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1038428

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Schools: Voluntary Work
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Disclosure and Barring Service holds statistics on the number of volunteers in schools and how many of those volunteers are parents for each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	206708
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not collected on a mandatory basis by the DBS as part of its checks, therefore it is not possible to reliably collate the data requested.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 16/01/2019 16:55:01 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1105994

	registered interest
	date	28/03/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Missing Persons: Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many reports to the police have been made of young people reported missing from supported or semi-supported accommodation in the last 10 years, by police force.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	238266
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold this information.</p><p><br>The NCA Missing Persons Unit publishes annual statistical data on police reported missing incidents. The most recent report was published in December 2017 and covered the 20015/16 reporting year. Data from 37 police forces showed there had been 43,564 incidents of children missing from care. Of these police forces, 34 returned data on missing individuals, relating to 10,681 individual children go missing. This data is not broken down further to types of accommodation.</p><p><br>The Department for Education publishes annual data from local authorities relating to children looked after in England, which includes data on incidents of children missing or away from placement without authorisation. <br>Both reports are available online.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 05/04/2019 09:51:13 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

911194

	registered interest
	date	24/05/2018
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Civil Partnerships
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, with reference to the command paper, Future operation of Civil Partnerships, Cm. 9606, published in May 2018, what specifications her Department issued on the opinion polling to be conducted when appointing an organisation to undertake opinion polling on demand for extending civil partnerships; and for what reasons the Office for National Statistics was so appointed.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	147775
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2018 answer text <p>This survey is intended to help us understand how many unmarried people in an opposite-sex relationship may enter into a civil partnership if the option was open to them.</p><p>Creating a new survey mechanism to ask a small number of questions would have been disproportionately time-consuming and would not have been efficient, so it was decided to use an existing polling structure.</p><p>The ONS Opinions and Lifestyle survey offered the only regular omnibus survey of the general population using a random sample, rather than drawing on pre-screened panels.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 20/06/2018 16:45:03 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

985686

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2018
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Gender Recognition
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps she will take to assess the safeguarding implications of reforming the Gender Recognition Act 2004.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	178211
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2018 answer text <p>We are carefully considering safeguarding issues related to reforming the Gender Recognition Act 2004. We have been very clear that we are not going to be changing the existing safeguards in the Equality Act. Safeguarding is always a priority and, in line with the usual obligations on Government, any proposed new gender recognition system will be rigorously assessed in terms of its potential effect on other groups in society, as well as its implications for safeguarding processes in specific contexts, such as prisons. As part of the Gender Recognition Act consultation, we are keen to hear from respondents on these points.</p><p>Any new system that is proposed in the Government’s response to the Gender Recognition Act consultation will be subject to a full impact assessment.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 17/10/2018 15:04:33 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

971811

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Radiotherapy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what facilities in the UK offer high-energy proton beam cancer therapy treatment in (a) the NHS and (b) the private sector.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	173485
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>In April 2012, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care announced that £250 million would be invested to build proton beam therapy facilities at The Christie Hospital in Manchester and University College London Hospital (UCLH). Contracts were signed with Varian Medical Systems, Interserve Construction at The Christie, and Bouygues UK at UCLH at the end of July 2015. The Christie has been operational since 20 August 2018 and expects the first patients to be treated in the autumn. UCLH is currently on schedule to begin treating patients in summer 2020.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England does not hold information about high-energy proton beam provision in the private sector.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 09/10/2018 16:53:23 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

971813

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Radiotherapy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS England patients have been treated with high-energy proton beam cancer therapy in England and Wales in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	173486
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>NHS England has not funded any patients to have high-energy proton beam therapy in England and Wales in the last five years.</p><p> </p><p>Over the past five years, 895 National Health Service patients have been treated overseas with high-energy proton beam therapy at a total cost of just over £91 million. These figures include patients from England, Scotland and Northern Ireland but exclude patients from Wales. NHS England does not routinely split financial information between treatment and travel/subsistence costs. Further detail is provided in the following table.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of patients approved for referral</p></td><td><p>119</p></td><td><p>144</p></td><td><p>213</p></td><td><p>203</p></td><td><p>216</p></td><td><p>895</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total cost</p></td><td><p>£9.13 million</p></td><td><p>£12.63 million</p></td><td><p>£20.81 million</p></td><td><p>£24.51 million</p></td><td><p>£24.19 million</p></td><td><p>£91.27 million</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 173487 question first answered 09/10/2018 16:56:45 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

971814

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Radiotherapy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS patients have been treated with high-energy proton beam cancer therapy overseas in each of the last five years; and what the cost to the NHS was of those treatments by (a) treatment and (b) travel and subsistence costs.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	173487
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>NHS England has not funded any patients to have high-energy proton beam therapy in England and Wales in the last five years.</p><p> </p><p>Over the past five years, 895 National Health Service patients have been treated overseas with high-energy proton beam therapy at a total cost of just over £91 million. These figures include patients from England, Scotland and Northern Ireland but exclude patients from Wales. NHS England does not routinely split financial information between treatment and travel/subsistence costs. Further detail is provided in the following table.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of patients approved for referral</p></td><td><p>119</p></td><td><p>144</p></td><td><p>213</p></td><td><p>203</p></td><td><p>216</p></td><td><p>895</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total cost</p></td><td><p>£9.13 million</p></td><td><p>£12.63 million</p></td><td><p>£20.81 million</p></td><td><p>£24.51 million</p></td><td><p>£24.19 million</p></td><td><p>£91.27 million</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 173486 question first answered 09/10/2018 16:56:45 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

971815

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Radiotherapy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the capacity of high-energy proton beam cancer therapy in the UK for NHS patients.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	173488
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>During the development of the business case for the Department for the NHS Proton Beam Therapy (PBT) centres, an assessment of the internationally accepted standard clinical indications that are likely to benefit from PBT was made, and the associated patient numbers, together with an assessment of the numbers and types of patients for whom further clinical trials and evaluative studies are justified. This will allow all appropriate paediatric and teenage and young adult patients with a paediatric spectrum of tumours to be accommodated. It is essential that a robust evidence base is established for specific situations in commoner adult cancers where there is currently little, if no evidence of superior outcomes, hence the research capacity built in to the programme. NHS England is commissioning two PBT Centres in England based on this assessment and after reaching full capacity they should be able to treat up to 1,500 patients per annum.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 09/10/2018 16:49:58 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

972473

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	NHS: Environment Protection
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance he has issued to NHS establishments on improving environmental best practice.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	173930
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>The Sustainable Development Unit (SDU) in Public Health England and NHS England, working with NHS Improvement, issued guidance in June to National Health Service providers to support improvements in environmental best practice. This can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.sduhealth.org.uk/resources/default.aspx" target="_blank">https://www.sduhealth.org.uk/resources/default.aspx</a></p><p> </p><p>In November 2017 the SDU also published the Sustainable Development Assessment Tool that helps organisations build and monitor progress against robust and comprehensive Sustainable Development Management Plans (SDMPs). The tool is aligned to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, United Kingdom Government and NHS policy and strategy. It can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.sduhealth.org.uk/sdat/" target="_blank">https://www.sduhealth.org.uk/sdat/</a></p><p> </p><p>In early 2018 the SDU also updated the criteria/scope on sustainability reporting, for NHS organisations in line with Treasury best practice. This can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.sduhealth.org.uk/resources/default.aspx" target="_blank">https://www.sduhealth.org.uk/resources/default.aspx</a></p><p> </p><p>I have also held meetings with both NHS England and NHS Improvement to discuss how best to reduce the use of plastics across the NHS.</p><p> </p><p>Both the SDU and NHS Improvement hold a repository of best practice case studies across areas including energy and carbon, travel, waste and behaviour change. New case studies are published regularly and promoted to NHS organisations through monthly ebulletins and social media, which can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.sduhealth.org.uk/resources/case-studies.aspx" target="_blank">https://www.sduhealth.org.uk/resources/case-studies.aspx</a></p><p> </p><p>All NHS providers that are party to the Long Form NHS Standard Contract are required to have in place and report annually on a SDMP. SDMPs are board adopted plans that set out how NHS organisations will minimise negative impacts and maximise positive impacts on the environment, society and economy.</p><p> </p><p>Information about individual trust board appointments is not held centrally. Annual sustainability reports are now also required from all trusts and must be signed off by boards as part of the Annual Reporting process. Environmental data submitted through trusts Estates Record Information Collection (ERIC) must also be signed off by a board level representative. Information about individual trusts’ SDMPs, approved by the trust board, and about Sustainability Reports and environmental data from ERIC, at a trust level, can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.sduhealth.org.uk/policy-strategy/reporting/organisational-summaries.aspx" target="_blank">https://www.sduhealth.org.uk/policy-strategy/reporting/organisational-summaries.aspx</a></p><p> </p><p>Ministers have had no recent meetings with the medical Royal Colleges or medical equipment suppliers about reducing the use of plastic in the NHS. The NHS, in common with all other healthcare systems, has to use some single-use plastic devices and other plastic items to deliver effective care to patients. NHS trusts do, however, minimise the impact of healthcare on the environment.</p><p> </p><p>Information on those NHS trusts that produce their own energy is collected annually through ERIC. Overall, 36% of the energy consumed by those sites is produced by them. Details are shown in the attached table.</p><p> </p><p>All ERIC data is published at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/estates-returns-information-collection" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/estates-returns-information-collection</a></p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay grouped question UIN 173931 173932 173933 173934 question first answered 09/10/2018 15:18:30 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay attachment 1 file name PQ173930, 173931, 173932, 173933, 173934, Loughton, 0.1 (NHS On Site Energy).xlsx title PQ173930 attached document
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

972480

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Hospitals: Environment Protection
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, (a) how many and (b) which hospital trust boards have a director in charge of improving environmental performance.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	173931
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>The Sustainable Development Unit (SDU) in Public Health England and NHS England, working with NHS Improvement, issued guidance in June to National Health Service providers to support improvements in environmental best practice. This can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.sduhealth.org.uk/resources/default.aspx" target="_blank">https://www.sduhealth.org.uk/resources/default.aspx</a></p><p> </p><p>In November 2017 the SDU also published the Sustainable Development Assessment Tool that helps organisations build and monitor progress against robust and comprehensive Sustainable Development Management Plans (SDMPs). The tool is aligned to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, United Kingdom Government and NHS policy and strategy. It can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.sduhealth.org.uk/sdat/" target="_blank">https://www.sduhealth.org.uk/sdat/</a></p><p> </p><p>In early 2018 the SDU also updated the criteria/scope on sustainability reporting, for NHS organisations in line with Treasury best practice. This can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.sduhealth.org.uk/resources/default.aspx" target="_blank">https://www.sduhealth.org.uk/resources/default.aspx</a></p><p> </p><p>I have also held meetings with both NHS England and NHS Improvement to discuss how best to reduce the use of plastics across the NHS.</p><p> </p><p>Both the SDU and NHS Improvement hold a repository of best practice case studies across areas including energy and carbon, travel, waste and behaviour change. New case studies are published regularly and promoted to NHS organisations through monthly ebulletins and social media, which can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.sduhealth.org.uk/resources/case-studies.aspx" target="_blank">https://www.sduhealth.org.uk/resources/case-studies.aspx</a></p><p> </p><p>All NHS providers that are party to the Long Form NHS Standard Contract are required to have in place and report annually on a SDMP. SDMPs are board adopted plans that set out how NHS organisations will minimise negative impacts and maximise positive impacts on the environment, society and economy.</p><p> </p><p>Information about individual trust board appointments is not held centrally. Annual sustainability reports are now also required from all trusts and must be signed off by boards as part of the Annual Reporting process. Environmental data submitted through trusts Estates Record Information Collection (ERIC) must also be signed off by a board level representative. Information about individual trusts’ SDMPs, approved by the trust board, and about Sustainability Reports and environmental data from ERIC, at a trust level, can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.sduhealth.org.uk/policy-strategy/reporting/organisational-summaries.aspx" target="_blank">https://www.sduhealth.org.uk/policy-strategy/reporting/organisational-summaries.aspx</a></p><p> </p><p>Ministers have had no recent meetings with the medical Royal Colleges or medical equipment suppliers about reducing the use of plastic in the NHS. The NHS, in common with all other healthcare systems, has to use some single-use plastic devices and other plastic items to deliver effective care to patients. NHS trusts do, however, minimise the impact of healthcare on the environment.</p><p> </p><p>Information on those NHS trusts that produce their own energy is collected annually through ERIC. Overall, 36% of the energy consumed by those sites is produced by them. Details are shown in the attached table.</p><p> </p><p>All ERIC data is published at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/estates-returns-information-collection" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/estates-returns-information-collection</a></p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay grouped question UIN 173930 173932 173933 173934 question first answered 09/10/2018 15:18:30 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay attachment 1 file name PQ173930, 173931, 173932, 173933, 173934, Loughton, 0.1 (NHS On Site Energy).xlsx title PQ173930 attached document
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton