Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Reform UK - Great Yarmouth)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many UK born doctors have left the NHS for employment outside of the UK in each of the last ten years.
Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Department does not hold the information requested.
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Reform UK - Great Yarmouth)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the total cost was for (a) translation and (b) interpretation services incurred by GPs in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Department does not hold this information centrally.
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Reform UK - Great Yarmouth)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will list all the languages excluding English and British Sign Language that are translated in the NHS.
Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The National Health Service is able to send out reminder letters to patients in 24 languages, which are available at the following link:
https://digital.nhs.uk/services/e-referral-service/language-options-for-e-rs-reminder-letters
The NHS is also able to provide information about data choices in 11 languages, which are available at the following link:
https://www.nhs.uk/your-nhs-data-matters/different-languages-and-formats/
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Reform UK - Great Yarmouth)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department has on the number of (a) GP and (b) outpatient appointments conducted in a language other than English and British Sign Language, broken down by total number of appointments conducted per language.
Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Department does not hold this information centrally.
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Reform UK - Great Yarmouth)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of NHS beds were occupied by chargeable overseas visitors in the last financial year.
Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Department does not hold or collect the information requested.
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Reform UK - Great Yarmouth)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish a breakdown of the preferred (a) written and (b) spoken language of people claiming Universal Credit.
Answered by Stephen Timms - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
We do not have a breakdown of the preferred language of people claiming Universal Credit because we do not ask customers this information at any stage of the application or process.
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Reform UK - Great Yarmouth)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will hold discussions with the Financial Conduct Authority on the potential merits of launching a money laundering investigation into high street barber shops.
Answered by Tulip Siddiq - Economic Secretary (HM Treasury)
Money laundering through cash-based high street businesses is a known issue that government continues to focus on. While businesses such as barber shops are not regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), they interact with regulated businesses, such as banks, who under the Money Laundering Regulations (MLRs) are required to undertake customer due diligence and to submit reports to the National Crime Agency if they suspect money laundering.
The government works closely with law enforcement and the FCA to monitor trends in criminal behaviour – and how these may relate to changes in the make-up of our high streets – to ensure resources are deployed towards the most significant threats.
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Reform UK - Great Yarmouth)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the monthly cost is of storing PPE related to Covid.
Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
It currently costs approximately £200,000 per week, the equivalent to £850,000 for November 2024, to store personal protective equipment unsuitable for National Health Service use. The figure is dynamic because the stock is reducing.
A programme of work is underway to reduce our excess stock. This work will significantly reduce the cost of our storage network, and is due to be complete by January 2025, through sales, donations, recycling, and energy from waste.
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Reform UK - Great Yarmouth)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have presented at A&E for a (a) heart attack and (b) stroke in each of the last ten years.
Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Prior to 2020/21, the mechanism used to collect and record accident and emergency activity was not sufficiently granular to identify the requested conditions. However, NHS England can provide a count of attendances with a relevant primary diagnosis from 2020/21 onwards. The following table shows the number of attendances, broken down by the relevant diagnosis, from 2020/21 to 2023/24:
Year | Diagnosis | Attendances |
2020/21 | Stroke | 110,756 |
2020/21 | Heart Attack | 28,209 |
2020/21 | Cardiac Arrest | 9,130 |
2021/22 | Stroke | 118,699 |
2021/22 | Heart Attack | 34,875 |
2021/22 | Cardiac Arrest | 10,301 |
2022/23 | Stroke | 120,731 |
2022/23 | Heart Attack | 35,524 |
2022/23 | Cardiac Arrest | 10,887 |
2023/24 | Stroke | 122,812 |
2023/24 | Heart Attack | 35,829 |
2023/24 | Cardiac Arrest | 10,185 |
Source: the data is from The Emergency Care Data Set, which is available at the following link:
https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/data-collections-and-data-sets/data-sets/emergency-care-data-set-ecds
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Reform UK - Great Yarmouth)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many companies were (a) registered and (b) liquidated on each day in 2024.
Answered by Justin Madders - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
Official statistics on company incorporation and liquidation are published quarterly. These are made publicly available online by Companies House. We have excerpted and reproduced the relevant figures for your convenience below:
Date | Incorporations | Total Liquidations |
2024 Jan-Mar | 244,717 | 7,622 |
2024 Apr-Jun | 217,815 | 9,115 |
2024 Jul-Sep | 191,683 | 8,658 |
The most recent complete datasets can be found here:
Incorporated companies in the UK July to September 2024 - GOV.UK
Statistics for previous periods are available here.