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100854

	registered interest
	date	24/10/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Care Workers: Minimum Wage
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department has made an assessment of or received evidence on the effect on care standards of non-payment of the national minimum wage in the social care sector.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	211866
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>The Department has not conducted any recent research on the effect of treatment of staff on standards of care and on the relationship between levels of pay and quality of social care services.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As part of the development of Caring for our Future white paper in 2011, the Department undertook extensive engagement with both service users and carers who highlighted a range of issues they felt needed addressing to ensure high quality care and support is available. In addressing this, the Department, working with the Sector Skills Council – Skills for Care – and other partners, has implemented a range of policies that has included setting out clear minimum training standards, recruiting more apprentices and supporting the transformation of the social work profession.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>There are a number of factors that determine the quality of care provided in the social care sector, including the way staff are treated. Pay is not the single most significant factor in delivering high quality services.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department is clear however that care providers must abide by the law with regards to payment of the national minimum wage and is taking steps to ensure this happens. The Department is liaising with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to name and shame any social care providers who do not comply with the national minimum wage legislation and Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs is continuing to carry out enforcement action in the social care sector and will investigate all complaints made by care workers that their employer is not paying them the national minimum wage. In addition, it is looking to ensure that the statutory guidance that will accompany the Care Act on commissioning and market shaping explicitly states local authorities should have evidence that contract terms, conditions and fee levels are appropriate to provide the agreed care packages with agreed quality of care.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 03/11/2014 16:37:18 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

101145

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2014
	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, what steps he is taking to improve access to NICE-recommended mindfulness-based therapies on the NHS.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	211947
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>Over the course of the current spending review, we are investing in excess of £400 million in England to give thousands of people access to National Institute for Health and Care Excellence-approved psychological therapies, including Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy.</p><p> </p><p>The 2014-15 Mandate to NHS England makes clear that ‘everyone who needs it should have timely access to evidence based services’. The Mandate sets a clear objective for NHS England to deliver the key objectives of the Improving Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT) programme – providing access to therapies to 15% of those eligible (around 900,000 people) per year by 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are increasing the availability of IAPT services to cover children and young people and exploring extending services to people with long-term physical health problems and those with severe mental illness.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We have invested £54 million over the period 2011 – 2015/16 in the Children and Young People’s Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (CYP IAPT) programme. The Programme works with services covering up to 60% of England’s 0-19 population, and will cover approximately 68% by the end of 2014-15. This is giving children and young people improved access to the best evidenced mental health care. NHS England is planning for a countrywide extension of the programme with Health Education England.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The IAPT programme is working with a number of the Department’s Strategic Partners to promote wider access of the service to all sections of the community. The partners are working with IAPT service providers to identify and overcome the barriers to people gaining access to IAPT services.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 03/11/2014 16:48:01 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

101148

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2014
	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, what recent assessment he has made of the potential benefits of training doctors and nurses in mindfulness.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	212007
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>No recent assessment has been made of the potential benefits of training doctors and nurses in mindfulness. The Department does however recognise the potential benefits of training doctors and nurses in mindfulness.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The National Institute for Clinical Excellence guidance for the National Health Service has recommended Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) for recurrent depression since 2004. MBCT is available through a number of Improving Access to Psychological Therapy services in England.</p><p> </p><p>Health Education England (HEE) supports the delivery of excellent healthcare and health improvement to the patients and public of England, by ensuring that we have the workforce in the right numbers, with the right skills, values and behaviours, at the right time and in the right place. HEE is developing the workforce to deliver compassionate, high quality care.</p><p> </p><p>HEE has established a Mental Health Advisory Group to promote and enhance mental health education and training across the professions and provide strategic professional advice and expertise on workforce planning and education development. Membership representation includes; healthcare, social care, third sector and professional bodies.</p><p> </p><p>HEE is considering the opportunities for developing a psychologically minded workforce.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 03/11/2014 16:49:33 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

101160

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Dementia
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of adults in (a) Fareham constituency, (b) Hampshire and (c) England have been diagnosed with dementia in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Fareham
	tabling member printed	Mr Mark Hoban
	uin	212133
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>Information on the number of people with dementia has been collected since 2006-07. Information is collected at National Health Service organisation level, and not constituency level. Data on the number of people with dementia in England, Hampshire Primary Care Trust, and the clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) that replaced it, are shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Table 1: Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF): Patients on the dementia register and prevalence rates in England, 2006-07 to 2013-14</p><p> </p><p /> <p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number of Practices<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>Sum of List Sizes<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>Sum of Dementia Register<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>Dementia Prevalence<sup>1</sup></p><p>(percentage -</p><p>based on QOF registers)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>7,921</p></td><td><p>56,324,887</p></td><td><p>348,973</p></td><td><p>0.62</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>8,020</p></td><td><p>56,012,096</p></td><td><p>318,669</p></td><td><p>0.57</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>8,123</p></td><td><p>55,525,732</p></td><td><p>293,738</p></td><td><p>0.53</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>8,245</p></td><td><p>55,169,643</p></td><td><p>266,697</p></td><td><p>0.48</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>8,305</p></td><td><p>54,836,561</p></td><td><p>249,463</p></td><td><p>0.45</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>8,229</p></td><td><p>54,310,660</p></td><td><p>232,430</p></td><td><p>0.43</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007-08</p></td><td><p>8,294</p></td><td><p>54,009,831</p></td><td><p>220,246</p></td><td><p>0.41</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006-07</p></td><td><p>8,372</p></td><td><p>53,681,098</p></td><td><p>212,794</p></td><td><p>0.40</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>Note:</em></p><p> </p><p>1. Practices, practice list size and number of patients on the dementia register are based only on those GP practices that participated in QOF.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>Table 2: Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF): Patients on the dementia register and prevalence rates in the specified CCGs, 2012-13 and 2013-14</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="4"><p>2012/13</p></td><td colspan="4"><p>2013/14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>CCG Name</p></td><td><p>Number of Practices<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>Sum of List Sizes<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>Sum of Dementia Register<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>Dementia Prevalence<sup>1</sup></p><p>(percentage - based on QOF registers)</p></td><td><p>Number of Practices<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>Sum of List Sizes<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>Sum of Dementia Register<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>Dementia Prevalence<sup>1</sup></p><p>(percentage - based on QOF registers)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Hampshire</p><p> </p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>217,387</p></td><td><p>1,090</p></td><td><p>0.50</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>218,955</p></td><td><p>1,215</p></td><td><p>0.55</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fareham and Gosport</p><p> </p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>200,959</p></td><td><p>1,277</p></td><td><p>0.64</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>201,596</p></td><td><p>1,413</p></td><td><p>0.70</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Portsmouth</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>217,685</p></td><td><p>1,473</p></td><td><p>0.68</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>218,672</p></td><td><p>1,510</p></td><td><p>0.69</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Eastern Hampshire</p><p> </p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>208,977</p></td><td><p>1,568</p></td><td><p>0.75</p></td><td><p>27</p></td><td><p>209,540</p></td><td><p>1,699</p></td><td><p>0.81</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Southampton</p></td><td><p>36</p></td><td><p>267,765</p></td><td><p>1,376</p></td><td><p>0.51</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>269,948</p></td><td><p>1,467</p></td><td><p>0.54</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Hampshire</p><p> </p></td><td><p>54</p></td><td><p>543,354</p></td><td><p>4,031</p></td><td><p>0.74</p></td><td><p>52</p></td><td><p>536,744</p></td><td><p>4,295</p></td><td><p>0.80</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East Hampshire and Farnham</p></td><td><p>24</p></td><td><p>218,868</p></td><td><p>1,079</p></td><td><p>0.49</p></td><td><p>24</p></td><td><p>220,174</p></td><td><p>1,317</p></td><td><p>0.60</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><em>Note:</em></p><p> </p><p>1. Practices, practice list size and number of patients on the dementia register are based only on those GP practices that participated in QOF.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>Table 3: Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF): Patients on the dementia register and prevalence rates in Hampshire Primary Care Trust, 2006-07 to 2011-12</p><p> </p><p /> <p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number of Practices<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>Sum of List Sizes<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>Sum of Dementia Register<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>Dementia Prevalence<sup>1</sup></p><p>(percentage - based on QOF registers)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>146</p></td><td><p>1,334,272</p></td><td><p>8,695</p></td><td><p>0.65</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>146</p></td><td><p>1,325,050</p></td><td><p>8,288</p></td><td><p>0.63</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>147</p></td><td><p>1,316,394</p></td><td><p>7,998</p></td><td><p>0.61</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>147</p></td><td><p>1,298,398</p></td><td><p>7,518</p></td><td><p>0.58</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007-08</p></td><td><p>146</p></td><td><p>1,289,145</p></td><td><p>7,109</p></td><td><p>0.55</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006-07</p></td><td><p>148</p></td><td><p>1,288,615</p></td><td><p>6,763</p></td><td><p>0.52</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>Note:</em></p><p> </p><p>1. Practices, practice list size and number of patients on the dementia register are based only on those GP practices that participated in QOF.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 03/11/2014 16:40:07 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
	tabling member	1414 label Biography information for Mr Mark Hoban

101161

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Health: Males
	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 1 September 2014 to Question 206875, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential of Men's Sheds movement to improve mental health and reduce loneliness; and if he will meet representatives of Men's Sheds to discuss those issues.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	212117
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>The Department has a strong interest in the impact that loneliness and isolation in older people can have on their physical and mental health and wellbeing. The Department’s National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) funds a range of research relating to the effect of loneliness and isolation on health and wellbeing.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The NIHR School for Public Health Research has funded a systematic review of Men’s Sheds interventions in partnership with Age UK. A report drawing on this research is available on the Age UK website:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.ageuk.org.uk/documents/en-gb/for-professionals/research/men%20in%20sheds%20age%20uk%20brief.pdf?dtrk=true" target="_blank">http://www.ageuk.org.uk/documents/en-gb/for-professionals/research/men%20in%20sheds%20age%20uk%20brief.pdf?dtrk=true</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The NIHR has awarded £231,788 for a doctoral fellowship focussed on developing effective interventions to prevent or address the adverse effects of loneliness and isolation on the health of older people.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department welcomes Men’s Sheds interest in meeting with Ministers and we would recommend that they contact my office to request a meeting.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb grouped question UIN 212118 question first answered 03/11/2014 16:51:11 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

101163

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Health: Males
	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 1 September 2014 to Question 206875, what funding his his Department has made available for research into the effect of loneliness and isolation on health and wellbeing; and what research his Department has commissioned on that issue.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	212118
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>The Department has a strong interest in the impact that loneliness and isolation in older people can have on their physical and mental health and wellbeing. The Department’s National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) funds a range of research relating to the effect of loneliness and isolation on health and wellbeing.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The NIHR School for Public Health Research has funded a systematic review of Men’s Sheds interventions in partnership with Age UK. A report drawing on this research is available on the Age UK website:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.ageuk.org.uk/documents/en-gb/for-professionals/research/men%20in%20sheds%20age%20uk%20brief.pdf?dtrk=true" target="_blank">http://www.ageuk.org.uk/documents/en-gb/for-professionals/research/men%20in%20sheds%20age%20uk%20brief.pdf?dtrk=true</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The NIHR has awarded £231,788 for a doctoral fellowship focussed on developing effective interventions to prevent or address the adverse effects of loneliness and isolation on the health of older people.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department welcomes Men’s Sheds interest in meeting with Ministers and we would recommend that they contact my office to request a meeting.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb grouped question UIN 212117 question first answered 03/11/2014 16:51:11 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

101165

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Thalidomide
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions he has held with disability campaigners on securing compensation from Grünenthal for people affected by thalidomide; and if he will make representations to his German counterpart on that matter.
	tabling member constituency	Belfast East
	tabling member printed	Naomi Long
	uin	212130
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>I met with the Thalidomide Trust on 23 June 2014 and subsequently wrote to Manuela Schwesig, Federal Minister of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, on behalf of all four UK Governments asking if she would meet with the Trust.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 03/11/2014 16:38:19 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
	tabling member	3920 label Biography information for Naomi Long

101433

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Prostitution
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department issues on minimum standards of care in situations where patients who have been engaged in prostitution have been referred by the NHS for counselling or therapeutic services.
	tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
	tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
	uin	212221
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>The Department has not issued specific guidance where patients who have been engaged in prostitution have been referred by the National Health Service for counselling or therapeutic services.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has issued guidelines for access to therapeutic services.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 03/11/2014 16:31:36 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
	tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

101448

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Prostitution
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients who have been engaged in prostitution were referred by the NHS for counselling or therapeutic services in each year since 2010-11.
	tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
	tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
	uin	212223
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally. The occupation of people using Improving Access to Psychological Therapy services is not collected or reported.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 03/11/2014 16:30:25 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
	tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

101487

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Prisoners' Release: Drugs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many of the opioid-related deaths which occurred in England in (a) 2011 and (b) 2012 occurred in people who had been released from prison in the four weeks prior to their death.
	tabling member constituency	Cambridge
	tabling member printed	Dr Julian Huppert
	uin	212343
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>Information on opioid-related deaths in England following release from prison is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Health is a devolved matter. The Department is responsible for England and so is unable to provide this information for other areas of the United Kingdom.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb grouped question UIN 212342 question first answered 03/11/2014 16:34:07 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
	tabling member	3931 label Biography information for Dr Julian Huppert