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 the average wait time for an ambulance was in (a) Coventry and (b) Warwickshire in each winter since 2010-2011.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The information is not available in the format requested.
Ambulance response times are measured by response time category down to regional ambulance trust level. Coventry and Warwickshire are both served by the West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS).
The current ambulance response time standards were introduced in 2017 following extensive clinical trials and include average response times by response time category. Prior to this average response times were not centrally collected.
The following table shows average ambulance response times for WMAS in December, January and February between 2017 and 2023.
Year | Month | Category 1 mean | Category 2 mean | Category 3 mean | Category 4 mean |
2017/18 | December | 00:07:03 | 00:13:12 | 0:39:49 | 1:04:30 |
| January | 00:06:48 | 00:12:22 | 0:35:20 | 0:57:11 |
| February | 00:07:03 | 00:13:14 | 0:41:35 | 1:00:51 |
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2018/19 | December | 0:06:48 | 0:12:29 | 0:36:14 | 0:51:31 |
| January | 0:06:44 | 0:12:11 | 0:35:17 | 0:51:40 |
| February | 0:06:46 | 0:12:32 | 0:38:22 | 0:51:10 |
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2019/20 | December | 0:07:02 | 0:14:56 | 1:01:08 | 1:16:39 |
| January | 0:06:59 | 0:12:29 | 0:32:47 | 0:48:36 |
| February | 0:07:09 | 0:13:06 | 0:41:16 | 0:56:45 |
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2020/21 | December | 0:06:57 | 0:14:46 | 0:47:41 | 1:01:10 |
| January | 0:06:51 | 0:14:48 | 0:51:45 | 1:03:04 |
| February | 0:06:35 | 0:12:01 | 0:25:06 | 0:35:28 |
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2021/22 | December | 0:08:19 | 0:48:19 | 3:20:50 | 3:46:03 |
| January | 0:08:10 | 0:34:44 | 2:35:07 | 2:54:24 |
| February | 0:08:11 | 0:33:36 | 2:26:14 | 3:15:26 |
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2022/23 | December | 0:09:14 | 1:31:10 | 4:48:31 | 4:33:46 |
| January | 0:08:11 | 0:27:21 | 1:39:18 | 1:51:52 |
| February | 0:08:18 | 0:25:49 | 1:54:42 | 2:37:55 |
Source: NHS England Ambulance Quality Indicators.
Note: The national standards for Category 3 and 4 incidents are 90th percentile response times, rather than mean response.
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 children have had an appointment with a NHS dentist in Warwick and Leamington constituency in each year since 2010.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This data is not published at constituency level. We have therefore presented the data which is available at ICB level in the following table.
For Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Board (ICB):
Year | Number of children seen in previous 12 months to June of each year | Number of children seen as a proportion of total population of children |
2016 | 109,691 | 59% |
2017 | 112,120 | 60% |
2018 | 114,960 | 55% |
2019 | 117,002 | 61% |
2020 | 107,114 | 55% |
2021 | 68,697 | 35% |
2022 | 99,569 | 50% |
2023 | 113,822 | 57% |
Source: https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-dental-statistics
Note: The methodology to count how many children have been seen changed in 2016. We therefore have not included figures for the years before 2016 as they are not comparable.
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 has been allocated to mental health services in Warwickshire in each year since 2010.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
It is for individual local commissioners to allocate funding to mental health services to meet the needs of their local populations and this information is not collected centrally. Integrated care boards are expected to continue to meet the Mental Health Investment Standard by increasing their investment in mental health services in line with their overall increase in funding for the year.
Spending on NHS mental health services in England continues to increase each year from almost £11 billion in 2015/16 to almost £16 billion in 2022/23.
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 patients have been waiting for 12 months or longer for NHS treatment in Warwick and Leamington constituency.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The information is not held in the format requested as it is not available at a constituency level.
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 the ratio of NHS dentists to adults is in Warwick and Leamington constituency.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The information requested is not held centrally at constituency level. There were 48.4 dentists delivering National Health Service activity per 100,000 persons in Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Board in 2022/23, which equates to one dentist per 2,067 persons.
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 per adult was provided for mental health services in Warwick and Leamington constituency in (a) 2019 and (b) 2022.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The information requested is not collected centrally.
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 per child and adolescent was provided for CAMHS mental health services in Warwick and Leamington constituency in (a) 2019 and (b) 2022.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The information requested is not collected centrally.
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 health visitors are employed by the NHS; and how many were employed on 1 September 2010.
Answered by Will Quince
The number of health visitors working in National Health Service trusts and other core organisations in England is published monthly by NHS England as part of their NHS Workforce Statistics Collection. The data can be found in the nurses by setting table at the following link:
The data includes staff employed by NHS trusts and commissioning bodies, but excludes staff directly employed by primary care, general practitioner surgeries, local authorities, and other providers such as community interest companies and private providers.
Local authorities have been responsible for commissioning health visiting services since 2015. These services may be commissioned from NHS trusts as well as other providers.
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 assessment he has made of the adequacy of the extent of water testing for Covid in the last 12 months.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
Wastewater monitoring for COVID-19 and its variants was stood down in April 2022 in response to the Government policy change to Living with COVID-19. Therefore, in England, there has been no wastewater testing for COVID-19 within the last 12 months. Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland have their own programmes, run independently of the approach in England.
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 proportion of unused equipment at the Rosalind Franklin Laboratory in Leamington Spa was repurposed for other uses in the NHS.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The United Kingdom’s polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing network for coronavirus (COVID-19) was scaled down in response to reduced demand and to ensure value for money for taxpayers. From 17 January 2023, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) laboratory network reduced from three labs to two, with the Rosalind Franklin Laboratory ceasing to process PCR tests. The laboratory has been mothballed rather than closed down; hence no closing down costs have been incurred.
For as long as the laboratory is mothballed, the equipment is being left in situ to minimise the time required to restart operations if needed. As such, none of the laboratory’s equipment has been repurposed for use by the National Health Service at this stage