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845520

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2018
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Loneliness
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment he has made of the role of technology in helping people who are socially isolated.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	128492
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2018 answer text <p>This government is committed to working with the Jo Cox Commission, charities and businesses to create a government wide strategy that tackles loneliness.</p><p>Part of this work will review the evidence-base, including the groups affected, the causes and impact of loneliness on individuals and communities, and what works to reduce loneliness. Technology definitely has a role to play and we will consider this as part of the work.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch grouped question UIN 128493 question first answered 28/02/2018 16:48:55 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

845521

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2018
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Loneliness
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the effect of social isolation on mental health.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	128493
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2018 answer text <p>This government is committed to working with the Jo Cox Commission, charities and businesses to create a government wide strategy that tackles loneliness.</p><p>Part of this work will review the evidence-base, including the groups affected, the causes and impact of loneliness on individuals and communities, and what works to reduce loneliness. Technology definitely has a role to play and we will consider this as part of the work.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch grouped question UIN 128492 question first answered 28/02/2018 16:48:55 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

845516

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2018
	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: Digital Technology
	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 his Department is making in harnessing digital technologies to deliver mental health services.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	128488
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to expanding access to mental health digital services to enable more people to receive effective care and provide greater accessibility and choice.</p><p> </p><p>There has been a lot of progress made to date in harnessing digital technologies such as the establishment of seven mental health global digital exemplars which are trusts leading the way in improving digital inclusion and uptake of digital therapies and tools. The National Health Service app library is now hosting six digital tools aimed at improving mental health support and early intervention for children and young people.</p><p> </p><p>There is also ongoing work to redesign the NHS.uk website to improve information and access to digital support for mental health. Development is also underway for a specialist mental health assessment module for NHS111 which will provide more appropriate support and signposting.</p><p> </p><p>For people in need of mental health crisis care who have been detained under the Mental Health Act, new technology is being trialled to enable health and social care professionals, community street triage teams and the police to access appropriate Health Based Places of Safety.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is working with the National Institute for Health and Care and Excellence in developing a digitally enabled therapy assessment programme which will assess up to 14 digital therapy products for use in Improving Access to Psychological Therapies services by 2020. Three of these 14 products have been assessed for inclusion in this programme so far.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 28/02/2018 13:07:29 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

845517

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2018
	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	Medical Treatments: Innovation
	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 ensure that hospitals use new technologies to improve patient care.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	128489
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2018 answer text <p>As set out in the response to the Accelerated Access Review, published last year, a total of £6 million has been announced to help the National Health Service adopt and integrate new technologies into everyday practice, through the Pathway Transformation Fund. The Pathway Transformation Fund will support NHS organisations to overcome these initial barriers to uptake, allowing the NHS to implement new innovative products where it otherwise would have struggled to do so.</p><p>We are also introducing a new Accelerated Access Pathway, to streamline regulatory and market access decisions, getting breakthrough products that we believe will be truly transformative to patients more quickly. All products including medical technologies, devices and diagnostics will be eligible for selection.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 28/02/2018 17:33:30 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

845518

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2018
	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 steps he is taking to (a) improve the prevention of mental illness and (b) provide mental health support for children and young people.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	128490
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2018 answer text <p>We acknowledge that prevention is key to transforming children and young people’s mental health and are taking a number of actions to prevent problems occurring. This includes investment of £3 million to develop the MindEd e-portal, which provides free training on children and young people’s mental health to all professionals who work with children, and over the course of 2016/17-2020/21, providing just over £12 million to fund Time to Change. Time To Change aims to raise awareness of mental health illness and address the fear of stigma that can stop young people and their families from seeking the help that they need. We are also delivering mental health awareness training in every school in England, and given that maternal mental health has a significant impact on the child’s mental health, we are investing £365 million up until 2020/21 to improve access to specialist perinatal mental health services.</p><p> </p><p>In order to transform children and young people’s mental health services, we are making an additional £1.4 billion available from 2015/16 to 2019/20, to ensure access to specialist mental health services for 70,000 additional children and young people each year by 2020/21. This additional money provides funding for clinical commissioning groups and various national programmes, including improving crisis support, expanding the workforce and tackling stigma. Our recent Green Paper, which is supported by over £300 million of additional funding, aims to improve provision of support in schools, bolster links between schools and National Health Service specialist services and improve access through piloting a four week waiting time.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 28/02/2018 13:05:42 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

838920

	registered interest
	date	08/02/2018
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Migrants: Detainees
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, what steps the Crown Prosecution Service is taking as a result of the BBC Panorama documentary, Undercover: Britain’s immigration secrets, broadcast on 4 September 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
	tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
	uin	127482
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2018 answer text <p>Sussex Police have sought early investigative advice from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), South East Area, in respect of possible criminal offences. The CPS has received some documentation and had a meeting with the officer in charge of the investigation in February 2018.</p><p>The police investigation is still ongoing and CPS will only be in a position to provide advice regarding charging or otherwise once all the papers are received.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 28/02/2018 17:07:40 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

847726

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration Controls: France
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has conducted an impact assessment of the Treaty between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the French Republic Concerning the Reinforcement of Cooperation for the Coordinated Management of their Shared Border, Recognising the Importance of Cooperation at the Juxtaposed Controls after 29 March 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
	tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
	uin	129402
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2018 answer text <p>The Treaty between the UK and France signed at Sandhurst in January demonstrates our joint long term commitment to the operation of juxtaposed controls, and to taking a joint approach to tackling the challenges created by illegal migration.</p><p>As part of this new Treaty the UK and France agreed a new ‘whole of route’ joint package of cooperation on migration. This includes measures on further strengthening our shared border, combating organised immigration crime and working together to reduce the number of illegal migrants at the northern French ports. The government set out more detail on the Sandhurst Treaty and our work with France in this area in the Written Ministerial Statement of 19 January 2018.</p><p>Under the agreement, joint governance structures will ensure that we are maximising the wider benefit to be gained from the UK and France working together across the migration agenda.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 28/02/2018 13:02:51 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

845528

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2018
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Energy: Meters
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the effect of the introduction of the pre-payment meter price cap on switching levels among customers in (a) Scotland, (b) England, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland.
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Alan Brown
	uin	128500
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2018 answer text <p>The prepayment meter safeguard (price cap) tariff, set by the Competition and Markets Authority, includes a degree of ‘headroom’, to allow suppliers to offer competitive deals beneath the level of the cap and incentivise switching. The for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy publish quarterly domestic energy switching statistics provided by Ofgem. The latest data published in December 2017 shows 1,284,000 electricity meters and 1,110,000 gas meters switched energy supplier in Q3 of 2017. We do not hold data that provides a breakdown of the number of switches by payment type. Latest switching data is available here, at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/quarterly-domestic-energy-switching-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/quarterly-domestic-energy-switching-statistics</a></p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 28/02/2018 15:12:15 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

845753

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2018
	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	Accident and Emergency Departments: Standards
	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 reduce accident and emergency waiting times.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	128725
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2018 answer text <p>Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC) is one of the National Health Service’s main national service improvement priorities set out in the Next Steps on the NHS Five Year Forward View, with a focus on improving national accident and emergency (A&amp;E) performance. A number of approaches have, and are being introduced to reduce the pressure on A&amp;E departments, reduce waiting times and improve patient flow.</p><p> </p><p>As at December 2017, 98.5% (134 out of 136) Type 1 A&amp;Es had front-door clinical streaming in place, diverting people with more minor illnesses to more appropriate services better suited to their needs, supported by additional funding of £100 million, as announced by the Chancellor in the spring budget 2017.</p><p> </p><p>The transformation of NHS 111 services as part of the UEC programme is also helping to reduce pressure on A&amp;E services. In 2017 NHS 111 answered more than 14 million calls, an increase of 4% compared with the previous 12 months. Around 40% of calls now receive clinical input, the highest it has ever been and wherever possible, the caller will have their health issue dealt with there and then over the phone by the clinician without the need to go to another NHS service.</p><p> </p><p>In addition NHS England has run a range of public facing marketing campaigns to inform the public about services that are available to them and to encourage them to access the right service for their needs. These campaigns are intended to help reduce pressures on the urgent and emergency care system, including A&amp;E departments.</p><p> </p><p>The latest published data for January 2018 shows that the majority of patients continue to be admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours of arrival at A&amp;E departments.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England and NHS Improvement published their operational planning guidance to clinical commission groups and trusts on ‘Refreshing NHS Plans for 2018/19’ on Friday 2 February. The planning guidance sets out performance expectations against the four hour standard; aggregate performance above 90% by September 2018, the majority of providers achieving 95% by March 2019, and with the whole of the NHS returning to 95% within the course of 2019.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 28/02/2018 13:24:12 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

845740

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Universities: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of proposals by some universities to adopt a GPA based grading system.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	128712
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2018 answer text <p>On 19 October 2017, on behalf of the Office for Students (OfS), the Department for Education consulted on a new Regulatory Framework for Higher Education in England. Part of that consultation sought views on whether there would be merit in the OfS exploring alternative methods of assessment, including Grade Point Average (GPA). The OfS will shortly publish its consultation response, together with a new Regulatory Framework for Higher Education in England.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 28/02/2018 16:11:37 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel