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899431

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	Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to increase the provision of mental health services for children and young people.
tabling member constituency	Faversham and Mid Kent
tabling member printed	Helen Whately
uin	905177
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2018 answer text <p>We are making an additional £1.4 billion available in order to transform services and ensure access to specialist mental health services for 70,000 additional children and young people by 2020/21 each year. Our recent joint health and education Green Paper will revolutionise provision of services in schools, bolster links between schools and the National Health Service and pilot a four week waiting time.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 08/05/2018 16:00:40 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately

899432

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	Health Services: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps the Government is taking to improve child health outcomes.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	905179
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2018 answer text <p>The Government wants children and young people to get the best start in life, and recognises the lasting impact this has on their health outcomes. We take a `life course’ approach which includes early years support so that children are ready to learn. <br> <br> We have ambitious plans to reduce infant mortality and childhood obesity, improve children and young people’s mental health, and deliver a world-leading immunisation programme.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 08/05/2018 16:02:03 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

896339

registered interest
date	02/05/2018
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	Lung Diseases: Transplant Surgery
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 he has to improve the matching of donated lungs with people waiting for lung transplants.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	140733
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2018 answer text <p>NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) is the organ donor organisation for the United Kingdom and is responsible for promoting organ donation, maintaining the national transplant waiting list and the matching and offering of donated organs.</p><p> </p><p>The policies for allocating lungs are developed in collaboration with the Cardiothoracic Advisory Group (comprised of cardiothoracic surgeons (lung and heart), commissioners and NHSBT) to ensure that the processes are clear, transparent and clinically effective. New systems were introduced in May 2017, to help ensure that the available lungs are offered to the most clinically urgent patients on the transplant waiting list.</p><p> </p><p>Since this policy has been introduced, the following improvements have been observed:</p><p>- An increase in the number of patients receiving a transplant within one month of listing, with those in the clinically urgent groups receiving a transplant within two weeks on average; and</p><p>- A 15% increase in the number of lung transplants performed nationally.</p><p> </p><p>The policies and processes relating to lung donation and allocation are monitored closely by NHSBT and further amendments will be made to the allocation policy if necessary.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 10/05/2018 14:30:07 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

896385

registered interest
date	02/05/2018
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	Mental Health: Young People
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 effect of social media on young people's mental health.
tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
tabling member printed	Colleen Fletcher
uin	140780
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2018 answer text <p>Evidence has shown links between certain increases in social media use and poorer mental health, however it is not clear whether increased use causes poorer mental health. For example, it is possible that poorer mental health drives an increase in use of social media.</p><p> </p><p>To better understand the relationship between social media and the mental health of children and young people up to 25 years old, the Chief Medical Officer is leading a systematic review to examine all relevant international research in the area. The review will inform a report from the Chief Medical Officer, expected for publication next year.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has also commissioned NHS Digital to undertake a Children and Young People’s Mental Health Survey to examine the prevalence of mental disorders. The survey report is planned to include a topic on mental health prevalence in relation to a number of behaviours including social media and cyber-bullying, and is expected for publication in autumn 2018.</p><p> </p><p>A brief study of children's mental ill-health by time spent on social networking sites was carried out by the Office for National Statistics in 2013/14 and can be found here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/wellbeing/adhocs/006721childrensmentalillhealthbytimespentonsocialnetworkingsitesuk2013to2014" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/wellbeing/adhocs/006721childrensmentalillhealthbytimespentonsocialnetworkingsitesuk2013to2014</a></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 10/05/2018 14:32:19 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4378 label Biography information for Colleen Fletcher

896431

registered interest
date	02/05/2018
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	Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients
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 May 2018 to Question 138009, what estimate he has made of the cost of answering that Question; and if he will publish a breakdown of those costs.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	140692
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2018 answer text <p>In order to answer the question it would require a significant amount of new analysis to interrogate the Mental Health Services Data Set. NHS Digital has determined the cost of answering the Question to be approximately £2,854, consisting of £2,650 for the cost of producing the analysis, checking and formatting the reply, and £204 for the cost of manager validation and internal clearances.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 10/05/2018 14:28:20 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

895275

registered interest
date	01/05/2018
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	Health: Children
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 an assessment of the effect of socioeconomic inequalities on children's health outcomes throughout their lifetimes.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	140182
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2018 answer text <p>Inequalities experienced in childhood can lead to continuing problems across the life course. We want children to have the best start in life. Health visitors, as leaders of the Healthy Child Programme for 0-5 year olds, provide evidence-based public health interventions at community, family and individual levels.</p><p> </p><p>Local commissioners are critical in providing quality services that address public health priorities associated with deprivation. These include services to tackle smoking in pregnancy, reduce childhood obesity, improve oral health and enhance early language skills.</p><p> </p><p>Public Health England is working closely with the Department for Education to help parents improve their children’s early language and literacy skills before they start school. This aims to close the `word gap’ between disadvantaged children and their peers. An £8.5 million programme has opened for local authorities to fund projects aimed at disadvantaged children.</p><p> </p><p>We are making an additional £1.4 billion available to transform children and young people’s mental health services from 2015/16 to 2019/20. This will mean that by 2020/21, 70,000 additional children and young people each year will be accessing National Health Service specialist mental health services. We are clear that there is still more to be done, hence why we have recently published a joint health and education Green Paper, one of the key proposals for which is to create new mental health support teams to deliver interventions for mild to moderate mental health needs for children and young people, in or close to schools and colleges.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 08/05/2018 16:22:13 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

895291

registered interest
date	01/05/2018
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	Postnatal Depression
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 effectiveness of GPs in identifying and treating perinatal mental health problems in mothers.
tabling member constituency	Belfast East
tabling member printed	Gavin Robinson
uin	140134
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2018 answer text <p>This Government is committed to improving perinatal mental health services for women during pregnancy and in the first postnatal year, so that women are able to access the right care at the right time and close to home. The importance of this is reflected in both NHS England’s ‘Better Births’ and the ‘Five Year Forward View for Mental Health'.</p><p> </p><p>General practitioners and primary care teams have a role in supporting the identification of perinatal mental illness and treatment, and are part of an integrated pathway of services. This includes monitoring early onset conditions, providing pre-conception counselling and referring women to specialist mental health services, including the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme and specialist perinatal community teams, if necessary.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is investing £365 million to 2020/21 in perinatal mental health services, and NHS England is leading a transformation programme with the development of specialist perinatal mental health community services across England with their investment of £63 million between 2016/17 and 2018/19. Local teams work in close partnership with wider system partners including primary care to provide care and treatment to women with perinatal mental illness.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England has also invested in multidisciplinary perinatal mental health clinical networks which include general practitioners, across the country to drive forward change, focusing on collaborative working to develop local, integrated pathways and support early identification of those at risk of mental illness in the perinatal period, to enable better outcomes for women in all communities.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 08/05/2018 16:17:56 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4360 label Biography information for Gavin Robinson

895310

registered interest
date	01/05/2018
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	Healthy Start Scheme
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 23 April 2018 to Question 135676 on Healthy Start Scheme, how many families were in receipt of Healthy Start vouchers in those local authority areas.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	139970
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2018 answer text <p>The number of families in receipt of Healthy Start vouchers in the local authority areas with the lowest and highest Heathy Start uptake rates can be seen in the following table:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Local Authority</p></td><td><p>Number of households</p></td><td><p>Local Authority</p></td><td><p>Number of households</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lowest take up</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Highest take up</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Devon</p></td><td><p>1,584</p></td><td><p>Hartlepool</p></td><td><p>572</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hampshire</p></td><td><p>2,728</p></td><td><p>Newcastle upon Tyne</p></td><td><p>1,442</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hertfordshire</p></td><td><p>2,731</p></td><td><p>Halton</p></td><td><p>448</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Surrey</p></td><td><p>1,887</p></td><td><p>Bath and North East Somerset</p></td><td><p>263</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bracknell Forest</p></td><td><p>201</p></td><td><p>Redcar and Cleveland</p></td><td><p>1,045</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Redbridge</p></td><td><p>761</p></td><td><p>Northumberland</p></td><td><p>1,279</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rutland</p></td><td><p>33</p></td><td><p>Gateshead</p></td><td><p>1,043</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Buckinghamshire</p></td><td><p>1,032</p></td><td><p>Stockton-on-Tees</p></td><td><p>1,223</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wokingham</p></td><td><p>182</p></td><td><p>Swindon</p></td><td><p>620</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Windsor and Maidenhead</p></td><td><p>193</p></td><td><p>Nottingham</p></td><td><p>2,867</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Note: Validated but unpublished information on Healthy Start vouchers from an approved statistical collection.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 08/05/2018 16:21:11 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

895319

registered interest
date	01/05/2018
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	Mental Health
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 the Government has to mark Mental Health Awareness week.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	140060
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2018 answer text <p>The Government supports the promotion of mental health awareness, including co-funding the Time to Change campaign since 2007, which has done so much to reduce stigma and improve attitudes towards people who need support with their mental health. The Government welcomes and will actively support Mental Health Awareness week again this year.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 08/05/2018 16:18:55 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

895426

registered interest
date	01/05/2018
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	Healthy Start Scheme and School Milk
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 30 April 2018 to Question 138039 on Healthy Start Scheme: Food, how much funding his Department allocated to (a) the Health Start scheme and (b) the Nursery Milk Scheme in each year since 2012-13.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	140109
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2018 answer text <p>Healthy Start and Nursery Milk schemes are demand led statutory schemes. This means that the Department must meet expenditure arising from legitimate claims made in line with the legislation. Funding is allocated to the schemes to meet the actual demand. The funding allocated to the schemes is accounted for through a single cost centre with total costs shown below. A split by individual scheme is not available in the format requested.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012 - 13</p></td><td><p>£141,366,339</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013 - 14</p></td><td><p>£137,790,212</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014 - 15</p></td><td><p>£128,904,379</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015 - 16</p></td><td><p>£124,890,649</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016 - 17</p></td><td><p>£112,556,870</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 08/05/2018 16:22:56 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth