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748181

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Autism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Independent Mental Health Taskforce report entitled Five Year Forward View on Mental Health published in February 2016, what the timetable is for the establishment of a care pathway for autism.
tabling member constituency	Chesham and Amersham
tabling member printed	Mrs Cheryl Gillan
uin	2861
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>An indicative timeline for the development of care pathways was set out in the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health. The precise timetable for the establishment of a care pathway for autism will be confirmed by NHS England in due course.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 10/07/2017 13:38:37 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	18 label Biography information for Dame Cheryl Gillan

748187

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
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 the Government has made in implementing recommendation 52 of the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health on undertaking a review of existing regulations of the Health and Social Care Act to identify disparities and gaps between provisions relating to physical and mental health services.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Withington
tabling member printed	Jeff Smith
uin	2952
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>The Health and Social Care Act 2012 placed the principle of parity of esteem on a statutory footing.</p><p> </p><p>As set out in the Queen’s Speech, the Government will review the mental health legislative landscape, including how the Mental Health Act is implemented on the ground.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 10/07/2017 09:27:50 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4456 label Biography information for Jeff Smith

748191

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	General Practitioners: Social Security Benefits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the Government provides guidance to GP surgeries on whether they should provide supporting letters for disability benefit claims if patients request them.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	2927
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>NHS England contracts with general practitioners (GPs) as independent providers of medical services for the National Health Service. Under the terms of their contract, GPs are required to provide certain medical reports or complete certain forms, including those related to claiming disability benefits, free of charge to their registered patients.</p><p> </p><p>Outside their contractual requirements, GPs also offer a variety of other services which successive governments have regarded as private matters between the patient and the GP. In such cases, decisions on whether to charge a fee and the level of the fee charged are at the GP’s discretion.</p><p> </p><p>Where GPs intend to charge for services to patients, the British Medical Association (BMA) advises them to forewarn patients, at the earliest opportunity, of the likely level of fees. The BMA also produces guidance on the level of fees that should be charged for commonly provided services.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 2928 question first answered 10/07/2017 14:17:17 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

748193

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Visual Impairment: Medical Treatments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when magnetic implants to improve eyesight will be available on the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	2707
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2017 answer text <p>It is for local National Health Service commissioners to make decisions on whether to fund new treatments, taking into account National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance, available evidence and individual patient’s clinical circumstances.</p><p> </p><p>The future availability of any new or novel treatments would be subject to large scale clinical trials demonstrating the safety and efficacy of the treatment approach and subsequent assessments of its cost effectiveness for routine use.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 07/07/2017 09:56:28 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

748194

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
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 steps he is taking to ensure that mental health patients can receive treatment closer to where they live.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	2708
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2017 answer text <p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health is committed to ensuring that patients with mental health conditions can receive treatment as close as possible to where they live. Inappropriate out of area placements are unacceptable and the Government has set a target to eliminate these in non-specialist, acute mental health care by 2020/21.</p><p> </p><p>To support the delivery of this ambition, in October 2016 the Government put in place the first data collection to secure much-needed national transparency on the number of patients that are sent out of their local area for acute inpatient treatment.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is using this new data to support local health systems to develop and deliver trajectories to eliminate inappropriate out of area placements.</p><p> </p><p>More than £400 million which has been made available for investment in mental health crisis resolution home treatment teams over the next four years, enabling them to provide 24/7 crisis response and intensive home treatment as a genuine alternative to admission where appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>Shared learning and best-practice advice on reducing out of area placements through improved system capacity management will be included in acute care commissioning guidance.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 07/07/2017 09:57:21 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

748218

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate she has made of the average time taken to process changes to passports for women holding dual nationality after those women have notified a name change after their marriage; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	2980
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>No statistical information is available showing whether British citizens hold another citizenship. There is also no statistical information available to show the time taken to process applications for a change of name due to marriage.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 10/07/2017 10:25:23 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

748222

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people applied for a visa through the fast track immigration service in the UK since 1 January 2017; and how many of those visa applications were granted on the same day that the application was made.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
uin	2777
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>Purdah has delayed publication of data for 2017. A link to the most recent available data and that for Q4 of 2016 is therefore provided.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data</a></p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 10/07/2017 13:12:06 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz