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707252

registered interest
date	02/03/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Young People: Carers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what role her Department plans to play in developing and implementing the Government's carers strategy in respect of support provided to young carers.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Tom Blenkinsop
uin	66283
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2017 answer text <p>The Government has already introduced legislative changes to The Children Act 1989 (s17) to ensure that local authorities carry out an assessment, on request or on the appearance of need, of young carers’ need for support.</p><p>The Department for Education welcomed the Children’s Commissioner report and has just concluded the analysis of this, as well as recently published DfE-commissioned research. Officials are now considering the evidence and exploring various policy avenues which will help local authorities, schools and professionals to improve the identification and support of young carers and their families. This will lead to a contribution from Department for Education setting out our vision and future plans which will be part of the cross-government Carers’ Strategy led by the Department of Health and due to be published by Summer 2017.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 66249 question first answered 08/03/2017 17:49:05 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4037 label Biography information for Tom Blenkinsop

706668

registered interest
date	01/03/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Carers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies of the report by the Children's Commissioner for England on young carers, published in December 2016; and if she will provide additional support to councils in England to help them to (a) identify and (b) improve support for young carers.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Tom Blenkinsop
uin	66249
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2017 answer text <p>The Government has already introduced legislative changes to The Children Act 1989 (s17) to ensure that local authorities carry out an assessment, on request or on the appearance of need, of young carers’ need for support.</p><p>The Department for Education welcomed the Children’s Commissioner report and has just concluded the analysis of this, as well as recently published DfE-commissioned research. Officials are now considering the evidence and exploring various policy avenues which will help local authorities, schools and professionals to improve the identification and support of young carers and their families. This will lead to a contribution from Department for Education setting out our vision and future plans which will be part of the cross-government Carers’ Strategy led by the Department of Health and due to be published by Summer 2017.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 66283 question first answered 08/03/2017 17:49:05 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4037 label Biography information for Tom Blenkinsop

706749

registered interest
date	01/03/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Carers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the Government plans to publish the new carers strategy.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Tom Blenkinsop
uin	66131
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2017 answer text <p>The Department expects to publish the new national strategy for carers in the spring. No publication date has yet been set.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat question first answered 07/03/2017 15:00:08 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	4037 label Biography information for Tom Blenkinsop

706762

registered interest
date	01/03/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much of the NHS budget was spent on commissioning private providers in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Tom Blenkinsop
uin	66091
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2017 answer text <p>The requested information is supplied in the following table:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>2015/16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>£ million</p></td><td><p>£ million</p></td><td><p>£ million</p></td><td><p>£ million</p></td><td><p>£ million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total commissioner spend on independent sector</p></td><td><p>5,320</p></td><td><p>5,669</p></td><td><p>6,467</p></td><td><p>8,067</p></td><td><p>8,722</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total National Health Service revenue expenditure</p></td><td><p>100,266</p></td><td><p>102,570</p></td><td><p>106,495</p></td><td><p>110,554</p></td><td><p>114,730</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Spend on independent sector as a percentage of total NHS revenue spend</p></td><td><p>5.3%</p></td><td><p>5.5%</p></td><td><p>6.1%</p></td><td><p>7.3%</p></td><td><p>7.6%</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 06/03/2017 16:24:41 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4037 label Biography information for Tom Blenkinsop

706763

registered interest
date	01/03/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Orthopaedics
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he has taken to reduce waiting times for orthopaedic operations in the last 12 months; and whether waiting times for such operations have reduced in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Tom Blenkinsop
uin	66233
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2017 answer text <p>NHS England publishes monthly data on referral to treatment waiting times to report performance against the right that patients have to start consultant-led treatment within a maximum of 18 weeks from referral for non-urgent conditions. These data show that average median waiting times for patients on a waiting list to start trauma and orthopaedic treatment in admitted patient or outpatient settings were 7.4 weeks at the end of December 2015 and 8.1 weeks at the end of December 2016.</p><p>Maintaining waiting time performance is a key objective in the Government’s Mandate to NHS England for 2016-17. Both NHS England and NHS Improvement are providing support and challenge to National Health Service commissioners and providers to reduce waiting times for hospital treatment.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 06/03/2017 17:46:27 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4037 label Biography information for Tom Blenkinsop

706769

registered interest
date	01/03/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Knee Replacements
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients have waited longer than (a) two weeks, (b) five weeks, (c) 10 weeks and (d) 15 weeks between an assessment for knee replacement surgery and for that surgery taking place.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Tom Blenkinsop
uin	66263
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2017 answer text <p>Information is collected representing the time from decision to admit to treatment for knee and hip replacement surgery. The latest available data is for 2015-16 and is shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><p>A count of finished admission episodes (FAEs)<sup> 1</sup> with an eligible time waited from decision to admit to treatment for main<sup>2</sup> or secondary<sup>3</sup> procedure for hip and knee replacements (and revisions) with waiting times (in days) of two and five weeks (14 - 35 days), between five and 10 weeks (36 - 70 days), between 10 and 15 weeks (71 - 105 days) and longer than 15 weeks (106 days and over) in England for 2015-16</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Time Waited (Days)</p></td><td><p>Hip operations (FAEs)</p></td><td><p>Knee operations (FAEs)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2-5 weeks (14-35 days)</p></td><td><p>8,826</p></td><td><p>9,341</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>5-10 weeks (36-70 days)</p></td><td><p>17,893</p></td><td><p>19,672</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10-15 weeks (71-105 days)</p></td><td><p>16,220</p></td><td><p>18,992</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>15 weeks and over (106 days and over)</p></td><td><p>20,941</p></td><td><p>27,169</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Source</em>: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), NHS Digital, Activity in English National Health Service Hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector</p><p> </p><p><em>Notes</em></p><p> </p><ol><li>Total admissions with eligible time waited information</li></ol><p>The total number of eligible admissions includes waiting list, booked admissions and planned (elective) admissions. A waiting list admission is one in which a patient has been admitted electively into hospital from a waiting list, having been given no date of admission at the time a decision to admit was made. Booked admissions are those in which the patient was admitted electively having been given a date at the time it was decided to admit. Planned admissions are usually part of a planned sequence of clinical care determined mainly on clinical criteria, which, for example, could require a series of events, perhaps taking place every three months, six months or annually. A FAE is the first period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FAEs are counted against the year or month in which the admission episode finishes. Admissions do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the period.</p><p> </p><ol start="2"><li>Main procedure</li></ol><p>The first recorded procedure or intervention in each episode, usually the most resource intensive procedure or intervention performed during the episode. It is appropriate to use main procedure when looking at admission details, (eg time waited), but a more complete count of episodes with a particular procedure is obtained by looking at the main and the secondary procedures.</p><p> </p><ol start="3"><li>Secondary procedure</li></ol><p>As well as the main procedure, there are up to 23 (11 from 2002-03 to 2006-07 and three prior to 2002-03) secondary procedure fields in HES that show secondary procedures performed on the patient during the episode of care.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne grouped question UIN 66264 question first answered 06/03/2017 17:52:52 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4037 label Biography information for Tom Blenkinsop

706770

registered interest
date	01/03/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Hip Replacements
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients have had to wait longer than (a) two weeks, (b) five weeks, (c) 10 weeks and (d) 15 weeks between being assessed for hip replacement surgery and that surgery taking place.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Tom Blenkinsop
uin	66264
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2017 answer text <p>Information is collected representing the time from decision to admit to treatment for knee and hip replacement surgery. The latest available data is for 2015-16 and is shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><p>A count of finished admission episodes (FAEs)<sup> 1</sup> with an eligible time waited from decision to admit to treatment for main<sup>2</sup> or secondary<sup>3</sup> procedure for hip and knee replacements (and revisions) with waiting times (in days) of two and five weeks (14 - 35 days), between five and 10 weeks (36 - 70 days), between 10 and 15 weeks (71 - 105 days) and longer than 15 weeks (106 days and over) in England for 2015-16</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Time Waited (Days)</p></td><td><p>Hip operations (FAEs)</p></td><td><p>Knee operations (FAEs)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2-5 weeks (14-35 days)</p></td><td><p>8,826</p></td><td><p>9,341</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>5-10 weeks (36-70 days)</p></td><td><p>17,893</p></td><td><p>19,672</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10-15 weeks (71-105 days)</p></td><td><p>16,220</p></td><td><p>18,992</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>15 weeks and over (106 days and over)</p></td><td><p>20,941</p></td><td><p>27,169</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Source</em>: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), NHS Digital, Activity in English National Health Service Hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector</p><p> </p><p><em>Notes</em></p><p> </p><ol><li>Total admissions with eligible time waited information</li></ol><p>The total number of eligible admissions includes waiting list, booked admissions and planned (elective) admissions. A waiting list admission is one in which a patient has been admitted electively into hospital from a waiting list, having been given no date of admission at the time a decision to admit was made. Booked admissions are those in which the patient was admitted electively having been given a date at the time it was decided to admit. Planned admissions are usually part of a planned sequence of clinical care determined mainly on clinical criteria, which, for example, could require a series of events, perhaps taking place every three months, six months or annually. A FAE is the first period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FAEs are counted against the year or month in which the admission episode finishes. Admissions do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the period.</p><p> </p><ol start="2"><li>Main procedure</li></ol><p>The first recorded procedure or intervention in each episode, usually the most resource intensive procedure or intervention performed during the episode. It is appropriate to use main procedure when looking at admission details, (eg time waited), but a more complete count of episodes with a particular procedure is obtained by looking at the main and the secondary procedures.</p><p> </p><ol start="3"><li>Secondary procedure</li></ol><p>As well as the main procedure, there are up to 23 (11 from 2002-03 to 2006-07 and three prior to 2002-03) secondary procedure fields in HES that show secondary procedures performed on the patient during the episode of care.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne grouped question UIN 66263 question first answered 06/03/2017 17:52:52 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4037 label Biography information for Tom Blenkinsop

686931

registered interest
date	08/02/2017
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Military Decorations: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make provisions to allow military personnel who have served in Northern Ireland as part of Operation Helvetic to receive operational service medals, where merited.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Tom Blenkinsop
uin	63773
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2017 answer text <p>There are currently in excess of 4,000 UK Service personnel deployed on operations throughout the world. Each of these operations is kept under constant review and when appropriate, a recommendation for medallic recognition is made to the Committee on the Grant of Honours, Decorations and Medals for their consideration.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 20/02/2017 16:16:33 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4037 label Biography information for Tom Blenkinsop

686280

registered interest
date	07/02/2017
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	Free Movement of People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what plans he has to negotiate visa-free travel for British citizens in the EU as a part of negotiations for the UK to exit the EU.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Tom Blenkinsop
uin	63540
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2017 answer text <p>The UK’s post-exit immigration framework is yet to be determined.</p><p>At every step of these negotiations we will work to ensure the best possible outcome for the British people.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 20/02/2017 12:45:33 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4037 label Biography information for Tom Blenkinsop

683448

registered interest
date	02/02/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Bus Services: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment his Department has made of the options available to increase the provision of audio-visual information on buses.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Tom Blenkinsop
uin	62857
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2017 answer text <p>The Bus Services Bill includes powers to introduce an Accessible Information Requirement, for local buses throughout Great Britain to provide audible and visible next stop announcements. The impact assessment for these new powers considered a number of options to increase the provision of audio-visual information on buses and is available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/561964/bus-services-bill-accessibility-information-requirement-annex-a.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/561964/bus-services-bill-accessibility-information-requirement-annex-a.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 07/02/2017 14:59:34 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	4037 label Biography information for Tom Blenkinsop