Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding was dispensed as part of Continuing Healthcare appeals in England for every year for which data is available since 2017.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
We do not collect data on the length of time taken to process NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) appeals, nor on the expenditure related to CHC appeals. Appeals for CHC follow a three-stage process which ensures that the correct eligibility decision on CHC has been reached. The first stage is for an individual to ask for a local review at integrated care board (ICB) level, followed by a second stage review by an NHS England Independent Review Panel if requested. The final stage is a complaint to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman. We have interpreted 'continuing healthcare appeals' as a request for a local review, or an Independent Review of a CHC eligibility decision. NHS England only collect and publish data on the annual number of ICB Local Resolution requests, and their outcomes, but not the length of time taken to process the appeals. NHS England collect Independent Review data for internal reporting and management purposes only. CHC spend data is also collected by NHS England, but not at the granular level requested.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the NHS spent on agencies in each year since 2012; and what proportion that spend is of the NHS budget in each of those years.
Answered by Will Quince
The table below sets out the agency spend for the years 2011/12 to 2020/21 and its proportion against the National Health Service budget for those years. 2021/22 data for agency is yet to be validated and published.
Year | Total agency spend £ billions | Proportion of NHS budget |
2011/12 | 1.69 | 1.78% |
2012/13 | 2.09 | 2.13% |
2013/14 | 2.55 | 2.72% |
2014/15 | 3.33 | 3.43% |
2015/16 | 3.70 | 3.67% |
2016/17 | 2.93 | 2.77% |
2017/18 | 2.40 | 2.19% |
2018/19 | 2.39 | 2.09% |
2019/20 | 2.38 | 1.92% |
2020/21 | 2.44 | 1.7% |
NHS budget data source: HM Treasury’s Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses and the data is NHS RDEL, available at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/public-expenditure-statistical-analyses-pesa
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of changes to the median nurse’s salary in real terms since 2010.
Answered by Will Quince
The table shows the median basic pay per full time equivalent (FTE) for nurses and health visitors and the level of the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) in the 12-months to September 2010 and the 12-months to September 2022.
| Nurse & Health Visitor Median Basic Pay per FTE | Average CPI Index (2015 = 100) |
12-months to September 2010 | £27,186 | 88.7 |
12-months to September 2022 | £34,095 | 118.6 |
Source: NHS Digital Earnings Statistics, Office for National Statistics.
Note: Basic pay figures do not include any additional earnings that staff may earn if they work unsocial hours or are in receipt of geographical allowances.
Over the period median basic pay per FTE increased by 25.4% while CPI increased by 33.7%
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made on the process to appoint a selected partner for the Automated External Defibrillators Fund.
Answered by Will Quince
The Department is currently in the pre-procurement stage in its process of determining a selected partner for the Automated External Defibrillator Fund. The criteria for assessing whether proposed recipients are eligible to access the Automated External Defibrillators Fund will be part of the procurement process.
The Department will publish in due course a notice informing interested organisations of the upcoming opportunity and invite them to bid for the grant through GOV.UK.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what criteria his Department will use to assess whether proposed recipients are eligible to access the Automated External Defibrillators Fund.
Answered by Will Quince
The Department is currently in the pre-procurement stage in its process of determining a selected partner for the Automated External Defibrillator Fund. The criteria for assessing whether proposed recipients are eligible to access the Automated External Defibrillators Fund will be part of the procurement process.
The Department will publish in due course a notice informing interested organisations of the upcoming opportunity and invite them to bid for the grant through GOV.UK.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS staff were off sick with stress-related illnesses in (a) 2012 and (b) 2022.
Answered by Will Quince
Data on sickness absence is collected in the Electronic Staff Record, the human resources system for the National Health Service. Within this data it is not possible to specifically identify those recorded as absent due to ‘stress’. This sits within wider categories of absence collected, therefore for 2012, ‘stress-related’ reasons include 'Other Mental Disorders', 'Psychological', 'Stress' and 'S10 Anxiety/stress/depression/other psychiatric illnesses'. For 2021 and 2022, stress reasons include 'S10 Anxiety/stress/depression/other psychiatric illnesses'. The following table below shows the full time equivalent (FTE) days lost for ‘stress-related’ illnesses in 2012,2021 and 2022:
Type | 2012 | 2021 | 2022 (January to August) |
FTE days available | 384,901,520 | 467,978,005 | 319,962,005 |
FTE days lost due to all reasons | 16,271,654 | 23,531,596 | 18,050,326 |
FTE days lost due to stress related reasons | 2,846,280 | 6,214,112 | 3,992,109 |
Stress related sickness absence rate as a percentage of FTE days available | 0.7% | 1.3% | 1.2% |
Stress related sickness absence rate as a percentage of FTE days lost due to all reasons | 17.5% | 26.4% | 22.1% |
FTE days lost due to Unknown reasons | 2,490,021 | 697,063 | 485,420 |
Source: NHS Digital Sickness Absence Data
Notes:
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the NHS spent on agency staff in (a) 2012 and (B) 2022.
Answered by Will Quince
Agency spend in 2011/12 was £1.69 billion and in 2012/13 was £2.09 billion. The information requested on expenditure on agency for the period 2021/2022 has not yet been validated.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to reduce adult obesity.
Answered by Maggie Throup
New regulations on calorie labelling for out of home food sold in large businesses, including restaurants, cafes and takeaways came into force on 6 April 2022. Further legislation on restrictions on the promotion and advertising of products high in fat, salt or sugar will come into effect in due course. Through our reformulation programmes, we are ensuring that the food and drink available to consumers is healthier. The Soft Drinks Industry Levy has reduced sugar in the drinks within its scope by 43.7% since its introduction.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to reduce childhood obesity.
Answered by Maggie Throup
New regulations on calorie labelling for out of home food sold in large businesses, including restaurants, cafes and takeaways came into force on 6 April 2022. Further legislation on restrictions on the promotion and advertising of products high in fat, salt or sugar will come into effect in due course. Through our reformulation programmes, we are ensuring that the food and drink available to consumers is healthier. The Soft Drinks Industry Levy has reduced sugar in the drinks within its scope by 43.7% since its introduction.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, in how many English local authorities the rate of adult obesity has increased between 2012 and 2022.
Answered by Maggie Throup
Data from the Health Survey for England (HSE) shows that obesity prevalence in adults in England has increased from 24.7% in 2012 to 28.0% in 2019, the latest data available.
Data for local authorities is not held in the format requested as this records combined overweight and obese categories. However, the latest data available from the Active Lives Adult Survey shows that the proportion of adults classified as overweight or living with obesity statistically significantly increased between 2015/16 and 2019/20 in 17 of 148 upper tier local authorities. No local authorities had statistically significant decreases.