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964039

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Postnatal Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care,what steps his Department is taking to increase funding for new mothers' postnatal checks.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	169245
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>Currently, there are no plans to increase funding for new mothers' postnatal checks. However, Better Births, the report of the National Maternity Review, published in February 2016, outlined that better postnatal care was a key requirement for improved maternity services. It recommended that women should have access to their midwife and obstetrician as they require after having had their baby, as well as the need to ensure a smooth transition to on-going care in the community from their general practitioner and health visitor. Forty-four Local Maternity Systems (LMS) have come together across sustainability and transformation partnership footprints to lead the transformation of local maternity services in England, and are implementing plans to deliver the vision of Better Births, including the recommendations on better postnatal care. Additional national support will be provided to LMS by NHS England, which has convened an Expert Reference Group to advise on further opportunities make improvement in this important time for women and babies.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 11/09/2018 10:51:02 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

964040

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Postnatal Depression
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has met with the representations of the National Childbirth Trust to discuss the findings of its report, Hidden Half: bringing postnatal mental illness out of hiding, published in June 2017 and recommendations for tackling low rates of identification of perinatal mental illness.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	169246
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has not met with the National Childbirth Trust.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is aware of the National Childbirth Trust’s ‘Hidden Half’ Campaign. We are grateful to the National Childbirth Trust for their campaigning on this important issue.</p><p> </p><p>This Government is committed to improving perinatal mental health services for women during pregnancy and in the first postnatal year, so that women are able to access the right care at the right time and close to home.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is investing £365 million from 2015/16 to 2020/21 in perinatal mental health services, and NHS England is leading a transformation programme to ensure that, by 2020/21, at least 30,000 more women each year are able to access evidence-based specialist mental health care during the perinatal period.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 11/09/2018 16:29:21 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

964041

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Mental Illness: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the evidence of a link between perinatal mental illness and emotional and behavioural problems in children, what steps he is taking to ensure the adequate identification through primary care of (a) that illness and (b) those problems.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	169247
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>The Department is investing £365 million from 2015/16 to 2020/21 in perinatal mental health services, and NHS England is leading a transformation programme to ensure that, by 2020/21, at least 30,000 more women each year are able to access evidence-based specialist mental health care during the perinatal period.</p><p> </p><p>Over £1.2 million was provided in 2017 to enable the training of primary care, maternity and mental health staff to increase awareness and skills related to perinatal mental health.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England has also invested in multidisciplinary perinatal mental health clinical networks across the country to drive forward change, focusing on collaborative working to develop local, integrated pathways and support early identification of those at risk of mental illness in the perinatal period, to enable better outcomes for women in all communities.</p><p> </p><p>We are expanding access to appropriate mental health support for children and young people that need it, including those with emotional and behavioural problems. Primary care is an essential part of the pathway and can assist in referring on to children and young people’s mental health services.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 11/09/2018 10:54:30 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

964174

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Patients: Travel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 22 May 2018 to Question 145302 on Patients: Travel, what steps his Department has taken to publish the report on patient travel times.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	169248
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>The National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service has published three reports relating to patient travel times and cancer: ‘Travel Times and Methodology’ summarises our investigations of several possible ways of calculating travel times; ‘Travel Times and Cancer Survival’ is an overview of survival for the four most common cancers, relative to travel time to the nearest hospital with a relevant mutli-disciplinary team; and ‘Travel Times and Cancer Treatment’ looks at treatment with radiotherapy for localised prostate cancer, relative to travel time to a radiotherapy centre.</p><p> </p><p>The reports are available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.ncin.org.uk/cancer_type_and_topic_specific_work/topic_specific_work/travel_times" target="_blank">http://www.ncin.org.uk/cancer_type_and_topic_specific_work/topic_specific_work/travel_times</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 11/09/2018 16:16:08 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

964175

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Environmental Stewardship Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans his Department has to extend (a) Higher and (b) Entry Level Stewardship schemes, due to expire at the end of January 2019 by (a) an initial two years (b) until replacement provisions are in place after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	169249
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2018 answer text <p>In 2016, the majority of land managers with expiring Higher Level Stewardship (HLS) agreements signed up to Higher Tier and Mid Tier Countryside Stewardship agreements. There is also a projected high pick up of Countryside Stewardship by land managers with HLS agreements that expired in 2017. For 2018, the current projections for new Higher Tier Countryside Stewardship agreements is that these will deliver more land into Priority Habitat, Sites of Special Scientific Interest and water outcomes than last year. DEFRA, Natural England and the Rural Payments Agency are currently considering how we can further preserve the benefits of expiring Higher and Entry Level Stewardship agreements from 2019 onwards. All expiring HLS agreement holders benefit from the support of their local Natural England adviser, who can discuss land management and future scheme choices with them.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice grouped question UIN 169250 169251 question first answered 06/09/2018 11:57:49 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

964176

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Environmental Stewardship Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effect on farmers of not renewing the (a) Higher and (b) Entry Level Stewardship schemes after those schemes expire in January 2019.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	169250
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2018 answer text <p>In 2016, the majority of land managers with expiring Higher Level Stewardship (HLS) agreements signed up to Higher Tier and Mid Tier Countryside Stewardship agreements. There is also a projected high pick up of Countryside Stewardship by land managers with HLS agreements that expired in 2017. For 2018, the current projections for new Higher Tier Countryside Stewardship agreements is that these will deliver more land into Priority Habitat, Sites of Special Scientific Interest and water outcomes than last year. DEFRA, Natural England and the Rural Payments Agency are currently considering how we can further preserve the benefits of expiring Higher and Entry Level Stewardship agreements from 2019 onwards. All expiring HLS agreement holders benefit from the support of their local Natural England adviser, who can discuss land management and future scheme choices with them.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice grouped question UIN 169249 169251 question first answered 06/09/2018 11:57:50 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

964181

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Environmental Stewardship Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the (a) financial and (b) environmental effect on farmers of not being able to renew Higher Level and Entry Level Stewardship Schemes that expire in January 2019.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	169251
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2018 answer text <p>In 2016, the majority of land managers with expiring Higher Level Stewardship (HLS) agreements signed up to Higher Tier and Mid Tier Countryside Stewardship agreements. There is also a projected high pick up of Countryside Stewardship by land managers with HLS agreements that expired in 2017. For 2018, the current projections for new Higher Tier Countryside Stewardship agreements is that these will deliver more land into Priority Habitat, Sites of Special Scientific Interest and water outcomes than last year. DEFRA, Natural England and the Rural Payments Agency are currently considering how we can further preserve the benefits of expiring Higher and Entry Level Stewardship agreements from 2019 onwards. All expiring HLS agreement holders benefit from the support of their local Natural England adviser, who can discuss land management and future scheme choices with them.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice grouped question UIN 169249 169250 question first answered 06/09/2018 11:57:50 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

964183

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Animal Feed
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans his Department has to provide a support package for farmers who have had to use their winter store of feed as a result of the recent water shortage.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	169252
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2018 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to the very highest standards of animal welfare, and we have been focusing on practical measures to support farmers to increase their access to fodder and bedding.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In response to farmers’ queries, we have already clarified that English farmers, unlike farmers in some other EU countries where derogations from European law have been sought, have been able to use Ecological Focus Area fallow land for grazing since 1 July.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The UK was the first Member State to raise a concern with the Commission over the difficulties farmers faced in establishing Ecological Focus Area catch crops by the required date of 20 August. Other Member States agreed with us and the Commission agreed that “force majeure” should apply in these circumstances, so we could waive any penalties for farmers for non-compliance with EU law.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are seeking a derogation from the EU requirement to sow only certain seed types which are unpalatable to livestock in Ecological Focus Areas as catch crop. The derogation we expect to secure this week will allow for grass and herbaceous forage to be grown in those areas, and for those areas to be grazed.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>On Countryside Stewardship, Environmental Stewardship and forestry legacy agreements, farmers are able to ask Natural England to agree a temporary variation to the agreement conditions, either as an Environmental Stewardship Derogation (to date, over 100 have been granted) or a Countryside Stewardship Minor and Temporary Adjustment (over 30 have so far been granted).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are considering 30 agri-environment options where farmers and land managers are more likely to be affected by drought to see where we would accept temporary derogations. These include derogations that may help support grazing, bedding and fodder. In some cases, these could provide for earlier cutting, grazing or sowing of forage within certain parameters that are designed to minimise the overall environmental impact.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As regards cash flow, the Rural Payments Agency and Natural England are fully focused on getting basic payment scheme (BPS) and agri-environment scheme payments issued promptly. In addition, we are considering options such as bringing forward bridging payments for those BPS claimants who have not received their BPS 2018 payments by the end of December.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>It is clear that the main impact of the recent drought conditions is likely to be felt by livestock farmers facing a shortage of fodder and that the full extent of the impacts may not be realised until later in the year. We have prioritised practical solutions to help farmers increase access to fodder and bedding both now and in the coming months. These actions will help farmers to limit the impact of extra feed costs by allocating land to forage growth and grazing, but we will keep the situation under review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice grouped question UIN 169254 question first answered 06/09/2018 12:41:43 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

964184

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Animal Feed: Cumbria
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the long and short-term (a) financial and (b) environmental effect of the recent water shortages on farmers in Cumbria.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	169253
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2018 answer text <p>It is clear that the main impact of the recent drought conditions is likely to be felt by livestock farmers facing a shortage of fodder and that the full extent of the impacts may not be realised until later in the year. We have prioritised practical solutions to help farmers increase access to fodder and bedding both now and in the coming months. These actions will help farmers to limit the impact of extra feed costs by allocating land to forage growth and grazing, but we will keep the situation under review.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Observations and discussions with local farmers and partners in Cumbria indicates that there have been localised impacts on farmers during the driest period – particularly for those farmers on private surface water supplies in the uplands. This has most notably had an impact upon silage and winter feed grass crops, with a reduced number of ‘cuts’ this year. This is expected to place a greater burden on some farmers over this coming winter in terms of having to buy in feed.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>It is also anticipated that some farmers within Nitrate Vulnerable Zones may need to seek permission to spread slurries outside of the closed period this winter. The Environment Agency (EA) will work with farmers on this on a case by case basis.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 06/09/2018 14:09:45 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

964185

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Animal Feed: Cumbria
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to protect animal welfare in the light of the feed shortages anticipated in Cumbria due to the recent water shortage.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	169254
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2018 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to the very highest standards of animal welfare, and we have been focusing on practical measures to support farmers to increase their access to fodder and bedding.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In response to farmers’ queries, we have already clarified that English farmers, unlike farmers in some other EU countries where derogations from European law have been sought, have been able to use Ecological Focus Area fallow land for grazing since 1 July.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The UK was the first Member State to raise a concern with the Commission over the difficulties farmers faced in establishing Ecological Focus Area catch crops by the required date of 20 August. Other Member States agreed with us and the Commission agreed that “force majeure” should apply in these circumstances, so we could waive any penalties for farmers for non-compliance with EU law.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are seeking a derogation from the EU requirement to sow only certain seed types which are unpalatable to livestock in Ecological Focus Areas as catch crop. The derogation we expect to secure this week will allow for grass and herbaceous forage to be grown in those areas, and for those areas to be grazed.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>On Countryside Stewardship, Environmental Stewardship and forestry legacy agreements, farmers are able to ask Natural England to agree a temporary variation to the agreement conditions, either as an Environmental Stewardship Derogation (to date, over 100 have been granted) or a Countryside Stewardship Minor and Temporary Adjustment (over 30 have so far been granted).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are considering 30 agri-environment options where farmers and land managers are more likely to be affected by drought to see where we would accept temporary derogations. These include derogations that may help support grazing, bedding and fodder. In some cases, these could provide for earlier cutting, grazing or sowing of forage within certain parameters that are designed to minimise the overall environmental impact.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As regards cash flow, the Rural Payments Agency and Natural England are fully focused on getting basic payment scheme (BPS) and agri-environment scheme payments issued promptly. In addition, we are considering options such as bringing forward bridging payments for those BPS claimants who have not received their BPS 2018 payments by the end of December.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>It is clear that the main impact of the recent drought conditions is likely to be felt by livestock farmers facing a shortage of fodder and that the full extent of the impacts may not be realised until later in the year. We have prioritised practical solutions to help farmers increase access to fodder and bedding both now and in the coming months. These actions will help farmers to limit the impact of extra feed costs by allocating land to forage growth and grazing, but we will keep the situation under review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice grouped question UIN 169252 question first answered 06/09/2018 12:41:43 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron