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768095

	registered interest
	date	10/10/2017
	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	Israel: Palestinians
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions his Department has had with the Israeli Government on that government's legal obligation towards the people of the Gaza Strip and the Occupied Palestinian Territories under international law.
	tabling member constituency	Burnley
	tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
	uin	106846
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>It has long been the Government's view that Israel's presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territories is governed by the provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, to which Israel is a state party. We repeatedly call on Israel to abide by its obligations under international law and have a regular dialogue with Israel on legal issues relating to the occupation.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 18/10/2017 16:09:16 question first ministerially corrected 18/10/2017 16:23:50 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt previous answer version 15987 answering member constituency Glasgow Central answering member printed Alison Thewliss answering member 4430
	tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

442984

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2016
	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, pursuant to the Answer of 17 December 2015 to Question 20082, what the (a) dates, (b) locations and (c) organisations of the 19 visits and meetings referred to in that Answer were.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	21403
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2016 answer text <p>Details of the 19 visits to or meetings with mental health trusts undertaken by Simon Stevens and Sir Bruce Keogh since their appointments as Chief Executive and Medical Director respectively are given on the attached table <em>Details of meetings with and visits to mental health trusts undertaken by Simon Stevens and Sir Bruce Keogh since their appointments as Chief Executive and Medical Director respectively of NHS England. </em></p><br /> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 11/01/2016 17:00:06 question first ministerially corrected 11/01/2016 20:10:15 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt attachment 1 file name PQ21403 Details of meetings and visits undertaken - schedule.docx title Mental health trust visits & meetings previous answer version 38200 answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

449397

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many young people aged 17 or under of each age were sectioned under the Mental Health Act in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
	tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
	uin	25024
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2016 answer text <p>The National Police Chiefs Council has reported figures on the number of children held in police custody as a place of safety under section 136 of the Mental Health Act for only three years. These were as follows:</p><p> </p><p>2012-13 <ins class="ministerial">256</ins> <del class="ministerial">255</del>;</p><p>2013-14 <ins class="ministerial">161</ins> <del class="ministerial">256</del>; and</p><p>2014-15 <ins class="ministerial">145</ins> <del class="ministerial">161</del>.</p><p> </p><p>Data on children and young people sectioned under other sections of the Mental Health Act are not available centrally.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 08/02/2016 12:58:21 question first ministerially corrected 12/02/2016 15:22:26 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt previous answer version 43916 answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

449400

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many young people aged 17 or under of each age were held in police custody as a place of safety in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
	tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
	uin	25025
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2016 answer text <p>The National Police Chiefs Council has reported figures on the number of children held in police custody as a place of safety under section 136 of the Mental Health Act for only three years. These were as follows:</p><p> </p><p>2012-13 <ins class="ministerial">256</ins> <del class="ministerial">255</del>;</p><p>2013-14 <ins class="ministerial">161</ins> <del class="ministerial">256</del>; and</p><p>2014-15 <ins class="ministerial">145</ins> <del class="ministerial">161</del>.</p><p> </p><p>Data on children and young people sectioned under other sections of the Mental Health Act are not available centrally.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 08/02/2016 12:58:21 question first ministerially corrected 12/02/2016 15:22:17 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt previous answer version 43918 answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

454211

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	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, with reference to the announcement in paragraph 1.233 of Budget 2015, HC 1093, of additional funding for children and young people's mental health services, how much of this funding has been spent by NHS England to date; how such funding has been spent; and how much in total he anticipates NHS England will have spent by the end of the current financial year.
	tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
	tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
	uin	27979
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>In regard to the announcement in paragraph 1.233 of Budget 2015, HC1093 March Budget 2015, of the £1.25 billion additional funding for children and young people's mental health services, the following amount has been allocated to each clinical commissioning group (CCG):</p><p> </p><p>For 2015-16, £105 million has been allocated to CCGs, of which:</p><p>- £75 million has been allocated to transform local services through delivery of the Local Transformation Plans; and</p><p>- £30 million has been allocated for new community based eating disorder services in every area of the country.</p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">For 2016-17, £119 million has been included in CCG baseline allocations, of which</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">£30 million eating disorders funding will be allocated once the split of this funding has been agreed. The attached table contains a breakdown of the £105 million and the £119 million by CCG.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">For 2016-17, £119 million has been included in CCG baseline allocations. £30 million eating disorders funding will also be allocated once the split of this funding has been agreed. The attached table contains a breakdown of the £105 million and the £119 million by CCG.</ins></p><p>Year to date spend information is not available.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 02/03/2016 17:49:18 question first ministerially corrected 07/03/2016 18:21:38 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt attachment 1 file name CYP Allocations breakdown.xlsx title Revised allocations table previous answer version 48676 answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt attachment 1 file name pq27979 table.XLSX title Table
	tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

454232

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	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, with reference to paragraph 1.233 of the March Budget 2015, how much of the £1.25 billion investment in mental health services has been allocated to children and young people's mental health in each clinical commissioning group in (a) 2015-16 and (b) 2016-17.
	tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
	tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
	uin	28160
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>In regard to the announcement in paragraph 1.233 of Budget 2015, HC1093 March Budget 2015, of the £1.25 billion additional funding for children and young people's mental health services, the following amount has been allocated to each clinical commissioning group (CCG):</p><p> </p><p>For 2015-16, £105 million has been allocated to CCGs, of which:</p><p>- £75 million has been allocated to transform local services through delivery of the Local Transformation Plans; and</p><p>- £30 million has been allocated for new community based eating disorder services in every area of the country.</p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">For 2016-17, £119 million has been included in CCG baseline allocations, of which</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">£30 million eating disorders funding will be allocated once the split of this funding has been agreed. The attached table contains a breakdown of the £105 million and the £119 million by CCG.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">For 2016-17, £119 million has been included in CCG baseline allocations. £30 million eating disorders funding will also be allocated once the split of this funding has been agreed. The attached table contains a breakdown of the £105 million and the £119 million by CCG.</ins></p><p>Year to date spend information is not available.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 02/03/2016 17:49:18 question first ministerially corrected 07/03/2016 18:21:28 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt attachment 1 file name CYP Allocations breakdown.xlsx title Revised allocations table previous answer version 48680 answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt attachment 1 file name pq27979 table.XLSX title Table
	tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

456566

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Wheelchairs: West Lancashire
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will encourage NHS England and NHS West Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group to provide a response to the letter of 24 September 2015 from the hon. Member for West Lancashire on wheelchair provision in West Lancashire.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	29143
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2016 answer text <p>Letters to and from<del class="ministerial"> the National Health Service</del> <ins class="ministerial">NHS England </ins>to hon. Members are a matter for NHS England. The Department would expect NHS England<ins class="ministerial">, and indeed clinical commissioning groups,</ins> to respond promptly and courteously to all letters from hon. Members.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 04/03/2016 14:46:35 question first ministerially corrected 11/03/2016 09:51:09 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt previous answer version 49268 answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

457766

	registered interest
	date	04/03/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Out-patients: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many outpatient (a) medical ophthalmology, (b) optometry and (c) orthotics appointments for children under 19 years of age were (i) cancelled and (ii) missed because the patient did not attend in 2014-15; and what the median waiting time for an (A) outpatient ophthalmology (B) medical ophthalmology (C) outpatient optometry, and (D) outpatient orthoptics appointment was in 2014-15.
	tabling member constituency	Mitcham and Morden
	tabling member printed	Siobhain McDonagh
	uin	29822
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2016 answer text <p>The information is shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><p>Information on outpatient ophthalmology,<ins class="ministerial"> medical ophthalmology,</ins> optometry, orthotics and orthoptics appointments for patients under 19 years of age in 2014-15</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial"> </del></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><del class="ministerial">Outpatient appointments<sup>1</sup> for patients under 19 years of age</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">All patients</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Treatment specialty</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">Cancelled (by hospital or by patient)</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">Patient did not attend</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">Median wait time (days)<sup>2</sup></del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Ophthamology<sup>3</sup></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">98,774</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">93,099</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">35</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Optometry</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">1,884</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">1,028</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">33</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Orthotics</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">6,519</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">5,162</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">40</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Orthoptics</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">70,327</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">54,062</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">35</del></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><ins class="ministerial"><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><ins class="ministerial">Outpatient appointments<sup>1</sup> for patients under 19 years of age</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">All patients</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Treatment specialty</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Cancelled (by hospital or by patient)</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Patient did not attend</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Median wait time (days)<sup>2</sup></ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Ophthalmology</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">98,774</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">93,099</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">35</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Medical ophthalmology</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">565</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">5,448</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">28</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Optometry</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">1,884</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">1,028</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">33</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Orthotics</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">6,519</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">5,162</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">40</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Orthoptics</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">70,327</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">54,062</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">35</ins></p></td></tr></tbody></table></ins></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>Sources:</em></p><p>Hospital episode statistics, Health and Social Care Information Centre</p><p> </p><p><em>Notes:</em></p><ol><li>These are not counts of people as the same person may have had more than one appointment within the same time period.</li><li>Waiting time is defined as the time in days between the date the referral request was received and the date of the first appointment, whether it was attended or not.</li><li><del class="ministerial">Within the Hospital Episode Statistics database it is not possible to distinguish between &quot;ophthamology&quot; and &quot;medical ophthamology&quot; treatment specialties.</del></li></ol><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 14/03/2016 11:31:27 question first ministerially corrected 25/04/2016 17:06:31 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt previous answer version 50914 answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	193 label Biography information for Dame Siobhain McDonagh

522571

	registered interest
	date	03/06/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Primary Health Care
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he has taken to introduce (a) video consultations and (b) other new technology into primary care service delivery.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
	tabling member printed	Royston Smith
	uin	39251
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2016 answer text <p>From April 2014 to April 2016, the Government has invested £175 million in developing innovative approaches to extend access to general practice through the Prime Minister’s GP Access Fund which has included testing, adoption, and evaluation of:</p><p> </p><p>― new types of consultation such as phone, video and online consultations;</p><p>― online pre-referral diagnosis tools; and</p><p>― telehealth, telecare and healthy living apps.</p><p> </p><p>During 2017/18<ins class="ministerial"> and 2018/19</ins>, £171 million will be made available <del class="ministerial">to</del> <ins class="ministerial">from </ins>clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to enable practices to upscale and implement measures tested through the Access Fund.</p><p> </p><p>A further £1 billion multiyear investment has been committed via the Estates and Technology Transformation Fund from April 2015 to April 2019, to help GP practices go further and faster to increase the use of technology and develop the primary care estate. Funding will be aligned with local digital roadmaps priorities and will support technology led improvement and innovation which improve patient and clinician experience of services, and access to primary care.</p><p> </p><p>The ‘General Practice Forward View’, released in April 2016, announced a commitment to greater use of technology. This includes an increase of over 18% in allocations to CCGs for provision of IT services and technology for general practice, alongside revised funding arrangements for GP IT in 2016-18. This will allow CCGs sufficient local flexibility to commission and procure GP IT services to meet local need. There will also be an additional £45 million multiyear national programme to stimulate uptake of online consultation technology for every practice.</p><p> </p><p>The National Information Board also has a programme of work known as Transforming General Practice which will use technology to free GPs from time consuming administrative tasks and provide patients with online services.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 10/06/2016 11:08:23 question first ministerially corrected 16/06/2016 10:28:13 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt previous answer version 2969 answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

542187

	registered interest
	date	21/07/2016
	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	Indonesia: Capital Punishment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to encourage the abolition of the death penalty in Indonesia.
	tabling member constituency	Llanelli
	tabling member printed	Nia Griffith
	uin	43959
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2016 answer text <p>The British Government is opposed to the death penalty in all circumstances as a matter of principle. We raise our concerns at the highest level and will continue to do so. <ins class="ministerial">My Rt Hon. Friend t</ins><del class="ministerial">T</del>he former Prime Minister<del class="ministerial">, my Rt Hon. Friend the Member for Witney</del> (Mr <ins class="ministerial">David </ins>Cameron), reiterated our position to Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo in April <ins class="ministerial">and I expressed my concerns </ins>following the executions which took place in July.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 05/09/2016 14:30:14 question first ministerially corrected 05/10/2016 10:03:22 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 8984 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	1541 label Biography information for Dame Nia Griffith