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456566

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Wheelchairs: West Lancashire
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will encourage NHS England and NHS West Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group to provide a response to the letter of 24 September 2015 from the hon. Member for West Lancashire on wheelchair provision in West Lancashire.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	29143
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2016 answer text <p>Letters to and from<del class="ministerial"> the National Health Service</del> <ins class="ministerial">NHS England </ins>to hon. Members are a matter for NHS England. The Department would expect NHS England<ins class="ministerial">, and indeed clinical commissioning groups,</ins> to respond promptly and courteously to all letters from hon. Members.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 04/03/2016 14:46:35 question first ministerially corrected 11/03/2016 09:51:09 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt previous answer version 49268 answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

456620

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Zika Virus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he has had discussions with his EU counterparts on the containment of the Zika virus.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	29107
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2016 answer text <p>My Rt. Hon. Friend the Secretary of State regularly discusses matters across his portfolio with his European counterparts. He continues to monitor this outbreak of the Zika virus closely. In addition, Departmental officials continue to discuss the developing situation, including the measures that can be taken to contain the virus, with European colleagues through a number of channels, including at regular meetings of the European Health Security Committee.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 04/03/2016 13:02:23 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

455351

	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	Surgery: Greater Manchester
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time for an operation in (a) Pennine Acute NHS Trust and (b) Bolton NHS Trust was in the last year for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Bury South
	tabling member printed	Mr Ivan Lewis
	uin	28512
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2016 answer text <p>Patients have a legal right, set out in the NHS Constitution, to start consultant-led treatment within a maximum of 18 weeks from referral for non-urgent conditions. The following table shows the average median waiting time in weeks for patients whose wait ended during the month with an inpatient or day case admission to Pennine Acute NHS Trust or Bolton NHS Trust. Only a proportion of inpatient or day case admissions would have resulted in an operation.</p><p>Table: average median waiting times<sup>1, 2</sup> in weeks for patients whose wait ended during the month with an inpatient or day case admission<sup>3</sup>, 2015</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Month</p></td><td><p>Bolton NHS Trust</p></td><td><p>Pennine Acute NHS Trust</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January 2015</p></td><td><p>8.2</p></td><td><p>10.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February 2015</p></td><td><p>8.7</p></td><td><p>11.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2015</p></td><td><p>7.6</p></td><td><p>9.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2015</p></td><td><p>7.6</p></td><td><p>10.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2015</p></td><td><p>7.9</p></td><td><p>10.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2015</p></td><td><p>7.0</p></td><td><p>11.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July 2015</p></td><td><p>6.6</p></td><td><p>11.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August 2015</p></td><td><p>6.3</p></td><td><p>10.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2015</p></td><td><p>6.9</p></td><td><p>10.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October 2015</p></td><td><p>7.1</p></td><td><p>11.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2015</p></td><td><p>7.0</p></td><td><p>10.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December 2015</p></td><td><p>5.7</p></td><td><p>10.5</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em> </em></p><p><em>Source:</em> Consultant-led referral to treatment waiting times, NHS England</p><p><em> </em></p><p><em>Notes: </em></p><ol><li>Median waiting times are calculated from aggregate data, rather than patient level data, and therefore are only estimates of the position on average waits.</li><li>Until September 2015, adjustments were permitted for clock pauses, where a patient declined reasonable offers of admission and chose to wait longer. From October 2015, there is no longer any provision to report pauses or suspensions in waiting time clocks.</li><li>Not every admission to hospital is for an operation, but hospital episode statistics suggest that 94% of elective finished admission episodes involve some form of procedure or intervention.</li></ol> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 04/03/2016 14:49:51 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	441 label Biography information for Mr Ivan Lewis

455248

	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	Social Workers: Vacancies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many social worker vacancies remained unfilled in (a) 2014 and (b) 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Oldham West and Royton
	tabling member printed	Jim McMahon
	uin	28543
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2016 answer text <p>The Department of Health has responsibility for adult social care policy which includes the activities of social workers in adult settings. The Department for Education has responsibility for the activities of social workers in children’s services.</p><p> </p><p>The Health and Social Care Information Centre has recently published its report “Personal Social Services: Staff of Social Services Departments, England, as at September 2015”. This shows that the vacancy rates for adult social workers in local authorities are as follows:</p><p> </p><p>2014 there were 1,100* vacancies (8%)</p><p>2015 there were 1,700** vacancies (12%)</p><p> </p><p>*2014 based on 121 councils with vacancies data recorded.</p><p>**2015 based on 133 councils with vacancies data recorded.</p><p> </p><p>Source: Skills for Care - NMDS-SC</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 04/03/2016 14:01:39 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon

456565

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Social Workers: Recruitment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to encourage more people to train as adults' social workers.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	29361
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2016 answer text <p>The Chief Social Worker for Adults is actively working with the profession to create a highly skilled, flexible workforce which is able to contribute to improved outcomes for people in all settings.</p><p> </p><p>She is developing a comprehensive framework for continuous professional development for adult social work, which will include development of specialisms in key areas of practice, such as dementia, end of life care and learning disabilities. This will provide a clear progression route for both newly qualified and experienced social workers to deepen their knowledge, skills and practice.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has funded four teaching partnerships which build on and enhance the existing arrangements between Higher Education Institutions and employers. The key aims are to improve the quality of education received by social work students, mainly through a greater experience of quality statutory placements and employer involvement in the selection of students and provision of placements.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has also developed Think Ahead, a new fast-track scheme for exceptional graduates and career-changers to become mental health social workers. The programme has been in development since 2014 and will take its first graduates in July 2016.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 04/03/2016 14:05:52 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

456734

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Smoking
	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 25 February 2016 to Question 27774, if his Department will take steps to ensure the funding for local smoking cessation services is maintained in (a) Barnsley Central constituency, (b) Yorkshire and the Humber and (c) the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	29157
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2016 answer text <p>Local councils will receive £16 billion over the next five years for public health and have a duty to consider how best to respond to local public health challenges. Public Health England provides a range of resources to support councils in developing of tobacco control programmes. Decisions on commissioning services are for local councils.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 04/03/2016 12:57:53 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

456629

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Small Businesses: Tobacco
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will commission an independent assessment of the cumulative effect of all tobacco control measures on small businesses introduced since 1 January 2006.
	tabling member constituency	Bury North
	tabling member printed	Mr David Nuttall
	uin	29168
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2016 answer text <p>The Department assesses the impact of all proposed measures before laying legislation using standard government methodology. These assessments are set out in Impact Assessments which are scrutinised by the Regulatory Policy Committee before publication alongside the Statutory Instrument. Impact Assessments specifically look at the impacts on small and micro businesses. A number of the tobacco measures contain commitments to further review the impact of the legislation within five years of them coming into force.</p><p> </p><p>The Department assesses the impact of tobacco control measures on an ongoing basis as it develops policy and considers new measures. In September 2013, the Department published An Audit of the impact of the Department of Health’s Regulations upon business. A copy of the report is attached. The Audit report covered all regulations for which the Department has responsibility believed to have a potential cost to business, including those relating to tobacco control. As advised in the report, there is a robust cost-benefit case for the tobacco control regulations considered and experience shows that initiatives to reduce smoking prevalence work best in combination, with cumulative effects over time.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 29169 29170 question first answered 04/03/2016 13:18:01 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison attachment 1 file name PQ29168-29169-29170 document.pdf title Audit report
	tabling member	4140 label Biography information for Mr David Nuttall

456630

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Small Businesses: Tobacco
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect of each tobacco control measure introduced in the last decade on small businesses; and whether those effects were in line with the assessment as set out in the original impact assessment.
	tabling member constituency	Bury North
	tabling member printed	Mr David Nuttall
	uin	29169
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2016 answer text <p>The Department assesses the impact of all proposed measures before laying legislation using standard government methodology. These assessments are set out in Impact Assessments which are scrutinised by the Regulatory Policy Committee before publication alongside the Statutory Instrument. Impact Assessments specifically look at the impacts on small and micro businesses. A number of the tobacco measures contain commitments to further review the impact of the legislation within five years of them coming into force.</p><p> </p><p>The Department assesses the impact of tobacco control measures on an ongoing basis as it develops policy and considers new measures. In September 2013, the Department published An Audit of the impact of the Department of Health’s Regulations upon business. A copy of the report is attached. The Audit report covered all regulations for which the Department has responsibility believed to have a potential cost to business, including those relating to tobacco control. As advised in the report, there is a robust cost-benefit case for the tobacco control regulations considered and experience shows that initiatives to reduce smoking prevalence work best in combination, with cumulative effects over time.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 29168 29170 question first answered 04/03/2016 13:18:01 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison attachment 1 file name PQ29168-29169-29170 document.pdf title Audit report
	tabling member	4140 label Biography information for Mr David Nuttall

456631

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Small Businesses: Tobacco
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to commission an independent assessment of the effect of any new tobacco control measures on small businesses prior to their introduction.
	tabling member constituency	Bury North
	tabling member printed	Mr David Nuttall
	uin	29170
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2016 answer text <p>The Department assesses the impact of all proposed measures before laying legislation using standard government methodology. These assessments are set out in Impact Assessments which are scrutinised by the Regulatory Policy Committee before publication alongside the Statutory Instrument. Impact Assessments specifically look at the impacts on small and micro businesses. A number of the tobacco measures contain commitments to further review the impact of the legislation within five years of them coming into force.</p><p> </p><p>The Department assesses the impact of tobacco control measures on an ongoing basis as it develops policy and considers new measures. In September 2013, the Department published An Audit of the impact of the Department of Health’s Regulations upon business. A copy of the report is attached. The Audit report covered all regulations for which the Department has responsibility believed to have a potential cost to business, including those relating to tobacco control. As advised in the report, there is a robust cost-benefit case for the tobacco control regulations considered and experience shows that initiatives to reduce smoking prevalence work best in combination, with cumulative effects over time.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 29168 29169 question first answered 04/03/2016 13:18:01 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison attachment 1 file name PQ29168-29169-29170 document.pdf title Audit report
	tabling member	4140 label Biography information for Mr David Nuttall

456463

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Sexual Health Forum
	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 25 January 2016 to Question 23396, for what reasons the Sexual Health Forum was discontinued; and what Public Health England's future plans are for stakeholder engagement with sexual health organisations.
	tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
	tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
	uin	29078
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2016 answer text <p>The Sexual Health and HIV Forum played a useful role in aiding the transition to new commissioning arrangements and locally based decision making. These changes have taken place, the Forum was not considered to be the best use of resources either for Departmental or stakeholder organisations. Departmental officials continue to meet regularly with a range of stakeholders on a more focussed range of issues. Public Health England is still considering plans for future stakeholder engagement.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 04/03/2016 14:50:39 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds