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582393

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date	13/09/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Hospitals: Older People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if the Government will consider setting up a system of Finnish-style care packages for elderly people leaving hospital and going into care homes.
tabling member constituency	Hertsmere
tabling member printed	Oliver Dowden
uin	46121
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2016 answer text <p>Despite a welcome shift towards more care provision in community settings, our ageing population means a growing number of people require care in care and nursing homes, with an increasing level of acuity and complexity of need.</p><p> </p><p>The Enhanced Health in Care Homes vanguards, implemented by NHS England, are beginning to show how addressing this inequity in access to services can reduce unnecessary, unplanned and avoidable admissions to hospital, shorten the length of hospital stays and improve peoples’ quality of life, wellbeing and clinical outcomes.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is also leading the multi-agency Community Services and Hospital Discharge programme, which will deliver a series of interventions to transform community services and improve discharge of older people from hospital. These include initiatives such as “discharge to assess”, which will increase the number of patients who are discharged quickly and safely to their usual place of residence.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is not aware of a clothing grant for people who enter care homes and is therefore unable to consider reinstatement. Where a local authority arranges care and support to meet an adult’s eligible needs, it may charge them. Where care is arranged in a care home, a local authority must not, through charges, reduce the adult’s income below the Personal Expenses Allowance of £24.90 per week.</p><p> </p><p>The allowance means that local authority supported care home residents have money to spend as they wish on personal items, including clothing. It must not be spent on meeting their eligible care needs.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities have discretion to be more generous where they think this would be appropriate.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat grouped question UIN 46122 question first answered 20/09/2016 09:21:48 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden

582394

registered interest
date	13/09/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Older People: Clothing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if the Government will consider reinstating clothing grants for care homes for elderly residents who have just arrived from hospital.
tabling member constituency	Hertsmere
tabling member printed	Oliver Dowden
uin	46122
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2016 answer text <p>Despite a welcome shift towards more care provision in community settings, our ageing population means a growing number of people require care in care and nursing homes, with an increasing level of acuity and complexity of need.</p><p> </p><p>The Enhanced Health in Care Homes vanguards, implemented by NHS England, are beginning to show how addressing this inequity in access to services can reduce unnecessary, unplanned and avoidable admissions to hospital, shorten the length of hospital stays and improve peoples’ quality of life, wellbeing and clinical outcomes.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is also leading the multi-agency Community Services and Hospital Discharge programme, which will deliver a series of interventions to transform community services and improve discharge of older people from hospital. These include initiatives such as “discharge to assess”, which will increase the number of patients who are discharged quickly and safely to their usual place of residence.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is not aware of a clothing grant for people who enter care homes and is therefore unable to consider reinstatement. Where a local authority arranges care and support to meet an adult’s eligible needs, it may charge them. Where care is arranged in a care home, a local authority must not, through charges, reduce the adult’s income below the Personal Expenses Allowance of £24.90 per week.</p><p> </p><p>The allowance means that local authority supported care home residents have money to spend as they wish on personal items, including clothing. It must not be spent on meeting their eligible care needs.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities have discretion to be more generous where they think this would be appropriate.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat grouped question UIN 46121 question first answered 20/09/2016 09:21:48 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden

582437

registered interest
date	13/09/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Compensation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of those provisions in the Consumer Rights Act 2015 which relate to rail passengers claiming compensation.
tabling member constituency	Colchester
tabling member printed	Will Quince
uin	46113
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2016 answer text <p>We want to strengthen the rights of rail passengers to get compensation for poor service. The Consumer Rights Act will allow rail passengers to challenge compensation amounts awarded for delays and cancellations where the train operator is at fault.</p><p> </p><p>Train operators’ existing compensation schemes will continue to provide the main means of redress for passengers after 1 October 2016, when the Act comes into force for all transport providers. We will continue to work with train operators to improve their compensation schemes.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 20/09/2016 10:29:46 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4423 label Biography information for Will Quince

582447

registered interest
date	13/09/2016
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Dormant Assets Commission
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when she expects the Dormant Assets Commission to report.
tabling member constituency	Inverclyde
tabling member printed	Ronnie Cowan
uin	46220
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2016 answer text <p>The Commission on Dormant Assets is expected to report its findings and recommendations to Government in December 2016.</p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson question first answered 20/09/2016 15:45:55 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson
tabling member	4465 label Biography information for Ronnie Cowan

582453

registered interest
date	13/09/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Open Public Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the current work priorities are of the Open Public Services group.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	46273
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2016 answer text <p>The Open Public Services team in the Cabinet Office existed to deliver the Coalition Government's Open Public Services White Paper, published in 2011. The team's work came to a natural end with the end of that government in 2015. The most recent account of the team's work is contained at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-public-services-2014-progress-report" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-public-services-2014-progress-report</a></p><p>All Government Departments work to deliver public services which respond to individual choices and people’s real life complex needs, whilst relentlessly focusing on improvements in quality.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 20/09/2016 13:21:11 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

582482

registered interest
date	13/09/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Type 45 Destroyers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether it is his policy to ensure that Type 45 ships will be repaired and fully operational in order to support the planned new aircraft carrier.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	46179
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2016 answer text <p>All Type 45 Destroyers remain in a planned operational cycle and continue to be routinely deployed. Included in this will be periods when they are undergoing repair.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 20/09/2016 15:27:30 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

582490

registered interest
date	13/09/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of Government-standard qualifying apprenticeship schemes available when the Apprenticeship Levy comes into force in spring 2017.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	46284
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2016 answer text <p>Employer-led reforms to apprenticeships are replacing existing complex frameworks with short, simple, accessible apprenticeship standards designed by employers according to their skills needs. The existing apprenticeship frameworks will close as the new standards are developed and become widely used, and in March 2016 we began the phased withdrawal of SASE frameworks.</p><p>We envisage a migration from apprenticeship frameworks to standards over the course of the Parliament, with as much of this as possible to take place by 2017/18.</p><p>So far, 246 new apprenticeships standards have been published. A further 176 new standards are in development, and we expect more to come forward before the Apprenticeship Levy is implemented in spring 2017.</p> answering member constituency Harlow answering member printed Robert Halfon question first answered 20/09/2016 14:57:41 answering member 3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

582491

registered interest
date	13/09/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	University Technical Colleges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when the next application round for university technical colleges will open.
tabling member constituency	Gloucester
tabling member printed	Richard Graham
uin	46159
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2016 answer text <p>Each University Technical College (UTC) application round opens with the publication of the ‘University Technical Colleges How to Apply Guide’, which sets out the application window for each round. The next How to Apply Guide will be published in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harlow answering member printed Robert Halfon grouped question UIN 45988 question first answered 20/09/2016 11:41:27 answering member 3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon
tabling member	3990 label Biography information for Richard Graham

582492

registered interest
date	13/09/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Breastfeeding: Curriculum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to promote breastfeeding in the curriculum.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	46198
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2016 answer text <p>Where there is a demand from parents and pupils, schools can choose to teach about any topic of interest, including breastfeeding. For example, it can be covered in schools’ personal, social, heath and economic (PSHE) lessons. The suggested programme of study for teachers by the PSHE Association does not specifically cover breastfeeding, but it includes teaching about parenthood and the development of parental skills. Schools can expand on these topics if they wish, and include breastfeeding if there is a demand to cover it.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 20/09/2016 13:58:31 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

582493

registered interest
date	13/09/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to expand education in prisons to reduce reoffending rates and improve life chances for offenders returning to their communities.
tabling member constituency	The Wrekin
tabling member printed	Mark Pritchard
uin	46278
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2016 answer text <p>Prisons should be places of safety and reform. I am determined to make sure that we achieve better outcomes for prisoners in employment, education and health. Fewer than half the people entering prisons have basic standards of English and Maths and around a third have identified learning difficulties or disabilities. This is a huge problem because we know that low levels of education can prevent people from securing jobs on release and leading law abiding lives.</p><p> </p><p>On 15 September the Prime Minister announced the transfer of adult prison education in England to the Ministry of Justice from the Department for Education from 1 October. I would like to see governors having more responsibility for delivering education and being held to account for the outcomes prisoners achieve.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 20/09/2016 12:24:35 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	1576 label Biography information for Mark Pritchard