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92986

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date	13/10/2014
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	Floods: Stafford
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what flood prevention measures have been undertaken in Stafford constituency in the last three years; and how many staff of (a) her Department and (b) the Environment Agency were employed on those measures.
tabling member constituency	Stafford
tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
uin	210220
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2014 answer text <p>Defra staff work on flood prevention at a strategic level across England rather than being allocated to specific locations such as Stafford.</p><p>The Environment Agency carries out various tasks to reduce flood risk from main rivers through Stafford. It has a field team of four people based at Uttoxeter, who carry out all routine maintenance and provide an incident response capability for Staffordshire, which includes Stafford.</p><p>In the past three years (2011 onwards) the Environment Agency has carried out the following works:</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Location</p></td><td><p>Work</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sandyford Brook</p><p> </p></td><td><p>Yearly routine maintenance programme which includes clearing and maintaining flood risk management structures along the watercourse.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>River Sow</p><p> </p></td><td><p>1. Routine inspection of the flood risk management structures and removal of objects such as trees that pose a flood risk.</p><p>2. Old timber capping boards replaced.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rising Brook and Kingston Brook</p><p> </p></td><td><p>Routine inspection of the flood risk management structures and removal of objects such as trees that pose a flood risk.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stafford flood scheme</p></td><td><p>Yearly routine maintenance programme which includes clearing and maintaining flood management assets along the watercourse.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><br><br></p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 20/10/2014 16:31:07 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

92987

registered interest
date	13/10/2014
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Business: Stafford
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department has taken to increase the level of access to credit for businesses in Stafford constituency in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Stafford
tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
uin	210226
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2014 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring businesses can access the finance they need to invest and grow.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are setting up the British Business Bank to make finance markets work better for small firms. Over the next five years, the Bank aims to unlock up to £10 billion of financing for viable smaller businesses. The Business Bank funds schemes including Start Up Loans and the Enterprise Finance Guarantee Scheme.</p><p> </p><p>A breakdown of businesses in the Stafford Constituency that have been supported by British Business Bank schemes last 12 months are detailed in the table below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Enterprise Finance Guarantee Scheme (EFG)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Start Up Loans Company </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stafford constituency</p></td><td><p>7 loans with a drawn value of £1,051,700</p></td><td><p>16 loans with a drawn value of £59,850</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>*Data from 01/09/2013-31/08/2014</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Black Country Reinvestment Society (BCRS) are a Community Development Finance Institution (CDFI) serving the Stafford constituency providing credit and funding to local businesses unable to secure finance from traditional financial institutions such as banks. BCRS are accredited to provide EFG backed lending facilities and are also a Start Up Loan delivery partner.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Community Development Finance Association (of which BCRS is a member) have also received Regional Growth Fund support</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>There is one Round 1 Regional Growth Fund project in the Stafford constituency with a grant of £4 million, leveraging £56.5 million of private sector investment and creating or safeguarding 1,600 jobs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The grant will assist this project to undertake research and development (R&amp;D) for the creation of High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) power transmission products at a new engineering centre of excellence in Stafford. The project will create 200 jobs and safeguard 1400 jobs in Stafford and involves a new R&amp;D centre, together with the installation of technical equipment.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 22/10/2014 15:45:34 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

92989

registered interest
date	13/10/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Crime: Stafford
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of crime in Stafford constituency in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Stafford
tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
uin	210228
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p>The table provided shows the number of offences in the Stafford Community Safety Partnership in each of the past five years. <br>According to the latest police recorded crime figures (published on 16th October), crime has fallen by more than 20% over the last five years in the Partnership.<br><br>The data requested are also published on the Home Office website, and can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" rowspan="3"><strong>Table A: Police Recorded Crime (excluding fraud) in the Stafford Community Safety Partnership, year to June 2009 to year to June 2014</strong></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><em><strong>Numbers</strong></em></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><strong>Year</strong></td><td><strong>Total offences</strong></td></tr><tr><td>Year to June 2010</td><td>7,200</td></tr><tr><td>Year to June 2011</td><td>6,765</td></tr><tr><td>Year to June 2012</td><td>6,340</td></tr><tr><td>Year to June 2013</td><td>5,286</td></tr><tr><td>Year to June 2014</td><td>5,536</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><em>1. Source: Police recorded crime, Home Office</em></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" rowspan="2">2. Police recorded crime data are not designated as National Statistics.</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" rowspan="6"><p><em>3. Action Fraud have taken over the recording of fraud offences on behalf of individual police forces. This process began in April 2011 and was rolled out to all police forces by March 2013. To enable comparison of data across the five year period, fraud data have been excluded.</em></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Norman Baker question first answered 21/10/2014 16:05:58 answering member 28 label Biography information for Norman Baker
tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

76391

registered interest
date	08/07/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Stafford Hospital
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many young people have attended the accident and emergency department at Stafford Hospital in each year since 2009-10.
tabling member constituency	Stafford
tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
uin	204595
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p>The information is not available in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of unplanned accident and emergency (A&amp;E) attendances for Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, where the patient was aged 0-17 years (inclusive), for each year since 2009-10, is shown in the following table.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Young people attending A&amp;E</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>9,556</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>9,700</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>9,790</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>8,663</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14 (provisional)</p></td><td><p>9,065</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><em>Source:</em> Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC)</p><p><em> </em></p><p><em>Notes:</em></p><p>1. A&amp;E Attendance:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>A count of the number of attendances at A&amp;E. This does not represent the number of patients as an individual may attend on more than one occasion in any given period.</p><p>2. Hospital Provider:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>A provider code is a unique code that identifies an organisation acting as a health care provider (eg NHS trust or primary care trust). Data from some independent sector providers, where the onus for arrangement of dataflows is on the commissioner, may be missing. Care must be taken when using this data as the counts may be lower than true figures.</p><p>3. Assessing growth through time (A&amp;E):</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HES figures are available from 2007-08 onwards. Changes to the figures over time need to be interpreted in the context of improvements in data quality and coverage and changes in National Health Service practice. For example, changes in activity may be due to changes in the provision of care.</p><p>4. Provisional data 2013-14:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The data is provisional and may be incomplete or contain errors for which no adjustments have yet been made. Counts produced from provisional data are likely to be lower than those generated for the same period in the final dataset. This shortfall will be most pronounced in the final month of the latest period, ie November from the (month 9) April to November extract. It is also probable that clinical data are not complete, which may in particular affect the last two months of any given period. There may also be errors due to coding inconsistencies that have not yet been investigated and corrected.</p><p>5. Official source of A&amp;E activity data:</p><p>HES is not the official source of total A&amp;E activity, this is the NHS England situation reports collection - http://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ae-waiting-times-and-activity/ <br>However, HES permits further analysis of A&amp;E activity as there are a range of data items by which HES can be analysed. NHS England situation reports do not collect data by age range.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 14/07/2014 15:15:34 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

76392

registered interest
date	08/07/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Stafford Hospital
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many young people have been seen in the accident and emergency department at Stafford Hospital in each year since 2009-10.
tabling member constituency	Stafford
tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
uin	204593
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p>The information is not available in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of unplanned accident and emergency (A&amp;E) attendances for Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, where the patient was aged 0-17 years (inclusive) and did not ‘leave before assessment or treatment', for each year since 2009-10, is shown in the following table.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Young people seen in A&amp;E</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>9,369</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>9,416</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>9,536</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>8,605</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14 (provisional)</p></td><td><p>9,007</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><em>Source:</em> Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC)</p><p><em> </em></p><p><em>Notes:</em></p><p>1. A&amp;E Attendance:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>A count of the number of attendances at A&amp;E. This does not represent the number of patients as an individual may attend on more than one occasion in any given period.</p><p>2. Hospital Provider:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>A provider code is a unique code that identifies an organisation acting as a health care provider (eg NHS trust or primary care trust). Data from some independent sector providers, where the onus for arrangement of dataflows is on the commissioner, may be missing. Care must be taken when using this data as the counts may be lower than true figures.</p><p>3. Assessing growth through time (A&amp;E):</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HES figures are available from 2007-08 onwards. Changes to the figures over time need to be interpreted in the context of improvements in data quality and coverage and changes in National Health Service practice. For example, changes in activity may be due to changes in the provision of care.</p><p>4. Provisional data 2013-14:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The data is provisional and may be incomplete or contain errors for which no adjustments have yet been made. Counts produced from provisional data are likely to be lower than those generated for the same period in the final dataset. This shortfall will be most pronounced in the final month of the latest period, ie November from the (month 9) April to November extract. It is also probable that clinical data are not complete, which may in particular affect the last two months of any given period. There may also be errors due to coding inconsistencies that have not yet been investigated and corrected.</p><p>5. Official source of A&amp;E activity data:</p><p>HES is not the official source of total A&amp;E activity, this is the NHS England situation reports collection - http://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ae-waiting-times-and-activity/ <br>However, HES permits further analysis of A&amp;E activity as there are a range of data items by which HES can be analysed. NHS England situation reports do not collect data by age range.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 14/07/2014 15:13:41 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

76396

registered interest
date	08/07/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Stafford Hospital
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many young people have been admitted as day cases at Stafford Hospital in each year since 2009-10.
tabling member constituency	Stafford
tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
uin	204574
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p>The information is not available in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of finished admission episodes (FAEs) with a patient classification of &quot;day case&quot; for patients aged between 0 and 17 (inclusive) treated at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust for each year since 2009-10 is shown in the following table:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Count of FAEs</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>828</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>748</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>701</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>829</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14 (provisional)</p></td><td><p>729</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>Notes:</em></p><p>1. FAE:</p><p>An 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>2. Hospital Provider:</p><p>A provider code is a unique code that identifies an organisation acting as a health care provider (e.g. National Health Service trust or primary care trust). Data from some independent sector providers, where the onus for arrangement of dataflows is on the commissioner, may be missing. Care must be taken when using this data as the counts may be lower than true figures.</p><p>3. Assessing growth through time (Admitted patient care):</p><p>Hospital Episode Statistics figures are available from 1989-90 onwards. Changes to the figures over time need to be interpreted in the context of improvements in data quality and coverage (particularly in earlier years), improvements in coverage of independent sector activity (particularly from 2006-07) and changes in NHS practice. For example, changes in activity may be due to changes in the provision of care.</p><p>4. Provisional data:</p><p>The data is provisional and may be incomplete or contain errors for which no adjustments have yet been made. Counts produced from provisional data are likely to be lower than those generated for the same period in the final dataset. This shortfall will be most pronounced in the final month of the latest period, i.e. November from the (month 9) April to November extract. It is also probable that clinical data are not complete, which may in particular affect the last two months of any given period. There may also be errors due to coding inconsistencies that have not yet been investigated and corrected.</p><p> </p><p><em>Source:</em>Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 15/07/2014 15:40:28 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

76397

registered interest
date	08/07/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Stafford Hospital
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people attended the accident and emergency department at Stafford Hospital in each of the years (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11, (c) 2011-12, (d) 2012-13 and (e) 2013-14.
tabling member constituency	Stafford
tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
uin	204577
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p>The information is not available in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of unplanned accident and emergency (A&amp;E) attendances for Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, for each year since 2009-10, is shown in the following table.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>A&amp;E Attendances</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>51,031</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>51,312</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>49,655</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>45,344</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14 (provisional)</p></td><td><p>46,302</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><em>Source:</em> Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC)</p><p><em> </em></p><p><em>Notes:</em></p><p>1. A&amp;E Attendance:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>A count of the number of attendances at A&amp;E. This does not represent the number of patients as an individual may attend on more than one occasion in any given period.</p><p>2. Hospital Provider:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>A provider code is a unique code that identifies an organisation acting as a health care provider (eg NHS trust or primary care trust). Data from some independent sector providers, where the onus for arrangement of dataflows is on the commissioner, may be missing. Care must be taken when using this data as the counts may be lower than true figures.</p><p>3. Assessing growth through time (A&amp;E):</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HES figures are available from 2007-08 onwards. Changes to the figures over time need to be interpreted in the context of improvements in data quality and coverage and changes in NHS practice. For example, changes in activity may be due to changes in the provision of care.</p><p>4. Provisional data 2013-14:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The data is provisional and may be incomplete or contain errors for which no adjustments have yet been made. Counts produced from provisional data are likely to be lower than those generated for the same period in the final dataset. This shortfall will be most pronounced in the final month of the latest period, ie November from the (month 9) April to November extract. It is also probable that clinical data are not complete, which may in particular affect the last two months of any given period. There may also be errors due to coding inconsistencies that have not yet been investigated and corrected.</p><p>5. Official source of A&amp;E activity data:</p><p>HES is not the official source of total A&amp;E activity; this is the NHS England situation reports collection - www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ae-waiting-times-and-activity/ <br>However, HES permits further analysis of A&amp;E activity as there are a range of data items by which HES can be analysed.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 15/07/2014 15:50:06 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

76398

registered interest
date	08/07/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Stafford Hospital
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many young people attending the paediatrics assessment unit were not transferred from the accident and emergency department at Stafford Hospital in each year since 2009-10.
tabling member constituency	Stafford
tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
uin	204578
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p><p>We have written to Alan Bloom, Trust Special Administrator of Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust informing him of your enquiry. He will reply shortly and a copy of the letter will be placed in the Library.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 15/07/2014 16:16:43 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

76399

registered interest
date	08/07/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Stafford Hospital
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many babies were born at Stafford Hospital in each year since 2009-10.
tabling member constituency	Stafford
tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
uin	204579
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 14/07/2014 11:50:25 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd attachment 1 file name PQ311 ons 204579.pdf title ONS Letter to Member
tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

76401

registered interest
date	08/07/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Stafford Hospital
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children and young people have been seen as outpatients at Stafford Hospital in each of the years (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11, (c) 2011-12, (d) 2012-13 and (e) 2013-14.
tabling member constituency	Stafford
tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
uin	204576
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p>The information is not available in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of outpatient attendances for individuals aged 0-17 (inclusive) at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, since 2009-10 is shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number of outpatient attendances</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>23,257</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>25,275</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>26,624</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>26,887</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14 (provisional)</p></td><td><p>27,163</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>Source</em>: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC)</p><p> </p><p><em>Notes</em>:</p><p>1. Outpatient attendances:</p><p>A patient's treatment in outpatients can consist of a series of attendances; a distinction between the first in the series and subsequent attendances is commonly reported. The data provided here includes all episodes, whether it was a first or a subsequent attendance, and also includes tele-consultations.</p><p>2. Assessing growth through time (Outpatients):</p><p>HES figures are available from 2003-04 onwards. Changes to the figures over time need to be interpreted in the context of improvements in data quality and coverage (particularly in earlier years), improvements in coverage of independent sector activity (particularly from 2006-07) and changes in NHS practice. For example, changes in activity may be due to changes in the provision of care.</p><p>3. Provisional data: The data is provisional and may be incomplete or contain errors for which no adjustments have yet been made. Counts produced from provisional data are likely to be lower than those generated for the same period in the final dataset. This shortfall will be most pronounced in the final month of the latest period, i.e. November from the (month 9) April to November extract. It is also probable that clinical data are not complete, which may in particular affect the last two months of any given period. There may also be errors due to coding inconsistencies that have not yet been investigated and corrected.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 15/07/2014 15:54:39 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy