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431707

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date	23/11/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Social Services: Working Hours
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the (a) implications for his policies of the recent decision by the European Court of Justice on travel from home to work and (b) potential effect of that decision on the application of the Working Time Directive to care and support workers.
tabling member constituency	Wealden
tabling member printed	Nusrat Ghani
uin	17280
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2015 answer text <p>The Government is carefully considering the implications of the decision by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), which was published on the 10 September 2015. The ruling passed into United Kingdom law on the date it was published.</p><br /><p>Employers are responsible for ensuring that service rotas are designed and staffed appropriately and are in accordance with the Working Time Regulations and findings made by the CJEU.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 01/12/2015 16:26:07 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani

431716

registered interest
date	23/11/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Doctors: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to increase the number of trained doctors; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	17236
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2015 answer text <p>The annual workforce census, published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre shows that as at 30 September 2014 there were 4,662 more consultants and 2,389 more doctors in training working in the National Health Service in England than there were in September 2010.</p><br /><p>The census also shows that there were 1,219 more qualified general practitioners (GPs) working in England over the same period.</p><br /><p>The Government has maintained the number of undergraduate medical training places at a level sufficient to support continued increase in the medical workforce in England.Where there are shortages in specific specialties, the Department will work with Health Education England and NHS England to address them for example, through the ten point plan for the general practice workforce, which will boost recruitment, encourage experienced GPs to remain in the profession and support GPs to return to practice. The Government has also committed to providing an estimated 5,000 more doctors working in general practice by 2020.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 01/12/2015 17:13:54 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

431725

registered interest
date	23/11/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Junior Doctors: Strikes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to prepare for the junior doctors' strikes due to commence on 1 December 2015; and what assessment he has made of the potential effect of such strikes on NHS services.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	17291
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2015 answer text <p>We are pleased that the British Medical Association (BMA) agreed to suspend the strike. NHS Employers agreed to the extension of the timeframe for the BMA to commence any industrial action by four weeks to 13 January 2016. NHS Employers and the Department have agreed within this timetable to temporarily suspend plans to introduce new contracts to allow negotiations to progress.</p><br /><p>We know staff right across the National Health Service worked incredibly hard to ensure that the NHS had robust contingency plans to deal with the anticipated industrial action and that patients will be disappointed if their operations or appointments had to be cancelled or delayed. Our absolute priority was to ensure that patients were not put at risk or harmed. We always wanted talks not strikes and we are committed to meaningful negotiations to agree a new national contract that is fair, safe which put patients first every day of the week.</p><p>Negotiations will be on the basis of a memorandum of understanding between the parties which acknowledges a shared responsibility for the safety of patients and junior doctors and the desire to achieve and implement without undue delay a contractual framework that provides fair reward and a safe working environment for junior doctors throughout the week.</p><br /><p>We now have the opportunity to work together to develop a new national contract that helps to meet our shared ambition to make NHS care the safest and highest quality in the world.</p><br /><p>The agreement can be found on the ACAS website at:</p><br /><p><a href="http://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=5557" target="_blank">http://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=5557</a></p><br /> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 01/12/2015 17:15:40 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

431774

registered interest
date	23/11/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Prisoners: Alcoholism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of prisoners are identified as having an alcoholic disorder.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	17328
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2015 answer text <p>According to the most recent centrally collected data published in 2013, (the Ministry of Justice Surveying Prisoner Crime Reduction data collection of prisoners sentenced to between one month and four years in 2005 and 2006 in England and Wales), 32% of male and female prisoners who reported drinking in the four weeks before custody said they drank on a daily basis.</p><br /><p>Prisoners who consumed alcohol at any stage in the four weeks prior to custody consumed a median of 12 units, which is indicative of binge drinking, according to NHS Choices. Using this measure, 63% of prisoners who drank alcohol in the four weeks before custody would be classified as binge drinkers.</p><br /><p>The 2013 report, <em>Gender differences in substance misuse and mental health amongst prisoners Results from the Surveying Prisoner Crime Reduction (SPCR) longitudinal cohort study of prisoners, </em>is available from the following link:</p><br /><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/220060/gender-substance-misuse-mental-health-prisoners.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/220060/gender-substance-misuse-mental-health-prisoners.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 01/12/2015 16:31:29 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce