Steve Barclay MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
NHS: StaffDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56199More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) filled and (b) unfilled full-time equivalent roles there were in each of the NHS regional teams in (i) 2023-24, (ii) 2024-25 and (iii) 2025-26.
Answer: The following table sets out the full-time equivalent (FTE) staff in NHS England’s regional teams as of 30 March 2025:Directorates / RegionsBudgeted FTEStaff List FTEVacant FTEVacancy RateRegion - East of England804.1650.2153.919.10%Region - London1,032.5...
Answered 20 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordHospital Beds: ICTDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56198More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the decision to discontinue the electronic Bed and Capacity Management Systems initiative on (a) A&E waits and (b) patient transfers.
Answer: The decision not to proceed with stand-alone investment into electronic bed management systems was based on value for money with other investments offering greater benefits for patients.The Government is committed to returning accident and emergency servi...
Answered 1 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment of Health and Social Care: Redundancy PayDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56197More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the expected in-year cost of redundancy payments in (a) DHSC and (b) NHS England is in (i) 2025-26, (ii) 2026-27 and (iii) 2027-28.
Answer: Detailed plans are being formulated by a joint Department and NHS England programme team. The remit of work includes formulation of the relevant costs. Further detail on the costs and funding mechanisms will be provided as this work develops.
Answered 6 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: EqualityDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56196More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to issue further guidance to the NHS organisations on ending the recruitment of dedicated equality, diversity and inclusion staff.
Answer: National Health Service organisations should be working to address inequalities, in order to ensure the best possible outcomes for all patients, as well as tackling the abuse and discrimination that some NHS staff face in the workplace. Local NHS leaders ...
Answered 12 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordMotor Neurone Disease: ResearchDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56195More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 14 May 2025 to Question 48901 on Motor Neurone Disease: Research, by what date he expects the total allocated to motor neurone disease research since the start of 2022-23
Answer: Government responsibility for delivering motor neurone disease research is shared between the Department of Health and Social Care, with research delivered via the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), and the Department for Science, Inn...
Answered 19 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordHeart Diseases: East of EnglandDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 May 2025WithdrawnUIN 54753More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve access to new innovations for people living with inherited cardiac conditions in East England.
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordHeart Diseases: East of EnglandDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 54752More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve access to new innovations for people living with inherited cardiac conditions in East England.
Answer: Inherited cardiac conditions (ICCs) are a group of largely monogenic disorders affecting the heart, its conducting system and vasculature. Waiting times data for ICCs is not available nationally in the Waiting List Minimum Data Set (WLDMS). Diagnosis code...
Answered 19 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordHeart Diseases: East of EnglandDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 54751More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve access to (a) diagnostic equipment and (b) other services for inherited cardiac conditions in East England.
Answer: Inherited cardiac conditions (ICCs) are a group of largely monogenic disorders affecting the heart, its conducting system and vasculature. Waiting times data for ICCs is not available nationally in the Waiting List Minimum Data Set (WLDMS). Diagnosis code...
Answered 19 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordHeart Diseases: East of EnglandDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 54750More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to tackle inequalities in (a) waiting times and (b) access to treatment for cardiovascular disease patients in East England.
Answer: Patients have been let down for too long whilst they wait for the care they need, including patients awaiting cardiology care. The Government has committed to returning to the National Health Service constitutional standard that 92% of patients wait no lo...
Answered 19 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordHeart Diseases: East of EnglandDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 54749More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure there is adequate infrastructure to offer access to treatment for people living with inherited cardiac conditions in the East of England.
Answer: NHS England has a published a national service specification for inherited cardiac conditions. This sets out what guidance should be followed, and the services provided to support diagnosis and treatment of patients with previously undiagnosed cardiac dis...
Answered 30 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordHeart Diseases: East of EnglandDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 54748More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people in East England are currently awaiting treatment for inherited cardiac conditions; and if he will make a comparative estimate of the length of waiting times with the rest of the UK.
Answer: Inherited cardiac conditions (ICCs) are a group of largely monogenic disorders affecting the heart, its conducting system and vasculature. Waiting times data for ICCs is not available nationally in the Waiting List Minimum Data Set (WLDMS). Diagnosis code...
Answered 19 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordOut of Area Treatment: East of EnglandDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48903More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people who do not meet the criteria to reside were inpatients in (a) Hinchingbrooke Hospital, (b) Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn and (c) Peterborough City Hospital on 21 April 2025.
Answer: The following table shows the number of patients with no criteria to reside as of 21 April 2025, in Hinchingbrooke Hospital, Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn, and Peterborough City Hospital:HospitalNumbers of patients with no criteria to resideHinchin...
Answered 19 May 2025
Original Parliament recordVirtual WardsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48902More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, by what date he expects the NHS to have a virtual ward capacity of 40 beds per 100,000 people.
Answer: The NHS England 2025/26 priorities and operational planning guidance asks systems to improve access to urgent care services, including virtual ward, also known as hospital at home, services.No national population target has been set centrally for 2025/26 ...
Answered 12 May 2025
Original Parliament recordMotor Neurone Disease: ResearchDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48901More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding his Department plans to provide for motor neurone disease research in 2025.
Answer: Government responsibility for delivering motor neurone disease research is shared between the Department of Health and Social Care, with research delivered via the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), and the Department for Science, Inn...
Answered 14 May 2025
Original Parliament recordNurses: Career DevelopmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48900More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to help improve the career progression of (a) nurses from Agenda for Change Band Five to Band Six and (b) other nurses in the context of plans not to introdu
Answer: Evidence submitted through the separate nurse pay spine call for evidence highlighted that career progression issues relating to the pay system do not uniquely impact nurses.We have therefore accepted several recommendations from workstreams committed to ...
Answered 8 May 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: PayDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48899More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the impact of providing a one per cent increase in pay to all NHS staff on Agenda for Change contracts in the 2025-26 financial year on (a) total costs, (b) pension c
Answer: The following table shows the total cost of uplifting the Agenda for Change (AfC) pay scales by one percent in 2025/26, as well as the costs of employer pension contributions (EPC), employer National Insurance contributions (ENIC), and spillover elements ...
Answered 12 May 2025
Original Parliament recordHospitals: ConcreteDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33424More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 14 February 2025 to Question 27517 on Hospitals: Concrete, whether he plans to publish the comprehensive report into the seven reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete schem
Answer: As stated in Question 27517, my Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has commissioned a comprehensive report into the seven reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) schemes being delivered through the New Hospital Program...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordMaternity Services: Foreign NationalsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30625More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many individual cases of overseas visitors' debt have been written off by NHS Trusts in respect of maternity care in the last 12 months; and if he will make an estimate of the potential cost to
Answer: This information is not held in the format requested. The consolidated National Health Service provider accounts for 2023/24 were published by NHS England, and recorded £44 million as written-off from overseas visitors.The information requested regarding ...
Answered 25 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Foreign NationalsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30624More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much and what proportion of debt has been written off by NHS Trusts as a result of overseas visitors in each of the last 12 months.
Answer: This information is not held in the format requested. The consolidated National Health Service provider accounts for 2023/24 were published by NHS England, and recorded £44 million as written-off from overseas visitors.The information requested regarding ...
Answered 25 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordFoetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: Medical TreatmentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28491More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the cost to the public purse for the treatment of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in accordance with the NICE Quality Standard QS204 in each of the last fi
Answer: The Department does not collect information on the numbers and proportion of patients with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) because it is not possible to specifically classify FASD within the National Health Service dataset. FASD is an umbrella term...
Answered 25 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordFoetal Alcohol Spectrum DisorderDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28490More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of patients have Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in (a) England, (b) Cambridgeshire and (c) Peterborough Integrated Care Board.
Answer: The Department does not collect information on the numbers and proportion of patients with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) because it is not possible to specifically classify FASD within the National Health Service dataset. FASD is an umbrella term...
Answered 25 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordHospitals: ConcreteDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27517More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the oral contribution of the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care during the debate on New Hospitals of 25 May 2023, Official Report, column 477, whether a further assess
Answer: Following the General Election in July 2024, the Government inherited a programme to deliver new hospitals that was unfunded beyond March 2025 and was repeatedly delayed. We now have a plan to deliver the New Hospital Programme which is realistic and affo...
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordCommunity Diagnostic Centres: CambridgeshireDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25996More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 15 January 2025 to Question 22603 on Community Diagnostic Centres: Cambridgeshire, how many tests were delivered at North Cambs Diagnostic Centre in each month since June
Answer: Published data is not held in the format requested. Data for the number of tests delivered by Community Diagnostic Centres (CDCs) is held centrally and published at the national level, and is available at the following link:https://www.england.nhs.uk/stat...
Answered 31 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordCommunity Diagnostic Centres: CambridgeshireDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22603More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients were seen at North Cambs Diagnostic Centre in each month since its opening in June 2023.
Answer: Published data is not held in the format requested. Activity data, specifically the number of tests delivered, rather than patients seen, for community diagnostic centres (CDCs) is held centrally and published at the national level, and is available at th...
Answered 15 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment of Health and Social Care: StaffDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16483More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many officials were working in his Department, excluding Arm’s Length Bodies, on (a) 13 November 2023, (b) 5 July 2024 and (c) 27 November 2024.
Answer: The Department only holds data on the number of officials working in the Department at the end of each calendar month. The following table shows the data for the end of each calendar month from July 2022 to October 2024:MonthHeadcountFull-time equivalentJ...
Answered 16 Dec 2024
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