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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

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

1046790

registered interest
date	23/01/2019
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	Blood: Donors
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 units of blood were collected by NHS Blood and Transplant England in each of the last 12 months for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	211763
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>The following table sets out the number of units of blood collected by NHS Blood and Transplant in each of the last 12 months.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Month</p></td><td><p>Blood Donations</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January 2018</p></td><td><p>134,844</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February 2018</p></td><td><p>113,473</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2018</p></td><td><p>128,043</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2018</p></td><td><p>130,438</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2018</p></td><td><p>128,958</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2018</p></td><td><p>120,165</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July 2018</p></td><td><p>124,537</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August 2018</p></td><td><p>130,478</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2018</p></td><td><p>112,355</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October 2018</p></td><td><p>132,976</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2018</p></td><td><p>129,868</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December 2018</p></td><td><p>116,021</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS Blood and Transplant</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 31/01/2019 17:07:12 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1046794

registered interest
date	23/01/2019
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	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 steps he is taking to improve the quality of data on the number of women diagnosed with post-natal depression.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	211766
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>NHS Digital and NHS England are working to improve the quality of data on the number of women diagnosed with post-natal depression by improving the Maternity Services Dataset (MSDS) and the Mental Health Services Dataset (MHSDS).</p><p> </p><p>The MSDS currently only collects information on whether or not the recommended questions for the prediction and detection of mental health issues were asked at a mother’s antenatal booking appointment. The new version of the MSDS (due to commence in April 2019) will expand on this by including questionnaires such as the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale, to improve the detection and prediction of mental health problems.</p><p> </p><p>Information about specialised perinatal mental health services is captured within the MHSDS, including the recording of a post-natal depression diagnosis.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Digital published linked data between the MSDS and the MHSDS for the first time in June 2017 to support improvement in the identification of women in the perinatal period in secondary care. This identified a number of data quality issues which are being addressed via the cross arm’s length body programme of work aiming to improve the quality of mental health data collected within the MHSDS.</p><p> </p><p>Monthly data quality reports are also published showing provider level data validation of selected key data items in the MHSDS. These reports are available as part of the Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/mental-health-services-monthly-statistics" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/mental-health-services-monthly-statistics</a></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 31/01/2019 13:40:18 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1046795

registered interest
date	23/01/2019
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	Blood: Donors
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 his Department spent on advertising to encourage people to donate blood in each financial year since 2010-11.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	211767
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) is responsible for the collection, manufacturing and issuing of blood products to the NHS in England. NHSBT collects around 1.5 million blood donations every year to make sure hospitals have the blood they need to treat patients.</p><p>The following table sets out NHSBT’s total spend on marketing to encourage people to donate blood in each financial year since 2010-11.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Blood Marketing Expenditure (£)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>11,292,657</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>10,858,466</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>10,156,140</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>9,852,463</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>10,339,771</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>10,445,771</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>9,642,327</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>10,134,566</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: NHS Blood and Transplant</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 31/01/2019 17:13:16 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1046966

registered interest
date	23/01/2019
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	Surgical Mesh Implants
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 he is taking to ensure that as a result of the pause in the use of surgical mesh and tape procedures future clinical guidelines do not restrict access to less invasive treatment options.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	211746
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>The National Health Service website makes clear that conservative treatments such as pelvic floor exercises and lifestyle changes should be tried before surgery or other procedures to treat patients suffering from stress urinary incontinence or pelvic organ prolapse.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence is in the process of producing guidance entitled ‘Urinary incontinence (update) and pelvic organ prolapse in women: management.’ The draft guideline published on 9 October 2018 states that multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) should ‘review the proposed treatment for all women offered invasive procedures for primary stress UI, OAB or primary prolapse’. MDTs should include a pelvic floor specialist physiotherapist who will be able to advise on alternatives to surgery.</p><p> </p><p>The final guideline is expected to be published in April this year.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 31/01/2019 13:36:18 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon