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Roger Godsiff – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Roger Godsiff on 2016-04-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 25 April 2016 to Question 34839, on what date the UK Embassy in Tel Aviv last raised the issue of demolitions with the Israeli government; and whether the specific question of the villages of Susiya and Um Al Hiran was raised with the government of Israel.

Mr Tobias Ellwood

Our Embassy in Tel Aviv most recently raised concerns with the Israeli Government over the increase in demolitions in the Occupied Palestinian Territories on 21 April 2016. We did not specifically raise Susiya, or Bedouin villages such as Umm al-Hiran in southern Israel at this time.

01/01/2023
Peter Kyle – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Peter Kyle on 2016-04-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of Better Care Fund funding was allocated to social care in England in the first quarter of 2015-16.

Alistair Burt

The information requested is not collected nationally. The overall size of the Better Care Fund (BCF) in 2015-16 is £5.3 billion. A published analysis of the BCF plans indicated that local areas were planning to allocate £2.3 billion to social care (43% of total planned expenditure) over 2015-16.

01/01/2023

Jim Cunningham – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2016-04-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 21 April 2016 to Question 34010, what the cost of providing NHS dental services in the West Midlands was in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

Alistair Burt

The table below shows the expenditure on National Health Service dental services in the West Midlands. The total expenditure figures have been broken down into primary care (delivered by high street dentists through General or Personal Dental Services contracts (GDS/PDS)) and other services (delivered in community and secondary care settings).

		2010/11 £000	2011/12 £000	2012/13 £000	2013/14 £000	2014/15 £000
1	GDS/PDS Cost	279,997	290,274	286,385	197,166	200,904
2	Fees Charged	(63,328)	(65,765)	(66,682)	(47,667)	(50,014)
3	Net Cost	216,669	224,509	219,703	149,499	150,890
4	Other (community and secondary care)	69,132	65,093	139,583	71,233	73,131
5	Total Expenditure	349,129	355,367	359,286	220,732	224,021

Source: Rows 1, 2, 3 – Primary care expenditure, Department of Health accounts (2010/11, 2011/12 and 2012/13) and NHS England accounts (2013/14 and 2014/15); Row 4 – other programme budgeting NHS England.

Notes:

Figures provided are the expenditure incurred by primary care trusts (PCTs) within the former West Midlands Strategic Health Authority (SHA), and, from April 2013, NHS England West Midlands Area Teams regional teams, in commissioning dental treatment. The balances show the gross expenditure incurred in providing GDS and PDS, which are alternative models of dental care, and the fees charged to the recipient in providing the treatment.
Total expenditure is the sum of rows 3 and 4.
Expenditure figures between years are not directly comparable owing to changes in commissioning arrangements from PCTs to NHS England from April 2013. The 2013/14 and 2014/15 columns do not include areas formerly known as Shropshire and Staffordshire, and Telford and Wrekin, which were part of the West Midlands SHA footprint.
In addition, responsibility for public health and prevention programmes moved from PCTs to local authorities in April 2013.

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Graham Allen – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Graham Allen on 2016-04-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which dental practices are trialling the new dental contract.

Alistair Burt

The attached list provides details of the current 79 dental practices that have signed a prototype agreement. These practices will test a clinical care pathway focussed on preventing future dental disease which includes offering patients personalised care plans and advice on diets and good oral hygiene.

The two practices marked with an asterisk (*) are located in Nottingham.

01/01/2023
Graham Allen – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Graham Allen on 2016-04-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether any of the dental practices trialling the new dental contract are located in (a) Nottingham North constituency, (b) Nottingham City or (c) local dental networks in that area.

Alistair Burt

The attached list provides details of the current 79 dental practices that have signed a prototype agreement. These practices will test a clinical care pathway focussed on preventing future dental disease which includes offering patients personalised care plans and advice on diets and good oral hygiene.

The two practices marked with an asterisk (*) are located in Nottingham.

01/01/2023
Julie Cooper – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Julie Cooper on 2016-04-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the risk of the Zika virus spreading to the UK.

Jane Ellison

The risk of Zika virus to the United Kingdom population remains very low and has been regularly assessed and reviewed since the first reports of cases of Zika infection from Brazil in May 2015. A pre-Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies has met to review the Zika outbreak in the Americas, the link with microcephaly and other disorders, and the risk to the UK. In addition, a qualitative assessment of the risk that Zika virus presents to the UK population was undertaken by the UK Human Animal Infections and Risk Surveillance group, and this was published on the gov.uk website in February 2016, which can be found at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hairs-risk-assessment-zika-virus

All evidence is kept under constant review.

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01/01/2023
Luciana Berger – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-04-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his Department’s target was for the number of qualified mental health trust inspectors in each year since 2010; and how many such inspectors were employed by the Care Quality Commission in each of those years.

Ben Gummer

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England and is responsible for identifying its own staffing requirements and recruiting suitably qualified people. The Department has not set the CQC targets for the recruitment of inspectors. The CQC has provided the following information.

The term ‘qualified mental health inspector’ is not one that is used by the CQC. Part of the person specification used in the recruitment of new inspectors for mental health services is that applicants have a background in mental health, learning disability, or substance misuse.

The CQC is only able to provide figures from April 2014 onwards. Prior to this, the CQC inspectors were not organised into specialist teams and were simply classified as “inspectors”. The CQC planned to recruit 149 inspectors by April 2016.

Number of full time equivalent mental health inspectors employed by the CQC

1 April 2014

29.5

1 April 2015

70.6

1 April 2016

126.5

01/01/2023
Luciana Berger – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-04-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions his Department has had with the Care Quality Commission on the findings of its mock inspection of Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust’s Slade House site in 2012.

Ben Gummer

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) does not conduct mock-inspections. The CQC compliance report on Slade House, published in 2012, was conducted under its previous inspection methodology. The inspection found that the facility was meeting the essential standards of care it looked at. The Department did not discuss the report’s findings with the CQC.

From 2014, the CQC started introducing a new inspection methodology to mental health services which makes use of a higher-skilled inspection team that includes specialist inspectors, clinical and other experts, and people with experience of care. The findings of these new inspections give patients and the public a more authoritative and comprehensive view of the quality of care provided by health and adult social care providers.

01/01/2023
Julie Cooper – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Julie Cooper on 2016-04-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the report, General Practice Forward View, published in April 2016, how much of the £2.4 billion increased funding for GP surgeries will be spent in Lancashire and the North West.

Alistair Burt

How much of this funding which will be spent in Lancashire and the North West will depend on future decisions by NHS England and the local clinical commissioning groups.

Local primary care allocations are published on the NHS England website at:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/pc-medical-allocations.pdf

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01/01/2023

Luciana Berger – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-04-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of reports of Care Quality Commission inspections of mental health trusts have been produced within the Care Quality Commission’s 50-day target in each year since 2010.

Ben Gummer

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England and has provided the following information.

The 50 day key performance indicator target for publishing inspection reports was introduced by the CQC in 2014, when its new approach to inspections was introduced.

Number of mental health trust reports published within 50 days since the introduction of the CQC’s new approach to inspections in January 2014.

	2014	2015	2016
Reports published	12	26	15
Within 50 days	6	2	2
50 day percentage	50%	8%	13%

Within 65 days	9	9	5
65 day percentage	75%	35%	33%

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