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900043

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date	08/05/2018
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	Visual Impairment: Depressive Illnesses
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 people registered as blind have been diagnosed with depression.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	141797
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2018 answer text <p>The number of people who are registered as blind or severely sight impaired with a diagnosis of depression is not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 15/05/2018 10:28:38 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

900110

registered interest
date	08/05/2018
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	Autism
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 assessment he has made of the trends in waiting times for Autism Spectrum Disorder assessments; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	North West Durham
tabling member printed	Laura Pidcock
uin	141911
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2018 answer text <p>The Department has made no recent assessment of the trends in waiting times for autism spectrum disorder assessments.</p><p> </p><p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines recommend that the time from a referral to a first appointment is no longer than three months.</p><p> </p><p>The latest available data for the country as a whole is available in Public Health England’s report, ‘Autism Self-Assessment Exercise 2016 Detailed report and thematic analyses’ (published June 2017). The report states that 33 local authorities (22%) reported already meeting the NICE recommended waiting times, 35 (23%) anticipated meeting NICE recommended waiting times by March 2017 and to be able to sustain this thereafter and 66 (43%) did not anticipate being able to reach NICE recommended waiting times sustainably by March 2017. 18 local authorities did not respond to the relevant question.</p><p> </p><p>Collection of national waiting times data from referral to a first appointment and on to a diagnosis if one is given, began in April this year. Results will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 15/05/2018 10:31:57 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4665 label Biography information for Laura Pidcock

897934

registered interest
date	04/05/2018
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	Department of Health and Social Care: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what training his Department has provided to (a) general civil servants, (b) fast stream civil servants and (c) senior civil servants on understanding the scrutiny and legislative roles of the UK Parliament; how many such courses have taken place; and how many civil servants have attended such training courses in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Arfon
tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
uin	141335
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2018 answer text <p>The Department runs three training courses on understanding the scrutiny and legislative roles of the United Kingdom Parliament: legislation, Parliamentary accountability and select committees. Further information on registrations for these courses is in the following table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Name of Module</p></td><td><p>Date introduced</p></td><td><p>Number of Sessions</p></td><td><p>Number of Registrations</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Legislation</p></td><td><p>March 2015</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>240</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Parliamentary Accountability</p></td><td><p>February 2015</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>265</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Select Committees</p></td><td><p>March 2016</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>117</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Note:</p><p> </p><p>These courses are open to civil servants at all grades, including fast streamers, as well as staff in our arm’s length bodies. Therefore the total number of registrations will include non-civil servants as well as civil servants. These courses have been running since February 2015.</p><p> </p><p>Information on organisation and grade of attendee is collected in our feedback forms. However, not all attendees return feedback forms and this data is not an accurate representation of the grades of people who attended.</p><p> </p><p>Between November 2017 and January 2018 the Department also ran three workshops on secondary legislation for staff with statutory instruments due to be laid. 16 civil servants attended these workshops; information on grade was not collected.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 15/05/2018 10:34:32 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams