Asked by: Neale Hanvey (Alba Party - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he last met with the UK Health Security Agency to discuss (a) emerging infectious disease threats and (b) maintaining pandemic response preparedness.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care regularly meets with UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) officials.
The Department, alongside UKHSA and NHS England, continues to plan and prepare for a range of pandemic and emerging infectious disease scenarios, including those caused by respiratory, contact and vector-borne pathogens. Senior officials regularly meet to ensure that the United Kingdom is protected from future health threats, building on the enhanced capabilities deployed to tackle COVID-19 and other infectious disease outbreaks. This includes cooperating globally to detect and counter future pandemics and emerging infectious disease outbreaks.
Asked by: Neale Hanvey (Alba Party - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what further measures she will take to raise awareness of the importance of (a) improving the clinical research infrastructure in the UK; and (b) increasing clinical trial participation in relation to the development of new treatments for dementia.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
‘Saving and Improving Lives: The Future of UK Clinical Research Delivery’, published in March 2021, sets out the ambition to create people-centred, pro-innovation and digitally enabled clinical research infrastructure. ‘The Future of UK Clinical Research Delivery: 2022 to 2025 implementation plan’, published on 30 June 2022, summarises the actions we will take over the next three years.
The platform Join Dementia Research, funded and delivered by the Departmentally funded National Institute for Health and Care Research with Alzheimer’s Society, Alzheimer Scotland and Alzheimer’s Research UK, allows people to register an interest in dementia research and be matched to trials. This aims to improve participation and diversity in dementia research.
Asked by: Neale Hanvey (Alba Party - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care how many (a) phase one, (b) phase two and (c) phase three clinical trials for dementia treatments have taken place in (i) England, (ii) Wales, and (iii) Scotland in each of the past 10 years.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The information requested on clinical trials hosted in Wales and Scotland is not held centrally. A table showing the number of phase one, two and three clinical trials supported by the National Institute for Health and Social Care Research Clinical Research Network in England for dementia from 2012/13 to 2021/22 is attached.
Asked by: Neale Hanvey (Alba Party - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the Health Research Authority has spent on external consultants in each of the last five years; and if they will publish a breakdown of (a) the amount paid to each consultancy contracted, (b) the name of each consultancy contracted, (c) the specific matters on which they were consulted and (d) whether each contract was subject to usual Government procurement rules.
Answered by James Morris
The following table shows the Health Research Authority’s expenditure on externally contracted consultancy services in each year since 2017/18. The information requested for 2021/22 is currently being collated and audited and will be available later this year.
2021/22 | 2020/21 | 2019/20 | 2018/19 | 2017/18 |
£0.00 | £347,300 | £10,720 | £6,759 | £196,800 |
Details of all Government contracts awarded from 2016 above £10,000 and £25,000 in the wider public sector are published on Contracts Finder at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder
Each award notice provides information on the name of the supplier, value of the contract, its purpose and information on the type of awarding procedure used. Government departments, individual agencies and arm’s length bodies are required to publish all spend against individual suppliers above £25,000 on GOV.UK and to follow the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 in awarding contracts.
Asked by: Neale Hanvey (Alba Party - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much Health Education England has spent on external consultants in each of the last five years; and if they will publish a breakdown of (a) the amount paid to each consultancy contracted, (b) the name of each consultancy contracted, (c) the specific matters on which they were consulted and (d) whether each contract was subject to usual Government procurement rules.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The following table shows Health Education England's expenditure on external consultancy in each year since 2017/18 for which data is available.
2020/21 | 2019/20 | 2018/19 | 2017/18 | 2016/17 |
£524,807 | £200,340 | £289,130 | £232,855 | £45,436 |
Details of all Government contracts awarded from 2016 above £10,000 and £25,000 in the wider public sector are published on Contracts Finder, which is available at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder
Each award notice provides information on the name of the supplier, value of the contract, its purpose and information on the type of awarding procedure used. Government departments, their individual agencies and arm’s length bodies are required to publish all spend against individual suppliers above £25,000 on GOV.UK and to follow the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 in awarding contracts.
Asked by: Neale Hanvey (Alba Party - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much NHS digital has spent on external consultants in each of the last five years; and if they will publish a breakdown of (a) the amount paid to each consultancy contracted, (b) the name of each consultancy contracted, (c) the specific matters on which they were consulted and (d) whether each contract was subject to usual Government procurement rules.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The following table shows NHS Digital’s expenditure on externally contracted consultancy services in each of the last five years for which data is available.
2020/21 | 2019/21 | 2018/19 | 2017/18 | 2016/17 |
£926,723.95 | £1,394,062.44 | £1,798,759.87 | £332,659.28 | £1,584,760.26 |
Details of all Government contracts awarded from 2016 above £10,000 and £25,000 in the wider public sector are published on Contracts Finder, which is available at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder
Each award notice provides information on the name of the supplier, value of the contract, its purpose and information on the type of awarding procedure used. Government departments, their individual agencies and arm’s length bodies are required to publish all spend against individual suppliers above £25,000 on GOV.UK and to follow the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 in awarding contracts.
Asked by: Neale Hanvey (Alba Party - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the NHS Counter Fraud Authority has spent on external consultants in each of the last five years; and if he will publish a breakdown of (a) the amount paid to each consultancy contracted, (b) the name of each consultancy contracted, (c) the specific matters on which they were consulted and (d) whether each contract was subject to usual Government procurement rules.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The NHS Counter Fraud Authority has not incurred expenditure on external consultancy.
Asked by: Neale Hanvey (Alba Party - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the UK Health Security Agency has spent on external consultants in each year since its establishment; and if they will publish a breakdown of (a) the amount paid to each consultancy contracted, (b) the name of each consultancy contracted, (c) the specific matters on which they were consulted and (d) whether each contract was subject to usual Government procurement rules.
Answered by Maggie Throup
Fully audited data on the UK Health Security Agency’s (UKHSA) expenditure on external consultants since its formation on 1 October 2021 will be available later this year. The UKHSA is required to follow the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 in awarding contracts.
Asked by: Neale Hanvey (Alba Party - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration has spent on external consultants in each of the last five years; and if they will publish a breakdown of (a) the amount paid to each consultancy contracted, (b) the name of each consultancy contracted, (c) the specific matters on which they were consulted and (d) whether each contract was subject to usual Government procurement rules.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The NHS Pay Review Body and the Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration has had no expenditure on external consultants in the last five years.
Asked by: Neale Hanvey (Alba Party - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the NHS Pay Review Body has spent on external consultants in each of the last five years; and if they will publish a breakdown of (a) the amount paid to each consultancy contracted, (b) the name of each consultancy contracted, (c) the specific matters on which they were consulted and (d) whether each contract was subject to usual Government procurement rules.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The NHS Pay Review Body and the Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration has had no expenditure on external consultants in the last five years.