Edward Argar MP: written questions
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NHS EnglandDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41903More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the projected net change in (a) civil service and (b) public sector employees is as a result of abolishing NHS England.
Answer: Ministers and senior Department officials will work with the new transformation team at the top of NHS England, led by Sir Jim Mackey, to determine the structure and requirements needed to support the creation of a new centre for health and care. The tran...
Answered 4 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS England: ManagersDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41902More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what new roles at director level or above he plans to create in his Department following the closure of NHS England.
Answer: Ministers and senior Department officials will work with the new transformation team at the top of NHS England, led by Sir Jim Mackey, to determine the structure and requirements needed to support the creation of a new centre for health and care. The tran...
Answered 4 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS England: ManagersDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41901More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS England executives that receive redundancy packages will be eligible to be rehired into civil service roles and retain those redundancy payments.
Answer: Ministers and senior Department officials will work with the new transformation team at the top of NHS England, led by Sir Jim Mackey, to determine the structure and requirements of the team required to support the creation of a new centre for health and ...
Answered 17 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS England: StaffDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41900More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the proportion of NHS England's staffing budget that will transfer to other public sector organisations.
Answer: Ministers will work with the new transformation team at the top of NHS England, led by Sir Jim Mackey, to lead this transformation. As we work to return many of NHS England’s current functions to the Department, we will ensure that we continue to evaluate...
Answered 1 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSurgical Mesh ImplantsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30676More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the recommendations in respect of pelvic mesh made by the (a) Cumberlege report of 2020 and (b) Hughes report of 2024.
Answer: Seven of the nine recommendations of the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review were previously accepted in full, in part, or in principle. Four of these have been successfully implemented, including:- issuing an unreserved apology on beh...
Answered 26 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordIVF: East MidlandsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30675More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the proposals of the East Midlands fertility policy review on the number of IVF cycles set out in that review.
Answer: No assessment has been made of the East Midlands fertility policy review, at a national level. It is for local integrated care boards to decide on local health policies for their population, taking account of National Institute for Health and Care Excelle...
Answered 25 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSurgical Mesh ImplantsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30674More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to (a) improve access to and (b) reduce waiting lists for the UK's 9 independent NHS pelvic mesh centres.
Answer: There are nine specialist mesh centres across England, ensuring that women in every region with complications of mesh inserted for urinary incontinence and vaginal prolapse get the right support. Each mesh centre is led by a multi-disciplinary team to ens...
Answered 25 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordHospitals: ConstructionDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25253More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with refence to his oral statement of 20 January 2025 on New Hospital Programme Review, Official Report columns 748-750s, what the (a) pre-construction works, (b) full construction start and (c) co
Answer: The following table shows the start dates for the pre-construction work, which involves business case development and critical enabling works, and the main construction work, for the schemes requested:SchemePre-construction works startMain construction wo...
Answered 27 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAccident and Emergency Departments: StandardsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23773More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the NHS England 987 inclusion health scheme on access to A&E services outside of the scope of that scheme.
Answer: Access to National Health Service care at accident and emergency departments, and the waiting times at the point of delivery for those services, will always be based on clinical priority.
Answered 20 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordHM Land Registry: StandardsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23772More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of Land Registry application processing times; and what steps she is taking to improve those times.
Answer: Improving speed of service remains the top priority for HM Land Registry (HMLR). It has been delivering on this objective by increasing the capacity and capability of its staff and enhancing the services its customers use. This work has been undertaken wh...
Answered 27 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: WeatherDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23771More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 13 January 2025 to Question 22633 on NHS: Weather, on what date in early December he first chaired a winter preparedness weekly meeting.
Answer: My Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care first held discussions on winter planning with the Department ahead of the general election. The first briefing my Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care recei...
Answered 31 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: WeatherDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22633More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the oral contribution by the Minister for Secondary Care of 18 December 2024, Official Report, column 345, when he chaired the first of the weekly winter preparedness meetings.
Answer: My Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care first held discussions on winter planning with the Department ahead of the general election. The first briefing the Secretary of State received on winter preparations was on his first da...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordFlood Control: LeicestershireDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 7 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22298More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the Environment Agency's budget for flood prevention and mitigation was in Leicestershire in the 2023-24 financial year.
Answer: The Environment Agency (EA) has spent the following in Leicestershire on flood prevention and mitigation: Investment in capital projects in Leicestershire in 2023/24 included:£223k on Wood Brook and Tributaries Flood Risk Management scheme to develop the ...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordFlood Control: LeicestershireDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 7 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22297More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of trends in the number of developments on flood risks in Leicestershire.
Answer: The Government has committed to ensure we are building more high-quality, well-designed and sustainable homes, and creating places that increase climate resilience and promote nature recovery. Flood risk is an important consideration in the planning syste...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordFlood Control: LeicestershireDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 7 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22296More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what additional (a) funding and (b) support his Department has provided to (i) communities and (ii) local authorities in Leicestershire to help tackle the impact of recent flooding.
Answer: Protecting communities around the country from flooding is one of the Secretary of State’s five core priorities. To ensure we protect the country from the devastating impacts of flooding, the Government will invest £2.4 billion in 2024/25 and 2025/26 to i...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS Trusts: StandardsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 7 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22295More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which NHS Trusts have declared a critical incident since 1 December 2024.
Answer: There is no official National Health Service data collected and validated for publication on the number of ‘critical incidents’ as these are declared locally by NHS organisations and can be stood-up and stood-down quickly.NHS management information as of ...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordHospices: Employers' ContributionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 7 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22294More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the total cost to the hospice sector of the increase in employers National Insurance contributions.
Answer: We have taken necessary decisions to fix the foundations in the public finances at Autumn Budget 2024, which enabled the Spending Review settlement of a £22.6 billion increase in resource spending for the Department from 2023/24 outturn to 2025/26.The emp...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: WeatherDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20626More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he has met NHS England's (a) National Clinical Director for Urgent and Emergency Care and (b) Deputy Chief Operating Officer on NHS winter preparedness.
Answer: Ministers in the Department engage with NHS England regularly on a variety of issues, including, but not limited to, winter preparedness.
Answered 6 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordInfluenza: VaccinationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19698More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding was allocated to promote the update of the influenza vaccine in (a) 2022, (b) 2023 and (c) 2024.
Answer: The annual winter vaccination communications campaign supports the uptake of seasonal vaccinations for influenza and COVID-19 amongst eligible cohorts. This is an integrated campaign, so spend cannot be separated out by vaccine. The budget for the marketi...
Answered 17 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordNHS: StaffDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19322More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS (a) 111 and (b) 999 call handlers there were on (i) 1 September, (ii) 1 October, (iii) 1 November and (iv) 1 December 2024.
Answer: This information is not available. While NHS England collects information on the number of call handlers working in NHS 111 and 999 services, this information has not been centrally validated.
Answered 16 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordAccident and Emergency Departments: StandardsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19321More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what percentage of patients waited longer than four hours in A&E in (a) September, (b) October and (c) November 2024.
Answer: The following table shows the percentage of patients in England who waited longer than four hours in accident and emergency, in September, October, and November of 2023 and 2024:Month and yearPercentage of patients who waited longer than four hoursSeptemb...
Answered 23 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordAmbulance Services: VehiclesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19320More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many ambulances were in use in the NHS in (a) September, (b) October and (c) November 2024.
Answer: This information requested is not held centrally by the Department.
Answered 16 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordHospitals: DischargesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19319More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of patients who (a) were medically fit to be discharged and (b) were not discharged from hospital on 1 December 2024.
Answer: The number of patients who were medically fit to be discharged, those who no longer met the criteria to reside, in England on 1 December 2024 was 17,646, compared to 25,896 in December 2023. The number of patients who no longer met the criteria to reside ...
Answered 7 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordBluetongue DiseaseDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 3 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17544More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the (a) economic impact of the bluetongue restrictions on affected farmers and (b) animal health impact of the bluetongue restriction.
Answer: Government recognises that keepers and businesses can be affected not only by the impacts of bluetongue disease on animals, but also by disease control measures. That is why Defra seeks to minimise these burdens as far as practically possible, easing them...
Answered 11 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordAcute Beds: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16964More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many additional inpatient beds in acute settings he has funded NHS England to commission for (a) November 2024, (b) December 2024, (c) January 2025 and (d) February 2025 above the total number
Answer: NHS England’s 2024/25 Priorities and Operational Planning Guidance set out that, with the additional funding in 2023/24 made recurrent in 2024/25, systems should maintain General and Acute beds at the level funded and agreed through the operating plans in...
Answered 9 Dec 2024
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