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419743

registered interest
date	05/10/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Israel
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what training has been provided to British military and police personnel by Israel in the past 12 months.
tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
uin	HL2446
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2015 answer text <p>During the last 12 months, one military officer has attended an International Brigade Logistics Course in Israel at the invitation of the Israeli Defence Forces.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 13/10/2015 16:04:03 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

419486

registered interest
date	17/09/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Social Services: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to improve the quality of adult social care provided by local authorities; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
uin	10559
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2015 answer text <p>The Government is committed to improving the quality of adult social care. We have taken a number of recent steps to do so.</p><p>In October 2014, we introduced a tougher inspection system by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Following inspections, the CQC now also awards each care service a single quality rating with providers rated as “Outstanding”, “Good”, “Requires Improvement” or “Inadequate”. Services rated “Inadequate” are being placed into Special Measure which means they could face closure if they fail to improve.</p><p>These new ratings and other information about the type and quality of care at every care home and homecare service in the country are now available on NHS Choices and the MyNHS Transparency website, making it much easier for people to compare the quality of services.</p><p>This year we introduced a <em>Certificate of Fundamental Care</em>, now known as the Care Certificate. This will help ensure that care workers can deliver a consistently high quality standard of care.</p><p>The Department is funding and working with a number of organisations including the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), Skills for Care, the Social Care Institute for Excellence, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services and the Local Government Association on a range of projects to help adult social care organisations and staff improve the quality of care. These resources include new NICE Quality Standards and Guidelines which bring clarity to what excellence looks like in care and <em>Commissioning for Better Outcomes – A Route Map*</em> that sets out a series of commissioning standards that will be used as part of local government sector-led improvement to drive best practices in local authority commissioning under their new duties in the Care Act 2015.</p><p>*Available at:</p><p><a href="http://www.local.gov.uk/documents/10180/5756320/Commissioning+for+Better+Outcomes+A+route+map/8f18c36f-805c-4d5e-b1f5-d3755394cfab" target="_blank">http://www.local.gov.uk/documents/10180/5756320/Commissioning+for+Better+Outcomes+A+route+map/8f18c36f-805c-4d5e-b1f5-d3755394cfab</a></p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 10428 question first answered 13/10/2015 16:14:27 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

419546

registered interest
date	17/09/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Pharmacy: Health
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 role of community pharmacies in keeping people healthy.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Kevin Barron
uin	10674
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2015 answer text <p>We have long recognised that community pharmacy teams play a vital role in improving people’s health, preventing ill-health and helping to reduce health inequalities. Informed by a growing evidence base, we have enabled community pharmacy to deliver a wide range of public health services. We have actively supported the implementation of Healthy Living Pharmacies, with qualified health champions on site reaching out to, and improving the health of, people in their communities.</p><p>Public Health England (PHE) keeps under review the progress that pharmacy is making on keeping people healthy and is providing system leadership for pharmacy’s public health role and strategic leadership for the acceleration and spread of Healthy Living Pharmacies across the country. PHE’s vision for pharmacy is one in which community pharmacy teams are fully integrated into the local primary care networks, playing an appropriate and pivotal role in improving the health of people in England. PHE has built a strong relationship with the sector, seeking to utilise its unique offering of access, location and an informal environment, with trusted staff that reflect the background of the communities that they serve. PHE is embedding pharmacy in its priority public health programmes such as prevention, early detection and management of blood pressure, NHS Health Checks and smoking cessation.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 13/10/2015 16:11:15 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	392 label Biography information for Sir Kevin Barron

420822

registered interest
date	17/09/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Department of Health: Legal Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of his Department's budget is spent on legal fees and damages.
tabling member constituency	Warrington South
tabling member printed	David Mowat
uin	901477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2015 answer text <p>The Departmental Group spend on legal fees is captured in the Annual Report and Accounts for 2014-15. The Departmental Group spend on legal fees is separately identified under Legal Fees in Other Administration Costs,<del class="ministerial"> £61,159k</del> <ins class="ministerial">£61.159 million </ins>and Programme Costs <del class="ministerial">£128,642k,</del> <ins class="ministerial">£128,642 million </ins>totalling <del class="ministerial">£189,801k.</del><ins class="ministerial">£189,801 million.</ins></p><p>The majority of the Core Department’s spend on legal fees is captured as part of ‘Other’ spend under ‘Other Administration Costs’, ‘Programme Costs’ and in “Consultancy services”. The Annual Report and Accounts is available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/department-of-health-annual-report-and-accounts-2014-to-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/department-of-health-annual-report-and-accounts-2014-to-2015</a></p><p>It is intended that from the 2015-16 financial year, spend on legal fees for the core Department will be discussed separately in the accounts.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 13/10/2015 16:48:38 question first ministerially corrected 14/10/2015 14:55:18 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison previous answer version 23237 answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4080 label Biography information for David Mowat

420823

registered interest
date	17/09/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Hospitals: Mortality Rates
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 reduce avoidable mortality in hospitals.
tabling member constituency	Eastleigh
tabling member printed	Mims Davies
uin	901480
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2015 answer text <p>This Government is strongly committed to improving patient safety, including encouraging greater transparency about the performance of hospitals against key indicators for safety.</p><p>We are leading an ambitious programme of work to help trusts understand and act on their own mortality rates: the focus of this work is to support improvement at local level.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 13/10/2015 16:07:05 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies

420824

registered interest
date	17/09/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health: Poverty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the relationship between poverty in childhood and (a) ill-health and (b) use in adulthood of the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	901478
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2015 answer text <p>We want all children to have the healthiest start possible in life, and particularly the poorest children. We have strengthened support for mothers, babies and children by increasing the number of Health Visitors and more than doubling the number of places on the Family Nurse Partnership programme. Health is now a theme of the new Troubled Families Programme, to improve the physical and mental health of the adults and children in these families.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 13/10/2015 16:01:39 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

420825

registered interest
date	17/09/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS Foundation Trusts: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the financial stability of foundation trusts.
tabling member constituency	Wirral West
tabling member printed	Margaret Greenwood
uin	901474
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2015 answer text <p>The Department and Monitor make continual assessments of the financial performance of foundation trusts via a risk assessment framework which includes monthly reports to Monitor.</p><p>Where necessary, interim financing may be provided. The Department will require the development and delivery of a recovery plan and trusts to sign up to a set of conditions aimed at delivering efficiencies.</p><p>This Government will invest an additional £10 billion the National Health Service said it needs: £2 billion this year and a commitment to meet the £8 billion identified by NHS England in the Five Year Forward View by 2020.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 13/10/2015 16:07:50 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	4400 label Biography information for Margaret Greenwood

420826

registered interest
date	17/09/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Hospitals: Finance
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 ensure that hospitals balance their budgets.
tabling member constituency	Sleaford and North Hykeham
tabling member printed	Stephen Phillips
uin	901476
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2015 answer text <p>We are investing the additional £8 billion the National Health Service has said it needs to implement its own future plan, on top of the extra £2 billion we have given the service. However, additional spending is not the only answer to these financial challenges. The NHS must now put in place cost-control measures we have introduced, like clamping down on rip-off staffing agencies, while we continue to work with hospitals on ways to improve productivity and reduce waste.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 13/10/2015 16:08:30 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	4054 label Biography information for Stephen Phillips

419036

registered interest
date	16/09/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Register: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Written Statement of 16 July 2015, on Individual Electoral Registration (IER), HCWS 127, which local authorities have received any of the additional £3 million funding; and how much such additional funding each local authority has received so far to target their non IER registered carry-forward electors.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	10532
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2015 answer text <p>The following table shows the local authorities who have received funding to target non IER registered carry-forward electors. We are currently in the process of agreeing funding to a further 57 local authorities.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Local Authority</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Allocation</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Birmingham City Council</p></td><td><p>£75,939.20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lambeth, London Borough of</p></td><td><p>£42,500.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bristol City Council</p></td><td><p>£39,425.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council</p></td><td><p>£30,025.60</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sheffield City Council</p></td><td><p>£22,693.60</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Brent, London Borough of</p></td><td><p>£17,603.20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Newham, London Borough of</p></td><td><p>£15,116.80</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kensington and Chelsea, Royal Borough of</p></td><td><p>£14,128.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bury Metropolitan Borough Council</p></td><td><p>£13,612.80</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cheshire West and Chester Council</p></td><td><p>£12,000.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sevenoaks District</p></td><td><p>£11,357.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Harrow, London Borough of</p></td><td><p>£10,792.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council</p></td><td><p>£10,699.20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wandsworth, London Borough of</p></td><td><p>£10,677.60</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cheshire East Borough Council</p></td><td><p>£10,292.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nottingham City Council</p></td><td><p>£9,845.60</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ealing, London Borough of</p></td><td><p>£9,611.70</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Barking and Dagenham, London Borough of</p></td><td><p>£8,885.60</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Southampton City Council</p></td><td><p>£8,244.80</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council</p></td><td><p>£8,234.40</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Camden, London Borough of</p></td><td><p>£8,056.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council</p></td><td><p>£7,785.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Islington, London Borough of</p></td><td><p>£7,619.20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Plymouth City Council</p></td><td><p>£7,572.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Windsor and Maidenhead, Royal Borough of</p></td><td><p>£7,518.40</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cornwall Council</p></td><td><p>£6,380.72</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Portsmouth City Council</p></td><td><p>£6,252.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council</p></td><td><p>£6,216.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Maidstone Borough Council</p></td><td><p>£5,892.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oxford City Council</p></td><td><p>£5,881.60</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Somerset District Council</p></td><td><p>£5,801.60</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greenwich, London Borough of</p></td><td><p>£5,492.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Vale of White Horse District Council</p></td><td><p>£5,252.80</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council</p></td><td><p>£5,200.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Lancashire Borough Council</p></td><td><p>£5,000.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Winchester City Council</p></td><td><p>£5,000.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Salford City Council</p></td><td><p>£4,841.35</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Swindon Borough Council</p></td><td><p>£4,612.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mendip District Council</p></td><td><p>£3,917.60</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Crawley Borough Council</p></td><td><p>£3,751.20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Allerdale Borough Council</p></td><td><p>£3,566.60</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Peterborough City COuncil</p></td><td><p>£3,019.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kettering Borough Council</p></td><td><p>£3,000.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Isle of Wight County Council</p></td><td><p>£2,306.90</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council</p></td><td><p>£2,150.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rugby Borough Council</p></td><td><p>£2,006.10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lewes District Council</p></td><td><p>£2,000.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Swale Borough Council</p></td><td><p>£2,000.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Kesteven District Council</p></td><td><p>£1,987.15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Preston City Council</p></td><td><p>£1,970.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>St Albans District Council</p></td><td><p>£1,580.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Derbyshire Dales District Council</p></td><td><p>£1,500.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rutland County Council</p></td><td><p>£1,464.80</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gloucester City Council</p></td><td><p>£1,450.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dover District Council</p></td><td><p>£1,428.20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rother District Council</p></td><td><p>£1,247.64</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bracknell Forest Borough Council</p></td><td><p>£1,209.90</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 13/10/2015 16:06:05 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose previous answer version 23179 answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

419050

registered interest
date	16/09/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Social Services: Living Wage
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 potential effect of the national living wage on social care providers.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Smith
uin	10452
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2015 answer text <p>The impact of the new National Living Wage on local authority finances will be considered during the Spending Review as part of an overall assessment of spending pressures on local authorities.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 13/10/2015 16:08:12 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	95 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Smith