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63320

	registered interest
	date	23/06/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Trespass
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times a Notice under section 61 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 has been used to successfully remove unlawful settlers from an area in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	201691
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Home Office does not hold this information. The decision to issue notices <br>under section 61 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order (CJPOA) is an <br>operational matter for the police.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Norman Baker question first answered 30/06/2014 16:20:30 answering member 28 label Biography information for Norman Baker
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

66010

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2014
	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	Tour de France
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate his Department has made of the financial benefit to (a) Essex and (b) the East of England arising from the launch of the Tour de France.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	204361
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p>The Tour De France Grand Depart was a resounding success and was extremely well supported in communities along all three stages, including the East of England and Essex. UK Sport is supporting the production of an economic impact report covering the main locations on the route and this will be made available later this year.</p> answering member constituency Maidstone and The Weald answering member printed Mrs Helen Grant question first answered 14/07/2014 11:09:29 answering member 4018 label Biography information for Mrs Helen Grant
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

63273

	registered interest
	date	23/06/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Prescription Drugs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress he has made on replacing branded drug prescriptions with generic drug prescriptions; how much from the NHS drugs budget has been saved as a result; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	201693
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p>The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) publication <em>Prescriptions Dispensed in the Community, Statistics for England - 2002-2012</em>, contains a series of statistical tables, one of which, table A5: <em>Generic prescribing and dispensing, percentage by class, 2002–2012</em>, provided an 11 year time series of data on generic prescribing. Information from this is provided in the attached table. The next edition of this publication, which will contain 2013 data, is due to be published by the HSCIC on 9 July 2014. The Department has not made an estimate of the savings that have resulted from greater use of generics.</p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 30/06/2014 15:55:48 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb attachment 1 file name PQ201693_-_Table.docx title Table PQ201693
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

64340

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Knee Replacements
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many knee replacement revisions were carried out by the NHS in England in the last three years; and how long the average time interval was between total knee replacement and subsequent revision procedures.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	202778
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2014 answer text <p>The attached table shows how many knee replacement operations were carried out in England, by region, in the last three years.</p><p> </p><p>The following table shows how many knee replacement revisions were carried out by the National Health Service in England in the last three years. Information relating to how long the average time interval was between total knee replacement and subsequent revision procedures is not held centrally.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Region</p></td><td><p>Full Knee Replacement</p></td><td><p>Only one bone in the knee joint is replaced</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>456</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>825</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Yorkshire And The Humber</p></td><td><p>759</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>551</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>751</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>East Of England</p></td><td><p>733</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>738</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>South East Coast</p></td><td><p>673</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>South Central</p></td><td><p>670</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>868</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>England Total</p></td><td><p>7,024</p></td><td><p>25</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>422</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>704</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Yorkshire And The Humber</p></td><td><p>751</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>547</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>728</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>East Of England</p></td><td><p>612</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>747</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>South East Coast</p></td><td><p>613</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>South Central</p></td><td><p>576</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>839</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>England Total</p></td><td><p>6,539</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>396</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>759</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Yorkshire And The Humber</p></td><td><p>677</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>572</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>713</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>East Of England</p></td><td><p>596</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>768</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>South East Coast</p></td><td><p>584</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>South Central</p></td><td><p>545</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>915</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>England Total</p></td><td><p>6,525</p></td><td><p>18</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Notes: </em></p><p>1. Finished Consultant Episode (FCE): Both tables show FCEs. An FCE is a continuous period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FCEs are counted against the year in which they end. The figures do not represent the number of different patients, as a person.</p><p>2. The data should not be described as a count of people as the same person may have been admitted on one or more occasion.</p><p>3. †Providers that are not based in England have been removed, and therefore the national totals may not be equal to the sum of the regional totals.</p><p>4. To protect patient confidentiality, figures between 1 and 5 have been replaced with “*” (an asterisk). Where it was still possible to identify figures from the total, additional figures have been replaced with &quot;*”.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 202780 question first answered 03/07/2014 14:46:03 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison attachment 1 file name PQ202780_PQ202778 - Table.docx title Table
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

64341

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Knee Replacements
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost was of NHS knee replacement operations and subsequent revisions in England in the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	202779
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>Such information as is available is from reference costs, which are the average cost to National Health Service trusts and NHS foundation trusts of providing defined services in a given financial year to NHS patients. Reference costs for acute care are collected by Healthcare Resource Groups (HRGs), which are standard groupings of clinically similar treatments that consume common levels of healthcare resource. The HRGs in the attached table therefore include the costs of other knee procedures in addition to knee replacements.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 03/07/2014 15:38:13 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison attachment 1 file name PQ202779 - Table.docx title Table
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

64342

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Knee Replacements
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS knee replacement operations were carried out in England, by region, in the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	202780
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2014 answer text <p>The attached table shows how many knee replacement operations were carried out in England, by region, in the last three years.</p><p> </p><p>The following table shows how many knee replacement revisions were carried out by the National Health Service in England in the last three years. Information relating to how long the average time interval was between total knee replacement and subsequent revision procedures is not held centrally.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Region</p></td><td><p>Full Knee Replacement</p></td><td><p>Only one bone in the knee joint is replaced</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>456</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>825</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Yorkshire And The Humber</p></td><td><p>759</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>551</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>751</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>East Of England</p></td><td><p>733</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>738</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>South East Coast</p></td><td><p>673</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>South Central</p></td><td><p>670</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>868</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>England Total</p></td><td><p>7,024</p></td><td><p>25</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>422</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>704</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Yorkshire And The Humber</p></td><td><p>751</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>547</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>728</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>East Of England</p></td><td><p>612</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>747</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>South East Coast</p></td><td><p>613</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>South Central</p></td><td><p>576</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>839</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>England Total</p></td><td><p>6,539</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>396</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>759</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Yorkshire And The Humber</p></td><td><p>677</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>572</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>713</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>East Of England</p></td><td><p>596</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>768</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>South East Coast</p></td><td><p>584</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>South Central</p></td><td><p>545</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>915</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>England Total</p></td><td><p>6,525</p></td><td><p>18</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Notes: </em></p><p>1. Finished Consultant Episode (FCE): Both tables show FCEs. An FCE is a continuous period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FCEs are counted against the year in which they end. The figures do not represent the number of different patients, as a person.</p><p>2. The data should not be described as a count of people as the same person may have been admitted on one or more occasion.</p><p>3. †Providers that are not based in England have been removed, and therefore the national totals may not be equal to the sum of the regional totals.</p><p>4. To protect patient confidentiality, figures between 1 and 5 have been replaced with “*” (an asterisk). Where it was still possible to identify figures from the total, additional figures have been replaced with &quot;*”.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 03/07/2014 14:46:03 question first ministerially corrected 28/10/2014 09:31:52 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison attachment 1 file name PQ202780_PQ202778 - Amended Table.docx title Table previous answer version 7888 answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison attachment 1 file name PQ202780_PQ202778 - Table.docx title Table
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

64343

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Knee Replacements
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the current waiting times are for NHS knee replacement operation in England, by region.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	202777
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally. Consultant-led referral to treatment waiting times are collected separately for 18 high volume treatment functions (divisions of clinical work based on main specialty), including trauma and orthopaedics, but not for individual procedures such as knee replacements.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 03/07/2014 13:01:39 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

63202

	registered interest
	date	23/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Housing: Harlow
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many new homes have been built in Harlow constituency in each of the last 15 years.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	201699
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Statistics on house building completions in Harlow District are published in the Department's live table 253, which is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-house-building" target="_blank">http://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-house-building</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 26/06/2014 15:00:16 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

64867

	registered interest
	date	25/06/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Homicide: Victim Support Schemes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assistance his Department makes available to families bereaved by homicide.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	904584
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that families bereaved by homicide get the necessary support. The Ministry of Justice grant funded national Homicide Service provides tailored and intensive support based on families' needs. We also fund a number of organisations that provide peer support and specialist counselling services to the bereaved.</p> answering member constituency Ashford answering member printed Damian Green question first answered 01/07/2014 12:51:13 answering member 76 label Biography information for Damian Green
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

66089

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Health Professions: Travel
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what financial assistance the NHS provides to NHS staff who have to (a) drive and (b) take public transport to work.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	204359
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p>The National Health Service does not usually provide financial assistance to NHS staff who have to drive or take public transport to work.</p><p> </p><p>The reimbursement of excess travelling costs when employees are required to change their base of work as a result of a reorganisation or merger of NHS employers or when employees accept another post as an alternative to redundancy will be for local determination between employers and staff representatives.</p><p> </p><p>NHS employers only reimburse travel costs if employees make journeys in the performance of their duties e.g. to provide care in a patient's home.</p><p> </p><p>A number of trusts operate salary sacrifice schemes in respect of car parking, bikes for work, bus passes and car lease. Under a salary sacrifice scheme, an employee agrees to a contract variation to give up a proportion of their salary in exchange for a benefit.</p><p> </p><p>Some of the NHS organisations offer free shuttle services from train stations and between sites for patients, visitors and staff.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 14/07/2014 13:07:44 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon