Tag: John Glen

The below Parliamentary question was asked by John Glen on 2016-02-22.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if NHS England will issue a consultation on a new Prioritisation Framework for making decisions on investment in specialised services and highly specialised services.

George Freeman

In its response to the public consultation "Investing in Specialised Services" in June 2015, NHS England described the work planned to further develop a prioritisation framework for specialised services. This document stated that NHS England will ensure there is proper stakeholder engagement, potentially including a short formal consultation.

NHS England is currently testing a potential method for prioritisation for use in the 2016/17 business planning round, and will decide if a formal consultation is appropriate as part of this process.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by John Glen on 2016-05-18.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 15 April 2016 to Question 32928, what issues of prisoner payments were raised with the Palestinian Authority Finance Minister Bishara in September 2015; which prisoners were discussed with that Minister; and what representations she has received on reported payments made to Kifah and Ibrahim Ghanimat.

Mr Desmond Swayne

No UK aid is used for payments to Palestinian prisoners, or their families. UK direct financial assistance to the PA is used to pay the salaries of civil servant and pensioners. I discussed with Minister Bishara a broad range of issues regarding prisoner payments including their administration by the Palestinian Liberation Organisation. The UK continues to lobby for the payments to be more transparent, affordable and needs-based.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by John Glen on 2016-02-22.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans NHS England has to involve NICE in the specialised commissioning policy development process.

George Freeman

NHS England is in discussions with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence in relation to two areas of potential support to its clinical commissioning policy development process for directly commissioned specialised services from 2016/17.

The first is the delivery of rapid evidence reviews (systematic reviews of the available evidence of clinical effectiveness for particular treatments and indications). The second is the production of commissioning support documents for licenced drugs which NHS England commissions directly.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by John Glen on 2016-05-19.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to his Answer of 9 May 2016 to Question 35866, what the capital spend by (a) the Health Protection Agency on its National Incident Coordination Centre in 2011 at Buckingham Palace Gate and (b) Public Health England on its National Emergency Operations Centre in Wellington House was in 2015.

Jane Ellison

Public Health England was established in 2013. Therefore the Department has not been able to specifically identify the historical costs of creating the National Incident Coordination Centre (NICC) in 2011.

The works to install the NICC was part of a wider refit of 5th Floor North in Wellington House. The project cost for this refit was £43,000; the cost of installing the NICC cannot be specifically identified.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by John Glen on 2016-02-22.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if NHS England will publish a list of the commissioning policies scheduled to be developed in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17 and (c) 2017-18.

George Freeman

There are no plans for NHS England to publish the list of clinical policies in development.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by John Glen on 2016-07-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the introduction of the English language tuition scheme in supporting Muslim women to learn English.

Mr Marcus Jones

As the first step in rolling out the new £20 million programme we have committed just over £3 million to enable six providers who delivered the Department’s previous community-based English language programme to provide new tuition to over 10,000 people by March next year.

We will shortly be issuing a new Prospectus, inviting applications to run the bulk of the new programme from 2017. The nature and targeting of that provision will be informed by Louise Casey’s Review of Integration and Opportunity.

We will monitor the new Programme to assess its effectiveness in meeting its objectives.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by John Glen on 2016-02-22.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if NHS England will publish the (a) agendas and (b) minutes of all future meetings of the (i) Clinical Advisory Group and (ii) Specialised Commissioning Committee within a reasonable period after each such meeting takes place.

George Freeman

The specialised services commissioning committee provides regular updates of its business to NHS England’s public board, of which a summary is published online.

NHS England is considering how to further improve transparency, while not inhibiting the free and frank exchange of views.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by John Glen on 2016-07-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many women have received tuition under the English language tuition scheme since January 2016.

Mr Marcus Jones

As the first step in rolling out the new £20 million programme we have committed just over £3 million to enable six providers who delivered the Department’s previous community-based English language programme to provide new tuition to over 10,000 people by March next year.

We will shortly be issuing a new Prospectus, inviting applications to run the bulk of the new programme from 2017. The nature and targeting of that provision will be informed by Louise Casey’s Review of Integration and Opportunity.

We will monitor the new Programme to assess its effectiveness in meeting its objectives.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by John Glen on 2016-02-29.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people died from liver disease in (a) England and (b) each parliamentary constituency in the most recent year for which figures are available.

Mr Rob Wilson

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

The below Parliamentary question was asked by John Glen on 2016-07-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much of the English language tuition fund his Department has spent since January 2016.

Mr Marcus Jones

As the first step in rolling out the new £20 million programme we have committed just over £3 million to enable six providers who delivered the Department’s previous community-based English language programme to provide new tuition to over 10,000 people by March next year.

We will shortly be issuing a new Prospectus, inviting applications to run the bulk of the new programme from 2017. The nature and targeting of that provision will be informed by Louise Casey’s Review of Integration and Opportunity.

We will monitor the new Programme to assess its effectiveness in meeting its objectives.