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753272

registered interest
date	18/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord O’Shaughnessy on 23 January (HL4387) and on 3 February (HL4841), whether the new data collection on extended access to general practice includes data on the number of days that general practices were continuously closed over the Christmas and New Year holidays 2016-17; if so, why the Written Answer on 23 January stated that the Department of Health does not hold that information; and if not, whether they intend to extend that data collection to such information.
tabling member printed	Lord Birt
uin	HL960
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>The extended access data collection does not collect this information. There are no plans to extend the data collection to cover specific arrangements such as holiday cover. The data collection was agreed following negotiations between the General Practitioner Committee and NHS England, and any change or amendment to it would require further negotiation.</p> answering member printed Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen question first answered 20/07/2017 14:47:45 answering member 4330 label Biography information for Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen
tabling member	2533 label Biography information for Lord Birt

753280

registered interest
date	18/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government how many times a hospital doctor has been required to be present during a patient transfer to another NHS Trust in the last 12 months; in each case, what was (1) the medical specialty of the doctor involved, and (2) the grade of the doctor involved; and in how many of those cases was a hospital department left without a consultant available within 30 minutes as a result of that transfer.
tabling member printed	Baroness Finlay of Llandaff
uin	HL968
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2017 answer text <p>The data requested are not held centrally. Trusts are responsible for staffing arrangements including for ensuring appropriate arrangements and for procedures concerning the transfer of patients to other hospitals.</p> answering member printed Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen question first answered 21/07/2017 09:26:57 answering member 4330 label Biography information for Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen
tabling member	3609 label Biography information for Baroness Finlay of Llandaff

753281

registered interest
date	18/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to introduce legislation to regulate (1) physician assistants in anaesthesia, (2) physicians' associates, (3) advance critical care practitioners, and (4) surgical care practitioners; and if so, when.
tabling member printed	Baroness Finlay of Llandaff
uin	HL969
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to supporting the development of a modern health and care workforce as part of the continuing drive to provide safe, accessible and high quality care for patients and service users.</p><p> </p><p>The extension of statutory regulation to currently unregulated groups will only be considered where there is a solid body of evidence demonstrating a level of risk to the public which cannot be addressed through other means of assurance, including Accredited Voluntary Registers.</p><p><br> As the Secretary of State announced in his speech to NHS Providers in November 2016, the Department is developing proposals for a public consultation to consider whether physician associates should be regulated.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen question first answered 21/07/2017 09:27:44 answering member 4330 label Biography information for Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen
tabling member	3609 label Biography information for Baroness Finlay of Llandaff

753291

registered interest
date	18/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to ensure that Clinical Commissioning Groups are notified when a paediatric audiology service does not meet the standards for Improving Quality in Physiological Services accreditation following an assessment visit.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL979
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>The Improving Quality in Physiological Services (IQIPS) accreditation scheme is run by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS). The process of accreditation provides an independent assessment that a service meets the accreditation standards.</p><p> </p><p>It is the responsibility of the service to ensure that they conform to the standard before application to UKAS for accreditation. There is a pre-registration process within the scheme that enables all services to be able to do an effective gap analysis so that they should be at a point of conforming to the standard on making an application to UKAS. If during an assessment mandatory findings are raised which show non-conformity to any part of the standard then the service agrees appropriate improvement actions with the UKAS team to rectify these and prevent re-occurrence.</p><p> </p><p>The UKAS team base their recommendation for accreditation on the findings raised relating to the conformity to the standard, risk and whether the agreed improvement actions are appropriate and can be achieved within a three month close-out period. Therefore any findings raised must be cleared by the organisation if a positive recommendation for accreditation is to be granted.</p><p> </p><p>In <em>Commissioning Services for People with Hearing Loss: A framework for clinical commissioning groups</em>, published in July 2016, NHS England strongly encourages clinical commissioning groups to expect providers to have completed the IQIPS self-assessment tool and applied for accreditation with UKAS, and achieve accreditation within the duration of their contract.</p><p> </p><p>UKAS are supporting the NHS England business objective to increase the use of accreditation, and information about those services which have achieved accreditation is not held by the Department or NHS England, but is publicly available on the UKAS website.</p><p> </p><p>Information on clinical contracts is not held centrally by NHS England.</p> answering member printed Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen grouped question UIN HL887 HL889 HL890 HL891 question first answered 20/07/2017 14:50:44 answering member 4330 label Biography information for Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

753359

registered interest
date	18/07/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Elections
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the Government plans to bring forward legislation to implement the recommendations of the Law Commission's 2016 review of electoral law.
tabling member constituency	Bassetlaw
tabling member printed	John Mann
uin	5813
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government looks forward to the review by the Committee on Standards in Public Life and will wish to consider in due course how to respond to its findings.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Government will continue to work with the Law Commission on how best to implement their recommendations from their review of electoral law in collaboration with other stakeholders.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore grouped question UIN 5351 question first answered 20/07/2017 15:10:22 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	1387 label Biography information for Lord Mann

753378

registered interest
date	18/07/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Excise Duties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many disabled motorists received an exemption from the vehicle excise duty in (a) 2014-15, (b) 2015-16 and (c) 2016-17.
tabling member constituency	Bootle
tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
uin	5764
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2017 answer text <p>The information is not recorded in the format requested. The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency’s vehicle records change constantly as vehicle licensing and registration transactions are processed, so that the information requested can only be provided as a snapshot at a particular time. The table below provides the number of vehicles in the historic and disabled tax classes in February 2015, 2016 and 2017:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Tax Class</p></td><td><p>Feb-15</p></td><td><p>Feb-16</p></td><td><p>Feb-17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Historic</p></td><td><p>532,239</p></td><td><p>570,430</p></td><td><p>604,174</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Disabled</p></td><td><p>1,345,446</p></td><td><p>1,315,103</p></td><td><p>1,266,523</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 5765 question first answered 21/07/2017 12:57:05 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

753379

registered interest
date	18/07/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Excise Duties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people received an exemption from the vehicle excise duty for historic cars in (a) 2014-15, (b) 2015-16 and (c) 2016-17.
tabling member constituency	Bootle
tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
uin	5765
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2017 answer text <p>The information is not recorded in the format requested. The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency’s vehicle records change constantly as vehicle licensing and registration transactions are processed, so that the information requested can only be provided as a snapshot at a particular time. The table below provides the number of vehicles in the historic and disabled tax classes in February 2015, 2016 and 2017:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Tax Class</p></td><td><p>Feb-15</p></td><td><p>Feb-16</p></td><td><p>Feb-17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Historic</p></td><td><p>532,239</p></td><td><p>570,430</p></td><td><p>604,174</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Disabled</p></td><td><p>1,345,446</p></td><td><p>1,315,103</p></td><td><p>1,266,523</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 5764 question first answered 21/07/2017 12:57:05 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

753390

registered interest
date	18/07/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Consultants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether, and at what cost, his Department contracted consultants to carry out (a) marketing, (b) focus group, (c) polling and (d) other promotional activity relating to his Department's responsibilities in 2016-17.
tabling member constituency	Dundee East
tabling member printed	Stewart Hosie
uin	5672
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2017 answer text <p>The total marketing spend in 2016/17 was £785,261. This is for invoices paid during the period April 2016 to March 2017. Any spend over £25,000 can be found by following the link below:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/25000-spend" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/25000-spend</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 21/07/2017 12:46:54 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	1514 label Biography information for Stewart Hosie

753391

registered interest
date	18/07/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Administration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, which administrative functions of his Department are carried out on premises in (a) England and (b) London; and what administration costs were associated with those functions in each of those two areas in 2016-17.
tabling member constituency	Dundee East
tabling member printed	Stewart Hosie
uin	5673
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2017 answer text <p>The Treasury has two office locations (1Horse Guards Road, London and Norwich).</p><p> </p><p>The 2016-17 cost of the administrative functions can be found in the Annual Report and Accounts under operating expenditure, on the Financial Statements, which will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 21/07/2017 12:44:53 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	1514 label Biography information for Stewart Hosie

753394

registered interest
date	18/07/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Advisory Bodies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what expert groups his Department set up in 2016-17; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Dundee East
tabling member printed	Stewart Hosie
uin	5650
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2017 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Treasury permanently established the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) in January 2017. This expert group which offers advice on the UK’s strategic infrastructure needs was originally set up as an interim group in October 2015.</p><p> </p><p>The Chancellor’s statement concerning the establishment of the NIC is available on gov.uk<sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup></p><p> </p><p>[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/chancellor-unveils-infrastructure-body-to-help-build-better-britain-for-everyone</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 21/07/2017 12:48:56 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	1514 label Biography information for Stewart Hosie