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514974

	registered interest
	date	22/04/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Maternity Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to allow NHS bodies to designate people other than midwives as the lead clinical practitioner for women in pregnancy, childbirth and postnatal period.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	35132
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2016 answer text <p>There are no such plans. The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has recently written to its external partners to provide reassurances about the proposed changes to midwifery supervision regulation and confirmed that there will be:</p><p>― No change to the protected title of ‘midwife’. Also the protected function of ‘attendance on a woman in childbirth’ will remain. Other than in an emergency or as part of training, only a midwife or medical practitioner can deliver a baby.</p><p>― No change to the scope of midwifery practice, which is much wider than the narrow protected function and is reflected in the standards of competence for registered midwives and their Code.</p><p>On 21 April, the Department launched a consultation on the proposed changes to the NMC’s governing legislation to remove midwifery supervision from statute. The proposals do not suggest that midwifery supervision and the education and training to support this role will cease to exist, but that the additional tier of regulation for midwives will be removed resulting in a clear separation of the role and purpose of the supervision and regulation of midwives. The consultation closes on 17 June 2016.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 27/04/2016 10:27:29 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

514972

	registered interest
	date	22/04/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Midwives
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Written Statement to the House of 16 July 2015, HCWS113, on Publication of Learning not Blaming and Review of NHS Leadership, what assessment he has made of the consistency of the abolition of the Nursing and Midwifery Council's statutory Midwifery Committee with his plan to end the statutory supervision of midwives.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	35141
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2016 answer text <p>In the ‘Learning not blaming: The government response to Freedom to Speak Up, the Public Administration Select Committee report on clinical incidents, and the Morecambe Bay Investigation’, the Government accepted the recommendation to remove the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s (NMC) current responsibility and accountability for statutory supervision of midwives in the United Kingdom and committed to changing the law as speedily as possible.</p><p>The abolition of the statutory Midwifery Committee at the NMC is a consequence of the Law Commission review of professional regulators. The Midwifery Committee does not have a role in the statutory supervision of midwives. The NMC is considering how midwifery advice will be secured by the NMC if the Midwifery Committee is, after consultation, abolished. It has set up a Midwifery Panel of interested parties to do this.</p><p>The proposals for a new design of supervision for midwifery, incorporated setting up a task force in each country of the UK under the auspices of each UK Chief Nursing Officer. They are currently working through plans to create new mechanisms and considering what systems and processes will replace the Local Supervising Authorities.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer grouped question UIN 35142 question first answered 27/04/2016 10:28:52 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

514973

	registered interest
	date	22/04/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Midwives
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Written Statement of 16 July 2015, HCWS113, on Publication of Learning not Blaming and Review of NHS Leadership, what plans he has for a reporting mechanism to replace Local Supervising Authorities following the implementation of his plan to end statutory supervision of midwives.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	35142
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2016 answer text <p>In the ‘Learning not blaming: The government response to Freedom to Speak Up, the Public Administration Select Committee report on clinical incidents, and the Morecambe Bay Investigation’, the Government accepted the recommendation to remove the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s (NMC) current responsibility and accountability for statutory supervision of midwives in the United Kingdom and committed to changing the law as speedily as possible.</p><p>The abolition of the statutory Midwifery Committee at the NMC is a consequence of the Law Commission review of professional regulators. The Midwifery Committee does not have a role in the statutory supervision of midwives. The NMC is considering how midwifery advice will be secured by the NMC if the Midwifery Committee is, after consultation, abolished. It has set up a Midwifery Panel of interested parties to do this.</p><p>The proposals for a new design of supervision for midwifery, incorporated setting up a task force in each country of the UK under the auspices of each UK Chief Nursing Officer. They are currently working through plans to create new mechanisms and considering what systems and processes will replace the Local Supervising Authorities.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer grouped question UIN 35141 question first answered 27/04/2016 10:28:52 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

514977

	registered interest
	date	22/04/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Midwives: Regulation
	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 (a) the Nursing and Midwifery Council, (b) the Royal College of Midwives, (c) the Royal College of Nursing and (d) Independent Midwives UK on changes to midwifery regulation.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	35134
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2016 answer text <p>The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) and Independent Midwives UK (IMUK) have all been involved in discussions concerning the proposed changes to midwifery regulation.</p><p>On 22 January 2016 the Department, on behalf of the four United Kingdom Chief Nursing Officers and their external partners, published plans for a new non-statutory system of midwifery supervision that will meet the need for clinical supervision of midwives in clinical practice, and peer review for those not in clinical practice. The NMC, RCM and IMUK were consulted on and contributed to the published proposals.</p><p> </p><p>The Royal College of Nursing has not been involved in the above discussions, as midwifery regulations do not affect nurses.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 27/04/2016 10:32:32 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

595363

	registered interest
	date	07/10/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Brexit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the membership is of the Cabinet committee for exiting the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	47536
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>The full list of Cabinet Committees, including terms of reference and membership, will be published soon.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 17/10/2016 11:43:06 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

628932

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Orgreave
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will release all Cabinet papers relating to events at Orgreave in 1984.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	51955
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2016 answer text <p>All Cabinet papers from this period, including all minutes of Cabinet meetings and all papers discussed by the Cabinet, were transferred to the National Archives in 2014 under the normal process for historic records. They can be downloaded from their website.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 14/11/2016 14:06:32 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

643814

	registered interest
	date	24/11/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Personnel Management
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people employed in human resources roles in the civil service have (a) prior experience and (b) qualifications in human resources.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	54840
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2016 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally within the Cabinet Office. The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 01/12/2016 09:58:35 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

643812

	registered interest
	date	24/11/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Unpaid Work
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many internships currently exist in all government departments.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	54796
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2016 answer text <p>A variety of internships are undertaken across government and no central database is kept of these internships. The Civil Service Fast Stream runs a Summer (for penultimate and final year undergraduates) and Early (for first year undergraduates) Diversity Internship programme. For the summer scheme, 308 intern placements were offered in 2016 and 100 placements were offered for the early scheme. Applications are now open for the 2017 schemes</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 01/12/2016 09:59:37 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

652262

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Electronic Government: Proof of Identity
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people have verified their identity using the gov.uk Verify system since its inception.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	56146
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2016 answer text <p>GOV.UK Verify is already accepting registrations. Citizens have been able to verify their identities in order to access government services since 14 October 2014. Since then, GOV.UK Verify has been used more than 1 million times, with 945,000 identity accounts verified so far.</p><p>Work on the two main local authority trials - relating to residents’ parking permit services applications and older people’s concessionary travel - started in October and November 2016 respectively. Both trials are currently in their user research and design phases; the build and testing of prototypes will start in February 2017. GOV.UK Verify expects the first local authority councils to connect to its platform in summer 2017.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer grouped question UIN 56147 question first answered 08/12/2016 09:15:32 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

652263

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Electronic Government: Proof of Identity
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he expects the gov.uk Verify to be in use by the 19 local authorities participating in proposed local government trials of that service.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	56147
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2016 answer text <p>GOV.UK Verify is already accepting registrations. Citizens have been able to verify their identities in order to access government services since 14 October 2014. Since then, GOV.UK Verify has been used more than 1 million times, with 945,000 identity accounts verified so far.</p><p>Work on the two main local authority trials - relating to residents’ parking permit services applications and older people’s concessionary travel - started in October and November 2016 respectively. Both trials are currently in their user research and design phases; the build and testing of prototypes will start in February 2017. GOV.UK Verify expects the first local authority councils to connect to its platform in summer 2017.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer grouped question UIN 56146 question first answered 08/12/2016 09:15:32 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh