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782755

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Staffordshire and Stoke On Trent Partnership NHS Trust
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when NHS (a) England and (b) Improvement received the Capped Expenditure Programme report for Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
	uin	111038
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2017 answer text <p>As happens prior to the start of every financial year, the National Health Service was asked by the Department to develop a plan for balancing NHS budgets in 2017/18. As part of their plan, NHS England and NHS Improvement have designed and implemented the capped expenditure process (CEP), and they therefore have lead responsibility for it.</p><p> </p><p>CEP is an extension of the annual planning process. Financial performance information for each clinical commissioning group (CCG) (and in total for CCGs) can be found in the quarterly published Financial Performance Reports, accessible via the link:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/financial-performance-reports/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/financial-performance-reports/</a></p><p>As with all public services, local NHS areas need to live within the budget agreed – otherwise they effectively take up resources that could be spent on general practitioners, mental health care, and cancer treatment. As part of their financial planning, NHS England and NHS Improvement have been running a process to look at how a small number of areas could do more to balance their financial plans, as many already have.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England have published, at a national level, documents which describe the overall approach. Individual clinical commissioning groups directly affected will reflect the impact of the capped expenditure process as part of their publication of plans, and will comply with any further requirements for consultation.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne grouped question UIN 111043 question first answered 10/11/2017 12:28:58 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
	tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

782768

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Staffordshire and Stoke On Trent Partnership NHS Trust
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish the Capped Expenditure Programme report for Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent submitted to NHS England and NHS Improvement.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
	uin	111043
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2017 answer text <p>As happens prior to the start of every financial year, the National Health Service was asked by the Department to develop a plan for balancing NHS budgets in 2017/18. As part of their plan, NHS England and NHS Improvement have designed and implemented the capped expenditure process (CEP), and they therefore have lead responsibility for it.</p><p> </p><p>CEP is an extension of the annual planning process. Financial performance information for each clinical commissioning group (CCG) (and in total for CCGs) can be found in the quarterly published Financial Performance Reports, accessible via the link:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/financial-performance-reports/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/financial-performance-reports/</a></p><p>As with all public services, local NHS areas need to live within the budget agreed – otherwise they effectively take up resources that could be spent on general practitioners, mental health care, and cancer treatment. As part of their financial planning, NHS England and NHS Improvement have been running a process to look at how a small number of areas could do more to balance their financial plans, as many already have.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England have published, at a national level, documents which describe the overall approach. Individual clinical commissioning groups directly affected will reflect the impact of the capped expenditure process as part of their publication of plans, and will comply with any further requirements for consultation.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne grouped question UIN 111038 question first answered 10/11/2017 12:28:58 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
	tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

179157

	registered interest
	date	11/02/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	NHS: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to publish the full reports by KPMG he commissioned into the health economies of (a) Staffordshire, (b) Eastern Cheshire, (c) South West London, (d) North East London, (e) Cumbria, (f) Mid Essex, (g) Cambridge and Peterborough, (h) Leicestershire, (i) Northamptonshire, (j) East Sussex and (k) Devon.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
	uin	224148
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2015 answer text <p>As part of NHS England, NHS Trust Development Authority (TDA) and Monitor’s joint project to support 11 challenged local health economies develop clinically and financially sustainable five-year strategic plans, four consultancy firms (including KPMG) were commissioned to support the local areas with the development and strengthening of their plans.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Reports were provided by the consultants to support the project’s Programme Board, consisting of NHS England, TDA and Monitor, to manage the contracts and ensure that the service specification was being met.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Work is ongoing based on the contents of these reports and there are a number of steps that have to be undertaken in each of the local health economies before these reports can be released: the production of the five-year strategic plan, consideration of the plan, consultation on possible reforms to the health economy, recommendations for possible reforms following consultation, and implementation of recommendations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>To release the reports ahead of the steps identified above being completed would be likely to prejudice their outcome. The timescales for the above processes will be different in each of the 11 areas and, as the strategic plans are produced, they are made available from the relevant clinical commissioning group websites through their board papers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 224177 question first answered 23/02/2015 16:38:42 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

179165

	registered interest
	date	11/02/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	NHS: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library copies of the full reports by KPMG he has commissioned into the health economies of (a) Staffordshire, (b) Eastern Cheshire, (c) South West London, (d) North East London, (e) Cumbria, (f) Mid-Essex, (g) Cambridge and Peterborough, (h) Leicestershire, (i) Northamptonshire, (j) East Sussex and (k) Devon.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
	uin	224177
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2015 answer text <p>As part of NHS England, NHS Trust Development Authority (TDA) and Monitor’s joint project to support 11 challenged local health economies develop clinically and financially sustainable five-year strategic plans, four consultancy firms (including KPMG) were commissioned to support the local areas with the development and strengthening of their plans.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Reports were provided by the consultants to support the project’s Programme Board, consisting of NHS England, TDA and Monitor, to manage the contracts and ensure that the service specification was being met.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Work is ongoing based on the contents of these reports and there are a number of steps that have to be undertaken in each of the local health economies before these reports can be released: the production of the five-year strategic plan, consideration of the plan, consultation on possible reforms to the health economy, recommendations for possible reforms following consultation, and implementation of recommendations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>To release the reports ahead of the steps identified above being completed would be likely to prejudice their outcome. The timescales for the above processes will be different in each of the 11 areas and, as the strategic plans are produced, they are made available from the relevant clinical commissioning group websites through their board papers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 224148 question first answered 23/02/2015 16:38:42 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

432211

	registered interest
	date	25/11/2015
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Trinity Mirror: Local World
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether he is seeking the advice of Ofcom on Trinity Mirror's purchase of Local World and the implications of that purchase for plurality in provision of local news.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
	uin	17594
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2015 answer text <p>At the present time the Department has not formally sought the views of Ofcom on this matter.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 11/12/2015 12:32:25 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
	tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

789068

	registered interest
	date	14/11/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Bradwell Hospital
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will ask (a) the local clinical commissioning groups and (b) University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust to publish the reasons for (i) closing wards in March 2017 and (ii) re-opening wards from November 2017 at Bradwell community hospital in Newcastle-under-Lyme; and what the cost to the NHS was of such decisions.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
	uin	112952
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2017 answer text <p>Commissioning decisions are matters for the local National Health Service and are taken after working with local people and with clinicians to ensure that changes are in the best interests of patients. The financial data requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 22/11/2017 17:14:15 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

789098

	registered interest
	date	14/11/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Hospital Wards: Staffordshire
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reasons his Department (a) re-opened wards at Bradwell community hospital in Newcastle-under-Lyme, (b) recommissioned facilities at Brighton House in Newcastle-under-Lyme and (c) reopened Ward 4 at the Harplands hospital in Stoke-on-Trent; and if he will publish the projected financial costs of each such decision.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
	uin	112949
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2017 answer text <p>Commissioning decisions are matters for the local National Health Service and are taken after working with local people and with clinicians to ensure that changes are in the best interests of patients. The financial data requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 22/11/2017 14:15:49 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
	tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

782759

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Haywood Hospital
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions (a) NHS England or (b) NHS Improvement have had with (a) North Staffordshire and (b) Stoke-on-Trent Clinical Commissioning Groups on the future of wards at the Haywood Hospital in Stoke-on-Trent.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
	uin	111051
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2017 answer text <p>Decisions on configuration such as this are best made by the local National Health Service, who can assess how to meet the needs of people in their area. NHS England and NHS Improvement have issued guidance to the system that can help to support local areas in making these decisions.</p><p> </p><p>For any significant system reconfiguration, the expectation is that all local parts of the system talk to the public and stakeholders regularly.</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, all significant service change is subject to a full public consultation and proposals must meet the Government’s four reconfiguration tests. These are support from clinical commissioners, clarity on the clinical evidence base, robust patient and public engagement and support for patient choice. There is additional NHS England guidance which means that proposed service reconfigurations should be tested for their impact on overall bed numbers in the area.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 08/11/2017 17:45:40 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

533610

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Tobacco: Advertising
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has to review advertising regulations for reduced-harm tobacco products to take account of the potential of those products to help people quit smoking.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
	uin	42180
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2016 answer text <p>For the first time, from May 2016, cessation information to signpost consumers to quitting support has become mandatory on tobacco products. The Government’s advice remains that the best thing a smoker can do is to quit and quit for good. Any smokers wanting to quit, with or without the help of products available on the market, are four times more likely to stop smoking and quit for good with the personalised support offered by local stop smoking services.</p><p> </p><p>The National Centre for Stop Smoking Services has issued guidance on offering advice to those wanting to use e-cigarettes as part of their quit attempts and encouraged local stop smoking services to be open to their use.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recognises that some people have found e-cigarettes helpful in quitting smoking and that they are considerably less harmful than continuing to smoke. The forthcoming tobacco control plan will consider the role of e-cigarettes and other harm reduction products in further reducing the prevalence of smoking in England.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has no current plans to review the restrictions on advertising for tobacco products.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 42181 42183 question first answered 12/07/2016 14:54:44 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

533611

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Smoking: Health Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to advise smokers on the range of harm-reduction products available to help them quit smoking.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
	uin	42181
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2016 answer text <p>For the first time, from May 2016, cessation information to signpost consumers to quitting support has become mandatory on tobacco products. The Government’s advice remains that the best thing a smoker can do is to quit and quit for good. Any smokers wanting to quit, with or without the help of products available on the market, are four times more likely to stop smoking and quit for good with the personalised support offered by local stop smoking services.</p><p> </p><p>The National Centre for Stop Smoking Services has issued guidance on offering advice to those wanting to use e-cigarettes as part of their quit attempts and encouraged local stop smoking services to be open to their use.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recognises that some people have found e-cigarettes helpful in quitting smoking and that they are considerably less harmful than continuing to smoke. The forthcoming tobacco control plan will consider the role of e-cigarettes and other harm reduction products in further reducing the prevalence of smoking in England.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has no current plans to review the restrictions on advertising for tobacco products.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 42180 42183 question first answered 12/07/2016 14:54:44 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly