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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

439393

	registered interest
	date	17/12/2015
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Dogs: Animal Welfare
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to ban the use of electric shock and prong collars for dogs before 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Penistone and Stocksbridge
	tabling member printed	Angela Smith
	uin	20579
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2016 answer text <br /><p><del class="ministerial">Currently, we are looking to include strict advice on the use of these devises in a revised version of the Code of Practice for the Welfare of Dogs. If the devices are used in compliance with the Code, it would only be as a last resort and on the advice of a veterinary surgeon or a suitably qualified behaviourist or dog trainer and by a competent operator. The Code could be adduced as evidence used in court in order to determine whether an animal welfare offence has been committed. The impact of the Code will be assessed and compliance with the Code closely monitored, before any decisions are taken on possible future legislative action.</del></p><br /><p><ins class="ministerial">Currently, we are looking to include strict advice on the use of these devices in a revised version of the Code of Practice for the Welfare of Dogs. If the devices were to be used in compliance with an amended Code, it would only be as a last resort and on the advice of a veterinary surgeon or a suitably qualified behaviourist or dog trainer and by a competent operator. The revised Code could be adduced as evidence in court in order to determine whether an animal welfare offence has been committed. The impact of the revised Code will be assessed before any decisions are taken on possible future legislative action.</ins></p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 11/01/2016 14:08:45 question first ministerially corrected 11/01/2016 20:10:26 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice previous answer version 36823 answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	1564 label Biography information for Angela Smith

442843

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the change in the proportion of the working age population employed by the public sector in (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland between 2010 and 2015.
	tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
	tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
	uin	21280
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2016 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson attachment 1 file name 21280 FINAL.pdf title UKSA Letter to Member - Working Age Population 2 file name 21280 table FINAL.xlsx title Table for Member question first answered 11/01/2016 10:41:48 question first ministerially corrected 11/01/2016 16:03:58 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson previous answer version 37930 answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson attachment 1 file name 21280 FINAL.pdf title UKSA Letter to Member - Working Age Population
	tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

442298

	registered interest
	date	04/01/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Fire Stations: Greater London
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the cost to the public purse was of the purchase of the Kingsland Fire Station site for use by the Hackney New Primary School; and what the gain to the public purse was of the sale of that site.
	tabling member constituency	Hackney South and Shoreditch
	tabling member printed	Meg Hillier
	uin	20737
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2016 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">Neither the Secretary of State for Education nor the Department for Education has purchased this site. The Secretary of State for the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) purchased Kingsland Fire Station, 333 Kingsland Road, London, E8 from the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The purchase of Kingsland Fire Station, 333 Kingsland Road, London, E8 4DR for the sum of £16,000,000 (exclusive of VAT) from the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority was funded from the Department for Education’s budget and made in the name of the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government. The site has not been sold on.</ins></p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 11/01/2016 16:57:24 question first ministerially corrected 16/02/2016 11:40:23 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb previous answer version 38163 answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	1524 label Biography information for Dame Meg Hillier

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

442675

	registered interest
	date	05/01/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Accident and Emergency Departments: Mental Illness
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many accident and emergency attendances, excluding planned attendances, with a diagnosis of a psychiatric condition had a duration to departure of more than four hours for (a) ages 0 to 17 years and (b) over 18 years in each month of 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	21142
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2016 answer text <p>Information on the number of accident and emergency (A&amp;E) attendances for patients aged 0 to 17 years and 18 years and over, where the primary diagnosis was a psychiatric condition and the duration to departure was more than four hours, is available from the Health and Social Care Information Centre’s Hospital Episode Statistics. This information is shown in the table below, and covers the period from January 2015 to September 2015.</p><br /><p>The data for April 2015 onwards are provisional and subject to change. To put these figures in context, between January and September 2015 there were a total of 14,067,275 attendances at A&amp;E departments in England. The latest provisional published data available are for September 2015.</p><br /> <br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Number of A&amp;E attendances with a duration to departure of more than four hours, where the primary diagnosis was a psychiatric condition</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Month</p></td><td><p>0 - 17 years</p></td><td><p>18 years and over</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January</p></td><td><p>184</p></td><td><p>1,934</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February</p></td><td><p>175</p></td><td><p>1,911</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March</p></td><td><p>254</p></td><td><p>2,095</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April (provisional)</p></td><td><p>192</p></td><td><p>2,204</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May (provisional)</p></td><td><p>186</p></td><td><p>2,064</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June (provisional)</p></td><td><p>216</p></td><td><p>2,087</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July (provisional)</p></td><td><p>200</p></td><td><p>2,090</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August (provisional)</p></td><td><p>154</p></td><td><p>2,298</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September (provisional)</p></td><td><p>237</p></td><td><p>2,216</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><em>Source:</em> Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre</p><p><em>Notes:</em></p><p>1. The recording of the diagnosis code in the A&amp;E data set is not mandatory. It is not known to what extent changes over time are as a result of improvements in recording practice.</p><p>2. These figures do not include patients who may have a psychiatric condition, but whose attendance at A&amp;E was prompted by a different reason.</p><p>3. The data cannot be described as an average number of people as the same person may have had more than one A&amp;E attendance within the time period presented.</p><p>4. The data excludes planned follow-up attendances.</p><br /><p>To put these figures in context, between January and September 2015 there were a total of 14,067,275 attendances at A&amp;E departments in England.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 11/01/2016 17:59:27 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

442676

	registered interest
	date	05/01/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Railways: Suicide
	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 20083, what steps he plans to take to tackle the rise in the number of people who took their own life on the rail network since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	21143
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2016 answer text <p>Reducing suicides on the rail network is highlighted as a key area within the cross-Government National Suicide Prevention Strategy (2012) where tailored and collaborative action can be taken. I will be having discussions soon with officials and our delivery partners about ways in which we can re-invigorate the delivery of the National Suicide Prevention Strategy.</p><br /><p>Public Health England published guidance to local authorities, <em>Guidance for developing a local suicide prevention action plan</em> (2014) and <em>Preventing suicides in public places</em> (2015), which include advice on working with local transport organisations to take preventative action to reduce suicides on the transport network.</p><br /><p>We continue to work with the British Transport Police, London Underground Limited, Network Rail, Samaritans and other partners to reduce suicides on the rail and underground networks.</p><br /><p>We support the joint work of Network Rail and Samaritans as part of the Tackling Suicides on the Railways programme, which has continued to grow since 2010. Since 2010, more than 8,000 rail staff, British Transport Police officers and Network Rail front line staff have received training from Samaritans.</p><br /><p>This partnership approach has led to the establishment of the National Suicide Prevention Group to tackle the issue of railway suicide, comprising Samaritans, Network Rail, British Transport Police, Train Operating Company representatives and the wider railway industry, such as the Association of Train Operating Companies, Rail Safety &amp; Standards Board and rail unions.</p><br /><p>The British Transport Police is a signatory of the Crisis Care Concordat which aims to support people experiencing a mental health crisis. The Department of Health also provided funding support in 2014/15 to enable the British Transport Police to expand its suicide prevention programme to include the North of England as well as the South of England. The programme aims to reduce suicides on the transport network by identifying people who might be considering suicide on the transport network and linking them with support services.</p><br /> <br /> <br /><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 11/01/2016 17:29:40 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

442677

	registered interest
	date	05/01/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Antidepressants: Children
	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 20084, if he will make it his policy to collect data concerning the number of prescriptions for anti-depressants that are dispensed by the NHS for patients aged under 18.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	21144
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2016 answer text <p>Currently, information is not available centrally concerning the age of patients prescribed and dispensed specific medicines. However, the NHS Business Services Authority is in the process of developing this capability so that, as a minimum, information can be provided from a sample of prescription items.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 11/01/2016 17:50:10 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

442679

	registered interest
	date	05/01/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Autism
	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 NHS England's response to the Mental Health Taskforce includes securing access to timely autism diagnoses.
	tabling member constituency	Preston
	tabling member printed	Mr Mark Hendrick
	uin	20913
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2016 answer text <p>The report of the Mental Health Task Force is due to be published shortly. NHS England has commenced a programme to visit clinical commissioning groups to identify and share good practice in accessing timely autism diagnosis.</p><br /><p>In 2015, new statutory guidance for local authorities and National Health Service organisations to support the continued implementation of the 2010 Autism Strategy, as refreshed by its 2014 Think Autism update, set out expectations for autism training for general practitioners (GPs). The Department has also provided financial support to the Royal College of General Practitioners clinical priorities programme on autism which is undertaking practical work on autism awareness and training for GPs.GPs should be aware of what the local arrangements are for making referrals for autism diagnosis.</p><br /> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 20914 question first answered 11/01/2016 17:10:55 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick