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1130007

registered interest
date	05/06/2019
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	Cancer: Air Pollution
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what research his Department has commissioned or supported examining the effect of air quality on cancer rates in specific locations.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	260535
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2019 answer text <p>The Department invests over £1 billion a year in health research through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). The NIHR welcomes funding applications for research into any aspect of human health, including to examine the effects of air quality on cancer rates in specific locations. These applications are subject to peer review and judged in open competition, with awards being made on the basis of the importance of the topic to patients and health and care services, value for money and scientific quality.</p><p>The NIHR funds a broad spectrum of research on the effects of air quality on health through the NIHR Health Protection Research Units (HPRUs). Since 2014, the NIHR has funded the HPRU in Health Impact of Environmental Hazards at a cost of £4.4 million. This Unit is a partnership between King’s College London and Public Health England and conducts a wide-ranging programme of research on the health impacts of air pollutants.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 10/06/2019 15:23:12 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1130134

registered interest
date	05/06/2019
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	Dementia: North East Lincolnshire
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 on the adequacy of the number of dementia care beds in North East Lincolnshire.
tabling member constituency	Great Grimsby
tabling member printed	Melanie Onn
uin	260683
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2019 answer text <p>Data from the Care Quality Commission show that in June 2019 there are 1,549 beds in care homes for dementia in North East Lincolnshire local authority.</p><p> </p><p>Commissioning social care beds is a matter for local authorities who are best placed to understand the needs of local people and communities, and how best to meet them. For this reason, the Care Act 2014 placed duties on local authorities to shape their local markets so that there is an adequate supply of provision which ensures all adult social care service users have a choice of high quality services.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 10/06/2019 15:13:05 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4464 label Biography information for Melanie Onn

1129741

registered interest
date	04/06/2019
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 Services: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department spent on the Every Day is Different social care recruitment campaign between its inception and 31 May 2019.
tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
uin	259929
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2019 answer text <p>Excluding staffing costs, the Department has spent £2.688 million on the Every Day is Different social care recruitment campaign between its inception and 31 May 2019.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 10/06/2019 15:10:06 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1129742

registered interest
date	04/06/2019
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 Services: 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 funding his Department has allocated to promoting the Every Day is Different social care recruitment campaign on social media (a) in each month between February and May 2019 and (b) in total.
tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
uin	259930
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2019 answer text <p>The Department has allocated the following net media costs to promoting the Every Day is Different social care recruitment campaign on social media in:</p><p> </p><p>February 2019 £91,739.73</p><p>March 2019 £265,652.63</p><p>April 2019 £0</p><p>May 2019 £0</p><p> </p><p>Total £357,392.36</p><p> </p><p>These are net social media buying costs for the whole of England over almost two months. This activity was tightly targeted and performed strongly amongst the target audience.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 10/06/2019 15:42:19 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1129743

registered interest
date	04/06/2019
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 Services: Recruitment
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 applications for social care roles have been made through the Every Day is Different careers portal (a) in each month between February and May 2019 and (b) in total.
tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
uin	259931
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2019 answer text <p>The Every Day is Different campaign drove people to the campaign website www.everydayisdifferent.com to find out more about what it means to work in adult social care, and then signposted people to search and apply for relevant jobs on the existing jobs board website, DWP Find a Job.</p><p>Online applications are therefore not tracked through the ‘Every Day is Different’ website. Potential applicants can also apply through a range of other national and local online jobs boards and through offline means such as walk-in enquiries or by telephone.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 10/06/2019 15:03:46 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1129744

registered interest
date	04/06/2019
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 Services: Recruitment
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 entered the social care workforce between (a) February and May 2019, (b) February and May 2018 and (c) February and May 2017.
tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
uin	259932
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2019 answer text <p>Skills for Care use the national minimum dataset for social care to make estimates about jobs in the independent adult social care sector.</p><p>They estimate that between February and May 2017 48,000 jobs in the independent adult social care sector were started by people recruited from outside of the sector. They estimate that 53,000 jobs in the independent adult social care sector were started by people recruited from outside of the sector in the same period in 2018. This includes permanent and temporary jobs. Data is not yet available for 2019.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 10/06/2019 15:05:57 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1129745

registered interest
date	04/06/2019
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 Services: Recruitment
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 different social care roles have been advertised on the Every Day is Different careers portal (a) in each month between February and May 2019 and (b) in total.
tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
uin	259933
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2019 answer text <p>The Every Day is Different campaign drove people to the campaign website www.everydayisdifferent.com to find out more about what it means to work in adult social care, and then signposted people to search and apply for relevant jobs on the existing jobs board DWP Find a Job.</p><p>Therefore, there is not a specific ‘Every Day is Different careers portal’ which employers can advertise vacancies on. Adult social care providers/employers were encouraged to support the campaign by advertising their vacancies on existing national and local online job boards, including DWP Find a Job.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 10/06/2019 15:37:25 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1129835

registered interest
date	04/06/2019
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	Learning Disability: Nurses
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 he is taking to increase the number of NHS learning disability nurses.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	259903
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2019 answer text <p>The Department and Health Education England are undertaking work to ensure that the National Health Service has access to learning disability nurses required to deliver high quality care. This includes ensuring nurses in other sectors have opportunities within their competency frameworks to develop their skills further to work in mental health and learning disability nursing and offering postgraduate students who commenced their loan funded studies in 2018/19 a £10,000 incentive payment once they take up employment in the field.</p><p>In addition, Health Education England continues to work with stakeholders across the health and social care system to raise the profile of learning disability nursing, including working with the university sector to recruit more students onto courses and in partnership with the University and Colleges Admissions Service a recruitment campaign which is run during university clearing.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 10/06/2019 15:07:42 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1128884

registered interest
date	03/06/2019
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	Health Services: Autism and Learning Disability
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 avoid detaining students with autism and learning disabilities in Assessment and Treatment Units.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	259035
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2019 answer text <p>Care, Education and Treatment Reviews (CETRs) have been established as the process for preventing admission or for making an effective plan for discharge for children and young people. In 2018/19 (up to the end of February 2019), 80% of pre-admission CETRs led to a decision not to admit the young person.</p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan commits to keyworker support by 2024 for every child or young person with a learning disability or autism with the most complex needs who are inpatients or at risk of being admitted to hospital.</p><p>The Five Year Forward View for Mental Health commits to improve care and extend access to mental health services for 70,000 more children and young people by 2020/21. As outlined in the Long Term Plan, by 2023/24 an extra 345,000 children and young people aged 0-25 will receive National Health Service-funded mental health support.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 06/06/2019 16:13:28 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1129053

registered interest
date	03/06/2019
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, whether people whose elderly care is funded via a local authority can top up their care home fees from (a) personal and (b) family resources.
tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
uin	259101
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2019 answer text <p>The Care Act 2014 gives provision in certain circumstances for individuals and third parties to pay for some or all of the additional cost of a preferred care home which is more expensive than the fees specified in the individuals’ personal budget.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 06/06/2019 16:13:01 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers