Found: HLPUBLICSERVICES@parliament.uk 06 September 2024 Karin Smyth MP Minister of State for Health Department

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Found: Government, through the Department of Health and Social Care and DSIT, is collaborating on mRNA vaccines

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has shared official documents classified as official sensitive or higher with any individuals, not including Alan Milburn, who do not have an official role within his Department.

Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

As my rt. Hon. friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, set out in the House, papers were shared with my rt. Hon. friend, Alan Milburn, on Privy Council terms. Nothing commercially sensitive was shared during these interactions. We have no plans to share such documentation with other Privy Councillors or hon. Members on Privy Council terms.

It is not unusual to share official documentation when appropriate based on the business need; for example with other Government Departments, NHS England, and other external experts.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make official documents shared with Alan Milburn available to (a) Privy Councillors on all sides of the House on Privy Council terms or (b) hon. Members.

Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

As my rt. Hon. friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, set out in the House, papers were shared with my rt. Hon. friend, Alan Milburn, on Privy Council terms. Nothing commercially sensitive was shared during these interactions. We have no plans to share such documentation with other Privy Councillors or hon. Members on Privy Council terms.

It is not unusual to share official documentation when appropriate based on the business need; for example with other Government Departments, NHS England, and other external experts.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has shared (a) official sensitive documents and (b) documents of a higher sensitivity classification with Alan Milburn.

Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

As my rt. Hon. friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, set out in the House, papers were shared with my rt. Hon. friend, Alan Milburn, on Privy Council terms. Nothing commercially sensitive was shared during these interactions. We have no plans to share such documentation with other Privy Councillors or hon. Members on Privy Council terms.

It is not unusual to share official documentation when appropriate based on the business need; for example with other Government Departments, NHS England, and other external experts.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many civil servants who are not special advisers he has appointed without open competition since the general election.

Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

The Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 sets out the requirement for the Civil Service Commission to establish recruitment principles which departments must follow. The Recruitment Principles 2018 provide the legal requirement for the selection of appointments to the Civil Service to be made on merit and on the basis of fair and open competition. In addition, under section 12 of this act, it allows for exceptions to these principles.

Appointments by exception are an important part of how we bring talent and expertise into the Civil Service. These routes are long established and have been used properly and extensively by all modern administrations, as they can assist with bringing in individuals with relevant experience and skills for a time-limited basis.

In the latest year for which data is available across the civil service, the year ending March 2023, approximately 80,000 people were hired through open competitions, and approximately 9,000 people were hired through the different exception routes. Full details are available at the following link:

https://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/15.101_CSC_ARA-2022-23_FINAL_WEB.pdf

In the period from the general election to 3 September 2024, the Department has made 15 appointments by exception to the recruitment principles.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what (a) non-executive directors, (b) other direct ministerial appointees and (c) other public appointees in his Department have left their posts since the general election; what (a) direct ministerial and (b) other public appointments his Department has made since the general election; and if he will publish any political activity declared by each appointee.

Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

As of 3 September 2024, three public appointees left as non-executive board members, those being: Gerry Murphy, who ended his final term of office on the Department’s board as planned on 31 July 2024, following 10 years of service; Amit Bhagwat, a member of the Committee on Mutagenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment, who ended his term as planned on 31 August 2024; and Sir David Behan, a non-executive director on the board of NHS England, who ended his term as planned on 31 August 2024.

Six public appointees had their terms extended as non-executive board members, and these have been announced as: Nigel Trout and Charlotte Moar, as members on the board of NHS Resolution; and Junaid Bajwa, Graham Cooke, Paul Goldsmith and Rajakumari Long, as members on the board of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.

Extensions or re-appointments to the terms of a further 12 public appointees have also been agreed, and are due to be announced shortly. As of 3 September 2024, no new public appointees have taken up roles since the election. In line with the Governance Code on Public Appointments, any political activity by candidates that is required to be declared, is made public when the appointment is announced.

As of 3 September 2024, no direct ministerial appointees have left their posts since the general election. With respect to new direct ministerial appointments made in this period, I refer the Rt hon. Member to the answer I gave to the Rt hon. Member for North West Hampshire on 30 July 2024, to PQ2407, which is available at the following link:

https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2024-07-30/2407

It concerns the number of direct ministerial appointments made by my Rt hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care since the election, as the position remains the same. Both appointees referred to in the answer have declared their political activity.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has appointed civil servants who (a) previously (i) worked for and (ii) were seconded to the Labour Party, (b) previously donated to the Labour Party and (c) have been Labour parliamentarians since the general election.

Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

Previous political activity does not preclude appointment into the Civil Service. All civil servants are expected to support the Government of the day, in accordance with the values of the Civil Service Code, which includes impartiality. Routine recruitment processes are in place to allow candidates to declare any potential conflicts of interest, and to discuss how these should be handled, so that the individuals in question can uphold the Civil Service Code’s values.

From the general election to 3 September 2024, the Department has appointed one staff member at delegated grade, who declared on their declaration-of-interest form during the appointment process that they worked for the Labour Party. This appointment has been made by exception to the Civil Service Commission recruitment principles.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential impact of the Partnerships for Inclusion of Neurodiversity in Schools programme on (a) access to neurodevelopmental assessments and (b) outcomes for neurodivergent children.

Answered by Stephen Kinnock - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

On 22 November 2023, the Department of Health and Social Care, the Department for Education, and NHS England launched a joint project, Partnerships for Inclusion of Neurodiversity in Schools. This project had £13 million of funding to test an innovative delivery model to improve access to specialist support in mainstream primary schools, upskilling those settings to meet a range of neurodiverse needs. The programme is ongoing, with delivery due to be completed by 31 March 2025. The programme is being evaluated, and learning will inform future policy development around how schools support neurodiverse children.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department spent on communications in the last year for which data is available.

Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

The Department of Health and Social Care Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23 is the latest version laid before Parliament. For spend on communications we have interpreted this to be publicity and advertising, which includes health promotion campaigns, for instance Better Health, childhood immunisations, and winter vaccinations. The costs in this year for the Department were £27,473,336.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential impact of the proposed changes to the eligibility criteria for the Winter Fuel Payment on (a) the number of (i) acute admissions to hospital, (ii) patients attending emergency departments, (iii) elderly people (A) with pneumonia, (B) requiring antibiotics and (C) GP appointments, (b) the risk of death in elderly people, (c) the number of deaths and (d) NHS expenditure.

Answered by Andrew Gwynne - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

The Department of Health and Social Care has indicated that it will not be possible to answer this question within the usual time period. An answer is being prepared and will be provided as soon as it is available.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has asked the Chief Medical Officer to conduct an impact assessment of introducing means-testing for the Winter Fuel Payment.

Answered by Andrew Gwynne - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

The Department of Health and Social Care has indicated that it will not be possible to answer this question within the usual time period. An answer is being prepared and will be provided as soon as it is available.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government when they plan to publish the outcome of the Department of Health and Social Care consultation on patients' rights to request medical treatment (1) from someone of the same biological sex and (2) on single-sex wards, where "sex" refers to biological sex.

Answered by Baroness Merron - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

Earlier this year, there was a consultation on a series of updates to the NHS Constitution, which included a section on sex and gender, and which made commitments relating to same-sex accommodation, intimate care, and gendered language. Analysis of the responses to the consultation is currently in progress, and a decision on the outcome of this process will be made in due course.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what amount of charges were issued by NHS trusts for treatment to non-UK residents not entitled to free secondary healthcare in each of the last three financial years; how much of that amount was successfully recovered in each of the last three financial years; and what is the outstanding amount.

Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

We have taken ‘non-UK residents’ to mean chargeable overseas visitors. The Department publishes data on the income identified from chargeable overseas visitors in England as part of the Department of Health and Social Care Annual Report and Accounts. The cash payments received by the National Health Service from overseas visitors are also published annually in the consolidated NHS provider accounts. The following table shows the aggregate income identified, and cash payments received by the NHS in England, from overseas visitors over the last three years:

Source: the Department of Health and Social Care Annual Report and Accounts and Consolidated NHS provider accounts.

NHS charges can be recovered up to six years from the date of invoice, and therefore the amount recovered in a year does not necessarily mean it was identified in the same financial year.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the cost to his Department was of ministerial severance payments in each year from 19 December 2019 to 30 May 2024; which Ministers received a severance payment in that period; and how much each Minister received.

Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

The details of any ministerial severance payments can be found in our Annual Report & Accounts. Payments made in 2023/24 and 2024/25 financial years will be released in due course

Each payment corresponds to the statutory entitlements as laid out in the Ministerial and other Pensions and Salaries Act 1991. The Ministerial and other Pensions and Salaries Act 1991 is available at the following link:

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/5/contents

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with NHS England on improving efforts to gather NHS charges from overseas visitors.

Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

The Department is committed to working with NHS England to ensure effective implementation of The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 2015.

The Department publishes data on the income identified from chargeable overseas visitors in England as part of the Department of Health and Social Care Annual Report and Accounts. The cash payments received by the NHS from overseas visitors are also published annually in the consolidated NHS provider accounts. The following table shows the aggregate income identified, and cash payments received by the NHS in England from overseas visitors, over the last five years:

Source: the Department of Health and Social Care Annual Report and Accounts and Consolidated NHS provider accounts.

NHS charges can be recovered up to six years from the date of invoice, and therefore the amount recovered in a year does not necessarily mean it was identified in the same financial year.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much money has been collected through NHS claims for charges from overseas visitors in the last five reported financial years.

Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

The Department is committed to working with NHS England to ensure effective implementation of The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 2015.

The Department publishes data on the income identified from chargeable overseas visitors in England as part of the Department of Health and Social Care Annual Report and Accounts. The cash payments received by the NHS from overseas visitors are also published annually in the consolidated NHS provider accounts. The following table shows the aggregate income identified, and cash payments received by the NHS in England from overseas visitors, over the last five years:

Source: the Department of Health and Social Care Annual Report and Accounts and Consolidated NHS provider accounts.

NHS charges can be recovered up to six years from the date of invoice, and therefore the amount recovered in a year does not necessarily mean it was identified in the same financial year.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS claims for charges from overseas visitors were processed by the NHS in the last five reported financial years.

Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

The Department is committed to working with NHS England to ensure effective implementation of The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 2015.

The Department publishes data on the income identified from chargeable overseas visitors in England as part of the Department of Health and Social Care Annual Report and Accounts. The cash payments received by the NHS from overseas visitors are also published annually in the consolidated NHS provider accounts. The following table shows the aggregate income identified, and cash payments received by the NHS in England from overseas visitors, over the last five years:

Source: the Department of Health and Social Care Annual Report and Accounts and Consolidated NHS provider accounts.

NHS charges can be recovered up to six years from the date of invoice, and therefore the amount recovered in a year does not necessarily mean it was identified in the same financial year.

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he expects the National Exercising Programme’s next Tier 1 exercise test to take place.

Answered by Abena Oppong-Asare - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)

The National Exercise Programme (NEP) provides direction and establishes cross-cutting activity to stress test capabilities, plans, protocols and procedures to strengthen our resilience in order to better prevent, mitigate, respond to and recover from significant risks facing the UK.

The NEP sets out a timetable of exercises (2024-2028), including at least one annual Tier 1 exercise with Ministerial involvement to be delivered each year.

The Department of Health and Social Care will conduct a major Tier 1 exercise as the Lead Government Department, testing our response to a major pandemic. Planning for the exercise is underway and timelines are to be confirmed.

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans she has to work with Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to help reduce reoffending by people in the criminal justice system.

Answered by Nicholas Dakin - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury

The Ministry of Justice, working with the Department of Health and Social Care, is firmly committed to reducing reoffending by addressing health-related causes of offending behaviour.

Where appropriate, we are working to divert offenders with health needs out of the criminal justice system altogether, including through Liaison & Diversion services, present in all police custody suites and criminal courts in England. Community Sentence Treatment Requirements can also be used as part of community or suspended sentences. Previous research has shown reduced reoffending rates for these types of sentences compared to short custodial sentences, and we are working to evaluate their use.

For those in prison, we work in close partnership with NHS England, who are responsible for commissioning healthcare services, including drug treatment, in all English prisons, so that all prisoners have access to health care equivalent to that in the community. We also work with the Welsh Government, who are ultimately responsible for commissioning and delivering health services for people in prison in Wales. We also work in partnership to ensure that our prisons provide wider support to help prisoners engage with treatment. 80 prisons currently have Incentivised Substance Free Living units where prisoners commit to regular drug tests.

We also want to better support rehabilitation of prisoners leaving custody, who have engaged in treatment and help them to remain in treatment on release. NHS England’s RECONNECT service supports prison leavers with vulnerabilities including mental health and substance misuse needs to engage with services through referrals and peer support.

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