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994675

registered interest
date	25/10/2018
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	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to page 9 of the National Audit Office report Improving children and young people’s mental health services, what plans he is putting in place to monitor reliably workforce expansion in children and young people’s mental health services.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	183923
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2018 answer text <p>To track progress with implementation of the workforce plan, the Department has asked Health Education England (HEE) to develop a Mental Health Workforce Dashboard to monitor plans for the delivery of the workforce targets. This uses:</p><p>- Data from Strategic Transformation Partnership regional plans (to monitor staff expansion plans);</p><p>- NHS Digital data to track the size of the whole mental health workforce;</p><p>- Data from NHS Improvement on staff retention rates; and</p><p>- Data from HEE on the numbers of trainee staff currently studying and those undertaking specific courses for upskilling themselves to work in mental health.</p><p>For the longer term a project is underway, led by the Department, to improve the way in which NHS Digital data captures changes in workforce numbers. We are hoping that this will enable more accurate reporting of actual staff changes from early next financial year.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 30/10/2018 17:00:10 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

993991

registered interest
date	24/10/2018
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	Eating Disorders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the treatment options for people suffering with eating disorders and subsequent mental health conditions but who are denied treatment due to weighing more than the required benchmark for diagnosis.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	183240
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2018 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) clinical guidance on managing and treating eating disorders, and the Eating Disorder Commissioning Guide, are both clear that people should not be rejected for treatment solely on the grounds of weight or Body Mass Index (BMI).</p><p> </p><p>The NICE clinical guideline for the recognition and treatment of an eating disorder (2017) states “Do not use single measures such as BMI or duration of illness to determine whether to offer treatment for an eating disorder (ref 1.2.8)”. We expect commissioners and providers to adhere to this guidance.</p><p> </p><p>The Eating Disorder Commissioning Guide recognises that “There are reported problems associated with health professionals delaying the provision of appropriate treatment due to their treatment decisions being based primarily on the young person’s weight and BMI. These decisions can lead to a delay in access to appropriate treatment” and re-states that commissioners should adhere to NICE guidelines.</p><p> </p><p>Source:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng69/chapter/Recommendations#identification-and-assessment" target="_blank">https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng69/chapter/Recommendations#identification-and-assessment</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/cyp-eating-disorders-access-waiting-time-standard-comm-guid.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/cyp-eating-disorders-access-waiting-time-standard-comm-guid.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 29/10/2018 14:13:34 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

994001

registered interest
date	24/10/2018
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	NHS: Private Sector
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether private providers of NHS services are using patient data gathered through the provision of NHS service to target patients with advertisements for additional private healthcare and services.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	183246
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2018 answer text <p>We are not aware of such practice.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 29/10/2018 14:21:02 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

994080

registered interest
date	24/10/2018
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	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the NHS and its agencies spent on specialised commissioning for children and young people’s mental health services in (a) 2016-17 and (b) 2017-18.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	183395
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2018 answer text <p>The amount that the National Health Service spent on specialised commissioning for children and young people’s mental health in 2016-17 and 2017-18 is shown in the following table. Where this data is incomplete specialised commissioning hubs will apportion / estimate any missing values.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Expenditure £ million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>341.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>355.2</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 29/10/2018 17:36:29 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

994091

registered interest
date	24/10/2018
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
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 report, Next Steps on the Five Year Forward View, published by NHS England in March 2017, what progress his Department has made on the objective for 60,000 more people to access psychological, or talking therapies, for common mental health conditions during 2017-18.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	183401
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2018 answer text <p>This information is not currently available.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 29/10/2018 14:14:48 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

994267

registered interest
date	24/10/2018
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	Organs: China
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 potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to ban (a) organ trafficking and (b) transplant tourism to China.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
tabling member printed	Ian Murray
uin	183334
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2018 answer text <p>The Human Tissue Act 2004 prohibits commercial dealings in human material for transplantation and makes it an offence to traffic organs.</p><p> </p><p>Clinical advice to United Kingdom patients is not to travel to less well-regulated countries to seek an organ transplant. It is thought that very few patients in the UK choose to do so but data on those who do is not available.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has welcomed China's move to stop using organs harvested from executed prisoners from January 2015. The Government continues to monitor the degree of implementation of this commitment, and encourages China to make further progress in bringing transparency to their organ transplant process.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 29/10/2018 14:15:57 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

994291

registered interest
date	24/10/2018
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	Suicide: Bereavement Counselling
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 ensure that every family bereaved by suicide is proactively offered bereavement support within seven days.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	183510
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2018 answer text <p>The Cross-Government Suicide Prevention Strategy (2012), updated in 2017, has two main aims: to reduce suicides and to improve the support and information provided to people bereaved by suicide. Suicide bereavement support should be provided locally by health and social care services working together along with the third sector.</p><p> </p><p>We are investing £25 million over the next three years in support of the strategy. In 2018/19, £5 million has been provided and £10 million will be provided in each year in 2019/20 and 2020/21. This funding is being provided to sustainability and transformation partnerships (STP) areas to support them to develop their suicide prevention plans and a national quality improvement programme across the National Health Service to improve patient safety and reduce suicides. This first eight STP areas received funding this year. The second year of this funding will be used to support some STPs to develop specific areas of their local suicide prevention plans, including suicide bereavement services.</p><p> </p><p>The Department funds the provision of the ‘Help is at Hand advice and information tool’ which is distributed to local services and can be provided to families bereaved by suicide as soon as is possible and appropriate following a suspected death by suicide.</p><p> </p><p>In July this year, the NHS National Quality Board published ‘Guidance for NHS trusts on working with bereaved families and carers.’ This aims to improve the way the NHS supports, engages and communicates with people who are bereaved, including through suicide, especially when a death is subject to an investigation. It advises that trusts should provide information to bereaved families on support and care that is available to them inside and outside the trust.</p><p> </p><p>Every local authority in England, now has a suicide prevention plan in place, or in development, to reduce suicides in their community. Public Health England published planning guidance to local authorities in 2016 which recommended priorities for local suicide prevention plans including the provision of suicide bereavement support. We are working with the local government sector to ensure their plans are effective, looking at what works and identifying areas for improvement to feed into a wider national programme of support for local authorities.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 29/10/2018 14:17:49 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

994297

registered interest
date	24/10/2018
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	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what (a) steps his Department is taking and (b) funding is allocated to implement each proposal in the Children and Young People's Mental Health Task Force report, Future in Mind; and what progress has been made on implementing those proposals to date.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	183516
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2018 answer text <p>Future in Mind, published in 2015, brought stakeholders together behind a vision to improve children and young people’s mental health at a time when these services were much in need of attention and focus. The vision included significant ambitions around increasing access to children and young people’s mental health services. Following publication, the Government committed £1.4 billion for improvements to children and young people’s mental health services over the following five years.</p><p> </p><p>Action is now underway to make a range of improvements to children and young people’s mental health services including increasing numbers accessing specialist services, new waiting time standards, setting up new support teams in or near schools, training staff to work in these, training teachers and piloting a waiting time for access to specialist services.</p><p> </p><p>The Government committed providing access to specialist mental health services for an additional 70,000 children and young people a year by 2020/21.This is being delivered through implementation of the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health. This programme is at the half way point and available data suggests the Government is on track to deliver against this target.</p><p> </p><p>The Five Year Forward View also introduced two waiting time standards for children and young people. The first aims for 95% of children and young people (up to 19 years old) with eating disorders to receive treatment within a week for urgent cases and four weeks for routine cases by 2020/21. The second is that 50% of patients of all ages experiencing a first episode of psychosis should receive treatment within two weeks of referral by 2020/21. We are currently on track and meeting these waiting time standards respectively.</p><p> </p><p>In relation to the development of a ‘whole system approach’, the Government is going further than the vision set out in Future in Mind. Our Green Paper, published jointly with the Department for Education, sets out our plans for increased support for children and young people in schools. As part of implementing this, we are setting up new Mental Health Support Teams to deliver mental health interventions for those with mild to moderate needs in, or close to, schools and colleges (and refer those with more severe needs on to specialist services). Educational Mental Health practitioners’ training places are now open for 210 new staff. Training will start from January 2019.</p><p> </p><p>We will also ensure that at least one teacher in every primary and secondary school will receive mental health awareness training to enable school staff to spot common signs of mental health issues, and to help children and young people receive appropriate support.</p><p> </p><p>We have also committed to piloting a four week waiting time for access to specialist children and young people’s mental health services.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 29/10/2018 14:10:52 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

993661

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
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
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 monitor the (a) effectiveness and (b) compliance of complex community and mental health contracts.
tabling member constituency	Knowsley
tabling member printed	Mr George Howarth
uin	182707
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2018 answer text <p>Mental health services, including in the community, are commissioned by clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). It is for CCGs, supported by Commissioning Support Units, to decide which organisations they commission community mental health services from and to decide the detailed local content of their contracts with those providers (including service specifications and local quality standards).</p><p> </p><p>CCGs are responsible for monitoring the performance of each provider, in terms of safety, quality, outcomes and value for money. NHS England does not hold a register of all the healthcare contracts entered into by CCGs or monitor them.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 30/10/2018 12:04:38 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	481 label Biography information for Sir George Howarth

993702

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
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 Illness: Harlow
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of adults in the constituency of Harlow who are currently diagnose with a mental health illness.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	182746
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2018 answer text <p><em></em>The information is not available in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock grouped question UIN 182747 question first answered 30/10/2018 12:44:30 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon