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1132538

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date	17/06/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Healthy Pupils Capital Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding was allocated from the Healthy Pupils Capital Fund for projects on (a) mental health, (b) physical health and (c) other purposes.
tabling member constituency	Dewsbury
tabling member printed	Paula Sherriff
uin	265546
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2019 answer text <p>​All Healthy Pupils Capital Fund (HPCF) projects funded through the Condition Improvement Fund 2018-19 were assessed against the HPCF funding criteria to improve children’s and young people’s physical and mental health by enhancing access to facilities for physical activity, healthy eating, mental health and wellbeing and medical conditions. Details of successful HPCF projects have been published here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/condition-improvement-fund-2018-to-2019-outcome" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/condition-improvement-fund-2018-to-2019-outcome</a>. Projects have not been categorised by those which relate to mental health or physical health.</p><p>Local authorities and larger academy trusts received a formulaic allocation from HPCF based on pupil numbers. They have the flexibility to distribute HPCF funding in line with the HPCF criteria to meet local priorities and need. Data on the use of HPCF funding by local authorities and larger academy trusts will be collected and published in due course, as part of regular capital spend data collections.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 20/06/2019 15:50:20 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4426 label Biography information for Paula Sherriff

1131857

registered interest
date	12/06/2019
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	USA: State Visits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of President Trump's state visit in June.
tabling member constituency	Dewsbury
tabling member printed	Paula Sherriff
uin	263912
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2019 answer text <p>The cost of the State Visit to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office will be published in the usual way on the gov.uk website before the end of the year.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 17/06/2019 09:25:40 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4426 label Biography information for Paula Sherriff

1131858

registered interest
date	12/06/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	State Visits: USA
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the public purse of police support for the visit of President Trump was; and whether his Department provided additional funding to police forces for that visit.
tabling member constituency	Dewsbury
tabling member printed	Paula Sherriff
uin	263913
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office is closely engaging with the Metropolitan Police and Hampshire Police with regard to President Trump’s state visit in June 2019.</p><p>The full costs of the policing operation are not yet finalised. Once an application for Special Grant is received it will be given careful consideration and a decision on the level of funding to be provided will be made in due course.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 17/06/2019 14:17:07 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4426 label Biography information for Paula Sherriff

1126246

registered interest
date	13/05/2019
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Hebron: Visits Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many visits Government Ministers have made to Hebron since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Dewsbury
tabling member printed	Paula Sherriff
uin	253629
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2019 answer text <p>According to a review of relevant records, we are aware of at least seven visits that have been made to Hebron by Government Ministers in an official capacity since 2010.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 16/05/2019 16:58:35 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison previous answer version 118567 answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	4426 label Biography information for Paula Sherriff

1126248

registered interest
date	13/05/2019
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Department for International Development: Hebron
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, on how many occasions Ministers in her Department have visited Hebron since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Dewsbury
tabling member printed	Paula Sherriff
uin	253630
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2019 answer text <p>According to a review of relevant records in the provided time window, four visits have been made to Hebron by DFID Ministers since 2010. UK officials continue to monitor the situation in Hebron, especially following the withdrawal of the Temporary International Presence in Hebron.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 16/05/2019 15:32:35 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	4426 label Biography information for Paula Sherriff

1125324

registered interest
date	08/05/2019
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	Food: Labelling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department is making on introducing comprehensive calorie labelling for food and drink served out of the home; and when his Department plans to publish the results of the consultation on that matter, which closed on 25 October 2018.
tabling member constituency	Dewsbury
tabling member printed	Paula Sherriff
uin	252038
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2019 answer text <p>The consultation on calorie labelling for food and drink served outside of the home took place between 14 September and 7 December 2018. We will publish the results and set out the timetable for further action later this year.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 13/05/2019 15:45:07 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4426 label Biography information for Paula Sherriff

1057100

registered interest
date	08/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans to provide additional financial support to universities to cover the increase in employer contributions to the Teachers' Pension Scheme in (a) 2019-20 and (b) future financial years.
tabling member constituency	Dewsbury
tabling member printed	Paula Sherriff
uin	218824
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2019 answer text <p>The Department ran a public consultation which closed on 12 February 2019 to gather evidence on the impact of increased contributions to the Teachers' Pension Scheme (TPS) for all TPS employers, including universities. Final decisions on funding will be taken once the consultation responses have been reviewed. All funding decisions for 2020/21 onwards will be decided as part of the forthcoming Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 13/02/2019 17:55:00 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4426 label Biography information for Paula Sherriff

1056030

registered interest
date	06/02/2019
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	Employment: Epilepsy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to increase the number of people with epilepsy entering employment.
tabling member constituency	Dewsbury
tabling member printed	Paula Sherriff
uin	217687
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2019 answer text <p>We are taking steps to support disabled people and people with health conditions, including those with epilepsy, to enter employment through initiatives like the Work and Health Programme, Personal Support Package and the recently-announced Intensive Personalised Employment Support Programme (IPES), which will see more than £40m invested in a new highly personalised package of support to disabled people who are at least a year away from moving into work. We also offer extensive, personalised support to new and existing disabled workers through Access to Work.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, we engage with employers through Disability Confident. The scheme, developed by disabled people, employers and disability organisations, encourages employers to think differently about disability and to take action to improve how they attract, recruit and retain disabled employees. Over 10,500 businesses have signed up to the Disability Confident scheme since it was launched in November 2016.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 11/02/2019 15:40:45 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4426 label Biography information for Paula Sherriff

1050253

registered interest
date	28/01/2019
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	Mental Health Services: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) posts and (b) vacancies were there in mental health NHS trusts in England in the most recent month for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Dewsbury
tabling member printed	Paula Sherriff
uin	213408
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>The most recent data reported in Q2 2018/19, as at the end of September 2018, shows that in mental health National Health Service trusts there are 190,185 whole time equivalent (WTE) workforce staff in post, with 19,889 vacancies. This is a vacancy rate of 9.5% out of a total workforce establishment (210,074 WTE).</p><p>There are 53 mental health NHS trusts, defined as those with over half of their outpatient activity in mental health specialties. Not all staff in these trusts provide mental health services and some mental health services are provided by other trusts.</p><p>NHS Improvement collect vacancy rates from individual NHS providers and publish them as part of their ‘Quarterly performance of the NHS provider sector’ report. NHS Improvement defines a vacancy as the current workforce gap between current substantive staff in post and the required staffing level for the respective period.</p><p>NHS Improvement count staff working substantively within a designated mental health NHS trust in England as one definition of the size of the mental health workforce. Currently, there is no single agreed way to count the entire mental health workforce. The Department, working together with NHS Digital, Health Education England, NHS Improvement and NHS England, are in a process of agreeing a new definition to count the mental health workforce in NHS trusts and clinical commissioning groups.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 31/01/2019 17:18:25 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4426 label Biography information for Paula Sherriff

1050254

registered interest
date	28/01/2019
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	Mental Health Services: Termination of Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many mental health staff have left the NHS since 31 May 2018.
tabling member constituency	Dewsbury
tabling member printed	Paula Sherriff
uin	213409
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups, but not staff working in primary care or in general practitioner surgeries, local authorities or other providers.</p><p>In England, 12,798<sup>1</sup> mental health staff left the National Health Service between 31 May 2018 and 31 October 2018, headcount.</p><p>The figure above provides the widest possible view of the mental health workforce available from NHS Digital and includes:</p><p>- All staff in mental health, learning disability and care trusts;</p><p>- Psychiatry doctors;</p><p>- Nurses specialising in ‘community psychiatry’, ‘other psychiatry’, ‘community learning disabilities’, ‘other learning disabilities’</p><p>- Staff with a primary area of work of ‘psychiatry’, for example a paediatrician whose primary area of work is ‘psychiatry’.</p><p> </p><p>Data for Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is not available on the Electronic Staff Record and therefore, not included in the figure above.</p><p>Note:</p><p><sup>1</sup>Source: NHS Digital, NHS HCHS workforce statistics.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 31/01/2019 17:25:44 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4426 label Biography information for Paula Sherriff