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1127528

	registered interest
	date	20/05/2019
	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	Hospices: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to additional funding for children’s palliative care announced in the NHS Long-Term Plan, whether he plans to allocate additional funding to children’s hospices in England in 2019-20.
	tabling member constituency	Bury North
	tabling member printed	James Frith
	uin	256338
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2019 answer text <p>As part of the NHS Long Term Plan, NHS England committed to increase its investment in children’s palliative care over the next five years by match funding clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) who commit to increase their investment in local children’s palliative and end of life care services.</p><p> </p><p>Subject to CCGs increasing investment, NHS England will match this by up to £7 million a year by 2023/24. This increase is in addition to the Children’s Hospice Grant, which provides an annual contribution of £11 million. NHS England is currently establishing financial reporting systems to monitor the baseline investment of CCGs in children’s palliative and end of life care services. This will enable match funding payments made to CCGs where the investments are increased above the investment baseline in the previous year. As baselining will be ongoing through 2019/20, and therefore match funding will not be available in this year, NHS England will be increasing the children’s hospice grant to £12 million for this period.</p><p> </p><p>With regards to financial sustainability of hospices, these are primarily charity-funded but receive some statutory funding from CCGS for providing local services. The amount of funding varies between CCGs, but on average adult hospices receive approximately 30% of their overall funding from National Health Service sources. CCGs are responsible for determining the level of NHS-funded hospice care locally and they are responsible for ensuring that the services they commission meet the needs of their local population.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 256339 question first answered 23/05/2019 10:16:42 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

1127529

	registered interest
	date	20/05/2019
	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	Hospices: Finance
	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 the financial sustainability of charitable hospices.
	tabling member constituency	Bury North
	tabling member printed	James Frith
	uin	256339
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2019 answer text <p>As part of the NHS Long Term Plan, NHS England committed to increase its investment in children’s palliative care over the next five years by match funding clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) who commit to increase their investment in local children’s palliative and end of life care services.</p><p> </p><p>Subject to CCGs increasing investment, NHS England will match this by up to £7 million a year by 2023/24. This increase is in addition to the Children’s Hospice Grant, which provides an annual contribution of £11 million. NHS England is currently establishing financial reporting systems to monitor the baseline investment of CCGs in children’s palliative and end of life care services. This will enable match funding payments made to CCGs where the investments are increased above the investment baseline in the previous year. As baselining will be ongoing through 2019/20, and therefore match funding will not be available in this year, NHS England will be increasing the children’s hospice grant to £12 million for this period.</p><p> </p><p>With regards to financial sustainability of hospices, these are primarily charity-funded but receive some statutory funding from CCGS for providing local services. The amount of funding varies between CCGs, but on average adult hospices receive approximately 30% of their overall funding from National Health Service sources. CCGs are responsible for determining the level of NHS-funded hospice care locally and they are responsible for ensuring that the services they commission meet the needs of their local population.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 256338 question first answered 23/05/2019 10:16:42 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

1131201

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2019
	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	Care Homes: Abuse
	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 (a) residents of care homes and (b) the families of those residents in England are aware of mechanisms for reporting abuse.
	tabling member constituency	Bury North
	tabling member printed	James Frith
	uin	263230
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2019 answer text <p>Mechanisms are in place for residents of care homes and their families to report abuse.</p><p>Under the Care Act 2014, in any activity that a local authority undertakes, it should ensure that the individual is, and remains, protected against abuse or neglect.</p><p>Section 4 of the Care Act 2014 also places a duty on local authorities to “establish and maintain a service for providing people in its area with information and advice relating to care and support for adults and support for carers.” This service includes information and advice about what to do in cases of neglect or abuse of an adult. Where it is suspected that an individual may be at risk of abuse or neglect, local authorities have a duty to carry out proportionate enquiries.</p><p>Quality Matters includes work to improve access to complaints systems and improve the feedback culture in the sector. In July 2018, as part of the initiative, the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman and Healthwatch England published the Single Complaints Statement – a guide for each stage of the complaints process, for adult social care providers and commissioners, people who use services, their families and carers. This sets out what service users, their families and representatives can expect when making a complaint with a simple bulleted guide for each stage of the complaints process. Service providers are encouraged to adopt the single complaints statements into their own complaints policies and highlight them in any information they give to service users, their families and representatives.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 19/06/2019 16:15:21 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

1131202

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2019
	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	Care Homes: Inspections
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions his Ministers have had with the Care Quality Commission on (a) the care home inspection regime and (b) the potential inadequacies of that regime.
	tabling member constituency	Bury North
	tabling member printed	James Frith
	uin	263231
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2019 answer text <p>Ministers in the Department meet regularly with senior leaders from the Care Quality Commission to discuss a wide range of issues.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 19/06/2019 16:16:13 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

1131203

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2019
	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	Care Homes: Abuse
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many reports of abuse there have been in care homes in (a) Bury, (b) the North West and (c) England in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Bury North
	tabling member printed	James Frith
	uin	263232
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2019 answer text <p>The following table shows the number of allegations of abuse in care home locations received by the Care Quality Commission between 2014 to 2018.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year received</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>Number of Notifications</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Bury Local Authority</p></td><td><p>North West Region</p></td><td><p>England</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>99</p></td><td><p>5,741</p></td><td><p>37,060</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>122</p></td><td><p>6,948</p></td><td><p>43,064</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>164</p></td><td><p>7,856</p></td><td><p>46,227</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>176</p></td><td><p>9,304</p></td><td><p>57,738</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>182</p></td><td><p>9,936</p></td><td><p>67,590</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grand Total</p></td><td><p>743</p></td><td><p>39,785</p></td><td><p>251,679</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>This data includes multiple notifications about individual locations.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 19/06/2019 16:12:11 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

1131205

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2019
	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	Care Homes: Closures
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many care homes have been closed in England as a result of (a) complaints and (b) a Care Quality Commission inspection rating of poor in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Bury North
	tabling member printed	James Frith
	uin	263233
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2019 answer text <p>The following table shows the total number of care homes that have been forcibly closed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="4"><p>Number of Enforced Closures of Locations by Latest Overall Published Rating*</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year of closure</p></td><td><p>Not rated</p></td><td><p>Good</p></td><td><p>Requires improvement</p></td><td><p>Inadequate</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>42</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>42</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>43</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>87</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>59</p></td><td><p>101</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>73</p></td><td><p>110</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>64</p></td><td><p>91</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019 (to date)</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>36</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grand Total</p></td><td><p>147</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>45</p></td><td><p>262</p></td><td><p>467</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Notes:*The last rating cannot be linked as the cause of the closure.</p><p>In addition to these figures a significant number of locations will have voluntarily closed before CQC enforcement action is completed.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 19/06/2019 16:10:07 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

1131207

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2019
	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	NHS: Drugs
	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 the availability of medicines after the UK leaves the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Bury North
	tabling member printed	James Frith
	uin	263234
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2019 answer text <p>The Government remains committed to leaving the European Union with a deal. However, as a responsible Government, we will continue to prepare to minimise any disruption to the supply of medicines and medical products in a potential ‘no deal’ scenario.</p><p>We are continuing to work with trade bodies and other stakeholders to carefully review the implications of the extension to the Article 50 period until 31 October at the latest before sharing further guidance with industry at the earliest opportunity. On 26 April we wrote to suppliers advising that, until further guidance is provided, all no-deal measures, including stockpiles and plans to route away from the short straits, should remain in place but on hold.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 19/06/2019 15:27:39 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

1131208

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2019
	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	NHS: Drugs
	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 tackle shortages of (a) Adalat, (b) Nifedipine and (c) other common medicines.
	tabling member constituency	Bury North
	tabling member printed	James Frith
	uin	263235
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2019 answer text <p>The vast majority of medicines are not subject to supply problems and every day over 2 million prescription items are successfully dispensed in England.</p><p>Where problems do occur the Department’s Medicines Supply Team has well established procedures to deal with medicine shortages and works closely with all stakeholders to help prevent shortages and to ensure that the risks to patients are minimised when they do arise.</p><p>We are aware of ongoing supply issues with the Adalat range of the drug nifedipine due to manufacturing capacity constraints. We have been working closely with all suppliers of generic and other brands of nifedipine to maintain overall supply of this medicine to patients and have provided regular updates about the situation to the National Health Service.</p><p>We will continue to work closely with all manufacturers of nifedipine preparations to monitor the overall supply situation to ensure supplies continue to remain available.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 19/06/2019 14:22:30 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

1131209

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2019
	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	Whirlpool Corporation: Tumble Dryers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will take steps to reopen the Office for Product Safety and Standards review of Whirlpool tumble dryers following continued consumer concerns.
	tabling member constituency	Bury North
	tabling member printed	James Frith
	uin	263236
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>The Office for Product Safety and Standards published a report of its review in April 2019 and issued a decision letter requiring Whirlpool to take action in a number of areas. OPSS has been assessing the response by Whirlpool closely and the investigation remains ongoing.</p><p> </p><p>On 4<sup>th</sup> June the Office for Product Safety and Standards notified Whirlpool of its intention to serve a recall notice in respect of the remaining unmodified tumble dryers still in use. This is the appropriate next regulatory step.</p><p> </p><p>We are following up on all information referred to us about consumers who have experienced a serious issue with affected machines.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 18/06/2019 16:26:10 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

1131210

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Higher Education: Disadvantaged
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will reintroduce maintenance grants to ensure that disadvantaged students are not discouraged from entering higher education owing to concerns about the cost of living.
	tabling member constituency	Bury North
	tabling member printed	James Frith
	uin	263237
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2019 answer text <p>The government will consider the Post-18 Education and Funding review panel’s recommendations carefully and will conclude the review at the Spending Review. The government has not yet taken decisions with regards to the recommendations put forward. Access and successful participation remain a priority for this government and is enshrined in the Higher Education and Research Act 2017. Everyone with the ability to succeed in higher education should have the opportunity, regardless of their background or where they grew up.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 19/06/2019 08:32:44 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith