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1455138

	registered interest
	date	28/03/2022
	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	Surgical Mesh Implants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which specialist surgical mesh removal centres are (a) offering rectopexy mesh removal and (b) expected to be offering rectopexy mesh removal within the next 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Aaron Bell
	uin	148421
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2022 answer text <p>The specialist mesh services in operation do not currently offer rectopexy mesh removal. NHS England and NHS Improvement are working to commission rectopexy services within the specialist mesh centres, to treat those who have been adversely affected by rectopexy mesh. The information requested on the specialist mesh services offering rectopexy mesh removal within the next 12 months is not yet available.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 11/04/2022 10:45:21 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield previous answer version 62072 answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4837 label Biography information for Aaron Bell

1675267

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2023
	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 Act 1983
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it remains her Department's policy to reform the Mental Health Act 1983.
	tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
	tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
	uin	5125
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2023 answer text <p>We remain committed to bringing forward a Mental Health Bill when Parliamentary time allows us to do so. In the meantime, we are already taking forward wider commitments to improve the care and treatment of people detained under the Mental Health Act, including piloting models of Culturally Appropriate Advocacy. These pilots will provide tailored support to people from ethnic minority communities and improve their experience of being treated under the Mental Health Act.</p><p>This is alongside our wider commitment to invest at least £2.3 billion of additional funding a year by March 2024 to expand and transform mental health services within the National Health Service, so an extra two million people can get mental health support.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 12/12/2023 16:43:55 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield previous answer version 6705 answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare

1675268

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2023
	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: Racial Discrimination
	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 her Department is taking to reduce racial inequalities in the use of the Mental Health Act 1983.
	tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
	tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
	uin	5126
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/01/2024 answer text <p>We are continuing to pilot models of Culturally Appropriate Advocacy, investing up to £1.5 million to provide tailored support people from ethnic minorities to better understand their rights when they are detained under the Mental Health Act.</p><p>The Patient and Carers Race Equality Framework was published by NHS England in October 2023. Rolling this out will support mental health trusts to improve access, experience and outcomes and reduce disparities for people from ethnic minority backgrounds. All mental health trusts will be required to have a framework in place by March 2025.</p><p>Between 1 December 2018 and 31 March 2023, there were 218,219 detentions under the Mental Health Act. It is important to note that the number of detentions is not the same as the number of people detained as some people might have been detained more than once during the period.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield grouped question UIN 5129 question first answered 03/01/2024 11:41:16 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield previous answer version 6704 answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare

1675269

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2023
	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	Autism and Learning Disability: Hospital Wards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress her Department has made on its commitment to reduce the number of people with a learning disability and autistic people in specialist inpatient care by 50% by March 2024 compared with March 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
	tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
	uin	5127
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/01/2024 answer text <p>We have made significant progress towards reducing the number of people with a learning disability and autistic people in inpatient mental health settings.</p><p>For people who have a learning disability and who do not have an autism diagnosis, the data shows that there has been a 57% reduction in the number of people in hospital since March 2015. For people who have both a learning disability and autism diagnosis, there has been a 33% reduction in the number of people in hospital since March 2015. However, the number of people with an autism diagnosis, who do not have a learning disability, in hospital inpatient settings has increased significantly over the same period.</p><p>Taken together, this results in a net reduction of 30% against a commitment to reduce inpatient numbers by 50% by March 2024; more specifically there were 2,035 people with a learning disability and autistic people in a mental health inpatient setting in October 2023 compared to 2,905 in March 2015.</p><p>Actions underway to make more progress include investing an additional £121 million this financial year to improve community support as part of the NHS Long Term Plan, including funding for Children and Young People’s keyworkers.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 03/01/2024 11:35:20 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield previous answer version 6703 answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare

1675271

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2023
	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	Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients
	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 people have been detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 since the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act 1983 was published on 6 December 2018; and what progress her Department has made on tackling the disproportionate number of people from black and minority ethnic groups being detained under that Act.
	tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
	tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
	uin	5129
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/01/2024 answer text <p>We are continuing to pilot models of Culturally Appropriate Advocacy, investing up to £1.5 million to provide tailored support people from ethnic minorities to better understand their rights when they are detained under the Mental Health Act.</p><p>The Patient and Carers Race Equality Framework was published by NHS England in October 2023. Rolling this out will support mental health trusts to improve access, experience and outcomes and reduce disparities for people from ethnic minority backgrounds. All mental health trusts will be required to have a framework in place by March 2025.</p><p>Between 1 December 2018 and 31 March 2023, there were 218,219 detentions under the Mental Health Act. It is important to note that the number of detentions is not the same as the number of people detained as some people might have been detained more than once during the period.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield grouped question UIN 5126 question first answered 03/01/2024 11:41:16 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield previous answer version 6702 answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare

1677545

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2023
	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: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the NHS is on track to meet the target for NHS Talking Therapies of 1.9 million people in England accessing treatment by the end of 2023/24.
	tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
	tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
	uin	6687
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/12/2023 answer text <p>The additional investment for NHS Talking Therapies from the Autumn Statement is focused on helping people recover from anxiety and depression. It will do this through service expansion over five years, enabling more people to have a course of treatment, representing an additional 384,000 people over five years, and supporting services to be offer patients a larger number of sessions which will improve people's chance of fully recovering.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 27/12/2023 11:47:25 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield previous answer version 8352 answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare

1680544

	registered interest
	date	08/01/2024
	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: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will publish the number of full time equivalent (a) trainee and (b) qualified cognitive behavioural therapists employed by NHS provider in each quarter between 2015 and 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
	tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
	uin	8604
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2024 answer text <p>NHS England publishes Hospital and Community Health Services workforce statistics for England. This data is drawn from the Electronic Staff Record, the human resources system for the National Health Service. From this data, the attached tables present the number of full time equivalent staff who have a job role recorded as being either trainee or qualified cognitive behaviour therapists or high intensity therapists. A small number of those with the job role ‘high intensity therapists’ may not be cognitive behavioural therapists. Data is presented for each quarter from March 2015 to September 2023 split by the body employing the staff.</p><p> </p><p>It is possible that some staff working as cognitive behavioural therapists may be recorded against other job roles, therefore these figures may undercount the total number of staff involved. Differing recording practices may also limit how comparable figures for different trusts are.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson attachment 1 file name PQ8604 - Qualified cognitive behavioural therapists.xlsx title Qualified cognitive behavioural therapists 2 file name PQ8604 - Trainee qualified cognitive behavioural therapists.xlsx title Trainee qualified cognitive behavioural therapists question first answered 17/01/2024 17:45:57 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson previous answer version 10520 answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare

1680545

	registered interest
	date	08/01/2024
	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: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will publish the number of full time equivalent (a) trainee and (b) qualified psychological wellbeing practitioners employed by NHS provider in each quarter between 2015 and 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
	tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
	uin	8605
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2024 answer text <p>NHS England publishes Hospital and Community Health Services workforce statistics for England. This data is drawn from the Electronic Staff Record (ESR), the human resources system for the National Health Service. From this data, the attached tables present the number of full-time equivalent staff who have a job role recorded as being either trainee or qualified psychological wellbeing practitioner. Data is presented for each quarter from March 2015 to September 2023 split by the body employing the staff.</p><p> </p><p>It is possible that some staff working as psychological wellbeing practitioners may be recorded against other job roles, therefore these figures possibly undercount the total number of staff involved. Differing recording practices may also limit how comparable figures for different trusts are.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson attachment 1 file name PQ8605 - Trainee qualified psychological wellbeing practitioners.xlsx title Trainee qualified psychological wellbeing 2 file name PQ8605 - Qualified psychological wellbeing practitioners.xlsx title Qualified psychological wellbeing practitioners question first answered 17/01/2024 17:52:02 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson previous answer version 10521 answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare

1680546

	registered interest
	date	08/01/2024
	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: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will publish the number of (a) clinical and (b) non-clinical staff employed in NHS Improving Access to Psychological Therapies services by NHS provider in each quarter between 2015 and 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
	tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
	uin	8606
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2024 answer text <p>NHS England publishes Hospital and Community Health Services workforce statistics for England. This data is drawn from the Electronic Staff Record, the human resources system for the National Health Service. From this data, the attached tables present the number of full time equivalent clinical and non-clinical staff who have an area of work recorded as ‘Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT)’. Data is presented for each quarter from March 2015 to September 2023 split by the body employing the staff.</p><p> </p><p>It is likely that some staff working on IAPT may be recorded against other areas of work, therefore these figures likely undercount the total number of staff involved. Differing recording practices may also limit how comparable figures for different trusts are.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson attachment 1 file name PQ8606 - Clinical staff employed in NHS Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Services (1).xlsx title Attachment 2 file name PQ8606 - Non-clinical staff employed in NHS Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Services (2).xlsx title Attachment question first answered 18/01/2024 12:34:15 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson previous answer version 10522 answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare

1680547

	registered interest
	date	08/01/2024
	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: Waiting Lists
	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 and what proportion of referrals to NHS Improving Access to Psychological Therapies services waited less than (a) two, (b) four, (c) six and (d) 19 weeks to begin treatment by NHS provider in each quarter between 2021 and 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
	tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
	uin	8607
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2024 answer text <p>The following table shows the counts and proportions of referrals finishing a course of treatment in the quarter who accessed services, which also indicates starting treatment, up to six and 18 weeks after the referral was received:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Period</p></td><td><p>Count of finishing referrals that accessed services within 6 weeks</p></td><td><p>Percentage of all finishing referrals that accessed services within 6 weeks</p></td><td><p>Count of finishing referrals that accessed services within 18 weeks</p></td><td><p>Percentage of all finishing referrals that accessed services within 18 weeks</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January-March 2021</p></td><td><p>146,030</p></td><td><p>92.7</p></td><td><p>155,475</p></td><td><p>98.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April-June 2021</p></td><td><p>157,886</p></td><td><p>92.6</p></td><td><p>168,354</p></td><td><p>98.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July-September 2021</p></td><td><p>156,033</p></td><td><p>91.8</p></td><td><p>167,953</p></td><td><p>98.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October-December 2021</p></td><td><p>145,607</p></td><td><p>90.6</p></td><td><p>158,229</p></td><td><p>98.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January-March 2022</p></td><td><p>146,002</p></td><td><p>89.3</p></td><td><p>160,893</p></td><td><p>98.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April-June 2022</p></td><td><p>148,586</p></td><td><p>88.9</p></td><td><p>164,638</p></td><td><p>98.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July-September 2022</p></td><td><p>154,384</p></td><td><p>88.8</p></td><td><p>171,022</p></td><td><p>98.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October-December 2022</p></td><td><p>145,220</p></td><td><p>89.3</p></td><td><p>159,521</p></td><td><p>98.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January-March 2023</p></td><td><p>153,064</p></td><td><p>90.2</p></td><td><p>166,886</p></td><td><p>98.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April-June 2023</p></td><td><p>149,428</p></td><td><p>90.0</p></td><td><p>163,593</p></td><td><p>98.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July-September 2023</p></td><td><p>153,145</p></td><td><p>89.2</p></td><td><p>168,553</p></td><td><p>98.1</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS Digital</p><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>NHS Talking Therapies data are given as a count of patient referrals not patients.</li><li>A referral has finished a course of treatment in the quarter if the referral ended in the quarter with the patient having at least two attended treatment appointments or Internet Enabled Therapy logs recorded against it.</li><li>A referral has accessed services when the patient has had their first attended, treatment appointment or an Internet Enabled Therapy log has been recorded for them.</li><li>Data is taken from the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) dataset held by NHS England. NHS Talking Therapies, for anxiety and depression is a National Health Service programme implemented in England that offers NICE-approved therapies for treating people with depression or anxiety.</li><li>Waiting times data at two, four and 19 weeks is not routinely produced. Data is shown for each quarter from January-March 2021 to July-September 2023 which is the latest available quarterly data.</li></ol> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 15/01/2024 15:19:06 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield previous answer version 10523 answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare