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442984

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2016
	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, pursuant to the Answer of 17 December 2015 to Question 20082, what the (a) dates, (b) locations and (c) organisations of the 19 visits and meetings referred to in that Answer were.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	21403
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2016 answer text <p>Details of the 19 visits to or meetings with mental health trusts undertaken by Simon Stevens and Sir Bruce Keogh since their appointments as Chief Executive and Medical Director respectively are given on the attached table <em>Details of meetings with and visits to mental health trusts undertaken by Simon Stevens and Sir Bruce Keogh since their appointments as Chief Executive and Medical Director respectively of NHS England. </em></p><br /> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 11/01/2016 17:00:06 question first ministerially corrected 11/01/2016 20:10:15 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt attachment 1 file name PQ21403 Details of meetings and visits undertaken - schedule.docx title Mental health trust visits & meetings previous answer version 38200 answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

439404

	registered interest
	date	17/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Nurses
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will ensure that records of the training history of the nurses convicted at Nursing and Midwifery Council hearings are kept on the same basis as such data in such cases by the General Medical Council.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	20584
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2016 answer text <p>The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) is the independent regulator of nurses and midwives in the United Kingdom. The NMC is responsible for delivery of its statutory functions including maintaining a register of all nurses and midwives eligible to work in the UK and for pursuing fitness to practise investigations against its registrants in the interests of public protection.</p><p> </p><p>On each of the NMC and General Medical Council (GMC) websites there is a facility to search the professional registers and to check the registration status of a registrant. <del class="ministerial">Where an NMC registrant has been struck-off the register, their record is removed from the register and they would not be found on a register search. However, the NMC does publish information about fitness to practise (FtP) allegations, hearings, outcomes and sanctions elsewhere on its website in accordance with its FtP publication and disclosure policy. Where a GMC registrant is erased from the medical register, their record remains and could be found in a register search with details of the FtP sanction. </del><ins class="ministerial">Both of these regulators maintain public records about individuals who have been struck off or erased from their professional registers and these records are available through their respective websites.</ins></p><p>It is a matter for the regulators themselves to determine how they manage their publication and disclosure policy in relation to fitness to practice, within the legislative frameworks in which they operate.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 11/01/2016 17:09:48 question first ministerially corrected 02/02/2016 11:46:58 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer previous answer version 38218 answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

442975

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Anaemia: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children in England were diagnosed as anaemic or iron deficient in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	21373
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2016 answer text <p>There are no figures available centrally for how many children in England were diagnosed as anaemic or iron deficient in each of the last 10 years.</p><br /><p>However, the National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS) UK report has figures for the proportion of children in the United Kingdom with haemoglobin concentrations below a certain level that indicate anaemia, but are not necessarily diagnosed.</p><br /><p>Lower limits for haemoglobin have been set by the World Health Organization and are endorsed by the Scientific Advisory Committee for Nutrition.</p><br /><p>The figures below for the UK cover years 1, 2, 3 and 4 (combined) of the NDNS Rolling Programme (2008/09 to 2011/12).</p><br /><p>The estimated proportion of children in the UK with a haemoglobin concentration below the lower limits was:</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Age Group</p></td><td><p>% below the lower limits</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1.5 to three years</p></td><td><p>12.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>four to ten years (boys)</p></td><td><p>3.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>11 to 18 years (boys)</p></td><td><p>1.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>four to ten years (girls)</p></td><td><p>5.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>11 to 18 years (girls)</p></td><td><p>7.4</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 11/01/2016 17:02:19 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

442980

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent estimate he has made of the take-up of the School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme by children from low-income families.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	21372
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2016 answer text <p>This information is not available. Take-up for the School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme is assessed as a percentage of eligible schools registered to receive fruit and vegetable boxes from the scheme. The prime contractor for the Scheme, NHS Supply Chain, estimates that 99% of eligible schools are registered with the scheme.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 11/01/2016 18:02:26 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

439408

	registered interest
	date	17/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Hepatitis
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people who were infected with hepatitis C due to contaminated blood products supplied by the NHS have attained sustained virological response following treatment for the infection.
	tabling member constituency	Corby
	tabling member printed	Tom Pursglove
	uin	20658
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2016 answer text <p>Information on the numbers of people with hepatitis C through NHS-supplied blood or blood products who have attained sustained virological response following treatment for the infection is not held centrally. NHS England’s commissioning policy is for the treatment of patients based on clinical need, not on the route of infection.</p><p>All patients who meet the policy criteria, including those infected through NHS-supplied blood or blood products, are eligible for the new hepatitis C treatments. This will be dependent upon the individual patient’s hepatitis C genotype and cirrhosis status.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 11/01/2016 15:18:16 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove

438982

	registered interest
	date	16/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Care Homes: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if his Department will research the causes of systemic failure at private care homes run by the same provider.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	20484
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2016 answer text <p>The Department is working in partnership with local authorities, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and the provider sector to understand the viability of the care home sector as a whole, including any issues that may be affecting a care home provider’s ability to deliver quality services at any of the locations in which it operates.</p><br /><p>The Department receives inspection reports of all adult social care providers from the CQC. These reports state publicly why a service may be rated as Inadequate. In addition, the CQC’s annual State of Care report summarises issues across the entire care sector, from which lessons can be and are drawn, including those concerning providers with more than one home.</p><br /><p>Since 1 April 2015, any service rated Inadequate by the CQC has been placed in special measures. Such services will have six months to improve. If they fail to do so, their registration may be cancelled and they will exit the market. If they show significant improvement after six months, they will have a further six months to demonstrate that they can maintain that improvement. If they do, they will leave special measures. If they do not, they will exit the market.</p><br /><p>People can be confident that there is now a strict time limit under which providers must improve or cease to operate.</p><br /><p>The CQC will continue use its full range of enforcement powers, including removing providers immediately from the market if necessary. It will also use the special measures system to help tackle those services which, whilst not being so poor as to warrant immediate closure, have ratings that vary continually between Inadequate and Requires Improvement.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 11/01/2016 17:15:25 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

442965

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	School Milk
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many portions of milk have been reimbursed by his Department under the nursery milk scheme in each month of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	21271
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2016 answer text <p>The Nursery Milk Scheme allows for the reimbursement of the cost of providing portions of one-third of a pint of milk per day to children under the age of five attending childminders or private and local authority nurseries for at least two hours a day. The Scheme covers England, Scotland and Wales; Northern Ireland has its own arrangements. The Department holds information relating to the number of portions of milk reimbursed in respect of claims from eligible settings in Great Britain since January 2009 and this information is in the following table.</p><p><strong></strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Date</p></td><td><p>Total Portions (1/3 pints) Claimed</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January 2009</p></td><td><p>18,123,707</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February 2009</p></td><td><p>17,637,807</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2009</p></td><td><p>21,558,309</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2009</p></td><td><p>17,371,970</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2009</p></td><td><p>16,221,249</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2009</p></td><td><p>13,432,093</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July 2009</p></td><td><p>15,464,454</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August 2009</p></td><td><p>11,467,147</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2009</p></td><td><p>16,389,034</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October 2009</p></td><td><p>20,382,597</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2009</p></td><td><p>16,079,212</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December 2009</p></td><td><p>17,391,428</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January 2010</p></td><td><p>15,680,452</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February 2010</p></td><td><p>24,496,820</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2010</p></td><td><p>33,011,644</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2010</p></td><td><p>22,567,652</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2010</p></td><td><p>17,782,066</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2010</p></td><td><p>21,798,146</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July 2010</p></td><td><p>21,923,309</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August 2010</p></td><td><p>23,117,196</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2010</p></td><td><p>15,810,902</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October 2010</p></td><td><p>20,081,579</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2010</p></td><td><p>23,160,564</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December 2010</p></td><td><p>20,662,622</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January 2011</p></td><td><p>23,048,244</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February 2011</p></td><td><p>25,351,169</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2011</p></td><td><p>26,415,006</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2011</p></td><td><p>22,494,397</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2011</p></td><td><p>18,211,857</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2011</p></td><td><p>24,807,226</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July 2011</p></td><td><p>24,435,096</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August 2011</p></td><td><p>20,694,290</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2011</p></td><td><p>15,889,141</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October 2011</p></td><td><p>20,655,967</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2011</p></td><td><p>21,672,552</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December 2011</p></td><td><p>24,047,889</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January 2012</p></td><td><p>23,045,503</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February 2012</p></td><td><p>25,555,512</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2012</p></td><td><p>29,047,089</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2012</p></td><td><p>26,723,281</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2012</p></td><td><p>21,223,680</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2012</p></td><td><p>23,990,408</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July 2012</p></td><td><p>23,634,192</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August 2012</p></td><td><p>23,634,192</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2012</p></td><td><p>10,813,985</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October 2012</p></td><td><p>18,973,780</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2012</p></td><td><p>22,527,849</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December 2012</p></td><td><p>21,635,603</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January 2013</p></td><td><p>20,907,751</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February 2013</p></td><td><p>27,996,321</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2013</p></td><td><p>23,764,641</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2013</p></td><td><p>23,390,936</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2013</p></td><td><p>20,100,589</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2013</p></td><td><p>21,982,896</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July 2013</p></td><td><p>23,393,113</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August 2013</p></td><td><p>22,317,209</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2013</p></td><td><p>13,218,322</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October 2013</p></td><td><p>22,600,819</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2013</p></td><td><p>25,334,664</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December 2013</p></td><td><p>24,340,053</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January 2014</p></td><td><p>20,978,012</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February 2014</p></td><td><p>26,176,219</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2014</p></td><td><p>26,673,043</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2014</p></td><td><p>22,229,447</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2014</p></td><td><p>20,175,242</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2014</p></td><td><p>22,182,139</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July 2014</p></td><td><p>26,207,194</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August 2014</p></td><td><p>20,259,095</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2014</p></td><td><p>13,121,733</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October 2014</p></td><td><p>22,573,963</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2014</p></td><td><p>26,413,799</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December 2014</p></td><td><p>24,221,524</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January 2015</p></td><td><p>24,901,748</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February 2015</p></td><td><p>25,079,913</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2015</p></td><td><p>25,432,666</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2015</p></td><td><p>25,831,561</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2015</p></td><td><p>19,519,236</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2015</p></td><td><p>23,815,213</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July 2015</p></td><td><p>27,758,159</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August 2015</p></td><td><p>20,262,151</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2015</p></td><td><p>16,068,770</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October 2015</p></td><td><p>25,258,995</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2015</p></td><td><p>26,127,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December 2015</p></td><td><p>28,076,574</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 11/01/2016 17:01:34 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

442967

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Department of Health: Senior Civil Servants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many senior civil servants in his Department left to take up jobs in the (a) for-profit and (b) not-for-profit healthcare sector in the last six months.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	21270
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2016 answer text <p>The Department does not hold details of the new destinations or occupations of Civil Servants after they leave the Department. However, on leaving the Civil Service, individuals must consider whether an application under the Outside Business Appointments rules is required before accepting any new appointment or employment.</p><br /><p>The Department has received a total of five applications from Senior Civil Servants who left the Department between 30 June 2015 and 08 January 2016 – four were for roles within the not-for-profit healthcare sector and one was for the for-profit healthcare sector.</p><br /><p>The Department cannot confirm, however, that offers of employment were actually taken up.</p><br /> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 11/01/2016 17:11:59 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

442968

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Department of Health: Information Officers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much has been claimed in reimbursement expenses by press officers in (a) his Department and (b) his Department's executive agencies and public bodies in each fiscal year since 2010-11.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	21269
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2016 answer text <p>The reimbursable expenses claimed by press officers in the Department in each fiscal year since 2010-11 are detailed in the table below:</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>2014-15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Department of Health</p></td><td><p>£2,773.27</p></td><td><p>£3,606.40</p></td><td><p>£1,895.41</p></td><td><p>£771.80</p></td><td><p>£1,624.01</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>The data covers reimbursable expenses claimed by the Department’s press officers for travel and subsistence.</p><br /><p>The expenses are reimbursed to staff in accordance with the Department’s policy, and will not include any rail or air tickets or hotel accommodation booked through the Department’s central booking.</p><br /><p>To collate the reimbursable expenses claimed by press officers in the Department’s executive agencies and public bodies in each fiscal year since 2010-11 is a disproportionate cost.</p><br /> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 11/01/2016 17:56:05 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

442972

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Health Visitors
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many health visitors there were in each month since May 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	21379
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2016 answer text <p>The attached table shows how many health visitors there were in each month in England from May 2010 to September 2015, which is the latest available figure from the Health and Social Care Information Centre’s monthly workforce statistics. Data from April 2012 onwards is taken from the Health Visitor Minimum Data Set and also includes numbers of health visitors employed by organisations that do not use the Electronic Staff Record but do provide NHS-funded services, such as local authorities.</p><br /><p>Full-time equivalent figures are used as this is the most accurate measure of service capacity.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 11/01/2016 16:05:25 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer attachment 1 file name PQ21379 Table.xlsx title Number of Health Visitors in England 2010-2015
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne