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227538

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date	16/03/2015
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 proportion of people in England referred for talking therapies for treatment of depression and anxiety in the second quarter of 2014-15 started their treatment within (a) six and (b) 18 weeks.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	227689
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>We do not collect the data in the format requested. The following table shows the number of days from referral to first treatment within the reporting period Quarter 2 2014/15 for Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services in England:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Total with first treatment in Quarter 2, 2014/15</p></td><td><p>Of which waited 28 days or less</p></td><td><p>Of which waited between 29 and 56 days</p></td><td><p>Of which waited between 57 and 90 days</p></td><td><p>Of which waited more than 90 days</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>191,532</p></td><td><p>122,909</p></td><td><p>35,151</p></td><td><p>14,497</p></td><td><p>18,975</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We will be publishing national waiting times data for IAPT, reporting by six and 18 weeks for the first time on 21 April 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 23/03/2015 16:55:10 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

178521

registered interest
date	09/02/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Social Services: Veterans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in receipt of war disablement pensions access local authority support for non-residential care in (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	223835
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2015 answer text <p>The Department has jurisdiction over England only and does not collect information on the number of war disablement pensioners accessing care.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb grouped question UIN 223820 223821 223836 question first answered 12/02/2015 15:00:22 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

178542

registered interest
date	09/02/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Social Services: Veterans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in receipt of a war disablement pension access local authority support for residential social care in (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	223836
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2015 answer text <p>The Department has jurisdiction over England only and does not collect information on the number of war disablement pensioners accessing care.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb grouped question UIN 223820 223821 223835 question first answered 12/02/2015 15:00:22 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

177533

registered interest
date	03/02/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Care Homes: Zero Hours Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will bring forward proposals to amend the statutory guidance for the Care Act 2014 to ensure that local authorities take steps to discourage the use of zero-hours contracts by the care providers they commission.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	223229
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2015 answer text <p>High quality, compassionate care for the most vulnerable in society can only be delivered by a well-trained, motivated and appropriately remunerated workforce. Zero-hours contracts in the care and support sector are often inconsistent with high quality services, risk continuity of support for those who need it, and in some cases may be exploitative.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>However, we know that some care workers and care businesses value the flexibility that zero-hour or part-time contracts provide and, in limited circumstances, they can be appropriate.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government is taking action to improve working conditions for care workers, for example, working with the sector to launch the Recruitment and Retention Strategy. More widely, the new Care Act gives local authorities a core duty to promote their local markets in care and support services, with a particular focus on diversity, sustainability and quality. The Act will require local authorities to consider the impact of their own commissioning decisions on the quality of services individuals receive. Whilst local authorities do not directly employ the vast majority of care workers, they will now need to consider how to encourage an effective workforce able to deliver services to those individuals for whom they arrange care and support.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department has recently published statutory guidance to support the implementation of the Care Act that describes how local authorities must meet these new duties when commissioning, including assuring themselves that providers they contract with provide services through a remunerated workforce capable of delivering high quality care.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 10/02/2015 12:13:16 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

100854

registered interest
date	24/10/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Care Workers: Minimum Wage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department has made an assessment of or received evidence on the effect on care standards of non-payment of the national minimum wage in the social care sector.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	211866
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>The Department has not conducted any recent research on the effect of treatment of staff on standards of care and on the relationship between levels of pay and quality of social care services.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As part of the development of Caring for our Future white paper in 2011, the Department undertook extensive engagement with both service users and carers who highlighted a range of issues they felt needed addressing to ensure high quality care and support is available. In addressing this, the Department, working with the Sector Skills Council – Skills for Care – and other partners, has implemented a range of policies that has included setting out clear minimum training standards, recruiting more apprentices and supporting the transformation of the social work profession.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>There are a number of factors that determine the quality of care provided in the social care sector, including the way staff are treated. Pay is not the single most significant factor in delivering high quality services.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department is clear however that care providers must abide by the law with regards to payment of the national minimum wage and is taking steps to ensure this happens. The Department is liaising with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to name and shame any social care providers who do not comply with the national minimum wage legislation and Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs is continuing to carry out enforcement action in the social care sector and will investigate all complaints made by care workers that their employer is not paying them the national minimum wage. In addition, it is looking to ensure that the statutory guidance that will accompany the Care Act on commissioning and market shaping explicitly states local authorities should have evidence that contract terms, conditions and fee levels are appropriate to provide the agreed care packages with agreed quality of care.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 03/11/2014 16:37:18 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham