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390309

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date	15/07/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress his Department has made in deploying the first tranche of the £1.25 billion announced in the March 2015 Budget for children and young people's mental health services.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	7520
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2015 answer text <p>£1.25 billion has been made available for children’s mental health over the course of this Parliament.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We, and local areas, along with our partner organisations including the Department for Education, are building on the momentum and powerful consensus generated by <em>Future in Mind, </em>the report on the work of the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Taskforce.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are making progress and are committed to taking forward both the ambition and individual proposals, backed by the additional investment. We are developing a central programme plan with a phased approach to implementation. Action underway includes:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- Work to extend and expand the Children and Young People’s Access to Psychological Therapies Programme, so that by 2018, all local services will have participated in this transformative programme and it will cover additional clinical areas;</p><p> </p><p>- The commissioning of a new prevalence survey on mental health problems in children and young people;</p><p> </p><p>- Local areas have been invited to pilot joint training between schools and children and young people’s mental health services providers, to strengthen the mental health advice and support available in educational settings;</p><p> </p><p>- Improved services for perinatal mental health and eating disorders, both of which are being addressed through work this year; and</p><p> </p><p>- Plans for legislation to prevent any child or young person being put in a police cell as a place of safety during a mental health crisis.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In May 2015, NHS England wrote to all clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) asking them to work with their partners from across the NHS, public health, local authority, youth justice and education sectors to develop local Transformation Plans for children’s mental health and wellbeing to reshape the way services for children and young people with mental health needs are commissioned and delivered across all agencies over the next five years in line with proposals put forward in <em>Future in Mind</em>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England will shortly be publishing guidance, developed with partners across the system, to CCGs on local Transformation Plans for children and young people’s mental health, in line with the proposal in <em>Future in Mind.</em></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 7437 7438 question first answered 20/07/2015 16:43:42 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

390319

registered interest
date	15/07/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Social Services: Minimum Wage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the increase in the minimum wage on social care.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	7466
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2015 answer text <p>The impact of the new National Living Wage on local authority finances will be considered during the Spending Review as part of an overall assessment of spending pressures on local authorities.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The costs of introduction in Scotland and Wales are a matter for the devolved administrations.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 7439 question first answered 20/07/2015 16:53:30 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

390416

registered interest
date	15/07/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Prisoners: Mental Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what methodology his Department uses to assess levels of mental health need in the prison population; and what plans he has to commission a prevalence survey of mental health among that population.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	7476
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2015 answer text <p>The Government regards the Office of National Statistics 1998 survey, “Psychiatric Morbidity among Prisoners in England and Wales” as the most reliable assessment made of prisoner’ mental illness to date.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Public Health England (PHE), NHS England and the National Offender Management Service are completing a health needs assessment (HNA) of all prisons and young offender institutions in England. This will provide a detailed analysis of the prevalence of mental health diagnoses amongst people of all ages held in custody and of the services needed to support their mental health needs. Copies of the HNA template and toolkit published by PHE are attached.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>HNAs will provide data in respect of prisoners. Data now being collected by NHS England from liaison and diversion services will provide a snapshot of the mental health needs of offenders at the moment they enter the criminal justice system, before sentencing.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer attachment 1 file name PQ 7476 L Berger HNA Part 1 Toolkit.pdf title HNA Toolkit 2 file name PQ 7476 L Berger HNA Part 2 Template.pdf title HNA Template question first answered 20/07/2015 17:47:34 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer previous answer version 16275 answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

389855

registered interest
date	14/07/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	General Practitioners: Working Hours
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of GP practices participating in the Prime Minister's Challenge Fund were already offering evening or weekend opening hours prior to their participation in that fund.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	7013
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2015 answer text <p>36% of practices participating in wave one schemes (announced in October 2013) offered some form of weekday extended hours provision and 17% offered some form of weekend extended hours provision prior to participating in the Prime Minister’s GP Access Fund (formerly the PM Challenge Fund). NHS England is currently undertaking a baseline exercise for those practices participating in wave two (announced September 2014). We do not hold data on how many days a week these practices were offering extended hours, nor whether they offered routine appointments or reserved them for urgent care.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to improving access to general practitioner (GP) and primary care services. We have invested in the Prime Minister’s GP Access Fund to test improved and innovative access to GP services. This includes longer opening hours – such as evening and weekend hours – but also different ways of accessing services, for example telephone and Skype consultations. Across two waves of the Fund, 57 schemes will be set up covering over 2,500 practices. All schemes within the GP Access Fund are now offering some form of extended opening hours at evenings or weekends.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 20/07/2015 16:48:30 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams