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168034

registered interest
date	04/12/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of NHS medical practitioners at the latest date for which such figures are available identified as (a) white British and (b) from any other ethnic group.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	217278
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2014 answer text <p>The attached table shows the number and proportion of National Health Service medical practitioners, staff in clinical leadership positions, staff in administrative or support roles and staff in administrative leadership roles by ethnicity. The data is from the latest provisional monthly workforce statistics for August 2014 and the provisional NHS staff earnings estimates, published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Some staff will be counted twice within this table due to the overlap between the specified staff groups.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter grouped question UIN 217279 217280 217283 question first answered 11/12/2014 16:42:43 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter attachment 1 file name Number and proportion of staff by ethnicity.xlsx title Number and proportion of staff by ethnicity
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

168035

registered interest
date	04/12/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of staff in clinical leadership positions within the NHS at the latest date for which such figures are available identified as (a) white British and (b) from any other ethnic group.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	217279
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2014 answer text <p>The attached table shows the number and proportion of National Health Service medical practitioners, staff in clinical leadership positions, staff in administrative or support roles and staff in administrative leadership roles by ethnicity. The data is from the latest provisional monthly workforce statistics for August 2014 and the provisional NHS staff earnings estimates, published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Some staff will be counted twice within this table due to the overlap between the specified staff groups.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter grouped question UIN 217278 217280 217283 question first answered 11/12/2014 16:42:44 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter attachment 1 file name Number and proportion of staff by ethnicity.xlsx title Number and proportion of staff by ethnicity
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

168036

registered interest
date	04/12/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of NHS staff in administrative leadership roles at the latest date for which such figures are available identified as (a) white British and (b) from any other ethnic group.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	217283
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2014 answer text <p>The attached table shows the number and proportion of National Health Service medical practitioners, staff in clinical leadership positions, staff in administrative or support roles and staff in administrative leadership roles by ethnicity. The data is from the latest provisional monthly workforce statistics for August 2014 and the provisional NHS staff earnings estimates, published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Some staff will be counted twice within this table due to the overlap between the specified staff groups.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter grouped question UIN 217278 217279 217280 question first answered 11/12/2014 16:42:44 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter attachment 1 file name Number and proportion of staff by ethnicity.xlsx title Number and proportion of staff by ethnicity
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

168037

registered interest
date	04/12/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Services: Ethnic Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department has taken to improve health outcomes for people who identify as (a) Gypsy, Roma or Travellers and (b) being from other ethnic minority background.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	217284
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2014 answer text <p>The Inclusion Health programme seeks to improve the way we meet the health needs of some of the most vulnerable groups, including Gypsies, Travellers and Roma. We set up the National Inclusion Health Board, an expert group to provide focus and leadership on the needs of those most vulnerable to poor health outcomes. The board has published guidance on commissioning inclusive health services by ensuring local planning tools – such as the joint strategic needs assessment – are sufficiently comprehensive to take account of the needs of these groups. It has also sought to identify these groups in data collections across the country to provide the intelligence needed to support health and wellbeing strategies for these groups. Other work is in hand, on some of the social circumstances that shape the health outcomes of Gypsies, Travellers and Roma, and on the education and training of health professionals for working with these vulnerable groups.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We have introduced an Equality Delivery System toolkit to help National Health Service organisations comply with the public sector equality duty. This toolkit is designed to support NHS commissioners and providers to deliver better outcomes for all patients and communities, including those from ethnic minority groups. It allows NHS organisations to monitor their equality performance jointly with their patients, communities and staff, in regard to each of the nine characteristics given protection under the 2010 Equality Act, including race.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 11/12/2014 16:00:12 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

168039

registered interest
date	04/12/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of NHS staff in administrative or support roles at the latest date for which such figures are available identified as (a) white British and (b) from any other ethnic group.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	217280
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2014 answer text <p>The attached table shows the number and proportion of National Health Service medical practitioners, staff in clinical leadership positions, staff in administrative or support roles and staff in administrative leadership roles by ethnicity. The data is from the latest provisional monthly workforce statistics for August 2014 and the provisional NHS staff earnings estimates, published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Some staff will be counted twice within this table due to the overlap between the specified staff groups.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter grouped question UIN 217278 217279 217283 question first answered 11/12/2014 16:42:44 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter attachment 1 file name Number and proportion of staff by ethnicity.xlsx title Number and proportion of staff by ethnicity
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

168040

registered interest
date	04/12/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how he plans to implement parity of esteem between physical and mental health services (a) financially and (b) otherwise.
tabling member constituency	Norwich North
tabling member printed	Chloe Smith
uin	217139
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2014 answer text <p>The Government’s commitment to parity of esteem has been made explicit in legislation, as well as the NHS Constitution.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We have extended the legal right to choice in mental health so people with mental health problems will have the same choice for their care as they do for their physical health.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We estimate that funding for mental health has increased by approximately £302 million in 2014-15, total mental health spending rose from £11.362 billion in 2013-14 with £11.664 billion planned in 2014-15.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department and NHS England continue to work together to ensure that there are consistent messages to commissioners and providers about the importance of delivering parity of esteem for mental health service users.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Monitor and NHS England are responsible for setting the national tariff arrangements and are working together to develop a national payment system for mental health which promotes improving outcomes and recovery.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Currently, prices for mental health services are agreed locally. However, mental health clusters have been developed as the currencies underpinning payment for mental health services.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Local commissioners and mental health providers are encouraged to use the clusters as the basis for reaching financial settlements and we know that some health economies are already using clusters as the basis for payment for mental health services.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Public Health England has also made a commitment to addressing parity of esteem which includes working to promote good mental health and preventing mental health problems.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In our new five-year plan for mental health, <em>Achieving Better Access to Mental Health Services by 2020</em>, we identified £40 million additional spending this year and freed up a further £80 million for 2015-16. This will, for the first time ever, enable the setting of access and waiting time standards in mental health services and includes new targets to make sure that, by 2016, at least 50% of young people referred for early intervention in psychosis services will start treatment within two weeks.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>There has been sustained investment in mental health over the course of this parliament. We have invested £400 million in Improving Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT) for adults and £54 million over the four year period from 2011-2015 in the children and young people’s IAPT programme to transform child and adolescent mental health services.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We will also be investing £30m a year over the next five years in England to improve services for young people with mental health problems. This will place particular emphasis on eating disorders.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We have invested £2 million in nine street triage pilots where police and mental health professionals work together to support people in mental health crisis access safe, appropriate care and we have committed £25 million in 2014-15 to commission 10 trial sites delivering on a new standard service specification for liaison and diversion services in England.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 11/12/2014 16:33:47 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith

168041

registered interest
date	04/12/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services
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 introducing tariffs on mental health services.
tabling member constituency	Norwich North
tabling member printed	Chloe Smith
uin	217141
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2014 answer text <p>Monitor and NHS England are responsible for setting the overall national payment system arrangements. However, payment for mental health services are agreed locally and underpinned by mental health clusters. These clusters help commissioners and provider agree costs by setting out the resources required to deliver mental health care.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Monitor and NHS England published the national payment system arrangements for 2015-16 for statutory consultation on 26 November. The payment systems arrangements for 2015-16 give a clear signal to the mental health sector to implement local payment models which support recovery and outcomes and reflect the needs of local communities. To support this move Monitor plans to revise its guidance to be clearer on how mental health services should be paid for and has published example payment models for mental health services.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Monitor has published its long-term pricing strategy for the development of the national tariff and is working with partners to develop further the payment system for mental health.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 11/12/2014 16:31:38 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith

168042

registered interest
date	04/12/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what budget was allocated to mental health (a) in England and (b) to Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust in each of the last five years; and what budget is expected for 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	Norwich North
tabling member printed	Chloe Smith
uin	217140
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2014 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The aggregate expenditure on mental health disorders by primary care trust (PCT), for financial years 2008-09 to 2012-13 is set out below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>Expenditure (£ billion)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>9.79</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>10.61</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>10.96</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>11.16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>11.28</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>Source:</em> NHS England Programme Budget Data</p><p> </p><p>Aggregate PCT expenditure is not yet available for 2013-14. However, NHS England advises that total mental health spending in 2013-14 was £11.362 billion with an estimated £11.664 billion planned in 2014-15, an increase of £302 million.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Foundation Trust budget information is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The table below shows mental health spend for Norfolk and Suffolk Primary Care Trusts, for the years 2008-09 to 2012-13.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>Norfolk (£ million)</p></td><td><p>Suffolk (£ million)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>138</p></td><td><p>90</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>143</p></td><td><p>98</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>147</p></td><td><p>98</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>189</p></td><td><p>100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>150</p></td><td><p>100</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>Source:</em> NHS England Programme Budget Data</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 11/12/2014 16:35:25 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith

168047

registered interest
date	04/12/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Services: Greater London
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many members of senior management of each London clinical commissioning group and NHS trust have resigned in each month since their creation.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
uin	217188
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2014 answer text <p>The information is not available in the format requested.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 10/12/2014 17:20:19 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

167772

registered interest
date	03/12/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Dialysis Machines
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 25 November 2014 to Question 215404, what consultation NHS England undertook with the renal dialysis clinical reference group when developing its proposal to transfer responsibility for commissioning of dialysis to clinical commissioning groups; and what response that clinical reference group gave to that proposal.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	217038
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2014 answer text <p>NHS England has advised that they discussed the overall direction of travel for specialised services with Clinical Reference Groups (CRGs), although the renal dialysis CRG was not directly consulted in the early discussions about whether to consider changing the commissioning arrangements for renal services. However, clinical leaders have been part of the deliberations and will continue to be involved through the consultation process.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The development of the proposals for transferring responsibility for renal dialysis services and morbid obesity surgery services which NHS England put to the Prescribed Specialised Services Advisory Group (PSSAG) for consideration was done in partnership with the NHS Commissioning Assembly Task and Finish Group on Specialised Service commissioning. This group is made up of clinical commissioners from around the country. The group was asked by NHS England to advise on the development of proposals for enhancing specialised service commissioning in 2015-16, specifically proposals that would enable improved pathway integrity. NHS England presented the proposed direction of travel for specialised commissioning in 2015-16 to the chairs of CRGs earlier in the year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>PSSAG recommended transferring commissioning responsibility for renal dialysis services from NHS England to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). The Department has launched a public consultation to consider how to transfer commissioning responsibility and what would need to happen to ensure a smooth transition and maintain both service standards and patient safety. This consultation closes on 9 January 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England have advised that they are in dialogue with key stakeholders about both the opportunities and challenges of transferring commissioning responsibility for renal services from NHS England to CCGs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 217039 question first answered 08/12/2014 17:20:49 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi