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1122761

registered interest
date	24/04/2019
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	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 and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the cost of residential care for the elderly.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	246925
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>The Government has given councils access to around £10 billion more dedicated funding for social care from 2017/18 to 2019/20. The 2018 Autumn Budget also announced that a further £410 million is available in 2019/20 to improve social care for older people, people with disabilities and children.</p><p>Under the Care Act 2014, local authorities are required to shape their local markets to ensure that they are sustainable, diverse and offer high quality care and support. Councils have statutory duties to meet the social care needs of the elderly, disabled and vulnerable people in their area.</p><p>This Government is also committed to ensuring that the social care system is sustainable in the longer term, which is why we will be publishing a Green Paper at the earliest opportunity, setting out our proposals for reform. This will include ideas for including an element of risk pooling in the system, to protect people from the highest costs and improve consumer choice and protection.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 29/04/2019 13:01:12 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1122531

registered interest
date	23/04/2019
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 and Learning Disability: Psychiatric Hospitals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 2 April 2019 to Question 238347 on Autism and Learning Disability: Psychiatric Hospitals, whether the target in the NHS Long Term Plan to reduce the number of children with a learning disability, autism or both in an inpatient unit by 2023-24 is measured against per one million adults or per one million children.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	246528
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>The target in the NHS Long Term Plan is to reduce the number of children with a learning disability, autism or both in a specialist inpatient unit to a level equivalent to no more than 12 to 15 children per one million children in England by 2023-24.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 29/04/2019 12:58:19 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1121787

registered interest
date	18/04/2019
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	Medical Examiners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Government has plans to bring forward secondary legislation to implement proposed Medical Examiner reforms set out in the Coroners Act 2009 before 2020-21.
tabling member constituency	Stockton South
tabling member printed	Dr Paul Williams
uin	245986
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to introducing the reforms to death certification and to the introduction of a medical examiner system, as detailed in the Government’s response to consultation published in June 2018. Draft regulations were published alongside that consultation and it remains the intention to bring these forward when Parliamentary time allows for amendment to the primary legislation, to enable the reforms fully to be delivered.</p><p>With the introduction of a statutory scheme of medical examiners, the Government is committed to reform of the cremation regulations, removing the requirement for separate cremation medical certification and the fees associated with that function.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 245987 245988 question first answered 25/04/2019 14:24:36 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4666 label Biography information for Dr Paul Williams

1121788

registered interest
date	18/04/2019
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	Medical Examiners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Government has plans to amend regulations in relation to cremation fees to enable the implementation of the Medical Examiner reforms set out in the Coroners Act 2009.
tabling member constituency	Stockton South
tabling member printed	Dr Paul Williams
uin	245987
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to introducing the reforms to death certification and to the introduction of a medical examiner system, as detailed in the Government’s response to consultation published in June 2018. Draft regulations were published alongside that consultation and it remains the intention to bring these forward when Parliamentary time allows for amendment to the primary legislation, to enable the reforms fully to be delivered.</p><p>With the introduction of a statutory scheme of medical examiners, the Government is committed to reform of the cremation regulations, removing the requirement for separate cremation medical certification and the fees associated with that function.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 245986 245988 question first answered 25/04/2019 14:24:36 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4666 label Biography information for Dr Paul Williams

1121789

registered interest
date	18/04/2019
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	Medical Examiners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the changes required to cremation fee regulations to enable the implementation of the Medical Examiner reforms set out in the Coroners Act 2009.
tabling member constituency	Stockton South
tabling member printed	Dr Paul Williams
uin	245988
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to introducing the reforms to death certification and to the introduction of a medical examiner system, as detailed in the Government’s response to consultation published in June 2018. Draft regulations were published alongside that consultation and it remains the intention to bring these forward when Parliamentary time allows for amendment to the primary legislation, to enable the reforms fully to be delivered.</p><p>With the introduction of a statutory scheme of medical examiners, the Government is committed to reform of the cremation regulations, removing the requirement for separate cremation medical certification and the fees associated with that function.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 245986 245987 question first answered 25/04/2019 14:24:36 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4666 label Biography information for Dr Paul Williams

1122066

registered interest
date	18/04/2019
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	Carers: Gender
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make a comparative assessment of the gender split of carers in (a) the UK, (b) England, (c) Scotland, (d) Wales and (e) Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
uin	245862
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>The 2011 census showed that in the United Kingdom approximately 42% of carers were men and 58% were women.</p><p>The 2016/17 Survey of Adult Carers in England showed that in England approximately 33% of carers were male and 67% of carers were female.</p><p>The gender split of carers in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 29/04/2019 13:03:47 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

1122146

registered interest
date	18/04/2019
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	Social Prescribing: Arts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the role of the arts in social prescribing.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	245827
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>Social prescribing is a non-clinical intervention that enables general practitioners and other frontline healthcare professionals to refer people to ‘activities’ in their community, such as chess, book clubs, exercise groups, instead of offering only medicalised solutions.</p><p>The first point of referral is usually a voluntary sector link worker who can talk to each person about the things that matter to them. Together they can co-produce a social prescription that will help to improve their health and wellbeing through access to activities and community groups that are of interest to them; this may include art-based activities.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 29/04/2019 13:06:10 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1122163

registered interest
date	18/04/2019
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	Females: Carers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to support female kinship carers who care as a result of alcohol misuse.
tabling member constituency	Redcar
tabling member printed	Anna Turley
uin	245854
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2019 answer text <p>The Department for Education has advised that the Government issued statutory guidance in 2011 for local authorities about supporting family and friends providing care for children who cannot live with their parents. The guidance makes it clear that children and young people should receive the support that they and their carers need to safeguard and promote their welfare. It explains that support, can be provided under section 17 of the Children Act 1989. There is no limit on the level of support, that local authorities can provide. Local authorities are required to publish a policy setting out their approach to promoting and supporting the needs of all children living with family and friends carers, regardless of their legal status.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 25/04/2019 14:19:06 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4449 label Biography information for Anna Turley

1121376

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
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	Social Workers: Agency Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department had made of the trends in the level of agency social workers in English councils.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	244169
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>The adult social care workforce is vital and local authorities, like any employer, need to ensure they have the right numbers of staff with the right skills.</p><p>Between 2012/13 and 2017/18, the number of agency social workers increased from 2% to 6.8% (330 – 1,100 jobs)</p><p>Across Government, we are continuing our ambitious programme to deliver improvements to the status and standing of the social work profession and increase numbers, including providing funding for the social work bursary and providing support to social workers who have left the profession and want to return through a Return to Practice programme.</p><p>In the last year for which we have data, the level of agency social workers has fallen by 0.6% (90 jobs). This decrease corresponds with a rise in the number of social workers employed by local authorities, by 800 jobs since September 2017.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 23/04/2019 08:47:28 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1121377

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
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	Social Workers: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to support local councils in the recruitment of permanent social workers.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	244170
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>The adult social work workforce is vital and local authorities, like any employer, need to ensure they have the right staff with the right skills. The Government has provided councils with access to up to £3.6 billion more dedicated funding for adult social care in 2018/19 and up to £3.9 billion for this year.</p><p>We have also invested £3 million in a national adult social care recruitment campaign during 2018/19 to raise the profile of the adult social care sector and attract more people to a range of jobs in adult social care.</p><p>Across Government, we are continuing our ambitious programme to improve the status and standing of the social work profession, including:</p><p>- Ensuring we have sufficient supply of social workers, through provision of the £58 million Social Work Bursary and £20 million Education Support Grant to support student placements;</p><p>- Introducing diverse entry routes for people wanting to qualify as social workers, including fast-track graduate programmes such as Think Ahead and Frontline and a new Degree Apprenticeship from 2018/19;</p><p>- Supporting the Assessed Supported Year in Employment for newly qualified social workers, providing them with valuable additional support during their first year in practice. The programme has benefitted over 20,000 child and family and adult social workers since 2012, helping to improve recruitment, retention and performance management;</p><p>- Funding assessment and development programmes for established social workers to enable them to progress into more specialist or senior roles;</p><p>- Supporting a Return to Practice programme for social workers who have left the profession and want to return; and</p><p>- Establishing Social Work England as the new specialist regulator for social workers, ensuring clear standards for the knowledge, skills, values and behaviours required to become and remain a registered social worker.</p><p>Thanks to these actions we have begun to see an impact - local authorities have been able to recruit an additional 3,000 jobs since last year, including 1,000 more professionals such as social workers and occupational therapists.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 23/04/2019 08:42:20 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes