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1041324

registered interest
date	14/01/2019
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: Expenditure
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 restore regular reporting of mental health spend to the NHS Dashboard.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	208247
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>The Mental Health Five Year Forward View Dashboard is currently published on a quarterly basis, with spend data included in Quarter 1 and Quarter 4 updates. While NHS England recognises the value of ensuring that this is published as regularly as possible, the detail contained within the dashboard requires rigorous assurance and review to allow complete confidence in the data that is published and, as a result, intervals between each iteration may vary.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 23/01/2019 16:48:25 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

1041325

registered interest
date	14/01/2019
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 Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason there is no reference to maternal postnatal checks in the NHS Long Term Plan, and what plans his Department has to introduce such checks for new mothers.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	208248
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2019 answer text <p>Commissioners and providers should ensure that services offer a review of a woman’s physical, emotional and social wellbeing by a healthcare professional at the end of the postnatal period (6-8 weeks). National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines on postnatal care stipulate that a documented, individualised postnatal care plan should be developed with the woman ideally in the antenatal period or as soon as possible after birth.</p><p> </p><p>The Long Term Plan highlights that we will continue to work with midwives, mothers and their families to implement continuity of carer so that, by March 2021, most women receive continuity of the person caring for them during pregnancy, during birth and postnatally.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 22/01/2019 15:15:49 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

1041328

registered interest
date	14/01/2019
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
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 his speech at the Charity Commission's annual meeting on 7 January 2017, The shared society, what steps the Government has taken to reduce mental health stigma since July 2016.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	208251
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>This Government is committed to eliminating the stigma around mental health. We provide funding to the Time to Change national mental health anti-stigma campaign to improve social attitudes about mental health. Evaluation of the campaign has shown that over four million people have to date reported improved attitudes towards mental health as a result of the campaign.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has also committed to equip one million people to be better able to look after their own mental health, so Public Health England is currently leading the development of a £15 million national mental health campaign called ‘Every Mind Matters’. The first pilot of interventions began in October 2018 in the Midlands ahead of a national launch this year.</p><p> </p><p>The Government announced the first Suicide Prevention Minister in the United Kingdom in October 2018, working across national and local government to tackle the stigma around suicide and encouraging people to talk openly about their mental health and wellbeing. Through the Cross-Government Suicide Prevention Strategy we work with many suicide prevention organisations which work to challenge stigma.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 23/01/2019 16:46:46 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

1041336

registered interest
date	14/01/2019
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: Children and 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, how many child and adolescent mental health in-patient beds there were in England in each year from 2009 to 2018 inclusive.
tabling member constituency	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
tabling member printed	Dr Dan Poulter
uin	208252
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>Information on the number of child and adolescent mental health inpatient beds is not held in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 208253 208254 question first answered 17/01/2019 17:19:54 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter

1041337

registered interest
date	14/01/2019
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: Children and 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, how many child and adolescent mental health in-patient beds there were in London in each year from 2009 to 2018 inclusive.
tabling member constituency	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
tabling member printed	Dr Dan Poulter
uin	208253
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>Information on the number of child and adolescent mental health inpatient beds is not held in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 208252 208254 question first answered 17/01/2019 17:19:55 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter

1041338

registered interest
date	14/01/2019
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: Children and 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, how many child and adolescent mental health in-patient beds there have been in Norfolk and Suffolk in each year from 2009 to 2018 inclusive.
tabling member constituency	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
tabling member printed	Dr Dan Poulter
uin	208254
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>Information on the number of child and adolescent mental health inpatient beds is not held in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 208252 208253 question first answered 17/01/2019 17:19:55 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter

1041339

registered interest
date	14/01/2019
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	Drugs: Misuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government on reducing rates of drug dependency among homeless people; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
tabling member printed	Dr Dan Poulter
uin	208255
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that anyone with a drug and / or alcohol problem can access the help and support they need to overcome their problem and to help them rebuild their lives and sustain their recovery.</p><p> </p><p>We know that many rough sleepers have substance misuse needs, and that rough sleepers can struggle to access the support they need to tackle substance dependency. In London in 2017-18, 43% of rough sleepers were recorded as having an alcohol-related need, and 40% as having a drug-related need.</p><p> </p><p>We made a number of commitments in the Rough Sleeping Strategy to address this issue, including a rapid audit of health service provision to rough sleepers, including mental health and substance misuse treatment; and the provision of up to £2 million in health funding to test models of community-based health and support services for people who are rough sleepers.</p><p> </p><p>Public Health England is taking action to improve access to drug and alcohol treatment services for homeless people with drug and alcohol problems so that they get the help that they need and will be issuing commissioning guidance to local authorities in 2019.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has also committed in the 2017 Drug Strategy to take action on drug misuse among homeless people, including to work with treatment providers, the homelessness sector and housing support services to identify and share best practice to support local authorities in identifying routes into appropriate accommodation for those recovering from a drug dependency.</p><p> </p><p>A Rough Sleeping and Homelessness Reduction Ministerial Taskforce involving all Government Departments with a responsibility for those sleeping rough was set up on 7 March 2018 to develop the Rough Sleeping Strategy and oversee its implementation. It’s membership involves Secretaries of State from five Government Departments, including the Department of Health and Social Care and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government as well as a number of other junior ministers where the portfolio is more suited to rough sleeping.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 208256 question first answered 17/01/2019 17:24:38 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter

1041340

registered interest
date	14/01/2019
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	Alcoholic Drinks: Misuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government on reducing rates of alcohol dependency among homeless people; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
tabling member printed	Dr Dan Poulter
uin	208256
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that anyone with a drug and / or alcohol problem can access the help and support they need to overcome their problem and to help them rebuild their lives and sustain their recovery.</p><p> </p><p>We know that many rough sleepers have substance misuse needs, and that rough sleepers can struggle to access the support they need to tackle substance dependency. In London in 2017-18, 43% of rough sleepers were recorded as having an alcohol-related need, and 40% as having a drug-related need.</p><p> </p><p>We made a number of commitments in the Rough Sleeping Strategy to address this issue, including a rapid audit of health service provision to rough sleepers, including mental health and substance misuse treatment; and the provision of up to £2 million in health funding to test models of community-based health and support services for people who are rough sleepers.</p><p> </p><p>Public Health England is taking action to improve access to drug and alcohol treatment services for homeless people with drug and alcohol problems so that they get the help that they need and will be issuing commissioning guidance to local authorities in 2019.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has also committed in the 2017 Drug Strategy to take action on drug misuse among homeless people, including to work with treatment providers, the homelessness sector and housing support services to identify and share best practice to support local authorities in identifying routes into appropriate accommodation for those recovering from a drug dependency.</p><p> </p><p>A Rough Sleeping and Homelessness Reduction Ministerial Taskforce involving all Government Departments with a responsibility for those sleeping rough was set up on 7 March 2018 to develop the Rough Sleeping Strategy and oversee its implementation. It’s membership involves Secretaries of State from five Government Departments, including the Department of Health and Social Care and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government as well as a number of other junior ministers where the portfolio is more suited to rough sleeping.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 208255 question first answered 17/01/2019 17:24:38 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter

1041378

registered interest
date	14/01/2019
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 Illness: Equality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to review the 2010 Equality Act to ensure that there are sufficient protections for people who have mental ill health.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	208266
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government is aware of concerns that some people with mental health conditions have experienced problems in accessing the Equality Act 2010’s protections. The Government is therefore exploring legislative options to extend protections from discrimination in the workplace for people with mental health conditions, including through the Equality Act 2010.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 17/01/2019 17:13:06 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1041432

registered interest
date	14/01/2019
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: Contamination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will urgently introduce regional parity of financial support for victims of the infected blood scandal.
tabling member constituency	South Antrim
tabling member printed	Paul Girvan
uin	208397
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>Policy on financial support for people infected by HIV and/or hepatitis C after treatment with blood, tissue or blood products from the National Health Service is a devolved matter.</p><p> </p><p>An Infected Blood Payment Scheme for Northern Ireland was established in November 2017. Information on the Department of Health in Northern Ireland’s scheme is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/infected-blood-payment-scheme" target="_blank">https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/infected-blood-payment-scheme</a></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 208400 question first answered 23/01/2019 16:45:30 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4633 label Biography information for Paul Girvan