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166563

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date	27/11/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Services for Children and Young People With Speech Language and Communication Needs Review
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress he has made on implementing the recommendations of the Bercow Review of support for children and young people with speech, language and communications needs.
tabling member constituency	Colchester
tabling member printed	Sir Bob Russell
uin	216303
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2014 answer text <p>There was a comprehensive range of actions undertaken to implement the recommendations of the Bercow Review. The forum for ensuring an effective, coordinated approach across sectors is the Communication Council (as recommended by the Review), which involves Government Departments and the Communication Trust. In particular, the Council is supporting the implementation of the new statutory framework for children and young people with special educational needs and disability, which provides a basis for ensuring children’s communication needs are recognised and supported, as part of a person-centred approach to assessing, planning and securing their education, health and care.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 04/12/2014 14:26:15 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	35 label Biography information for Sir Bob Russell

166564

registered interest
date	27/11/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Dementia: Lancashire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of adults in (a) Pendle constituency and (b) Lancashire have been diagnosed with dementia in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Pendle
tabling member printed	Andrew Stephenson
uin	216305
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2014 answer text <p>Information is not available in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of patients on the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) dementia register and the raw prevalence rate for the specified organisations are shown in the following tables.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Data are shown for each of the last eight years only due to the inclusion of dementia on the QOF register from 2006-07.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Number of patients on the QOF dementia register, and the raw prevalence rate for East Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and East Lancashire Teaching Primary Care Trust (PCT).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>East Lancashire</p></td><td><p>Number of practices</p></td><td><p>Total list size</p></td><td><p>Dementia register counts</p></td><td><p>Dementia prevalence rates</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Lancashire CCG</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 March 2014</p></td><td><p>59</p></td><td><p>371,608</p></td><td><p>2,323</p></td><td><p>0.63%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 March 2013</p></td><td><p>61</p></td><td><p>367,891</p></td><td><p>2,197</p></td><td><p>0.60%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Lancashire PCT</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 March 2012</p></td><td><p>65</p></td><td><p>386,187</p></td><td><p>2,183</p></td><td><p>0.57%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 March 2011</p></td><td><p>67</p></td><td><p>388,324</p></td><td><p>1,975</p></td><td><p>0.51%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 March 2010</p></td><td><p>67</p></td><td><p>388,267</p></td><td><p>1,848</p></td><td><p>0.48%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 March 2009</p></td><td><p>65</p></td><td><p>388,345</p></td><td><p>1,715</p></td><td><p>0.44%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 March 2008</p></td><td><p>65</p></td><td><p>387,543</p></td><td><p>1,774</p></td><td><p>0.46%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 March 2007</p></td><td><p>65</p></td><td><p>386,260</p></td><td><p>1,744</p></td><td><p>0.45%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Number of patients on the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) dementia register, and the raw prevalence rate for the whole of Lancashire.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>All Lancashire</p></td><td><p>Number of practices</p></td><td><p>Total list size</p></td><td><p>Dementia register counts</p></td><td><p>Dementia prevalence rates</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lancashire Area Team<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 March 2014</p></td><td><p>231</p></td><td><p>1,519,892</p></td><td><p>10,408</p></td><td><p>0.68%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 March 2013</p></td><td><p>235</p></td><td><p>1,520,393</p></td><td><p>9,655</p></td><td><p>0.64%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total of Lancashire PCTs<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 March 2012</p></td><td><p>237</p></td><td><p>1,520,588</p></td><td><p>8,933</p></td><td><p>0.59%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 March 2011</p></td><td><p>240</p></td><td><p>1,514,700</p></td><td><p>8,046</p></td><td><p>0.53%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 March 2010</p></td><td><p>244</p></td><td><p>1,514,483</p></td><td><p>7,538</p></td><td><p>0.50%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 March 2009</p></td><td><p>243</p></td><td><p>1,513,166</p></td><td><p>7,118</p></td><td><p>0.47%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 March 2008</p></td><td><p>244</p></td><td><p>1,505,934</p></td><td><p>6,911</p></td><td><p>0.46%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 March 2007</p></td><td><p>248</p></td><td><p>1,497,074</p></td><td><p>6,812</p></td><td><p>0.46%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>Source:</em> Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC)</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>Notes: </em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><ol start="1" type="1"><li>Data are shown for each of the last eight years due to the inclusion of dementia on the QOF register from only 2006-07.</li><li>Data are not available by constituency but are shown by East PCT and East Lancashire CCG due to NHS organisational changes in 2013.</li><li>Data are for all patients.</li><li>The number of people recorded on practice disease registers is available in the QOF, published by the HSCIC. The numbers of diagnoses are not available but the numbers of people on the dementia register are available. This is a measure of prevalence rather than incidence.</li><li>The number of patients on clinical registers can be used to calculate disease prevalence, expressing the number of patients on each register as a percentage of the number of patients on practices’ lists. Therefore ‘raw prevalence’ for a clinical area is defined as: <em>Raw prevalence = (number on clinical register / number on practice list) * 100</em></li><li>The objective of the QOF is to improve the quality of care patients are given by rewarding practices for the quality of care they provide to their patients. QOF is therefore an incentive payment scheme. Participation by practices is entirely voluntary, though participation rates are high.</li><li>As QOF registers are constructed to underpin indicators on quality of care, they do not necessarily equate to prevalence as may be defined by epidemiologists. For example, prevalence figures based on QOF registers may differ from prevalence figures from other sources because of coding or definitional issues.</li><li>The Lancashire Area Team consists of:</li></ol><p> </p><p>- NHS Blackburn with Darwen CCG</p><p> </p><p>- NHS Blackpool CCG</p><p> </p><p>- NHS Chorley and South Ribble CCG</p><p> </p><p>- NHS East Lancashire CCG</p><p> </p><p>- NHS Fylde and Wyre CCG</p><p> </p><p>- NHS Greater Preston CCG</p><p> </p><p>- NHS Lancashire North CCG</p><p> </p><p>- NHS West Lancashire CCG</p><p> </p><p>9. The Lancashire PCTs making up the totals are:</p><p> </p><p>- Blackburn with Darwen PCT</p><p> </p><p>- Blackpool PCT</p><p> </p><p>- Central Lancashire PCT</p><p> </p><p>- East Lancashire Teaching PCT (previously East Lancashire PCT)</p><p> </p><p>- North Lancashire Teaching PCT (previously North Lancashire PCT)</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 04/12/2014 15:13:55 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson

166565

registered interest
date	27/11/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Lancashire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time is for talking therapies in (a) Pendle constituency and (b) Lancashire.
tabling member constituency	Pendle
tabling member printed	Andrew Stephenson
uin	216306
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2014 answer text <p>The information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is shown in the following table. The Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) dataset contains information on referrals to IAPT services which provide talking therapies. Information is provided both for East Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and for all eight Lancashire CCGs combined for the year 2013-14. East Lancashire CCG includes Pendle constituency and the CCG is the smallest geographical breakdown available.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="5"><p>Table 1: The number of referrals entering treatment<sup>1</sup> in the year, with mean and median waiting times (days), for IAPT services in 2013-14. Data shown for East Lancashire CCG<sup>2</sup> and for all eight Lancashire CCGs combined.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Organisation name</p></td><td><p>Referrals entering treatment</p></td><td><p>Mean waiting time to first treatment appointment (days)</p></td><td><p>Median<sup>3</sup> waiting time to first treatment appointment (days)</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS East Lancashire CCG</p></td><td><p>3,495</p></td><td><p>104.6</p></td><td><p>84</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Combined Lancashire CCGs</p></td><td><p>15,635</p></td><td><p>89</p></td><td><p>56</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>Notes:</em></p><p> </p><p><sup>1</sup>In order to enter treatment a referral must have a first treatment appointment (an appointment with a therapy type recorded) in the year.</p><p> </p><p><sup>2</sup>CCG is based on general practitioner (GP) Practice. Where GP Practice is not recorded, or cannot be assigned to a CCG, the referral is categorised as 'Unknown'.</p><p> </p><p><sup>3</sup>Medians have been rounded up to the nearest whole number.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4" rowspan="2"><p>Waiting time is measured by counting the number of days between a referral being received and the first treatment appointment. For 2013-14, the presence of a valid therapy type is used as an indicator of whether treatment was provided in the course of the appointment.</p></td><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><p>Entering treatment figures, except England totals, are rounded to the nearest 5.</p><p> </p><p>It is generally advised that the median is used as the most reliable measure of average waiting</p><p>time, as this accounts for any outliers in the data.</p><p> </p><p>Lancashire CCGs are:</p><p>East Lancashire CCG</p><p>Lancashire North CCG</p><p>West Lancashire CCG</p><p>Blackburn with Darwen CCG</p><p>Blackpool CCG</p><p>Chorley and South Ribble CCG</p><p>Fylde and Wyre CCG</p><p>Greater Preston CCG</p><p> </p><p><em>Source: </em>[Health and Social Care Information Centre,Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Dataset]</p></td><td colspan="5"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 04/12/2014 14:22:11 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson

166568

registered interest
date	27/11/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Blood: Contamination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many staff are employed by the (a) Macfarlane Trust and (b) Caxton Foundation; and what their (i) posts and (ii) current salaries are.
tabling member constituency	North East Bedfordshire
tabling member printed	Alistair Burt
uin	216250
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2014 answer text <p>The amount of time that each member of staff spends working on either Macfarlane Trust business or Caxton Foundation business is given in the following table:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>% of time spent on Caxton Foundation</p></td><td><p>% of time spent on Macfarlane Trust</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chief Executive</p></td><td><p>48</p></td><td><p>48</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Director of Finance</p></td><td><p>27</p></td><td><p>27</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Finance Assistant</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>32</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Director of Operations</p></td><td><p>47</p></td><td><p>47</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Support Services Officer</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Welfare Assistant</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Office Manager</p></td><td><p>50</p></td><td><p>50</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>IT Manager</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Caxton Foundation cannot provide details of the salaries of these individuals because salaries are personal information under section 1 of the Data Protection Act 1998. However, as with all charities, the pay bands of the highest paid members of staff are a matter of public record. The Caxton Foundation’s annual report and accounts for 2013-14, state that one member of staff received a salary in the pay band of £70,001 - £80,000. That salary was paid in respect of work for both the Caxton Foundation and the Macfarlane Trust. All employees of who were employed at 1 April 2014 received a 1% salary increase. That is the only pay increase that the Chief Executive has received since her appointment in 2013.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 216251 question first answered 04/12/2014 15:22:07 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt

166569

registered interest
date	27/11/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Blood: Contamination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what change there has been in the salary of the Chief Executive of the Macfarlane Trust and Caxton Foundation since her appointment in 2013.
tabling member constituency	North East Bedfordshire
tabling member printed	Alistair Burt
uin	216251
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2014 answer text <p>The amount of time that each member of staff spends working on either Macfarlane Trust business or Caxton Foundation business is given in the following table:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>% of time spent on Caxton Foundation</p></td><td><p>% of time spent on Macfarlane Trust</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chief Executive</p></td><td><p>48</p></td><td><p>48</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Director of Finance</p></td><td><p>27</p></td><td><p>27</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Finance Assistant</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>32</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Director of Operations</p></td><td><p>47</p></td><td><p>47</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Support Services Officer</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Welfare Assistant</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Office Manager</p></td><td><p>50</p></td><td><p>50</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>IT Manager</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Caxton Foundation cannot provide details of the salaries of these individuals because salaries are personal information under section 1 of the Data Protection Act 1998. However, as with all charities, the pay bands of the highest paid members of staff are a matter of public record. The Caxton Foundation’s annual report and accounts for 2013-14, state that one member of staff received a salary in the pay band of £70,001 - £80,000. That salary was paid in respect of work for both the Caxton Foundation and the Macfarlane Trust. All employees of who were employed at 1 April 2014 received a 1% salary increase. That is the only pay increase that the Chief Executive has received since her appointment in 2013.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 216250 question first answered 04/12/2014 15:22:07 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt

166570

registered interest
date	27/11/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Blood: Contamination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were registered with (a) the Macfarlane Trust, (b) the Skipton Fund and (c) the Caxton Foundation in each year since 2011.
tabling member constituency	North East Bedfordshire
tabling member printed	Alistair Burt
uin	216252
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2014 answer text <p>The number of people registered with the Macfarlane Trust, the Skipton Fund and the Caxton Foundation, from 2011-12 to the most recent full year for which the Department has figures are as follows:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Skipton Fund</p></td><td><p>4,908</p></td><td><p>5,038</p></td><td><p>5,132</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Caxton Foundation</p></td><td><p>505</p></td><td><p>555</p></td><td><p>695</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Macfarlane Trust</p></td><td><p>549</p></td><td><p>608</p></td><td><p>599</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Skipton Fund figures relate to successful stage 1 applications in respect of infected claimants, but it is not known how many of these people are currently still alive. The Caxton Foundation and Macfarlane Fund figures are the number of living beneficiaries at 31 March in each of the specified years, and includes both infected and uninfected beneficiaries.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 04/12/2014 15:19:56 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt