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1130514

	registered interest
	date	06/06/2019
	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	Social Workers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether social workers will be included in the NHS People Plan.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	261217
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2019 answer text <p>A major uplift was announced on 30 April 2019 to the financial support available to infected and affected beneficiaries registered with the infected blood support scheme in England.</p><p>As announced at that time, the Government is committed to working with its counterparts in the devolved administrations to look at the issue of parity of support across the United Kingdom. I have written to my counterparts in all the other devolved nations, including the Permanent Secretary of Northern Ireland, inviting them to meet to discuss this issue at the earliest opportunity. A date for this meeting is currently being sought.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 14/06/2019 10:31:01 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1130515

	registered interest
	date	06/06/2019
	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	Care Workers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the social care Green Paper will have a section on workforce.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	261218
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2019 answer text <p>The Government recognises and values the work of social care staff, and we continue to work with the sector to ensure that there are the right number of people, with the right skills, knowledge, and values to deliver high quality, person centred care and support. In February we launched a new national adult social care recruitment campaign ‘Every Day is Different’, and we fund Skills for Care to support the sector with recruitment, retention, and workforce development.</p><p>The Government will publish a Social Care Green Paper, at the earliest opportunity, setting out proposals for reform to ensure the social care system is sustainable for the future. It will include a vision for the workforce and proposals to boost recruitment, retention and workforce development in the longer term.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 14/06/2019 10:57:23 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1088492

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2019
	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	Barbecues: Health Hazards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to promote public awareness of the risk to health of using barbeques in enclosed spaces; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	232007
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2019 answer text <p>Public Health England published advice and guidance on social media to remind campers about the dangers of using barbeques inside tents and other enclosed spaces. An example of this can be viewed at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk/2015/12/15/carbon-monoxide-the-silent-killer/" target="_blank">https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk/2015/12/15/carbon-monoxide-the-silent-killer/</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 18/03/2019 16:24:49 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1077636

	registered interest
	date	26/02/2019
	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 Capacity (Amendment) Bill (HL)
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to page four of the Impact Assessment for the Mental Capacity Amendment Bill, what methodology his Department used to calculate that the cost of authorisation and reviews by care settings at zero.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	226099
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2019 answer text <p>The net cost of authorisations and reviews is estimated to be zero because the role for care homes under the Liberty Protection Safeguards will be similar to the role they have currently under the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards and Care Act. Care homes will not be responsible for conducting assessments in any circumstances. Where appropriate they will prepare the statement provided to the responsible body. In some cases these statements might incorporate existing valid assessments but these assessments will not have been conducted by care home staff.</p><p> </p><p>0.5 days is our best estimate of how long it will take care home managers to be familiarised with their roles in the new system, assuming they are already familiar with how the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards system operates. The current Deprivation of Liberty system training can be completed in two hours. The half day training considered to be required to familiarise care home manager with the new system is additional to the support government has committed to provide to the sector ahead of implementation of the Liberty Protection Safeguards.</p><p> </p><p>The comprehensive work undertaken by the Law Commission on reforming the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards system over a three-year period (2014 – 2017) estimated that approximately 1% of applications would result in an appeal to the Court of Protection. This is set out on page 34 of the Law Commissions Impact Assessment on Mental Capacity and Detention. The Bill introduces a new role of the Approved Mental Capacity Professional (AMCP). The AMCP will consider objections and provide an opportunity for resolution outside the Court of Protection. Given uncertainty, we have modelled a range of scenarios. Our central estimate is based on a reduction in the number of appeals to the Court of Protection to 0.5% of applications.</p><p> </p><p>The responsibility of the Approved Mental Capacity Professional is to ensure the independence of the objection process, when an individual disagrees with their care arrangements so that individuals can exercise their right to object in confidence, they are not responsible for formal mediation but provide an opportunity for issues to be resolved outside of court. The Department is working with stakeholders and professionals to develop a Code of Practice which will assist in the implementation and transition period of the Bill.</p><p> </p><p>General practitioners (GPs) and other relevant clinicians will be able to provide evidence used for the purposes of medical and capacity assessments, for example an existing diagnosis of dementia can be used for the purposes of a medical assessment. We are not expecting GPs or other professionals to undertake new functions in addition to routine practice, but rather want to use the current healthcare system and activities to support the more streamlined Liberty Protection Safeguards system through sharing of information that already exists.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 226100 226101 226102 226103 question first answered 05/03/2019 15:34:40 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1077637

	registered interest
	date	26/02/2019
	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 Capacity (Amendment) Bill (HL)
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to page 23 of the Impact Assessment of the Mental Capacity Amendment Bill, what methodology his Department used to calculate that care home managers would require half a day’s training on the new Liberty Protection Safeguards.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	226100
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2019 answer text <p>The net cost of authorisations and reviews is estimated to be zero because the role for care homes under the Liberty Protection Safeguards will be similar to the role they have currently under the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards and Care Act. Care homes will not be responsible for conducting assessments in any circumstances. Where appropriate they will prepare the statement provided to the responsible body. In some cases these statements might incorporate existing valid assessments but these assessments will not have been conducted by care home staff.</p><p> </p><p>0.5 days is our best estimate of how long it will take care home managers to be familiarised with their roles in the new system, assuming they are already familiar with how the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards system operates. The current Deprivation of Liberty system training can be completed in two hours. The half day training considered to be required to familiarise care home manager with the new system is additional to the support government has committed to provide to the sector ahead of implementation of the Liberty Protection Safeguards.</p><p> </p><p>The comprehensive work undertaken by the Law Commission on reforming the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards system over a three-year period (2014 – 2017) estimated that approximately 1% of applications would result in an appeal to the Court of Protection. This is set out on page 34 of the Law Commissions Impact Assessment on Mental Capacity and Detention. The Bill introduces a new role of the Approved Mental Capacity Professional (AMCP). The AMCP will consider objections and provide an opportunity for resolution outside the Court of Protection. Given uncertainty, we have modelled a range of scenarios. Our central estimate is based on a reduction in the number of appeals to the Court of Protection to 0.5% of applications.</p><p> </p><p>The responsibility of the Approved Mental Capacity Professional is to ensure the independence of the objection process, when an individual disagrees with their care arrangements so that individuals can exercise their right to object in confidence, they are not responsible for formal mediation but provide an opportunity for issues to be resolved outside of court. The Department is working with stakeholders and professionals to develop a Code of Practice which will assist in the implementation and transition period of the Bill.</p><p> </p><p>General practitioners (GPs) and other relevant clinicians will be able to provide evidence used for the purposes of medical and capacity assessments, for example an existing diagnosis of dementia can be used for the purposes of a medical assessment. We are not expecting GPs or other professionals to undertake new functions in addition to routine practice, but rather want to use the current healthcare system and activities to support the more streamlined Liberty Protection Safeguards system through sharing of information that already exists.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 226099 226101 226102 226103 question first answered 05/03/2019 15:34:40 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1077638

	registered interest
	date	26/02/2019
	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 Capacity (Amendment) Bill (HL)
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Impact Assessment of the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill, what steps his Department will take to support GPs to carry out capacity assessments.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	226101
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2019 answer text <p>The net cost of authorisations and reviews is estimated to be zero because the role for care homes under the Liberty Protection Safeguards will be similar to the role they have currently under the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards and Care Act. Care homes will not be responsible for conducting assessments in any circumstances. Where appropriate they will prepare the statement provided to the responsible body. In some cases these statements might incorporate existing valid assessments but these assessments will not have been conducted by care home staff.</p><p> </p><p>0.5 days is our best estimate of how long it will take care home managers to be familiarised with their roles in the new system, assuming they are already familiar with how the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards system operates. The current Deprivation of Liberty system training can be completed in two hours. The half day training considered to be required to familiarise care home manager with the new system is additional to the support government has committed to provide to the sector ahead of implementation of the Liberty Protection Safeguards.</p><p> </p><p>The comprehensive work undertaken by the Law Commission on reforming the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards system over a three-year period (2014 – 2017) estimated that approximately 1% of applications would result in an appeal to the Court of Protection. This is set out on page 34 of the Law Commissions Impact Assessment on Mental Capacity and Detention. The Bill introduces a new role of the Approved Mental Capacity Professional (AMCP). The AMCP will consider objections and provide an opportunity for resolution outside the Court of Protection. Given uncertainty, we have modelled a range of scenarios. Our central estimate is based on a reduction in the number of appeals to the Court of Protection to 0.5% of applications.</p><p> </p><p>The responsibility of the Approved Mental Capacity Professional is to ensure the independence of the objection process, when an individual disagrees with their care arrangements so that individuals can exercise their right to object in confidence, they are not responsible for formal mediation but provide an opportunity for issues to be resolved outside of court. The Department is working with stakeholders and professionals to develop a Code of Practice which will assist in the implementation and transition period of the Bill.</p><p> </p><p>General practitioners (GPs) and other relevant clinicians will be able to provide evidence used for the purposes of medical and capacity assessments, for example an existing diagnosis of dementia can be used for the purposes of a medical assessment. We are not expecting GPs or other professionals to undertake new functions in addition to routine practice, but rather want to use the current healthcare system and activities to support the more streamlined Liberty Protection Safeguards system through sharing of information that already exists.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 226099 226100 226102 226103 question first answered 05/03/2019 15:34:40 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1077639

	registered interest
	date	26/02/2019
	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 Capacity (Amendment) Bill (HL)
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Impact Assessment of the Mental Capacity Amendment Bill, what methodology his Department used to calculate that 0.5 per cent of appeals cases would arrive before the Court of Protection.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	226102
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2019 answer text <p>The net cost of authorisations and reviews is estimated to be zero because the role for care homes under the Liberty Protection Safeguards will be similar to the role they have currently under the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards and Care Act. Care homes will not be responsible for conducting assessments in any circumstances. Where appropriate they will prepare the statement provided to the responsible body. In some cases these statements might incorporate existing valid assessments but these assessments will not have been conducted by care home staff.</p><p> </p><p>0.5 days is our best estimate of how long it will take care home managers to be familiarised with their roles in the new system, assuming they are already familiar with how the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards system operates. The current Deprivation of Liberty system training can be completed in two hours. The half day training considered to be required to familiarise care home manager with the new system is additional to the support government has committed to provide to the sector ahead of implementation of the Liberty Protection Safeguards.</p><p> </p><p>The comprehensive work undertaken by the Law Commission on reforming the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards system over a three-year period (2014 – 2017) estimated that approximately 1% of applications would result in an appeal to the Court of Protection. This is set out on page 34 of the Law Commissions Impact Assessment on Mental Capacity and Detention. The Bill introduces a new role of the Approved Mental Capacity Professional (AMCP). The AMCP will consider objections and provide an opportunity for resolution outside the Court of Protection. Given uncertainty, we have modelled a range of scenarios. Our central estimate is based on a reduction in the number of appeals to the Court of Protection to 0.5% of applications.</p><p> </p><p>The responsibility of the Approved Mental Capacity Professional is to ensure the independence of the objection process, when an individual disagrees with their care arrangements so that individuals can exercise their right to object in confidence, they are not responsible for formal mediation but provide an opportunity for issues to be resolved outside of court. The Department is working with stakeholders and professionals to develop a Code of Practice which will assist in the implementation and transition period of the Bill.</p><p> </p><p>General practitioners (GPs) and other relevant clinicians will be able to provide evidence used for the purposes of medical and capacity assessments, for example an existing diagnosis of dementia can be used for the purposes of a medical assessment. We are not expecting GPs or other professionals to undertake new functions in addition to routine practice, but rather want to use the current healthcare system and activities to support the more streamlined Liberty Protection Safeguards system through sharing of information that already exists.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 226099 226100 226101 226103 question first answered 05/03/2019 15:34:40 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1077641

	registered interest
	date	26/02/2019
	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 Capacity (Amendment) Bill (HL)
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to page 25 of the Impact Assessment for the Mental Capacity Amendment Bill, whether mediation will be available for people who disagree with their care arrangements.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	226103
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2019 answer text <p>The net cost of authorisations and reviews is estimated to be zero because the role for care homes under the Liberty Protection Safeguards will be similar to the role they have currently under the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards and Care Act. Care homes will not be responsible for conducting assessments in any circumstances. Where appropriate they will prepare the statement provided to the responsible body. In some cases these statements might incorporate existing valid assessments but these assessments will not have been conducted by care home staff.</p><p> </p><p>0.5 days is our best estimate of how long it will take care home managers to be familiarised with their roles in the new system, assuming they are already familiar with how the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards system operates. The current Deprivation of Liberty system training can be completed in two hours. The half day training considered to be required to familiarise care home manager with the new system is additional to the support government has committed to provide to the sector ahead of implementation of the Liberty Protection Safeguards.</p><p> </p><p>The comprehensive work undertaken by the Law Commission on reforming the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards system over a three-year period (2014 – 2017) estimated that approximately 1% of applications would result in an appeal to the Court of Protection. This is set out on page 34 of the Law Commissions Impact Assessment on Mental Capacity and Detention. The Bill introduces a new role of the Approved Mental Capacity Professional (AMCP). The AMCP will consider objections and provide an opportunity for resolution outside the Court of Protection. Given uncertainty, we have modelled a range of scenarios. Our central estimate is based on a reduction in the number of appeals to the Court of Protection to 0.5% of applications.</p><p> </p><p>The responsibility of the Approved Mental Capacity Professional is to ensure the independence of the objection process, when an individual disagrees with their care arrangements so that individuals can exercise their right to object in confidence, they are not responsible for formal mediation but provide an opportunity for issues to be resolved outside of court. The Department is working with stakeholders and professionals to develop a Code of Practice which will assist in the implementation and transition period of the Bill.</p><p> </p><p>General practitioners (GPs) and other relevant clinicians will be able to provide evidence used for the purposes of medical and capacity assessments, for example an existing diagnosis of dementia can be used for the purposes of a medical assessment. We are not expecting GPs or other professionals to undertake new functions in addition to routine practice, but rather want to use the current healthcare system and activities to support the more streamlined Liberty Protection Safeguards system through sharing of information that already exists.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 226099 226100 226101 226102 question first answered 05/03/2019 15:34:40 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1056756

	registered interest
	date	07/02/2019
	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	Electronic Cigarettes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether companies are prevented from (a) encouraging smokers to switch to vaping and (b) advertising price reductions for e-cigarettes.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	218311
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2019 answer text <p>The United Kingdom Tobacco and Related Products Regulations 2016 (TRPR) covers the regulation of e-cigarettes transposed from the European Union’s Tobacco Products Directive. Regulation 38 of the TRPR covers product presentation requirements and defines what can be written on a unit packet and any container pack of the electronic cigarette or refill container. Products may not for example suggest that a particular electronic cigarette or refill container is less harmful than other electronic cigarettes or refill containers; has vitalising, energising, healing, rejuvenating, natural or organic properties; or has other health or lifestyle benefits. These regulations also prohibit price reductions.</p><p> </p><p>The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is responsible for monitoring the marketing and advertising of non-broadcast communications for electronic cigarettes. Section 22 of the ASA Committee of Advertising Practice Code concerns the regulation of marketing communications for electronic cigarettes. The code does not allow for medicinal claims but provides advice on how health claims can be made for marketing purposes that are not restricted by regulation.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has made a commitment to review the TRPR by May 2021 to consider its regulatory impact. In addition, as announced in the Tobacco Control Plan the Government will review where the UK’s exit from the EU offers us opportunities to re-appraise current regulation to ensure this continues to protect the nation’s health.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 15/02/2019 11:08:47 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1054823

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2019
	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	NHS: Working Hours
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to support the Fight Fatigue campaign which aims to raise awareness of the effect of fatigue and shift working on the NHS workforce.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	216340
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2019 answer text <p>The Department welcomes campaigns that highlight issues of staff fatigue and shift working in the National Health Service. The Department continues to commission NHS Employers to provide resources, materials and good practice for the NHS including the importance of sleep.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Employers are currently in the process of updating and restructuring their best practice webpages and will be signposting the Fight Fatigue Campaign on their website<sup>1</sup>.</p><p> </p><p>Note:</p><p><sup>1</sup><a href="https://www.nhsemployers.org/blog/2018/10/the-importance-of-sleep" target="_blank">https://www.nhsemployers.org/blog/2018/10/the-importance-of-sleep</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 12/02/2019 15:14:44 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham