Tag: Derek Twigg

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Derek Twigg on 2016-10-19.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects the Health Protection Agency study on the health effects of emissions from municipal waste incinerators to be published.

Nicola Blackwood

Public Health England funded study by the Small Area Health Statistics Unit (SAHSU) at Imperial College and the Environmental Research Group at King’s College London investigating the potential link between emissions from municipal waste incinerators and health outcomes is ongoing. It is expected that papers from the project will be submitted by SAHSU to peer reviewed journals in spring 2017, and papers to be published later in the year.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Derek Twigg on 2016-03-02.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which hospitals in Merseyside and Cheshire carry out planned surgical procedures at weekends.

Jane Ellison

The information is shown in the table below. An elective procedure is a non-urgent procedure that is planned in advance, not all elective procedures are surgical.

The following National Health Service and independent sector hospitals in Merseyside and Cheshire¹ reported elective procedures at weekends.

Provider

Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust

BMI – The South Cheshire Private Hospital

Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

East Cheshire NHS Trust

Fairfield Hospital

Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust

Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Nuffield Health, The Grosvenor Hospital, Chester

Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust

Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust

Spire Cheshire Hospital

Spire Liverpool Hospital

Spire Murrayfield Hospital

Spire Regency Hospital

St Helens and Knowsley Hospitals NHS Trust

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust

The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust

Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust

Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, Health and Social Care Information Centre

Notes:

1. Merseyside and Cheshire has been interpreted as two Area Teams. This indicates the area team within which the organisation providing treatment was located. This data is limited to providers in the area teams:

Q44 – Cheshire, Warrington and the Wirral Area Team

Q48 – Merseyside Area Team

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Derek Twigg on 2016-04-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much his Department provided in bus subsidies to each local authority in England in each year since 2010.

Andrew Jones

The majority of public funding for local bus services is via block grant provided to local authorities in England from the Department for Communities and Local Government. However, since 2014, my Department has also provided around £40m of Bus Service Operators Grant (BSOG) funding directly to English local authorities each year to help deliver bus services.

Details of BSOG grant allocations for previous years are published in tables on the GOV.UK website at: https://www.gov.uk/search?q=Bus+Service+Operators+Grant

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Derek Twigg on 2016-10-19.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he has taken to make clinical commissioning groups aware of their commissioning responsibilities as set out in the manual for prescribed specialised services in 2016-17.

David Mowat

Specialised services are the responsibility of NHS England.

The ‘Manual for Prescribed Specialised Services 2016/17’ outlines which prescribed specialised services commissioned by NHS England are related to which services commissioned by clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). It is one of a suite of products that NHS England has developed to facilitate the effective commissioning of specialised services.

However, it does not attempt to provide a comprehensive overview of CCG commissioning responsibilities.

The manual is available from NHS England’s website at:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/pss-manual-may16.pdf

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Derek Twigg on 2016-03-02.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many agency nurses were employed by each hospital trust in Merseyside and Cheshire in each year since 2010.

Ben Gummer

The Department does not collect this data centrally.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Derek Twigg on 2016-04-20.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate his Department has made of the number of local authorities expected to have a shortfall in adult social care funding after implementation of the two per cent social care precept.

Mr Marcus Jones

No such estimate has been made. Local authorities have the freedom and flexibility to prioritise and make their own decisions on how they spend their budgets and meet their statutory duties (including in relation to adult social care). The Government has provided a package of support of up to £3.5 billion to ensure councils are able to support up to some of their older and most vulnerable residents. This is greater than the Local Government Association’s £2.9 billion estimate set out in their Spending Review submission.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Derek Twigg on 2016-03-02.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many vehicles late licensing penalties have been issued in each year since 2010.

Andrew Jones

The table below shows the number of late licensing penalties that have been issued in each calendar year since 2010:

Year	Number of late licensing penalties issued
2010	665,258
2011	514,106
2012	568,224
2013	575,032
2014	478,133
2015	480,790

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Derek Twigg on 2016-04-20.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment his Department has made of the time taken for patients outside London to receive stroke rehabilitation treatment.

Jane Ellison

Although the Government has made no assessment of the time taken for patients outside London to receive stroke rehabilitation treatment, the Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme (SSNAP) has collected data over the last three years on the rehabilitation that stroke patients get in hospital and in the community in England. This data includes information on time to first assessment for rehabilitation and treatment. The SSNAP reports are available at:

https://www.strokeaudit.org/results/PostAcute.aspx

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Derek Twigg on 2016-03-02.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent progress has been made on reopening the Halton Curve railway line.

Mr Robert Goodwill

Following its inclusion in the Liverpool City Region Growth Deal, Merseytravel is managing the development and delivery of this devolved scheme on behalf of the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority. I understand that the business case for the scheme is expected to be considered by the Combined Authority at its meeting in April. If approved, work is expected to begin in June 2017 and be complete by May 2018.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Derek Twigg on 2016-04-20.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the vacancy rate is for spinal surgery specialists in England.

Ben Gummer

The vacancy rate for spinal surgery specialists in England is not collected.