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942544

registered interest
date	16/07/2018
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	NHS Digital
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the (a) mean, (b) median and (c) modal time taken is for NHS Digital to process a request for data from universities and other healthcare research organisations.
tabling member constituency	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
tabling member printed	Dr Dan Poulter
uin	164387
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2018 answer text <p>NHS Digital has advised that requests for data received by its Data Access Request Service for the period July 2017 to end June 2018 are as shown in the following table. These include time where the application is with the customer to provide additional detail, as well as the time that the application is with NHS Digital.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Mean</p></td><td><p>Median</p></td><td><p>Mode</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>92 working days</p></td><td><p>53 working days</p></td><td><p>9,16 or 34 working days</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS Digital</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 19/07/2018 13:12:52 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter

942545

registered interest
date	16/07/2018
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	NHS Digital
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what NHS Digital does to ensure that requests for access to survey data are treated differently from requests to access patient and service use data.
tabling member constituency	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
tabling member printed	Dr Dan Poulter
uin	164388
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2018 answer text <p>NHS Digital has advised that it has data processor agreements in place with the UK Data Service so that archived survey datasets are made available to users registered with the UK Data Service under the Service’s safeguarded data terms and conditions.</p><p> </p><p>Anonymised data may be placed in the public domain while pseudonymised data is released with appropriate controls in place through a data sharing agreement. Requests for online access or extracts of data held by NHS Digital are strictly controlled by the Data Access Request Service. This ensures that data are only shared where there is an appropriate legal basis, a purpose that benefits the health and social care system, and that appropriate security safeguards are in place.</p><p> </p><p>The majority of NHS Digital survey datasets are disclosure controlled and then archived and made available for further research on the UK Data Service under end user licenses. Minimal NHS Digital resource is utilised to process applications for access to these archived survey datasets as they are managed in full by the UK Data Service.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 164390 question first answered 19/07/2018 13:10:34 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter

942548

registered interest
date	16/07/2018
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 Illness: Surveys
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 applications to use APMS 2014 data received a decision more than three months after being submitted in the last period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
tabling member printed	Dr Dan Poulter
uin	164389
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2018 answer text <p>NHS Digital has advised that, as of 17 July 2018, 20 requests for Alternative Provider Medical Services data had been submitted to NHS Digital and accepted into the Data Access Request Service. Of these, two applications were not being progressed by the customer. Progress on the other requests is shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Less than three months after submission</p></td><td><p>More than three months after submission</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>In progress</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Approved</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>This period includes the change in legislative basis for the release of such data, specifically the introduction of the Data Protection Act 2018.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 19/07/2018 13:08:38 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter

942549

registered interest
date	16/07/2018
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	NHS Digital
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much resource NHS Digital is using to process applications by researchers to access survey data.
tabling member constituency	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
tabling member printed	Dr Dan Poulter
uin	164390
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2018 answer text <p>NHS Digital has advised that it has data processor agreements in place with the UK Data Service so that archived survey datasets are made available to users registered with the UK Data Service under the Service’s safeguarded data terms and conditions.</p><p> </p><p>Anonymised data may be placed in the public domain while pseudonymised data is released with appropriate controls in place through a data sharing agreement. Requests for online access or extracts of data held by NHS Digital are strictly controlled by the Data Access Request Service. This ensures that data are only shared where there is an appropriate legal basis, a purpose that benefits the health and social care system, and that appropriate security safeguards are in place.</p><p> </p><p>The majority of NHS Digital survey datasets are disclosure controlled and then archived and made available for further research on the UK Data Service under end user licenses. Minimal NHS Digital resource is utilised to process applications for access to these archived survey datasets as they are managed in full by the UK Data Service.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 164388 question first answered 19/07/2018 13:10:34 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter

942667

registered interest
date	16/07/2018
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	NHS: Complaints
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 15 December 2014 to Written Question 217624 on NHS: Complaints, whether his Department plans to make publicly available the reviews of the Patient Advice and Liaison Service and NHS Complaints Advocacy arrangements which were envisaged to be completed by spring 2015.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	164488
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2018 answer text <p>In January 2015 a limited review was conducted in respect of NHS Advocacy Services but this was not published because the Department took the view that local authority commissioning arrangements should drive the accessibility and quality of advocacy services.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has also sought to improve the information available locally for patients on how to complain, including by publishing a national advice guide, providing templates for posters on every hospital ward and, through Healthwatch England working with Citizens Advice, ensured there is accurate information online about how to complain.</p><p> </p><p>The Department’s Feedback Improvement Partnership work programme includes examining the support and information available locally for patients on how to complain if they are dissatisfied with NHS services. This includes support provided by both the Patient Advice and Liaison Service and NHS Complaints Advocacy Services.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 19/07/2018 13:15:48 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

940637

registered interest
date	13/07/2018
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	Self-harm: Females
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 implications for his polices of reports from the British Medical Association that self-harm among teenage girls has increased by 68 per cent in the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	163806
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2018 answer text <p>The Department is aware of research showing increases in attendances at hospital and in primary care for self-harm amongst young women and continues to review a wide range of research to inform evidence-based policy development on mental health.</p><p> </p><p>In 2017, the Department expanded the scope of the National Suicide Prevention Strategy to include addressing self-harm as an issue in its own right. The Department also continues to fund the Multi-Centre Study of Self-Harm which analyses data on people presenting at hospital for self-harm and identifies long-term trends.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is investing at record levels to transform mental health services which includes making available £1.4 billion to improve access to children and young people’s mental health services. We are investing up to an additional £300 million to deliver the proposals set out in the joint health and education Green Paper ‘Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision: a green paper’.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Government is investing £247 million to roll-out liaison mental health teams in accident and emergency departments by 2020 to ensure that people who present at hospital with mental health problems get the appropriate care and treatment they need. Liaison mental health teams are well placed to deal with presentations for self-harm and to ensure that people receive a psychosocial assessment of their mental health needs to prevent further self-harming.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 19/07/2018 14:55:10 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

938573

registered interest
date	11/07/2018
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to promote parity of treatment of mental and physical health conditions.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	163060
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2018 answer text <p>The Government enshrined parity of esteem in physical and mental health in law in the Health and Social Care Act 2012. The NHS Constitution now states that the National Health Service “is designed to improve, prevent, diagnose and treat both physical and mental health problems with equal regard”.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is investing in mental health to expand and improve services via the Mental Health Five Year Forward View. Spending on mental health increased to a planned £11.86 billion in 2017/18. NHS England’s Mental Health Investment Standard requires the local NHS clinical commissioning groups to increase mental health investment by at least the same proportion as overall allocations.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s mandate to NHS England for 2018-19 states that clinical commissioning groups should show “measurable progress towards the parity of esteem for mental health enshrined in the NHS Constitution, particularly for those in vulnerable situations”.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 19/07/2018 14:50:59 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

938574

registered interest
date	11/07/2018
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: First Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to promote mental health first aid.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	163061
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2018 answer text <p>The Department has committed to delivering mental health “first aid” training to a member of staff in all schools across England by the end of this Parliament.</p><p> </p><p>The programme to deliver Youth Mental Health First Aid training to secondary school staff is in its second year of delivery. We have so far invested over £450,000 in the programme, and have delivered the training to staff in over 1,300 secondary schools. We expect to reach 2,000 schools by the end of 2018/19.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has set aside a further £5 million to deliver mental health first aid and awareness training to a member of staff in all primary schools across England by the end of this Parliament.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to this, the Department is working with Public Health England to launch a £15 million national campaign in autumn 2018 to train 1 million people in mental health awareness and first aid.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 19/07/2018 14:49:22 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

938674

registered interest
date	11/07/2018
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	Surrogacy: Parental Orders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his policy is on the pre-authorisation of parental orders to enable legal parenthood to be conferred on surrogate parents at the point a child is born.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Sir Vince Cable
uin	162965
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2018 answer text <p>The Government has supported a review of all surrogacy legislation by the Law Commission. Issues around the process and rules of applying for parental orders will be considered as part of the review.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 162966 question first answered 19/07/2018 15:02:31 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	207 label Biography information for Sir Vince Cable

938675

registered interest
date	11/07/2018
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	Surrogacy: Parental Orders
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 (a) equity and (b) efficacy of existing time limits in relation to parental orders for surrogate parenthood.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Sir Vince Cable
uin	162966
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2018 answer text <p>The Government has supported a review of all surrogacy legislation by the Law Commission. Issues around the process and rules of applying for parental orders will be considered as part of the review.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 162965 question first answered 19/07/2018 15:02:31 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	207 label Biography information for Sir Vince Cable