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46313

	registered interest
	date	01/04/2014
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she is taking at the High Level Meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development to ensure that future aid delivery via the private sector follows the Busan Principles.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	194624
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/04/2014 answer text <p>I refer my Hon. Friend to the answer I gave to Rt Hon. Member for East Renfrewshire (Jim Murphy) on 27 March 2014, Official Report (Col. 390W).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Putney answering member printed Justine Greening question first answered 07/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1555 label Biography information for Justine Greening
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

49493

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with the British Pregnancy Advisory Service about its leaflet, Britain's Abortion Law: what it says and why.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	197524
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p>The Department has made its position on abortion, including the illegality of abortion on the grounds of gender alone, clear to all providers, including the British Pregnancy Advisory Service. The Department will do so again in the forthcoming further guidance.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

50369

	registered interest
	date	08/05/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether all abortions commissioned by NHS England from private providers are recorded in the abortion statistics.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	198165
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p> </p><p>It is a legal requirement for a medical practitioner terminating a pregnancy to notify the Chief Medical Officer on form HSA4 within 14 days of the procedure whether it is undertaken in an National Health Service hospital or in the independent sector. All procedures are recorded in <em>Abortion Statistics, England and Wales</em> published annually.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 13/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

50370

	registered interest
	date	08/05/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what scrutiny arrangements the Care Quality Commission applies to (a) abortion and (b) other counselling.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	198157
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2014 answer text <p>The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is responsible for monitoring the providers of abortion services in England, to make sure they comply with the regulations set out under the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (HSCA). If a CQC inspection identifies instances of non-compliance with the HSCA and Regulations then appropriate regulatory action will be taken. The CQC's <em>Essential Standards of quality and safety</em> require that women undergoing termination of pregnancy know that “they are able to discuss their choices and decisions with a trained counsellor” and “where services are provided to children or people with a learning disability, the counsellor available has relevant experience in discussing termination of pregnancy with them”. For other forms of counselling which are registered activities under the 2008 Act and regulations, CQC takes a similar approach to judgement and action.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 14/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

76941

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2014
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Road Traffic Control
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to relieve congestion on roads.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	904749
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Road investment is central to our long term economic plan. We are spending more than £24 billion on strategic roads between 2010 and 2021. A further £7.4 billion will be spent on local roads in the next Parliament, together with £1.5bn funding from the Local Growth Fund announced on Monday. This will bring forward much needed schemes like the Stafford Western Access route, which are designed to relieve congestion and open up growth across the country.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 10/07/2014 14:08:23 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

76391

	registered interest
	date	08/07/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Stafford Hospital
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many young people have attended the accident and emergency department at Stafford Hospital in each year since 2009-10.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	204595
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p>The information is not available in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of unplanned accident and emergency (A&amp;E) attendances for Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, where the patient was aged 0-17 years (inclusive), for each year since 2009-10, is shown in the following table.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Young people attending A&amp;E</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>9,556</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>9,700</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>9,790</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>8,663</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14 (provisional)</p></td><td><p>9,065</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><em>Source:</em> Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC)</p><p><em> </em></p><p><em>Notes:</em></p><p>1. A&amp;E Attendance:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>A count of the number of attendances at A&amp;E. This does not represent the number of patients as an individual may attend on more than one occasion in any given period.</p><p>2. Hospital Provider:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>A provider code is a unique code that identifies an organisation acting as a health care provider (eg NHS trust or primary care trust). Data from some independent sector providers, where the onus for arrangement of dataflows is on the commissioner, may be missing. Care must be taken when using this data as the counts may be lower than true figures.</p><p>3. Assessing growth through time (A&amp;E):</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>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>4. Provisional data 2013-14:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>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, ie 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>5. Official source of A&amp;E activity data:</p><p>HES is not the official source of total A&amp;E activity, this is the NHS England situation reports collection - http://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ae-waiting-times-and-activity/ <br>However, HES permits further analysis of A&amp;E activity as there are a range of data items by which HES can be analysed. NHS England situation reports do not collect data by age range.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 14/07/2014 15:15:34 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

76392

	registered interest
	date	08/07/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Stafford Hospital
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many young people have been seen in the accident and emergency department at Stafford Hospital in each year since 2009-10.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	204593
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p>The information is not available in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of unplanned accident and emergency (A&amp;E) attendances for Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, where the patient was aged 0-17 years (inclusive) and did not ‘leave before assessment or treatment', for each year since 2009-10, is shown in the following table.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Young people seen in A&amp;E</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>9,369</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>9,416</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>9,536</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>8,605</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14 (provisional)</p></td><td><p>9,007</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><em>Source:</em> Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC)</p><p><em> </em></p><p><em>Notes:</em></p><p>1. A&amp;E Attendance:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>A count of the number of attendances at A&amp;E. This does not represent the number of patients as an individual may attend on more than one occasion in any given period.</p><p>2. Hospital Provider:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>A provider code is a unique code that identifies an organisation acting as a health care provider (eg NHS trust or primary care trust). Data from some independent sector providers, where the onus for arrangement of dataflows is on the commissioner, may be missing. Care must be taken when using this data as the counts may be lower than true figures.</p><p>3. Assessing growth through time (A&amp;E):</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>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>4. Provisional data 2013-14:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>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, ie 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>5. Official source of A&amp;E activity data:</p><p>HES is not the official source of total A&amp;E activity, this is the NHS England situation reports collection - http://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ae-waiting-times-and-activity/ <br>However, HES permits further analysis of A&amp;E activity as there are a range of data items by which HES can be analysed. NHS England situation reports do not collect data by age range.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 14/07/2014 15:13:41 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

76399

	registered interest
	date	08/07/2014
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Stafford Hospital
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many babies were born at Stafford Hospital in each year since 2009-10.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	204579
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 14/07/2014 11:50:25 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd attachment 1 file name PQ311 ons 204579.pdf title ONS Letter to Member
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

76402

	registered interest
	date	08/07/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Stafford Hospital
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many total bed nights children and young people stayed overnight at Stafford Hospital in each of the years (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11, (c) 2011-12, (d) 2012-13 and (e) 2013-14.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	204596
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p>The information is not available in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of bed days for patients aged between 0 and 17 (inclusive) treated at Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust for each year in 2009-10 to 2013-14 is shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Count of bed days</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>9,092</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>9,457</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>8,121</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>9,214</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14 (provisional)</p></td><td><p>8,074</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>Source</em>: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre</p><p> </p><p><em>Notes</em>:</p><p>1. Episode duration (Bed days):</p><p>Episode duration is calculated as the difference in days between the episode start date and the episode end date, where both are given. Episode duration is based on finished consultant episodes and only applies to ordinary admissions, i.e. day cases are excluded (unless otherwise stated).</p><p>2. Hospital Provider:</p><p>A provider code is a unique code that identifies an organisation acting as a health care provider (e.g. National Health Service trust or primary care trust). Data from some independent sector providers, where the onus for arrangement of dataflows is on the commissioner, may be missing. Care must be taken when using this data as the counts may be lower than true figures.</p><p>3. Assessing growth through time (Admitted patient care):</p><p>HES figures are available from 1989-90 onwards. Changes to the figures over time need to be interpreted in the context of improvements in data quality and coverage (particularly in earlier years), improvements in coverage of independent sector activity (particularly from 2006-07) and changes in NHS practice. For example, changes in activity may be due to changes in the provision of care.</p><p>4. Provisional Data:</p><p>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> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 14/07/2014 15:17:32 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

76403

	registered interest
	date	08/07/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Stafford Hospital
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children and young people were treated as inpatients at Stafford Hospital in each of the years (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11, (c) 2011-12, (d) 2012-13 and (e) 2013-14.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	204597
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p>The information is not available in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p>Information on numbers of finished admission episodes (FAEs) of patients aged between 0 and 17 (inclusive) that were treated at Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust for each year in 2009-10 to 2013-14 is shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Count of FAEs</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>8,560</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>9,012</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>8,253</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>8,598</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14 (Provisional)</p></td><td><p>8,213</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>Source</em>: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre</p><p> </p><p><em>Notes</em>:</p><p>1. FAEs:</p><p>An FAE is the first period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FAEs are counted against the year or month in which the admission episode finishes. Admissions do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the period.</p><p>2. This is a total of admissions and will therefore include those admitted as a day case.</p><p>3. Hospital Provider:</p><p>A provider code is a unique code that identifies an organisation acting as a health care provider (e.g. National Health Service trust or primary care trust). Data from some independent sector providers, where the onus for arrangement of dataflows is on the commissioner, may be missing. Care must be taken when using this data as the counts may be lower than true figures.</p><p>4. Assessing growth through time (Admitted patient care):</p><p>HES figures are available from 1989-90 onwards. Changes to the figures over time need to be interpreted in the context of improvements in data quality and coverage (particularly in earlier years), improvements in coverage of independent sector activity (particularly from 2006-07) and changes in NHS practice. For example, changes in activity may be due to changes in the provision of care.</p><p>5. Provisional Data:</p><p>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. his 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> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 14/07/2014 15:11:35 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

76438

	registered interest
	date	08/07/2014
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Developing Countries: Malaria
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much funding has been committed to tackling malaria in each year since 2009-10.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	204594
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The methodology for monitoring the Government's spending on malaria is provided in Annex A of the UK's Framework for Results for malaria in the developing world.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Figures for estimated total malaria spend using the methodology set out in the Framework for Results are reproduced below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><em>£ million</em></p></td><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>2012/13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total malaria spend</p></td><td><p>193.7</p></td><td><p>306.2</p></td><td><p>252.8</p></td><td><p>312.6</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Figures for 2013/2014 are not yet publicly available.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornsey and Wood Green answering member printed Lynne Featherstone question first answered 14/07/2014 15:58:37 answering member 1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

76396

	registered interest
	date	08/07/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Stafford Hospital
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many young people have been admitted as day cases at Stafford Hospital in each year since 2009-10.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	204574
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p>The information is not available in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of finished admission episodes (FAEs) with a patient classification of &quot;day case&quot; for patients aged between 0 and 17 (inclusive) treated at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust for each year since 2009-10 is shown in the following table:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Count of FAEs</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>828</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>748</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>701</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>829</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14 (provisional)</p></td><td><p>729</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>Notes:</em></p><p>1. FAE:</p><p>An FAE is the first period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FAEs are counted against the year or month in which the admission episode finishes. Admissions do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the period.</p><p>2. Hospital Provider:</p><p>A provider code is a unique code that identifies an organisation acting as a health care provider (e.g. National Health Service trust or primary care trust). Data from some independent sector providers, where the onus for arrangement of dataflows is on the commissioner, may be missing. Care must be taken when using this data as the counts may be lower than true figures.</p><p>3. Assessing growth through time (Admitted patient care):</p><p>Hospital Episode Statistics figures are available from 1989-90 onwards. Changes to the figures over time need to be interpreted in the context of improvements in data quality and coverage (particularly in earlier years), improvements in coverage of independent sector activity (particularly from 2006-07) and changes in NHS practice. For example, changes in activity may be due to changes in the provision of care.</p><p>4. Provisional data:</p><p>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><em>Source:</em>Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 15/07/2014 15:40:28 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

76397

	registered interest
	date	08/07/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Stafford Hospital
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people attended the accident and emergency department at Stafford Hospital in each of the years (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11, (c) 2011-12, (d) 2012-13 and (e) 2013-14.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	204577
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p>The information is not available in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of unplanned accident and emergency (A&amp;E) attendances for Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, for each year since 2009-10, is shown in the following table.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>A&amp;E Attendances</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>51,031</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>51,312</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>49,655</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>45,344</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14 (provisional)</p></td><td><p>46,302</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><em>Source:</em> Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC)</p><p><em> </em></p><p><em>Notes:</em></p><p>1. A&amp;E Attendance:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>A count of the number of attendances at A&amp;E. This does not represent the number of patients as an individual may attend on more than one occasion in any given period.</p><p>2. Hospital Provider:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>A provider code is a unique code that identifies an organisation acting as a health care provider (eg NHS trust or primary care trust). Data from some independent sector providers, where the onus for arrangement of dataflows is on the commissioner, may be missing. Care must be taken when using this data as the counts may be lower than true figures.</p><p>3. Assessing growth through time (A&amp;E):</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>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 NHS practice. For example, changes in activity may be due to changes in the provision of care.</p><p>4. Provisional data 2013-14:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>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, ie 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>5. Official source of A&amp;E activity data:</p><p>HES is not the official source of total A&amp;E activity; this is the NHS England situation reports collection - www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ae-waiting-times-and-activity/ <br>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></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 15/07/2014 15:50:06 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

76398

	registered interest
	date	08/07/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Stafford Hospital
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many young people attending the paediatrics assessment unit were not transferred from the accident and emergency department at Stafford Hospital in each year since 2009-10.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	204578
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p><p>We have written to Alan Bloom, Trust Special Administrator of Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust informing him of your enquiry. He will reply shortly and a copy of the letter will be placed in the Library.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 15/07/2014 16:16:43 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

76401

	registered interest
	date	08/07/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Stafford Hospital
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children and young people have been seen as outpatients at Stafford Hospital in each of the years (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11, (c) 2011-12, (d) 2012-13 and (e) 2013-14.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	204576
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p>The information is not available in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of outpatient attendances for individuals aged 0-17 (inclusive) at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, since 2009-10 is shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number of outpatient attendances</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>23,257</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>25,275</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>26,624</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>26,887</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14 (provisional)</p></td><td><p>27,163</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>Source</em>: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC)</p><p> </p><p><em>Notes</em>:</p><p>1. Outpatient attendances:</p><p>A patient's treatment in outpatients can consist of a series of attendances; a distinction between the first in the series and subsequent attendances is commonly reported. The data provided here includes all episodes, whether it was a first or a subsequent attendance, and also includes tele-consultations.</p><p>2. Assessing growth through time (Outpatients):</p><p>HES figures are available from 2003-04 onwards. Changes to the figures over time need to be interpreted in the context of improvements in data quality and coverage (particularly in earlier years), improvements in coverage of independent sector activity (particularly from 2006-07) and changes in NHS practice. For example, changes in activity may be due to changes in the provision of care.</p><p>3. Provisional data: 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> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 15/07/2014 15:54:39 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

92986

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Floods: Stafford
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what flood prevention measures have been undertaken in Stafford constituency in the last three years; and how many staff of (a) her Department and (b) the Environment Agency were employed on those measures.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	210220
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2014 answer text <p>Defra staff work on flood prevention at a strategic level across England rather than being allocated to specific locations such as Stafford.</p><p>The Environment Agency carries out various tasks to reduce flood risk from main rivers through Stafford. It has a field team of four people based at Uttoxeter, who carry out all routine maintenance and provide an incident response capability for Staffordshire, which includes Stafford.</p><p>In the past three years (2011 onwards) the Environment Agency has carried out the following works:</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Location</p></td><td><p>Work</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sandyford Brook</p><p> </p></td><td><p>Yearly routine maintenance programme which includes clearing and maintaining flood risk management structures along the watercourse.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>River Sow</p><p> </p></td><td><p>1. Routine inspection of the flood risk management structures and removal of objects such as trees that pose a flood risk.</p><p>2. Old timber capping boards replaced.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rising Brook and Kingston Brook</p><p> </p></td><td><p>Routine inspection of the flood risk management structures and removal of objects such as trees that pose a flood risk.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stafford flood scheme</p></td><td><p>Yearly routine maintenance programme which includes clearing and maintaining flood management assets along the watercourse.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><br><br></p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 20/10/2014 16:31:07 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

92989

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Crime: Stafford
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of crime in Stafford constituency in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	210228
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p>The table provided shows the number of offences in the Stafford Community Safety Partnership in each of the past five years. <br>According to the latest police recorded crime figures (published on 16th October), crime has fallen by more than 20% over the last five years in the Partnership.<br><br>The data requested are also published on the Home Office website, and can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" rowspan="3"><strong>Table A: Police Recorded Crime (excluding fraud) in the Stafford Community Safety Partnership, year to June 2009 to year to June 2014</strong></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><em><strong>Numbers</strong></em></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><strong>Year</strong></td><td><strong>Total offences</strong></td></tr><tr><td>Year to June 2010</td><td>7,200</td></tr><tr><td>Year to June 2011</td><td>6,765</td></tr><tr><td>Year to June 2012</td><td>6,340</td></tr><tr><td>Year to June 2013</td><td>5,286</td></tr><tr><td>Year to June 2014</td><td>5,536</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><em>1. Source: Police recorded crime, Home Office</em></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" rowspan="2">2. Police recorded crime data are not designated as National Statistics.</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" rowspan="6"><p><em>3. Action Fraud have taken over the recording of fraud offences on behalf of individual police forces. This process began in April 2011 and was rolled out to all police forces by March 2013. To enable comparison of data across the five year period, fraud data have been excluded.</em></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Norman Baker question first answered 21/10/2014 16:05:58 answering member 28 label Biography information for Norman Baker
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

92987

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Business: Stafford
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department has taken to increase the level of access to credit for businesses in Stafford constituency in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	210226
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2014 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring businesses can access the finance they need to invest and grow.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are setting up the British Business Bank to make finance markets work better for small firms. Over the next five years, the Bank aims to unlock up to £10 billion of financing for viable smaller businesses. The Business Bank funds schemes including Start Up Loans and the Enterprise Finance Guarantee Scheme.</p><p> </p><p>A breakdown of businesses in the Stafford Constituency that have been supported by British Business Bank schemes last 12 months are detailed in the table below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Enterprise Finance Guarantee Scheme (EFG)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Start Up Loans Company </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stafford constituency</p></td><td><p>7 loans with a drawn value of £1,051,700</p></td><td><p>16 loans with a drawn value of £59,850</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>*Data from 01/09/2013-31/08/2014</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Black Country Reinvestment Society (BCRS) are a Community Development Finance Institution (CDFI) serving the Stafford constituency providing credit and funding to local businesses unable to secure finance from traditional financial institutions such as banks. BCRS are accredited to provide EFG backed lending facilities and are also a Start Up Loan delivery partner.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Community Development Finance Association (of which BCRS is a member) have also received Regional Growth Fund support</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>There is one Round 1 Regional Growth Fund project in the Stafford constituency with a grant of £4 million, leveraging £56.5 million of private sector investment and creating or safeguarding 1,600 jobs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The grant will assist this project to undertake research and development (R&amp;D) for the creation of High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) power transmission products at a new engineering centre of excellence in Stafford. The project will create 200 jobs and safeguard 1400 jobs in Stafford and involves a new R&amp;D centre, together with the installation of technical equipment.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 22/10/2014 15:45:34 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

92988

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Small Businesses: Stafford
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department is taking to support small and medium-sized businesses in Stafford constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	210227
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2014 answer text <p>Small businesses are the lifeblood of our economy and our small business owners have driven this economic recovery. Stafford has benefitted from a number of support schemes. The Start-Up Loan Scheme has provided business advice and 16 loans with a value of almost £60,000 to people starting a business. Since May 2010, 7 companies have benefitted from the Government’s Enterprise Finance Guarantee Scheme with a drawn down value of over £1 million.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are committed to making Britain the best place in the world to start and grow a business, and are doing this in a number of ways:</p><p> </p><ul><li>£10 billion of financing will be unlocked for smaller business over the next 5 years by our British Business Bank;</li><li>Government grants of up to £3000 for better internet connectivity are available to small businesses;<br> <br></li><li>The Business Support Helpline is available to provide bespoke information and advice;</li><li>Cuts to corporation tax from 28% to 21%; and</li><li>£2,000 cut from the National Insurance bills of small firms from the new Employment Allowance.</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 22/10/2014 15:43:03 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

99866

	registered interest
	date	20/10/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Health Professions: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much non-NHS providers of NHS funded services have paid to the Treasury towards the cost of the previous training of clinical staff whom they employ in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11, (c) 2011-12, (d) 2012-13 and (e) 2013-14.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	211019
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2014 answer text <p>Non-NHS providers do not make a direct contribution to the cost of training clinical staff.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 23/10/2014 15:21:14 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

102233

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of recent employment trends.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	905826
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>The latest figures show a record number of people in work - 30.76 million, up 736,000 on the year. There are a record 14.4m women in work, with a record female employment rate of 68.1%. This year there have been some of the largest annual increases in employment since the 1980s.</p><p>Total unemployment saw a record annual fall of 538,000, bringing unemployment below 2 million for the first time since 2008. Youth unemployment fell a record 253,000 on the year to 733,000. Long-term unemployment fell 194,000 on the year - the largest annual fall since 1998.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 03/11/2014 17:41:36 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

102013

	registered interest
	date	31/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	New Businesses: Stafford
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many new companies were started in Stafford constituency in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	212794
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>In each of the last three years, the following numbers of companies were incorporated in the Staffordshire constituency:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>13,336</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>13,349</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>13,445</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 10/11/2014 10:22:42 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

155728

	registered interest
	date	17/11/2014
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Self-employed: Stafford
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people in Stafford constituency are registered self-employed.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	214616
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2014 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson grouped question UIN 214618 question first answered 20/11/2014 13:14:45 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson attachment 1 file name PQ 214618 & 214616 ONS 402 & 403.pdf title ONS Letter to Member - Self-Employed
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

155729

	registered interest
	date	17/11/2014
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Employment: Stafford
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the net change in the number of private sector jobs in Stafford constituency was in the latest period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	214618
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2014 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson grouped question UIN 214616 question first answered 20/11/2014 13:14:46 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson attachment 1 file name PQ 214618 & 214616 ONS 402 & 403.pdf title ONS Letter to Member - Self-Employed
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

155721

	registered interest
	date	17/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Business: Stafford
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many businesses the Manufacturing Advisory Service has assisted in Stafford constituency since May 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	214631
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2014 answer text <p>The Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS) has assisted 22 companies in Stafford since 1 January 2012 when the new national MAS service was launched. Businesses have forecast this could help create 65 jobs and over £2.75 million Gross Value Added. Figures are not available for the regional MAS delivered by the former Regional Development Agencies prior to January 2012.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 24/11/2014 15:06:51 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy