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1002606

registered interest
date	06/11/2018
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	General Practitioners: Vacancies
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 his Department has made of the role of nurse practitioners in filling shortages of General Practitioners.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	188809
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>In 2017, Professor Jane Cummings, the Chief Nursing Officer for England announced a career development programme was being developed for General Practice Nurses (GPNs). This programme took the form of an ‘action plan’ to recognise and develop the GPN role in transforming care and helping to deliver the National Health Service plan. The plan was published in 2017 and entitled The GPN 10 Point Plan. The GPN 10 Point plan uses an investment of £15 million from the GP Forward View funding allocation to support actions which will address the significant workforce challenges and support improvements in general practice nursing by 2020.</p><p> </p><p>Getting the skills mix right in general practice is critical in addressing workload pressures as well as in delivering appropriate patient care. This will mean bigger teams of staff, including nurse practitioners providing a wider range of care options for patients and freeing up more time for general practitioners to focus on those with more complex needs.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 12/11/2018 17:22:35 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

999628

registered interest
date	01/11/2018
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	Influenza: Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 25 October 2018 to Question 183928 on Influenza: Vaccination, and with reference to the guidance, Flu Vaccination Programme Delivery Guidance 2018-19 published by NHS England, what assessment he has made of appropriateness of delivering aTIV to healthcare providers by mid-November.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	187015
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2018 answer text <p>The adjuvanted trivalent flu vaccine is the recommended vaccine for those aged 65 years and over because it is a more effective vaccine for this age group and should offer better protection against flu compared to those previously used in the United Kingdom programme. This is explained in the Flu Vaccination Programme Delivery Guidance 2018-19 available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/flu-vaccination-programme-delivery-guidance-2018-19/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/flu-vaccination-programme-delivery-guidance-2018-19/</a></p><p> </p><p>To ensure equitable access across the UK, deliveries of this vaccine are being phased between September and November. General practices and pharmacies were informed of the phased deliveries in April 2018 and given confirmed delivery dates in August. The supply to date has been on schedule.</p><p> </p><p>With appropriate planning, all eligible patients should be able to be offered vaccine before the flu season starts.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 06/11/2018 15:13:14 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

994583

registered interest
date	25/10/2018
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	Influenza: Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to tackle shortages of aTIV, the recommended flu vaccine for over-65s at (a) GP practices, (b) pharmacies and (c) other health service providers.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	183927
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2018 answer text <p>There is not an overall shortage of the adjuvanted trivalent flu (aTIV) for the season. To enable adequate supply of the aTIV to be available in 2018-19, deliveries have had to be phased and this means that patients may need to wait a few weeks to get vaccination. All general practice and pharmacies in the United Kingdom will have the delivery of their orders phased across three months; 40% in September, 20% in October and 40% in November. This is a specific arrangement for 2018-19 to allow effective supply of the vaccine.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 30/10/2018 15:48:35 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

994584

registered interest
date	25/10/2018
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	Influenza: Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with NHS England on the shortages of aTIV, the recommended flu vaccine for over-65s.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	183928
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2018 answer text <p>The Secretary of State has met with NHS England to discuss the phased delivery of the adjuvanted trivalent influenza vaccine. Deliveries of the vaccine are being phased between September and November. By mid-November we expect that all doses will be delivered to general practitioner practices, pharmacies and other providers.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 30/10/2018 17:08:17 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

994036

registered interest
date	24/10/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Opportunity North East: Sunderland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans to include any Sunderland secondary schools in his key secondary schools identified as part of Opportunity North East.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	183368
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2018 answer text <p>We have not yet agreed which schools we will offer intensive support to through the programme. We expect that there will be key secondary schools in each of the 12 local authority areas. Local authorities and academy trusts will be invited to inform prioritisation of schools to receive the additional support from the programme before the end of the autumn term.</p><p> </p><p>Opportunity North East is a pan regional programme. The £12 million we have announced for early roll-out of the Early Career Teacher Framework will benefit all schools in the North East, and the remaining £12 million will be spent across the five priorities that my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State has set out</p><p> </p><p>Improving secondary performance is at the core of the programme, and we expect this to be reflected in the way that resources are allocated to have the impact we want to see. We recognise that there are some areas within the North East that feel the challenges we have set out particularly acutely, evidenced across a range of indicators including: the areas identified in the bottom two sextiles using the Achieving Excellence Areas methodology, educational performance at key stage 4, and the proportion of secondary aged pupils that are able to attend Good or Outstanding schools. Within the context of a pan regional programme, it is important that we ensure that those areas benefit appropriately from this programme.</p><p> </p><p>My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State has been clear that Opportunity North East is about working in partnership with stakeholders from across the region. My noble Friend, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the School System will be convening a Strategic Board to oversee the programme, made up of representatives from local authorities and the education and business sectors in the North East. The board’s remit will include developing ambitious but realistic performance metrics for improvements across the region in secondary outcomes, progression to higher education and teacher recruitment and retention; and informing decisions about how funding will be used. The board will also be responsible for approving the final set of schools to receive intensive support.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 183369 183370 question first answered 29/10/2018 17:50:09 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

994037

registered interest
date	24/10/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Opportunity North East
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what criteria were used to identify the four areas that will be focused on in Opportunity North East.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	183369
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2018 answer text <p>We have not yet agreed which schools we will offer intensive support to through the programme. We expect that there will be key secondary schools in each of the 12 local authority areas. Local authorities and academy trusts will be invited to inform prioritisation of schools to receive the additional support from the programme before the end of the autumn term.</p><p> </p><p>Opportunity North East is a pan regional programme. The £12 million we have announced for early roll-out of the Early Career Teacher Framework will benefit all schools in the North East, and the remaining £12 million will be spent across the five priorities that my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State has set out</p><p> </p><p>Improving secondary performance is at the core of the programme, and we expect this to be reflected in the way that resources are allocated to have the impact we want to see. We recognise that there are some areas within the North East that feel the challenges we have set out particularly acutely, evidenced across a range of indicators including: the areas identified in the bottom two sextiles using the Achieving Excellence Areas methodology, educational performance at key stage 4, and the proportion of secondary aged pupils that are able to attend Good or Outstanding schools. Within the context of a pan regional programme, it is important that we ensure that those areas benefit appropriately from this programme.</p><p> </p><p>My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State has been clear that Opportunity North East is about working in partnership with stakeholders from across the region. My noble Friend, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the School System will be convening a Strategic Board to oversee the programme, made up of representatives from local authorities and the education and business sectors in the North East. The board’s remit will include developing ambitious but realistic performance metrics for improvements across the region in secondary outcomes, progression to higher education and teacher recruitment and retention; and informing decisions about how funding will be used. The board will also be responsible for approving the final set of schools to receive intensive support.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 183368 183370 question first answered 29/10/2018 17:50:09 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

994038

registered interest
date	24/10/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Opportunity North East: Sunderland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of Opportunity North East on (a) secondary school outcomes, (b) the number of young people attending Russell Group universities and (c) teacher retention in Sunderland.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	183370
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2018 answer text <p>We have not yet agreed which schools we will offer intensive support to through the programme. We expect that there will be key secondary schools in each of the 12 local authority areas. Local authorities and academy trusts will be invited to inform prioritisation of schools to receive the additional support from the programme before the end of the autumn term.</p><p> </p><p>Opportunity North East is a pan regional programme. The £12 million we have announced for early roll-out of the Early Career Teacher Framework will benefit all schools in the North East, and the remaining £12 million will be spent across the five priorities that my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State has set out</p><p> </p><p>Improving secondary performance is at the core of the programme, and we expect this to be reflected in the way that resources are allocated to have the impact we want to see. We recognise that there are some areas within the North East that feel the challenges we have set out particularly acutely, evidenced across a range of indicators including: the areas identified in the bottom two sextiles using the Achieving Excellence Areas methodology, educational performance at key stage 4, and the proportion of secondary aged pupils that are able to attend Good or Outstanding schools. Within the context of a pan regional programme, it is important that we ensure that those areas benefit appropriately from this programme.</p><p> </p><p>My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State has been clear that Opportunity North East is about working in partnership with stakeholders from across the region. My noble Friend, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the School System will be convening a Strategic Board to oversee the programme, made up of representatives from local authorities and the education and business sectors in the North East. The board’s remit will include developing ambitious but realistic performance metrics for improvements across the region in secondary outcomes, progression to higher education and teacher recruitment and retention; and informing decisions about how funding will be used. The board will also be responsible for approving the final set of schools to receive intensive support.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 183368 183369 question first answered 29/10/2018 17:50:09 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

994039

registered interest
date	24/10/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: North East
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information his Department holds on the number of teaching vacancies in (a) the North East and (b) Sunderland in (i) 2016-17 and (ii) 2017-18.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	183371
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2018 answer text <p>The following attached table provides the number of full-time classroom teacher vacancies[1] and temporarily filled posts[2] in state funded secondary schools in the North East region, Sunderland local authority and in England, as of November 2016 and 2017.</p><p>This information is publicly available here[3]: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2017</a>.</p><p> </p><p>[1] Includes advertised vacancies for full-time permanent appointments (or appointments of at least one term’s duration) plus vacancies filled on a temporary basis by a teacher on a contract of less than one year.</p><p>[2] Temporarily filled posts are those where a vacancy exists, advertised or not, which is currently being filled by a teacher on a contract of at least one term but less than a year.</p><p>[3] Figures are rounded to the nearest 10.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 29/10/2018 16:20:08 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb attachment 1 file name 183371_teachers_vacancies_table.pdf title teacher_vacancies_North_East_Sunderland_16_17
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

994046

registered interest
date	24/10/2018
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	Influenza: Vaccination
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 supplies of the aTIV flu vaccine for people over 65 years of age.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	183373
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2018 answer text <p>To enable adequate supply of the adjuvanted trivalent flu vaccine to be available in 2018-19, deliveries have had to be phased. All general practices and pharmacies in the United Kingdom will have the delivery of their orders phased across three months; 40% in September, 20% in October and 40% in November. This is a specific arrangement for 2018-19 to allow effective supply of the vaccine.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 29/10/2018 17:47:53 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

992733

registered interest
date	22/10/2018
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of contracts between her Department and charities include a gagging clause; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	182145
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2018 answer text <p>These clauses do not prevent the contracting bodies from making statements critical of government policy or politicians, and certainly do not prevent whistle-blowing (as this would be unlawful). They are designed to protect government, to ensure that contractors adhere to good working practices and do not engage in activities that will bring the Authority into disrepute or otherwise harm the confidence of the public in Government.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 25/10/2018 15:10:51 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson