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931521

registered interest
date	26/06/2018
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Social Rented Housing: Mental Illness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans the Government has to estimate the number of people with mental health problems on social housing waiting lists.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	157861
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>Local authorities are required by law to ensure that ‘reasonable preference’ (ie priority) for social housing is given to those who need to move on medical and welfare grounds, including grounds relating to a disability. Statutory allocations guidance makes clear that this would include a mental illness or disorder.</p><p>The annual Local Authority Housing Statistical return collects data on households on the waiting list for each of the reasonable preference criteria: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/local-authority-housing-statistics-data-returns-for-2016-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/local-authority-housing-statistics-data-returns-for-2016-to-2017</a></p><p>In 2016/17, there were 108,858 households that met medical and welfare reasonable preference criteria.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 02/07/2018 16:27:49 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

931522

registered interest
date	26/06/2018
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	Dental Services: Fees and Charges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of public opinion towards the NHS Business Services Authority’s penalty charge scheme for dentistry.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	157862
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>No such assessment has been carried out by the Department. Many patients are exempt from National Health Service patient charges. The dentist, when collecting the charge on behalf of the NHS, is dependent if evidence is not provided on the patient’s statement that he or she is exempt. Retrospective checks on eligibility are undertaken to protect the overall NHS budget to which patient charges make an important contribution.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS Business Services Authority (NHS BSA) carries this checking and penalty service out on behalf of NHS England. It includes an appeals process.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS BSA and NHS England however recognise there is concern that some patients may not be clear on whether they are exempt from charges. The NHS BSA is working to further improve information available. This includes steps to promote easy read patient information amongst vulnerable patient groups, creating an online eligibility checker and developing a national awareness campaign.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 02/07/2018 14:17:17 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

931524

registered interest
date	26/06/2018
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	Dental Services: Fees and Charges
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 his Department has made of (a) the effectiveness of the NHS Business Services Authority’s approach to issuing penalty charges, (b) trends in the number of appeals against those charges which are upheld; and how lessons are learned from such upheld appeals.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	157863
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>The Department has made no such assessment. The attached table shows a breakdown of successful and unsuccessful appeals against the Benefit Exemption Checking Service (BECS) only.</p><p> </p><p>A table showing the total number of Penalty Charge Notices (PCN) issued for the BECS, the Prescription Exemption Checking Service and the Dental Exemption Checking Service (DECS) is attached.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS Business Services Authority continuously review contact from patients who feel they have incorrectly received a PCN. This allows valuable insight and understanding into customer behaviour including exceptional circumstances provided by patients.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 02/07/2018 14:16:06 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine attachment 1 file name PQ157863 attached tables.docx title PQ157863 attached document
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

931103

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Sports: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to work with partners to ensure that young people have access to affordable sports facilities in their local area.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	157253
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>Government's Sporting Future strategy, published in December 2015, emphasised the importance of all young people, regardless of background or ability, being healthy, active and having a good experience of sport and physical activity. It also highlighted the significant role that facilities play in encouraging people of all ages and backgrounds to get more active.</p><p> </p><p>Sport England's Strategic Facilities Fund is making up to £40m of National Lottery funding available over 2017-21 to invest in strategic, solicited facilities projects that support and encourage people, including young people, to get active. Since 2016, the Strategic Facilities Fund has invested £27.5 million to support the construction of 23 new state of the art health and leisure facilities across England.</p><p> </p><p>Sport England's Community Asset Fund is making up to £15m available per year over 2017-21 to support communities to improve and invest in the spaces in their communities that will support people to get more active, including children and young people.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 28/06/2018 15:04:05 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

911196

registered interest
date	24/05/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Large Goods Vehicles: Weight Limits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to his Department's letter entitled Regulation of mobile concrete batching plant – decision on operating weight arrangements, published on 5 April 2018, what the evidential basis was for his Department's decision that there was no compelling case for amending regulations to permit mobile batching concrete plants (MCBPs) to continue to operate outside standard legal gross vehicle weight limits after the inclusion of MCBPs within statutory goods vehicle testing from 20 May 2018.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	147972
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2018 answer text <p>The inclusion of mobile concrete batching plant, alongside a number of other formerly-exempt vehicles types, in statutory goods vehicle testing from 20 May 2018 does not change the legal weight limits applicable to these vehicles.</p><p>The ‘special types’ rules, which permit certain vehicle types to operate outside the standard weight limits, are generally used to enable the carriage of equipment and indivisible loads which for engineering reasons cannot feasibly comply with the standard rules, and not because of economic or financial considerations. To apply these rules to divisible loads would represent a significant departure from precedent, could lead to demands for other vehicle types to be afforded similar treatment and would therefore require an exceptionally compelling case.</p><p>There is nothing to indicate that mobile batching plant, which carries a divisible load, cannot be feasibly operated within the standard legal weight limits.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 04/06/2018 14:21:51 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

911198

registered interest
date	24/05/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Large Goods Vehicles: Weight Limits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he plans to conduct an assessment of the effect of not permitting mobile batching concrete plants to continue to operate outside standard legal gross vehicle weight limits on (a) the economy and (b) businesses.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	147973
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not in general conduct impact assessments on the application of existing legal requirements, and has no plans to do so in this case.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 04/06/2018 14:24:24 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

911201

registered interest
date	24/05/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Large Goods Vehicles: Weight Limits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to his Department's letter entitled Regulation of mobile concrete batching plant – decision on operating weight arrangements, published on 5 April 2018, what assessment he has made of the effect on fair competition within the wet concrete market industry of the decisions contained within that letter.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	147974
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2018 answer text <p>The decision to establish a 10-year temporary arrangement enabling mobile concrete batching plant to operate in excess of standard weight limits will create a temporary regulatory discrepancy between different forms of delivery of wet concrete. Having listened carefully to the industry, the Government believes that this will provide time for mobile batching plant to come into compliance with the currently-applicable legal limits, which also apply to barrel concrete mixers.</p><p> </p><p>At the end of that temporary period, there will be common limits across different modes of concrete delivery, helping to facilitate fair competition. The Department is aware that there are different maximum legal payloads for different vehicle types, due to differing unladen weights.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 04/06/2018 14:27:21 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

905555

registered interest
date	16/05/2018
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	Babies: Death
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the Health Service Investigation Branch plans to being its investigation into avoidable baby deaths.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	144994
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2018 answer text <p>In November 2017, my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State announced that, from April 2018, the Health Service Investigation Branch (HSIB) would investigate each case of early neonatal death, term intrapartum stillbirth and severe brain injury in babies, as well as each case of maternal death in England. This remit and the definition of qualifying maternity cases was set out in the Secretary of State’s directions, NHS Trust Development Authority (HSIB Maternity Investigations) Directions 2018, published on 26 April 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The new investigative approach began in a single region in April 2018 and will roll out to all areas of England during 2018/19. Rollout will be complete by the end of March 2019. It is estimated that there are approximately 1,000 cases of birth-related deaths or serious brain injuries in babies in England every year. The expectation is that the learning from investigations will spur system improvements leading to fewer deaths and injuries in the future.</p><p> </p><p>The HSIB has been allocated £8 million of additional funding to implement the new maternity investigation programme in 2018/19.</p><p> </p><p>The HSIB will produce an investigation report for each maternity investigation it undertakes and will make recommendations to the relevant National Health Service trust or foundation trust.</p><p> </p><p>It will be for individual trusts to put into place actions to address the recommendations of individual reports and ensure that the learning from HSIB investigations is put into practice so that avoidable harms are reduced. The Care Quality Commission, which monitors, inspects and regulates NHS providers does, in carrying out its functions, take into account a variety of data and intelligence sources. The HSIB maternity investigation recommendations and the actions NHS trusts and foundation trusts have taken in response could form part of these data sources and be taken into account where relevant.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 144995 144996 question first answered 21/05/2018 14:01:43 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

905556

registered interest
date	16/05/2018
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	Babies: Death
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what additional (a) funding and (b) resources have been allocated to the Health Service Investigation Branch for its investigation into avoidable baby deaths; and what the timeframe is for that funding.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	144995
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2018 answer text <p>In November 2017, my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State announced that, from April 2018, the Health Service Investigation Branch (HSIB) would investigate each case of early neonatal death, term intrapartum stillbirth and severe brain injury in babies, as well as each case of maternal death in England. This remit and the definition of qualifying maternity cases was set out in the Secretary of State’s directions, NHS Trust Development Authority (HSIB Maternity Investigations) Directions 2018, published on 26 April 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The new investigative approach began in a single region in April 2018 and will roll out to all areas of England during 2018/19. Rollout will be complete by the end of March 2019. It is estimated that there are approximately 1,000 cases of birth-related deaths or serious brain injuries in babies in England every year. The expectation is that the learning from investigations will spur system improvements leading to fewer deaths and injuries in the future.</p><p> </p><p>The HSIB has been allocated £8 million of additional funding to implement the new maternity investigation programme in 2018/19.</p><p> </p><p>The HSIB will produce an investigation report for each maternity investigation it undertakes and will make recommendations to the relevant National Health Service trust or foundation trust.</p><p> </p><p>It will be for individual trusts to put into place actions to address the recommendations of individual reports and ensure that the learning from HSIB investigations is put into practice so that avoidable harms are reduced. The Care Quality Commission, which monitors, inspects and regulates NHS providers does, in carrying out its functions, take into account a variety of data and intelligence sources. The HSIB maternity investigation recommendations and the actions NHS trusts and foundation trusts have taken in response could form part of these data sources and be taken into account where relevant.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 144994 144996 question first answered 21/05/2018 14:01:43 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

905557

registered interest
date	16/05/2018
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	Babies: Death
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether hospitals are compelled to accept and act on Health Service Investigation Branch recommendations that result from the investigation of avoidable baby deaths.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	144996
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2018 answer text <p>In November 2017, my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State announced that, from April 2018, the Health Service Investigation Branch (HSIB) would investigate each case of early neonatal death, term intrapartum stillbirth and severe brain injury in babies, as well as each case of maternal death in England. This remit and the definition of qualifying maternity cases was set out in the Secretary of State’s directions, NHS Trust Development Authority (HSIB Maternity Investigations) Directions 2018, published on 26 April 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The new investigative approach began in a single region in April 2018 and will roll out to all areas of England during 2018/19. Rollout will be complete by the end of March 2019. It is estimated that there are approximately 1,000 cases of birth-related deaths or serious brain injuries in babies in England every year. The expectation is that the learning from investigations will spur system improvements leading to fewer deaths and injuries in the future.</p><p> </p><p>The HSIB has been allocated £8 million of additional funding to implement the new maternity investigation programme in 2018/19.</p><p> </p><p>The HSIB will produce an investigation report for each maternity investigation it undertakes and will make recommendations to the relevant National Health Service trust or foundation trust.</p><p> </p><p>It will be for individual trusts to put into place actions to address the recommendations of individual reports and ensure that the learning from HSIB investigations is put into practice so that avoidable harms are reduced. The Care Quality Commission, which monitors, inspects and regulates NHS providers does, in carrying out its functions, take into account a variety of data and intelligence sources. The HSIB maternity investigation recommendations and the actions NHS trusts and foundation trusts have taken in response could form part of these data sources and be taken into account where relevant.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 144994 144995 question first answered 21/05/2018 14:01:43 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury