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1149226

registered interest
date	15/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offences against Children: Compensation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average compensation award was for successful child sexual abuse prosecutions which resulted in a criminal compensation order in 2018.
tabling member constituency	Burton
tabling member printed	Andrew Griffiths
uin	543
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>The number of prosecutions, convictions, sentences, compensation orders and average compensation amount for child sex abuse offences in 2018 can be viewed in the table attached.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 544 question first answered 21/10/2019 14:58:02 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp attachment 1 file name PQ 543 544 Final Table.xlsx title Table
tabling member	3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths

1149227

registered interest
date	15/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offences against Children: Compensation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate his Department has made of the number of successful child sexual abuse prosecutions that resulted in a criminal compensation order in 2018.
tabling member constituency	Burton
tabling member printed	Andrew Griffiths
uin	544
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>The number of prosecutions, convictions, sentences, compensation orders and average compensation amount for child sex abuse offences in 2018 can be viewed in the table attached.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 543 question first answered 21/10/2019 14:58:02 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp attachment 1 file name PQ 543 544 Final Table.xlsx title Table
tabling member	3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths

1149228

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	NHS: Staff
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 safe and adequate levels of staffing across the NHS to protect patient safety.
tabling member constituency	South West Bedfordshire
tabling member printed	Andrew Selous
uin	460
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>Appropriate staffing levels are an important element of the Care Quality Commission’s registration regime. It is the responsibility of individual National Health Service health and care employers to have staffing arrangements in place that deliver safe and effective care. This includes recruiting the staff needed to support these levels and meet local needs.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the NHS People Plan, NHS Improvement and Health Education England are considering how best to support the NHS in ensuring it has access to the staff it needs across England. This has focused on areas such as retaining nurses already employed; supporting their existing nursing workforce in areas such as flexible working; investing in nursing staff’s Continuous Professional Development; and increasing undergraduate supply through attracting more students to study nursing.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England and NHS Improvement working with Health Education England are also delivering a major communication campaign ‘We are the NHS’. The campaign aims to reduce vacancy rates across the NHS, with a focus on the nursing profession. There has been a strong focus on recruitment to courses starting in September 2019. From September 2019, a further campaign has been launched to encourage the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) applications to the 15 January deadline for nursing courses starting in September 2020.</p><p> </p><p>UCAS reported that applicants to study nursing have increased by 4% compared to the same period last year.</p><p> </p><p>Our ongoing 25% expansion of medical school places in England will see 7,500 new doctors available annually by 2020/21. This expansion has delivered five brand new medical schools in Sunderland, Lancashire, Chelmsford, Lincoln and Canterbury. The upcoming NHS People Plan will examine options for growing the medical workforce further. This includes the possibility of further medical school expansion, as well as increasing part-time study and expanding the number of accelerated degree programmes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 461 462 question first answered 22/10/2019 13:53:19 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous

1149229

registered interest
date	15/10/2019
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Disclosure of Information: EU Law
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether she plans to implement in full the EU Directive 2018/0106 on the protection of persons reporting on breaches of European law.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	545
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>Under the current terms of EU exit, the UK is not required to transpose the Directive into UK law. After the UK leaves the EU it will be for the UK to decide which rights and protections to introduce or enhance in law.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 21/10/2019 16:23:45 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1149230

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	Nurses: Recruitment
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 encourage and support people to enter the nursing profession.
tabling member constituency	South West Bedfordshire
tabling member printed	Andrew Selous
uin	461
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>Appropriate staffing levels are an important element of the Care Quality Commission’s registration regime. It is the responsibility of individual National Health Service health and care employers to have staffing arrangements in place that deliver safe and effective care. This includes recruiting the staff needed to support these levels and meet local needs.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the NHS People Plan, NHS Improvement and Health Education England are considering how best to support the NHS in ensuring it has access to the staff it needs across England. This has focused on areas such as retaining nurses already employed; supporting their existing nursing workforce in areas such as flexible working; investing in nursing staff’s Continuous Professional Development; and increasing undergraduate supply through attracting more students to study nursing.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England and NHS Improvement working with Health Education England are also delivering a major communication campaign ‘We are the NHS’. The campaign aims to reduce vacancy rates across the NHS, with a focus on the nursing profession. There has been a strong focus on recruitment to courses starting in September 2019. From September 2019, a further campaign has been launched to encourage the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) applications to the 15 January deadline for nursing courses starting in September 2020.</p><p> </p><p>UCAS reported that applicants to study nursing have increased by 4% compared to the same period last year.</p><p> </p><p>Our ongoing 25% expansion of medical school places in England will see 7,500 new doctors available annually by 2020/21. This expansion has delivered five brand new medical schools in Sunderland, Lancashire, Chelmsford, Lincoln and Canterbury. The upcoming NHS People Plan will examine options for growing the medical workforce further. This includes the possibility of further medical school expansion, as well as increasing part-time study and expanding the number of accelerated degree programmes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 460 462 question first answered 22/10/2019 13:53:19 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous

1149231

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	Antidepressants: Children and Young People
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 prescriptions for anti-depressants were issued to (a) children aged under 16, (b) teenagers aged 16 to 17 and (c) young people aged 18 to 21 in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Burton
tabling member printed	Andrew Griffiths
uin	546
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>No data is captured relating to the clinical indication a prescription is intended for. Some antidepressant drugs can be used for a variety of clinical indications and therefore the figures provided may include items which may have been prescribed for a different condition. The list of antidepressants which have been identified for this response are those listed within British National Formulary (BNF) chapter 4 section 3 (Antidepressant Drugs).</p><p>The NHS Business Services Authority only holds data relating to patient ages from April 2015. Therefore, the data attached is for the three full years for which there is data available.</p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries grouped question UIN 547 question first answered 21/10/2019 15:42:31 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries attachment 1 file name 546 linked table formatted.docx title PQ546 table
tabling member	3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths

1149232

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	Medicine: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to increase the number of medical school places to meet growing demand.
tabling member constituency	South West Bedfordshire
tabling member printed	Andrew Selous
uin	462
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>Appropriate staffing levels are an important element of the Care Quality Commission’s registration regime. It is the responsibility of individual National Health Service health and care employers to have staffing arrangements in place that deliver safe and effective care. This includes recruiting the staff needed to support these levels and meet local needs.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the NHS People Plan, NHS Improvement and Health Education England are considering how best to support the NHS in ensuring it has access to the staff it needs across England. This has focused on areas such as retaining nurses already employed; supporting their existing nursing workforce in areas such as flexible working; investing in nursing staff’s Continuous Professional Development; and increasing undergraduate supply through attracting more students to study nursing.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England and NHS Improvement working with Health Education England are also delivering a major communication campaign ‘We are the NHS’. The campaign aims to reduce vacancy rates across the NHS, with a focus on the nursing profession. There has been a strong focus on recruitment to courses starting in September 2019. From September 2019, a further campaign has been launched to encourage the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) applications to the 15 January deadline for nursing courses starting in September 2020.</p><p> </p><p>UCAS reported that applicants to study nursing have increased by 4% compared to the same period last year.</p><p> </p><p>Our ongoing 25% expansion of medical school places in England will see 7,500 new doctors available annually by 2020/21. This expansion has delivered five brand new medical schools in Sunderland, Lancashire, Chelmsford, Lincoln and Canterbury. The upcoming NHS People Plan will examine options for growing the medical workforce further. This includes the possibility of further medical school expansion, as well as increasing part-time study and expanding the number of accelerated degree programmes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 460 461 question first answered 22/10/2019 13:53:19 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous

1149233

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	Antidepressants: Children and Young People
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) children under the age of 16, (b) teenagers aged 16 to 17 and (c) young people aged 18 to 21 were prescribed anti-depressants in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Burton
tabling member printed	Andrew Griffiths
uin	547
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>No data is captured relating to the clinical indication a prescription is intended for. Some antidepressant drugs can be used for a variety of clinical indications and therefore the figures provided may include items which may have been prescribed for a different condition. The list of antidepressants which have been identified for this response are those listed within British National Formulary (BNF) chapter 4 section 3 (Antidepressant Drugs).</p><p>The NHS Business Services Authority only holds data relating to patient ages from April 2015. Therefore, the data attached is for the three full years for which there is data available.</p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries grouped question UIN 546 question first answered 21/10/2019 15:42:31 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries attachment 1 file name 546 linked table formatted.docx title PQ546 table
tabling member	3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths

1149234

registered interest
date	15/10/2019
answering body	House of Commons Commission
answering dept id	18
answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
hansard heading	Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington, representing the House of Commons Commission, how many complaints under the Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme which were not previously covered by the scheme have been lodged since the resolution of the House on 17 July 2019.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	548
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>The resolution of the House of 17 July 2019 endorsed the report of the House of Commons Commission entitled <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-commission/HC%202554%20-%20Extending%20the%20Independent%20Complaints%20and%20Grievance%20Scheme.pdf" target="_blank"><em>Extending the Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme</em></a> and approved steps to make the changes necessary to extend the scheme. Paragraph 6 of that report stated that subject to approval by the House, implementation work would take place over the summer, including the recruitment of additional expert independent investigators, with the intention of opening up the Scheme to non-recent cases from autumn this year.</p><p>Complainants with non-recent cases and former members of the parliamentary community, not previously covered by the scheme, will have access to the scheme from Monday 21 October 2019.</p> answering member constituency Carshalton and Wallington answering member printed Tom Brake question first answered 21/10/2019 14:21:07 answering member 151 label Biography information for Tom Brake
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1149235

registered interest
date	15/10/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Public Appointments: Permanent Secretaries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to page 31 of the 2013 report entitled Civil Service Reform Plan: One Year On, whether it remains Government policy to appoint all new permanent secretaries on fixed-term tenures; how the civil service implemented that policy; and if he will publish (a) all permanent secretary-level appointments, (b) whether those appointments are fixed-term and (c) when those tenures expire.
tabling member constituency	Arundel and South Downs
tabling member printed	Nick Herbert
uin	463
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>Since 2014, permanent secretary appointments have been made on the basis of a five year <em>fixed tenure; </em>this is set out in contracts of employment. <em>Fixed term</em> contracts may be offered to external candidates, for example in the case of specialist roles where experts are brought into the Civil Service to undertake a specific role.</p><p>There is no automatic presumption in favour of renewal, but short renewals may be possible at the discretion of the Prime Minister in cases where performance has been strong and an extension is supported by the relevant Minister.</p><p>The table below sets out the tenure end dates of the current cadre of permanent secretaries:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Permanent Secretary</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Department</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Appointment to Current Post</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Tenure End Date</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>John Manzoni</p></td><td><p>Chief Exec CS and Cabinet Office</p></td><td><p>13/10/2014</p></td><td><p>31/12/2019</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jonathan Stephens</p></td><td><p>NIO</p></td><td><p>09/06/2014</p></td><td><p>31/12/2019</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Melanie Dawes</p></td><td><p>MHCLG</p></td><td><p>02/03/2015</p></td><td><p>01/03/2020</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Alex Younger</p></td><td><p>Secret Intelligence Service</p></td><td><p>27/10/2014</p></td><td><p>31/03/2020</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Andrew Parker</p></td><td><p>Security Service</p></td><td><p>22/04/2013</p></td><td><p>22/04/2020</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leslie Evans</p></td><td><p>SG</p></td><td><p>01/07/2015</p></td><td><p>30/06/2020</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Richard Heaton</p></td><td><p>MOJ</p></td><td><p>29/08/2015</p></td><td><p>28/08/2020</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Simon McDonald</p></td><td><p>FCO</p></td><td><p>01/09/2015</p></td><td><p>31/08/2020</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Elizabeth Gardiner</p></td><td><p>First Parliamentary Counsel</p></td><td><p>24/11/2015</p></td><td><p>23/11/2020</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lynne Owens</p></td><td><p>National Crime Agency</p></td><td><p>04/01/2016</p></td><td><p>03/01/2021</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Simon Bollom</p></td><td><p>Defence Equipment &amp; Support</p></td><td><p>21/05/2018</p></td><td><p>20/02/2021</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stephen Lovegrove</p></td><td><p>MOD</p></td><td><p>25/04/2016</p></td><td><p>24/04/2021</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jonathan Slater</p></td><td><p>DFE</p></td><td><p>03/05/2016</p></td><td><p>02/05/2021</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chris Wormald<sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup></p></td><td><p>DHSC</p></td><td><p>03/05/2016</p></td><td><p>02/05/2021</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tom Scholar</p></td><td><p>HMT</p></td><td><p>01/07/2016</p></td><td><p>30/06/2021</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Charles Roxburgh</p></td><td><p>HMT (2nd Perm Sec)</p></td><td><p>04/07/2016</p></td><td><p>03/07/2021</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Alex Chisholm</p></td><td><p>BEIS</p></td><td><p>14/07/2016</p></td><td><p>13/07/2021</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ian Diamond<sup><sup>[2]</sup></sup></p></td><td><p>UKSA/ ONS</p></td><td><p>20/06/2019</p></td><td><p>31/12/2021</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Shan Morgan</p></td><td><p>WG</p></td><td><p>06/02/2017</p></td><td><p>05/02/2022</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jonathan Jones</p></td><td><p>Govt Legal Department</p></td><td><p>01/03/2014</p></td><td><p>28/02/2022</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Antonia Romeo</p></td><td><p>DIT</p></td><td><p>27/03/2017</p></td><td><p>26/03/2022</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Philip Rutnam</p></td><td><p>HO</p></td><td><p>05/04/2017</p></td><td><p>04/04/2022</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jeremy Fleming</p></td><td><p>GCHQ</p></td><td><p>10/04/2017</p></td><td><p>09/04/2022</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bernadette Kelly</p></td><td><p>DFT</p></td><td><p>18/04/2017</p></td><td><p>17/04/2022</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Simon Gass</p></td><td><p>Joint Intelligence Committee</p></td><td><p>18/06/2019</p></td><td><p>17/06/2022</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Crawford Falconer</p></td><td><p>Chief Trade Negotiation Adviser</p></td><td><p>21/08/2017</p></td><td><p>20/08/2022</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jim Harra</p></td><td><p>HMRC</p></td><td><p>02/01/2018</p></td><td><p>01/01/2023</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Peter Schofield</p></td><td><p>DWP</p></td><td><p>16/01/2018</p></td><td><p>16/01/2023</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Matthew Rycroft</p></td><td><p>DFID</p></td><td><p>22/01/2018</p></td><td><p>22/01/2023</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Patrick Vallance</p></td><td><p>Govt Chief Scientific Adviser</p></td><td><p>04/04/2018</p></td><td><p>03/04/2023</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Shona Dunn</p></td><td><p>HO 2nd PS</p></td><td><p>08/10/2018</p></td><td><p>07/10/2023</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mark Sedwill</p></td><td><p>Cabinet Secretary</p></td><td><p>24/10/2018</p></td><td><p>23/10/2023</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Max Hill</p></td><td><p>Director of Public Prosecutions</p></td><td><p>01/11/2018</p></td><td><p>31/10/2023</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Clare Moriarty</p></td><td><p>DExEU</p></td><td><p>01/04/2019</p></td><td><p>31/03/2024</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sarah Healey</p></td><td><p>DCMS</p></td><td><p>23/04/2019</p></td><td><p>22/04/2024</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tamara Finkelstein</p></td><td><p>DEFRA</p></td><td><p>19/06/2019</p></td><td><p>18/06/2024</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chris Whitty</p></td><td><p>Chief Medical Officer</p></td><td><p>01/10/2019</p></td><td><p>31/09/2024</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>[1] Not on a fixed tenure contract</p><p>[2] On a fixed term contract to cover delivery of the next census</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire answering member printed Simon Hart question first answered 21/10/2019 14:15:19 answering member 3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart
tabling member	1479 label Biography information for Lord Herbert of South Downs