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677494

registered interest
date	23/01/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Class Sizes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average classroom size was in 2016.
tabling member constituency	Redditch
tabling member printed	Karen Lumley
uin	61087
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2017 answer text <p>This information is published annually. The most recent figures can be found in table 6 of the statistical first release available at:<br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2016</a></p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 27/01/2017 13:25:26 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4023 label Biography information for Karen Lumley

677547

registered interest
date	23/01/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Dental Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to improve access to affordable dentistry services.
tabling member constituency	Redditch
tabling member printed	Karen Lumley
uin	61088
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2017 answer text <p>Overall access to National Health Service dentistry continues to increase. 22 million adults were seen by dentist in the 24 month period ending 30 September 2016 and 6.7 million children were seen by a dentist in the 12 month period ending 30 September 2015, this represents 51.3% of the adult population and 57.9% of the child population. The latest GP patient survey (January - March 2016) also showed that nationally 93% of patients who had tried to get an NHS dental appointment in the last 24 months were successful.</p><p> </p><p>New ways of providing care are being trialled to further improve oral health and increase access, by preventing as well as treating disease, so freeing up resource. Alongside this a new programme, the Starting Well Programme, is being developed to work in 13 high needs areas to improve access to dental services for children known to be at greater risk of dental disease.</p><p> </p><p>NHS dental treatment remains affordable. All children receive free NHS treatment. Charges for NHS treatment for adults remain heavily subsidised and there is also partial help with charges for those on low incomes.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat question first answered 31/01/2017 17:41:10 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	4023 label Biography information for Karen Lumley

677548

registered interest
date	23/01/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Strokes: Speech and Language Therapy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many stroke patients were offered speech therapy (a) nationally and (b) in Worcestershire in 2016.
tabling member constituency	Redditch
tabling member printed	Karen Lumley
uin	61089
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2017 answer text <p>The Stroke Sentinel Audit Programme (SSNAP) collects data on the rehabilitation that patients get in hospital and when they are discharged in to the community, including on speech and language therapy (SALT).</p><p> </p><p>The following data is taken from SSNAP.</p><p> </p><p>Nationally, during the 11 months from January 2016 to November 2016, 74,488 patients were hospitalised with stroke; of these 37,207 received input from SALT (49.9%).</p><p> </p><p>For South Worcestershire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), 310 patients were admitted with 105 receiving SALT (34%). For Redditch and Bromsgrove CCG, 171 patients were admitted with 58 receiving SALT (34%). For Wyre Forest CCG, 122 patients were admitted with 45 receiving SALT (37%).</p><p> </p><p>This data is available on the SSNAP website at:</p><p> </p><p>www.strokeaudit.org</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat question first answered 31/01/2017 17:37:49 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	4023 label Biography information for Karen Lumley

677550

registered interest
date	23/01/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Strokes: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average length of hospital waiting time was in 2016 for those who suffered a stroke.
tabling member constituency	Redditch
tabling member printed	Karen Lumley
uin	61084
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not available centrally.</p><p> </p><p>The vast majority of admissions following a stroke are emergency admissions rather than elective admissions. Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data for elective waiting times from decision to admit to admission is not available for stroke patients. HES publishes waiting times data for a first diagnosis in accident and emergency, however, stroke data is not available.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat question first answered 31/01/2017 17:39:16 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	4023 label Biography information for Karen Lumley

677552

registered interest
date	23/01/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Doctors: Training
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 promote enrolment in mental health training of training medical practitioners.
tabling member constituency	Redditch
tabling member printed	Karen Lumley
uin	61103
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2017 answer text <p>Health Education England is working in partnership with the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, to ensure that all foundation programme trainee doctors have up to date Mental Capacity Act training as part of the Foundation Programme Curriculum.</p><p> </p><p>HEE will publish a workforce strategy shortly laying out how to implement the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health and <em>Future in Mind</em>.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 31/01/2017 17:29:48 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4023 label Biography information for Karen Lumley

677652

registered interest
date	23/01/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Enterprise Zones: Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what discussions his Department has had with the Department for Communities and Local Government on the role of rural enterprise zones in the Midlands growth engine.
tabling member constituency	Redditch
tabling member printed	Karen Lumley
uin	61085
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2017 answer text <p>As the Department responsible for Enterprise Zones and the Government’s lead on the Midlands Engine, we consider Enterprise Zones and Food Enterprise Zones to have an important role in stimulating growth in our rural economy, attracting investment and jobs to the Midlands Engine area.</p><p>Two Enterprise Zones in predominantly rural areas of the Midlands Engine have helped to attract businesses and new investment from around the world. Five Food Enterprise Zones in Greater Lincolnshire, Melton and Wychavon will be working to attract investment and encourage greater collaboration between British food and farming businesses.</p> answering member constituency Brigg and Goole answering member printed Andrew Percy question first answered 30/01/2017 17:29:04 answering member 3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy
tabling member	4023 label Biography information for Karen Lumley

677653

registered interest
date	23/01/2017
answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
answering dept id	203
answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
hansard heading	Community Relations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what recent discussions his Department has had with the Home Office on promotion of tolerance and respect for all communities.
tabling member constituency	Redditch
tabling member printed	Karen Lumley
uin	61086
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2017 answer text <p>DCLG leads on integration and cohesion and is involved in many fora with communities affected by intolerant attitudes within in the UK. My department works with DCLG on a wide range of issues, including community cohesion. The Cross-Government Hate Crime Programme brings together officials, criminal justice agencies, victims and communities and has maintained oversight of hate crime during 2016 to ensure responses have been swift and effective.</p> answering member constituency Clwyd West answering member printed Mr David Jones question first answered 27/01/2017 12:00:36 answering member 1502 label Biography information for Mr David Jones
tabling member	4023 label Biography information for Karen Lumley

673558

registered interest
date	16/01/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Reorganisation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if his Department will issue guidance on whether the winter pressures on the NHS will be taken into account in the development of sustainable transformation plans.
tabling member constituency	Redditch
tabling member printed	Karen Lumley
uin	60041
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2017 answer text <p>The National Health Service faces higher demand every winter, and its staff are experienced in advance planning to meet the challenges this brings.</p><p> </p><p>With Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), the NHS and local authorities have come together to develop proposals for health and care in their area over the next few years, helping them to tackle growing demand. With services feeling the strain, collaboration between organisations will give doctors, nurses and care staff the best chance of success.</p><p> </p><p>STPs are based on local knowledge about the priorities in each part of the country, including those relating to local winter pressure. Each was asked to tackle strategic challenges and to make progress on national priorities, including the Urgent and Emergency Care Review chaired by Sir Bruce Keogh.</p><p> </p><p>To help with this, local STP leaders received practical guides from NHS England and NHS Improvement describing what success in 2020 would look like and giving suggestions about how they could approach implementation. These included subjects relevant to winter pressures like urgent and emergency care.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat question first answered 24/01/2017 11:48:54 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	4023 label Biography information for Karen Lumley

673559

registered interest
date	16/01/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS Trusts: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions he has had with NHS trusts on their recruitment plans for filling vacant posts.
tabling member constituency	Redditch
tabling member printed	Karen Lumley
uin	60042
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2017 answer text <p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health meets with National Health Service partners on a regular basis to discuss a range of issues, including ensuring that trusts have enough doctors and nurses to ensure they can deliver safe, high quality care.</p><p> </p><p>On 25 August 2016, NHS Digital published the NHS Vacancy Statistics for England, which shows number of full time equivalent advertised vacancies placed on NHS Jobs, the online recruitment service for the NHS. The publication showed that at 31 March 2016 the total number of full time equivalent advertised vacancies was 26,424. It is important to note that an advert might cover multiple vacancies or an ongoing recruitment programme and adverts can also be placed by NHS sub-contractors and local authorities so not all adverts will be for jobs in the NHS. Therefore, the data should be seen as a proxy as it only shows the minimum number of vacancies advertised.</p><p> </p><p>The latest workforce data published by NHS Digital on 20 December 2016 showed that as at September 2016 there are 561,839 professionally qualified clinical staff working in the NHS, an increase of over 29,300 (5.5%) since May 2010.</p><p> </p><p>The Department set up Health Education England (HEE) to deliver a better health and care workforce for England. HEE is responsible for ensuring that there is a secure workforce supply for the future by balancing need against demand and taking into account factors such as the age profile of the existing workforce, the impact of technology and new drugs.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 24/01/2017 17:38:15 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4023 label Biography information for Karen Lumley

672695

registered interest
date	13/01/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that there is a sufficient number of providers to deliver end-point assessments for apprentices.
tabling member constituency	Redditch
tabling member printed	Karen Lumley
uin	59946
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2017 answer text <p>All end-point assessments must be carried out by an Independent Assessment Organisation on the Skills Funding Agency’s Register of Apprentice Assessment Organisations to ensure high quality assessment.</p><p> </p><p>The assessment market has been adjusting rapidly for most new apprenticeship standards. 82% of all apprentice starts on standards have an end-point assessment organisation available to them, whether they are close to needing end-point assessment or not. This figure rises to 96% for apprentices likely to require an end-point assessment in 2017. There are a small number of standards that already have starts but where an Assessment Organisation has not yet been confirmed. Here, we are taking proactive action to resolve this and ensure there is end-point assessment provision by the time the apprentice completes their apprenticeship. This includes actively working with trailblazer groups and potential assessment organisations to fill gaps in provision and put contingencies in place.</p><p><strong><br> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harlow answering member printed Robert Halfon question first answered 23/01/2017 12:57:27 answering member 3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon
tabling member	4023 label Biography information for Karen Lumley