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595374

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	United Nations: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which governmental departments make voluntary contributions to UN special political missions; and how much each such Department contributed in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	47049
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>​Government Departments, notably the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Ministry of Defence and Department for International Development have all made occasional targeted voluntary contributions to UN Special Political Missions (SPMs) over the last five years. Information about these discretionary payments is not held in a single consolidated form, and could only be obtained at a disproportionate cost. The Government identifies and monitors the value and impact of providing the voluntary funding on a case by case basis.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 17/10/2016 15:39:42 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
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

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

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

595805

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	Hospitals: Infectious Diseases
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 educate people on the importance of hand-sanitising products in the prevention of infection in hospitals.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	47067
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>The Health and Social Care Act 2008 Code of Practice on the prevention and control of infections and related guidance sets 10 compliance criteria to manage healthcare associated infections. This includes one covering infection prevention and control which refers to hand hygiene and recommends that providers undertake hand hygiene audits. The Care Quality Commission will monitor a registered provider on how it complies with these requirements.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England Sign up to Safety is a national initiative to help National Health Service organisations and their staff achieve their patient safety aspirations, and care for their patients in the safest way possible. The World Health Organization leads the ‘Save Lives: Clean Your Hands’ campaign on 5 May each year. This is a global campaign which serves as a call to action for healthcare workers to improve hand hygiene. To coincide with this, on 5 May 2016, NHS England Sign up to Safety ran a promotion to remind staff of the important role of hand hygiene at the point of care:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/signuptosafety/2016/05/05/claire-kilpatrick-julie-storr/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/signuptosafety/2016/05/05/claire-kilpatrick-julie-storr/</a></p><p> </p><p>Public Health England operates a free health education resource called e-Bug, which aims to reduce antibiotic resistance by helping children and young people understand infections and antibiotic use. Hand hygiene is included in this teaching tool:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.e-bug.eu/" target="_blank">http://www.e-bug.eu/</a></p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 17/10/2016 16:27:16 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

595856

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	Emergency Travel Documents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many emergency travel documents were issued by HM Passport Office in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	David Simpson
uin	47115
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) issues Emergency Travel Documents to British nationals overseas who need to travel urgently and do not have access to a Full Validity Passport. An emergency travel document is valid for a specific journey made at a specified time. In the past five years, the FCO have issued the following number of documents:</p><p>2012 – 28,737</p><p>2013 – 29,945</p><p>2014 – 39,167</p><p>2015 – 30,844</p><p>2016 – 23,907</p><p>Please note that 2016 figures cover up until the end of September.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 17/10/2016 16:16:12 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

595883

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	Pathology
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government has taken to improve forensic pathology services in England and Wales other than those based on the Hutton review of forensic pathology since the General Election in 2015.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	47371
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2016 answer text <p>The Home Office Forensic Pathology Unit has worked alongside the forensic pathology profession, National Police Chief’s Council, Chief Coroner, the Royal College of Pathologists and other senior stakeholders towards continuous improvement of the service. Improvements include the delivery of a robust system of annual appraisal and revalidation, an annual audit of pathology reports and ongoing oversight of standards through monitoring individual pathologist’s workload and quality.</p><p>Together this package of improvements ensures that forensic pathologists’ work is now quality assured in order to protect the Criminal Justice System. The Home Office continues to support and fund trainee forensic pathologists to maintain long-term capability.</p><p>Furthermore, the Home Office Pathology Unit identified a shortage of sub-speciality pathologists who support forensic pathologists in complex cases. To resolve the capability gap a recruitment and training programme has been established that has resulted in greater resilience in paediatric, bone, eye and neuro-pathology support to the service.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 25/10/2016 16:32:41 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

595886

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	Deportation: Vietnam
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people her Department removed to Vietnam in each year from 2013 to 2016 to date; and how many such people had been subject to positive grounds National Referral Mechanism decisions in each such year.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Fiona Mactaggart
uin	47284
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2016 answer text <p>The number of people returned from the UK to Vietnam in each year by Enforced Removals and Voluntary Returns is published on a quarterly basis in Immigration Statistics on the GOV.UK website: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release</p><p>The information you requested can be found in tables rt_05 and rt_05_q of the returns tables: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/572383/returns5-q3-2016-tables.ods</p><p>This link will help you to find the most updated returns data by country of destination. The data within this table can be filtered, enabling you to obtain information specifically relating to removals to Vietnam. Instruction on how to use the filters can be found on the ‘contents’ tab.</p><p>We do not hold the requested data of how many such people had been subject to positive grounds decisions on the National Referral Mechanism in the requested format.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill grouped question UIN 47283 question first answered 20/12/2016 17:35:24 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	12 label Biography information for Fiona Mactaggart