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1136863

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date	04/07/2019
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	Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients
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 people have been detained in hospital under the Mental Health Act 1983 at (a) NHS and (b) private facilities in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	273364
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2019 answer text <p>Information on the number of people detailed in hospital under the Mental Health Act 1983 each year is not available.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of detentions under the Act each year is shown in the following table. In these figures the same person will be recorded more than once if they have been detained more than once. These include both civil detentions under Part II and detentions via the criminal justice system under Part III of the Act, as well as detentions following use of a place of safety order or after the revocation of a community treatment order. They do not include uses of short-term orders under Sections 4, 5(2) and 5(4) or 135 and 136 of the Act.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year detention started</p></td><td><p>All detentions<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>National Health Service providers</p></td><td><p>Independent providers<sup>1</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>44,543</p></td><td><p>41,434</p></td><td><p>3,109</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>46,600</p></td><td><p>43,507</p></td><td><p>3,093</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>46,348</p></td><td><p>43,326</p></td><td><p>3,022</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>48,631</p></td><td><p>44,985</p></td><td><p>3,646</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>50,408</p></td><td><p>44,985</p></td><td><p>4,257</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>53,176</p></td><td><p>48,014</p></td><td><p>5,162</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>58,399</p></td><td><p>51,969</p></td><td><p>6,430</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>63,622</p></td><td><p>56,594</p></td><td><p>7,028</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>45,864</p></td><td><p>43,050</p></td><td><p>2,814</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>49,551</p></td><td><p>46,552</p></td><td><p>2,999</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS Digital (KP90 collection and Mental Health Services Dataset)</p><p><sup> </sup></p><p>Notes:</p><p> </p><p><sup>1</sup> A person may be detained more than once in a year.</p><p><sup>2</sup> Data for 2016-17 and 2017-18 are incomplete and should not be compared to previous years. This is due to the change in data source from the KP90 collection to the Mental Health Services Dataset.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 12/07/2019 11:20:50 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1136869

registered interest
date	04/07/2019
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	Public Health: Finance
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 his Department is taking to ensure that public health funding is increased as part of the Government’s spending review.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	273408
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2019 answer text <p>Future funding for local authorities’ public health responsibilities will be considered carefully in the next spending review, taking full account of the available evidence.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 11/07/2019 15:23:41 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1136874

registered interest
date	04/07/2019
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	Dental Services
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 his Department is taking to ensure people have access to dental care in the area they live.
tabling member constituency	Peterborough
tabling member printed	Ms Lisa Forbes
uin	273499
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that everyone in England has access to primary care dental services.</p><p>NHS England is responsible and has a duty to commission primary care dental services to meet local need and, ensuring where there are shortages these are addressed.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 12/07/2019 10:21:51 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4717 label Biography information for Ms Lisa Forbes

1136878

registered interest
date	04/07/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Uniforms
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the availability of school uniform grants in each local authority in England.
tabling member constituency	Peterborough
tabling member printed	Ms Lisa Forbes
uin	273501
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally as the Department does not collect figures on the number of local authorities that offer uniform grants. In England, some local authorities provide discretionary grants to help with buying school uniforms. Local authorities that offer these grants set their own criteria for eligibility.</p><p>Schools may also offer individual clothing schemes, such as offering second-hand uniform at reduced prices. This would be a decision for the school to make.</p><p>The Department’s non-statutory guidance on school uniform places extra emphasis on the need for schools to give highest priority to cost considerations. No school uniform should be so expensive as to leave pupils or their families feeling unable to apply to, or attend, a school of their choice, due to the cost of the uniform.</p><p>The Department’s guidance on school uniform is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-uniform" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-uniform</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 12/07/2019 13:40:18 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4717 label Biography information for Ms Lisa Forbes

1136879

registered interest
date	04/07/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Uniforms
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what is his policy on placing his Department’s guidance on school uniform on a statutory footing.
tabling member constituency	Peterborough
tabling member printed	Ms Lisa Forbes
uin	273502
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2019 answer text <p>The Department intends to put the school uniform guidance on a statutory footing when a suitable legislative opportunity arises.</p><p>The Department’s guidance on school uniform is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-uniform" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-uniform</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 12/07/2019 13:41:52 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4717 label Biography information for Ms Lisa Forbes

1136892

registered interest
date	04/07/2019
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	Pregnancy: Smoking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taken to help reduce the number of women smoking during pregnancy.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	273483
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government committed to reducing the prevalence of women smoking during pregnancy to 6% or less by 2022. The NHS Long Term Plan makes provision for smoking cessation support to all pregnant women and their families in secondary care, and this includes a new smoke-free pregnancy pathway with focused sessions and treatments. In addition, Public Health England continues to work collaboratively with NHS England on the Maternity Transformation Programme to reduce the number of pregnant women who smoke.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 12/07/2019 12:06:03 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1136894

registered interest
date	04/07/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Classroom Assistants: Nottinghamshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teaching assistants have been employed in secondary schools in Nottinghamshire in each of the last three years for which data are available.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	273485
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2019 answer text <p>The following table provides the full-time equivalent (FTE) number of teaching assistants in service in state funded secondary schools in Nottinghamshire and England, as at November in each of the latest three years:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2016[1]</p></td><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>2018</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nottinghamshire[2]</p></td><td><p>695</p></td><td><p>706</p></td><td><p>688</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>49,663</p></td><td><p>47,358</p></td><td><p>45,918</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: School Workforce Census.</p><p> </p><p>[1] 2016 figures for the Nottinghamshire local authority exclude 2 out of 46 schools that did not provide a return for teaching assistant numbers.</p><p>[2] Excludes estimates for missing schools and centrally employed staff.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 12/07/2019 13:44:29 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1136895

registered interest
date	04/07/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Community Interest Companies: VAT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of extending VAT relief to community interest companies; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	273430
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government makes available several VAT reliefs for charitable activities including zero rates for the construction of charitable buildings, sales of donated goods and charitable advertising.</p><p> </p><p>Under EU VAT law it is not possible to extend these reliefs to other organisations and while the UK remains a member of the EU our rights and obligations remain unchanged.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 12/07/2019 07:35:52 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1136896

registered interest
date	04/07/2019
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	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish the (a) forecast number of new claims for universal credit between April 2018 and March 2019, (b) date on which that forecast was made and (c) actual number of new claims made during that period.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	273365
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not available as the Department does not forecast new claims to Universal Credit.</p><p> </p><p>The actual number of claims made between April 2018 and March 2019 can be found under the ‘Claims to Universal Credit’ dataset available at: <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a></p><p>Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at: <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 12/07/2019 14:01:25 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1136897

registered interest
date	04/07/2019
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether requests were made for Ministers to meet with Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe ahead of (a) his visit to Tehran on 19 November 2018 and (b) the Minister of State for the Middle East and North Africa's visit to Tehran on 22-23 June 2019; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	273366
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2019 answer text <p>Ahead of the Foreign Secretary’s visit to Tehran in November 2018, a request was made for a meeting with Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe. Iran continues to deny consular access, as it does not recognise dual nationality. Nonetheless, we continue to request it. During our visits to Tehran, the Foreign Secretary and I underlined our deep concern about the treatment of Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe and other British-Iranian dual nationals detained in Iran, and reiterated our request for their release.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 12/07/2019 10:21:55 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas