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455736

registered interest
date	26/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: East Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many mother and baby beds are available in mental health units or hospitals in (a) Nottinghamshire and (b) the East Midlands region.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	28756
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>We are advised by NHS England that there are seven mother and baby beds in mental health units for Nottinghamshire and a total of 13 in the East Midlands, provided as follows: Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Perinatal (seven beds), and Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Mother and Baby Unit (six beds).</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 02/03/2016 16:20:22 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

455738

registered interest
date	26/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Task Force
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether it is his policy to accept and implement the (a) 25 recommendations made to NHS England and (b) 21 recommendations made to his Department by the Mental Health Taskforce in its report published in February 2016.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	28759
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>We welcome the publication of the independent Mental Health Taskforce report and accept its recommendations for the National Health Service and the Department. We will work with other Government Departments, NHS England and other health arm’s length bodies to work to embed the recommendations into our work programmes.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 02/03/2016 17:54:56 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

455740

registered interest
date	26/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Suicide
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the recommendations on page 13, paragraph 2, of the Mental Health Taskforce report, published in February 2016, what steps he is taking to ensure all local areas have a multi-agency suicide prevention plan.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	28772
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>We welcome the recommendation by the independent Mental Health Taskforce that every area should have a local suicide prevention plan in place delivered through multi-agency groups.</p><p> </p><p>We will be working with Public Health England to engage and support local authorities that do not have a local multi-agency suicide prevention plan to put one in place.</p><p> </p><p>I will be meeting soon with Departmental officials and our delivery partner organisations on suicide prevention to explore ways in which we can work together to re-invigorate the National Suicide Prevention Strategy, including improving local delivery of its aims.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 02/03/2016 17:06:28 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

455742

registered interest
date	26/02/2016
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, pursuant to the Answer of 26 February 2016 to Question 28083, when he expects the Children and Young People's Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Programme to (a) cover the whole country and (b) extend into other clinical areas including meeting the needs of children aged 0 to 5; and what other clinical areas he expects that programme to expand into.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	28771
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>The Children and Young People’s Improving Access (CYP IAPT) Programme is delivered by NHS England and Health Education England. The service transformation programme is aiming to cover community Child and Adolescent Mental Health Partnerships of commissioners and providers across the whole of England by the end of 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The CYP IAPT programme is expanding geographically and in scope. As part of this expansion NHS England has worked with Health Education England and set up a 0-5’s expert reference group (ERG). The ERG is in the final stages of development of a competency based educational programme for early years practitioners from a range of disciplines. Three other new curricula are also at the final stages of development.</p><p> </p><p>― Combination Therapy - psychological and pharmacological interventions;</p><p>― Evidence Based Counselling; and</p><p>― Evidence Based Psychological Therapies for CYP with mental health problems and autism spectrum disorder and/or a learning disability.</p><p> </p><p>All four curricula will be ready for delivery in higher education institutions within the financial year 2016/17.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 02/03/2016 16:19:05 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

454950

registered interest
date	24/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting times are for access to talking therapies in (a) the UK, (b) Yorkshire and (c) Halifax.
tabling member constituency	Halifax
tabling member printed	Holly Lynch
uin	28274
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>We do not hold the data in the format requested. What data we do hold is provided in the following table:</p><p><br> The number of referrals entering treatment<sup>1</sup> in the year, with mean and median waiting times to first treatment (days), for Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services in 2014/15. Data shown for NHS Calderdale Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and all Yorkshire CCGs combined<sup>2</sup>.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Organisation code</p></td><td><p>Organisation name</p></td><td><p>Total number of referrals entering treatment<sup>3</sup></p></td><td><p>Average (mean) waiting time to first treatment appointment (days)<sup>4</sup></p></td><td><p>Median<sup>5</sup> waiting time to first treatment appointment (days)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>All England</p></td><td><p>815,665</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>All Yorkshire CCGs combined</p></td><td><p>71,690</p></td><td><p>39</p></td><td><p>21</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>02E</p></td><td><p>NHS Calderdale CCG</p></td><td><p>4,200</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p><sup>1</sup>In order to enter treatment a referral must have a first treatment appointment (an appointment with a therapy type recorded) in the year.</p><p><sup>2</sup>CCG is based on general practitioner (GP) Practice. Where GP Practice is not recorded, or cannot be assigned to a CCG, the referral is categorised as 'Unknown'.</p><p><sup>3</sup>In order to enter treatment a referral must have a first treatment appointment in the year.</p><p><sup>4</sup>The mean was used as the average.</p><p><sup>5</sup>Means and medians have been rounded to the nearest whole number.</p><p> </p><p><em>Notes:</em></p><p>Waiting time is measured by counting the number of days between a referral being received and the first treatment appointment. For 2014/15, the presence of a valid therapy type is used as an indicator of whether treatment was provided in the course of the appointment.</p><p>Entering treatment figures are rounded to the nearest 5.</p><p>It is generally advised that the median is used as the more reliable measure of average waiting time, as this accounts better for any outliers in the data.</p><p> </p><p><em>Source:</em> IAPT</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 02/03/2016 16:35:33 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4472 label Biography information for Holly Lynch

454193

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	Pharmacy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment has been made by his Department or NHS England of the effect of minor ailments services provided by community pharmacies on demand for the services of GP practices and other parts of the NHS; and what assessment he has made of the effect of planned reductions in funding for pharmacies on those services.
tabling member constituency	Ealing Central and Acton
tabling member printed	Dr Rupa Huq
uin	27895
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>NHS England has taken account of the potential impact of a pharmacy minor ailments service on general practitioner services and other parts of the National Health Service. The findings of the Minor Ailment study (‘MINA’ study), conducted by the University of Aberdeen, in collaboration with NHS Grampian and the University of East Anglia, on behalf of Pharmacy Research UK in 2014, were considered. In addition, evaluations of local minor ailments schemes have continued to inform decision-making about local commissioning of such schemes.</p><p> </p><p>Community pharmacy is a vital part of the NHS and can play an even greater role. In the Spending Review the Government re-affirmed the need for the NHS to deliver £22 billion in efficiency savings by 2020/21 as set out in the NHS’s own plan, the Five Year Forward View. Community pharmacy is a core part of NHS primary care and has an important contribution to make as the NHS rises to these challenges. The Government believes efficiencies can be made without compromising the quality of services or public access to them. Our aim is to ensure that those community pharmacies upon which people depend continue to thrive and so we are consulting on the introduction of a Pharmacy Access Scheme, which will provide more NHS funds to certain pharmacies compared to others, considering factors such as location and the health needs of the local population.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s vision is for a more efficient, modern system that will free up pharmacists to spend more time delivering clinical and public health services to the benefit of patients and the public.</p><p> </p><p>We are consulting the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee, other pharmacy bodies and patient and public representatives on our proposals for community pharmacy in 2016/17 and beyond. An impact assessment will be completed to inform final decisions and published in due course.</p><p> </p><p>Local commissioning and funding of services from community pharmacies, such as minor ailment services, will be unaffected by these proposals.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 02/03/2016 16:26:00 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4511 label Biography information for Dr Rupa Huq

454203

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	Care Homes: Fees and Charges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of changes in the number of registrations of care home residents at GP surgeries since the end of retainer fees in 2015.
tabling member constituency	South West Wiltshire
tabling member printed	Dr Andrew Murrison
uin	27998
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>Information is not collected centrally on whether a patient, registered with a general practitioner (GP) practice, is resident in a care home or their own home.</p><p> </p><p>GP practices provide National Health Service primary medical services under contracts with NHS England. These contracts do not distinguish between residents of care homes and other patients. Residents will be registered with a GP practice for core primary medical services whether or not a retainer is paid to a practice and are entitled to receive the same treatment from their GP as those living in their own homes.</p><p> </p><p>Retainer fees may be charged by a practice for providing services not covered by their contract with NHS England. However, the refusal of a care home to pay practices a retainer should not affect access to NHS primary medical services for residents of care homes.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 02/03/2016 16:21:51 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison

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

454214

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	Health Services: Foreign Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions the Government has had with the governments of Australia and New Zealand on the proposed introduction of an annual change to Australian and New Zealand citizens for use of the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	28050
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>On 6 April 2015 the United Kingdom introduced an immigration health surcharge for non-European Economic Area nationals who come to the UK to temporarily reside for a period of over six months. At the time Australian and New Zealand nationals were granted a temporary exemption and we entered into a series of discussions with both the Australian and New Zealand Government on the introduction of the surcharge for its nationals. My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health wrote to both the Australian Minister for Health and New Zealand High Commissioner confirming introduction of the surcharge on 17 December 2015. Introduction of the surcharge for Australian and New Zealand nationals was publicly announced by the Home Office on 4 February 2016 and subject to Parliamentary approval, it will come into effect from 6 April 2016.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 02/03/2016 16:16:42 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

454219

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	Social Services: Living Wage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if the Government will provide additional financial support to providers in the care industry to support such providers affected by the introduction of the living wage; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	28150
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for commissioning adult social care services. Fee levels are agreed by local authorities and social care providers, reflecting local conditions. In setting fee levels, local authorities are obliged to consider the sustainability of their local social care market.</p><p> </p><p>At the Spending Review, the Government made up to £3.5 billion extra available by 2019/20 to local authorities for adult social care through the social care precept and Better Care Fund. This will help give councils more flexibility to meet local priorities as they see fit.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 02/03/2016 17:08:51 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell