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724558

	registered interest
	date	26/04/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Community Health Services: Liverpool
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust's announcement of 30 March 2017 on the new arrangement to manage community services in Liverpool, what future bidding process NHS Improvement plans to use relating to the Liverpool Community Health Contract.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	72015
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2017 answer text <p><B>The House of Commons was prorogued before the earliest date of answer for this Question.</B></p> answering member constituency answering member printed question first answered 02/05/2017 10:00:00 answering member 0
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

724560

	registered interest
	date	26/04/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Microplastics: Health Hazards
	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 18 April 2017 to Question 70013, for what reason that Answer does not refer to any plans by his Department to conduct an assessment of the effect of microplastics entering the marine environment on human health.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	72013
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2017 answer text <p><B>The House of Commons was prorogued before the earliest date of answer for this Question.</B></p> answering member constituency answering member printed question first answered 02/05/2017 10:00:00 answering member 0
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

724559

	registered interest
	date	26/04/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	NHS Improvement
	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 13 April 2017 to Question 70905, on Department of Health, for what reasons NHS Improvement placed (a) Bernie Cuthell at Manchester Mental Health Trust and (b) Karen Jackson at Southport and Ormskirk NHS Trust.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	72016
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2017 answer text <p><B>The House of Commons was prorogued before the earliest date of answer for this Question.</B></p> answering member constituency answering member printed question first answered 02/05/2017 10:00:00 answering member 0
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

436274

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Social Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with which external stakeholders his Department has discussed contingency planning for provider failure in the social care market.
	tabling member constituency	Cambridge
	tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
	uin	19073
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>In 2013, Government carried out a public consultation (‘Oversight in Adult Social Care’) on a detailed set of proposals for market oversight and provider failure.</p><br /><p>The feedback from stakeholders including individual local authorities, local authority membership organisations, individual care providers, provider representative organisations and commercial experts formed the basis of a number of reforms in the Care Act 2014 that ensures people do not go without the care they need when their providers’ business fails. This includes:</p><br /><ol><li>Duties on local authorities to temporarily meet the needs of individuals and their carers where their provider is unable to carry on because of business failure. Statutory guidance to support local authorities to discharge these functions was subject to a full public consultation and can be found at:</li></ol><br /><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/care-act-2014-statutory-guidance-for-implementation" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/care-act-2014-statutory-guidance-for-implementation</a></p><br /><p>The Department also worked with the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, the Local Government Association, and the Local Government Information Unit (LGiU) to produce a guide to support local authorities to develop contingency plans for provider failure in the social care market. Numerous stakeholders, including local authorities, providers and insolvency practitioners were involved in the development of the guide and participated in the LGiU consultation exercises.</p><br /><p>The guidance can be found at:</p><br /><p><a href="http://www.lgiu.org.uk/report/care-and-continuity-guide/" target="_blank">http://www.lgiu.org.uk/report/care-and-continuity-guide/</a></p><br /><p>The Department commissioned the consultancy Cordis Bright to produce guidance to support local authorities with market oversight at the local level to enable them to meet their new responsibilities under the Care Act for ensuring continuity of care in the event of a provider business failure. The materials were produced following extensive input from both councils and providers.</p><br /><ol start="2"><li>New duties for the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to oversee the finances of care providers which are either large or whose provision is geographically concentrated as their financial failure would make it difficult for local authorities to discharge their statutory responsibilities.</li></ol><br /><p>The CQC oversight function will provide early warning to relevant local authorities in the event that one of these providers is likely to fail and their services cease. This will allow local authorities time to implement contingency plans.</p><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 16/12/2015 17:43:01 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

453767

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the £1.25 billion funding for children and young people's mental health services announced in the 2015 Budget, published in March 2015, how much of that funding (a) has been transferred to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to date, (b) have the CCGs spent to date and (c) he estimates CCGs will have spent by the end of the 2015-16 financial year; and if he will ensure that any shortfall is rolled over into the 2016-17 budget.
	tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
	tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
	uin	27614
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2016 answer text <p>In total the Government has committed to making available an additional £1.4 billion to be spent over the course of this Parliament to improve children and young people’s mental health.</p><p>In addition to the £1.25 billion made available in the March 2015 budget, an additional £150 million over five years was also allocated in the 2014 Autumn Statement to develop evidence based community eating disorder services for children and young people.</p><p> </p><p>Of the £173 million additional funding allocated for 2015-16, £105 million has been allocated to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), which comprises of:</p><p>o £75 million to improve local services through Local Transformation Plans; and</p><p>o £30 million for new community based eating disorder services in every area of the country.</p><p> </p><p>Year to date spend information is not yet available, however, at financial month 9 for 2015-16 it is forecasted that CCGs will have spent £103 million of the £105 million allocated for 2015-16.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 01/03/2016 18:00:05 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

515369

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	General Practitioners: North West
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the report, General Practice Forward View, published in April 2016, how much of the £2.4 billion increased funding for GP surgeries will be spent in Lancashire and the North West.
	tabling member constituency	Burnley
	tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
	uin	35470
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2016 answer text <p>How much of this funding which will be spent in Lancashire and the North West will depend on future decisions by NHS England and the local clinical commissioning groups.</p><p>Local primary care allocations are published on the NHS England website at:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/pc-medical-allocations.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/pc-medical-allocations.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 28/04/2016 10:14:09 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

455342

	registered interest
	date	25/02/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Learning Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the report by Sir Stephen Bubb, Time for Change: the challenge ahead, published in February 2016, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of establishing a commissioner for people with learning disabilities.
	tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
	tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
	uin	28525
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2016 answer text <p>The Department will consider the recommendations made in Time for Change – the Challenge Ahead, as part of development work on our Learning Disability Action Plan and in delivering the commitments we made in the Government’s response to ‘No voice unheard, no right ignored’ consultation published in November 2015. However, new statutory roles and legislation are not necessarily the answer to promoting and protecting the rights of people with learning disabilities and their families.</p><p> </p><p>In the response to ‘No voice unheard, no right ignored’, we set out how we can make more rapid and meaningful progress by ensuring that the rights that exist under current laws and statutes are properly understood, implemented and exercised by those with learning disabilities and/or autism. This work is underway and we have made a clear commitment to consider legislation if the actions we propose do not create sufficient progress.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 01/03/2016 14:32:44 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

423776

	registered interest
	date	26/10/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Carers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the report by Carers Trust entitled A Charge on Caring?, published on 16 September 2015, if he will take steps to prohibit local authorities from charging unpaid carers for support.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	13255
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2015 answer text <p>The Government recognises the valuable contribution made by carers, many of whom spend a significant proportion of their life providing support to family members or friends.</p><br /><p>The Care Act guidance is clear about policy on charging carers. The Care Act statutory guidance, at paragraph 8.50 states that:</p><br /><p>“Local authorities are not required to charge a carer for support and indeed in many cases it would be a false economy to do so. When deciding whether to charge, and in determining what an appropriate charge is, a local authority should consider how it wishes to express the way it values carers within its local community as partners in care, and recognise the significant contribution carers make.”</p><br /><p>The Care Act replicates the previous position where charging carers was permissible and the Government has no plans to change this. It would not have been appropriate to impose a blanket ban on charging for carers services, because in some cases small charges are necessary to the viability of services. However, the Care Act provides additional protection to carers by making it clear that local authorities cannot charge carers for services provided to the person being cared for. This means that carers may only be charged for services provided directly to them.</p><br /><p>Most local authorities do not routinely charge carers in recognition of the valuable contribution carers make to their local communities, and the Carers Trust report confirms that this is still the case. We will continue to make the case against routine charging of carers and to monitor the situation closely.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 03/11/2015 16:20:25 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

455740

	registered interest
	date	26/02/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Suicide
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the recommendations on page 13, paragraph 2, of the Mental Health Taskforce report, published in February 2016, what steps he is taking to ensure all local areas have a multi-agency suicide prevention plan.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	28772
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>We welcome the recommendation by the independent Mental Health Taskforce that every area should have a local suicide prevention plan in place delivered through multi-agency groups.</p><p> </p><p>We will be working with Public Health England to engage and support local authorities that do not have a local multi-agency suicide prevention plan to put one in place.</p><p> </p><p>I will be meeting soon with Departmental officials and our delivery partner organisations on suicide prevention to explore ways in which we can work together to re-invigorate the National Suicide Prevention Strategy, including improving local delivery of its aims.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 02/03/2016 17:06:28 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

451586

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2016
	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, with reference to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Care Quality of 9 February 2016, on party of esteem in the NHS constitution, Official Report, column 1430, if he will add the right to psychological therapies to the constitution.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	26517
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>The NHS Constitution right to drugs and treatments reflects the legal funding requirement that applies to interventions recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) technology appraisal guidance.</p><p> </p><p>NICE has not been asked to undertake a technical appraisal of psychological therapies. If in the future, psychological therapies are recommended by NICE, and are consequently mandated for use in the National Health Service, we will consider consulting on including a right to psychological therapies within the Constitution.</p><p> </p><p>Over the last spending review we invested over £400 million into the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme to ensure access to talking therapies for those who need them and this has contributed to achieving very real improvements in the lives of people with anxiety and depression.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 22/02/2016 12:18:19 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger