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155508

	registered interest
	date	11/11/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	General Practitioners: Tendring
	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 improved out-of-hours GP provision in Tending.
	tabling member constituency	Clacton
	tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
	uin	214327
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>Out of hours general practitioner (GP) provision in Tendring is commissioned by North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) as part of the out of hours service for the north east Essex district. The CCG advises that to assist in meeting the high demand for the service, the number of advanced nurse practitioners has been increased to complement and enhance GP cover. The out of hours service is currently running effectively, meeting 19 of the 20 performance targets around timing and ease of access to the service. The provider is narrowly missing the required standard for assessing urgent cases within 60 minutes, but it is implementing a detailed action plan to meet this target, which is being monitored by the CCG.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The CCG and its partners are always looking at opportunities to improve the service further. For example, the service has recently begun to use tablet computers to capture real time feedback from patients on the service they have just received. This feedback is used to identify ways to further improve the GP out of hours provision.</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 17/11/2014 14:54:12 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell

62062

	registered interest
	date	16/06/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	General Practitioners
	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 GPs are accessible to patients.
	tabling member constituency	Clacton
	tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
	uin	200858
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p>Through the Prime Minister's Challenge Fund, more than 7.5 million people in England will start to be offered increased access to local general practitioner (GP) services, including seven-day opening and appointments outside of office hours. The Fund is supporting over 1,110 practices covering every region as part of a pilot scheme.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The PM Challenge Fund is for one year and patients are expected to see positive changes from services from June/July onwards. An interim evaluation report is due in November this year. The full and final report is expected to be published in the early part of 2015-16. There will be a rolling programme of feedback on the pilots with case studies available from the summer onwards to help spread best practice across the country.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the new GP contract introduced a new Enhanced Service, which includes a commitment to same day phone consultations with a professional in the GP surgery where necessary for the most at risk in the population.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 23/06/2014 14:55:49 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell

62073

	registered interest
	date	16/06/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	General Practitioners
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department issues on the ratio of GPs to patients; and what that ratio is in Tendring.
	tabling member constituency	Clacton
	tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
	uin	200939
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p>The Department does not issue guidance on the ratio of general practitioners (GPs) to patients. It is for each GP practice to ensure they are able to provide services to all their patients as set out in their contract with NHS England.</p><p> </p><p>The ratio of GPs to patients in Tendring is not collected centrally. Figures for North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group, which includes the district of Tendring, are shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p>Patients per full time equivalent GP</p></td><td><p>All GPs full time equivalent per 100,000 population</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East Essex</p></td><td><p>1,715</p></td><td><p>60.8</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>Sources: </em>The Health and Social Care Information Centre General and Personal Medical Services Statistics; Office for National Statistics: Mid-Year Population Estimates</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 23/06/2014 14:53:53 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell

62084

	registered interest
	date	16/06/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	General Practitioners
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to train and recruit more GPs in (a) Linton and Walton and (b) nationally.
	tabling member constituency	Clacton
	tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
	uin	200958
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p>The Department set up Health Education England (HEE) to deliver a better health and healthcare workforce for England. HEE is responsible for ensuring a secure workforce supply for the future balancing need against demand, taking into account factors such as the age profile of the existing workforce, the impact of technology, and new drugs.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has recognised the need to increase the general practitioner (GP) workforce and between September 2010 and September 2013, the number of full time equivalent GPs has risen by 1,051. Additionally, the Department has included in the HEE mandate a requirement that “HEE will ensure that 50% of trainees completing foundation level training enter GP training programmes by 2016”.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 23/06/2014 15:20:01 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell

62347

	registered interest
	date	17/06/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Stop and Search
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether police and crime commissioners will be able to decide on the applicability of the adoption of her Department's new guidelines on the use of stop and search by police to the area they represent.
	tabling member constituency	Clacton
	tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
	uin	200663
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>It is for Chief Constables and Police and Crime Commissioners to make decisions about whether and when to adopt the scheme.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ashford answering member printed Damian Green question first answered 24/06/2014 14:05:11 answering member 76 label Biography information for Damian Green
	tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell

62350

	registered interest
	date	17/06/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Stop and Search: Essex
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations she received from the Essex Police and Crime Commissioner on changes to guidelines for police stop and search.
	tabling member constituency	Clacton
	tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
	uin	200664
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Essex Police have acknowledged receipt of the Home Secretary's letter sent to Chief Constables on 30th April and have advised that they will submit a formal response in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ashford answering member printed Damian Green question first answered 24/06/2014 13:54:29 answering member 76 label Biography information for Damian Green
	tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell

63316

	registered interest
	date	23/06/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Knives: Clacton
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with the Police and Crime Commissioner for Essex on incidents involving knives in Clacton and the potential effect of stop and search guidelines.
	tabling member constituency	Clacton
	tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
	uin	201812
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>There have been no specific discussions with the Police and Crime Commissioner <br>for Essex on incidents involving knives in Clacton. <br><br>The Best Use of Stop and Search Scheme was announced by the Home Secretary on <br>30 April 2014, and the intention is to launch the Scheme in the summer. The <br>Scheme aims to achieve greater transparency and community involvement in the <br>use of stop and search by the police and support a more intelligence-led <br>approach leading to better outcomes, particularly improving the stop and search <br>to arrest ratio.<br><br>Only 9% of the 1.2 million stop and searches that took place in 2011/12 led to <br>an arrest. The adoption of an intelligence-led approach to stop and search by <br>the Metropolitan Police in January 2012 coincided with a fall of a third in the <br>number of recorded stop and searches taking place between 2011/12 and 2012/13, <br>while the proportion of resultant arrests increased from 8% to 12%. Meanwhile <br>in the same period, offences recorded by the Metropolitan Police involving <br>knives or sharp instruments fell by 20%.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ashford answering member printed Damian Green question first answered 09/07/2014 10:08:21 answering member 76 label Biography information for Damian Green
	tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell

63841

	registered interest
	date	25/06/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Revenue and Customs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many complaints have been made about HM Revenue and Customs in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Clacton
	tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
	uin	202416
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2014 answer text <p>The table below shows the number of complaints received by HM Revenue and Customs (excluding the VOA) for each of the years 2009/10 – 2013/14. The figure for 2013/14 will be included in the HMRC Annual Report that is due to be published on the 3 July 2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number of complaints</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>71,406</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>76,721</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>74,831</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>67,956</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>64,729</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 01/07/2014 15:02:39 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
	tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell

76699

	registered interest
	date	09/07/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	UK Trade with EU: Germany
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the number of jobs in Germany associated with trade with the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Clacton
	tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
	uin	204733
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2014 answer text <p>The Treasury has made no such assessment.</p><p> </p><p>The Treasury continues to monitor developments in Germany and other major economies on an on-going basis as part of the normal process of policy development.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 16/07/2014 16:25:49 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell

76793

	registered interest
	date	09/07/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	General Practitioners
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of GPs needed to eliminate any shortfall in primary health care.
	tabling member constituency	Clacton
	tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
	uin	204732
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2014 answer text <p>The Department set up Health Education England (HEE) to deliver a better health and healthcare workforce for England. HEE is responsible for ensuring a secure workforce supply for the future balancing need against demand, taking into account factors such as the age profile of the existing workforce, the impact of technology, and new drugs.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has recognised the need to increase the general practitioner (GP) workforce and between September 2010 and September 2013, the number of full time equivalent GPs has risen by 1,051. Additionally, the Department has included in the HEE mandate a requirement that “HEE will ensure that 50% of trainees completing foundation level training enter GP training programmes by 2016”. This will support future growth in GP numbers.</p><p> </p><p>Further work is being undertaken by HEE to improve applications and fill rate in to GP training to support the mandate target of 3,250 appointments into GP training by 2016 in England. This includes a review of the GP recruitment process, developing a pre-GP year to give exposure to prospective GP applicants of the specialty and careers advice for foundation doctors and medical students.</p><p> </p><p>In recognition of the contribution the GP workforce makes in the National Health Service, HEE will also undertake additional work on GP recruitment and retention, return to practice and reducing attrition rates, all of which will play a part in increasing the GP workforce.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, the Department commissioned the Centre for Workforce Intelligence to conduct an in-depth review of the GP workforce. The report will be published shortly and will build on the preliminary findings published in March 2013.</p><p>The review will assess:</p><p>- current workforce numbers to forecast supply;</p><p>- key drivers affecting workforce demand; and</p><p>- regional variations in demand.</p><p>The review will make recommendations for future workforce planning. It will also address issues such as GP workload and the 2016 recruitment target and beyond, as well as wider issues around primary care delivery.</p><p> </p><p><em>Transforming Primary Care</em>, which was published in April 2014 by the Department and NHS England and set out actions being taken towards the vision of personalised, proactive care. Transforming Primary Care made the following commitment;</p><p> </p><p>To ensure that we have a workforce ready to meet the challenges of the future, we are planning to make available around 10,000 primary and community health and care professionals by 2020, in support of the shift in how care will be provided'.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 16/07/2014 15:01:36 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell