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899431

registered interest
date	08/05/2018
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 Health Services: Children and Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to increase the provision of mental health services for children and young people.
tabling member constituency	Faversham and Mid Kent
tabling member printed	Helen Whately
uin	905177
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2018 answer text <p>We are making an additional £1.4 billion available in order to transform services and ensure access to specialist mental health services for 70,000 additional children and young people by 2020/21 each year. Our recent joint health and education Green Paper will revolutionise provision of services in schools, bolster links between schools and the National Health Service and pilot a four week waiting time.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 08/05/2018 16:00:40 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately

899432

registered interest
date	08/05/2018
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	Health Services: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps the Government is taking to improve child health outcomes.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	905179
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2018 answer text <p>The Government wants children and young people to get the best start in life, and recognises the lasting impact this has on their health outcomes. We take a `life course’ approach which includes early years support so that children are ready to learn. <br> <br> We have ambitious plans to reduce infant mortality and childhood obesity, improve children and young people’s mental health, and deliver a world-leading immunisation programme.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 08/05/2018 16:02:03 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

897903

registered interest
date	04/05/2018
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	General Practitioners
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 the number of GPs.
tabling member constituency	Gainsborough
tabling member printed	Sir Edward Leigh
uin	905168
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2018 answer text <p>The National Health Service needs at least 5,000 more general practitioners and is working hard to recruit them. New medical schools have been set up in Sunderland, Lancashire,Chelmsford, Lincoln and Canterbury. We have also increased the numbers entering general practice training to 3,250 places each year and Health Education England reported the highest ever number of doctors entering general practice training in 2017.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 08/05/2018 16:25:52 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	345 label Biography information for Sir Edward Leigh

895273

registered interest
date	01/05/2018
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	Local Government: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that local authorities that commission public health services appoint resident representatives to their commissioning (a) board and (b) working groups to help determine the appropriateness of local initiatives.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	140181
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2018 answer text <p>Upper tier and unitary local authorities (LAs) in England have a duty to take the steps they believe are appropriate to improve the health of their local populations. LAs are directly accountable to their electorates for the way in which they discharge their duty and generally should decide for themselves how best to involve local residents in informing public health commissioning decisions.</p><p> </p><p>However, LAs with health improvement duties must establish Health and Wellbeing Boards that bring together representatives from the local National Health Service, public health, social care and beyond to agree joint strategic needs assessments for the area. Each of these LAs also has a corresponding Local Healthwatch, organisations that aim to give citizens a strong voice in influencing and challenging how health and social care services are provided within their locality. All Health and Wellbeing Boards must include a Local Healthwatch member.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 08/05/2018 16:01:25 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

895275

registered interest
date	01/05/2018
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	Health: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the effect of socioeconomic inequalities on children's health outcomes throughout their lifetimes.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	140182
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2018 answer text <p>Inequalities experienced in childhood can lead to continuing problems across the life course. We want children to have the best start in life. Health visitors, as leaders of the Healthy Child Programme for 0-5 year olds, provide evidence-based public health interventions at community, family and individual levels.</p><p> </p><p>Local commissioners are critical in providing quality services that address public health priorities associated with deprivation. These include services to tackle smoking in pregnancy, reduce childhood obesity, improve oral health and enhance early language skills.</p><p> </p><p>Public Health England is working closely with the Department for Education to help parents improve their children’s early language and literacy skills before they start school. This aims to close the `word gap’ between disadvantaged children and their peers. An £8.5 million programme has opened for local authorities to fund projects aimed at disadvantaged children.</p><p> </p><p>We are making an additional £1.4 billion available to transform children and young people’s mental health services from 2015/16 to 2019/20. This will mean that by 2020/21, 70,000 additional children and young people each year will be accessing National Health Service specialist mental health services. We are clear that there is still more to be done, hence why we have recently published a joint health and education Green Paper, one of the key proposals for which is to create new mental health support teams to deliver interventions for mild to moderate mental health needs for children and young people, in or close to schools and colleges.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 08/05/2018 16:22:13 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

895291

registered interest
date	01/05/2018
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, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of GPs in identifying and treating perinatal mental health problems in mothers.
tabling member constituency	Belfast East
tabling member printed	Gavin Robinson
uin	140134
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2018 answer text <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. The importance of this is reflected in both NHS England’s ‘Better Births’ and the ‘Five Year Forward View for Mental Health'.</p><p> </p><p>General practitioners and primary care teams have a role in supporting the identification of perinatal mental illness and treatment, and are part of an integrated pathway of services. This includes monitoring early onset conditions, providing pre-conception counselling and referring women to specialist mental health services, including the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme and specialist perinatal community teams, if necessary.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is investing £365 million to 2020/21 in perinatal mental health services, and NHS England is leading a transformation programme with the development of specialist perinatal mental health community services across England with their investment of £63 million between 2016/17 and 2018/19. Local teams work in close partnership with wider system partners including primary care to provide care and treatment to women with perinatal mental illness.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England has also invested in multidisciplinary perinatal mental health clinical networks which include general practitioners, 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> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 08/05/2018 16:17:56 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4360 label Biography information for Gavin Robinson

895310

registered interest
date	01/05/2018
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	Healthy Start Scheme
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 23 April 2018 to Question 135676 on Healthy Start Scheme, how many families were in receipt of Healthy Start vouchers in those local authority areas.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	139970
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2018 answer text <p>The number of families in receipt of Healthy Start vouchers in the local authority areas with the lowest and highest Heathy Start uptake rates can be seen in the following table:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Local Authority</p></td><td><p>Number of households</p></td><td><p>Local Authority</p></td><td><p>Number of households</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lowest take up</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Highest take up</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Devon</p></td><td><p>1,584</p></td><td><p>Hartlepool</p></td><td><p>572</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hampshire</p></td><td><p>2,728</p></td><td><p>Newcastle upon Tyne</p></td><td><p>1,442</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hertfordshire</p></td><td><p>2,731</p></td><td><p>Halton</p></td><td><p>448</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Surrey</p></td><td><p>1,887</p></td><td><p>Bath and North East Somerset</p></td><td><p>263</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bracknell Forest</p></td><td><p>201</p></td><td><p>Redcar and Cleveland</p></td><td><p>1,045</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Redbridge</p></td><td><p>761</p></td><td><p>Northumberland</p></td><td><p>1,279</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rutland</p></td><td><p>33</p></td><td><p>Gateshead</p></td><td><p>1,043</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Buckinghamshire</p></td><td><p>1,032</p></td><td><p>Stockton-on-Tees</p></td><td><p>1,223</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wokingham</p></td><td><p>182</p></td><td><p>Swindon</p></td><td><p>620</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Windsor and Maidenhead</p></td><td><p>193</p></td><td><p>Nottingham</p></td><td><p>2,867</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Note: Validated but unpublished information on Healthy Start vouchers from an approved statistical collection.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 08/05/2018 16:21:11 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

895313

registered interest
date	01/05/2018
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	Food Standards Agency
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 Written Ministerial Statement by the Chief Secretary to the Treasury of 13 March 2018, 35WS, if he will list the projects supported by the £14m allocated to the Food Standards Agency; and if he will publish the total estimated cost of those projects.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	140041
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2018 answer text <p>The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has several workstreams relating to the consequences of leaving the European Union which are supported by £14 million of HM Treasury funding. These cover the regulatory regime for food and feed safety, and include food crime and incidents handling, import controls for food products and food safety risk assessment and risk management functions. The FSA has developed delivery plans for a range of negotiated and contingency outcomes and is working with other Government departments and the devolved administrations where there are issues of joint policy responsibility. Due to the sensitivity of these plans to the ongoing negotiations it would not be appropriate to publish a full list with total costs at this stage.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 08/05/2018 15:59:16 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

895315

registered interest
date	01/05/2018
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	Health Services: Learning Disability
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 he is taking to ensure that different health care providers communicate with each other to ensure the delivery of care to patients with learning difficulties.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	140106
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2018 answer text <p>Under the Accessible Information Standard, all relevant organisations must ensure that information about individuals’ information and communication support needs is shared through existing data sharing processes where the consent of the individual to do so has been obtained. Such information should be included as part of referrals within and between organisations, including but not limited to referrals from primary into secondary care, transfers and handovers between wards or units, and discharge from an inpatient setting into the community.</p><p> </p><p>The scope of the Standard extends to individuals who have information and/or communication support needs which are related to, or caused by, a disability, impairment or sensory loss, including those with a learning disability. Individuals who may have difficulty in reading or understanding information for other reasons such as a learning difficulty, as distinct from a learning disability, are excluded from the Standard’s scope.</p><p> </p><p>In the revised Standard specification, which was issued in August 2017, organisations are now recommended, but not required, to include individuals with a learning difficulty within the scope of their activities as part of the Standard.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 08/05/2018 16:32:25 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

895319

registered interest
date	01/05/2018
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 Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans the Government has to mark Mental Health Awareness week.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	140060
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2018 answer text <p>The Government supports the promotion of mental health awareness, including co-funding the Time to Change campaign since 2007, which has done so much to reduce stigma and improve attitudes towards people who need support with their mental health. The Government welcomes and will actively support Mental Health Awareness week again this year.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 08/05/2018 16:18:55 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger