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1024731

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2018
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the briefing published by the Children's Commissioner entitled Children’s Mental Healthcare in England published November 2018, what steps his Department is taking to reduce waiting times for children with mental health problems.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	202100
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2018 answer text <p>We have made an additional £1.4 billion available for children’s mental health service transformation and are on track to ensure that an additional 70,000 children and young people access community mental health services annually by 2020/21.</p><p> </p><p>We have introduced two waiting time standards for children and young people and are on track to meet both of these standards. The first aims for 95% of children (up to 19 years old) with eating disorders to receive treatment within a week for urgent cases and four weeks for routine cases. The second aims for 50% of patients of all ages experiencing a first episode of psychosis to receive treatment within two weeks of referral.</p><p> </p><p>Our Children and Young People’s Green Paper, jointly published with the Department for Education, sets out how we plan to go further. We are piloting a four-week waiting time to improve access to services and are introducing new mental health support teams. Trailblazer sites, where we plan to test our Green Paper proposals, will be announced shortly.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 18/12/2018 14:36:32 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1029388

	registered interest
	date	20/12/2018
	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: Schools
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to put NHS-funded counsellors in every school to ensure easy access to mental health services for children.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	204507
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2019 answer text <p>Whilst the National Health Service does not plan to fund counsellors in every school, the joint Department of Health and Social Care and Department for Education Green Paper, ‘Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision’, set out our plans to improve access to mental health services for children. The Government plans have three key components: creating new mental health support teams working in and near schools and colleges to support children and young people with mild to moderate mental health conditions; piloting a four week waiting time for access to specialist NHS children’s mental health services; and training Designated Senior Leads in mental health in schools and colleges.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 07/01/2019 15:28:10 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1029389

	registered interest
	date	20/12/2018
	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: Veterans
	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 his Department has made of the potential merits of an independent inquiry on the treatment of ex-service personnel with mental health issues.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	204508
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2019 answer text <p>There are no current plans for such an inquiry.</p><p> </p><p>The Government and the National Health Service are taking forward a number of initiatives to support ex-service personnel with mental health issues.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England commissions two bespoke services for ex-service personnel. The first is the Transition, Intervention and Liaison Service, which supports serving personnel who need additional support as they are leaving the armed forces and veterans who have mental health issues. The second is the NHS Veterans’ Mental Health Complex Treatment Service, which is a community-based service providing a range of more intensive care and treatment for ex-service personnel with military attributable complex mental health problems that have not improved with earlier care and treatment.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 07/01/2019 15:24:27 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1037001

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2019
	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
	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 he has to increase funding for children's mental health services in the next financial year.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	205947
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2019 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Plan, published on 7 January 2019, announced that mental health services will continue to receive a growing share of the National Health Service budget, with funding to grow by at least £2.3 billion a year by 2023/24. Under this Long Term Plan, funding for children and young people’s mental health services will grow faster than both overall NHS funding and total mental health spending.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 10/01/2019 15:26:53 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1038464

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2019
	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	NHS: ICT
	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 access to new digital services provided by the NHS by people that do not speak English as a first language.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	uin	206725
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>We are committed to ensuring that all those using the National Health Service have fair and equitable access to high quality, effective healthcare services that are responsive to all patients’ needs.</p><p> </p><p>For people who use NHS.UK links are made available to a translation tool, for those who require help with translation as the vast majority of its content is in English. Health information in other languages is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.nhs.uk/accessibility/health-information-in-other-languages/" target="_blank">https://www.nhs.uk/accessibility/health-information-in-other-languages/</a></p><p> </p><p>When an appointment is booked through the NHS App, individuals can specify whether a translator is required.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As part of its on-going user research, NHS Digital frequently tests its English-language content and services with a wide range of users, including those who have English as a second language.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 17/01/2019 17:21:04 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

1041378

	registered interest
	date	14/01/2019
	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 Illness: Equality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to review the 2010 Equality Act to ensure that there are sufficient protections for people who have mental ill health.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	208266
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government is aware of concerns that some people with mental health conditions have experienced problems in accessing the Equality Act 2010’s protections. The Government is therefore exploring legislative options to extend protections from discrimination in the workplace for people with mental health conditions, including through the Equality Act 2010.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 17/01/2019 17:13:06 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1047050

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2019
	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: Migrants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to Public Health England's consultation on the impact of data-sharing arrangements under the memorandum of understanding on the health and healthcare-seeking behaviour of migrants, whether the findings of that consultation will be published; when the results of that consultation will be published; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
	tabling member printed	Kate Green
	uin	211731
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>On 9 May 2018, the Minister of State for Digital and the Creative Industries (Margot James MP), announced that the Government will be amending the data request arrangements covered under a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between NHS Digital, the Home Office and the Department of Health and Social Care. This would narrow when the Home Office can request non-clinical information from NHS Digital to very limited circumstances.</p><p>The Department commissioned a review from Public Health England (PHE) in 2017 into the impact on public health and health-seeking behaviour of the previous MOU, which was withdrawn on 9 November 2018. The Department has asked PHE to extend their review to provide advice on the potential impact of the narrowed scope of a new MOU. This will be published when it is complete.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 31/01/2019 17:10:10 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

1054870

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2019
	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: Veterans
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) regular (b) reserve ex servicemen were classified with mental health problems by ICD code in each year since 2000.
	tabling member constituency	South West Wiltshire
	tabling member printed	Dr Andrew Murrison
	uin	216221
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2019 answer text <p>The Mental Health Services Data Set does not capture this information. Therefore, the attached data is from the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) dataset only.</p><p> </p><p>IAPT is run by the National Health Service in England and offers National Institute for Health and Care Excellence-approved therapies for treating people with anxiety and depression. Data about the IAPT programme is available from April 2012 and it is therefore not possible to provide data for years prior to this.</p><p> </p><p>The IAPT dataset records whether a referral is for a patient who has been a member of the British Armed Forces (BAF). It is not possible to identify the type of Armed Forces Service that the patient belonged to, or whether the patient was a regular or reserve veteran.</p><p> </p><p>The number of referrals for ex-BAF personnel that have been received, entered treatment and finished a course of treatment for all years up to 2017-18, grouped by the type of diagnosis problem, submitted as an ICD-10 code, are displayed in the attached tables.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Digital does not hold any further information about ex-BAF personnel with mental health problems. Some relevant data is also available from the Ministry of Defence website, at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-armed-forces-mental-health-annual-statistics-financial-year-201718" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-armed-forces-mental-health-annual-statistics-financial-year-201718</a></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 216222 question first answered 12/02/2019 17:02:41 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price attachment 1 file name Additional Info - PQ Linked 06-02-2019 14-38-28.docx title PQ216222,216221 attached data
	tabling member	1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison

1054871

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2019
	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: Veterans
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many ex servicemen were recorded as having mental health problems in each Service by ICD code in each year since 2000.
	tabling member constituency	South West Wiltshire
	tabling member printed	Dr Andrew Murrison
	uin	216222
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2019 answer text <p>The Mental Health Services Data Set does not capture this information. Therefore, the attached data is from the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) dataset only.</p><p> </p><p>IAPT is run by the National Health Service in England and offers National Institute for Health and Care Excellence-approved therapies for treating people with anxiety and depression. Data about the IAPT programme is available from April 2012 and it is therefore not possible to provide data for years prior to this.</p><p> </p><p>The IAPT dataset records whether a referral is for a patient who has been a member of the British Armed Forces (BAF). It is not possible to identify the type of Armed Forces Service that the patient belonged to, or whether the patient was a regular or reserve veteran.</p><p> </p><p>The number of referrals for ex-BAF personnel that have been received, entered treatment and finished a course of treatment for all years up to 2017-18, grouped by the type of diagnosis problem, submitted as an ICD-10 code, are displayed in the attached tables.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Digital does not hold any further information about ex-BAF personnel with mental health problems. Some relevant data is also available from the Ministry of Defence website, at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-armed-forces-mental-health-annual-statistics-financial-year-201718" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-armed-forces-mental-health-annual-statistics-financial-year-201718</a></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 216221 question first answered 12/02/2019 17:02:41 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price attachment 1 file name Additional Info - PQ Linked 06-02-2019 14-38-28.docx title PQ216222,216221 attached data
	tabling member	1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison

1104947

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2019
	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	Speech and Language Disorders: Children
	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 Public Health England has to align the Healthy Child Programme service specification with the Speech, Language and Communication pathway for children under five.
	tabling member constituency	Swansea West
	tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
	uin	236261
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>To support the speech, language and communication elements of the Healthy Child Programme (HCP), Public Health England (PHE) is partnering with the Department for Education to develop a model speech, language and communication pathway for services for children aged zero to five years. The pathway is built on the best evidence and good practice and will be published by September 2019. This will support local joint commissioning and service provision.</p><p> </p><p>The ‘Healthy Child Programme 0-19 (HCP): the health visitor and school nurses commissioning guidance’ was refreshed in March 2018 and is available to view at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/healthy-child-programme-0-to-19-health-visitor-and-school-nurse-commissioning" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/healthy-child-programme-0-to-19-health-visitor-and-school-nurse-commissioning</a></p><p> </p><p>The guidance supports local commissioning and delivery of the HCP and the delivery of the HCP, including the speech, language and communication elements.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 02/04/2019 11:35:23 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies