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454214

registered interest
date	23/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Services: Foreign Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions the Government has had with the governments of Australia and New Zealand on the proposed introduction of an annual change to Australian and New Zealand citizens for use of the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	28050
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>On 6 April 2015 the United Kingdom introduced an immigration health surcharge for non-European Economic Area nationals who come to the UK to temporarily reside for a period of over six months. At the time Australian and New Zealand nationals were granted a temporary exemption and we entered into a series of discussions with both the Australian and New Zealand Government on the introduction of the surcharge for its nationals. My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health wrote to both the Australian Minister for Health and New Zealand High Commissioner confirming introduction of the surcharge on 17 December 2015. Introduction of the surcharge for Australian and New Zealand nationals was publicly announced by the Home Office on 4 February 2016 and subject to Parliamentary approval, it will come into effect from 6 April 2016.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 02/03/2016 16:16:42 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

454219

registered interest
date	23/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Social Services: Living Wage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if the Government will provide additional financial support to providers in the care industry to support such providers affected by the introduction of the living wage; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	28150
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for commissioning adult social care services. Fee levels are agreed by local authorities and social care providers, reflecting local conditions. In setting fee levels, local authorities are obliged to consider the sustainability of their local social care market.</p><p> </p><p>At the Spending Review, the Government made up to £3.5 billion extra available by 2019/20 to local authorities for adult social care through the social care precept and Better Care Fund. This will help give councils more flexibility to meet local priorities as they see fit.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 02/03/2016 17:08:51 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

454230

registered interest
date	23/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Personal Health Budgets
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps the Government is taking to increase public awareness of personal health budgets.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	28147
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2016 answer text <p>NHS England provides a comprehensive programme of training and support for clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to help them to develop and publish a local offer of personal health budgets by April 2016. CCGs are now also required to include their personal health budget offer in their Health and Wellbeing Strategies, which are published in the public domain. To increase public awareness further, NHS England funds a national network of people with lived experiences of personal health budgets who champion their use both nationally and locally.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England has made it clear that CCGs have a duty to inform people who are eligible for NHS Continuing Healthcare that they have the right to have a personal health budget, for example including information in the letter that informs individuals they are eligible. NHS England is currently consulting on the new CCG Improvement and Assessment framework, which will ask CCGs to submit the number of personal health budgets in their local area. The results of this will be used to inform the public of how many personal health budgets have been given locally and how their area compares with the rest of the country.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 26/02/2016 15:55:10 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

454231

registered interest
date	23/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Social Services: Living Wage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment the Government has made of the effect on the care industry of the implementation of the living wage.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	28145
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>Out of an estimated 1.52 million adult social care jobs in England, up to 900,000 people are expected to benefit from the introduction of the National Living Wage.</p><p> </p><p>More widely across the sector, higher productivity and better-quality care through efficiency would benefit employers and care home residents and there is potential for improvements in staff retention if higher wages engendered greater job commitment.</p><p> </p><p>The Department continues to work in collaboration with delivery partners to support effective recruitment practices and improved retention of the care workforce.</p><p> </p><p>Our assessment of the effect of the National Living Wage for the Spending Review drew on projections and data on pay including information from the Office of Budget Responsibility and Skills for Care.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 02/03/2016 17:07:55 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

447394

registered interest
date	25/01/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	All Party Parliamentary Group on Smoking and Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answers of 10 December 2015 to Questions 18458 and 18543, what assessment he has made of the compatibility with the conditions applicable to grants awarded to Action on Smoking and Health of its the provision of secretariat assistance to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Smoking and Health; if he will review the conditions set out in the award letters for such grants; and if he will investigate any breaches in such conditions.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	24088
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2016 answer text <p>The conditions applicable to grants awarded to Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) are set out in the grant award letters. The Department has made clear that none of this funding is to be used for lobbying purposes.</p><p> </p><p>The Section 64 grant must be spent in delivering the agreed project outputs set out in the grant award letter and it does not fund secretariat support for the All Party Parliamentary Group on Smoking and Health.</p><p> </p><p>ASH’s compliance with the conditions of the grant is assessed at the grant monitoring meetings held between the Deputy Director of tobacco control and representatives from ASH as well as in the final full year grant monitoring and governance reports.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 01/02/2016 11:59:48 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

443841

registered interest
date	11/01/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Medicine: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if his Department will take steps to expand the number of places in medicine courses in universities.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	21982
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2016 answer text <p>The Department of Health and Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) have periodically reviewed the total number and distribution of undergraduate medical students, basing targets for these students on information provided by the Centre for Workforce Intelligence and local workforce plans that estimate how many doctors we need to work in the National Health Service.</p><br /><p>Since the establishment of Health Education England (HEE) in April 2013, responsibility for reviewing the target intake for medical students has sat with them.</p><br /><p>HEE is currently reviewing the target intake for medical students and will submit recommendations to the Department in the spring. Any changes to medical student numbers will need to be agreed with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and HEFCE who also contribute to the funding of undergraduate medical education.</p><br /> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 15/01/2016 12:58:35 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

442437

registered interest
date	17/12/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Doctors: EU Countries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he plans to take to ensure that implementation of European Professional Cards for doctors does not inhibit his Department's ability to perform background checks on doctors from other European countries.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	902879
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2016 answer text <p>The European Professional Card (EPC) will not be introduced for doctors until 2018 at the earliest.</p><br /><p>The European Commission will review the effectiveness of the EPC process for the first wave of professions, which includes nurses, pharmacists and physiotherapists, before any decision is taken to extend the EPC to other professions.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 05/01/2016 16:51:42 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

435888

registered interest
date	07/12/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Doctors: English Language
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that doctors from the EU working in the NHS have adequate English skills to practice.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	18964
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2015 answer text <p>In 2014 powers were given to the General Medical Council to enable them to carry out proportionate language checks on doctors from the European Union who wish to practise in the United Kingdom. This is a major step forward for quality of care and patient safety by ensuring that only doctors with adequate English language skills are able to practise in the UK.</p><br /><p>Local checks are also carried out by individual employers as part of their recruitment processes.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 10/12/2015 14:20:13 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

435889

registered interest
date	07/12/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Doctors: Migrant Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that the implementation of European Professional Cards for doctors does not inhibit his Department's ability to perform background checks on doctors from European countries and to ensure that they meet the medical qualification standards required by the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	18965
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>The European Professional Card (EPC) will not be introduced for doctors until 2018 at the earliest. The European Commission will review the effectiveness of the EPC process for the first wave of professions, which includes nurses, pharmacists and physiotherapists, before any decision is taken to extend the EPC to other professions.</p><br /><p>In the United Kingdom, independent health regulators are responsible for performing checks on health professionals from European countries to ensure that they meet agreed standards of fitness to practise. For doctors, this role is undertaken by the General Medical Council.</p><br /><p>Although under the EPC system the responsibility for carrying out initial background checks will transfer to the home regulator of the professional, UK regulators will continue to be able to carry out registration checks, and can require additional information if there are any justifiable doubts about a registrant’s application or fitness to practise.</p><br /><p>The UK Government has negotiated new safeguards to ensure that the high standards we expect from staff in this country are met by those from elsewhere in Europe who come to work here. These include:</p><br /><p>- the introduction of an EU-wide alert mechanism which regulators will use to inform other countries of professionals who have been restricted from practising; and</p><p>- applying language controls for healthcare professionals from the EU so that regulators are able to ensure that professionals have the necessary knowledge of English before they are able to work in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 15/12/2015 17:30:42 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

433822

registered interest
date	02/12/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Action on Smoking and Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 23 November 2015 to Question 16779, if he will assess the extent to which grants made by his Department to Action on Smoking and Health were used for activities designed to influence his Department, other departments or Parliament.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	18543
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2015 answer text <p>The conditions applicable to grants awarded to Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) are set out in the grant award letters. The Department has made clear that none of this funding is to be used for lobbying purposes.</p><br /><p>ASH’s compliance with the conditions of the grant is assessed at the grant monitoring meetings held between the Deputy Director of tobacco control and representatives from ASH as well as in the final full year grant monitoring and governance reports.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 10/12/2015 13:39:28 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell