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908455

registered interest
date	21/05/2018
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	Pension Protection Fund: Carillion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps she is taking to ensure that support is provided for former Carillion employees whose pensions will not be covered by the Pension Protection Fund.
tabling member constituency	Sunderland Central
tabling member printed	Julie Elliott
uin	905457
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2018 answer text <p>There are 12 Carillion DB schemes in the Pension protection Fund (PPF) assessment period.</p><p> </p><p>The PPF are working with scheme administrators to determine whether they can pay pensions at or above PPF benefits. Where a scheme cannot do this, the PPF will assume responsibility and pay compensation.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Individuals above their scheme’s normal pension age will receive 100% of their accrued pension, and all other members will receive 90%, subject to an overall cap.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 21/05/2018 16:38:21 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4127 label Biography information for Julie Elliott

902182

registered interest
date	11/05/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Voyeurism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will take steps to make the practice of up-skirting a sexual offence; and what recent discussions and with whom he has had on that matter.
tabling member constituency	Sunderland Central
tabling member printed	Julie Elliott
uin	143147
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2018 answer text <p>I am determined to ensure that the intrusive practice of up-skirting is tackled robustly: there should be no doubt that such acts are unacceptable and illegal.</p><p> </p><p>I am encouraged to see that this disturbing behaviour has been successfully prosecuted on a number of occasions under the offence of outraging public decency. My officials are reviewing the various laws in this area to see if anything further can be done to tackle this intrusive and unpleasant practice.</p><p> </p><p>As part of this work they are considering the Private Member’s Bill put forward by Wera Hobhouse MP. Officials at the Ministry of Justice have met with campaigners and their representatives to discuss their concerns first hand. We hope to have completed this work soon.</p><p> </p><p>Alongside this, I continue to support wider work across government to raise awareness with police and prosecutors of the existing offences available to prosecute upskirting and to ensure that appropriate reference is made to these offences in guidance for investigators and prosecutors.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 21/05/2018 16:49:18 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4127 label Biography information for Julie Elliott

902183

registered interest
date	11/05/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that local authority children’s services receive sufficient funding to support vulnerable young people.
tabling member constituency	Sunderland Central
tabling member printed	Julie Elliott
uin	143148
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2018 answer text <p>The 2015 Spending Review made available more than £200 billion until 2020 for councils to deliver the local services their communities want to see, including children’s services. In February, Parliament confirmed the 2018-19 settlement for local government, providing a real terms increase in resources available, from £44.3 billion in 2017-18 to £45.1 billion in 2018-19. Funding for children’s services is an un-ring fenced part of the wider local government finance settlement. Local authorities have used this flexibility to increase spending on the most vulnerable children by around a £1 billion since 2010.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 21/05/2018 13:58:43 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4127 label Biography information for Julie Elliott

902184

registered interest
date	11/05/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fire and Rescue Services: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the fire service is adequately funded.
tabling member constituency	Sunderland Central
tabling member printed	Julie Elliott
uin	143149
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2018 answer text <p>Fire and rescue services have the resources they need to do their important work. Overall fire and rescue authorities will receive around £2.3 billion in 2018/19.</p><p>Single purpose fire and rescue authorities will see an increase in core spending power of 1.2% in cash terms in 2018/19, and an overall increase of 0.3% from 2015/16 to 2019/20. Financial reserves held by single purpose FRAs increased by 88% to £615 million between 31 March 2011 and 31 March 2017. This is equivalent to 45% of their core spending power.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 17/05/2018 14:54:18 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4127 label Biography information for Julie Elliott

902185

registered interest
date	11/05/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fire and Rescue Services: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that firefighters are paid fairly.
tabling member constituency	Sunderland Central
tabling member printed	Julie Elliott
uin	143150
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2018 answer text <p>The Government recognises the vital work that firefighters undertake in protecting our communities and it is essential that they receive a fair pay award that reflects their role.</p><p>Firefighter pay in England is the responsibility of the National Joint Council, comprising of representatives from both the employers’ and employees’ side. Any award agreed by the NJC is paid from fire and rescue authorities’ existing budgets. Central Government has no role in this process.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 17/05/2018 14:50:21 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4127 label Biography information for Julie Elliott

902187

registered interest
date	11/05/2018
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	Bowel Cancer
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 he is taking to ensure that bowel cancer patients get high quality care.
tabling member constituency	Sunderland Central
tabling member printed	Julie Elliott
uin	143151
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2018 answer text <p>As recommended by the UK National Screening Committee and the independent Cancer Taskforce, NHS England is introducing a new easier to use home testing kit for bowel cancer screening. FIT (Faecal Immunochemical Test for haemoglobin) will replace Faecal Occult Blood testing (FOBt) as the primary screening method from autumn 2018.</p><p> </p><p>In April 2018, NHS England published a handbook on how to implement timed bowel cancer diagnostic pathways. Timed pathways are a driver for faster diagnosis of cancer, ensuring that patients are given a diagnosis of cancer or the all clear within 28 days of presenting to their general practitioner with symptoms. Implementation of the timed pathway in full across England by March 2019 is identified as a key deliverable for all services in the NHS Planning Guidance 2018/19.</p><p> </p><p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published diagnostics guidance on the role of testing for Lynch syndrome in people with colorectal cancer in February 2017. NHS England will be working with clinical commissioning group pathology service commissioners to determine whether they can jointly develop a policy proposition relating to genetic testing and the NICE guidance on testing for Lynch syndrome. NHS England will be considering this issue as part of the relevant work programmes during 2018/19.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 143152 question first answered 21/05/2018 11:30:51 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4127 label Biography information for Julie Elliott

902188

registered interest
date	11/05/2018
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	Bowel Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will ensure that bowel cancer patients are routinely tested for Lynch syndrome.
tabling member constituency	Sunderland Central
tabling member printed	Julie Elliott
uin	143152
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2018 answer text <p>As recommended by the UK National Screening Committee and the independent Cancer Taskforce, NHS England is introducing a new easier to use home testing kit for bowel cancer screening. FIT (Faecal Immunochemical Test for haemoglobin) will replace Faecal Occult Blood testing (FOBt) as the primary screening method from autumn 2018.</p><p> </p><p>In April 2018, NHS England published a handbook on how to implement timed bowel cancer diagnostic pathways. Timed pathways are a driver for faster diagnosis of cancer, ensuring that patients are given a diagnosis of cancer or the all clear within 28 days of presenting to their general practitioner with symptoms. Implementation of the timed pathway in full across England by March 2019 is identified as a key deliverable for all services in the NHS Planning Guidance 2018/19.</p><p> </p><p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published diagnostics guidance on the role of testing for Lynch syndrome in people with colorectal cancer in February 2017. NHS England will be working with clinical commissioning group pathology service commissioners to determine whether they can jointly develop a policy proposition relating to genetic testing and the NICE guidance on testing for Lynch syndrome. NHS England will be considering this issue as part of the relevant work programmes during 2018/19.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 143151 question first answered 21/05/2018 11:30:51 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4127 label Biography information for Julie Elliott

873726

registered interest
date	28/03/2018
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: Children
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 the Government is taking to ensure that children can access mental health care.
tabling member constituency	Sunderland Central
tabling member printed	Julie Elliott
uin	134840
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2018 answer text <p>An additional £1.4 billion is being made available to transform children and young people’s mental health services. This additional funding will ensure 70,000 additional children and young people a year receive access to National Health Service specialist mental health services by 2020/21.</p><p> </p><p>The recent Green Paper on children and young people’s mental health, supported by £300 million of additional funding, will also improve access to mental health services for those children who need it. This includes the creation of new Mental Health Support Teams, which will deliver interventions in or close to schools and colleges for those experiencing mild to moderate mental health issues. The teams will also provide a link to specialist services and can refer children suffering with more severe issues on to such services. The piloting of a four week waiting time, also announced in the Green Paper, aims to ensure that children receive more timely access to the appropriate level of care, building on the expansion of services that is already underway.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 17/04/2018 14:10:00 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4127 label Biography information for Julie Elliott

873728

registered interest
date	28/03/2018
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: Children
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 he is taking to reduce waiting times for children's mental health services.
tabling member constituency	Sunderland Central
tabling member printed	Julie Elliott
uin	134842
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2018 answer text <p>The recent Green Paper, Transforming Children and Young People’s Mental Health Provision, includes a proposal to pilot a four week waiting time for access to specialist National Health Service children and young people’s mental health services. The new Mental Health Support Teams, a further announcement in the Green Paper, will also enable children and young people to access earlier help, and both the four week waiting time and the Mental Health Support Teams will be tested using trailblazer areas, operational from 2019, to understand what works. The Green Paper is supported by £300 million of funding, which is additional to the £1.4 billion being made available to transform children and young people’s services over 2015/16-2019/20.</p><p> </p><p>There are also two waiting time standards applicable to children and young people’s mental health which are already in place: the NHS is exceeding the target for the early intervention in psychosis standard and is on track to meet the target for the children’s eating disorder standard by 2020/21.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 17/04/2018 14:12:06 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4127 label Biography information for Julie Elliott

837539

registered interest
date	05/02/2018
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	Food: Labelling
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 introduce mandatory front of pack traffic light labelling for all pre-packaged food in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Sunderland Central
tabling member printed	Julie Elliott
uin	126658
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2018 answer text <p>Mandatory nutrition labelling for the majority of pre-packaged foods came into effect in December 2016 and is harmonised by European Union legislation.</p><p> </p><p>The United Kingdom’s decision to leave the EU may give us an opportunity to develop greater flexibility, as the exit terms are agreed, to determine what information should be presented and how it should be displayed in the UK.</p><p> </p><p>There are ongoing discussions between officials in the Department of Health and Social Care and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on the labelling of food and drink.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 126659 126660 question first answered 08/02/2018 15:22:02 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4127 label Biography information for Julie Elliott