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date	17/07/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library copies of the resignation letters from the former chairs of the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust (a) Dr Geoffrey Harris and (b) Maria Bell; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Mr Tom Watson
uin	206556
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p>The Department does not hold copies of resignation letters from the former chairs of the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust.</p><p> </p><p>The hon. Member may wish to approach the NHS Trust Development Authority (TDA), which will hold the relevant information. However, the NHS TDA has advised that, as a personal letter, permission would be required before placing this in the public domain in order to meet obligations under the Data Protection Act 1998.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 22/07/2014 16:00:52 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

78737

registered interest
date	17/07/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Ambulance Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on how many occasions (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department have met Dr Anthony Marsh in the last three years; what the purpose was of such meetings; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Mr Tom Watson
uin	206572
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p>The Minister of State (Norman Lamb) has met Dr Anthony Marsh on two occasions in the last three years to discuss the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EEAST) - 11 June 2013 and 24 January 2014.</p><p> </p><p>The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Earl Howe) has met Dr Marsh on the following occasions in the last three years:</p><p> </p><p>- 12 September 2012 at a meeting of the Ministerial Steering Group on Emergency Services Collaboration;</p><p>- 12 October 2012 at a meeting of the National Ambulance Service Network to discuss national issues;</p><p>- 6 November 2012 to discuss the West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust;</p><p>- 10 April 2013 to discuss national ambulance policy and Dr Marsh’s review of the governance of EEAST;</p><p>- 30 May 2013 during a visit to EEAST, to discuss Dr Marsh’s review of the governance of EEAST;</p><p>- 11 June 2013 when Earl Howe hosted a meeting for local Members of Parliament to discuss EEAST. Dr Marsh was present at the meeting;</p><p>- 31 October 2013 to discuss national ambulance policy and issues relating to EEAST;</p><p>- 21 January 2014 to discuss winter pressures on ambulance performance nationally, and to provide an update on EEAST actions;</p><p>- 11 February 2014 to discuss EEAST performance with local Members of Parliament;</p><p>- 8 July 2014 to discuss EEAST performance; and</p><p>- 17 July 2014 (via phone call) to discuss national ambulance policy.</p><p> </p><p>The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Dr Daniel Poulter) attended EEAST’s Long Service and Excellence Awards on 9 May 2014 to present awards. Dr Marsh is likely to have been present at the event.</p><p> </p><p>Departmental officials are likely to have been present at the Ministerial meetings. Departmental officials have also met Dr Marsh separately on the following occasions:</p><p> </p><p>- 19 April 2013 (via phone call) to discuss EEAST;</p><p>- 20 November 2013 to discuss EEAST; and</p><p>- 30 June 2014 - Department of Health officials, together with Department for Communities and Local Government officials, facilitated a meeting between the Chief Fire Officers Association and the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives (AACE). Dr Marsh was present at this meeting as Chair of AACE. The meeting focused on progressing co-responding between the fire service and ambulance services across the country.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><em>Notes:</em></p><p>1. Archived diaries for some former ministers cannot be accessed. The list of Ministerial meetings may not therefore be comprehensive.</p><p>2. There is no official record of meetings between Departmental officials and Dr Marsh. The list may not therefore be comprehensive.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 22/07/2014 15:55:53 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

78007

registered interest
date	15/07/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Billing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the value is of duplicate supplier payments identified by his Department since 2010; and what proportion of such payments have since been recovered in each of the last two financial years.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Mr Tom Watson
uin	205973
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p>The Department checks for duplicate supplier payments as part of the business as usual processes within the finance team. As part of the internal process checks the Department has identified the value of duplicate supplier payments since 2010 as £1,287,260.31.</p><p> </p><p>The proportion of such payments the Department has recovered following these internal checks in each of the last two financial years is as follows:</p><p> </p><p>(i) Payments for 1 April 2012 to 31 March 2013 - £325,456.94 - of which 100% has been recovered based on the internal processes.</p><p>(ii) Payments for 1 April 2013 to 31 March 2014 – £282,198.56 - of which 100% has been recovered based on the internal processes.</p><p> </p><p>For completeness, in the financial year 2010-11 the value of such payments was £510,599.10 of which 99.7% was recovered, and in financial year 2011-12 the value of such payments was £169,005.71 of which 98.6% was recovered.</p><p> </p><p>Further investigations are taking place into duplicate payments made as part of a Spend Recovery Audit that the Department has commissioned externally and we will seek to recover any further duplicates identified as part of this exercise.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 22/07/2014 15:52:39 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest