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946796

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date	23/07/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Lakeside Energy from Waste
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the role of the high temperature incinerator at the Lakeside Energy from Waste facility in the disposal of waste from the Salisbury novichok incident demonstrates that that facility is of national strategic significance in the context of the Airports National Policy Statement; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	167222
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2018 answer text <p>This Government welcomes the support from the operators Grundon at the high temperature incinerator at Lakeside which is being used for the safe disposal of waste produced by decontamination work following the Salisbury incident. The facility is one of several high temperature incinerators in the UK capable of incinerating large quantities of such waste. The Government therefore does not consider the status of the plant to have changed from that described in the Airports National Policy Statement.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 07/09/2018 09:43:07 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

946816

registered interest
date	23/07/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices: Small Businesses
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department has taken to support small providers of apprenticeship training.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	167223
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2018 answer text <p>Since May 2017, all providers who want to deliver apprenticeship training must be on the register of apprenticeship training providers (RoATP). The introduction of the RoATP, which currently has over 2,600 providers listed, has made it easier for new providers, including small providers, to enter the apprenticeship training market. Ahead of the opening of the RoATP, the Education and Skills Funding Agency raised awareness of the requirement to register and the application process. This included providing webinars, direct engagement and information through representative bodies. Providers who are not on the RoATP, including small providers, are able to operate as a sub-contractor to a main provider who is on the RoATP, up to a limit of £100,000 a year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton grouped question UIN 167224 question first answered 04/09/2018 09:41:57 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

946817

registered interest
date	23/07/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department has taken to encourage new entrants into the apprenticeship training market.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	167224
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2018 answer text <p>Since May 2017, all providers who want to deliver apprenticeship training must be on the register of apprenticeship training providers (RoATP). The introduction of the RoATP, which currently has over 2,600 providers listed, has made it easier for new providers, including small providers, to enter the apprenticeship training market. Ahead of the opening of the RoATP, the Education and Skills Funding Agency raised awareness of the requirement to register and the application process. This included providing webinars, direct engagement and information through representative bodies. Providers who are not on the RoATP, including small providers, are able to operate as a sub-contractor to a main provider who is on the RoATP, up to a limit of £100,000 a year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton grouped question UIN 167223 question first answered 04/09/2018 09:41:57 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

946818

registered interest
date	23/07/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of contracts awarded through the apprenticeship levy were valued at less than £500,000.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	167225
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2018 answer text <p>The Education and Skills Funding Agency do not award contracts through the apprenticeship levy; providers are admitted to the register of apprenticeship training providers and employers select them to deliver the training that they need.</p><p>In regards to non-levy contracts awarded under the recent non-levy apprenticeship procurement, 351 contracts, approximately 49 per cent of contracts granted were for values under £500,000.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 04/09/2018 09:43:44 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

946819

registered interest
date	23/07/2018
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	Depressive Illnesses: Medical Treatments
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 effectiveness of the guidelines issued by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence’s on the treatment of depression.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	167226
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2018 answer text <p>We have made no such assessment. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is the independent body responsible for developing authoritative, evidence-based guidance for the National Health Service. NICE’s guidance is based on a thorough assessment of the available evidence and is developed through extensive engagement with stakeholders. NICE has not yet published its final guideline on depression and has recently consulted publicly on its draft guidance. NICE will take the comments it has received in response to the consultation fully into account in finalising its guideline.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 04/09/2018 13:36:03 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

946820

registered interest
date	23/07/2018
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	Mental Health Services
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 recent trends in the number of dedicated mental health specialists.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	167227
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2018 answer text <p>There is no definition for a ‘dedicated mental health specialist’.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), but not staff working in primary care or in general practitioner surgeries, local authorities or other providers.</p><p> </p><p>The following table shows the full time equivalent (FTE) figures for the mental health and learning disability workforce in National Health Service trusts and CCGs in England as at 31 March each year, since 2014. There is an increase of over 2,900 in mental health staff between March 2014 and March 2018 in the whole mental health and learning disability workforce.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>2018</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Size of mental health and learning disability workforce (FTE)</p></td><td><p>180,573</p></td><td><p>179,701</p></td><td><p>181,352</p></td><td><p>182,560</p></td><td><p>183,476</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS Digital monthly HCHS workforce Statistics</p><p> </p><p>Following the re-organisation of primary care trusts (PCTs) in 2013, it is not possible to compare figures for mental health and learning disability trusts either side of this reorganisation because it is not possible to separately identify all staff in PCTs providing this service.</p><p> </p><p>Health Education England (HEE) published a Mental Health Workforce plan in July 2017. The plan sets out concrete steps for delivering 21,000 new posts across the mental health system and implementation is underway.</p><p> </p><p>HEE is working with the Royal College of Psychiatrists to encourage more doctors to choose a career in mental health. The Royal College launched the ‘Choose Psychiatry’ campaign in 2017, encouraging doctors to take up psychiatry for their speciality training.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 04/09/2018 13:20:18 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie