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	registered interest
	date	03/11/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Junior Doctors
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the total amount that will be spent on pay for junior doctors in 2015-16; and how many junior doctors will be employed in that year.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
	tabling member printed	Heidi Alexander
	uin	14585
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2015 answer text <br /><p><strong></strong></p><p>Data on the junior doctor paybill for 2015/2016 and those that will be employed over this financial year is not yet available.</p><br /><p>The latest data available relates to the financial year 2014/2015. For that year the substantive junior doctor paybill was £3.1 billion; and there were an average of around 53,000 full-time-equivalent junior doctors employed over the year.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 06/11/2015 14:50:03 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	4038 label Biography information for Heidi Alexander

427633

	registered interest
	date	10/11/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Game
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much game meat has entered the human food chain from licensed hunting activities on land owned by Government Departments or agencies in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	15977
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2015 answer text <br /><p>As part of its regulation of approved meat establishments, the Food Standards Agency collects throughput figures on the number of animals slaughtered or processed at each premises. Game meat processed at approved game handling establishments will come from trained hunters and be supported by an appropriate declaration. There is no requirement to detail on these declarations whether the game is from land owned by Government Departments or Agencies.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 19/11/2015 12:09:20 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

434002

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Obesity: Surgery
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether it is his policy that clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) will be required to meet current national service standards for the provision of obesity surgery after the planned transfer of obesity surgery commissioning responsibilities from NHS England to CCGs in April 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	18622
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2015 answer text <br /><p>CCGs will have the full commissioning responsibility for the obesity services within their remit to set standards for services for their population and to make clinical commissioning policy decisions in terms of patient eligibility with effect from April 2016.</p><br /><p>NHS England is supporting the transfer of commissioning responsibilities to CCGs by providing clinical guidance on standards for the adult obesity surgery pathway. This guidance is in development, supported by national clinical experts.</p><br /><p>The draft clinical commissioning policy includes reference to the relevant National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance to support CCGs in determining patient eligibility to obesity surgery. The draft service specification will reflect best practice and describes the standard providers will need to meet for the surgical service.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 10/12/2015 14:18:24 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

428793

	registered interest
	date	17/11/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Dental Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the appropriateness of the use of amalgam in dental fillings.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	16715
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2015 answer text <br /><p>Dental amalgam has been in use for over 150 years to restore teeth in millions of patients and, apart from rare instances of hypersensitivity, no adverse reactions have been identified. Alternative dental restorative materials are not so easily, quickly and reliably placed. Neither are they so durable. Due to improvements in oral health, the number of restorations is decreasing with the result that the safe management and disposal of dental amalgam is more easily achieved.</p><br /><p>The World Health Organization report <em>Future Use of Materials for Dental Restorations November 2009</em> concluded that dental amalgam remains a dental restorative material of choice in the absence of an ideal alternative. The Department concurs with the conclusions of the report which can be found at:</p><br /><p><a href="http://www.who.int/oral_health/publications/dental_material_2011.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.who.int/oral_health/publications/dental_material_2011.pdf</a></p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 25/11/2015 12:35:26 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

432008

	registered interest
	date	24/11/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Mental Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many mental health services he has visited since March 2015; and what the date was of each such visit.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	17515
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2015 answer text <br /><p>Departmental Ministers have undertaken the following visits to mental health services (including charity visits and community centres) in an official capacity since March 2015 to date:</p><br /><p>Former Minister of State (Norman Lamb)</p><p>5 March 2015- Turning Point’s Crisis Point Centre</p><p>5 March 2015- RADAR (Rapid Alcohol Detox Acute Referrals)</p><br /><p>Minister of State (Alistair Burt)</p><p>21 May 2015- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust- Child and Adolescent Mental Heal Services</p><p>29 June 2015- Hammersmith and Fulham Mental Health Unite/ West London Clinical Commissioning Group</p><p>2 July 2015- British Transport Policy, suicide prevention and mental health team (street triage)</p><p>3 August 2015- Margaret Oats, Mother and baby unit, City and Hackney Centre for mental health</p><p>24 August 2015- Bradford Divisional HQ, Nelson Street Police Station</p><p>10 September 2015 – Samaritans Visit on World Suicide Day</p><p>8 October 2015 – Oxfordshire Mind for World Mental Health day</p><br /> <br /> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 30/11/2015 17:25:25 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

428151

	registered interest
	date	13/11/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Carers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will carry out an assessment after the November Spending Review of local authorities' capacity to meet their new duties under the Care Act 2014 following changes to local authority funding.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	16245
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2015 answer text <br /><p>Funding decisions for 2016/17 onwards, including on adult social care, are subject to the forthcoming Spending Review.</p><br /><p>Officials in the Department and across government are working hard to understand pressures on the care system and will consider adult social care expenditure and the future demand as part of this process. This includes ongoing Care Act pressures.</p><p><br>We will continue to review and monitor implementation of the Care Act which includes a series of stocktakes of local authority readiness and the latest, from June 2015, demonstrates an overall positive picture on implementation. It details:</p><p><br>- Councils’ confidence in their ability to deliver the Care Act Reforms in 2015/16 remains high, with 99% very or fairly confident.</p><p>- 89% of councils say that they are ‘on track’ with their implementation. The remaining 11% report themselves as only slightly behind.</p><br /><p>There are two further local authority stocktakes planned for the remainder of the financial year which will monitor the progress on implementing change. It is our intention to repeat the surveys next year to continue monitoring progress, subject to agreement with local government.</p><p><br>The Department will also commission a piece of research to evaluate and inform implementation of the Care Act 2014. The research will focus on knowing more about how the Act is being implemented locally and to see how effectively the Act is achieving its underlying aims.</p><br /> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 23/11/2015 16:24:13 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

432807

	registered interest
	date	26/11/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Nurses: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate the Government has made of the number of training places for nurses required by the NHS in each of the next five years.
	tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
	tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
	uin	18021
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2015 answer text <br /><p>Health Education England (HEE) was established and has been mandated by the Government to provide national leadership on education, training and workforce development in the National Health Service. As one of the arm’s length bodies to help improve the quality of care delivered to patients, it ensures that the future workforce is available in the right numbers with the right skills, values and competencies to meet patient needs today and tomorrow.</p><br /><p>HEE operate an annual comprehensive planning process to ensure their investments meet the future needs of the population. This process determines the education commissioning volumes for the following financial year and are published in the Workforce Plan for England.</p><br /><p>The current workforce plan for England for 2015-16 published in December 2014 can be found at the following link:</p><br /><p><a href="http://hee.nhs.uk/work-programmes/workforce-planning/" target="_blank">http://hee.nhs.uk/work-programmes/workforce-planning/</a></p><br /><p>HEE will publish its next annual National Workforce Plan for England by the end of December 2015.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 01/12/2015 17:18:24 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

426553

	registered interest
	date	05/11/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Department of Health: EU Law
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which regulations his Department introduced as a result of EU legislation in (a) 2013, (b) 2014 and (c) 2015 to date; which regulations his Department expects to implement as a result of EU legislation in (i) 2016 and (ii) 2017; and what estimate he has made of the cost of such regulation to the (A) public purse and (B) private sector.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	15048
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2015 answer text <br /><p>In the years indicated, the Department has introduced the following regulations, either wholly or partially, as a result of European Union legislation:</p><p>2013</p><p><strong></strong></p><p>- Statutory Instruments 2013/1855 and 2013/2593 concerning the regulation of medicines.</p><p>- Statutory Instrument 2013/2327 concerning the regulation of medical devices.</p><p>- National Health Service (Cross-Border Healthcare) Regulations 2013 (SI 2013/2269).</p><p>- The Infant Formula and Follow-on Formula (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (SI 2013/3243).</p><p>- Medical Profession (Responsible Officers) (Amendment) Regulations 2013.</p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p>2014</p><p><strong></strong></p><p>- Statutory Instrument 2014/490 concerning the regulation of medicines.</p><p>- Quality and Safety of Organs Intended for Transplantation (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (SI 2014/1459).</p><p>- Health Care and Associated Professions (Indemnity Arrangements) Order 2014 (Order 2014/1887).</p><p>- The Human Tissue (Quality and Safety for Human Application) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (SI 2014/2883).</p><p>- The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Quality and Safety) Regulations 2014 (SI 2014/2884).</p><p>- General Medical Council (Fitness to Practise) (Amendment) Rules Order of Council 2014.</p><p>- General Medical Council (Licence to Practise and Revalidation) (Amendment) Regulations Order of Council 2014.</p><p>- General Medical Council (Restoration following Administrative Erasure) (Amendment) Regulations Order of Council 2014.</p><p>- General Medical Council (Voluntary Erasure and Restoration following Voluntary Erasure) (Amendment) Regulations Order of Council 2014.</p><p>- Medical Act 1983 (Amendment) (Knowledge of English) Order 2014.</p><p>- The Human Medicines (Amendment) Regulations 2014.</p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p>2015 to date:</p><p><strong></strong></p><p>- National Health Service (Cross-Border Healthcare) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (SI 2015/139).</p><p>- General Chiropractic Council (Indemnity Arrangements) Rules Order of Council 2015.</p><p>- General Osteopathic Council (Indemnity Arrangements) Rules Order of Council 2015.</p><p>- General Medical Council (Fitness to Practise and Over-arching Objective) and the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (References to Court) Order 2015.</p><p>- Health Care and Associated Professions (Knowledge of English) Order 2015.</p><p>- Health Care and Associated Professions (Knowledge of English) Order 2015 (Commencement No 1) Order of Council 2015.</p><br /> <br /><p>In the years indicated, the Department expects to implement the following regulations as a as a result of EU legislation:</p><p><strong></strong></p><p>2016</p><br /><p>- The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Quality and Safety) Regulations 2016.</p><p>- The Human Tissue (Quality and Safety for Human Application) (Amendment) Regulations 2016.</p><p>- Regulation (EU) 609/2013, concerning detailed requirements as to the composition of certain specific types of food (infant and follow-on formula; processed cereal-based foods and baby foods; foods for special medical purposes; and total diet replacement for weight control), and the nutritional information that must be provided in respect of such foods.</p><p>- The European Qualification (Health and Social Care Professions) Regulations 2016.</p><p>- The Tobacco and Related Products Regulations 2016.</p><br /><p>2017</p><br /><p>- Regulations implementing the EU Regulation on Clinical Trials and Regulations implementing the two EU Regulations on Medical Devices and In-vitro Medical Devices.</p><br /><p>When the Department makes regulations that transpose EU legislation, it follows the guidance and framework set by the Better Regulation Executive. This requires the Department to prepare and publish an impact assessment only when the net costs to business are greater than £1 million per year. These would be laid with associated regulations and explanatory memorandum.</p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 12/11/2015 09:26:58 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

432282

	registered interest
	date	25/11/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust: Nurses
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust is taking to ensure that registered nurses in its employment are able to comply fully with the requirements of revalidation with the Nursing and Midwifery Council; and what training is being provided to such nurses for that purpose.
	tabling member constituency	Preston
	tabling member printed	Mr Mark Hendrick
	uin	17581
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2015 answer text <br /><p>Information on support provided by individual National Health Service providers is not collected centrally and may be obtained from the organisations themselves.</p><br /><p>All nurses and midwives practising in England are required by law to be registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council. From April 2016, nurses and midwives will have to revalidate every three years, when they renew their registration.</p><br /><p>It is the responsibility of nurses and midwives to register and undertake revalidation.There is no specific requirement for employers to help nurses and midwives through revalidation but it is in their interests and a matter of good practice, to support nurses and midwives to provide safe and effective care.</p><br /><p>As part of its inspection process, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) considers staff access to training and related support. Where nurses are employed, the CQC makes enquiries about the maintenance of continual professional development and the levels of support offered by the provider.</p><br /> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer grouped question UIN 17578 17579 17580 question first answered 30/11/2015 13:32:35 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

432284

	registered interest
	date	25/11/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Care Homes: Lancashire
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps the Care Quality Commission is taking to ensure that nursing homes in Lancashire (a) assist registered nurses in complying with revalidation with the Nursing and Midwifery Council and (b) provide training to such nurses to assist with achieving such revalidation.
	tabling member constituency	Preston
	tabling member printed	Mr Mark Hendrick
	uin	17578
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2015 answer text <br /><p>Information on support provided by individual National Health Service providers is not collected centrally and may be obtained from the organisations themselves.</p><br /><p>All nurses and midwives practising in England are required by law to be registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council. From April 2016, nurses and midwives will have to revalidate every three years, when they renew their registration.</p><br /><p>It is the responsibility of nurses and midwives to register and undertake revalidation.There is no specific requirement for employers to help nurses and midwives through revalidation but it is in their interests and a matter of good practice, to support nurses and midwives to provide safe and effective care.</p><br /><p>As part of its inspection process, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) considers staff access to training and related support. Where nurses are employed, the CQC makes enquiries about the maintenance of continual professional development and the levels of support offered by the provider.</p><br /> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer grouped question UIN 17579 17580 17581 question first answered 30/11/2015 13:32:34 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick