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49122

	registered interest
	date	29/04/2014
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that workers report work-related stress to their employers.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	197181
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Health and safety regulations already place a duty on employers to consult with all employees over issues that may affect their health and safety, including work-related stress.</p><p> </p><p>My department will also introduce a new Health and Work Service to provide occupational health advice and support for employees, employers and GPs to help individuals with health conditions, including stress and other psychological problems, to stay in or return to work. This service will provide a more effective system for employees to report work-related stress issues.</p><p> </p><p>The service is due to begin by the end of 2014.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 197182 question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

49123

	registered interest
	date	29/04/2014
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps the Government is taking to enable employers to handle cases of employees suffering from work-related stress or other psychological problems affecting their work.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	197182
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Health and safety regulations already place a duty on employers to consult with all employees over issues that may affect their health and safety, including work-related stress.</p><p> </p><p>My department will also introduce a new Health and Work Service to provide occupational health advice and support for employees, employers and GPs to help individuals with health conditions, including stress and other psychological problems, to stay in or return to work. This service will provide a more effective system for employees to report work-related stress issues.</p><p> </p><p>The service is due to begin by the end of 2014.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 197181 question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

49119

	registered interest
	date	29/04/2014
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if his Department will publish guidance for employers on reducing the causes of work-related stress.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	197185
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has already published a comprehensive range of guidance to help employers reduce the causes of work-related stress. <a title="http://www.hse.gov.uk/stress/" href="http://www.hse.gov.uk/stress/" target="_blank">http://www.hse.gov.uk/stress/</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Guidance on HSE's Management Standards for work related stress is available free to download from the HSE website <a title="http://www.hse.gov.uk/stress/standards/index.htm" href="http://www.hse.gov.uk/stress/standards/index.htm" target="_blank">http://www.hse.gov.uk/stress/standards/index.htm</a></p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

49120

	registered interest
	date	29/04/2014
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to require employers to undertake a systematic assessment of psychological risks in the workplace.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	197183
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 already require employers to undertake an assessment of risks to the health and safety of their employees. The Health and Safety Executive's Management Standards for work related stress provide further practical guidance to support this legislation, and help employers to assess the risk of work-related stress. The Government believes that this represents a proportionate and sensible approach to the assessment of work-related stress and psychological risks.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

49121

	registered interest
	date	29/04/2014
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will commission an assessment of the causes of work-related stress.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	197184
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p /> <p>There is already a considerable amount of academic research – national and international – that has evidenced the primary causes of work–related stress. The Health and Safety Executive website provides details of a wide range of research commissioned over the past decade <a title="http://www.hse.gov.uk/stress/research.htm" href="http://www.hse.gov.uk/stress/research.htm" target="_blank">http://www.hse.gov.uk/stress/research.htm</a></p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

49371

	registered interest
	date	30/04/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what mechanisms are in place to allow families of patients in care homes to report concerns about standards of care.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	197376
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p>Regulation 19 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2010 requires all care providers registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to “have an effective system in place for identifying, receiving, handling and responding appropriately to complaints and comments made by service users, or persons acting on their behalf”.</p><p> </p><p>Where a person's care is provided or arranged by their local authority, complaints and concerns should be directed initially to the local authority, which remains responsible for the quality of care. If a person has arranged their own care, they should pursue the matter directly with the provider in the first instance.</p><p> </p><p>In both cases, should complainants not be satisfied with the response, they are entitled to ask the Local Government Ombudsman to investigate.</p><p> </p><p>People may also raise concerns with the CQC, as regulator of health and adult social care services. Under the 2008 Act, the CQC does not have the responsibility for investigating specific complaints about social care providers. However, where there are concerns about a provider which is registered with the CQC, such concerns should be brought to its attention. The CQC will use this information, together with local information from partners and the public, to help it decide when, where and what to inspect.</p><p> </p><p>The CQC is currently introducing a new system of inspection of social care providers. This new system of inspection will be structured around five key questions that matter most to people – are the services safe, caring, effective, well-led, and responsive to people's needs. The new inspections will make more use of people's views and will use expert inspection teams involving people who have personal experience of care. The CQC has been piloting this new approach in 252 of social care providers since April 2014.</p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

49369

	registered interest
	date	30/04/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what mechanisms his Department has in place to monitor standards in care homes for the elderly.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	197374
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p>The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England. Under the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (the 2008 Act) all providers of regulated activities, including National Health Service and independent providers, have to register with the CQC and meet a set of requirements of safety and quality.</p><p> </p><p>The CQC is currently introducing a new system of inspection of social care providers. This new system of inspection will be structured around five key questions that matter most to people – are the services safe, caring, effective, well-led and responsive to people's needs. The new inspections will make more use of people's views and will use expert inspection teams involving people who have personal experience of care. The CQC has been piloting this new approach in 252 of social care providers since April 2014.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is also working with the CQC to develop fundamental standards, which will set out the line below which care should never fall – they will be requirements that all providers of health and social care registered with the CQC must meet. The CQC will be able to take action including prosecution where providers are not meeting these standards. These fundamental standards will apply to all registered providers across health and adult social care.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

49370

	registered interest
	date	30/04/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on the use of CCTV in care homes.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	197375
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p>The Department currently has no plans to require the installation of CCTV in care homes. However, we do have to recognise that recent cases of abuse and neglect have been exposed as the result of hidden cameras. We acknowledge that there are occasions when it may be appropriate for their use to be considered.</p><p> </p><p>The Care Quality Commission is exploring whether hidden cameras might be used as part of its investigations. It is consulting widely on the use of covert surveillance and will take account of a wide range of views before making its decision.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham