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946740

registered interest
date	23/07/2018
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	Ambulance Services
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 has taken to ensure support for ambulance trusts during winter 2018-19.
tabling member constituency	Witham
tabling member printed	Priti Patel
uin	906626
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>I have been engaging with NHS Improvement, NHS England and the ambulance service to support improved ambulance performance.</p><p> </p><p>To help meet pressures this winter and beyond, on 6 July we announced £36.3 million of investment in the ambulance service that will be used to purchase 256 state-of-the art ambulances at five ambulance trusts, and to develop vehicle preparation hubs in the East of England and Yorkshire, which will see specialist staff quickly restock, refuel and clean ambulances, getting them back on the road faster.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, following a rigorous independent evaluation, we have introduced an improved national performance framework for ambulances. These changes prioritise responses to the sickest patients, while helping to reduce long waits for ambulance responses; ensure patients receive the response they need, first time; and improve the efficiency and resilience of the ambulance service in the face of rising demand.</p><p> </p><p>Challenged ambulance trusts, including the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EEAST), are receiving tailored support to meet the new national response time standards. This includes comprehensive cross-system reviews led by regional directors, and the implementation of performance improvement plans. Further actions to deliver improvement at EEAST include additional funding for 330 new staff and 160 new ambulances, alongside the implementation of recommendations from the recently published governance review of the Trust. This will ensure the Trust has appropriate capacity and governance processes in place to meet demand and deliver high quality ambulance responses to patients.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 24/07/2018 16:24:37 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel

945588

registered interest
date	20/07/2018
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Food Banks: North East
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an estimate of the number of people using food banks in the North East.
tabling member constituency	Jarrow
tabling member printed	Mr Stephen Hepburn
uin	166461
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>We do not record the number of people using food banks or other types of food aid. We are currently reviewing research carried out by organisations including the Trussell Trust, to add to our understanding of food bank use, and will consider requirements to add to our evidence base.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 24/07/2018 10:13:21 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	520 label Biography information for Mr Stephen Hepburn

945594

registered interest
date	20/07/2018
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	Obesity: Children
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 reduce rates of childhood obesity.
tabling member constituency	Chippenham
tabling member printed	Michelle Donelan
uin	906611
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>We published the second chapter of our world-leading childhood obesity plan on 25 June. This builds on the real progress we have made since the publication of chapter one in 2016, particularly in reformulation of the products our children eat and drink most. Our plan sets a bold ambition to halve childhood obesity and significantly reduce the gap in obesity between children from the most and least deprived areas by 2030.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 24/07/2018 13:40:12 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan

944640

registered interest
date	19/07/2018
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	Teenage Pregnancy: Coventry
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of trends in the level of under-age pregnancies among females in social care in Coventry since 2010; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	166063
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>Public Health England (PHE) has not undertaken an assessment of the trends in the level of under-age pregnancies among females in social care in Coventry since 2010.</p><p> </p><p>PHE’s Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Framework reports that young people who are looked after are three times more likely to be a parent by 18. Further information and recommendations regarding targeted prevention work with this cohort is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/708932/teenage_pregnancy_prevention_framework.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/708932/teenage_pregnancy_prevention_framework.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>The needs of looked-after children and care leavers are also highlighted in the PHE support framework for teenage mothers and young fathers, which is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teenage-mothers-and-young-fathers-support-framework" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teenage-mothers-and-young-fathers-support-framework</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 24/07/2018 14:59:57 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

944644

registered interest
date	19/07/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has made a recent assessment of the capacity of Coventry City Council to discharge its statutory responsibilities to vulnerable children; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	166064
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>Formal assessment of local authority delivery of children’s social care is the responsibility of the independent inspectorate, Ofsted.</p><p> </p><p>Ofsted conducted a full inspection of Coventry City Council’s (CCC’s) children’s social care services in March 2017, and the subsequent report, published on 14 June 2017, found services to be ‘requires improvement’. This is an improvement from their previous inspection judgement in May 2014 which found them to be ‘inadequate’.</p><p> </p><p>Following the inspection in March 2017, consistent with government policy for councils that have previously failed an inspection but have now improved services, CCC were no longer formally in ‘intervention’. However, it was clear, as Ofsted reported, that the council still had more work to do to ensure all vulnerable children were receiving a good service.</p><p> </p><p>Since then, the department has continued to work with the council to monitor whether recent improvements are being sustained. CCC are now participating in a regional improvement alliance joining with other local councils in the region in a programme of supportive peer challenge to ensure services continue to improve and do not deteriorate back into being ‘inadequate’.</p><p> </p><p>Concerns about the functioning of a local authority’s children’s social care services should be reported to Ofsted.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 24/07/2018 14:34:49 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

944645

registered interest
date	19/07/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department is providing assistance to local authorities to meet the demand for children’s services in rural areas around Coventry; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	166065
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>The 2015 Spending Review made available more than £200 billion until 2020 for councils to deliver the local services their communities want to see, including children’s services. In February, Parliament confirmed the settlement for local government. This provided a £1.3 billion increase in resources to local government over the next two years.</p><p>Funding for children’s services is an un-ring-fenced part of the wider local government finance settlement, to give local authorities the flexibility to focus on locally determined priorities and, of course, their statutory responsibilities, including children’s social care. It is up to local authorities to decide how best to allocate their funds to meet the demand for children’s services in their local area.</p><p>In addition to core funding, the Department for Education has also committed almost £270 million since 2014 to help local authorities to innovate and reform services to achieve better quality and efficiency. The Innovation Programme is enabling local authorities across the country to develop, test and scale more effective and efficient approaches to supporting children and young people. Learning from the Innovation Programme is informing the new What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care, whose early priorities include improving the evidence of what works in reducing the need for children to enter care.</p><p>We recognise that funding pressures on local authorities may be greater in some parts of the country than in others so we are working alongside the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and the sector to review current funding distributions as part of the government’s fair funding review of relative needs and resources.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 24/07/2018 13:02:40 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

944654

registered interest
date	19/07/2018
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Water Supply
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the level of water stress in each water company area throughout England.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	166066
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>The Environment Agency published the classification of water stress in England and Wales in July 2013 which updated the original assessment in 2007. The report can be found here:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/244333/water-stressed-classification-2013.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/244333/water-stressed-classification-2013.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Environment Agency actively monitors the environment and water resources. The Agency has stepped up its monitoring since the dry weather last month including monitoring river flows and levels, groundwater levels, abstraction compliance and environmental impacts.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 24/07/2018 10:26:43 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

944655

registered interest
date	19/07/2018
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Water Companies: Assets
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the value of assets held by water companies throughout England in each year since 1989.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	166067
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>Ofwat’s estimate of the regulatory capital value (RCV) for each year between 1990/91 and 2016/17 is as follows.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1990-91</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1991-92</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1992-93</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1993-94</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1994-95</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1995-96</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1996-97</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>RCV £bn</strong></p></td><td><p>16.9</p></td><td><p>19.8</p></td><td><p>22.2</p></td><td><p>24.8</p></td><td><p>28.5</p></td><td><p>31.5</p></td><td><p>34.6</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>1997-98</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1998-99</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1999-00</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2000-01</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2001-02</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2002-03</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2003-04</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2004-05</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>37.6</p></td><td><p>40.2</p></td><td><p>42.3</p></td><td><p>42.9</p></td><td><p>43.7</p></td><td><p>45.4</p></td><td><p>46.9</p></td><td><p>48.0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>2005-06</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2006-07</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2007-08</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2008-09</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2009-10</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010-11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011-12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>51.2</p></td><td><p>53.2</p></td><td><p>54.8</p></td><td><p>55.7</p></td><td><p>56.3</p></td><td><p>57.6</p></td><td><p>59.7</p></td><td><p>61.5</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015-16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016-17</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>62.8</p></td><td><p>63.1</p></td><td><p>62.6</p></td><td><p>63.8</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The RCV is based on the market value of the companies at privatisation including any debt, and increases each year in line with new water and sewerage capital expenditure.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 24/07/2018 15:33:35 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

944658

registered interest
date	19/07/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Soft Drinks: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has made an estimate of how much money would be generated annually were the soft drinks levy to be extended to milk-based drinks; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	166105
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>As set out in Phase 2 of the Childhood Obesity Strategy, HMT will review the Soft Drinks Industry Levy exemption for milk-based drinks in 2020. At this stage, we have not made an assessment of the revenue that would be generated.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Levy is designed to tackle childhood obesity by incentivising producers and importers to reduce the amount of added-sugar in the drinks they sell. So far, over half of all drinks that would otherwise have been in-scope have reduced their sugar content before the introduction of the levy, meaning expected revenues have reduced from over £500m pa to £240m pa.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 24/07/2018 16:52:59 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

944661

registered interest
date	19/07/2018
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Asperger's Syndrome
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effect of the replacement of Aspergers with Autistic Spectrum Disorder in the fifth edition of the Diagnosis and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders on the ability of people with Aspergers to claim personal independence payment and employment support allowance as a result of being required to secure a new diagnosis when proving that their condition affects their daily living.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	166213
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>The publication of the fifth edition of the Diagnosis and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has had no impact on the eligibility criteria for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) or for Personal Independence Payment (PIP).</p><p> </p><p>The Work Capability Assessment (WCA) is designed to determine an individual’s eligibility for ESA. It assesses individuals against a set of functional physical and mental health descriptors to assess how their health condition or disability affects their ability to work.</p><p> </p><p>Entitlement for PIP is assessed on the basis of the needs arising from a long-term health condition or disability, not the health condition or the disability itself.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 24/07/2018 16:12:51 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows