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867295

registered interest
date	20/03/2018
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	Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to improve the provision of mental health services for children and young people.
tabling member constituency	Thornbury and Yate
tabling member printed	Luke Hall
uin	904476
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>We are making an additional £1.4 billion available until 2019/20 in order to transform services and ensure access to specialist mental health services for 70,000 additional children and young people each year by 2020/21.</p><p> </p><p>Our recent Green Paper published jointly with the Department for Education, will revolutionise services in schools, bolster links between schools and commits us to pilot a four week waiting time for National Health Service specialist services.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 20/03/2018 14:43:54 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall

867296

registered interest
date	20/03/2018
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	Bowel Cancer: Screening
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What the timetable is for the implementation of the faecal immunochemical test for bowel cancer screening.
tabling member constituency	Eastbourne
tabling member printed	Stephen Lloyd
uin	904478
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>The UK National Screening Committee has recommended that the faecal immunochemical test (FIT) be the primary screening test for bowel cancer and NHS England remains absolutely committed to implementing FIT in 2018/19.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is working with Public Health England to finalise a number of practical arrangements around sensitivity, production and distribution of FIT kits, and diagnostic and pathology workforce capacity to ensure that when FIT is implemented, it is sustainable.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 20/03/2018 17:31:43 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	3968 label Biography information for Stephen Lloyd

867297

registered interest
date	20/03/2018
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	Heart Diseases: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of deaths of young people from cardiac arrest.
tabling member constituency	Lewes
tabling member printed	Maria Caulfield
uin	904479
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>The Government has provided £2 million to make Public Access Defibrillators more widely available and to increase the number of people trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Fetal Anomaly and the Newborn and Infant Physical Examination screening programmes offer heart screening to detect abnormalities early.</p><p> </p><p>The Department’s National Institute for Health Research welcomes funding applications for research in this area.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 20/03/2018 14:45:51 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield

867298

registered interest
date	20/03/2018
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	NHS: Capital Investment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to increase the level of capital investment in the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Hitchin and Harpenden
tabling member printed	Bim Afolami
uin	904481
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>The spring and autumn budgets last year announced over £3.9 billion of additional capital investment for the National Health Service in England to upgrade existing buildings and facilities and build new ones. This will support better services for patients and drive efficiency improvements and better value for money for taxpayers.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 20/03/2018 14:47:18 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4639 label Biography information for Bim Afolami

866427

registered interest
date	19/03/2018
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	NHS: Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care what assessment he has made of the effect of charging VAT on the affordability and accessibility of medicines.
tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
uin	904465
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>Value Added Tax (VAT) paid by the National Health Service on the purchase of medicines is fully incorporated within the funding allocated to the NHS each year.</p><p>As is the case with many other goods and services, VAT is chargeable at 20% to members of the public when purchasing over the counter and non-prescription medicines.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 20/03/2018 15:37:51 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

865112

registered interest
date	16/03/2018
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: Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, in what proportion of cases her Department received information that it did not already hold in each month since the Memorandum of Understanding between NHS Digital and the Home Office entered into operation.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	132979
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not receive information relating to Home Office requests for information to NHS Digital, under the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).</p><p> </p><p>The MoU is a data sharing agreement between NHS Digital, the Home Office and the Department of Health and Social Care and requests for information are made directly to NHS Digital by the Home Office. From 1 January 2017, data on the number of information requests submitted by the Home Office has been published on the NHS Digital website.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 21/03/2018 16:22:37 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

865125

registered interest
date	16/03/2018
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	Nurses: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department makes any additional maintenance funding available to student nurses who work on placements during the university holiday period each summer.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	132992
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2018 answer text <p>Funding for nursing programmes is based on a 52 week academic year and therefore all clinical placements are included in universities’ standard term time and maintenance funding is available for the full year.</p><p> </p><p>The level of funding available to student nurses depends on their household income and is also reflective of the time they spend studying during the academic year, including time on placement.</p><p> </p><p>For undergraduate pre-registration nursing students who start courses on or after 1 August 2017, several additional allowances are additionally available from the Department:</p><p>- Child dependents allowance – an additional payment of £1,000 per student per academic year for students with child dependents;</p><p>- Travel and dual accommodation – the Government reimburses students for additional daily travel costs and pays for secondary accommodation whilst attending clinical placements; and</p><p>- Exceptional hardship – £3,000 per academic year for eligible students facing severe financial hardship.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 21/03/2018 16:33:46 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

865140

registered interest
date	16/03/2018
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	Huddersfield Royal Infirmary
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 15 March to Question 131949 on Huddersfield Royal Infirmary, on what date the Independent Reconfiguration Panel's report on the potential downgrading of Huddersfield Royal Infirmary will be made public.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	133007
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2018 answer text <p>The Joint Chairs of the Calderdale and Kirklees Joint Health Scrutiny wrote to the Department last year formally referring the National Health Service proposal, Right Care Right Time Right Place – Proposed future arrangements for hospital and community health services in Calderdale and Greater Huddersfield. We referred the case to the Independent Reconfiguration Panel in January. An announcement will be made in due course.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 21/03/2018 16:35:07 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

865189

registered interest
date	16/03/2018
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	Social Services: Minumum Wage
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 5 March 2018 to Question 131015 on Social Services: Minimum Wage, what the (a) cost to the public purse is of and (b) procurement process was for the (i) Deloitte and (ii) Frontier Economics and Laing Buisson study of sleep-in back pay liabilities; and how many other organisations applied to undertake those studies.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	133056
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2018 answer text <p>The value of the contract for the Deloitte study was £130,000. In procuring this work, the Department utilised the consultancyOne Framework Agreement in which Deloitte were the sole bidder.</p><p> </p><p>The value of the contract for the larger Frontier Economics and Laing Buisson study was £300,000. In procuring this study, the Department utilised the UK Shared Business Service Research and Evaluation Framework in which two bidders responded to the requirement.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the Deloitte contract is available on the Contracts Finder website at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/56b67c3f-4444-4ee2-8465-fc14cde98fdb" target="_blank">https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/56b67c3f-4444-4ee2-8465-fc14cde98fdb</a></p><p> </p><p>Information on the Frontier Economics and Laing Buisson contract is available on the Contracts Finder website at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/9b053f57-ea16-470c-99cd-7662b69f1d5a" target="_blank">https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/9b053f57-ea16-470c-99cd-7662b69f1d5a</a></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 21/03/2018 11:59:11 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

864270

registered interest
date	15/03/2018
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	NHS: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, from which Government budgets the £540m of additional funding for the NHS for 2018-19 announced on 2 February 2018 will come.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	132755
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>The additional £540 million will be made available by the Department from the recently announced increase in the migrant surcharge, other income, and some reprioritisation within its own Departmental budget. NHS England will receive this funding through the Mandate in 2018-19, and will invest it in core frontline services such as mental health and primary care.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 20/03/2018 17:02:50 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth