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1083620

registered interest
date	07/03/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Cycling and Walking: Newcastle-under-Lyme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what financial and other support he plans to allocate to the Newcastle-under-Lyme constituency to build the required infrastructure identified in the area local cycling and walking infrastructure plan.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	229662
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2019 answer text <p>Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plans (LCWIPs) are used by Local Authorities to identify and prioritise investment for cycling and walking schemes from local funds and relevant national funding streams, such as the Highways Maintenance Fund, Integrated Transport Block, Transforming Cities Fund, Future High Streets Fund, and Housing Infrastructure Fund. The Department has been supporting Staffordshire County Council in the development of its LCWIP.</p><p> </p><p>Decisions on future funding for cycling and walking will be made in the context of the forthcoming Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 12/03/2019 11:04:39 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1083728

registered interest
date	07/03/2019
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Females: Local Government Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on the implications for Government policies of the conclusions of the report from the Women's Budget Group, Triple Whammy: The impact of local government cuts on women, published on 7 March 2019 which found that changes to local authority funding disproportionately affects women.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	229706
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2019 answer text <p>I regularly discuss gender equality with all my Cabinet colleagues. The recent Local Government Finance Settlement delivered a real-terms increase in funding for local government in 2019-20.</p><p>The Public Sector Equality Duty is a duty that requires all public bodies, including local authorities, to proactively have due regard to advancing equality of opportunity between people from different groups and I would expect them to do so when considering their spending decisions.</p><p>More broadly, we are continuing to develop the upcoming gender equality &amp; economic empowerment strategy with Ministers across government to address the persistent gendered economic barriers women – and men – face.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 12/03/2019 15:21:49 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1082614

registered interest
date	06/03/2019
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	Care Homes: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the conclusions of Independent Age into the performance of care homes across England that a third of local authorities experienced care home ratings falling.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	229123
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2019 answer text <p>The Care Act 2014 placed a duty on councils to offer a meaningful choice of services, so that people have a range of high quality, appropriate care options to choose from and that they get the services that best meet their needs.</p><p> </p><p>83% of adult social care providers are rated as good or outstanding by the Care Quality Commission, as at March 2019, and the Department is working with the adult social care sector to implement Quality Matters – a shared commitment to take action to achieve high quality adult social care for service users, families, carers and everyone working in the sector.</p><p> </p><p>The Green Paper, to be published at the earliest opportunity, will set out our proposals for a sustainable system in the long term and address issues related to the quality of care and variation in practice.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 11/03/2019 17:05:22 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1081802

registered interest
date	04/03/2019
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	Hospital Beds: Staffordshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the number of (a) intermediate care beds and (b) long-term nursing home beds in North Staffordshire hospitals.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	227965
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government’s policy is clear that patients should not be in acute hospital longer than they need to be. It is for providers, clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and local authorities to ensure that they commission intermediate care services adequate to meet the standards of delivery as set out by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, and the needs of the local population.</p><p> </p><p>North Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent CCGs are holding a consultation, ‘The Future of Local Health Services’. The consultation focuses on shifting care to out-of-hospital services, with a smaller number of patients being assessed or treated in beds. As part of the Pre-Consultation Business Case, the North Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent CCGs were taken through a rigorous assurance process by NHS England and the West Midlands Clinical Senate. A key part of this was in relation to the assurance around the baseline number of community beds proposed to deliver the discharge to assess model of care.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 07/03/2019 12:23:59 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1081803

registered interest
date	04/03/2019
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	Care Homes: Staffordshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference the Northern Staffordshire Community Hospitals Consultation, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the quality of care in local nursing homes is maintained.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	227966
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2019 answer text <p>Although 83% of adult social care providers are rated as good or outstanding by the Care Quality Commission (as at March 2019), it is completely unacceptable that standards in some settings fall below those rightly expected by care users and their families.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is working with the adult social care sector to implement Quality Matters – a shared commitment to take action to achieve high quality adult social care for service users, families, carers and everyone working in the sector.</p><p> </p><p>The Green Paper, to be published at the earliest opportunity, will set out our proposals for a sustainable system in the long term and address issues related to the quality of care and variation in practice.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 07/03/2019 12:22:02 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1081807

registered interest
date	04/03/2019
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	Care Homes: Staffordshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Northern Staffordshire community hospitals consultation, whether any existing care homes in Northern Staffordshire could be used to accommodate intermediate care beds.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	227967
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2019 answer text <p>All nursing homes in Northern Staffordshire are registered to provide nursing care and could be used to provide intermediate care beds.</p><p> </p><p>However, within the Pre-Consultation Business Case (PCBC), the North Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Clinical Commissioning Groups have made clear that the use of care homes for this purpose would be separate from, and over and above, long-term care home provision for residents should this option be taken forward. Within the PCBC, there is an option proposing the use of care home beds, with a clear narrative that outlines how this model would be developed should it be taken forward.</p><p> </p><p>The full Pre-Consultation Business Case can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.healthservicesnorthstaffs.nhs.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.healthservicesnorthstaffs.nhs.uk/</a></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 07/03/2019 12:24:59 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1081815

registered interest
date	04/03/2019
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	University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust
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 patients were discharged from University Hospitals of North Midlands into (a) community hospital and (b) care home beds in each week from 2013 to 2018.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	227968
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2019 answer text <p>Data is not available in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 07/03/2019 12:22:47 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1077535

registered interest
date	26/02/2019
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	Eating Disorders: Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when NHS England plans to answer the Freedom of Information request submitted by the hon. Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme on 21 January 2019 on specialist in-patient eating disorder services.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	226067
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2019 answer text <p>NHS England has confirmed that the Freedom of Information (FOI) request was received on 21 January 2019 but the statutory deadline was not met. A response to the FOI was issued on 28 February 2019.</p><p> </p><p>The investigation of instances when the statutory deadline for FOI cases are missed by NHS England is a matter for the Information Commissioner.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 226068 question first answered 04/03/2019 17:41:51 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1077536

registered interest
date	26/02/2019
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	Eating Disorders: Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will undertake an investigation into the reasons NHS England has not replied within the statutory timeframe to the Freedom of Information request of 21 January 2019 from the hon. Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme on specialist in-patient eating disorder services.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	226068
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2019 answer text <p>NHS England has confirmed that the Freedom of Information (FOI) request was received on 21 January 2019 but the statutory deadline was not met. A response to the FOI was issued on 28 February 2019.</p><p> </p><p>The investigation of instances when the statutory deadline for FOI cases are missed by NHS England is a matter for the Information Commissioner.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 226067 question first answered 04/03/2019 17:41:51 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1077583

registered interest
date	26/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has made an assessment of the implications for his policies of the February 2019 report by Action for Children and others which linked reductions in local children's services with an increase in youth violence and exploitation; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	226069
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2019 answer text <p>At Autumn Budget, my right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced an extra £410 million to address pressures on social care services, along with £84 million over 5 years to support up to 20 local authorities to improve their social work practice and decision-making, enabling them to work more effectively with the most vulnerable children and their families.</p><p>This builds on the £200 billion government has already made available to councils up to 2020 to provide services in the best interests of local residents, including those for children and young people.</p><p>We are also working closely with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and the sector to ensure decisions around core funding made at Spending Review, and how it is shared between local authorities as part of the review of relative needs and resources, are informed by the best available evidence.</p><p>Additionally, the National Safeguarding Practice Review Panel has announced its first review into adolescents at risk of criminal exploitation focusing on whether young people get the help they need, when they need it and how services can be improved to prevent further harm: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/child-safeguarding-practice-review-panel-first-national-review" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/child-safeguarding-practice-review-panel-first-national-review</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 04/03/2019 14:52:50 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly