed as suitable, and are awaiting re-classification. The transfer of prisoners around the prison estate is a matter for both sending and receiving prisons to agree so that prisoners are held in establishments that provide appropriate levels of security, are suitable for their age and legal status, provide facilities to reduce their risk of reoffending and, wherever possible, at the lowest cost to the taxpayer. Prisoners are moved to suitable establishments as part of their sentence plan, following re-categorisation in line with centrally produced guidance, where requested or where there is an operational need to do so.
We are investing £3.8 billion to deliver 20,000 additional, modern prison places including 2,000 temporary prison places across England and Wales by the mid-2020s. This portfolio of work will deliver 660 additional places through expansion of the Category D estate at a number of sites across the country.
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, which providers of digital services used by NHS organisations to deliver patient-facing services are Digital Technology Assessment Criteria (DTAC) compliant.
Answered by Will Quince
The NHS Digital Health Technology Standards Audit asks National Health Service organisations to provide details of all digital health technologies deployed by the organisation and whether the technology has been assessed against all or parts of the Digital Technology Assessment Criteria. The audit is open until 25 November 2022.
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, pursuant to the Answer of 1 August 2022 to Question HL2011, what progress her Department has made on (a) collecting and (b) publishing data on take-up of the Healthy Start scheme.
Answered by Neil O'Brien - Shadow Minister (Education)
The Department of Health and Social Care continues to work with the NHS Business Services Authority and the Department for Work and Pensions to obtain the relevant data by the end of 2022.
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, whether her Department plans to resume the publication of monthly take-up data for the Healthy Start scheme.
Answered by Neil O'Brien - Shadow Minister (Education)
The Department of Health and Social Care continues to work closely with the NHS Business Services Authority and the Department for Work and Pensions to obtain the relevant data as soon as possible. The NHS Business Services Authority plan to publish the data by the end of the year.
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 support the (a) recruitment and (b) retention of GPs in Stretford and Urmston constituency.
Answered by Will Quince
We are working with NHS England, Health Education England and the profession to increase the general practice workforce in England, including in Stretford and Urmston. This includes measures to improve recruitment, address the reasons why doctors leave the profession and encourage them to return to practice.
The updated GP Contract Framework announced a number of new schemes, alongside continued support for existing recruitment and retention schemes for the general practice workforce. This includes the GP Retention Scheme, the GP Retention Fund, the National GP Induction and Refresher, the Locum Support Scheme, the New to Partnership Payment and the Supporting Mentors Scheme.
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 the level of life expectancy in Stretford and Urmston constituency.
Answered by Caroline Johnson - Shadow Minister (Health and Social Care)
No specific assessment has been made. ‘Our plan for patients’, published on 22 September, sets out the immediate priorities to support individuals to live healthier lives, including improving access to health and care services in all areas and preventing ill-health. Further information on measures to address health disparities will be available in due course.
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 mental health services in Stretford and Urmston constituency.
Answered by Caroline Johnson - Shadow Minister (Health and Social Care)
In September we announced ‘Our Plan for Patients’, which outlines how we will increase access to National Health Service mental health and eating disorder services, including in Stretford and Urmston. Making it easier to access general practice through our ABCD priorities will expand this route as a gateway to mental health care.
Through the NHS Long Term Plan, we are investing an additional £2.3 billion a year by 2023/24 to expand these services for adults, children and young people in England, including in Stretford and Urmston.
We will invest approximately £1 billion in community mental health care for adults with severe mental illness, including eating disorders, by 2023/24 and an additional £53 million per year in children and young people's community eating disorder services to increase capacity in the 70 community eating disorder teams.
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 support young people with eating disorders in Stretford and Urmston constituency.
Answered by Caroline Johnson - Shadow Minister (Health and Social Care)
In September we announced ‘Our Plan for Patients’, which outlines how we will increase access to National Health Service mental health and eating disorder services, including in Stretford and Urmston. Making it easier to access general practice through our ABCD priorities will expand this route as a gateway to mental health care.
Through the NHS Long Term Plan, we are investing an additional £2.3 billion a year by 2023/24 to expand these services for adults, children and young people in England, including in Stretford and Urmston.
We will invest approximately £1 billion in community mental health care for adults with severe mental illness, including eating disorders, by 2023/24 and an additional £53 million per year in children and young people's community eating disorder services to increase capacity in the 70 community eating disorder teams.
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 adequacy of the NHS dentist provision 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, with reference to the Answer of 21 April 2022 to Question 151099 on Health Services: ICT, what recent steps her Department has taken to ensure that providers of digital services used by NHS organisations to deliver patient-facing services are Digital Technology Assessment Criteria (DTAC) compliant.
Answered by Robert Jenrick - Shadow Secretary of State for Justice
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.