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436784

	registered interest
	date	09/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Midwives: Training
	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 collect information centrally on how many specialist midwives have been trained in mental health.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	19443
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2015 answer text <br /> <br /> <br /><p>The Department does not have any plans to collect this information.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 17/12/2015 17:45:12 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

438129

	registered interest
	date	14/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Department of Health: Consultants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much each of his Department's non-departmental public bodies spent on consultancy services in (a) 2014-15 and (b) 2015-16 to date.
	tabling member constituency	Ilford North
	tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
	uin	20037
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2015 answer text <br /> <br /><p>Total Non Departmental Public Bodies (NDPB) spend on consultancy services in the year 2014-15 is shown in the table below. Data for 2015-16 will not be available until the accounts are published after the financial year end.</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p>NDPB Consultancy Spend 2014-15 (excluding NHS England)</p></td><td><p><strong></strong>£000s</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority</p></td><td><p>447</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Human Tissue Authority</p></td><td><p>28</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Monitor</p></td><td><p>11,773</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Care Quality Commission</p></td><td><p>1,318</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Professional Standards Authority for Health &amp; Social Care</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Health &amp; Social Care Information Centre</p></td><td><p>1,526</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Health Research Authority</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>National Institute for Health &amp; Care Excellence</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NDPB total</p></td><td><p>15,092</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> <br /><p>Operating expenses, including expenditure on consultancy services, can be found on pages 148 and 149 of NHS England’s 2014/15 annual report:</p><br /><p><a href="http://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/nhse-annual-report-2014-15.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/nhse-annual-report-2014-15.pdf</a></p><br /><p>The figures provided are disclosed as expenditure on “consultancy services” in the administration and programme costs notes in the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts.</p><br /><p>Consultancy services are defined as “The provision to management of objective advice and assistance relating to strategy, structure, management or operations of an organisation in pursuit of its purposes and objectives. Such assistance will be provided outside the ‘business as usual’ environment when in-house skills are not available and will be of no essential consequence and time-limited. Services may include the identification of options with recommendations and/or assistance with (but not delivery of) the implementation of solutions.”</p><br /> <br /> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 17/12/2015 16:39:50 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

425719

	registered interest
	date	03/11/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Junior Doctors
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the total amount that will be spent on pay for junior doctors in 2015-16; and how many junior doctors will be employed in that year.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
	tabling member printed	Heidi Alexander
	uin	14585
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2015 answer text <br /><p><strong></strong></p><p>Data on the junior doctor paybill for 2015/2016 and those that will be employed over this financial year is not yet available.</p><br /><p>The latest data available relates to the financial year 2014/2015. For that year the substantive junior doctor paybill was £3.1 billion; and there were an average of around 53,000 full-time-equivalent junior doctors employed over the year.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 06/11/2015 14:50:03 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	4038 label Biography information for Heidi Alexander

438685

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Ambulance Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what account he has made of the reason for the failure to meet ambulance response time targets for Red 1 999 emergencies between June 2015 and September 2015; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
	tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
	uin	20188
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/12/2015 answer text <br /><p>Ambulance services are experiencing a significant increase in demand compared with previous years.</p><br /><p>NHS England and trusts are responding to this challenge with a number of measures including the Ambulance Response Programme which enables trusts to provide a more clinically appropriate response to patients.In 2014/15, there were 1,048,500 more ambulance journeys compared with 2009/10 (2,800 per day). There are now almost 2,000 more paramedics compared to 2010.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 23/12/2015 14:53:01 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

434237

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	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, what proportion of publicly-funded child and adolescent mental health in-patient services are provided by private providers; what the names of those providers are; how many and what types of services each such provider provides; and what proportion of all privately-provided services such services represent.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	18772
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2015 answer text <br /><p>Approximately 47% of in-patient Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) are provided by independent providers.</p><br /><p>The table below contains a list of the specialised commissioned CAMHS and the names of the independent providers who provided these services in 2014/15.</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Acute - Adolescent Inpatient</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Alpha Hospitals</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cambian Healthcare</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oak View</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Riverdale Grange</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Acute - Adolescent Inpatient</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Priory</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Acute - Adolescent Inpatient (High Dependency Unit)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Priory</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Acute - Child Inpatient</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cygnet Healthcare</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Plymouth Community Healthcare</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Eating Disorder - Adolescent Inpatients</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Newbridge</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Eating Disorders - Adolescent Inpatient</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>CareUK</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ellern Mede Centre For Eating Disorders</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Priory</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Huntercombe Group</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Eating Disorders - Adolescent Inpatient High Dependency</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>CareUK</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Eating Disorders - Adolescent Short term Intensive</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>CareUK</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Low Secure - CAMHS</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Huntercombe Group</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Low Secure Female and Male</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Priory</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Low Secure Learning Disabled</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oak View</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Low Secure Male MI</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Alpha Hospitals</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Huntercombe Group</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Alpha Hospitals</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Priory</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Secure and Specialised Mental Health Services (Child)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Low Secure Female Autistic Spectrum Disorder</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>St Andrews</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Low Secure Female Learning Disabled</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>St Andrews</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Low Secure Female Mental Illness</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>St Andrews</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Low Secure Male Autistic Spectrum Disorder</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>St Andrews</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Low Secure Male Learning Disabled</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>St Andrews</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Low Secure Male Mental Illness</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>St Andrews</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong></strong></p><p>The proportion of CAMHS spend with these independent providers represents approximately 23% of the total mental health spend on independent providers (based on 2014/15 figures).</p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 09/12/2015 16:19:50 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

443451

	registered interest
	date	08/01/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Department of Health: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people of each gender work in his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester West
	tabling member printed	Liz Kendall
	uin	21613
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2016 answer text <br /><p>As at 31 December 2015, of the civil servants employed by the Department 1,180 were women and 838 were men. Their full-time equivalent numbers were 1,110 and 822 respectively.</p><br /><p>The Office for National Statistics produce annual and quarterly statistics for the whole of the Civil Service. The published figures include a gender distribution and a number of other demographics, for each Government Department and Executive Agency. These can be found at:</p><br /><p><a href="http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/pse/civil-service-statistics/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/pse/civil-service-statistics/index.html</a></p><br /> <br /> <br /> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 13/01/2016 14:30:22 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4026 label Biography information for Liz Kendall

427633

	registered interest
	date	10/11/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Game
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much game meat has entered the human food chain from licensed hunting activities on land owned by Government Departments or agencies in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	15977
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2015 answer text <br /><p>As part of its regulation of approved meat establishments, the Food Standards Agency collects throughput figures on the number of animals slaughtered or processed at each premises. Game meat processed at approved game handling establishments will come from trained hunters and be supported by an appropriate declaration. There is no requirement to detail on these declarations whether the game is from land owned by Government Departments or Agencies.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 19/11/2015 12:09:20 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

434002

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Obesity: Surgery
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether it is his policy that clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) will be required to meet current national service standards for the provision of obesity surgery after the planned transfer of obesity surgery commissioning responsibilities from NHS England to CCGs in April 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	18622
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2015 answer text <br /><p>CCGs will have the full commissioning responsibility for the obesity services within their remit to set standards for services for their population and to make clinical commissioning policy decisions in terms of patient eligibility with effect from April 2016.</p><br /><p>NHS England is supporting the transfer of commissioning responsibilities to CCGs by providing clinical guidance on standards for the adult obesity surgery pathway. This guidance is in development, supported by national clinical experts.</p><br /><p>The draft clinical commissioning policy includes reference to the relevant National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance to support CCGs in determining patient eligibility to obesity surgery. The draft service specification will reflect best practice and describes the standard providers will need to meet for the surgical service.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 10/12/2015 14:18:24 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

428793

	registered interest
	date	17/11/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Dental Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the appropriateness of the use of amalgam in dental fillings.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	16715
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2015 answer text <br /><p>Dental amalgam has been in use for over 150 years to restore teeth in millions of patients and, apart from rare instances of hypersensitivity, no adverse reactions have been identified. Alternative dental restorative materials are not so easily, quickly and reliably placed. Neither are they so durable. Due to improvements in oral health, the number of restorations is decreasing with the result that the safe management and disposal of dental amalgam is more easily achieved.</p><br /><p>The World Health Organization report <em>Future Use of Materials for Dental Restorations November 2009</em> concluded that dental amalgam remains a dental restorative material of choice in the absence of an ideal alternative. The Department concurs with the conclusions of the report which can be found at:</p><br /><p><a href="http://www.who.int/oral_health/publications/dental_material_2011.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.who.int/oral_health/publications/dental_material_2011.pdf</a></p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 25/11/2015 12:35:26 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

432008

	registered interest
	date	24/11/2015
	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, how many mental health services he has visited since March 2015; and what the date was of each such visit.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	17515
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2015 answer text <br /><p>Departmental Ministers have undertaken the following visits to mental health services (including charity visits and community centres) in an official capacity since March 2015 to date:</p><br /><p>Former Minister of State (Norman Lamb)</p><p>5 March 2015- Turning Point’s Crisis Point Centre</p><p>5 March 2015- RADAR (Rapid Alcohol Detox Acute Referrals)</p><br /><p>Minister of State (Alistair Burt)</p><p>21 May 2015- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust- Child and Adolescent Mental Heal Services</p><p>29 June 2015- Hammersmith and Fulham Mental Health Unite/ West London Clinical Commissioning Group</p><p>2 July 2015- British Transport Policy, suicide prevention and mental health team (street triage)</p><p>3 August 2015- Margaret Oats, Mother and baby unit, City and Hackney Centre for mental health</p><p>24 August 2015- Bradford Divisional HQ, Nelson Street Police Station</p><p>10 September 2015 – Samaritans Visit on World Suicide Day</p><p>8 October 2015 – Oxfordshire Mind for World Mental Health day</p><br /> <br /> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 30/11/2015 17:25:25 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger