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227479

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date	16/03/2015
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Energy Supply
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 9 January 2015 to Question 219617, whether further evaluation of the benefits of supporting projects of outside the UK has been undertaken since the publishing of that paper in August 2014; and if he will reconsider the expansion of the list of technologies eligible for support from UK CfDs.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
uin	227688
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2015 answer text <p>The priority of the department is to finalise the implementation of the CFD scheme across the UK.</p><p>There has been no further evaluation into the benefits of supporting projects outside of the UK since publishing the paper in August 2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 20/03/2015 14:51:58 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

227112

registered interest
date	12/03/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	West Africa
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) regular and reserve armed forces personnel and (b) regular and reserve armed forces personnel based in Plymouth have been involved in operations to control the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
uin	227458
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2015 answer text <p>As at 17 March 2015, the total number of Regular and Reserve Armed Forces personnel who have deployed to Sierra Leone on operations to assist in controlling the recent Ebola outbreak is 1,310. Of these, 109 were undertaking roles based in Plymouth prior to their deployment. These figures include both those who are currently deployed in Sierra Leone and those who have completed their deployment and returned to the UK or other duties.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Rayleigh and Wickford answering member printed Mr Mark Francois question first answered 19/03/2015 15:46:40 answering member 1444 label Biography information for Mr Mark Francois
tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

227150

registered interest
date	12/03/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	West Africa: Ebola
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many (a) NHS staff and (b) NHS staff in Plymouth have been involved in operations to control the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
uin	227459
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2015 answer text <p>UK-Med is working with the Department for International Development (DFID), Department of Health and International NGOs to recruit NHS volunteers through its International Emergency Medical Register (UKIEMR) to work in a number of DFID-funded Ebola Treatment Centres in Sierra Leone.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>To date, UK-Med has deployed 153 NHS volunteers including 3 NHS volunteers from Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>I pay tribute to the bravery and professionalism of the fantastic NHS workers from Plymouth who are helping to defeat Ebola, some of whom I have been lucky enough to meet in Sierra Leone. Their hard work has saved countless lives.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Putney answering member printed Justine Greening question first answered 19/03/2015 15:42:00 answering member 1555 label Biography information for Justine Greening
tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

227176

registered interest
date	12/03/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Justices' Clerks: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what training and information is given to magistrates' clerks to ensure that they operate in accordance with the Armed Forces Covenant.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
uin	227457
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The responsibility for the training of Magistrates and their legal advisers lies with the Lord Chief Justice as head of the judiciary and is exercised through the Judicial College.</p><p>The Government’s response to the November 2014 Stephen Phillips’ Review into ‘Former Members of the Armed Forces and the Criminal Justice System’, included a commitment by the Judicial College to consider whether the Bench Book should be updated to include former service personnel as a separate group.</p><p>The Judicial College concluded that their Equal Treatment Bench Book already sufficiently covers many of the important aspects of fair treatment and makes some suggestions as to the steps that judges can take in different situations, to ensure that there is fairness and equality of outcome for all those involved in the justice process.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 19/03/2015 17:52:23 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

224733

registered interest
date	03/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Derriford Hospital
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 assist Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust to deal with increased patient numbers at Derriford Hospital.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
uin	225971
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2015 answer text <p>We are advised by NHS England that it has provided two tranches of resilience funding to Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust totalling £4,885,000, and that the Northern, Eastern and Western Devon Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) has provided an additional £1,500,000 in recognition of the impact of the additional activity pressures.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The following actions have been taken to reduce demand to the hospital site and facilitate discharge from the hospital:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- Detailed Activity Management Plan agreed between the providers and the CCG which is being monitored through the integrated performance and assurance meeting process and the System Resilience Group/Urgent Care Partnership;</p><p> </p><p>- Additional investment to an in-hours general practitioner (GP)/paramedic visiting service in order to bring primary care visits forward in the day and stagger demand (demand reduction of c. 12 patients per day);</p><p> </p><p>- GP practice (30,000 patients) has been operating an in-hours visiting service and has reduced c. 12 admissions per month. This is continuing;</p><p> </p><p>- Establishment of an “alternative front door” to emergency department reduced in the region of 30 non-elective admissions in one week;</p><p> </p><p>- Increased consistency of minor injuries unit service across Devon to increase dispositions from 111, reducing accident and emergency attends;</p><p> </p><p>- 96 additional GP appointments per weekend funded from the Prime Ministers’ Challenge Fund;</p><p> </p><p>- £140,000 allocated through winter monies for 111 Clinical Streaming by Devon Doctors Ltd; and</p><p> </p><p>- Consistent use of the Special Patient Message (SPM) service with GP out-of-hours service to ensure SPMs are in place for at least the 2% of people.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The NHS Trust Development Authority (NHS TDA) advises that a number of steps are being taken to address increased demand, including opening 68 extra beds and increasing accident and emergency capacity through the use of Trust and agency staff.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS TDA further advises that a de-escalation plan has been developed by the Trust with the support of NHS England’s Devon, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Area Team, and is intended to be submitted to the CCG shortly.</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 Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 10/03/2015 17:16:49 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

222473

registered interest
date	20/02/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Dementia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which schools in England and Wales have a dementia strategy.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
uin	224673
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2015 answer text <p>All schools have a duty to ensure the wellbeing, health and safety of their staff. The Department for Education does not hold data on the number of schools which have a dementia strategy, but all schools are required to have systems in place to monitor staff who show signs of suffering from a medical condition and to provide necessary support.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 26/02/2015 15:55:52 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

179632

registered interest
date	12/02/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Pharmacy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 3 July 2014, Official Report, column 710W, on pharmacy, what progress his Department has made on the introduction of data-sharing between GPs and pharmacists.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
uin	224438
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2015 answer text <p>The Proof of Concept (POC) project is making good progress. The project has completed the implementation stage of providing Summary Care Record (SCR) access for community pharmacies.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>By the end of 2014, 135 pharmacies across all five areas (West Yorkshire, Sheffield, Northamptonshire, Derbyshire and Somerset), have been enabled to have access to the SCR. The pharmacies involved include independent pharmacies, national multiple providers, and representatives from the major supermarkets. Over 1,300 patient SCRs have been accessed to date to support direct patient care.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The POC project team are now working on the findings and associated recommendations. Initial analysis is promising and the final report is due in the coming months.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 24/02/2015 14:42:00 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

179131

registered interest
date	11/02/2015
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	Building Regulations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to better enforce building regulation inspections to ensure quality housing builds.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
uin	224167
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2015 answer text <p><br>The duty to comply with the requirements of the Building Regulations lies on the person carrying out the building work. The duty of the building control bodies, local authorities and approved inspectors, is to take all reasonable steps to satisfy themselves that the requirements have been satisfied. Where they have not been complied with a compliance certificate should not be given. It is also possible for building control bodies to take formal enforcement action in the courts against builders for non-compliance where they consider this would be justified. Issues relating to warranties which may be provided for new homes are matters for the relevant warranty body.</p> answering member constituency Bristol West answering member printed Stephen Williams question first answered 24/02/2015 13:27:35 answering member 1492 label Biography information for Stephen Williams
tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

179163

registered interest
date	11/02/2015
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 his Department has to review the regulatory framework for the dental profession.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
uin	224168
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2015 answer text <p>The Law Commissions’ completed a review of the regulation of all health and social care professionals including dentists and reported in April 2014. They made 125 recommendations to improve the legislative framework and we published the Government response on 29 January 2015, accepting the vast majority of these recommendations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government remains committed to legislate on this important issue when parliamentary time allows and are working closely with the regulatory bodies and the Professional Standards Authority to build on the important work the Law Commissions have done.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In the meantime we are taking forward a section 60 Order to amend the Dentists Act 1984 to make changes to the General Dental Council’s (GDC’s) investigation stage fitness to practise processes. A consultation has recently been undertaken on these measures which will be introduced subject to Parliamentary approval. It is expected the provisions should lead to the swifter resolution of complaints, as ultimately they will improve the efficiency of the GDC’s fitness to practise processes, whilst also enhancing patient protection and public confidence in dental regulation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 26/02/2015 15:34:56 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

178557

registered interest
date	09/02/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Hospitals: Plymouth
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many days of staff sickness absence there were in (a) Derriford Hospital and (b) Mount Gould Hospital in 2014.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
uin	223907
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2015 answer text <p>The information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is in the following table.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p>NHS Hospital and Community Health Service monthly workforce statistics: Full Time Equivalent Days Lost to Sickness Absence in selected trusts, 12 month period from October 2013 to September 2014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Organisation</p></td><td><p>October 2013 to September 2014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Plymouth Community Healthcare CIC</p></td><td><p>30,236</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust</p></td><td><p>77,215</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><em>Source: </em>Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC)</p><p><em> </em></p><p><em>Notes:</em></p><p>1. While lower sickness absence figures, in general, indicate lower levels of sickness absence it should be noted that lower figures can also indicate under reporting of sickness absence.</p><p>2. Data presented is Full Time Equivalent Days Lost to Sickness Absence (includes non-working days).</p><p>3. Figures are rounded to the nearest 1.</p><p>4. The HSCIC seeks to minimise inaccuracies and the effect of missing and invalid data but responsibility for data accuracy lies with the organisations providing the data. Methods are continually being updated to improve data quality where changes impact on figures already published. This is assessed but unless it is significant at national level figures are not changed. Impact at detailed or local level is footnoted in relevant analyses.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 24/02/2015 13:58:59 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile