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170098

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Public Relations
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much (a) NHS England, (b) Public Health England, (c) Monitor and (d) the Care Quality Commission spent on public relations and communications staff in (i) each year since 2010 and (ii) 2014 to date.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	218532
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2015 answer text <p>Below are details of how much each of the four bodies has spent on public relations and communications staff since 2010 or from when the data are available.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>To ensure consistency all organisations have provided data according to the following criteria for public relations (PR) and communications staff:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- Press and PR</p><p> </p><p>- Stakeholder relations</p><p> </p><p>- Campaigns (not behaviour change policy)</p><p> </p><p>- Digital Comms (not IT/digital service teams)</p><p> </p><p>- Internal Comms</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>(a) NHS England</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>On 1 October 2012, the functions of the Board Authority transferred to the NHS Commissioning Board (also known as NHS England), which was formally established as an executive non departmental public body. NHS England took on all of its statutory functions in April 2013. Figures have been given from 1 October 2012.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>NHS England</p></td><td><p>2012/13</p><p>(October – April)</p></td><td><p>2013/14</p><p>(April – March)</p></td><td><p>2014/15</p><p>(April – November)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>National Communications</p></td><td><p>£253,963</p></td><td><p>£584,419</p></td><td><p>£1,040,240</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Communications in local areas</p></td><td> </td><td><p>£3,558,677</p></td><td><p>£2,595,881</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Improving Quality (NHS IQ)</p></td><td> </td><td><p>£325,265</p></td><td><p>£461,232</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>(b) Public Health England (PHE)</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>PHE was formed on 1 April 2013 - figures from predecessor bodies are not provided.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Public Health England</p></td><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>2014/15</p><p>(to November)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>PR and Communications staff expenditure</p></td><td><p>£2,888,000</p></td><td><p>£2,323,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>(c) Monitor</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Monitor</p></td><td><p>2010<del class="ministerial">/11</del></p><p>(April – December)</p></td><td><p>2011<del class="ministerial">/12</del></p></td><td><p>2012<del class="ministerial">/13</del></p></td><td><p>2013<del class="ministerial">/14</del></p></td><td><p>2014<del class="ministerial">/15</del></p><p>(to November)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>PR and Communications staff expenditure</p></td><td><p>£398,973.20</p><p> </p></td><td><p>£526,784.85</p></td><td><p>£486,320.81</p></td><td><p>£1,066,790.92</p></td><td><p>£1,223,775.43</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>(d) Care Quality Commission (CQC)</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>CQC</p></td><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>2014/15</p><p>(to November)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>PR and Communications staff expenditure</p></td><td><p>£568,951</p></td><td><p>£736,238</p></td><td><p>£1,188,519</p></td><td><p>£1,039,669</p></td><td><p>£780,195</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 05/01/2015 15:28:13 question first ministerially corrected 07/01/2015 11:11:25 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter previous answer version 36869 answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

167764

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Paramedical Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent estimate he has made of the average cost to the NHS of employing a paramedic in the last year for which figures are available; and what forecast he has made of the equivalent cost in each year from 2013-14 to 2016-17.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	217024
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2014 answer text <p>In 2013-14, the estimated average paybill per full time equivalent (FTE) for qualified ambulance staff in England was around £46,000. This includes earnings plus the costs of employer pension and national insurance contributions.[1]</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Significant changes in the average paybill per FTE are not expected over that period in 2016-17.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>However, we do not have reliable future forecasts of exact costs for the next three years, as it depends on factors such as recruitment, retirement and fluctuations in non-basic earnings such as overtime.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup><em>Source:</em> Department of Health’s Headline HCHS Paybill Metrics which are primarily based on earnings data published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre, supplemented by employer pension and national insurance contributions estimates informed by unpublished and unvalidated data from the Electronic Staff Record Data Warehouse.</p><p> </p><br /><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 10/12/2014 17:19:17 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

167778

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Anticoagulants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will issue guidance to NHS England on how clinical commissioning groups should assess local need for anti-coagulation services.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	216964
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2014 answer text <p>In 2013, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence published an anticoagulation therapy services commissioning guide. This resource supports commissioners in reviewing how anticoagulation therapy is currently initiated, provided, monitored and reviewed in their local area with particular consideration to the introduction of the novel oral anticoagulants.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The guide can be found at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cmg49" target="_blank">http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cmg49</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 10/12/2014 16:57:51 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

169853

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Veterans: Rehabilitation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much funding his Department has provided to each charity involved in the rehabilitation of veterans of the armed forces in (a) each year since 2010 and (b) 2014 to date.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	218369
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>The Department has not provided any direct funding for Service Charities to provide rehabilitation services to veterans of the armed forces.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>However, since 2010 the Department has invested over £22.5 million to improve both mental and physical health services for veterans and used additional funding from LIBOR fines to banks to broaden the range of services available, including £2 million to Combat Stress to provide specific services for those veterans with alcohol problems and £2.7 million to help for Heroes for their Hidden Wounds programme providing mental health support for veterans.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 18/12/2014 17:07:29 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

169855

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Internet
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many investigations have taken place into each type of alleged misuse of internet resources at his Department in (a) each year since 2010 and (b) 2014 to date; and whether such investigations resulted in disciplinary action or dismissal.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	218372
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>The Department has carried out fewer than five investigations of alleged misuse of internet resources in each of the years between 2010 and 2014 (to date). No investigations have led to any Departmental staff being dismissed.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 17/12/2014 17:53:39 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

169983

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Health Services: Private Sector
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information he holds on how many members of staff of his Department, its agencies and non-departmental public bodies have left to take up jobs or positions in the independent healthcare sector in (a) each year since 2010 and (b) 2014 to date.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	218456
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>No information is held about the intended work destinations of civil servants from the graded structure (grades AO to G6) leaving the Department to work in other organisations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>However, for Senior Civil Servants (SCS), the SCS unit in the Department’s human resources section does hold the information presented in the table below. “The independent healthcare sector” is interpreted to mean private sector healthcare companies that are contracted by the National Health Service in the provision of healthcare or in the support of the provision of healthcare. The following table sets out the numbers of individuals who have sought approval to take up jobs or positions in the independent healthcare sector in each financial year since 2009-10 and in the financial year 2014 to date.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-Date</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department does not hold the information requested centrally in respect of its executive agencies and executive non-departmental public bodies. The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) does not hold data on the destination of leavers from its predecessor body prior to 1 April 2013. In 2013-14, three of its leavers indicated that they were going to take up jobs in the private healthcare sector. The Department’s executive agencies and other executive non-departmental public bodies do not hold this information.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 18/12/2014 16:23:54 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

169990

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Ambulance Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the staffing level was for each ambulance trust in (a) May 2010, (b) May 2014 and (c) the latest month for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	218517
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>The Health and Social Care Information Centre publish monthly workforce statistics, which include numbers of staff in ambulance trusts. The data for May 2010, May 2014 and September 2014, which is the latest month for which figures are available, is in the attached table.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 17/12/2014 18:00:23 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter attachment 1 file name Ambulance Trust Staffing Numbers.xlsx title Number of staff in ambulance trusts 2010 & 2014
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

170405

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Parents: Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department spent on parenting programmes in England in (a) cash and (b) real terms in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	218858
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>Strong and confident parenting can strengthen the well-being of families and improve outcomes for children. It is for this reason that, since 2012, the Government has been funding the trial of CANParent – a network of organisations providing high quality, universal parenting classes and advice, informed by robust evidence.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>From 1 April 2012 to 31 March 2013, the total amount spent on the CANParent trial was £1,248,640. From 1 April 2013 to the end of March 2014, the total was £2,228,806. The funds were allocated from the budget of the Department for Education.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Trial was extended for one year, with responsibility transferred to the Department for Health, and will now run until March 2015. The budget for the one year extension of the CANParent trial stands at £1,286,000 for the 2014-15 financial year. No further funds have been committed to the project.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Market development work following on from the initial two-year trial, led by Family Lives, was transferred to the Department of Health from the Department of Education on 1 April 2014 and is due to run until 31 March 2015. The budget for that work stands at £1,140,758.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Parenting classes are also provided by local authorities and third sector organisations. Data on total spend on parenting classes is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 18/12/2014 15:58:45 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

170408

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	NHS: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many individual funding requests have been made to NHS England in each month since April 2013; and how many have of those been refused.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	218832
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is shown in the table.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Month</p></td><td><p>Total number of individual funding requests received</p></td><td><p>Total number of requests declined</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2013</p></td><td><p>490</p></td><td><p>88</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2013</p></td><td><p>719</p></td><td><p>108</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2013</p></td><td><p>510</p></td><td><p>69</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July 2013</p></td><td><p>513</p></td><td><p>99</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August 2013</p></td><td><p>423</p></td><td><p>65</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2013</p></td><td><p>345</p></td><td><p>68</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October 2013</p></td><td><p>442</p></td><td><p>98</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2013</p></td><td><p>350</p></td><td><p>86</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December 2013</p></td><td><p>330</p></td><td><p>49</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January 2014</p></td><td><p>362</p></td><td><p>62</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February 2014</p></td><td><p>323</p></td><td><p>51</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2014</p></td><td><p>316</p></td><td><p>54</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2014</p></td><td><p>304</p></td><td><p>41</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2014</p></td><td><p>338</p></td><td><p>56</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2014</p></td><td><p>314</p></td><td><p>41</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July 2014</p></td><td><p>358</p></td><td><p>74</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August 2014</p></td><td><p>309</p></td><td><p>56</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2014</p></td><td><p>296</p></td><td><p>50</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October 2014</p></td><td><p>306</p></td><td><p>72</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2014</p></td><td><p>246</p></td><td><p>38</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>Source: </em>NHS England</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This information does not include applications for cancer medicines as these are either routinely commissioned or handled via the Cancer Drugs Fund. NHS England publishes quarterly information on the number of individual Cancer Drugs Fund applications, including those refused. This information is available at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/pe/cdf/" target="_blank">www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/pe/cdf/</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 18/12/2014 17:06:11 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

170409

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Cancer
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average wait from referral to treatment is for patients categorised as urgent who are not on the two-week cancer pathway.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	218831
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>The information is not collected in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England collects and publishes monthly data on referral to treatment (RTT) consultant-led waiting times. These include information on the average (median) time waited by patients who started treatment during the month. Information is collected on all elective patients on an RTT pathway, and does not identify those patients who have been categorised as ‘urgent’. Patients on an RTT pathway may also be on a cancer pathway but this also cannot be identified in RTT data.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 18/12/2014 17:19:47 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne