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226024

	registered interest
	date	09/03/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Commissioning Support Units
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much commissioning support units spent on consultancy services in (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2014-15 to date.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester West
	tabling member printed	Liz Kendall
	uin	226784
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p>Consultancy spend figures are available in NHS England’s annual accounts for 2013/14 which can be found at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/nhs-comm-board-ann-rep-1314.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/nhs-comm-board-ann-rep-1314.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>2014-15 accounts will be published in due course.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In 2013/14 the total spend by commissioning support units (CSUs) on consultancy support amounted to £41.5 million, which was 5% of CSU total income of £808 million. Data for 2014/15 is not yet available as final accounts are currently being prepared.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 226785 question first answered 12/03/2015 17:48:09 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4026 label Biography information for Liz Kendall

226025

	registered interest
	date	09/03/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Clinical Commissioning Groups
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much clinical commissioning groups spent on consultancy services in (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2014-15 to date.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester West
	tabling member printed	Liz Kendall
	uin	226785
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p>Consultancy spend figures are available in NHS England’s annual accounts for 2013/14 which can be found at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/nhs-comm-board-ann-rep-1314.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/nhs-comm-board-ann-rep-1314.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>2014-15 accounts will be published in due course.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In 2013/14 the total spend by commissioning support units (CSUs) on consultancy support amounted to £41.5 million, which was 5% of CSU total income of £808 million. Data for 2014/15 is not yet available as final accounts are currently being prepared.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 226784 question first answered 12/03/2015 17:48:09 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4026 label Biography information for Liz Kendall

226003

	registered interest
	date	09/03/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Air Pollution: Greater London
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in London have died as a result of air pollution in each year since 2010; and if he will estimate the number of such deaths in the next 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Tooting
	tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
	uin	226833
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p>Estimates of the fraction of mortality in English local authority areas and regions attributable to long-term exposure to particulate air pollution arising from human activities are published by Public Health England as one of the indicators in the Department’s Public Health Outcomes Framework (PHOF). For London, this figure was approximately 7.2% in 2010 and 2011 and 6.6% in 2012; the figures for later years are not currently available. These estimates for later years will be published on an annual basis under the PHOF.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 12/03/2015 17:16:01 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

226010

	registered interest
	date	09/03/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent investment there has been in Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
	tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
	uin	226841
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State recently visited the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust and was pleased to be able to confirm that the Department has now earmarked £480 million of funding for redeveloping the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton. The Department has recently provided £20.6 million of this funding to help progress the development.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 12/03/2015 17:18:35 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

225479

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Psychiatry: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department's Any Qualified Provider (AQP) programme guidance stipulates that before they are approved as AQPs by an NHS commissioning body, providers should only employ counsellors and psychotherapists who are (a) accredited with professional bodies and (b) accredited with professional bodies which are Accredited Voluntary Registers.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	226510
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p>Where National Health Service commissioners commission any healthcare services other than primary care – including counselling and psychotherapy services – they must use the NHS Standard Contract.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Contract specifically requires providers to ensure that staff are registered with the appropriate professional regulatory body (GC5.3.1) and have the appropriate qualifications, experience, skills and competencies (GC5.3.2).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Contract is used for a very wide range of services involving many different professions, and it would not be appropriate – within the nationally mandated text of the Contract – to list all of the professions and their regulatory bodies. However, where commissioners are commissioning counselling or psychotherapy services, they would produce a local service specification to describe the service they wish to commission. Commissioners may choose to include more precise requirements, relevant to individual professional groups, within these specifications, which would in turn form part of their local contracts.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>With respect to guidance issued by the Department relating to the ‘Any Qualified Provider’ (AQP) programme, it has been for individual clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) as independent, autonomous organisations to decide on how best to procure clinical services since April 2013. During 2013/14, the Department continued some central support for CCGs, making tools and information available to help them qualify providers onto local AQP frameworks. However this was a transitional measure, and since April 2014 the qualification of providers has been for CCGs to take forward with support from Commissioning Support Services, as appropriate.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 226511 question first answered 12/03/2015 17:19:17 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

225480

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Psychiatry: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department's NHS Standard Contract stipulates any requirements for providers, before they are granted a contract by an NHS commissioning body, to only employ counsellors and psychotherapists who are (a) accredited with professional bodies and (b) accredited with professional bodies which are Accredited Voluntary Registers.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	226511
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p>Where National Health Service commissioners commission any healthcare services other than primary care – including counselling and psychotherapy services – they must use the NHS Standard Contract.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Contract specifically requires providers to ensure that staff are registered with the appropriate professional regulatory body (GC5.3.1) and have the appropriate qualifications, experience, skills and competencies (GC5.3.2).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Contract is used for a very wide range of services involving many different professions, and it would not be appropriate – within the nationally mandated text of the Contract – to list all of the professions and their regulatory bodies. However, where commissioners are commissioning counselling or psychotherapy services, they would produce a local service specification to describe the service they wish to commission. Commissioners may choose to include more precise requirements, relevant to individual professional groups, within these specifications, which would in turn form part of their local contracts.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>With respect to guidance issued by the Department relating to the ‘Any Qualified Provider’ (AQP) programme, it has been for individual clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) as independent, autonomous organisations to decide on how best to procure clinical services since April 2013. During 2013/14, the Department continued some central support for CCGs, making tools and information available to help them qualify providers onto local AQP frameworks. However this was a transitional measure, and since April 2014 the qualification of providers has been for CCGs to take forward with support from Commissioning Support Services, as appropriate.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 226510 question first answered 12/03/2015 17:19:17 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson