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750686

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Patients: Fines
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients were issued with fines by the NHS Business Authority because those patients (a) were not entitled to free prescriptions and (b) did not renew their exemption certificate; and how many such patients had a long-term medical condition.
	tabling member constituency	Burnley
	tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	4268
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>Between September 2014 and April 2017 (latest figures), a total of 1,785,895 penalty charge notices (PCNs) were issued to patients declaring they were entitled to free National Health Service prescriptions but their exemption could not be validated.</p><p> </p><p>A patient is issued a penalty charge notices when the NHS Business Services Authority exemption checker does not find a valid exemption entitling that patient to free prescriptions. This includes patients that did hold a valid exemption but failed to renew.</p><p> </p><p>During the same period, a total of 90,525 PCNs were issued for unconfirmed medical exemption certificates. A new process was introduced in spring 2015 whereby someone can submit a valid application for a medical or maternity exemption certificate within 60 days from date of the penalty charge notice, the outstanding penalty charge is cancelled but the prescription charge is still recovered.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 19/07/2017 10:36:37 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

751364

	registered interest
	date	12/07/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	General Practitioners: Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average length of time was for Primary Care Support England to process a change in circumstances notified by a GP in relation to its pension scheme in 2016-17.
	tabling member constituency	Amber Valley
	tabling member printed	Nigel Mills
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	4636
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>NHS England has been closely monitoring the administration and performance of Primary Care Support England (PCSE) and reports that it has made good overall progress in improving the quality of the services provided.</p><p> </p><p>Improvements in administering general practitioner (GP) pensions are currently underway. NHS England is working with PCSE to address a range of historical and current issues, and implement new, consistent national processes. These replace a range of different local legacy processes. PCSE does not administer GP salaries.</p><p> </p><p>There is no data available on the average length of time taken to process changes in a GP’s circumstances in 2016-17. The speed of processing changes in a GP’s circumstances depends on the availability of complete information from the applicant, and appropriate authorisations for the change from relevant parties. NHS England has reported that recently received changes are typically being processed in two to six weeks.</p><p>Information on the number of overpayments and underpayments of GP pension contributions at 31 March 2017 is not yet available. It will be possible to calculate pension contributions for the year to 31 March 2017 in February 2018, once GPs have submitted details of their earnings for the financial year 2016/17.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 4637 4641 4642 question first answered 19/07/2017 13:34:27 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4136 label Biography information for Nigel Mills

751681

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Defibrillators
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to install defibrillators in all departmental and public buildings.
	tabling member constituency	North Swindon
	tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	4839
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>We recognise that better provision of defibrillators, and increasing the number of people trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, could help save more lives of those who have a cardiac arrest outside a hospital setting. Therefore, we encourage organisations to consider purchasing a defibrillator as part of their first-aid equipment, particularly where there are high concentrations of people.</p><p> </p><p>In order to further support the National Health Service and local communities, the Government has provided £2 million to make public access defibrillators more widely available and to increase the numbers of people trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 19/07/2017 13:32:37 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson

751839

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Running
	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 effectiveness of the NHS Couch to 5K running scheme on improving levels of physical activity.
	tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
	tabling member printed	Nick Smith
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	4810
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The National Health Service Couch to 5k programme was initially a nine week podcast series which was downloaded more than 1.5 million times. The success of the service led to the development of the Couch to 5k app in partnership with the British Broadcasting Corporation.</p><p> </p><p>Public Health England began leadership of the Couch to 5k programme in 2016, where the mobile phone app was developed. The app has received more than 500,000 downloads since launch<sup>1</sup>. The feedback from users is overwhelmingly positive with many referencing the voice-over from popular coaches being especially motivating.</p><p> </p><p>The app does not record mobile sensor data and there is no historical app data available to compare pre and post usage.</p><p> </p><p><sup>1</sup>Source: Google Analytics</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 19/07/2017 13:06:26 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith

750914

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2017
	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	Russia: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to his Russian counterpart on that country increasing its funding contribution to the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	4237
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>I have not raised the issue of financial contributions to the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe with my Russian counterpart. The amount each participating State pays to the organisation is calculated based on a scale of assessment. Efforts to amend that scale are ongoing. The UK argues strongly in these discussions that a new scale should be based on the capacity to pay, applying the UN methodology based on Gross National Income (GNI). Adoption of this new scale would result in increased contributions from a number of countries including Russia.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 19/07/2017 13:32:26 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

750916

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2017
	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	Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much funding the Government has provided to the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	4287
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The United Kingdom's assessed contributions to the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe's Unified (regular) Budget IS 9.35% of the total budget. It is paid in Euros and in the last ten years were approximately as in the table:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Cost</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>€16.4m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>€14.5m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>€14.4m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>€14.9m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>€14.7m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>€14.7m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>€15.2m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>€14.3m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>€14.3m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>€14.6m</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>The United Kingdom's contributions to the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe's Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine AT 11.9%, which is funded separately from the Unified Budget as specified in its mandate, since it's commencement in 2014 were approximately as in the table:</p><p> </p><p>Year Costs</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>€3,513,923m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>€7,208,500m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>€8,328,589m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>(Estimated) €8,084,743m</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Additionally, the United Kingdom has provided voluntary contributions towards the deployment of election observers to various ODIHR missions across the OSCE in the last ten years approximately as in the table:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Cost</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>£144,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>£200,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>£660,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>£279,903</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>£304,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>£398,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>£619,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>£583,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>£571,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>£104,000 (to end June 2017</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>The UK has also contributed bilateral funding to various OSCE implemented projects over the past ten years. Funding for these projects were agreed on a case by case basis and there is no central record of all the contributions held.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 19/07/2017 13:30:19 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

750234

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of public procurement contracts her Department awarded through framework agreements in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	4021
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The proportion of public procurement contracts awarded by the Home Office, through framework agreements has been as follows: 9.09% in 2010, 18.18% in 2011, 17.14% in 2012, 12.73% in 2013, 15.38% in 2014, 18.85% in 2015 and 31.8% in 2016.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 19/07/2017 10:40:09 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

750881

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Slavery
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the evaluation of the pilot for a new national referral mechanism to identify and support victims of modern slavery will be published.
	tabling member constituency	Swansea East
	tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	4283
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The National Referral Mechanism pilot has been testing a new model for identifying and referring victims, processing cases and making effective decisions. The final stage of the evaluation is currently underway and it is anticipated that the findings will be published when that evaluation is complete.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 19/07/2017 12:20:14 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris

751332

	registered interest
	date	12/07/2017
	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	Democratic Republic of Congo: Human Rights
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will support adoption of UN sanctions against those who impede implementation of the 31 December agreement on the Democratic Republic of Congo and who commit human rights violations in (a) that country and (b) the Kasai region of that country.
	tabling member constituency	Bassetlaw
	tabling member printed	John Mann
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	4586
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The political and human rights situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is deeply concerning. The UK has supported the adoption of EU sanctions against individuals responsible for obstructing the democratic process in the DRC and who have committed human rights violations in the Kasai region and elsewhere. Should there continue to be no progress towards full implementation of the 31 December agreement and a continuation of the human rights violations taking place across that country, including in the Kasais, the UK would support further pressure on those responsible. While action by the UN Security Council is one option, we would also consider further EU sanctions, if required.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 19/07/2017 09:41:14 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	1387 label Biography information for Lord Mann

750676

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Royal Brompton Hospital
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proposals NHS England has made for the replacement of paediatric respiratory services currently provided at the Royal Brompton Hospital.
	tabling member constituency	North Thanet
	tabling member printed	Sir Roger Gale
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	4329
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>No decision has been made to close the Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) service at the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust.</p><p> </p><p>The particular circumstances at the Royal Brompton mean that NHS England’s CHD proposals would, if implemented, have an impact on the Trust’s paediatric respiratory service. NHS England has therefore formed a specialist panel to review the potential impact of the CHD proposals on paediatric respiratory services at the Royal Brompton.</p><p> </p><p>If a decision is taken to stop commissioning children’s CHD surgical services, NHS England will work with the Trust to manage the impact on paediatric respiratory services.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 19/07/2017 10:50:02 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
	tabling member	87 label Biography information for Sir Roger Gale