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523076

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on the average waiting time between cancer diagnosis and treatment in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Copeland
tabling member printed	Mr Jamie Reed
uin	39311
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2016 answer text <p>The Department does not hold data on the average waiting time between cancer diagnosis and treatment. NHS England collects data on cancer waiting times and these data are published on their website. The data comprise of organisational performance against operational standards that support waiting time commitments laid out in the NHS Constitution. These include the standard that 96% of patients should begin first definitive treatment for all cancers within a maximum of 31 days from diagnosis.</p><p> </p><p>A national time series can be found at the link below:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/02/Cancer-Waiting-Times-National-Time-Series-Oct-2009-Mar-2016-Provider-based.xlsx" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/02/Cancer-Waiting-Times-National-Time-Series-Oct-2009-Mar-2016-Provider-based.xlsx</a></p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 09/06/2016 15:13:35 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1503 label Biography information for Mr Jamie Reed

522451

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Childbirth: Cumbria
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many births were recorded at (a) West Cumberland Hospital and (b) Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle in 2015.
tabling member constituency	Copeland
tabling member printed	Mr Jamie Reed
uin	39010
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2016 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson question first answered 08/06/2016 08:10:38 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson attachment 1 file name UKSA Response to 39010.pdf title UKSA Letter to Member - Recorded Births
tabling member	1503 label Biography information for Mr Jamie Reed

522588

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Obesity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) children and (b) adults in (i) Copeland constituency, (ii) Cumbria and (iii) England are classed as (A) overweight, (B) obese and (C) morbidly obese in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Copeland
tabling member printed	Mr Jamie Reed
uin	39017
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2016 answer text <p>Child and adult overweight and obesity prevalence are not published using parliamentary constituency boundaries. Data is available for the local authorities of Copeland District Council and Cumbria County Council.</p><p>Local authority level data on overweight and obese children are collected through the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP). Subnational and national data are available to download from <a href="http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB19109" target="_blank">http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB19109</a> and <a href="http://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/national-child-measurement-programme" target="_blank">http://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/national-child-measurement-programme</a> (Link 1: latest NCMP data, 2014/15, Link 2: trend data from 2006/07 to 2014/15).</p><p>Sub-national data on overweight and obese adults are available through the Active People Survey. Data collection on adult height and weight started in 2012, local authority data are not available before this. Subnational and national data are available to download from:</p><p><a href="http://www.noo.org.uk/visualisation" target="_blank">http://www.noo.org.uk/visualisation</a></p><p>There is no published data at local authority level on morbid obesity in adults or children. National prevalence of adult morbid obesity (Body Mass Index &gt; 40kg.m<sup>2</sup>) is available from the Health Survey for England (1993 to 2014):</p><p><a href="http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB19297" target="_blank">http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB19297</a></p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 08/06/2016 11:50:31 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1503 label Biography information for Mr Jamie Reed

522594

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Dental Health: Cumbria
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children in Cumbria have presented at accident and emergency with dental problems in (a) 2014-15 and (b) 2015-16.
tabling member constituency	Copeland
tabling member printed	Mr Jamie Reed
uin	39011
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2016 answer text <p>There were less than five unplanned accident and emergency attendances where patients aged under 18 received dental treatment at providers within Cumbria Clinical Commissioning Group area in 2014-15 and in 2015-16. These data are from hospital episode statistics, and figures between one and five have been suppressed to protect patient confidentiality. 2015-16 data are provisional.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 08/06/2016 13:21:39 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1503 label Biography information for Mr Jamie Reed

522700

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Per Capita Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much has been spent on rail services per head of population in each region of England in (a) 2014-15 and (b) 2015-16.
tabling member constituency	Copeland
tabling member printed	Mr Jamie Reed
uin	39009
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2016 answer text <p>The Department continues to forecast significant growth in use of rail and is constantly considering proposals for new investment which represent best value of money for the taxpayer.</p><p> </p><p>We are fully committed to investing in the north as part of our ambitious plans to build a Northern Powerhouse. That is why we are spending £13billion improving the region’s transport, reversing decades of underinvestment, providing better journeys and securing long-term economic growth. We are investing £22 million in improving Newcastle station and its surrounding areas, and in the next few years passengers will see improvements including more services, more capacity and the scrapping of Pacers, as well as a fleet of state-of-the-art new trains for the East Coast Mainline.</p><p> </p><p>The modernisation of the Great Western is the biggest investment in this railway since it was built by Brunel. This investment will enable faster, more reliable services, more seats, better stations and more freight trains. This will improve the experience of rail users and stimulate economic growth across the South West and beyond. Completion of electrification to Cardiff is planned to be completed in CP5.</p><p> </p><p>The step change seen in London spending last year is due to increased spending on London Underground and HS2 plus some increase in the Network Grant. This investment is needed to meet the ever increasing demand for passenger journeys into London, of which there are currently about 4 billion every year.</p><p> </p><p>The most recent government expenditure on rail is shown in the table below. Figures for 15/16 are not currently available and will be published in November 2016.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Government expenditure on railways<sup>1</sup> per head of population</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Region</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014/15</strong></p></td><td colspan="4"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>North East</p></td><td><p>£52</p></td><td colspan="4"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>North West</p></td><td><p>£93</p></td><td colspan="4"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Yorkshire &amp; Humber</p></td><td><p>£98</p></td><td colspan="4"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>£34</p></td><td colspan="4"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>£68</p></td><td colspan="4"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>East of England</p></td><td><p>£71</p></td><td colspan="4"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>London</p></td><td><p>£353</p></td><td colspan="4"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>South East</p></td><td><p>£69</p></td><td colspan="4"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>South West</p></td><td><p>£35</p></td><td colspan="4"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>England</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£113</strong></p></td><td colspan="4"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p>1 Includes expenditure on all types of railway</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Source: HMT, ONS</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 08/06/2016 11:17:43 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	1503 label Biography information for Mr Jamie Reed

522743

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
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	Children: Poverty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department plans to produce child poverty statistics at (a) local authority and (b) parliamentary constituency level.
tabling member constituency	Copeland
tabling member printed	Mr Jamie Reed
uin	39018
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2016 answer text <p>Through the Welfare Reform and Work Act we have introduced new life chances measures to track children in workless households and children’s educational attainment. These – and other measures to be brought forward in our forthcoming Life Chances Strategy – will help drive action on those areas that make the most difference to children’s lives.</p><p> </p><p>We will continue to publish data on low income through the annual Households Below Average Income statistics. The number and proportion of children in relative low income is not available at local authority or constituency level. This is because the survey sample sizes are too small to support the production of robust estimates at this geography.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 08/06/2016 14:23:33 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	1503 label Biography information for Mr Jamie Reed

519188

registered interest
date	18/05/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Nurses: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nursing students who enrolled on pre-registration nurse education courses in each region held a prior degree-level qualification in any subject in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Copeland
tabling member printed	Mr Jamie Reed
uin	37125
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2016 answer text <p>The information about the proportion of student nurses that have already studied for a degree before entering training as a nurse is not collected by the Department.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 23/05/2016 14:26:28 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1503 label Biography information for Mr Jamie Reed

517812

registered interest
date	05/05/2016
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Food: Waste
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make it her policy to require supermarkets to donate food to food banks and other charities.
tabling member constituency	Copeland
tabling member printed	Mr Jamie Reed
uin	36683
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p>I am replying as the Minister with responsibility for food waste.</p><p> </p><p>The Government welcomes the redistribution of good quality surplus food to charities that can make sure it goes to people rather than going to waste.</p><p> </p><p>Based on our experience, a simple law or requirement obliging supermarkets to donate food would not fix the barriers to redistribution. We need to look at the bigger picture. Less than 10% of food wasted in the supply chain is from supermarkets, so we need the whole chain to work together.</p><p> </p><p>Facilitated and supported by government, all major retailers now have arrangements in place to redistribute surplus food. Action taken by retailers to redistribute surplus food includes:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Morrisons have announced that, from January 2016, any unsold safe food will go to redistribution organisations</li><li>Tesco are making use of an app which links supermarkets with redistribution organisations</li><li>Asda are working with FareShare to redistribute food</li></ul><p> </p><p>Signatories to the voluntary Courtauld Commitment with industry have reported a 74% increase between 2012 and end 2014, and we expect it to increase further.</p><p> </p><p>We want to achieve more. Last year, the Secretary of State held a meeting with industry and redistribution organisations to take stock of progress on food redistribution. Outcomes from this include the recent publication of a Redistribution Framework to help facilitate closer working between potential donors and recipients of food surpluses. Research has been commissioned by WRAP to identify where and why waste and surpluses occur in the supply chain to inform further action to increase waste prevention and redistribution.</p><p>Following the success of earlier agreements, WRAP launched The Courtauld Commitment 2025 in March. This is an ambitious new agreement that takes a whole food supply chain approach, and will build on the progress we have already made to prevent waste, including through the redistribution of surplus food.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 10/05/2016 15:35:12 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	1503 label Biography information for Mr Jamie Reed

517398

registered interest
date	04/05/2016
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Internet: Bullying
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans his Department has to prevent cyber bullying.
tabling member constituency	Copeland
tabling member printed	Mr Jamie Reed
uin	36579
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2016 answer text <p>The Government’s approach to cyber bullying is to work with industry, charities, schools and parents to tackle this serious issue.</p><p>All schools must have a behaviour policy which includes measures to prevent and tackle all forms of bullying, including cyberbullying. To help schools, the Department for Education has produced advice which provides a definition of cyberbullying and outlines the steps schools can take to deal with bullying.<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/preventing-and-tackling-bullying" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/preventing-and-tackling-bullying</a>. DfE has also produced case studies for schools showing good practice in how to manage behaviour and bullying. This includes a case study about how a school deals with cyberbullying. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/case-studies/talking-about-and-responding-to-school-cyberbullying" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/case-studies/talking-about-and-responding-to-school-cyberbullying</a></p><p>The Government recognises that educating young people is key to tackling cyberbullying and protecting children online. Recognising and dealing with cyberbullying forms part of school computer programmes, and the Government has also issued advice for parents and carers on cyberbullying detection:<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/375420/Advice_for_Parents_on_Cyberbullying_131114.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/375420/Advice_for_Parents_on_Cyberbullying_131114.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>We expects social media companies, and internet platforms, to have robust processes in place and to act promptly when abuse is reported; including acting quickly to removing inappropriate content, and where appropriate, suspending or terminating the accounts of those breaching the rules in place.</p><p>The Government continues to work closely with social media companies and other relevant actors and experts to make sure they are committed to protecting children and young people who use their platforms. Ministers from the Department for Education, the Department for Culture Media and Sport, and the Home Office, lead the Executive Board of the UK Council for Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS), which recently published a <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/517335/UKCCIS_Child_Safety_Online-Mar2016.pdf" target="_blank">practical guide</a> for providers of social media and interactive services based on current good practice.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 09/05/2016 15:10:55 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1503 label Biography information for Mr Jamie Reed

517458

registered interest
date	04/05/2016
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Forced Marriage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to end forced marriage worldwide.
tabling member constituency	Copeland
tabling member printed	Mr Jamie Reed
uin	36641
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2016 answer text <p>Ending Child Early and Forced Marriage (CEFM) remains a high priority for the UK Government at home and overseas. The UK has demonstrated its leadership through co-hosting the first ever Girl Summit in 2014, which galvanized global action to end CEFM and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). Following the Girl Summit 2014 the UK has continued its global leadership on ending CEFM, including through support for UN Resolutions and advocating for a separate target on ending CEFM within the Global Goals. The UK has supported campaigns and country-led Girl Summits through its overseas network, raising awareness of the impact of CEFM and ensuring global commitments translate into country-level action.</p><p>The UK has committed £36 million towards ending CEFM around the world. This includes support for the UN’s Joint Programme to End Child Marriage working in twelve high prevalence countries and for grassroots civil society organisations working to challenge this harmful social practice. Domestically, the UK Government’s Forced Marriage Unit provides support to British Nationals overseas affected by forced marriage.</p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 09/05/2016 15:50:02 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	1503 label Biography information for Mr Jamie Reed