Show Search Form

Search Results

registered interest	true false
date	exactly: or between: and
answering body
answering dept id
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
hansard heading
house id
legislature	pref label
question text
tabling member constituency
tabling member printed
uin
answer	is ministerial correction true false date of answer exactly: or between: and answer text answering member constituency answering member printed grouped question UIN question first answered answering member label
tabling member	label

Search

458914

registered interest
date	09/03/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Care Homes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the Government plans to make funding available to councils for care homes in addition to the two per cent council tax precept to cover costs arising from the increase in the national minimum wage.
tabling member constituency	Clacton
tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
uin	30413
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2016 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for commissioning adult social care services. Fee levels are agreed by local authorities and social care providers, reflecting local conditions. In setting fee levels, local authorities are obliged to consider the sustainability of their local social care market.</p><p>At the Spending Review, the Government made up to £3.5 billion extra available by 2019/20 to local authorities for adult social care through the social care precept and Better Care Fund. This will help give councils more flexibility to meet local priorities as they see fit.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 14/03/2016 15:31:15 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell

458519

registered interest
date	08/03/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	General Practitioners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GP practices have a mental health specialist.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	30260
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2016 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 11/03/2016 12:57:35 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

458520

registered interest
date	08/03/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Older People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the (a) number and (b) proportion of clinical commissioning groups that commission mental health services specifically for older adults.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	30264
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2016 answer text <p>No estimate has been made of the number and proportion of clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) that commission mental health services specifically for older adults. All CCGs will have a cohort of older adults for whom there is mental health services provision. In recent years there has been a trend towards ageless mental health services.</p><p> </p><p>However, one of the recommendations in the Mental Health Taskforce report <em>The Five Year Forward View for Mental Health </em>published by NHS England in February this year is that bespoke older adult services should be the preferred model until such time that general adult mental health services can be shown to provide age-appropriate care. <em> </em></p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 11/03/2016 12:56:53 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

458521

registered interest
date	08/03/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many designated health places of safety for under-18s there are in each clinical commissioning group.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	30263
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2016 answer text <p>The Department does not hold information on how many designated health places of safety for under-18s there are in each clinical commissioning group.</p><p> </p><p>The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has produced a map of the location of designated health-based places of safety in England for people detained under section 136 of the Mental Health Act. The CQC has also published a table that breaks this information down by local authority. This information can be found at the following CQC website:</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><a href="http://www.cqc.org.uk/content/map-health-based-places-safety-0#howto" target="_blank">http://www.cqc.org.uk/content/map-health-based-places-safety-0#howto</a></p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 11/03/2016 12:55:46 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

458527

registered interest
date	08/03/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Schools: Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many co-commissioning pilots aimed at improving clear access routes between schools and specialist mental health services have been launched in each (a) year since 2010 and (b) month of 2015-16 to date.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	30261
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2016 answer text <p>On 3 December 2015 the Education Secretary announced 22 pilot areas across the country would develop better joint working arrangements to support timely and appropriate referrals to services and implement a joint training programme for named contacts in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services and schools.</p><p> </p><p>To take forward these actions, the Department and NHS England are working together to test the named lead approach and to trial a joint training programme for them. The training workshops element of the pilot began in November 2015 and it is expected that all of the workshops will be delivered by the middle of March 2016.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 11/03/2016 13:23:44 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

458533

registered interest
date	08/03/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of gross domestic product (GDP) has been spent on health care in (a) England and (b) the UK in each year since 1997; and what estimate he has made of the proportion of GDP that will be spent on health care over the next five years.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	30292
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2016 answer text <p>Spend as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) is usually reported on a United Kingdom basis. HM Treasury publishes UK health spend figures as a percentage of GDP which are shown below. Note this excludes private health expenditure.</p><p> </p><p>Spend on health in UK as % of GDP –</p><p>1996/97 – 5.0%</p><p>1997/98 – 5.0%</p><p>1998/99 – 5.0%</p><p>1999/00 – 5.0%</p><p>2000/01 – 5.2%</p><p>2001/02 – 5.6%</p><p>2002/03 – 5.8%</p><p>2003/04 – 6.2%</p><p>2004/05 – 6.5%</p><p>2005/06 – 6.7%</p><p>2006/07 – 6.6%</p><p>2007/08 – 6.7%</p><p>2008/09 – 7.2%</p><p>2009/10 – 7.8%</p><p>2010/11 – 7.6%</p><p>2011/12 – 7.4%</p><p>2012/13 – 7.5%</p><p>2013/14 – 7.5%</p><p>2014/15 – 7.4%</p><p> </p><p><em>Source:</em> Table 4.4 HMT, Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses 2015.</p><p> </p><p>The Spending Review settlement, delivered by the Chancellor on 25 November, set the Department’s overall budget for the remaining years of the parliament and the level of funding that will be available to the National Health Service. It set absolute spending totals, not spending as a percentage of GDP, providing certainty for financial planning over the period. The Department has not therefore made forecasts for health spending as a share of GDP for future years.</p><p> </p><p>GDP figures are calculated on an economy wide basis, so GDP figures for England are not available to calculate spend on health care in England as a share of English GDP.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 11/03/2016 13:04:25 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

458535

registered interest
date	08/03/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	General Practitioners
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 7 March 2016 to Question 29559, what average number of patients were registered at each GP surgery in each of the last 15 years; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	30294
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2016 answer text <p>The publication General and Personal Medical Services contains the aggregated number of registered patients at 30 September each year, but the average over the course of the year is not held centrally. Tables for each of the last 15 years have been placed in the Library. They provide snap-shot data as at 30 September for that year.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 11/03/2016 12:54:50 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

458098

registered interest
date	07/03/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Advocacy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he plans to increase the number of advocacy services available to mentally ill people before they are sectioned.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Ben Howlett
uin	30036
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2016 answer text <p>When a person is detained under the Mental Health Act 1983, (“the Act”) they are legally entitled to an Independent Mental Health Advocate (IMHA) who understands the Act and can support the detained patient. The provision of IMHA services is the responsibility of local authorities.</p><p> </p><p>For other mental health patients who need help and support in expressing their views, more general advocacy services, as well as family and friends, can provide support.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is also currently exploring providing additional guidance to mental health professionals promoting advocacy services to psychiatric patients that they believe would benefit from such support.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 14/03/2016 14:15:30 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4445 label Biography information for Ben Howlett

458219

registered interest
date	07/03/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Asylum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that refugees and asylum seekers are able to access mental health services.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	30121
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2016 answer text <p>No estimate has been made of the proportion of refugees and asylum seekers who require mental health treatment as this data is not routinely collected.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Both refugees and asylum seekers are offered health assessments which include consideration of mental health issues, however we do not hold data on the outcome of these.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England and clinical commissioning groups are committed to ensuring fair and equitable mental health care services for all, which includes all Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) communities, including vulnerable migrants, in particular, refugees and those seeking asylum.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England recently launched the Five Year Forward View Mental Health Task Force Report which clearly outlines action to be taken nationally, regionally, and locally to help improve mental health services for BME communities in England.</p><p>The full report is available via the following link:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Mental-Health-Taskforce-FYFV-final.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Mental-Health-Taskforce-FYFV-final.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England supported MIND to co-produce the Guidance for commissioners - ‘Commissioning mental health services for vulnerable adult migrants’ September 2015 launched February 2016. The Guidance aims to ensure National Health Service commissioners and providers provide timely and good quality mental health services for vulnerable migrants in particular refugees and those seeking asylum. The full report is available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/about/gov/equality-hub/migrants/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/about/gov/equality-hub/migrants/</a></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 30122 question first answered 10/03/2016 11:10:12 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

458220

registered interest
date	07/03/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Asylum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the proportion of refugees and asylum seekers who require mental health treatment.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	30122
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2016 answer text <p>No estimate has been made of the proportion of refugees and asylum seekers who require mental health treatment as this data is not routinely collected.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Both refugees and asylum seekers are offered health assessments which include consideration of mental health issues, however we do not hold data on the outcome of these.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England and clinical commissioning groups are committed to ensuring fair and equitable mental health care services for all, which includes all Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) communities, including vulnerable migrants, in particular, refugees and those seeking asylum.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England recently launched the Five Year Forward View Mental Health Task Force Report which clearly outlines action to be taken nationally, regionally, and locally to help improve mental health services for BME communities in England.</p><p>The full report is available via the following link:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Mental-Health-Taskforce-FYFV-final.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Mental-Health-Taskforce-FYFV-final.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England supported MIND to co-produce the Guidance for commissioners - ‘Commissioning mental health services for vulnerable adult migrants’ September 2015 launched February 2016. The Guidance aims to ensure National Health Service commissioners and providers provide timely and good quality mental health services for vulnerable migrants in particular refugees and those seeking asylum. The full report is available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/about/gov/equality-hub/migrants/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/about/gov/equality-hub/migrants/</a></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 30121 question first answered 10/03/2016 11:10:12 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger