Asked by: Martin Wrigley (Liberal Democrat - Newton Abbot)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate her Department has made of the (a) prevalence of respiratory disease and (b) number of emergency hospital admissions for respiratory conditions in Newton Abbot.
Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The specific data requested by the Hon Members is not centrally held. They may find useful information on the prevalence and treatment of respiratory conditions in their local areas at the Department’s Fingertips website, at the following link:
https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profiles
In addition, the National flu and COVID-19 surveillance report, published by the UK Health Security Agency, provides weekly surveillance of respiratory virus activity in England, including hospital admission rates specifically for influenza, COVID-19, and respiratory syncytial virus. This is available at the following link:
Asked by: Martin Wrigley (Liberal Democrat - Newton Abbot)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many appeals against decisions made under the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme were awaiting determination by the Social Security and Child Support Tribunal as of 1 September 2026.
Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Available data on the operation of the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS) is published on a regular basis by the NHS Business Services Authority (NHS BSA). This can be found on the NHS BSA Open Data Portal at the following link:
https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/theme/public-services-schemes-and-payments
Appeals to the VDPS are lodged directly with and managed by the HM Courts and Tribunals Service, not the NHS BSA. The requested data is therefore not centrally held.
Asked by: Martin Wrigley (Liberal Democrat - Newton Abbot)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when she plans to respond to the correspondence from the hon. Member for Newton Abbot sent on 18 August 2026 under case ref MW00400.
Answered by James Frith - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Department replied to the Hon. Member’s correspondence on 14 October.
Asked by: Martin Wrigley (Liberal Democrat - Newton Abbot)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information the department holds on the average waiting time between an appeal being lodged and the appeal being determined under the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme in each of the last five years.
Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Available data on the operation of the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS) is published on a regular basis by the NHS Business Services Authority (NHS BSA). This can be found on the NHS BSA Open Data Portal at the following link:
https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/theme/public-services-schemes-and-payments
Appeals to the VDPS are lodged directly with and managed by the HM Courts and Tribunals Service, not the NHS BSA. The requested data is therefore not centrally held.
Asked by: Martin Wrigley (Liberal Democrat - Newton Abbot)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many appeals under the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme had been awaiting determination for more than (a) six months, (b) 12 months, (c) 18 months and (d) 24 months as of the 1st of September 2026.
Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Available data on the operation of the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS) is published on a regular basis by the NHS Business Services Authority (NHS BSA). This can be found on the NHS BSA Open Data Portal at the following link:
https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/theme/public-services-schemes-and-payments
Appeals to the VDPS are lodged directly with and managed by the HM Courts and Tribunals Service, not the NHS BSA. The requested data is therefore not centrally held.
Asked by: Martin Wrigley (Liberal Democrat - Newton Abbot)
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 reduce waiting times for Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme appeals.
Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Available data on the operation of the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS) is published on a regular basis by the NHS Business Services Authority (NHS BSA). This can be found on the NHS BSA Open Data Portal at the following link:
https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/theme/public-services-schemes-and-payments
Appeals to the VDPS are lodged directly with and managed by the HM Courts and Tribunals Service, not the NHS BSA. The requested data is therefore not centrally held.
Asked by: Martin Wrigley (Liberal Democrat - Newton Abbot)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Department has asked NHS England to review its use of the term "signed up" in reporting uptake of the Federated Data Platform, in circumstances where NHS organisations described as signed up are not actively using the platform.
Answered by James Frith - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Department routinely monitors performance, costs, risks, and other factors in relation to all major contracts as part of its ongoing contract management processes, and reports on those issues in the normal way at appropriate milestones. We do not provide a running commentary outside of that process.
Asked by: Martin Wrigley (Liberal Democrat - Newton Abbot)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether there are additional costs for the NHS FDP programme if the NHS increases the amount of data (a) processed and (b) stored.
Answered by James Frith - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Department routinely monitors performance, costs, risks, and other factors in relation to all major contracts as part of its ongoing contract management processes, and reports on those issues in the normal way at appropriate milestones. We do not provide a running commentary outside of that process.
Asked by: Martin Wrigley (Liberal Democrat - Newton Abbot)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the costs for the NHS Federated Data Platform will be after 7 years of the contract with Palantir.
Answered by James Frith - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Department routinely monitors performance, costs, risks, and other factors in relation to all major contracts as part of its ongoing contract management processes, and reports on those issues in the normal way at appropriate milestones. We do not provide a running commentary outside of that process.
Asked by: Martin Wrigley (Liberal Democrat - Newton Abbot)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to NHS England’s web publication NHS Federated Data Platform uptake and benefits, whether NHS England will publish uptake statistics that distinguish between hospitals that are (a) signed up but not actively using an FDP product, (b) actively using one FDP product and (c) actively using two or more FDP products.
Answered by James Frith - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Department routinely monitors performance, costs, risks, and other factors in relation to all major contracts as part of its ongoing contract management processes, and reports on those issues in the normal way at appropriate milestones. We do not provide a running commentary outside of that process.