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346944

	registered interest
	date	27/05/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Offences against Children: Counselling
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of whether there are financial savings to the public purse from providing long-term counselling in local communities to adults sexually abused in their childhood.
	tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
	tabling member printed	Tom Watson
	uin	149
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2015 answer text <p>This information is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>No such assessment has been made. However, counselling services should be available as part of the wider mental health provision to support sexually abused children. This Government is committed to improving children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing as a whole, which will also benefit children and young people who have been victims of sexual abuse.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>National Health Service funding for mental health services increased by £300 million last year. Historically, treatment targets have only been attached to physical health – a problem the Government is correcting with £1.25 billion announced in the last Budget. This will direct funding to mental health services and will ensure people, including those whose mental health has been affected through sexual abuse, get the treatment they need when they need it.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Our investment to date in the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme has made a choice of psychological therapies available for those who need them in all parts of England reflecting the objective in the Government’s Mandate to NHS England to provide access to therapies for around 900,000 people per year by 2015, with a recovery rate of 50%. IAPT include therapies for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in response to sexual abuse as well as therapies for depression and anxiety disorders which may result from the traumatic of the abuse.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In March 2015, ‘Tackling Child Sexual Exploitation’ published in March 2015, set out cross-Government actions to prevent child sexual exploitation or, where it has happened, ensure victims and survivors get the support they need. The Department and its Arms Length Bodies are taking forward the health related recommendations, which focus on improving data on prevalence so that commissioners can develop the local service response to meet local needs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence issued guidelines on ‘Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD): The management of PTSD in adults and children in primary and secondary care’ issued in March 2005, reviewed in December 2011, and ‘Depression in adults: The treatment and management of depression in adults’, published in October 2009. The guidance includes recommendations for the care and treatment of people with psychological and mental health needs arising from sexual abuse.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 150 151 question first answered 04/06/2015 14:31:02 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

346945

	registered interest
	date	27/05/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Offences against Children: Counselling
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many non-statutory organisations providing counselling without pre-determined time-limits to adults who were sexually abused as children were funded by his Department in (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2014-15.
	tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
	tabling member printed	Tom Watson
	uin	150
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2015 answer text <p>This information is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>No such assessment has been made. However, counselling services should be available as part of the wider mental health provision to support sexually abused children. This Government is committed to improving children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing as a whole, which will also benefit children and young people who have been victims of sexual abuse.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>National Health Service funding for mental health services increased by £300 million last year. Historically, treatment targets have only been attached to physical health – a problem the Government is correcting with £1.25 billion announced in the last Budget. This will direct funding to mental health services and will ensure people, including those whose mental health has been affected through sexual abuse, get the treatment they need when they need it.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Our investment to date in the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme has made a choice of psychological therapies available for those who need them in all parts of England reflecting the objective in the Government’s Mandate to NHS England to provide access to therapies for around 900,000 people per year by 2015, with a recovery rate of 50%. IAPT include therapies for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in response to sexual abuse as well as therapies for depression and anxiety disorders which may result from the traumatic of the abuse.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In March 2015, ‘Tackling Child Sexual Exploitation’ published in March 2015, set out cross-Government actions to prevent child sexual exploitation or, where it has happened, ensure victims and survivors get the support they need. The Department and its Arms Length Bodies are taking forward the health related recommendations, which focus on improving data on prevalence so that commissioners can develop the local service response to meet local needs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence issued guidelines on ‘Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD): The management of PTSD in adults and children in primary and secondary care’ issued in March 2005, reviewed in December 2011, and ‘Depression in adults: The treatment and management of depression in adults’, published in October 2009. The guidance includes recommendations for the care and treatment of people with psychological and mental health needs arising from sexual abuse.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 149 151 question first answered 04/06/2015 14:31:02 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

346947

	registered interest
	date	27/05/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Offences against Children: Counselling
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance he has given to NHS England and Public Health England on how they should respond to the demand for counselling support from adults who have come forward with traumatic experiences of child sexual abuse.
	tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
	tabling member printed	Tom Watson
	uin	151
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2015 answer text <p>This information is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>No such assessment has been made. However, counselling services should be available as part of the wider mental health provision to support sexually abused children. This Government is committed to improving children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing as a whole, which will also benefit children and young people who have been victims of sexual abuse.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>National Health Service funding for mental health services increased by £300 million last year. Historically, treatment targets have only been attached to physical health – a problem the Government is correcting with £1.25 billion announced in the last Budget. This will direct funding to mental health services and will ensure people, including those whose mental health has been affected through sexual abuse, get the treatment they need when they need it.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Our investment to date in the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme has made a choice of psychological therapies available for those who need them in all parts of England reflecting the objective in the Government’s Mandate to NHS England to provide access to therapies for around 900,000 people per year by 2015, with a recovery rate of 50%. IAPT include therapies for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in response to sexual abuse as well as therapies for depression and anxiety disorders which may result from the traumatic of the abuse.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In March 2015, ‘Tackling Child Sexual Exploitation’ published in March 2015, set out cross-Government actions to prevent child sexual exploitation or, where it has happened, ensure victims and survivors get the support they need. The Department and its Arms Length Bodies are taking forward the health related recommendations, which focus on improving data on prevalence so that commissioners can develop the local service response to meet local needs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence issued guidelines on ‘Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD): The management of PTSD in adults and children in primary and secondary care’ issued in March 2005, reviewed in December 2011, and ‘Depression in adults: The treatment and management of depression in adults’, published in October 2009. The guidance includes recommendations for the care and treatment of people with psychological and mental health needs arising from sexual abuse.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 149 150 question first answered 04/06/2015 14:31:02 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

788507

	registered interest
	date	13/11/2017
	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	Israel: Visits Abroad
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether his officials in Israel or the Palestinian Territories met the Right hon. Member for Witham between 13 and 25 August 2017.
	tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
	tabling member printed	Tom Watson
	uin	112611
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2017 answer text <p>​It is longstanding practice under successive Governments that we do not routinely disclose information relating to internal discussion and advice. My Rt Hon. Friend the member for Witham (Ms Patel) resigned as Secretary of State for International Development on 8 November. I refer the Hon Member to the exchange of letters between my Rt Hon. Friend the member for Witham (Ms Patel) and the Prime Minister on her resignation; and to the statement issued by my Rt Hon. Friend on 6 November, a copy of which is available on the <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">gov.uk</a> website.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 16/11/2017 17:53:47 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

788508

	registered interest
	date	13/11/2017
	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	Israel: Visits Abroad
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when officials of his Department in (a) Israel and the Palestinian Territories and (b) London first became aware that the Right hon. Member for Witham visited Israel in the summer of 2017.
	tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
	tabling member printed	Tom Watson
	uin	112609
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2017 answer text <p>​I refer the Rt Hon Member to my answer to written question 112026 of 13 November.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 16/11/2017 17:50:44 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

1079451

	registered interest
	date	28/02/2019
	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	Employment: Bullying
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to support the Centenary Global Action and global efforts for a strong International Labour Organisation Convention to end workplace harassment.
	tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
	tabling member printed	Tom Watson
	uin	227058
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government believes that everyone deserves to be treated with dignity and respect and that there can be no place for violence and harassment in the workplace. The Government therefore supports the adoption of an International Labour Convention on ending violence and harassment in the world of work. The Government is fully engaged in discussions in the International Labour Organisation and is advocating a Convention that provides broad coverage, whilst being ratifiable by as large a number of the ILO’s membership as possible.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 05/03/2019 17:52:34 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

746161

	registered interest
	date	28/06/2017
	answering body	Leader of the House
	answering dept id	34
	answering dept short name	Leader of the House
	answering dept sort name	Leader of the House
	hansard heading	Democratic Unionist Party: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Leader of the House, what the allocation of Short Money to the Democratic Unionist Party is.
	tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
	tabling member printed	Tom Watson
	uin	1655
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2017 answer text <p>I have been informed by the Clerk of the House as Accounting Officer that the Democratic Unionist Party does qualify for Short money as an opposition party under the terms of the Resolution of the House of 26 May 1999.</p><p>Following the General Election of 8 June 2017, the full year Short Money allocation for the Democratic Unionist Party is:</p><p>Main Budget: £222,305.00</p><p>Travel Budget: £4,925.14</p><p>There is no Ministerial responsibility for Short money, which comes under the auspices of the Members Estimate Committee, for which I act as spokesperson.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 03/07/2017 14:54:45 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

1064462

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: Bescot
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the effect of proposed concrete sleeper factory in Bescot on air quality in the surrounding area.
	tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
	tabling member printed	Tom Watson
	uin	223987
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>The proposal for a facility in Bescot is being developed by Network Rail to produce the sleepers necessary for them to maintain, renew, and enhance our rail network.</p><p> </p><p>The facility requires the grant of full planning permission by Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council, the statutory local planning authority. The planning process involves an Environmental Impact Assessment that examines impacts including air quality, noise, traffic, and public health.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 25/02/2019 14:33:09 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
	tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

1064466

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: Bescot
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the proposed concrete sleeper factory in Bescot on public health in the surrounding area.
	tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
	tabling member printed	Tom Watson
	uin	223991
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>The proposal for a facility in Bescot is being developed by Network Rail to produce the sleepers necessary for them to maintain, renew, and enhance our rail network.</p><p> </p><p>The facility requires the grant of full planning permission by Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council, the statutory local planning authority. The planning process involves an Environmental Impact Assessment that examines impacts including air quality, noise, traffic, and public health.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 25/02/2019 14:19:24 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
	tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

1105964

	registered interest
	date	28/03/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: Manufacturing Industries
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish the independent report commissioned by Network Rail to investigate the possible locations for a new sleeper factory to replace its facility at Washwood Heath, Birmingham.
	tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
	tabling member printed	Tom Watson
	uin	238291
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>The proposal for a facility in Bescot is being developed by Network Rail to produce the sleepers necessary for them to maintain, renew, and enhance our rail network.</p><p> </p><p>Network Rail has received a Freedom of Information request to publish the independent report on possible locations for a new sleeper factory. It intends to publish this information once it has identified and removed any commercially sensitive material.</p><p> </p><p>Network Rail has offered to show local Members of Parliament a similar facility in Germany to explain how any local impacts will be addressed.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 02/04/2019 11:53:48 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
	tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest