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595394

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date	07/10/2016
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Local Growth Deals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 12 September 2016 to Question 44480, what monitoring mechanisms are in place to collect data on the effects of his Department's devolution policies.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	46914
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>The Government believes that local areas are best placed to monitor the effects of devolution policies within their locality. All devolution deals include a commitment to putting in place a monitoring and evaluation plan, which is locally developed and administered with government support and signed off by government.</p><p>Combined authorities are also required to have local scrutiny committees, helping to ensure that those best placed to monitor devolution activity are empowered to do so.</p><p>It is the government’s view that this is an appropriate and proportionate approach to decentralising power.</p> answering member constituency Brigg and Goole answering member printed Andrew Percy question first answered 17/10/2016 14:45:10 answering member 3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

595422

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Local Housing Allowance: Hostels
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, to what forms of hostel accommodation he plans to apply the housing benefit cap.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	47261
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2016 answer text <p>The Secretary of State announced in a Written Ministerial Statement on 15 September 2016 that we would be deferring the application of Local Housing Allowance Rates in the social sector for all those living in supported accommodation until 2019/20.</p><p>At this point we will bring in a new funding model which will ensure that the sector continues to be funded at current levels, taking into account the effect of Government policy on social sector rents.</p><p>The Secretary of State also announced that a formal consultation would be published shortly.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 13/10/2016 15:53:37 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

595479

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Territorial Waters: Undocumented Migrants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will assess the potential merits of deploying fishing trawlers to patrol the UK coastline to prevent illegal immigration.
tabling member constituency	Beckenham
tabling member printed	Bob Stewart
uin	47522
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>Border Force is actively engaged through partners in the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) with commercial fishing operators. The UK’s commercial fishing operators already form a valuable part of the Project KRAKEN network providing ‘intelligence’ reports based on their assessment of unusual activity, however, they are not specifically tasked with official patrolling.</p><p>Border security is a priority for this Government. We are committed to countering threats to the UK coastline using an intelligence-led approach and through working with the wider law enforcement community. Border Force has long-standing working relationships and intelligence-sharing practices in place, and is increasing interaction with key partners as well as undertaking joint operations in order to disrupt organised criminal gangs looking to facilitate illegal entry into the UK.</p><p>Border Force and operational partners are conducting activity on a number of fronts to prevent migrants from entering the UK via clandestine and illegal means, strengthening the coordination of maritime security assets so that maximum coverage at sea is delivered. Border Force currently operates three cutters in UK territorial waters at any given time.</p><p>The cutters form part of a layered approach to coastal defence, including patrols comprising additional law enforcement vessels, on-shore resources and intelligence and surveillance. Border Force has invested in additional coastal patrol vessels (CPV) to complement the work being done by our cutters to combat attempts to smuggle migrants and illicit goods into the UK illegally.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 17/10/2016 17:19:39 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	3919 label Biography information for Bob Stewart

595697

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Albania: Asylum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the reasons for unaccompanied children from Albania seeking to purchase tickets to fly to the UK in order to claim asylum.
tabling member constituency	Bassetlaw
tabling member printed	John Mann
uin	47304
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>Albanians require a visa to travel to the UK and are not allowed to board the plane without one. We do not issue visas for the purpose of claiming asylum in the UK. Unaccompanied children who nonetheless manage to reach the UK, including those from Albania, claim asylum for a variety of reasons. Each case is considered on its individual merits in accordance with our international obligations and protection is granted where it is needed.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 17/10/2016 18:42:39 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	1387 label Biography information for Lord Mann

595713

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Migrant Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of staff employed by his Department are non-UK nationals.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	47415
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text The total Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) workforce as at 31 March 2016 was 12,563 comprising 4,295 FCO UK based staff and 8,268 FCO local staff. The Aliens' Employment Act 1955 makes it a requirement that all UK-based staff must be British nationals or dual nationals where one of those nationalities is British. We do not collect centrally details of the nationality of our staff employed locally overseas. answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 17/10/2016 15:59:44 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

595730

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Department of Health: Migrant Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of the staff employed by his Department are non-UK nationals.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	47416
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>Nationality is not a mandatory field in the Department’s Business Management System where the details of staff are registered. This means that a fraction of the workforce are ‘undeclared’ with respect to nationality.</p><p>All the figures given in the table below are as of 6 October 2016. These figures do not include contractors, temporary agency workers or the staff of service companies.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Nationality</p></td><td><p>Headcount in category</p></td><td><p>Proportion of workforce in category</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>British</p></td><td><p>1,572</p></td><td><p>82%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Non-UK</p></td><td><p>104</p></td><td><p>2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Undeclared</p></td><td><p>247</p></td><td><p>13%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total employed</p></td><td><p>1,923</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat question first answered 17/10/2016 15:19:57 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

595748

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to ensure consistency of provision in the quality of care in mental health services across England.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	47291
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>Mental health is one of the six core clinical areas to be covered by NHS England’s new CCG Improvement and Assessment Framework. NHS England is working to ensure that this will provide as broad a view as possible of how well commissioners are supporting and driving improvement in mental health.</p><p> </p><p>A dashboard for mental health will be published this autumn, containing a set of standard indicators to articulate progress in mental health services at a national level and allow benchmarking of services across the country.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England will continue to ensure that mental health is represented within the full suite of levers and incentives at its disposal including Commissioning for Quality and Innovation payment framework (CQUINs), Quality Premium, the NHS Standard Contract and within the design of new models of care. The Technical Guidance for NHS planning covering 2017/18 and 2018/19 that accompanied the publication of the main NHS Planning Guidance earlier this autumn included a number of draft proposals for specific mental health CQUINs:</p><p> </p><p>- Improving services for people with Mental Health needs who present to A&amp;E;</p><p>- Improving physical health care for people with Severe Mental Illnesses; and</p><p>- Improving transitions for children and young people.</p><p> </p><p>The Quality Premium is based on measures that cover a combination of national and local priorities, and on delivery of the fundamentals of commissioning. The Premium is paid to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in 2018/19 and 2019/20 reflects the quality of the health services commissioned by them in 2017/18 and 2018/19. There will be six mandated indicators including a mental health indicator.</p><p> </p><p>Mental health service providers are responsible for the consistency and quality in the services that they provide. Services in England are regulated by the Care Quality Commission which introduced a new regulation and inspection regime in 2014. CCGs are expected to increase their spending on mental health in line with overall growth in their baseline allocations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood grouped question UIN 46870 question first answered 17/10/2016 16:59:02 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

595765

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 12 September 2016 to Question 44621, what information his Department holds on levels of investment from the public purse into mental health services in the community between 2010 and 2015; and what level of funding his Department has committed to investing in mental health services in the community until 2020.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	46905
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>Information on investment in community mental health services is not held centrally. Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are responsible for commissioning community mental health services for their local population. CCGs are required to increase their spending on mental health each year, at least in line with the growth in their overall funding allocations. From this year, NHS England’s financial reporting will be aligned to mental health priorities, increasing transparency and allowing resources to be tracked at CCG level.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood grouped question UIN 46904 question first answered 17/10/2016 15:35:47 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

595789

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Stem Cells: Transplant Surgery
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 NHS England's decision not to fund second stem cell transplants on the long-term outcomes of patients.
tabling member constituency	Torfaen
tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
uin	46697
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2016 answer text <p>Decisions related to the commissioning of National Health Service treatments in England are made by NHS England using a published process that involves an impact assessment. The Department has not made any further assessment of the decision related to the commissioning of second stem cell transplants.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood question first answered 14/10/2016 11:30:04 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

595791

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Clinical Commissioning Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to increase public involvement in decision-making by clinical commissioning groups.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	46699
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have a statutory duty to make arrangements to involve the public in commissioning services for National Health Service patients. The duty ensures that CCGs act fairly and proportionately when decision making in circumstances where there may be an impact on services.</p><p> </p><p>To support CCGs, NHS England published statutory guidance entitled <em>Transforming Participation in Health and Care</em> in September 2013. CCGs must have regard to this guidance. A copy of the guidance can be found at the following address:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/trans-part-hc-guid1.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/trans-part-hc-guid1.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>In April NHS England also published <em>Annual Reporting on the Legal Duty to Involve Patients and the Public in Commissioning</em> which can be found here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/guid-annual-reprting-legal-duty-july16.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/guid-annual-reprting-legal-duty-july16.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>NHS England has also published <em>Engaging Local People: A Guide for local areas developing Sustainability and Transformation Plans </em>in September 2016, available from:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/engag-local-people-stps.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/engag-local-people-stps.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>Revised guidance for CCGs in relation to their duty to involve the public will also be published in spring 2017.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, CCGs are required by statute to use the NHS Standard Contract when commissioning secondary healthcare services from providers. The NHS Standard Contract places obligations on providers, which if necessary are enforced by CCGs. Public involvement in the decision-making by providers is included in clause 12.5 of the NHS Standard Contract as follows:</p><p> </p><p><em>“The Provider must involve Service Users (and, where appropriate, their Carers and Legal Guardians), Staff, Service Users’ GPs and the public when considering and implementing developments to and redesign of Services. As soon as reasonably practicable following any reasonable request by the Co-ordinating Commissioner, the Provider must provide evidence of that involvement and of its impact.”</em></p><p> </p><p>Therefore, if a CCG and provider propose a change to a service, the provider must engage with the public.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat question first answered 17/10/2016 16:39:30 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman