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58415

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date	05/06/2014
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	Access to Work Programme: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department has taken to promote the Access to Work scheme to disabled people in Scotland.
tabling member constituency	Banff and Buchan
tabling member printed	Dr Eilidh Whiteford
uin	199330
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Access to Work is a valued and succesful national programme that makes a real difference to the working lives of disabled people throughout the UK.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Work and Pensions has actively marketed Access to Work to raise awareness of the programme through a national marketing campaign lasting throughout 2013. This included activity to further strengthen our partnerships with key stakeholders and organisations, developing marketing materials, attending key events and digital marketing. The campaign involved a wide range of communications activities, including press releases, presentations at disability and employer events, articles in disability publications and engagement in direct marketing to large employers. It also included use of digital media, paid advertising links in popular search engines, magazine adverts and awareness training for Jobcentre Plus Disability Employment Advisors.</p><p> </p><p>Access to Work also featued in the launch of the Department's Disability Confident campaign in July 2013 and at subsequent local events, including Glasgow on 4 March 2014.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Work and Pensions has worked closely with the Public Health division of the Scottish Government to raise awareness of Access to Work with health professionals. This included sharing information on the NHS Scotland's Knowledge Network and the Health and Employability Delivery Group.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 11/06/2014 11:00:22 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	3911 label Biography information for Dr Eilidh Whiteford

58416

registered interest
date	05/06/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Abortion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he intends to take to endure that literature distributed by abortion clinics informing women about adoption as an alternative to abortion under the new Revised Standard Operating Procedures for the Approval of Independent Places for the Termination of Pregnancy is of the highest possible quality and objectivity.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	199240
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2014 answer text <p>The updated Required Standard Operating Procedures set out that “women must be given impartial, accurate and evidence based information (verbal and written) delivered neutrally” covering a range of issues including adoption. Part of the Care Quality Commission's (CQC) inspection methodology is to look for open and honest communication from a service provider about the nature of the services it provides. The CQC's inspectors would ask to see a sample of information that would be provided to service users and use this as part of the decision making process when making a judgement.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 12/06/2014 14:49:25 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

58417

registered interest
date	05/06/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Abortion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Revised Standard Operating Procedures for the Approval of Independent Places for the Termination of Pregnancy, what assessment he has made of the possibility that inaccurate diagnoses will follow his Department's decision to allow women to refrain from informing their GP of a prior abortion.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	199241
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2014 answer text <p>Women seeking an abortion have the right to confidentiality and their decision must be respected if they do not want their general practitioner to be informed.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 12/06/2014 14:37:41 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

58418

registered interest
date	05/06/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Abortion: Counselling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Revised Standard Operating Procedures for the Approval of Independent Places for the Termination of Pregnancy, what steps he is taking to ensure that patients seeking abortion counselling are not subject to pressure to agree to the procedure as a result of his Department's requirement that abortion treatment must be delivered within 10 days of the first appointment; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	199239
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2014 answer text <p>The Required Standard Operating Procedures make clear that women can choose to delay appointments/booked procedures and this should always override issues of timeliness.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 12/06/2014 14:54:56 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

58419

registered interest
date	05/06/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Abortion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many abortions were performed beyond the 24 week limit where feticide was declined in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	199205
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2014 answer text <p>Information on whether feticide was declined is not collected on the abortion notification form HSA4.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 12/06/2014 14:53:33 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

58420

registered interest
date	05/06/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Abortion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many abortions were performed for foetal abnormality in each of the last five years which were reported to a foetal abnormality register but were not notified through the submission of an HSA4 abortion notification form to the Chief Medical Officer.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	199204
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2014 answer text <p>Results from a matching exercise undertaken on the 2011 and 2012 data between the abortion notification forms and NDSCR records were published on 23 May 2014 entitled <em>Matching Department of Health abortion notifications and data from the National Down's Syndrome Cytogenetic Register and recommendations for improving notification compliance. </em> No matching exercise was undertaken for the years 2008, 2009 and 2010. A copy of the report has been placed in the Library. It is also available at:</p><p> </p><p>www.gov.uk/government/publications/under-reporting-of-abortions-for-fetal-abnormalities</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 12/06/2014 16:24:08 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison attachment 1 file name PQ199204 - Library Doc - Report.pdf title Notification Compliance
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

58424

registered interest
date	05/06/2014
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Gibraltar: Spain
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effect of delays on the border from British Gibraltar territory into Spain on vehicles crossing that border.
tabling member constituency	Bolton North East
tabling member printed	Mr David Crausby
uin	199447
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2014 answer text <p>The delays imposed by the Spanish authorities at the border with Gibraltar continue to have a significant impact, resulting in significant changes in behaviour at the border: visitor arrivals in Gibraltar are down and vehicle traffic has fallen. The Government is concerned about the impact that border delays are having on businesses in both Spain and Gibraltar.</p><p>Since the beginning of the disruption last summer, the Government has raised this issue regularly with the European Commission. We recently sent detailed information on the delays, supplied by Her Majesty's Government of Gibraltar, to the Director General for Home Affairs, together with an update on the steps taken by Her Majesty's Government of Gibraltar to address the recommendations made to them by the Commission. Ministers have also been in direct contact with the Commission, including the Commissioner for Home Affairs. In our conversations we stressed the need for the Commission to make follow-up visits to monitor the continuing delays. We continue to request that the Commission urge Spain to act on their recommendations and return border checks to reasonable and proportionate levels.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington grouped question UIN 199448 question first answered 12/06/2014 15:01:11 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	437 label Biography information for Sir David Crausby

58425

registered interest
date	05/06/2014
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Gibraltar: Spain
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the European Commission in respect of petitions from the government of Gibraltar for a representative to monitor the border crossing.
tabling member constituency	Bolton North East
tabling member printed	Mr David Crausby
uin	199448
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2014 answer text <p>The delays imposed by the Spanish authorities at the border with Gibraltar continue to have a significant impact, resulting in significant changes in behaviour at the border: visitor arrivals in Gibraltar are down and vehicle traffic has fallen. The Government is concerned about the impact that border delays are having on businesses in both Spain and Gibraltar.</p><p>Since the beginning of the disruption last summer, the Government has raised this issue regularly with the European Commission. We recently sent detailed information on the delays, supplied by Her Majesty's Government of Gibraltar, to the Director General for Home Affairs, together with an update on the steps taken by Her Majesty's Government of Gibraltar to address the recommendations made to them by the Commission. Ministers have also been in direct contact with the Commission, including the Commissioner for Home Affairs. In our conversations we stressed the need for the Commission to make follow-up visits to monitor the continuing delays. We continue to request that the Commission urge Spain to act on their recommendations and return border checks to reasonable and proportionate levels.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington grouped question UIN 199447 question first answered 12/06/2014 15:01:12 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	437 label Biography information for Sir David Crausby

58426

registered interest
date	05/06/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Dental Health: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the trends in the incidence of dental caries among school children (a) in Bolton and (b) nationally since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Bolton North East
tabling member printed	Mr David Crausby
uin	199206
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2014 answer text <p>There has been only one published survey of dental caries among schoolchildren which includes the Bolton area since 2010. This is the <em>National Dental Epidemiology Programme for England: oral health survey of five-year-old children 2012, A report on the prevalence and severity of dental decay</em>. This can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p>www.nwph.net/dentalhealth/survey-results5.aspx?id=1</p><p> </p><p>A comparison of selected findings from the survey, and from the previous survey of five year old children in England, published in 2009, the <em>NHS Dental Epidemiology Programme for England, Oral Health Survey of 5 year old Children, 2007/2008</em> can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p>www.nwph.info/dentalhealth/survey-results.aspx?id=1</p><p> </p><p>The comparisons are supplied in the following table:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Bolton Local Authority area</p></td><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of children examined</p></td><td><p>298</p></td><td><p>262</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mean number decayed, missing or filled teeth (dmft)</p></td><td><p>1.91</p></td><td><p>1.85</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Proportion of children with lifetimes caries experience (% dmft&gt;0)</p></td><td><p>46.3%</p></td><td><p>43.4%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>National (England)</p></td><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of children examined</p></td><td><p>139,727</p></td><td><p>133,516</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mean number decayed, missing or filled teeth (dmft)</p></td><td><p>1.11</p></td><td><p>0.94</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Proportion of children with lifetimes caries experience (% dmft&gt;0)</p></td><td><p>30.9%</p></td><td><p>27.9%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 11/06/2014 15:46:49 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	437 label Biography information for Sir David Crausby

58427

registered interest
date	05/06/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Nutrition: Homelessness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to co-ordinate healthy eating initiatives among the homeless.
tabling member constituency	Bolton North East
tabling member printed	Mr David Crausby
uin	199209
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2014 answer text <p>The Department supports the Inclusion Health programme which champions the health and health care of vulnerable groups, including homeless people. The programme seeks to improve the health data for these groups, and set out practical steps for assessing needs (for example, through Joint Strategic Needs Assessments) and commissioning services. We are also involved in funding work in this area through the Homeless Hospital Discharge Fund to improve hospital discharge arrangements for people who are homeless (£10 million in 2013-14) and £40 million capital fund for hostel refurbishment with a focus on improving health outcomes (2014-15).</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 12/06/2014 15:15:37 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	437 label Biography information for Sir David Crausby