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1133246

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date	19/06/2019
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 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 and Social Care, with reference to the June 2019 Children's Society report on mental health, what plans he has to narrow the gap between the number of children and adolescents who are referred for mental health treatment by their GP, schools and social services and the number of children and adolescents receiving mental health treatment.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
uin	266761
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2019 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Plan sets a goal of an extra 345,000 children and young people aged 0-25 years, receiving support via NHS-funded mental health services by 2023/24. The NHS has also committed to funding for children and young people’s mental health services growing as a proportion of all mental health funding for the first time, which will itself grow faster than funding for the NHS overall.</p><p>Our Green Paper, ‘Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision: a green paper’ sets out how we plan to increase the availability of support for children and young people, by reaching them in schools or colleges through:</p><p>- incentivising every school or college to identify and train a senior mental health lead;</p><p>- creating new mental health support teams in and near schools and colleges; and</p><p>- piloting a four-week waiting time to ensure swifter access to specialist NHS mental health services for those who need it.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 28/06/2019 10:30:30 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

1133249

registered interest
date	19/06/2019
answering body	House of Commons Commission
answering dept id	18
answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
hansard heading	Members' Staff: General Practitioners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington, representing the House of Commons Commission, whether Members' staff can (a) register with and (b) access an on-site medical doctor.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	266763
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2019 answer text <p>Members’ staff cannot register with nor access an on-site medical doctor as there are none on-site. There are occupational health physicians who work within the Parliamentary Health and Wellbeing Service (PHWS) via a contract with Guys and St Thomas’ hospital. Managers can refer their staff to PHWS for advice and support if they feel that their health is being affected by their work. Members of Parliament can seek occupational health advice for their staff via the Members HR advisory service.</p> answering member constituency Carshalton and Wallington answering member printed Tom Brake question first answered 02/07/2019 16:19:30 answering member 151 label Biography information for Tom Brake previous answer version 125150 answering member constituency Carshalton and Wallington answering member printed Tom Brake answering member 151 label Biography information for Tom Brake
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1133250

registered interest
date	19/06/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Social Rented Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many people in (a) Preston constituency, (b) Lancashire and (c) England are waiting to be rehoused with a registered social landlord.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
uin	266764
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2019 answer text <p>The number of households in the housing data list by local authority district can be found in Section C of the published tables from the Local Authority Housing Statistics. The latest published information, for 2017-18 can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/local-authority-housing-statistics-data-returns-for-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/local-authority-housing-statistics-data-returns-for-2017-to-2018<br> <br></a> The department does not collect these data by parliamentary constituency.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 28/06/2019 13:39:03 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

1133256

registered interest
date	19/06/2019
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	Suicide: North West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many deaths of patients in the care of each mental health NHS trust in the North West were attributed to suicide in (a) 2017, (b) 2018 (c) 2019; and what steps his Department is taking to reduce the level of deaths by suicide among patients undergoing treatment for mental health problems.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
uin	266769
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2019 answer text <p>This information is not available in the format requested.</p><p>The latest information on suicide registrations for 2017 was published by the Office for National Statistics in September 2018 and can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/suicidesintheunitedkingdom/2017registrations" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/suicidesintheunitedkingdom/2017registrations</a></p><p>The latest National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health report was published in October 2018 and is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/ncish/reports/" target="_blank">https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/ncish/reports/</a></p><p>In January 2018, the former Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (Rt. hon. Jeremy Hunt MP) announced a zero suicide ambition for the National Health Service, starting with mental health inpatients. Every NHS mental health provider was required to put in place a zero suicide policy during 2018/19. There has been significant progress made by trusts in developing zero suicide plans, with regional suicide prevention leads supporting trusts to finalise these.</p><p>For those requiring support for a mental health problem, under the NHS Long Term Plan, there will be a comprehensive expansion of mental health services, with an additional £2.3 billion in real terms by 2023/24. This will give 380,000 more adults access to psychological therapies and 345,000 more children and young people greater support in the next five years.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 28/06/2019 10:36:11 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

1133267

registered interest
date	19/06/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Reoffenders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department plans to fund the Metropolitan Police Service's intervention programme Divert after 2020.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	266774
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office will be providing funding for DIVERT from the Early Intervention Youth Fund from November 2018 to March 2020. Funding for projects aimed at early intervention and prevention will be considered as part of our spending review plans.</p><p>There will also be opportunities for those seeking to deliver interventions to steer children and young people away from serious violence to apply for funding from the Youth Endowment Fund. Operating over ten years, the £200m Fund will work with charities, statutory services, communities, young people and others to develop and fund the most promising interventions. Further information about the Fund’s activities and funding criteria can be found here: <a href="https://impetus.org.uk/youth-endowment-fund.%20" target="_blank">https://impetus.org.uk/youth-endowment-fund. </a></p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 27/06/2019 15:35:11 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1133287

registered interest
date	19/06/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Fire Prevention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will adopt the recommendations relating to fire safety and classroom notice boards submitted by the British Educational Suppliers Association to his review of Building Bulletin 100.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	266635
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2019 answer text <p>Schools must be safe places in which to work and study. The Department, as part of the regular review of its standards for school buildings, has recently completed research into the flammability of notice boards used in schools. The outcome of this work has been used to clarify the specification the Department uses in relation to noticeboards in new school buildings. The updated specification can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/school-design-and-construction" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/school-design-and-construction</a>.</p><p>The British Educational Suppliers Association responded to our recent call for evidence on Building Bulletin 100, which will be followed by a full public consultation on the guidance and its supporting tools.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 28/06/2019 11:13:07 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1133288

registered interest
date	19/06/2019
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to restore local housing allowance rates to cover the cheapest third of local rents.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	266787
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2019 answer text <p>The benefit freeze is coming to an end in March 2020. Specific decisions on how to uprate benefits from April 2020 (including the Local Housing Allowance) will form part of the discussions in support of fiscal events later this year.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 28/06/2019 12:16:24 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1133294

registered interest
date	19/06/2019
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	Cancer: Diagnosis
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 early diagnosis of cancers.
tabling member constituency	Bexleyheath and Crayford
tabling member printed	Sir David Evennett
uin	266791
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2019 answer text <p>To raise awareness of cancer symptoms and encourage people with symptoms to go to their doctor without delay, the Department of Health and Social Care, alongside Public Health England, have run 15 national Be Clear on Cancer awareness campaigns since 2010/11.</p><p> </p><p>A Be Clear on Cancer ‘Blood in pee’ campaign ran across England from July to September 2018, aiming to improve early diagnosis of bladder and kidney cancer. Public Health England launched a new campaign, ‘Cervical Screening Saves Lives’, on 5 March to promote uptake of cervical screening.</p><p> </p><p>As recommended by the UK National Screening Committee and the independent Cancer Taskforce, we are modernising our world-renowned cancer screening programmes by introducing Faecal Immunochemical Testing into the NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme as soon as possible and human papillomavirus as the primary test in the NHS Cervical Screening Programme by 2020.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is establishing Rapid Diagnostic Centres across the country to upgrade and bring together the latest diagnostic equipment and expertise. The centres build on the 10 models piloted through the Accelerate, Coordinate and Evaluate programme, which have focussed on diagnosing cancers where patients often present with non-specific symptoms and may go to their general practitioner many times before being sent for appropriate tests.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is extending lung health checks, targeting clinical commissioning groups with the lowest survival rates. In Greater Manchester introducing low dose CT health checks saw an almost five-fold reduction in stage 4 disease, with 80% of cancers diagnosed at an early stage.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England awarded around £5 million of funding to improve pathology services in 37 trusts across nine Cancer Alliances at the end of 2017/18.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 28/06/2019 10:58:37 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	1198 label Biography information for Sir David Evennett

1133297

registered interest
date	19/06/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Cryptocurrencies: Facebook
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of plans by Facebook to launch its own crypto-currency, Libra, on the stability of the financial system.
tabling member constituency	Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
tabling member printed	Jonathan Edwards
uin	266794
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2019 answer text <p>The Government does not comment on the proposed business models of individual companies. More broadly, the Government established the Cryptoassets Taskforce – comprised of HM Treasury, the Financial Conduct Authority and the Bank of England – to explore the risks and potential benefits associated with cryptoassets and other applications of distributed ledger technology.</p><p> </p><p>The Taskforce’s final report<sub><sub>[1]</sub></sub> found that cryptoassets do not currently pose a material threat to UK or global financial stability, however this could change in the future, and the Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee will continue to monitor the situation.</p><p> </p><p>Treasury Ministers have meetings with a wide variety of organisations in the public and private sectors, as well as international counterparts, as part of the process of policy development and delivery.</p><p> </p><p>Details of ministerial and permanent secretary meetings with external organisations on departmental business are published on a quarterly basis here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmt-ministers-meetings-hospitality-gifts-and-overseas-travel" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmt-ministers-meetings-hospitality-gifts-and-overseas-travel</a></p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/752070/cryptoassets_taskforce_final_report_final_web.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/752070/cryptoassets_taskforce_final_report_final_web.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 266795 question first answered 28/06/2019 09:27:14 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	3943 label Biography information for Jonathan Edwards

1133298

registered interest
date	19/06/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Cryptocurrencies: Facebook
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with his international counterparts on the effect of the Facebook crypto currency Libra on the stability of the financial system.
tabling member constituency	Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
tabling member printed	Jonathan Edwards
uin	266795
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2019 answer text <p>The Government does not comment on the proposed business models of individual companies. More broadly, the Government established the Cryptoassets Taskforce – comprised of HM Treasury, the Financial Conduct Authority and the Bank of England – to explore the risks and potential benefits associated with cryptoassets and other applications of distributed ledger technology.</p><p> </p><p>The Taskforce’s final report<sub><sub>[1]</sub></sub> found that cryptoassets do not currently pose a material threat to UK or global financial stability, however this could change in the future, and the Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee will continue to monitor the situation.</p><p> </p><p>Treasury Ministers have meetings with a wide variety of organisations in the public and private sectors, as well as international counterparts, as part of the process of policy development and delivery.</p><p> </p><p>Details of ministerial and permanent secretary meetings with external organisations on departmental business are published on a quarterly basis here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmt-ministers-meetings-hospitality-gifts-and-overseas-travel" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmt-ministers-meetings-hospitality-gifts-and-overseas-travel</a></p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/752070/cryptoassets_taskforce_final_report_final_web.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/752070/cryptoassets_taskforce_final_report_final_web.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 266794 question first answered 28/06/2019 09:27:17 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	3943 label Biography information for Jonathan Edwards