Tag: Emma Reynolds

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Emma Reynolds on 2015-11-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment the Government has made of the potential effect on student numbers of abolishing grants and maintenance allowances and introducing student loans and tuition fees for nurses’ training places; and what assessment the Government has made of the effect on students from poorer backgrounds of abolishing grants and maintenance allowances and introducing student loans and tuition fees for such training places.

Ben Gummer

The Government assessment undertaken to date is that nursing is consistently one of the most popular courses on the University Central Administration Service (fifth), with 57,000 applicants for around 20,000 nursing places in 2014. Midwifery and Allied Health Professional courses receive higher than average applications as well.

A maximum £9,000 tuition fee for other subjects at higher education institutions was introduced in 2012. Between 2012 and 2014 the number of English domiciled applicants to enter full-time undergraduate courses in the United Kingdom increased by 7.5% (from 454,000 in 2012 to 487,870 in 2014). Figures for 2015 cycle will be released in mid-December and early indicators suggest that there will be further increase in 2015.

Students from the most disadvantaged areas in England were 72% more likely to apply to higher education in 2015 than 2006.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Emma Reynolds on 2016-01-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if his Department will publish an accountability structure of the responsibilities regarding sexual and reproductive health for each government department and arm’s length body.

Jane Ellison

The Department is responsible for overall policy on sexual health in England. We work collaboratively with all relevant arm’s length bodies on issues linked to sexual health and we also maintain good working relationships with other government departments on issues relating to sexual health. Accountability structures for each organisation are already in the public domain.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Emma Reynolds on 2016-03-03.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits for the UK economy of the completion of a EU internal energy market.

Amber Rudd

My Department assesses that the completion of the EU internal energy market would put downward pressure on energy bills; encourage efficient investment in the UK energy sector; and enhance energy security.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Emma Reynolds on 2015-11-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nurses’ training places were available in each region in each year since 2009; how many (a) agency nurses and (b) nurses from outside the UK were used by the NHS in each year since 2009; and what the cost to the NHS was of both such categories of nurses in each of those years.

Ben Gummer

Non-medical training numbers are collected as part of the quarterly multi professional education and training budget monitoring returns that are submitted to the Department by Health Education England (HEE). Prior to the establishment of HEE in 2013/14 these were submitted to the Department by the Strategic Health Authority (SHA) as part of their quarterly Financial Information Management Systems (FIMS) monitoring returns. The table below shows the number of nurse training places available in each SHA from 2009/10 to 2012/13.

2009/10	2010/11	2011/12	2012/13
NHS North East	1,095	1,045	1,000	992
NHS North West	3,630	3,358	3,082	3,066
NHS Yorkshire and Humber	2,299	2,278	1,848	1,805
NHS East Midlands	1,735	1,660	1,462	1,430
NHS West Midlands	2,597	2,557	2,102	2,102
NHS East of England	1,889	1,717	1,536	1,494
NHS London	3,992	3,695	3,401	3,088
NHS South East Coast	1,335	1,281	1,169	1,123
NHS South Central	1,175	1,237	1,108	1,153
NHS South West	1,590	1499	1,361	1,293
Total planned	21,337	20,327	18,069	17,546

Source: SHA quarterly FIMS monitoring returns

The following table details the information collected by HEE in relation to available nurse training places from 2013/14 to 2015/16, broken down by Local Education and Training Boards (LETB).

The disaggregated data for 2013/14 is not held within the format requested. The published national workforce plan for 2013/14 stated that there would be 18,009 training commissions available for nursing.

LETB Region	2013/14	2014/15	2015/16
North East		1,105	1,089
North West		3,415	3,322
Yorkshire and Humber		2,010	2,059
West Midlands		2,157	2,192
East Midlands		1,613	1,661
East of England		1,783	2,015
North West London		820	917
North, Central and East London		1,201	1,280
South London		1,138	1,171
Kent, Surrey and Sussex		1,126	1,209
Thames Valley		768	795
Wessex		941	1,011
South West		1,368	1,432
Total	18,009	19,445	20,153

Source: Multi-professional education and training budget monitoring returns

The Department does not collect data centrally on the number of agency nurses working in the NHS. This information may be held locally at Trust level.

The Department started to collect financial data from NHS trusts and foundation trusts in respect of net temporary and agency staffing costs specifically from 2013/14. Available data on spending nationally on all agency staff in England is set out in the table below. We are not able to separately identify total spending with agencies on nurses from centrally held data.

Total cost to the NHS of temporary staff in 2013/14 and 2014/15

	2013/14 £000s	2014/15 £000s
Total NHS Providers	2,605,378	3,355,723

Source: Department of Health Annual Report and Accounts 2014/15

The Department does not hold information on the total cost to the NHS of nurses from outside of the United Kingdom working in the service. The information provided in the table below shows the number of declared non-British nurses working in the NHS in England dating back to 2009. Non-British nursing numbers working in the NHS in England covers hospital and community health services in the NHS but not primary care.

	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014
Non-British	40,034	41,642	40,911	40,030	40,330	43,258
Proportion of non-British nurses as % of the nursing workforce	14.4%	14.3%	13.8%	13.3%	13.0%	13.5%

Source: Health and Social Care Information Centre.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Emma Reynolds on 2016-01-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what system of monitoring is in place to ensure that local authorities meet their duty to commission open access, confidential services for sexually transmitted infections and contraception.

Jane Ellison

The Department’s Framework for Sexual Health Promotion in England (2013) sets out our ambitions and objectives to improve sexual health for all people. It takes account of the commissioning arrangements from 2013 including the new role for local authorities (LAs) as commissioners of most sexual health services. Later this month Public Health England (PHE) will undertake a survey of local commissioning arrangements for sexual health. It has also produced sexual health and reproductive health profiles to help LAs and others monitor the sexual and reproductive health of their populations and the performance of local public health related systems.

It is for LAs to decide on what research and evidence they need to inform their tenders for sexual health and reproductive health services in line with procurement requirements and good practice. In 2014 PHE published Making it Work, a guide to commissioning for sexual health across the whole system, to improve the sexual health of both individuals and the wider public.

We have made no formal assessment of the effect on sexual health services of reductions in the Public Health Grant to LAs for 2015/16, although PHE continues to monitor relevant outcomes data for every LA in England. Decisions on local public health spending are a matter for LAs. They are mandated by legislation to commission open access sexual health services that meet the needs of their local population. Officials meet regularly with sexual health organisations who would raise any concerns if LAs were not meeting their mandatory requirements for sexual health services.

The Framework for Sexual Health Improvement includes as a priority reducing unwanted pregnancies and highlights the need to increase access to long acting reversible contraception (LARC) methods and emergency contraception for women of all ages. We have no plans to evaluate the effect on general practitioner surgeries of LA commissioning of LARCs.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Emma Reynolds on 2016-03-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times the UK has requested information (a) under the Prüm convention DNA sharing, (b) relating to the European Arrest Warrant about criminal records, (c) from the EU Passenger Name Record sharing scheme, (d) from a Europol Joint Investigation Team, (e) under the Schengen Information System, (f) from Europol’s HAVEN project to combat sexual abuse and trafficking and (g) from other EU member states about stadium bans and previous offenders at football matches.

James Brokenshire

The United Kingdom is not yet connected to any other country for the sharing of DNA under the Prüm Council Decisions.

The UK shares criminal record information with Member States via the European Criminal Records Information System (ECRIS). In 2015, the UK made 105,164 requests for overseas criminal record checks to other EU Member States, compared to 8,536 in 2010, an increase of over 1100%.

European legislation is currently under consideration that would require EU Member States to process Passenger Name Records (PNR) on scheduled aviation flights. The proposed legislation would require the data to be analysed by a central Passenger Information Unit and all relevant and necessary PNR to be shared with the Passenger Information Units of other Member States in compliance with data protection obligations. Receiving PNR before travel allows law enforcement authorities to plan and respond proactively to threats. PNR plays a vital role in intelligence-led operations, post-incident investigations and judicial proceedings.

Joint investigation teams are Member State led processes. Europol staff may participate in a supporting capacity.

According to the EU’s Justice and Home Affairs IT Agency (eu-LISA), the UK had the following numbers of alerts active (that is, broadcast to Member States and not subsequently revoked) on 17 February 2014:

People wanted by the UK on a European Arrest Warrant (EAW) 231

Missing adults 6,121

Missing children 2,589

Wanted for judicial purposes (e.g. Witnesses to be traced) 1,884

Discreet alerts 10,438 Discreet alerts (national security) 478

Europol’s Project HAVEN – Halting Europeans Abusing Victims in Every Nation- is part of Europol’s work under Focal Point Twins. The UK participates in and exchanges information under Europol’s Focal Point Twins and the aim is to support Member States and third countries to prevent or combat the activities of criminal networks involved in the sexual exploitation of children. Operations in the UK to counter organised crime relating to Child Sexual Exploitation have been supported by Europol, and the UK exchanges information on crimes of this nature with and through Europol via our Liaison Bureau, rather than through Project HAVEN.

Between April 2014 and the end of December 2015,UK Football Policing Unit within the Home Office, the national football information point, requested information from other EU member states about stadium bans on 101 occasions. No figures are held on individual offenders with football bans.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Emma Reynolds on 2015-12-15.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the number of businesses was that traded goods internationally through export or import in 2014.

Anna Soubry

Data on the number of businesses in Great Britain engaging in international trade in goods can be found on the ONS website in the ‘Exporters and Importers in Great Britain, 2014’ release, published on 12 November 2015.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Emma Reynolds on 2016-01-20.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2016 to Question 20287, when she plans to give a substantive answer to that question.

James Brokenshire

I refer the Honourable Member to the response I gave on 17 March 2016.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Emma Reynolds on 2016-03-21.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of jobs that have been created by foreign direct investment from other EU countries in each region and constituent part of the UK in each of the last five years.

Mr David Gauke

UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) have reported on the number of jobs associated with foreign direct investment projects in UK regions in the ‘Foreign Direct Investment projects by UK Region (2010/11 to 2014/15)’ report. This can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/foreign-direct-investment-projects-by-ukti-regions-201011-to-201415/foreign-direct-investment-projects-by-uk-region-201011-to-201415

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Emma Reynolds on 2015-11-16.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of information maintained by the NHS to enable his Department to assess the reasons why women choose to have a BRCA1/2 test.

George Freeman

NHS England does hold data on the individual reasons patients may have for seeking referral for a BRCA1/2 test. A new clinical commissioning policy to guide and expand access to BRCA testing was published by NHS England in July 2015. This policy is intended to provide greater clarity and equity for patients across England wishing to consider testing by providing consistent criteria for referral, where a referral is made by a specialist clinic.