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518078

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Midwives
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many midwives are currently employed in NHS maternity services, and how many additional midwives will be needed in 2017 to enable the effective operation of the service.
	tabling member printed	Lord Birt
	uin	HL8239
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>The latest statistics from the Health and Social Care Information Centre show that as at 31 January 2016, there were 21,581 full-time equivalent midwives employed in the National Health Service in England, 21,398 of these work in NHS maternity services.</p><p> </p><p>NHS organisations are best placed to decide how many staff they employ tailoring services to meet the needs of their patients and local communities, to deliver safe care.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has set up Health Education England to deliver a better health and healthcare workforce for England. It is responsible for ensuring a secure workforce supply that reflects the needs of local service users, providers and commissioners of healthcare.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 11/05/2016 17:04:36 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	2533 label Biography information for Lord Birt

518077

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Peterborough City Hospital
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many times in the three years since 1 May 2013 the maternity unit at Peterborough City Hospital has closed its doors to women about to give birth.
	tabling member printed	Lord Birt
	uin	HL8238
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>This information is not available centrally. This information may be obtained from Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We have written to Robert Hughes, Chair of the Trust, informing him of the noble Lord’s enquiry. He will reply shortly and a copy of the letter will be placed in the Library.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 11/05/2016 16:58:37 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	2533 label Biography information for Lord Birt

518073

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Human Embryo Experiments
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Prior of Brampton on 25 April (HL7391), whether the single stem cell line from the research project R0152 that was in preparation for depositing with the UK Stem Cell bank was derived following any form of nuclear transfer or pronuclear transfer.
	tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
	uin	HL8234
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has advised that the single stem cell line from the research project R0152, that was in preparation for depositing with the UK Stem Cell bank, was not derived following any form of nuclear transfer or pronuclear transfer.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 11/05/2016 16:20:21 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

518236

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Dental Services: Ashfield
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many dentists have been registered as working in NHS practices in Ashfield constituency in the (a) 2015-16, (b) 2012-13 and (c) 2009-10 financial year.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	36801
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not collected in the format requested. Such information as is available is in the following table.</p><p> </p><p>Number of dentists with National Health Service activity, for specified years ending 31 March - selected organisations</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Organisation Name</p></td><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>2014-15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nottinghamshire County Teaching Primary Care Trust (PCT)</p></td><td><p>331</p></td><td><p>..</p></td><td><p>..</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Mansfield and Ashfield Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)</p></td><td><p>..</p></td><td><p>87</p></td><td><p>85</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Newark and Sherwood CCG</p></td><td><p>..</p></td><td><p>48</p></td><td><p>53</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Nottingham North and East CCG</p></td><td><p>..</p></td><td><p>96</p></td><td><p>103</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Nottingham West CCG</p></td><td><p>..</p></td><td><p>52</p></td><td><p>60</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Rushcliffe CCG</p></td><td><p>..</p></td><td><p>56</p></td><td><p>69</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Sources: Health and Social Care Information Centre; NHS Dental Services of the NHS Business Services Authority</p><p><em> </em></p><p>Notes:</p><p>1. Dentists are defined as performers with NHS activity recorded in each financial year by FP17 forms.</p><p>2. Dentists will be counted more than once if they have a contract in more than one CCG or PCT (2009-10).</p><p>Therefore a total for the specified CCGs is not provided in 2012-13 and 2014-15.</p><p>3. Data consists of performers in General Dental Services (GDS), Personal Dental Services (PDS) and Trust-led Dental Services (TDS).</p><p>4. ' .. ' denotes data not applicable</p><p>5. As at 1 April 2013 CCG replaced PCTs. 2009-10 data are not available by CCG.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 11/05/2016 14:06:19 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

517948

	registered interest
	date	06/05/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	HIV Infection: Drugs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were enrolled on the PROUD trial.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	36733
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>The PROUD trial was launched in 2012, coordinated by the Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit and Public Health England (PHE). The number of people enrolled in the trial, was 544.</p><p>Based on evidence from the PROUD study, PHE has made an assessment that of the 100,000 men who have sex with men who attend genito-urinary medicine clinics annually, 8,000 can be identified as being at ‘high-risk’.</p><p>The Department has not yet made its own assessment.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 36734 question first answered 11/05/2016 15:18:43 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

518247

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Vitamin D
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many tests for Vitamin D were carried out by pathology laboratories in England in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2014-15 and (c) 2013-14; and what the cost to the NHS was of providing such tests in each of those years.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow East
	tabling member printed	Bob Blackman
	uin	36746
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally. Clinical commissioning groups are responsible for commissioning laboratory testing locally.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 11/05/2016 13:01:40 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4005 label Biography information for Bob Blackman

517947

	registered interest
	date	06/05/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Tobacco: EU Law
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to conduct an annual review of the effect of the Tobacco Products Directive.
	tabling member constituency	St Albans
	tabling member printed	Mrs Anne Main
	uin	36727
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>Comprehensive tobacco control measures act in concert. The Government monitors the impact of all tobacco control measures using a range of data sources, some of which are reported annually. The Tobacco and Related Products Regulations 2016 and The Standardised Packaging of Tobacco Regulations 2015, which implement most elements of the Tobacco Products Directive in the United Kingdom, contain a review clause, with the first review of the operation of the legislation falling before 2021.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 11/05/2016 09:26:47 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	1568 label Biography information for Mrs Anne Main

518241

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Babies: Health
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to encourage mothers and GPs to use the Baby Check app developed by Birmingham Community Healthcare and the Lullaby Trust.
	tabling member constituency	Cambridge
	tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
	uin	36872
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>The Department has asked NHS England to review the Baby Check app to see if it could potentially make a good case study to highlight it on their Innovation Connect portal for consideration by all National Health Service organisations.</p><p> </p><p>The Innovation Connect portal can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/innovation/innovation-connect/" target="_blank">http://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/innovation/innovation-connect/</a></p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 11/05/2016 15:18:31 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

518234

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Finance
	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 21 April 2016 to Question 34094, by what deadline clinical commissioning groups will be required to report on whether they have increased investment in mental health services above their overall increase in allocation each year.
	tabling member constituency	Southend West
	tabling member printed	Sir David Amess
	uin	36812
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>Spending on mental health is expected to increase to £11.7 billion and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are required to continue to increase their spend on mental health each year.</p><p>NHS England’s published planning guidance for 2015/16 for commissioners made the expectation clear that each CCG’s spend on mental health services in 2015/16 should increase in real terms, and grow by at least the same percentage as each CCG’s allocation increase.</p><p>Detail on planned spend on mental health is captured as part of the National Health Service financial plan returns for 2016/17 with follow up as part of the plan assurance process. This information is being assessed during May by NHS England.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 11/05/2016 15:20:04 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	44 label Biography information for Sir David Amess

518240

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Finance
	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 21 April 2016 to Question 34094, if he will provide examples of what his Department might consider an adequate justification for clinical commissioning groups not investing in mental health services as planned.
	tabling member constituency	Southend West
	tabling member printed	Sir David Amess
	uin	36811
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>The Mental Health Taskforce report was published on 15 February 2016. The taskforce marks a big step towards our ambition of parity of esteem for mental and physical health. The spending of clinical commissioning group (CCG) resources on mental health as indicated in proportionate increases to general CCG spending is a priority for the Department.</p><p> </p><p>Mental Health Parity of Esteem is a key plan metric for NHS England and any commissioners not planning to achieve this are being scrutinised locally at regional level and centrally at director level. NHS England’s central and regional teams are working with local commissioners to assure that spend on mental health services increases in line with the growth in each organisations programme allocation other than in exceptional circumstances.</p><p> </p><p>In assessing whether a case is exceptional, consideration is made of the level of medium term investment in mental health services by individual commissioners and instances where individual commissioners are working with other commissioners to increase spend for the wider health economy. But any such instances will require clear evidence that will be scrutinised as part of the assurance process.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 11/05/2016 17:17:40 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	44 label Biography information for Sir David Amess