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1050155

registered interest
date	28/01/2019
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	Suicide: 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 estimate he has made of the number of suicides among young people under 21 in each of the last five years that had a link to content seen on social media.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	213273
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>Data on the number of suicides that had a link to content seen on social media is not available.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 31/01/2019 11:28:31 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

1050240

registered interest
date	28/01/2019
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	Emigration: Children
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 14 January 2019 to Question 206773 on Emigration: Children, what involvement former child migrants have had in the development of the ex gratia payment scheme announced by the Government.
tabling member constituency	Wigan
tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
uin	213349
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>On 19 December the Government published its response to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse's Interim Report and its report on Child Migration Programmes. The response states that the Government will establish an ex-gratia payment scheme and will ensure that former child migrants receive a payment as soon as possible, in recognition of the fundamentally flawed nature of the historic child migration policy.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is working closely with the Child Migrants Trust to develop and establish the payment scheme, about which further details will be provided shortly.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 31/01/2019 11:27:43 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

1050253

registered interest
date	28/01/2019
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	Mental Health Services: Staff
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 (a) posts and (b) vacancies were there in mental health NHS trusts in England in the most recent month for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Dewsbury
tabling member printed	Paula Sherriff
uin	213408
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>The most recent data reported in Q2 2018/19, as at the end of September 2018, shows that in mental health National Health Service trusts there are 190,185 whole time equivalent (WTE) workforce staff in post, with 19,889 vacancies. This is a vacancy rate of 9.5% out of a total workforce establishment (210,074 WTE).</p><p>There are 53 mental health NHS trusts, defined as those with over half of their outpatient activity in mental health specialties. Not all staff in these trusts provide mental health services and some mental health services are provided by other trusts.</p><p>NHS Improvement collect vacancy rates from individual NHS providers and publish them as part of their ‘Quarterly performance of the NHS provider sector’ report. NHS Improvement defines a vacancy as the current workforce gap between current substantive staff in post and the required staffing level for the respective period.</p><p>NHS Improvement count staff working substantively within a designated mental health NHS trust in England as one definition of the size of the mental health workforce. Currently, there is no single agreed way to count the entire mental health workforce. The Department, working together with NHS Digital, Health Education England, NHS Improvement and NHS England, are in a process of agreeing a new definition to count the mental health workforce in NHS trusts and clinical commissioning groups.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 31/01/2019 17:18:25 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4426 label Biography information for Paula Sherriff

1050254

registered interest
date	28/01/2019
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	Mental Health Services: Termination of Employment
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 mental health staff have left the NHS since 31 May 2018.
tabling member constituency	Dewsbury
tabling member printed	Paula Sherriff
uin	213409
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups, but not staff working in primary care or in general practitioner surgeries, local authorities or other providers.</p><p>In England, 12,798<sup>1</sup> mental health staff left the National Health Service between 31 May 2018 and 31 October 2018, headcount.</p><p>The figure above provides the widest possible view of the mental health workforce available from NHS Digital and includes:</p><p>- All staff in mental health, learning disability and care trusts;</p><p>- Psychiatry doctors;</p><p>- Nurses specialising in ‘community psychiatry’, ‘other psychiatry’, ‘community learning disabilities’, ‘other learning disabilities’</p><p>- Staff with a primary area of work of ‘psychiatry’, for example a paediatrician whose primary area of work is ‘psychiatry’.</p><p> </p><p>Data for Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is not available on the Electronic Staff Record and therefore, not included in the figure above.</p><p>Note:</p><p><sup>1</sup>Source: NHS Digital, NHS HCHS workforce statistics.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 31/01/2019 17:25:44 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4426 label Biography information for Paula Sherriff

1050256

registered interest
date	28/01/2019
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	Infant Foods
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 reinstate the UK-wide Infant Feeding Survey.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	213341
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>There are no current plans to reinstate the Infant Feeding Survey.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 31/01/2019 11:26:33 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

1047648

registered interest
date	24/01/2019
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	Infant Foods: Sales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which infant formulas have been approved for sale in the UK in the last month; and whether these have been notified to infant feeding leads.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	212393
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not approve products for sale in the United Kingdom. However, under The Infant Formula and Follow-on Formula (England) Regulations 2007, businesses intending to place an infant formula on the market are required to give prior notice to the Secretary of State, and forward a model of the product label. Similar Regulations apply in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has not received any notifications of infant formula in the past month. However, products that may have recently come on the market may have been notified at an earlier date.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 29/01/2019 13:44:32 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

1047673

registered interest
date	24/01/2019
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	NHS: Finance
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 22 January 2019 to Question 209341 on NHS Finance, and with reference to paragraph 5.10 of the Budget 2018 Red Book, what proportion of the NHS budget is (a) spent on (b) for mental health services; what (c) proportion of the NHS budget he plans to spend on and (d) estimate he has made of the NHS budget for mental health services in 2023-24; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	212364
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>For 2017/18, the most recent year available, the spend on mental health overall, and as a proportion of the overall National Health Service budget, is shown in the following table. This gives information on the mental health expenditure recorded by clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and specialised commissioned services.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England mental health spend, as a proportion of overall health spend 2017/18</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>CCG mental health spend</p></td><td><p>Specialised mental health spend</p></td><td><p>Total CCG and specialised mental health</p></td><td><p>CCG and Specialised mental spend as a % of allocation</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>£ million</p></td><td><p>£ million</p></td><td><p>£ million</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>10,080</p></td><td><p>1,896</p></td><td><p>11,976</p></td><td><p>13.3%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS England</p><p> </p><p>The 2018 Budget confirmed that spend on mental health services will grow as a share of the overall NHS budget over the next five years. The Department does not hold the requested estimated breakdown of future funding into mental health services specifically. How future NHS budgets will be spent will depend on the commissioning decisions of individual commissioner organisations.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 31/01/2019 13:38:21 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1047746

registered interest
date	24/01/2019
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	Self-harm: West Midlands
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 under the age of 18 have presented at A&E in need of treatment for self-harm at hospitals in the (a) Greater Birmingham area (b) the west Midlands metro area in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hodge Hill
tabling member printed	Liam Byrne
uin	212334
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>The information is not available in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 29/01/2019 13:55:18 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	1171 label Biography information for Liam Byrne

1047809

registered interest
date	24/01/2019
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	Suicide
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 tackle differences in the quality and outcomes of different local authority suicide prevention plans.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	212350
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department has worked in partnership with the local government sector to develop an approach to ensure the effectiveness of local suicide prevention plans.</p><p> </p><p>In October 2018, local authorities were invited to complete a self-assessment of their local plans. The self-assessment responses and the local plans are being analysed by an independent researcher and the results will be considered by an expert panel. This process will help to identify areas for improvement for local plans and areas of best practice which can be shared across the local government sector. We will publish a report in the spring with findings and themes, including areas for improvement and learning.</p><p> </p><p>The results will also be used to inform a programme of mutual support over the next two to three years to enable local areas to learn from each other and to further develop their plans.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 29/01/2019 13:39:12 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

1047810

registered interest
date	24/01/2019
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	Suicide
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 effect of the decrease in the public health grant on the ability of local authorities to implement effective suicide prevention plans.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	212351
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>Local authorities will receive over £3 billion in 2019/20, ring-fenced exclusively for use on public health. Over the five years of the current spending review period we are making over £16 billion of grant funding available to local authorities in England exclusively for use on improving health. Reported spend on public mental health rose from £42.7 million in 2016/17 to £50.5 million in 2017/18, an increase of 18%.</p><p> </p><p>We are investing £25 million in suicide prevention over the next three years. The first sustainability and transformation partnership (STPs) received their share of this funding last year. The NHS Long Term Plan set out a commitment to ensure this funding is rolled-out to other STP areas and NHS England is determining the priorities for the second round of funding in 2019/20.</p><p> </p><p>Every local authority has a suicide prevention plan in place or in development and we are working in partnership with the local government sector to ensure the effectiveness of those plans. This process will help to identify areas for improvement for local plans and areas of best practice which can be shared across the local government sector. The results will also be used to inform a programme of mutual support over the next two to three years to enable local areas to learn from each other and to further develop their plans.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 29/01/2019 13:53:58 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger