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1056875

registered interest
date	07/02/2019
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: 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, what data his Department holds on the routes through which young people with severe mental health issues are referred to local authorities and health trusts for assessment and treatment.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	218169
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 12/02/2019 17:04:54 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1056873

registered interest
date	06/02/2019
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: 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, what guidelines his Department has put in place for local authorities and health trusts on target waiting times for young people with severe mental health issues before they are (a) assessed and (b) offerered appropriate treatment.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	218168
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2019 answer text <p>The Department has introduced two waiting time standards for children and young people and are on track to meet both of these standards. The first aims for 95% of children (up to 19 years old) with eating disorders to receive treatment within a week for urgent cases and four weeks for routine cases.</p><p> </p><p>81.3% of children and young people’s eating disorder patients started urgent treatment within one week and 80.2% of patients started routine treatment within four weeks in April to June 2018. The second aims for 50% of patients of all ages experiencing a first episode of psychosis to receive treatment within two weeks of referral. Nationally, the National Health Service is exceeding the target, with 76.2% of patients started treatment within two weeks in November 2018.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England publishes guidance for commissioners on waiting times standards for eating disorders and early intervention in psychosis, respectively, available at the following links:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/cyp-eating-disorders-access-waiting-time-standard-comm-guid.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/cyp-eating-disorders-access-waiting-time-standard-comm-guid.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/mentalhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2016/04/eip-guidance.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/mentalhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2016/04/eip-guidance.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>As set out in the NHS Long Term Plan, NHS England will test approaches that could feasibly deliver four week waiting times for access to NHS support, ahead of introducing new national waiting time standards for all children and young people who need specialist mental health services.</p><p> </p><p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence provide national guidance for recognising and managing psychosis and schizophrenia in children and young people, which aims to improve early recognition of psychosis and schizophrenia so that children and young people can be offered the treatment and care they need to live with the condition. This guidance can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg155" target="_blank">https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg155</a></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 12/02/2019 16:56:05 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1054999

registered interest
date	05/02/2019
answering body	House of Commons Commission
answering dept id	18
answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
hansard heading	House of Commons: Security
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington, representing the House of Commons Commission, for what reasons the terms, conditions and rates of overtime pay of House of Commons security staff have been altered.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	216913
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2019 answer text <p>The terms and conditions and rates of overtime pay for House of Commons security staff have not been altered.</p><p>Approximately 55% of security staff in the Parliamentary Security Department, are former employees of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) and transferred to the House Service on 1 April 2016. Their MPS terms and conditions are honoured under the Transfer of Undertaking (Protection of Employment) Regulations (TUPE). New recruits are employed on House of Commons terms and conditions which differ in a number of ways including the rates of overtime paid. The overall value of these terms is broadly equivalent to the MPS TUPE terms.</p><p>In late 2016, an error was identified in the contracts for a small number of staff employed on House of Commons terms which resulted in overtime being paid at an incorrect rate. Affected staff were informed of the error and given a notice period for a variation to their contracts during which they were paid at the higher rate. Any overtime paid during the relevant period (between date of appointment and date of variation to contract) was paid at the higher rate and not recovered. This issue was also heard at an Employment Tribunal which ruled in favour of the House.</p><p>The unions have asked us to consider changes to overtime rates for those staff on House of Commons contracts which we will consider as part of pay negotiations for 2019/20.</p> answering member constituency Carshalton and Wallington answering member printed Tom Brake question first answered 12/02/2019 12:19:10 answering member 151 label Biography information for Tom Brake previous answer version 101144 answering member constituency Carshalton and Wallington answering member printed Tom Brake answering member 151 label Biography information for Tom Brake
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1055068

registered interest
date	05/02/2019
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	South Sudan: Peace Negotiations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which parties were signatories to the current peace deal in South Sudan; and which parties refused to sign it.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	216922
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2019 answer text <p>The Revitalised Agreement of the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan (R-ARCSS) was signed on 12 September 2018. The Parties listed in R-ARCSS are: the Transitional Government of National Unity of the Republic of South Sudan; the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army-In Opposition; the South Sudan Opposition Alliance; former detainees; and a range of other smaller political parties. A diverse range of stakeholders from civil society and the region, including representatives from the church, business, and women's groups, also signed. The agreement can be found on the Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission website. The most significant party to the conflict which did not sign R-ARCSS is the National Salvation Front (known as NAS) led by General Thomas Cirillo.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 12/02/2019 15:52:08 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1054671

registered interest
date	04/02/2019
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	Incinerators: Health Hazards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 1 February 2019 to Question 212586 on Incinerators: Health Hazards, will he will publish the (a) reports and (b) evidence considered by Public Health England.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	216110
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2019 answer text <p>The Public Health England (PHE) position statement published in 2009 outlines the basis of the conclusion that well run and regulated municipal waste incinerators are not a significant risk to public health.</p><p> </p><p>The evidence reviewed is outlined in the reference section of the position statement.</p><p> </p><p>PHE’s position statement is available to view at the following link:</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/municipal-waste-incinerator-emissions-to-air-impact-on-health" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/municipal-waste-incinerator-emissions-to-air-impact-on-health</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 12/02/2019 11:52:19 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1054672

registered interest
date	04/02/2019
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	Incinerators: Health Hazards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 1 February 2018 to Question 212589 on Incinerators: Health Hazards, which reports provided via the url link in that Answer reference PM0.1 and PM1 emissions from incinerators.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	216111
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2019 answer text <p>None of these assessments focus specifically on particulate matter emissions from incinerators.</p><p> </p><p>Public Health England’s (PHE’s) position is that well run and regulated modern municipal waste incinerators (MWIs) are not a significant risk to public health. This view is based on detailed assessments of the effects of air pollutants on health and the fact that modern and well managed MWIs make only a very small contribution to local concentrations of air pollutants.</p><p> </p><p>PHE will review its advice in light of new substantial research on the health effects of MWIs published in peer reviewed journals. To date, PHE is not aware of any evidence that requires a change in its position statement.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 12/02/2019 11:54:06 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1054673

registered interest
date	04/02/2019
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	Air Pollution: Health Hazards
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 the report entitled, Statement on the evidence for differential health effects of particulate matter according to source or component, published by COMEAP in March 2015, if he will direct (a) Public Health England and (b) COMEAP to commission research into the levels of toxicity of particulate matter from different sources.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	216112
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2019 answer text <p>Public Health England (PHE) and the Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants keeps their advice under review in light of new substantial research on the health effects of incinerators and other particulate emitting processes published in peer review journals, which can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/comeap-reports" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/comeap-reports</a></p><p> </p><p>To date, PHE is not aware of any evidence that requires a change in its position statement.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 12/02/2019 11:55:29 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1054674

registered interest
date	04/02/2019
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	Incinerators: Health Hazards
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 the implications for his policys of the results of the study entitled Characterisation of elemental in PM2.5 in a medium sized Swedish city dominated by a modern waste incinerator plant, published in X-Ray Spectrometry in 2006.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	216124
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2019 answer text <p>Assessments of the risks of pollutants to health are informed by the weight of the available evidence, rather than being undertaken on the basis of an individual study.</p><p> </p><p>Public Health England’s (PHE’s) position is that well run and regulated modern municipal waste incinerators (MWIs) are not a significant risk to public health. This view is based on detailed assessments of the effects of air pollutants on health and the fact that modern and well managed MWIs make only a very small contribution to local concentrations of air pollutants.</p><p> </p><p>PHE will review its advice in light of new substantial research on the health effects of MWIs published in peer reviewed journals. To date, PHE is not aware of any evidence that requires a change in its position statement.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 12/02/2019 11:50:11 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1054675

registered interest
date	04/02/2019
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	Incinerators: Health Hazards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 31 January 2019 to Question 212303 on Air Pollution: Research, what proportion of the £1billion will be allocated to research into the health effects of ultrafine particles from incinerators.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	216125
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2019 answer text <p>The Department is investing over £1 billion a year in health research through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). It is not usual practice for the NIHR to ring-fence a proportion of its budget for research into particular topics or conditions. The NIHR will consider funding applications for research into any aspect of human health, including the effect of ultrafine particles. These applications are subject to peer review and judged in open competition, with awards being made on the basis of the importance of the topic to patients and health and care services, value for money and scientific quality.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 12/02/2019 16:58:25 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew