Written questions

2,688 written questions tabled, most recent first.

24 May 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Better Care Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the innovation and Better Care Fund element of the additional £2 billion funding for social care announced in Spring Budget 2017, whether that funding is subject to the four Natio

24 May 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Better Care Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 29 January 2018 to Question 124751, how much funding for social care was delivered through the Better Care Fund by source of funding in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17 and (c) 20

24 May 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Better Care Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 29 January 2018 to Question 124751, (a) how many and (b) which local areas do not have approved Better Care Fund plans in place.

24 May 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospital Beds

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to Spring Budget 2017, what assessment his Department has made of the effect that the additional funding has had on (a) NHS-attributable and (b) social care-attributable Delayed Tran

24 May 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to Spring Budget 2017, what proportion of the additional funding for social care has been or will be spent on social care for (a) pensioners, (b) working age adults and (c) children

24 May 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Social Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department’s policy paper on the allocations of the additional funding for adult social care, published on 9 March 2017, how much of that funding is being d

24 May 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cervical Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what work his Department is undertaking with local authorities to increase access to cervical screening at sexual health clinics.

21 May 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, on how many occasions care home providers have handed back contracts to provide social care to local authorities in each year since 2009-10.

21 May 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the differences in (a) the level of fees paid by each local authority to social care providers and (b) the proportion of residents in each local authority area who fund

21 May 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, on how many occasions local authorities have exercised their duties to meet an adult’s needs for care and support as a result of the business failure of a registered care provider in each quarter s

21 May 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many early warnings has the Care Quality Commission issued to local authorities on the potential market failure of difficult to replace social care providers; and how many local authorities hav

21 May 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, on how many occasions the Care Quality Commission has (a) required registered care providers to produce a plan to (a) mitigate or (b) eliminate risk to the sustainability of their business and (b)

15 May 2018 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Care Homes

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to groups (a) 871, (b) 872, (c) 873 and (d) 874, Division 87 (Residential Care Activities), (e) 881, Division 88 (Social Work Activities Without Accommodation), Sec

15 May 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Care Homes: Agency Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many agency workers were employed in the care home sector in each year since 2009-10; and what the cost to the public purse was of that employment in each of those years.

15 May 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Minimum Wage

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the announcement in Budget 2017 of an additional £2 billion of funding for social care, whether any of the additional funding (a) for 2017-18 has been used and (b) for 2018-19 or

15 May 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Minimum Wage

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the cost to social care providers nationally of (a) paying the National Living Wage and (b) meeting historical and future National Minimum Wage requirements

15 May 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the hourly rate of pay was which local authorities set for care providers in (a) residential care and (b) community-based care (i) as a national average and (ii) for each local authority.

15 May 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Social Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the announcement in Budget 2017 of an additional £2 billion of funding for social care, how long it took on average for (a) health and wellbeing boards, (b) loc

15 May 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Social Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the announcement in Budget 2017 of an additional £2 billion of funding for social care, how many and which (a) health and wellbeing boards, (b) local authoritie

15 May 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the announcement in Budget 2017 of an additional £2 billion of funding for social care, how many and which local authorities have had their share of the funding in (a) 2017-18 and

15 May 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to Figure 2 on page 7 of NHS Digital’s report, Adult Social Care Activity and Finance: England 2016-17, published on 25 October 2017, what those figures are in real terms; and whethe

15 May 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the announcement in Budget 2017 of an additional £2 billion of funding for social care, whether all of that allocated funding is ring-fenced exclusively for providing social care

15 May 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 2 February 2018 to Question 125600, what proportion of (a) the additional £9.25 billion social care funding and (b) all other social care funding in (i) 2017-18, (ii) 2018

15 May 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Minimum Wage

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 22 February 2018 to Question 128062, how much of the share of the £2 billion funding for (a) 2018-19 and (b) 2019-20 the Government estimates will be used to fund meeting

15 May 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 14 December 2017 to Question 902945, how much of the share of the £2 billion allocated to the social care sector in 2017-18 has been spent on attracting and retaining tale

15 May 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to paragraph 5.5 on page 47 of Budget 2017, what proportion of funding allocated for (a) 2017-18, (b) 2018-19 and (c) 201920 is allocated for (i) funding care packages for more peopl

2 May 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Breast Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to his Oral Statement of 2 May 2018, Breast Cancer Screening, how many women who were not sent invitations for breast screening are estimated to have undetected breast cancer after being a

2 May 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Breast Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to his Oral Statement of 2 May 2018, Breast Cancer Screening, how many women have been affected by the breast screening programme failure in each clinical commissioning group area.

2 May 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Breast Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to his Oral Statement of 2 May 2018, Breast Cancer Screening, what the timetable is for his Department to contact in writing, the 309,000 women affected by the failure of the breast cancer

1 May 2018 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Egypt: Torture

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the use of torture in Egyptian (a) prisons and (b) detention centres by (i) police and (ii) other security officials of that country.

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