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1104945

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2019
	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: Children and 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 plans NHS England has to ensure that every child and adolescent mental health service includes speech and language therapists.
	tabling member constituency	Swansea West
	tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
	uin	236260
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Plan, published on 7 January 2019 sets out where extra National Health Service funding will be focused and how services will be designed, including the importance of ensuring speech and language therapy is joined up with children’s mental health services. Work will take place with local areas to design and implement models of care for children and young people that are age appropriate, closer to home and bring together physical and mental health services. These models will support health development by providing holistic care across local authority and NHS services, including primary care, community services, speech and language therapy, school nursing, oral health, acute and specialised services.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 02/04/2019 13:59:15 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1104948

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2019
	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	Speech and Language Disorders: Children and 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, how many children and young people in contact with liaison and diversion services have speech, language and communication needs.
	tabling member constituency	Swansea West
	tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
	uin	236262
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>Over the last four years 2,736 children and young people who engaged with liaison and diversion services commissioned by NHS England, were identified as having a speech, language and communication need, of which 284 cases were referred on to services, as summarised in the following table.</p><p> </p><p>Interventions to address speech, language and communication (SLC) needs</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Referrals</p></td><td><p>Number of Cases 2015/16</p></td><td><p>Number of Cases 2016/17</p></td><td><p>Number of Cases 2017/18</p></td><td><p>Number of Cases Q1 - Q3 2018/19</p></td><td><p>Total to date</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Referral to other agency</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>25</p></td><td><p>90</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Referral for Targeted Service</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>41</p></td><td><p>36</p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p>125</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Referral to specialist SLC service</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>25</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>69</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total Referrals</p></td><td><p>46</p></td><td><p>79</p></td><td><p>87</p></td><td><p>72</p></td><td><p>284</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Need already met</p></td><td><p>111</p></td><td><p>214</p></td><td><p>316</p></td><td><p>267</p></td><td><p>908</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Advice given</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>65</p></td><td><p>60</p></td><td><p>58</p></td><td><p>215</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Did not meet threshold for referral</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>22</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>No appropriate service available locally</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Referral/action indicated but refused by client</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>73</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p>102</p></td><td><p>261</p></td><td><p>351</p></td><td><p>334</p></td><td><p>1,048</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cases needing further follow-up</p></td><td><p>24</p></td><td><p>38</p></td><td><p>43</p></td><td><p>65</p></td><td><p>170</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grand Total</p></td><td><p>322</p></td><td><p>681</p></td><td><p>905</p></td><td><p>828</p></td><td><p>2,736</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Note:<br>Figures are for England only</p><p> </p><p>Information is collected on the number of cases seen by liaison and diversion services, not the number of individuals seen. An individual may have been seen by liaison and diversion services on more than one occasion in any given time period.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 02/04/2019 13:56:10 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1104950

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2019
	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 Capacity
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what criteria will be used to determine which professionals can train to become an Approved Mental Capacity Professional; and whether those criteria will be made public.
	tabling member constituency	Swansea West
	tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
	uin	236263
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>Under the Liberty Protection Safeguards, the Approved Mental Capacity Professional criteria will be set out in regulations. Further detail on the role will also be outlined in the Statutory Code of Practice. The Government envisages professionals such as social workers, learning disability nurses, occupational therapists, psychologists and other suitable health and social care professionals could take on the role if they meet the criteria set out in regulations.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 02/04/2019 11:42:36 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1043167

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2019
	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	Social Services: Older 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 plans he has to increase the social care packages for elderly people.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	uin	209784
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2019 answer text <p>All councils have statutory duties to meet the social care needs of elderly, disabled and vulnerable people in their area, and it is for councils to decide how to meet those needs.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has given councils access to up to £3.6 billion more dedicated funding for adult social care in 2018-19 and up to £3.9 billion for 2019-20.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 24/01/2019 14:34:06 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

1043171

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2019
	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	Patients' Rights
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of patients that used the NHS personalised care model in (a) 2016, (b) 2017 and (c) 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	uin	209785
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2019 answer text <p>The comprehensive model for personalised care is made up of six key components:</p><p>- Patient Choice;</p><p>- Patient Activation;</p><p>- Social Prescribing;</p><p>- Shared decision making;</p><p>- Personalised care and support planning; and</p><p>- Personal health budgets.</p><p> </p><p>This is a new model which was developed through the Integrated Personal Commissioning and Empowering People and Communities programmes. The components were tested in 2017/18 across 21 demonstrator sites, who reported 180,000 personalised care interventions for 2017/18. Sites are now rolling out the model and in Q2 2018/19 reported 280,000 personalised care interventions.</p><p> </p><p>The intention, as set in the NHS Long Term Plan, is to roll out beyond demonstrator sites to reach 2.5 million people by 2023/24.</p><p> </p><p>There is a national data collection for personal health budgets. The number of people with a personal health budget was:</p><p>- 15,811 in 2016/17;</p><p>- 28,040 in 2017/18; and</p><p>- 32,341 in 2018/19 (latest figure from Q2).</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 24/01/2019 14:36:20 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

1107833

	registered interest
	date	29/03/2019
	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	Diabetes: Medical Equipment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people with diabetes were prescribed insulin pump therapy through the NHS in (a) 2016-7 (b) 2017-8 and (c) 2018-9 to date.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	uin	238603
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2019 answer text <p>NHS Digital conducts the National Diabetes Insulin Pump Audit as a part of the National Diabetes Audit (NDA) Programme. Data from this audit shows that the number of people with diabetes attending specialist diabetes services in England in 2016-17 who were using an insulin pump was 9,735. Data for 2017-8 and 2018-9 is not yet available.</p><p> </p><p>It should be noted that disclosure control has been applied to all figures, as per the NDA publication. All numbers are rounded to the nearest five, unless the number is one to seven, in which case it is rounded to five.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 05/04/2019 11:05:37 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

1150992

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2019
	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	Department of Health and Social Care: Living Wage
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many staff his Department are paid less than the London Living Wage; and what requirements his Department places on contractors to pay the London Living Wage to London-based staff.
	tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
	tabling member printed	Matthew Pennycook
	uin	2823
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2019 answer text <p>Whilst Government Departments do not seek accreditation to the Living Wage Foundation in relation to their rates of pay, the Department’s pay levels are above the current London Living Wage rates (as defined by the Living Wage Foundation) for directly employed members of staff and agency staff that are also sourced via the Crown Commercial Services Framework Contingent Labour Framework.</p><p>Contractor pay levels adhere to the statutory requirements to pay the National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage. We do not require pay levels for our contractors to be above London Living Wage levels.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 29/10/2019 17:29:31 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook

1029341

	registered interest
	date	20/12/2018
	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	Department of Health and Social Care: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many staff were employed in his Department on (a) 20 December 2018 and (b) 23 June 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
	tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
	uin	204539
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2019 answer text <p>On 20 December 2018 the Department employed 1,589 civil servants. On 23 June 2016 the Department employed 1,974 civil servants.</p><p> </p><p>Civil servants are defined as employees, fixed term appointments and loans into the Department. These figures do not include agency workers, contractors and consultants.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 09/01/2019 12:24:40 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

928688

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2018
	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	Learning Disability
	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 his Department is taking to ensure that information on learning disability is included in the training of healthcare staff.
	tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
	tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
	uin	156444
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2018 answer text <p>Employers have a statutory responsibility to provide sufficient numbers of suitably qualified, competent, skilled and experienced staff to meet the needs of the people using health services, including those with a learning disability.</p><p> </p><p>The Learning Disability Core Skills Education and Training Framework, published in July 2016 sets out the requisite skills and competencies that staff need to deliver care and support to people with a learning disability. The Framework sets out the necessary skills across three tiers. Tier 1, knowledge for roles that require general awareness of learning disabilities; Tier 2, knowledge and skills for roles that will have some regular contact with people with a learning disability and Tier 3, knowledge and skills for those providing care and support for people with a learning disability. Training should be provided in line with this Framework.</p><p> </p><p>Health Education England (HEE) is currently producing eLearning materials to support Tier 1 learning disability awareness training. This free online training will be available to all staff in 2019. HEE will also be writing to all education providers reminding them of the Learning Disability Core Skills Education and Training Framework and ask them to ensure that all staff groups include Tier 1 awareness training as a minimum.</p><p> </p><p>HEE also uses a workforce development fund to support the ongoing development of staff, with spending focused on priority areas, including staff working with people with learning disabilities and/or autism. Examples of the type of development that is supported includes, Positive Behavioural Support, Total Attachment Theory, Leadership programmes, Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction, Learning Disability Mortality, Building the Right Support, Early Positive Approaches to Support, Restraint Reduction, Positive Behavioural Support Workshops for family carers, Forensic learning disabilities skills, Trauma informed care and Autism.</p><p> </p><p>All nurses receive learning disabilities training as part of their pre-registration education. Curricula are set by individual education providers, to standards set by the professional regulators.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, since April 2015, newly appointed health care assistants, including those who will provide care and support to people with a learning disability have been undergoing training as part of the national implementation of the Care Certificate. The Care Certificate equips new staff with the knowledge and skills which they need to provide safe, compassionate care across a range of areas, including the care of people with a learning disability.</p><p> </p><p>We have committed that there will be a response to each of the recommendations of the Learning Disabilities Mortality Review Programme annual report, including the recommendation on training. The response will be published soon.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 156445 question first answered 27/06/2018 13:04:02 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

928689

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2018
	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	Learning Disability
	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 his Department is taking to support the provision of continuing professional development in respect of learning disabilities for all front-line health staff.
	tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
	tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
	uin	156445
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2018 answer text <p>Employers have a statutory responsibility to provide sufficient numbers of suitably qualified, competent, skilled and experienced staff to meet the needs of the people using health services, including those with a learning disability.</p><p> </p><p>The Learning Disability Core Skills Education and Training Framework, published in July 2016 sets out the requisite skills and competencies that staff need to deliver care and support to people with a learning disability. The Framework sets out the necessary skills across three tiers. Tier 1, knowledge for roles that require general awareness of learning disabilities; Tier 2, knowledge and skills for roles that will have some regular contact with people with a learning disability and Tier 3, knowledge and skills for those providing care and support for people with a learning disability. Training should be provided in line with this Framework.</p><p> </p><p>Health Education England (HEE) is currently producing eLearning materials to support Tier 1 learning disability awareness training. This free online training will be available to all staff in 2019. HEE will also be writing to all education providers reminding them of the Learning Disability Core Skills Education and Training Framework and ask them to ensure that all staff groups include Tier 1 awareness training as a minimum.</p><p> </p><p>HEE also uses a workforce development fund to support the ongoing development of staff, with spending focused on priority areas, including staff working with people with learning disabilities and/or autism. Examples of the type of development that is supported includes, Positive Behavioural Support, Total Attachment Theory, Leadership programmes, Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction, Learning Disability Mortality, Building the Right Support, Early Positive Approaches to Support, Restraint Reduction, Positive Behavioural Support Workshops for family carers, Forensic learning disabilities skills, Trauma informed care and Autism.</p><p> </p><p>All nurses receive learning disabilities training as part of their pre-registration education. Curricula are set by individual education providers, to standards set by the professional regulators.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, since April 2015, newly appointed health care assistants, including those who will provide care and support to people with a learning disability have been undergoing training as part of the national implementation of the Care Certificate. The Care Certificate equips new staff with the knowledge and skills which they need to provide safe, compassionate care across a range of areas, including the care of people with a learning disability.</p><p> </p><p>We have committed that there will be a response to each of the recommendations of the Learning Disabilities Mortality Review Programme annual report, including the recommendation on training. The response will be published soon.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 156444 question first answered 27/06/2018 13:04:02 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron