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1150977

registered interest
date	21/10/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Fire Extinguishers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what representations he has received on the merits of mandatory installation of fire sprinklers in all (a) new and (b) refurbished schools in England; and if he will bring forward legislative proposals to make such installation mandatory.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	2660
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2019 answer text <p>Earlier this year, a Call for Evidence was held on the review of the Department’s Building Bulletin 100: ‘Design for Fire Safety in Schools’. This included questions on fire suppression systems, such as sprinklers. The responses have been analysed and follow up technical studies are being carried out by consultants. Until this work is completed, the Department’s policy on installing sprinklers in schools remains unchanged.</p><p>As part of this review, Department officials will be liaising further with their counterparts in Scotland and Wales on the impact of requiring sprinkler installation in new and refurbished school buildings.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 2661 question first answered 29/10/2019 13:04:46 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1150978

registered interest
date	21/10/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Fire Extinguishers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will request assessments from the (a) Scottish and (b) Welsh governments on the potential effect of requiring compulsory installation of fire sprinklers in (i) new and (ii) refurbished schools in Scotland and Wales; and if he will publish an assessment of the potential benefits of such legislation in England.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	2661
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2019 answer text <p>Earlier this year, a Call for Evidence was held on the review of the Department’s Building Bulletin 100: ‘Design for Fire Safety in Schools’. This included questions on fire suppression systems, such as sprinklers. The responses have been analysed and follow up technical studies are being carried out by consultants. Until this work is completed, the Department’s policy on installing sprinklers in schools remains unchanged.</p><p>As part of this review, Department officials will be liaising further with their counterparts in Scotland and Wales on the impact of requiring sprinkler installation in new and refurbished school buildings.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 2660 question first answered 29/10/2019 13:04:46 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1150663

registered interest
date	18/10/2019
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 7 October 2019 to Question 290620 on Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control, what steps she is taking to ensure that badgers from the Animal and Plant Health Agency’s Woodchester Park research centre are not inadvertently killed in surrounding cull zones.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	1885
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2019 answer text <p>The Animal and Plant Health Agency’s ongoing study of the wild badger population at Woodchester Park can adapt to assess any new impacts on the badger population, including from licensed badger culling taking place across Gloucestershire, which is in the Bovine TB High Risk Area of England. Woodchester Park’s work will continue to support policy and research in line with our TB strategy’s adaptive and evidence-based approach.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice grouped question UIN 1886 1887 question first answered 28/10/2019 10:51:21 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1150664

registered interest
date	18/10/2019
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 7 October 2019 to Question 290620 on Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control, whether it is her Department's policy that a marked badger from the Woodchester study area found in a cull zone would be shot.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	1886
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2019 answer text <p>The Animal and Plant Health Agency’s ongoing study of the wild badger population at Woodchester Park can adapt to assess any new impacts on the badger population, including from licensed badger culling taking place across Gloucestershire, which is in the Bovine TB High Risk Area of England. Woodchester Park’s work will continue to support policy and research in line with our TB strategy’s adaptive and evidence-based approach.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice grouped question UIN 1885 1887 question first answered 28/10/2019 10:51:21 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1150665

registered interest
date	18/10/2019
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 7 October 2019 Question 290620 on Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control, whether she has made an assessment of the potential effect on research outcomes of the culling of animals that are part of that research programme.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	1887
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2019 answer text <p>The Animal and Plant Health Agency’s ongoing study of the wild badger population at Woodchester Park can adapt to assess any new impacts on the badger population, including from licensed badger culling taking place across Gloucestershire, which is in the Bovine TB High Risk Area of England. Woodchester Park’s work will continue to support policy and research in line with our TB strategy’s adaptive and evidence-based approach.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice grouped question UIN 1885 1886 question first answered 28/10/2019 10:51:21 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1149222

registered interest
date	15/10/2019
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	Hospitals: Admissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the 10 most frequent causes of admission to an NHS hospital; were in the most recent 12 month period for and how many people were admitted for each of those causes, in that time period which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	408
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2019 answer text <p>This information is not collected in the format requested.</p><p>NHS Digital published its Hospital Admitted Patient Care Activity for 2018-19 on 19 September 2019.</p><p>Data are set out in the following table.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Patient admission - sub-chapter description</p></td><td><p>Number of Finished Admissions Episodes</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Complications of labour and delivery</p></td><td><p>1,056,809</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other diseases of intestines</p></td><td><p>646,953</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Arthropathies</p></td><td><p>609,032</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Symptoms and signs involving the digestive system and abdomen</p></td><td><p>554,882</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Health services in circumstances related to reproduction</p></td><td><p>539,391</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Disorders of lens (including cataracts)</p></td><td><p>456,184</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Symptoms and signs involving the circulatory/respiratory system</p></td><td><p>440,918</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Diseases of oesophagus, stomach and duodenum</p></td><td><p>430,757</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>In situ and benign neoplasms and others of uncertainty</p></td><td><p>430,698</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Malignant neoplasms of lymphoid, haematopoietic and related tissue</p></td><td><p>387,191</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Further information is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/hospital-admitted-patient-care-activity/2018-19" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/hospital-admitted-patient-care-activity/2018-19</a></p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 23/10/2019 12:03:02 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1149078

registered interest
date	14/10/2019
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	Midwives: Training
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 (a) student midwives there were, (b) people graduated from pre-registration midwifery training and (c) training places for pre-registration midwifery students were (i) made available and (ii) filled in each of the last three academic years.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	41
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>Data from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) in the following table. shows the number of students accepted onto midwifery courses over the last three full academic years.</p><p> </p><p>Midwifery student acceptances</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p>Midwifery</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Academic year</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>2018-19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of acceptances</p></td><td><p>2,395</p></td><td><p>2,600</p></td><td><p>2,680</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p>Source: UCAS end of cycle data, 2018</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The following table shows the number of midwives who graduated in England in 2016-17. Data for 2018-19 is not yet available.</p><p> </p><p>Midwifery graduates</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Midwifery</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Academic year</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>2017-18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of graduates</p></td><td><p>2,162</p></td><td><p>2,091</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Source: Health Education England (HEE) analysis of Higher Education Statistics Agency Student Record</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In 2016/17 HEE commissioned 2,605 midwifery places of which 2,602 were filled. Following the removal of the bursary in 2017 midwifery places are no longer directly commissioned by HEE. Places are filled via the normal university application process with the Department making funding available for the provision of their clinical placements while studying.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 22/10/2019 11:01:52 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1149079

registered interest
date	14/10/2019
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	Midwives
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the age profile is of NHS midwives, and how many NHS midwives in each age category are (a) UK nationals and (b) nationals of EU member states other than the UK.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	42
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics for England. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), but not staff working in primary care, local authorities or other providers.</p><p>The following table shows the number of midwives as at June 2019, the latest available data broken down by age and nationality. The data is headcount because nationality data relates to individuals.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Age band</p></td><td><p>All nationalities</p></td><td><p>United Kingdom</p></td><td><p>European Union</p></td><td><p>European Economic Area</p></td><td><p>Rest of World</p></td><td><p>Unknown</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>All age bands</p></td><td><p>26,192</p></td><td><p>23,177</p></td><td><p>1,344</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>447</p></td><td><p>1,213</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Under 25</p></td><td><p>1,394</p></td><td><p>1,327</p></td><td><p>37</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>26</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>25 to 29</p></td><td><p>3,569</p></td><td><p>3,156</p></td><td><p>324</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>75</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>30 to 34</p></td><td><p>3,523</p></td><td><p>3,132</p></td><td><p>293</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>83</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>35 to 39</p></td><td><p>3,382</p></td><td><p>3,030</p></td><td><p>177</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>39</p></td><td><p>134</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>40 to 44</p></td><td><p>3,097</p></td><td><p>2,728</p></td><td><p>156</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>79</p></td><td><p>132</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>45 to 49</p></td><td><p>3,079</p></td><td><p>2,694</p></td><td><p>117</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>96</p></td><td><p>171</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>50 to 54</p></td><td><p>3,923</p></td><td><p>3,473</p></td><td><p>75</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>86</p></td><td><p>288</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>55 to 59</p></td><td><p>2,886</p></td><td><p>2,515</p></td><td><p>83</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>57</p></td><td><p>231</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>60 to 64</p></td><td><p>1,132</p></td><td><p>956</p></td><td><p>66</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>45</p></td><td><p>65</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>65 and over</p></td><td><p>207</p></td><td><p>166</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 22/10/2019 11:09:46 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1147981

registered interest
date	02/10/2019
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Eligibility
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 1 October 2019 to Question 290603, what support is available to people who would otherwise be eligible for benefits and who are undergoing long-term hospital care to pay for (a) mortgages, (b) rents and (c) other personal and care charges to help ensure that they do not lose their unit of accommodation while in NHS-funded care.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	293432
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2019 answer text <p>It is a long standing principle that there should not be double provision for the same contingency out of public funds. Legislation provides that where any costs of qualifying services are borne out of public funds the disability benefits (Attendance Allowance, Disability Living Allowance and Personal Independence Payment) are withdrawn after 28 days.</p><p> </p><p>Certain additions are payable on top of income-related benefits, such as Jobseeker’s Allowance, Income Support, Employment and Support Allowance, and Universal Credit. Housing costs in legacy benefits and Universal Credit are withdrawn after an adult has been a hospital in-patient for a specified period depending on their individual circumstances.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Housing Benefit can remain in payment up to 52 weeks, for people who are hospitalised, as long as they intend to return to their normal dwelling and it has not been sublet during their absence.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 07/10/2019 14:06:11 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1147398

registered interest
date	01/10/2019
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	Eyesight: Testing
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 he is taking to reduce waiting times for eye care appointments.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	292821
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 08/10/2019 15:25:10 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew