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1132828

registered interest
date	18/06/2019
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	Hospices: Children
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 of the financial sustainability of children’s hospices.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	266060
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2019 answer text <p>No recent assessment has been made. The vast majority of hospices were established from charitable and philanthropic donations and are therefore primarily charity-funded and independently run. However, they receive some statutory funding from clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and the Government for providing local services. The amount of funding is a local matter.</p><p><br> On average, adult hospices received approximately 30% of their overall funding from National Health Service sources. Proportionally less public funding is received by children’s hospices than adult hospices, and this amounts to around 15%, and this is largely due to differences in their development and non-clinical care they provide.</p><p> </p><p>To compensate for the lower levels of statutory funding children’s hospices receive, NHS England manages the Children’s Hospice Grant, which is awarded and administered annually. The Children’s Hospice Grant will provide a contribution of £12 million in 2019/20.</p><p><br> As set out in the NHS Long Term Plan, NHS England committed to increase its contribution to children’s palliative care over the next five years by match funding CCGs who commit to increase their investment in local children’s palliative and end of life care services including children’s hospices. Subject to CCGs increasing investment, NHS England will match this by up to £7 million a year by 2023/24. This increase is in addition to the Children’s Hospice Grant. We would expect hospices to be significant beneficiaries of the additional funding, and in many areas, children’s hospices are the main providers of children’s palliative and end of life care services.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 24/06/2019 15:26:44 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1108671

registered interest
date	01/04/2019
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	Barts Health NHS Trust: Breast Cancer
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 trends in the number of symptomatic breast appointments in Barts Health NHS Trust in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	239164
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>The following table provides a summary of referrals to Barts Health NHS trust for suspected breast cancer under the national two week wait operational standards, both for urgent general practitioner suspected cancer and for the symptomatic breast two week standard.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Symptomatic Breast Referrals</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>2018-19 (Year to Date)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Barts Health</p></td><td><p>2,920</p></td><td><p>2,763</p></td><td><p>3,318</p></td><td><p>2,736</p></td><td><p>1,706</p></td><td><p>2,247</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 04/04/2019 11:07:55 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1108672

registered interest
date	01/04/2019
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	Breast Cancer: Screening
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of women were invited for screening at Central and East London Breast Screening Service within three years of their previous appointment in each month in the last three years.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	239165
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 04/04/2019 11:06:16 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1108673

registered interest
date	01/04/2019
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	Breast Cancer: Screening
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 screening sessions have been delivered by Central and East London Breast Screening Service (a) in Homerton Hospital and (b) at the Sir Ludwig Guttmann Health and Wellbeing Centre in each week in the last year.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	239166
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 239167 question first answered 04/04/2019 11:08:46 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1108674

registered interest
date	01/04/2019
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	Breast Cancer: Screening
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, in which months in the last two years Central and East London Breast Screening Service has met its target of less than 2 per cent of screenings being subject to technical recalls.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	239167
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 239166 question first answered 04/04/2019 11:08:46 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1011558

registered interest
date	21/11/2018
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	Palliative Care: Children
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 include meeting the end of life care choice commitment for babies, children and young people in the new NHS long-term plan; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	194000
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2018 answer text <p>‘Our Commitment to you for end of life care’, published in July 2016, set out what everyone should expect from their care at the end of life and the actions we are taking to make high quality, personalised care a reality for all, both adults and children. Through the Mandate to NHS England, we have asked NHS England to deliver the Choice Commitment, and through its National Programme Board for End of life Care, NHS England is working with all key system partners and stakeholders, including the children’s end of life care charity Together for Short Lives, to achieve this. A copy of the Choice Commitment and the One Year On progress report can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/choice-in-end-of-life-care-government-response" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/choice-in-end-of-life-care-government-response</a></p><p> </p><p>End of life care, including for babies, children and young people, is an important part of the proposals which are helping to shape the long-term plan for the National Health Service. The plan is expected for publication later this year.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 26/11/2018 16:12:26 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1010370

registered interest
date	19/11/2018
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	Hearing Impairment: Digital Technology
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS England plans to approve an app to support patients in managing hearing loss; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	192697
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2018 answer text <p>There are no hearing loss specific apps yet on the apps library.</p><p> </p><p>Developers of apps with health applications can seek National Health Service approval for them through the NHS England Digital Assessment Questionnaire process. Having gone through this process, successful apps will be given an NHS accreditation and uploaded to the NHS Apps and Wearables library. NHS England is in discussions with a number of companies to go through the apps library process.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 22/11/2018 15:05:05 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

806493

registered interest
date	14/12/2017
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Department for Work and Pensions: Families
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, to which legislation his Department has applied the Family Test, published in August 2014.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	119569
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>The government is committed to supporting families. To achieve this, in 2014 we introduced the Family Test, which aims to ensure that impacts on family relationships and functioning are recognised early on during the process of policy development and help inform the policy decisions made by Minsters. The Family Test was not designed to be a ‘tick-box’ exercise, and as such there is no requirement for departments to publish the results of assessments made under the Family Test.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 19/12/2017 11:59:24 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

781346

registered interest
date	31/10/2017
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which categories of claimants of universal credit are entitled to claim (a) cold weather payments, (b) funeral payments and (c) the Sure Start maternity grant; and whether he plans to change those entitlements.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	110505
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2017 answer text <p>Universal Credit claimants are entitled to Cold Weather Payments if they have a disabled child amount in their claim, whatever their employment status. Other Universal Credit claimants will usually be entitled to Cold Weather Payments if they are not employed or self-employed and they either get a limited capability for work amount (with or without a work-related activity amount) or have a child aged under five living with them.</p><p>Universal Credit claimants may be entitled to a Funeral Expenses Payment if they are arranging a funeral in the UK, European Economic Area or Switzerland. They must meet eligibility rules including rules on their relationship to the deceased person. They may not be able to claim if there is a close relative of the deceased person who is not receiving one of the qualifying income-related benefits or tax credits.</p><p>Universal Credit claimants are usually entitled to a Sure Start Maternity Grant for their first child and there are no other children in their family. If they already have a child they may still be entitled a grant if they are expecting a multiple birth (such as twins or triplets). They may also be able to get a grant if they are adopting or becoming a surrogate parent.</p><p>We continue to keep entitlement to these benefits under review. The Government response to the consultation on reforms to the Social Fund Funeral Expenses Payments scheme, which was published on 2 November 2017, confirmed that it will proceed with its proposals to clarify the eligibility rules for that scheme.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 03/11/2017 12:52:57 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

760055

registered interest
date	13/09/2017
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Supported Housing: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of linking funding for supported housing to local housing allowance rates.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	10411
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>Developing a workable and sustainable funding model for supported housing is a priority for the Government. We will set out further details on the Government’s plans later in the autumn.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 09/10/2017 11:59:49 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms