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100717

	registered interest
	date	23/10/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Assistive Technology: Annual Reports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish the Impact Assessment for his Department's decision to bring the production of the annual report on Research and Development Work Relating to Assistive Technology in house from 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	211710
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2014 answer text <p>Section 22 of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970 sets out the following requirement:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>“The Secretary of State shall as respects each year lay before Parliament a report on the progress made during that year in research and development work carried out by or on behalf of any Minister of the Crown in relation to equipment that might increase the range of activities and independence or well-being of disabled persons, and in particular such equipment that might improve the indoor and outdoor mobility of such persons.”</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In recent years the report has been produced by the Foundation for Assistive Technology and this contract expired in June 2014 following production of the report for 2013-14. Future reports will be produced by the Department and it is expected that the report for 2014-15 will be laid before Parliament and published in July 2015.</p><p> </p><p>There has been no specific impact or risk assessment. The Government will continue to meet the requirement set out in section 22.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman grouped question UIN 211707 211708 211709 question first answered 30/10/2014 16:13:24 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

100716

	registered interest
	date	23/10/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Assistive Technology: Annual Reports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish the Risk Assessment for his Department's decision to bring the production of the annual report on Research and Development Work Relating to Assistive Technology in house from 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	211709
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2014 answer text <p>Section 22 of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970 sets out the following requirement:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>“The Secretary of State shall as respects each year lay before Parliament a report on the progress made during that year in research and development work carried out by or on behalf of any Minister of the Crown in relation to equipment that might increase the range of activities and independence or well-being of disabled persons, and in particular such equipment that might improve the indoor and outdoor mobility of such persons.”</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In recent years the report has been produced by the Foundation for Assistive Technology and this contract expired in June 2014 following production of the report for 2013-14. Future reports will be produced by the Department and it is expected that the report for 2014-15 will be laid before Parliament and published in July 2015.</p><p> </p><p>There has been no specific impact or risk assessment. The Government will continue to meet the requirement set out in section 22.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman grouped question UIN 211707 211708 211710 question first answered 30/10/2014 16:13:24 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

100719

	registered interest
	date	23/10/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Assistive Technology: Annual Reports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects the next annual report on Research and Development Work Relating to Assistive Technology to be laid before parliament.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	211708
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2014 answer text <p>Section 22 of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970 sets out the following requirement:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>“The Secretary of State shall as respects each year lay before Parliament a report on the progress made during that year in research and development work carried out by or on behalf of any Minister of the Crown in relation to equipment that might increase the range of activities and independence or well-being of disabled persons, and in particular such equipment that might improve the indoor and outdoor mobility of such persons.”</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In recent years the report has been produced by the Foundation for Assistive Technology and this contract expired in June 2014 following production of the report for 2013-14. Future reports will be produced by the Department and it is expected that the report for 2014-15 will be laid before Parliament and published in July 2015.</p><p> </p><p>There has been no specific impact or risk assessment. The Government will continue to meet the requirement set out in section 22.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman grouped question UIN 211707 211709 211710 question first answered 30/10/2014 16:13:24 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

100718

	registered interest
	date	23/10/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Assistive Technology: Annual Reports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to publish the next annual report on Research and Development Work Relating to Assistive Technology.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	211707
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2014 answer text <p>Section 22 of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970 sets out the following requirement:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>“The Secretary of State shall as respects each year lay before Parliament a report on the progress made during that year in research and development work carried out by or on behalf of any Minister of the Crown in relation to equipment that might increase the range of activities and independence or well-being of disabled persons, and in particular such equipment that might improve the indoor and outdoor mobility of such persons.”</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In recent years the report has been produced by the Foundation for Assistive Technology and this contract expired in June 2014 following production of the report for 2013-14. Future reports will be produced by the Department and it is expected that the report for 2014-15 will be laid before Parliament and published in July 2015.</p><p> </p><p>There has been no specific impact or risk assessment. The Government will continue to meet the requirement set out in section 22.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman grouped question UIN 211708 211709 211710 question first answered 30/10/2014 16:13:23 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

101157

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Dementia: Brigg and Goole
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in Brigg and Goole constituency have been diagnossed with dementia in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
	tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
	uin	212069
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2014 answer text <p>Information is not available for the format requested. The number of people on the dementia register is available. This is a measure of prevalence rather than incidence. The number of people recorded on practice disease registers is taken from the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF), published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre. Dementia has been included on the QOF register since 2006-07. The following table shows all available data for East Riding of Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire Primary Care Trusts (PCTs), and East Riding and North Lincolnshire Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) as these cover the Brigg and Goole constituency.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>Number of patients on the QOF dementia register in the specified organisations</p><p> </p><p /> <p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>NHS organisation</p></td><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Practices<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>Practice List Size<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>Number on QOF dementia register<sup>1</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Riding of Yorkshire CCG</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>38</p></td><td><p>300,957</p></td><td><p>2,010</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>38</p></td><td><p>300,944</p></td><td><p>1,828</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>North Lincolnshire CCG</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>169,997</p></td><td><p>1,117</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>169,743</p></td><td><p>1,006</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>East Riding of Yorkshire PCT</p></td><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>39</p></td><td><p>316,567</p></td><td><p>1,694</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>39</p></td><td><p>315,463</p></td><td><p>1,516</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>39</p></td><td><p>314,860</p></td><td><p>1,365</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>38</p></td><td><p>314,194</p></td><td><p>1,236</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>2007-08</p></td><td><p>38</p></td><td><p>313,306</p></td><td><p>1,192</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>2006-07</p></td><td><p>38</p></td><td><p>311,789</p></td><td><p>1,110</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>North Lincolnshire PCT</p></td><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>167,482</p></td><td><p>901</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>166,569</p></td><td><p>771</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>167,044</p></td><td><p>726</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>166,897</p></td><td><p>701</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>2007-08</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>165,893</p></td><td><p>664</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2006-07</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>164,819</p></td><td><p>638</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>Note</em>:</p><p> </p><p><sup>1</sup> Practices, practice list sizes and number of patients on the dementia register are based only on those general practitioner practices that participated in QOF.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 30/10/2014 16:15:57 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
	tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy

100923

	registered interest
	date	24/10/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Accident and Emergency Departments
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many children under the age of five were taken by their parents to accident and emergency departments for treatment in 2012 and 2013.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Manzoor
	uin	HL2391
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2014 answer text <p>This information is not available in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>In the following table, we have provided information concerning the number of accident and emergency attendances<sup>1</sup> (excluding planned attendances) for children aged under five by arrival mode, 2012-13 to 2013-14<sup>2</sup> (provisional data)<sup>3</sup>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Please be aware that data for 2013-14 is provisional and is therefore, subject to change.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Arrival mode</p></td><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>2013-14 (provisional)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Brought in by ambulance (including helicopter/air ambulance)</p></td><td><p>220,277</p></td><td><p>223,571</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p>1,572,518</p></td><td><p>1,511,042</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Not known</p></td><td><p>21,296</p></td><td><p>36,840</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>1,814,091</p></td><td><p>1,771,453</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Activity in English NHS Hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector</p><p> </p><p><em>Source:</em> Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre<sup>4 </sup></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><em>Notes:</em></p><p> </p><p>1. HES is not the official source of total A&amp;E activity, this is the NHS England situation reports collection:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>http://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ae-waiting-times-and-activity/</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>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><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>2. 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> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>3. 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> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>4. Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) are compiled from data sent by more than 300 NHS trusts and primary care trusts (PCTs) in England and from some independent sector organisations for activity commissioned by the English NHS. Health and Social Care Information Centre liaises closely with these organisations to encourage submission of complete and valid data and seeks to minimise inaccuracies. While this brings about improvement over time, some shortcomings remain.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 30/10/2014 12:00:01 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
	tabling member	4289 label Biography information for Baroness Manzoor

100926

	registered interest
	date	24/10/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Nursing and Midwifery Council
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they are taking to ensure that the Nursing and Midwifery Council reduces the number of cases that have been awaiting investigation for more than two years.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Manzoor
	uin	HL2394
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2014 answer text <p>The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) is an independent body and responsible for matters concerning the discharge of its statutory duties, including pursuing Fitness to Practise (FtP) investigations against its registrants. Statistical information about NMC FtP cases is not routinely collected or held centrally. However, the NMC advises that as at 30 September 2014, it was dealing with 4271 FtP cases, of these 231 cases were aged over 24 months. This compares with 320 such cases as at 8 October 2013.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>On 13 October 2014, the Government laid a draft Section 60 Order in Parliament to amend the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001, the governing legislative framework of the NMC. This Order contains a number of proposed amendments that subject to approval will give the NMC powers that will help it to carry out its FtP regulatory function more effectively and reduce the time it takes the NMC to deal with FtP cases.<em> </em></p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 30/10/2014 16:24:46 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
	tabling member	4289 label Biography information for Baroness Manzoor

100924

	registered interest
	date	24/10/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Respiratory System: Diseases
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they are taking to raise awareness of bronchiolitis among parents with very young children.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Manzoor
	uin	HL2392
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2014 answer text <p>Bronchiolitis is a common lower respiratory tract infection that most commonly affects babies and young children under a year old. Most cases are mild and improve without specific treatment within about two weeks, although some children have severe symptoms and need treatment in hospital.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information for parents on bronchiolitis, including the symptoms, causes and potential treatments for the condition, is provided by the NHS Choices website at the following link:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Bronchiolitis/Pages/Introduction.aspx</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In addition, the British Lung Foundation has produced a free leaflet on bronchiolitis in babies for parents:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>www.blf.org.uk/Publication/Detail/Bronchiolitis-and-your-baby</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>and for clinicians the Clinical Knowledge Summary Service run by National Institute for Health &amp; Care Excellence contains easily accessible information about the usual causes of acute chest signs in children and their management:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>http://cks.nice.org.uk/cough-acute-with-chest-signs-in-children</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 30/10/2014 16:24:09 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
	tabling member	4289 label Biography information for Baroness Manzoor

100037

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	General Practitioners: Dismissal
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many general practitioners have been dismissed by primary care trusts, or by the Care Quality Commission, in each year since 2005.
	tabling member printed	Baroness McDonagh
	uin	HL2243
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is not centrally collected. Departmental officials are aware that the General Medical Council does collect some demographic data about doctors and this is published in its annual report ‘The state of medical education and practice in the UK’.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Care Quality Commission (CQC), the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England, has registered all general practitioner (GP) practices since April 2012. The CQC’s role is to inspect and regulate GP practices, including those practices run by single-handed GPs. The CQC regulates at a provider level and may remove a practice’s registration where care is not meeting the required standard. Actions taken against an individual GP would be the responsibility of NHS England for contractual issues and the General Medical Council for professional issues.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 30/10/2014 16:18:49 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
	tabling member	3701 label Biography information for Baroness McDonagh

101150

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Asthma
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will estimate the potential saving from extending free prescriptions to all asthma patients arising from reductions in accident and emergency visits and unplanned hospital admissions; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington North
	tabling member printed	Helen Jones
	uin	212052
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2014 answer text <p>We are unable to make such an estimate.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Data on the cost to the National Health Service of treating asthma patients in accident and emergency or unplanned hospital admissions is not collected by the Department. The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCI) has published information on reasons, for example respiratory problems, for accident and emergency attendance in its <em>Hospital Episode Statistics: Accident and Emergency Attendances in England 2012-13</em>, but this does not identify specific conditions, such as asthma, that may have prompted an accident and emergency visit or unplanned hospital admission.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Since 1 November 2013, the Department has received 44 representations through the Department’s Ministerial correspondence unit and two parliamentary questions, including the hon. Member’s own, regarding extending exemption from prescription charging to people with asthma.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman grouped question UIN 212053 question first answered 30/10/2014 16:45:13 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones