Written Answers - Department of Health: Genito-urinary Medicine: Greater London
Jon Ashworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 13 November 2017 to Question 112168, on Genito-urinary Medicine: Greater London, which non-compliance clauses have been triggered by the later than originally planned start date in the e-service contract for the London Sexual Health Transformation Programme... More...

Oral Answers to Questions - Health: Topical Questions
Jon Ashworth: May I join the Secretary of State in wishing all our NHS and social care staff a very merry Christmas, and in thanking them for their commitment this winter? Virgin Care recently won a 100 million contract for children s health services in Lancashire, but in the Secretary of State s own backyard of Surrey, Virgin Care recently took legal action against the NHS, forcing it to... More...

Written Answers - Department of Health: Mental Health: Children and Young People
Jon Ashworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to improve the mental health of children and young people from a BAME background who identify as LGBT+.. More...

Written Answers - Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments
Jon Ashworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS hospitals had comprehensive front-door clinical streaming in (a) March 2017 and (b) October 2017. More...

Written Answers - Department of Health: Hospitals: Waiting Lists
Jon Ashworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Government's mandate to NHS England for 2017-18, what progress NHS England has made on meeting (a) A&E and (b) Referral-to-Treatment waiting time targets. More...

Commons Debate - King'S College Hospital Foundation Trust
Jon Ashworth: Lord Kerslake has said that the Government are simply not facing up to the enormous challenge the NHS is currently facing . We agree. The Nuffield Trust has today called King s the canary down the coalmine for NHS finances. Hospitals across London and beyond have been forced to cut costs by 4% a year since 2011, yet the report that Ministers commissioned from...More...

Written Answers - Department of Health: Scarlet Fever
Jon Ashworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the reasons for the recent rise in scarlet fever cases across England. More...

Written Answers - Department of Health: NHS: Overtime
Jon Ashworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the amount of unpaid overtime worked by NHS staff in each of the last five years for which figures are available. More...

Written Answers - Department of Health: NHS: Pay
Jon Ashworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what productivity gains the NHS will have make this year for staff to receive an improved pay award for 2018-19. More...

Commons debate - Maternity Safety Strategy
Jon Ashworth: I am grateful to the Secretary of State for the advance copy of his statement. At the outset, may I pay tribute, as he has done, to the hon. Members who have spoken out so movingly in recent months about baby loss? They include, as he has said, the hon. Members for Colchester (Will Quince), for Eddisbury (Antoinette Sandbach), for Banbury (Victoria Prentis) and for North Ayrshire and Arran... More...

Written Answers - Department of Health: NHS: Temporary Employment
Jon Ashworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much NHS trusts and foundation trusts spent on temporary and agency staff in 2016-17 and in each of the previous five years. More...

Written Answers - Department of Health: Cancer
Jon Ashworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to publish a cancer workforce strategy. More...

Written Answers - Department of Health: Cervical Cancer: Screening
Jon Ashworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of Capita's ability to deliver the contract to launch new systems for (a) cervical screening and (b) GP payments and pensions from July 2018. More...

Oral Answers to Questions - Health: Shortage of Doctors: Medical Provision
Jon Ashworth: The Secretary of State will know that there are huge numbers of vacancies across the NHS, particularly in nursing, partly driven by pay restraint. He has said that the pay cap will be scrapped, so does he agree with Simon Stevens, who said that it would be an own goal not to fully fund the scrapping of that pay cap in the Budget next week and to expect it to be paid for by... More...

Written Answers - Department of Health: General Practitioners: Training Grants
Jon Ashworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reasons the contract to administer training grants for GPs through Primary Care Services England was outsourced in September 2015. More...

Written Answers - Department of Health: Mental Health Services: Children
Jon Ashworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish the (a) number of children having a delayed discharge from in-patient mental health treatment and (b) total number of delayed days for each (i) NHS region and (ii) mental health trust provider in England in each of the last three years. More...

Oral Answers to Questions - Health: Topical Questions
Jon Ashworth: Can the Secretary of State tell us how many elective operations he expects to be cancelled by 31 December? More...

Commons Debates - NHS Pay
Jon Ashworth: I beg to move, That this House notes that in 2017-18 NHS pay rises have been capped at one per cent and that this represents another below-inflation pay settlement; further notes that applications for nursing degrees have fallen 23 per cent this year; notes that the number of nurses and midwives joining the Nursing and Midwifery Council register has been in decline since March 2016 and that...More...

Written Answers - Department of Health: Dental Health: Children and Young People
Jon Ashworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people who will benefit from the new oral health programme, Starting Well. More...

Written Answers - Department of Health: Dental Services
Jon Ashworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the importance of the data provided by the Adult Dental Health Survey to planning and commissioning oral health services; and if he will make a statement. More...

Written Answers - Department of Health: Pharmacy
Jon Ashworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the average cost to the public purse of dispensing a medicine through an (a) internet and (b) high street pharmacy. More...

Written Answers - Department of Health: Pharmacy
Jon Ashworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to encourage choice of pharmacy at the point of an electronic prescription being issued. More...

Written Answers - Department of Health: NHS: Pay
Jon Ashworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on what date he plans to write to the NHS Pay Review Body to set the remit of the 2018-19 review; and what restrictions exist on when he can write that letter. More...

Written Answers - Department of Health: Dental Services: Children
Jon Ashworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on the proportion of children under the age of two who have visited an NHS dentist in the last 12 months. More...

Written Answers - Department of Health: Dental Services
Jon Ashworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the total cost of treating tooth decay in the NHS has been in each of the last five years for which data is available. More...

Written Answers - Department of Health: Dental Services
Jon Ashworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the total cost of treating tooth decay in the NHS has been in each of the last five years for which data is available. More...

Written Answers - Department of Health: Hospitals: Insulation
Jon Ashworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many hospitals have been identified which are clad with (a) material similar to the Grenfell Tower and (b) other fire-risk material; what remedial work has been carried out on those hospitals; and whether additional funding will be provided by the Government to ensure remedial work on those hospitals is not met from existing NHS budgets. More...

Oral Answers to Questions - Health: Doctors and Nurses
Jon Ashworth: The number of nurses has fallen for the first time in a decade, which is why we need fair pay now. I read in the newspapers that the Health Secretary now supports the Labour party policy of scrapping the cap, although he did not vote with us last week. Given that he supports our policy, when he soon sets the remit for the NHS Pay Review Body, will he tell it to scrap the cap, and will he... More...

Debate on the Address: Health, Social Care and Security
Jon Ashworth: On behalf of Her Majesty s Opposition, may I associate myself with the tributes paid by Members on both sides of the House to the extraordinary efforts of our public servants who have been tested in recent weeks and months and who never faltered? They make us proud, and we pay tribute to them today. It is my happy task to congratulate the six hon. Members who have made their maiden... More...

Commons debates - NHS Shared Business Services
Jon Ashworth: (Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of Statement to make a statement on NHS Shared Business Services. More...

Written Answers - Home Office: Visas: Overseas Visitors
Jon Ashworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, who in his Department has lead responsibility for the new capped expenditure process in the NHS. More...

Business of the House: Point of Order
Jon Ashworth: On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. You will have seen in your copy of The Guardian newspaper this morning, and indeed yesterday, the leaked reports of a new capped expenditure process for the NHS, revealing plans to cut services, close wards and ration treatments. So far, we have had no response from the Department of Health. Has the Secretary of State for Health given you any indication... More...

Oral Answers to Questions - Health: Topical Questions
Jon Ashworth: The Government have not met the four-hour target for A&E since July 2015. In the NHS mandate, finally published yesterday, the Secretary of State is effectively telling hospitals that they do not need to meet it in 2017 and that it only needs to be met in aggregate across hospitals “within the course of 2018”. Is that not the clearest admission that the targets will not be met... More...

Written Answers - Home Office: Visas: Overseas Visitors
Jon Ashworth: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many standard visitor visas to the UK were (a) granted and (b) refused, in each month since January 2016 for (i) Bangladeshi, (ii) Indian, (iii) Pakistani and (iv) Sri Lankan citizens. More...

Written Answers - Department of Health: NHS: Sick Leave
Jon Ashworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the NHS Staff Survey results for 2016, what assessment his Department has made of the risks to patients of NHS staff reporting for work despite not feeling well enough to perform their duties. More...

Written Answers - Department of Health: NHS: Bullying
Jon Ashworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment his Department has made of the level of bullying and harassment between employees in the NHS. More...

Written Answers - Department of Health: NHS Shared Business Services: Postal Services
Jon Ashworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many registered health professionals were directly employed by his Department on 1 February (a) 2017 and (b) 2016; and how many such professionals in each of those years were in which profession. More...

Commons Debates - NHS Shared Business Services
Jon Ashworth: (Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Health to make a statement on the loss of confidential NHS correspondence by NHS Shared Business Services. More...

Written Answers - Department of Health: Department of Health: Health Professions
Jon Ashworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many registered health professionals were directly employed by his Department on 1 February (a) 2017 and (b) 2016; and how many such professionals in each of those years were in which profession.. More...

Oral Answers to Questions - Health: Topical Questions
Jon Ashworth: With respect to A&Es, diverts have been at twice the level of last year, 4,000 people have had urgent operations cancelled, 18,000 people a week in January were waiting on trolleys in corridors, and nine out of 10 hospitals have been overcrowded and are at unsafe levels. I have even read in the Secretary of State’s local paper that his local hospital had to put patients in the gym... More...

Westminster Hall debate - Backbench Business: Alcohol Harm
Jon Ashworth: It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Buck. I congratulate everyone who has contributed to a well-informed and powerful debate. I pay particular tribute to the hon. Member for Congleton (Fiona Bruce), who opened the debate with a comprehensive overview of the issues related to alcohol harm. I cannot do her speech justice she was superb but a couple of points...More...

Written Answers - Department of Health: NHS: Inspections
Jon Ashworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many full inspections of NHS trusts and foundation trusts the Care Quality Commission undertook in 2016-17, and in each of the previous three financial years; and how many inspections in each year were (a) outstanding, (b) good, (c) requires improvement and (d) inadequate. More...

Written Answers - Department of Health: Cancer: Surgery
Jon Ashworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish the number of cancelled operations for cancer patients in the winter of (a) 2016-17 and (b) each of the last five years. More...

Written Answers - Department of Health: General Practitioners
Jon Ashworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GP surgeries existed in each English region in (a) 2010-11 and (b) 2015-16. More...

Written Answers - Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments
Jon Ashworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients used Type (a) 1, (b) 2 and (c) 3 accident and emergency units in each English region in (i) 2010-11 and (ii) 2015-16. More...

Oral Answers to Questions - Communities and Local Government: Points of Order
Jon Ashworth: On a point of order, Mr Speaker. You will have seen reports at the weekend that the Prime Minister is now blaming family doctors for the NHS crisis. It is not the fault of GPs that social care has been cut or that general practice is underfunded. Has the Prime Minister or the Health Secretary given you notice that they are going to come to the House to make a statement, or should we assume... More...

Commons Debates : Mental Health and NHS Performance
Jon Ashworth: I am grateful to the Secretary of State for an advance copy of his statement. I, too, begin by paying tribute to all the NHS staff who are working day in, day out to provide the best possible care to patients during this busy period. Of course, we welcome measures to improve mental health services in this country, as indeed we welcomed such announcements exactly 12 months ago, when the then... More...