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Nick de Bois – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nick de Bois on 2014-06-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 25 June 2014, Official Report, column 241W, on billing, what the value was of all outstanding legacy creditors on 1 June 2014.

Dr Daniel Poulter

As at 1 June 2014, the value of outstanding legacy creditors was £3,237,153.15.

Following the abolition of primary care trusts (PCTs) and strategic health authorities (SHAs) on 31 March 2013, legacy PCT and SHA finance teams remained in place until 31 August 2013 to process creditor payments relating to pre 1 April 2013. Creditor payments outstanding at 31 August 2013 were transferred to successor organisations, including the Department. The above amount remains outstanding because of due diligence taking place on creditor payments in order to mitigate the risk of making fraudulent or duplicate payments.

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Tom Greatrex – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tom Greatrex on 2014-06-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of his Department’s consumption in kWh of (a) gas and (b) electricity in each month since June 2010; and what the cost of such consumption has been in each such month.

Dr Daniel Poulter

The Department’s consumption in kWh of gas and electricity in each month since June 2010 are detailed in the following tables.

Gas Consumption

kWh	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15
April		383,308	375,498	410,643	300,833
May		334,299	291,491	268,638	231,365
June	214,194	342,759	135,620	171,941
July	184,049	238,429	52,692	135,238
August	270,592	179,116	96,602	144,629
September	275,325	172,324	82,137	162,901
October	404,226	191,563	249,232	187,581
November	549,699	315,677	365,295	378,302
December	814,163	448,970	430,231	500,407
January	644,972	497,774	537,957	504,784
February	554,519	549,609	521,341	460,338
March	623,455	475,765	542,183	399,659

Electricity Consumption

kWh	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15
April		775,333	727,906	743,420	734,079
May		828,597	817,660	737,329	743,728
June	1,058,570	879,532	758,422	708,423
July	1,119,452	861,447	828,709	1,011,360
August	1,007,127	848,332	827,468	834,372
September	950,584	845,520	740,170	725,554
October	915,324	824,037	813,384	729,868
November	928,702	809,542	735,035	712,812
December	949,551	812,427	732,011	709,999
January	920,671	842,769	811,067	779,265
February	814,015	820,963	727,292	689,548
March	895,910	820,483	746,071	738,869

Gas and Electricity Costs

The Department’s previous way of processing energy bills, makes it difficult to provide meaningful and relevant monthly costs for earlier years but the annual expenditure for 2009-12 is as follows:

Year	Gas	Electricity
2009-10	£160,572	£1,253,708
2010-11	£117,690	£862,052
2011-12	£139,343	£1,145,671

The following table outlines the monthly costs of gas and electricity consumption in the Department’s buildings from April 2012-13 to March 2013-14.

	Gas		Electricity
	2012-13	2013-14	2012-13	2013-14
April	£18,380	£13,986	£85,855	£92,087
May	£10,562	£9,197	£95,095	£89,211
June	£6,290	£6,368	£88,712	£85,445
July	£8,236	£5,205	£96,871	£121,466
August	£5,399	£5,480	£94,554	£99,521
September	£6,193	£6,105	£84,633	£87,487
October	£12,764	£ 7,748	£86,575	£87,917
November	£15,734	£13,337	£82,322	£86,119
December	£17,416	£16,644	£80,016	£86,529
January	£18,246	£17,817	£90,733	£90,179
February	£19,580	£15,973	£77,247	£82,419
March	£20,512	£14,369	£63,457	£65,760

These figures relate to buildings occupied by departmental staff, where the Department is directly responsible for payment of gas and electric bills and can provide monthly consumption figures. This covers Richmond House, Skipton House, Wellington House, Premier House and Premier Buildings (vacated in November 2012).

02/11/2022

Chris Bryant – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Bryant on 2014-06-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will estimate the cost to the public purse of extending entitlement to (a) free prescriptions, (b) free eye tests and (c) free dental care to all claimants of universal credit once universal credit has been fully rolled out.

Jane Ellison

The cost to the public purse of extending entitlement to free prescriptions, eye tests and dental care to all claimants of Universal Credit once Universal Credit has been fully rolled out will depend on the number of claimants at that time. This number will depend on a range of factors. The Government intends that broadly the same number of individuals will be passported via Universal Credit as are currently passported.

02/11/2022
Chris Bryant – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Bryant on 2014-06-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will estimate the cost to the public purse of extending entitlement to Healthy Start vouchers and vitamins to all claimants of universal credit once universal credit has been fully rolled out.

Dr Daniel Poulter

We plan to provide access to Healthy Start for pregnant women, new mothers, and children under four in the lowest earning families receiving Universal Credit. Our intention is to ensure that a broadly similar number, and range, of Universal Credit families will qualify as currently do so through income based benefits and tax credits.

The current annual delivery cost of Healthy Start throughout the United Kingdom (vouchers, vitamins and administration) is approximately £100 million. We estimate that if eligibility were extended to pregnant women, new mothers, and children under four in all families claiming Universal Credit it would increase the total spent annually to around £290 million.

02/11/2022
Luciana Berger – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2014-06-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the costs to the NHS of untreated liver disease in one person.

Jane Ellison

The Department has made no recent assessment of the costs to the National Health Service of untreated liver disease.

02/11/2022
Luciana Berger – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Cabinet Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2014-06-26.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people aged (a) under 18 and (b) 18 years and over died as a consequence of a condition related to alcohol misuse in each year since 2010.

Mr Nick Hurd

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.

02/11/2022
Luciana Berger – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2014-06-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many members of staff and at what grades work for the National Clinical Director for Cancer.

Jane Ellison

The National Clinical Director (NCD) for Cancer is seconded to NHS England as a senior clinical advisor on cancer. The work of the NCD is supported through a number of NHS England’s priority programmes, including the Prevention and Early Diagnosis Programme, the long-term conditions, Older People, and End of life Care programme. In addition, there are a number of relevant clinical reference groups and other staff supporting specialised commissioning functions who are also aligned with the work of the NCD.

The NCD is not an executive post within NHS England and does not directly line manage any NHS England employees.

02/11/2022
Ian Paisley – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ian Paisley on 2014-06-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what organisations or individuals Ministers or officials of his Department have met to discuss standardised packaging of tobacco in the last 12 months; which Ministers or officials were present at those meetings; and who represented each organisation present at those meetings.

Jane Ellison

Details of Ministerial meetings with external stakeholders are published quarterly in arrears on the Gov.UK website at:

www.gov.uk/government/collections/ministerial-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-meetings-2013#department-of-health-dh

The Department does not keep a central diary of the engagements that every Departmental official has had. In discharging their official duties, Ministers, special advisors and Departmental officials meet with representatives from a range of organisations.

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Luciana Berger – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2014-06-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people aged (a) under 18 and (b) 18 years and over were admitted to hospital with a condition related to alcohol misuse in each year since 2010.

Jane Ellison

The attached tables contain the sum of the estimated alcohol attributable fractions (AAFs) for admissions for patients aged (a) 0-17 years and (b) 18 years and over for the years 2010-11 to 2012-13.

It should be noted that these figures are not a count of people and represent an estimated number of admissions that were attributable to alcohol.

AAFs are based on the proportion of a given diagnosis or injury that is estimated to be attributed to alcohol. Some diagnoses or injuries will, by definition, be wholly attributable to alcohol and have an AAF of one, others will only be partly attributable to alcohol and have an AAF greater than zero, but less than one. Diagnoses or injuries that are not attributable at all to alcohol will have an AAF of zero.

These figures are derived by summing all AAFs for the relevant admissions and should, therefore only be interpreted as an estimate of the number of admissions that can be attributed to alcohol.

In addition, partial AAFs are not applicable to children aged under 16 years, therefore figures for this age group relate only to wholly – attributable admissions.

The Health and Social Care Information Centre – Statistics on Alcohol: England, 2014 report manually implemented new methodology against the 2012-13 data in their report. However, no change to the underlying Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data has been currently made.

02/11/2022
Julian Huppert – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Julian Huppert on 2014-06-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the availability of a range of housing and care options for people with physical disabilities and learning difficulties.

Norman Lamb

The Department has not made any assessment about the availability range of housing and care options for people with physical and learning disabilities.

A key aim of this Government is to put people with disabilities, including learning disabilities, and the families who care for them, in the driving seat with greater choice and control and able to contribute to and influence decisions which affect their lives, including over where and with whom they live.

The Care Act puts into law a series of reforms to care and support, making it a modern system which is built around people’s individual needs and goals, and which puts them in control of their own care and support. The Act will help to improve care and support for everyone who uses care and support services, by placing personal budgets onto a statutory footing as part of the care and support plan. These reforms will allow people to exercise real choice and control over the care and support they receive, and are supported by new duties around market shaping and information and advice, to ensure that people fully understand the care system and have a wide range of high quality services available in their local area to choose from.

Housing plays a critical role in helping adults with physical and learning disabilities to live as independently as possible. The Department is providing £315 million over five years for the Care and Support Specialised Housing fund. The fund is administered by the Homes and Communities Agency and, within London, by the Greater London Authority. The main aim of the fund is to support and accelerate the development of the specialised housing market for older people and disabled adults, which includes housing for adults who are physically disabled and those with learning difficulties.

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