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168727

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2014
	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
	hansard heading	Children: Maintenance
	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 make an assessment of the effect of the inclusion of a threshold of a 25 per cent change in income before child maintenance payments are adjusted in the 2012 child maintenance scheme on people paying child maintenance who are (a) self-employed and (b) in insecure work.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
	tabling member printed	Richard Burden
	uin	217727
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2014 answer text <p /> <p>At this point in time there are no plans to include this in the overall impact assessment of the reforms.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 11/12/2014 11:55:08 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

168741

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2014
	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
	hansard heading	Pension Protection Fund
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the sufficiency of the payment protection fund budget in (a) 2014-15 and (b) 2015-16 to meet current and backdated claims.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
	tabling member printed	Richard Burden
	uin	217645
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2014 answer text <p /> <p>I have understood the question to be about the Pension Protection Fund (PPF), which pays compensation to members of eligible pension schemes where the employer is insolvent and the scheme can not afford the PPF level of compensation.</p><p> </p><p>The Board of the PPF is responsible for ensuring that it has sufficient funds to pay compensation. The Fund only has to meet the costs of compensation payments as they fall due.</p><p>The funding of the PPF has been designed to be robust in the long term.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 11/12/2014 12:00:51 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

168710

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2014
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Roads: Capital Investment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 1 December 2014 to Question 216534, on strategic roads enhancement, whether the 11 schemes committed to subject to additional contributions are included in the £15.2 billion total given in that Answer.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
	tabling member printed	Richard Burden
	uin	217728
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2014 answer text <p>Government’s contribution to the 11 schemes that are committed subject to other contributions is included in the £15.2 billion total for the enhancement and long term maintenance of the network between 2015/16 and 2020/21.</p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 11/12/2014 14:23:05 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
	tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

166956

	registered interest
	date	01/12/2014
	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 support local authorities in providing mental health services.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
	tabling member printed	Richard Burden
	uin	216553
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2014 answer text <p>Early in 2014, we published our mental health action plan, <em>Closing the gap: priorities for essential change,</em> which sets out 25 areas for urgent action. The document challenges the health and social care community to move further and faster to transform care and support; the public health community, alongside local government, to give health and wellbeing promotion and prevention the long-overdue attention it needs and deserves; and individuals and communities to shift attitudes in mental health.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Public Health England was established on 1 April 2013 with the mission to protect and improve the nation’s health and to address inequalities through working with national and local government, the National Health Service, industry and the voluntary and community sector. It is supporting local councils and other partners to give greater attention to mental health within the public health system.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We have called on councils to do what we are doing as a Government and give parity of esteem to mental health, which also means parity in promotion and prevention.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>An increasing number of councils are seeing investment in public health as investment in both physical and mental health. This includes ensuring that all major public health programmes consider and assess the impact on mental health. Much of local council spend and responsibilities impact on mental health, for example the provision of green spaces, recreation and leisure services, cycle routes, planning decisions, housing and community safety, social care, children and families services.</p><p> </p><p><em> </em></p><p> </p><p><em>Healthy Lives, Healthy People </em>commits to ring-fencing public health funding. Local councils have statutory responsibility for improving the health and wellbeing of their populations.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 08/12/2014 16:30:09 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
	tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

166977

	registered interest
	date	01/12/2014
	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, with reference to the announcement by the Deputy Prime Minister of 8 October 2014, how the £120 million to improve mental health treatment will be allocated by local authority.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
	tabling member printed	Richard Burden
	uin	216624
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2014 answer text <p>NHS England is responsible for distributing the £120 million funding announced in the new five-year plan for mental health, <em>Achieving Better Access to Mental Health Services by 2020</em>, by the Deputy Prime Minister and the Chief Executive of NHS England on 8 October 2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>Achieving Better Access to Mental Health Services by 2020</em>, identified £40 million additional National Health Service spending this year and freed up a further £80 million for 2015-16.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The £40 million investment in mental health for 2014-15 includes an investment of £7 million to end the practice of young people being admitted to mental health beds far away from where they live, or from being inappropriately admitted to adult wards; and an investment of £33 million to support people in mental health crisis, and to boost early intervention services, that help some of the most vulnerable young people in the country to get well and stay well.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England has set out their approach to the allocation of the £80 million for 2015-16 in the document “<em>NHS England investment in mental health 2015/16</em>”, published on 26 November 2014, which can be accessed by the following link:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/payment-systs-mh-note.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/payment-systs-mh-note.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 08/12/2014 16:20:55 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
	tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

167062

	registered interest
	date	01/12/2014
	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 ensure parity of esteem between mental and physical health.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
	tabling member printed	Richard Burden
	uin	216680
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2014 answer text <p>The Government’s commitment to parity of esteem has been made explicit in legislation, as well as the NHS Constitution and the Mandate to NHS England</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Funding for mental health has increased by £302 million in 2014-15, total mental health spending rose from £1.32 billion in 2013-14 with £11.664 billion planned in 2014-15.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department and NHS England continue to work together to ensure that there are consistent messages to commissioners and providers about the importance of delivering parity of esteem for mental health service users.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In our five-year plan for mental health, <em>Achieving Better Access to Mental Health Services by 2020</em>, we identified £40 million additional spending this year and freed up a further £80 million for 2015-16. This will, for the first time ever, enable the setting of access and waiting time standards in mental health services from 2015-16 and includes new targets to make sure that, by 2016, at least 50% of young people referred for early intervention in psychosis services will start treatment within two weeks.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>There has been sustained investment in mental health over the course of this Parliament. We have invested £400 million in Improving Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT) for adults and £54 million over the four year period from 2011-2015 in the children and young people’s IAPT programme to transform child and adolescent mental health services.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We have invested £2 million in nine street triage pilots where police and mental health professionals work together to support people in mental health crisis access safe, appropriate care and we have committed £25 million in 2014-15 to commission 10 trial sites delivering on a new standard service specification for liaison and diversion services in England.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Public Health England (PHE) has also made a commitment to addressing parity of esteem which includes working to promote good mental health and preventing mental health problems. In the current financial year, 2014-15, its direct investment in mental health equates to about 1% of PHE’s total £400 million spend, approximately £4 million.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb grouped question UIN 216554 question first answered 08/12/2014 16:32:55 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
	tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

167072

	registered interest
	date	01/12/2014
	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 funding his Department has allocated for mental health (a) prevention and (b) treatment in the last year.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
	tabling member printed	Richard Burden
	uin	216554
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2014 answer text <p>The Government’s commitment to parity of esteem has been made explicit in legislation, as well as the NHS Constitution and the Mandate to NHS England</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Funding for mental health has increased by £302 million in 2014-15, total mental health spending rose from £1.32 billion in 2013-14 with £11.664 billion planned in 2014-15.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department and NHS England continue to work together to ensure that there are consistent messages to commissioners and providers about the importance of delivering parity of esteem for mental health service users.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In our five-year plan for mental health, <em>Achieving Better Access to Mental Health Services by 2020</em>, we identified £40 million additional spending this year and freed up a further £80 million for 2015-16. This will, for the first time ever, enable the setting of access and waiting time standards in mental health services from 2015-16 and includes new targets to make sure that, by 2016, at least 50% of young people referred for early intervention in psychosis services will start treatment within two weeks.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>There has been sustained investment in mental health over the course of this Parliament. We have invested £400 million in Improving Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT) for adults and £54 million over the four year period from 2011-2015 in the children and young people’s IAPT programme to transform child and adolescent mental health services.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We have invested £2 million in nine street triage pilots where police and mental health professionals work together to support people in mental health crisis access safe, appropriate care and we have committed £25 million in 2014-15 to commission 10 trial sites delivering on a new standard service specification for liaison and diversion services in England.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Public Health England (PHE) has also made a commitment to addressing parity of esteem which includes working to promote good mental health and preventing mental health problems. In the current financial year, 2014-15, its direct investment in mental health equates to about 1% of PHE’s total £400 million spend, approximately £4 million.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb grouped question UIN 216680 question first answered 08/12/2014 16:32:55 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
	tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

167074

	registered interest
	date	01/12/2014
	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 discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on the effect of local authority budget cuts on provision of mental health services.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
	tabling member printed	Richard Burden
	uin	216552
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2014 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Health has had no specific discussions with the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on local authority spending and the provision of mental health services.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 08/12/2014 16:32:18 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
	tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

168656

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2014
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Ukraine
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the effect of the EU ban on imports from Crimea and Sevastopol on his Department's policy on restrictions on imports from other territories.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
	tabling member printed	Richard Burden
	uin	217644
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2014 answer text The European Union imposed restrictions on the import into the EU of goods originating in Crimea or Sevastopol as part of a range of measures to give practical effect to its policy of non-recognition of the illegal annexation of these territories to the Russian Federation. This is a targeted action which forms part of the EU’s wider package of measures imposed as a result of actions that have undermined the independence and integrity of Ukraine. On 17 November EU Foreign Ministers reaffirmed their commitment to further action. The EU remains ready to reverse its decisions and reengage with Russia when it starts contributing actively and without ambiguities to finding a solution to the Ukrainian crisis. The EU’s wider policy on import restrictions will continue to be assessed according to the policy objectives in each situation. answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 11/12/2014 15:38:49 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden