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registered interest
date	20/04/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration Enforcement Directorate
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans for the Immigration Enforcement Business Plan for 2016-17 to be published.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	71513
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2017 answer text <p>The Department’s plans for immigration enforcement will be communicated in due course.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 25/04/2017 12:21:01 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

720285

registered interest
date	13/04/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Community Housing Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether the Community Housing Fund will continue to be distributed through local authorities from 2017-18.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	70575
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2017 answer text <p>The first year of the Community Housing Fund was distributed through local authorities and used to build capacity within local groups. Funding for 2017/18 will be used to deliver housing on the ground for local people.</p> answering member constituency Croydon Central answering member printed Gavin Barwell question first answered 25/04/2017 10:38:06 answering member 3955 label Biography information for Lord Barwell
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

720511

registered interest
date	13/04/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Junior Doctors: Conditions of Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment was made prior to the implementation of the junior doctors' contract in 2016 of the additional financial and administrative cost associated with (a) pay protection, (b) additional hours payments, (c) guardian fines, (d) guardian of safe working hours role and (e) exception reporting management.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	70932
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2017 answer text <p>The contract will be recurrently cost-neutral with the exception of additional employer pension contributions arising from the increase in basic pay that was agreed with the British Medical Association as a condition for them entering negotiations in 2013 and was honoured by the Government. This is expected to rise to around £25 million per annum recurrently at the end of transition (circa 0.6% of total contract value).</p><p> </p><p>In addition, there are limited non-recurrent costs of pay protection during transition. Upfront assessments of these costs are uncertain.</p><p> </p><p>Additional hours payments and any fines reflect additional work carried out and are therefore outside the cost neutral funding envelope and will depend on how trusts manage juniors locally. Exception reporting is managed through rota management software. The role of the Guardian of safe working typically takes up a portion of the time of one consultant in each trust. This is seen as an investment in improving safe working for trainees.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 25/04/2017 14:14:36 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

720516

registered interest
date	13/04/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Junior Doctors: Conditions of Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment was undertaken before the implementation of the new contract of the work-life balance of junior doctors.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	70906
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2017 answer text <p>An extensive programme of work is being undertaken, developed with the full involvement of the British Medical Association, to address junior doctors’ non-contractual concerns, particularly through Health Education England’s Working Group on improving junior doctors’ working lives:</p><p> </p><p>- reviewing rotations so that junior doctors do not have to change placements more than is necessary and can establish a relationship with a single organisation;</p><p>- ensuring that junior doctors beginning rotations know their schedule a month earlier than at present;</p><p>- allowing couples to apply to train in the same area;</p><p>- offering training placements close to their home for those with caring responsibilities;</p><p>- introducing a new catch up programme for doctors who take maternity leave or take time off for caring responsibilities;</p><p>- identifying and removing barriers to flexible (part-time) working; and</p><p>- reviewing how to make appraisal for junior doctors simpler and less stressful.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 25/04/2017 14:12:10 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

720527

registered interest
date	13/04/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Junior Doctors: Conditions of Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish (a) the metrics by which the success of the 2016 junior doctors' contract will be measured in the 2018 review and (b) which stakeholders will be consulted in that review.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	70907
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2017 answer text <p>The intention of the Government is that the review will be undertaken by NHS Employers with the British Medical Association and that metrics and any wider consultation will be agreed then between the parties.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 25/04/2017 14:16:07 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

720530

registered interest
date	13/04/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Junior Doctors: Working Hours
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 effect on the health service of the reduced capacity of junior doctors to undertake additional shifts or internal locums with their own organisations prior to the implementation of the junior doctors' contract in 2016.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	70808
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2017 answer text <p>The new Junior Doctor’s contract retains the same maximum requirement for working hours of an average of 48 hours a week or 56 if the doctor chooses to opt out of the working time regulations. The contract also includes a fidelity clause so that trainees wishing to work extra shifts offer them to the National Health Service first.</p><p> </p><p>Further, the General Medical Council has recognised that some trainees that do not work full time may have the capacity to undertake additional shifts and have given their support for those working less than full time to do so. Previous advice was that Less Than Full Time trainees should not undertake additional shifts.</p><p>The previous contract allowed patterns of working that junior doctors' representatives told us were unsafe. The new contract is much safer and includes new, stronger limits on working hours and patterns. These include:</p><p>- the maximum number of hours worked in a week reduced from 91 to 72;</p><p>- the maximum number of consecutive nights reduced from seven to four; and</p><p>- the maximum number of consecutive long days reduced from seven to five.</p><p> </p><p>The new contract puts patients first by requiring that these rules apply also to any additional shifts a trainee might choose to work, ensuring junior doctors are not required to work when tired and that their overall working hours, whether they work for their own or another employer remains within safe limits. These are overseen by a Guardian of Safe Working Hours in every trust. Doctors can therefore offer additional hours to the same overall limits as before but must work them within the new safe limits.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 25/04/2017 14:48:49 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston