Tag: Justin Madders

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Justin Madders on 2016-03-15.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much funding was allocated to Heathwatch England in each of the last three years; and how much such funding will be allocated in 2016-17 in cash terms and real terms.

Ben Gummer

Healthwatch England was allocated £4.083 million in 2013/14, £4.157 million in 2014/15, and £4.5 million in 2015/16. The figures are a combination of funding for core running costs and additional non-recurrent funding.

A final allocation for 2016/17 is yet to be finalised.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Justin Madders on 2016-04-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which medicines have been reclassified from (a) prescription only medicine to pharmacy medicine status, (b) pharmacy medicine to general sales list medicine status and (c) prescription only medicine to general sales list medicine status in each of the last 25 years; for each of those medicines so reclassified what condition that medicine was designed to treat; and if he will make a statement.

George Freeman

The Government is committed to the continued reclassification of medicines from prescription only to pharmacy classification and from pharmacy to general sales list classification when it is safe to do so and there is a clear benefit to public health. This is an important part of empowering patients to manage their own care. The Government’s medicines regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, is at the forefront of moves to reclassify medicines to non-prescription and is recognised as a leader in Europe in this regard.

Over the years reclassification has been facilitated by improving the regulatory environment for manufacturers to achieve successful reclassification of their products. Amendments to legislation were introduced in 2002 to reduce the legislative burden for reclassification; new guidance was published in 2012 to streamline the process; and in 2015 a United Kingdom platform was set up to maximise stakeholder engagement with the aim of encouraging further reclassification of medicines.

Patient safety remains the prime consideration in any decision to make a medicine available without prescription.

We are unable to calculate the total difference in cost to the public purse following these medicine reclassifications.

The attached tables contain the information for each of the last 25 years on medicines reclassified from prescription only medicine (POM) to Pharmacy (P) medicine and P medicine to general sales list (GSL) medicine. There are no examples of medicines which have been reclassified from POM to GSL. Where relevant, brand names have been included in brackets.

The lists represent the first reclassification either from POM to P or P to GSL of the product and further extensions such as wider indications, additional pack sizes or higher strengths have not been included.

Not all products listed are currently available, for various reasons, including both commercial and regulatory.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Justin Madders on 2016-05-04.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what advice he received from senior nurses before the decision to replace NHS bursaries with student loans was announced in the Autumn Statement.

Ben Gummer

The Government received and considered a broad range of representations from a number of stakeholders during the Spending Review process including discussions with leading nursing professionals in the Department and its arm’s length bodies.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Justin Madders on 2016-05-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what funding has been allocated by Health Education England for clinical placements for the new nurse training places his Department plans to deliver by the end of the Parliament.

Ben Gummer

Following the reforms to higher education healthcare funding, the Government, through Health Education England, will retain the responsibility for commissioning and funding the minimum numbers of clinical placements required to produce sufficient healthcare graduates. The Government is consulting on the widest possible funding solutions to ensure there is sufficient placement capacity across the system, in order to match the expanded number of training places created by the reforms.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Justin Madders on 2016-06-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of Sustainability and Transformation Plans have been submitted to his Department; and what the deadline is for such plans to be submitted.

George Freeman

No Sustainability and Transformation Plans have been submitted yet. Draft submissions will be made to the national arm’s length bodies and are due on 30 June 2016. These documents will be discussed with footprints in July 2016.

Plans will have no status until they are agreed. Footprints are at different starting points, and so the degree of detail that will be provided by 30 June 2016 will vary. Therefore, rather than expecting to have one ‘sign-off’ moment for all 44 plans, it is anticipated that this will occur in a series of waves over the coming weeks and months, with those areas who are more advanced achieving earlier sign off than those who will require more work.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Justin Madders on 2016-06-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many secondary breast cancer nurses there are in England.

Ben Gummer

Information on the number of secondary breast cancer nurses in England is not collected by the Department.

It is for local National Health Service organisations with their knowledge of the healthcare needs of their local population to invest in training for specialist skills and to deploy specialist nurses.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Justin Madders on 2016-09-06.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 29 June 2016 to Question 40558, from which sources other than vehicle excise renewals his Department receives credit card fees from people paying for services offered by his Department and its agencies; and what the total amount so received was in (a) 2013-14, (b) 2014-15 and (c) 2015-16.

Andrew Jones

There are no services, aside from paying Vehicle Excise Duty, for which my Department or its agencies receives a credit card fee.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Justin Madders on 2016-10-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the most recent rating by the Care Quality Commission was of each Ambulance Trust.

Mr Philip Dunne

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and adult social care providers in England. Following an inspection the CQC rate providers on a four point scale running from outstanding, good, requires improvement and inadequate. In addition to an aggregate rating at a provider level, the CQC produces ratings for individual services and locations. The CQC has provided the following information:

The CQC began its new inspection approach in September 2013. Since then the CQC has undertaken a comprehensive first rating inspection at all National Health Service trusts it committed to; non-specialist acute trusts, community trusts, mental health trusts, ambulances and specialist acute trusts. The deadlines for each were met, namely, March 2016 for acute non-specialists and June 2016 for the other commitments. As all inspections for ambulance trusts have been completed, the majority of inspection reports have been published. Those that are not yet published are undergoing the factual accuracy process and will be published by the end of 2016.

The table below sets out the 10 NHS ambulance trusts that are registered with CQC, their overall rating (where applicable) and the date the inspection report was published.

Registered ambulance trusts¹ with overall rating under new inspection regime where applicable (as at 11 October 2016)

Provider Name	Latest overall rating	Publication date
Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust	Requires improvement	21 August 2015
London Ambulance Service NHS Trust	Inadequate	27 November 2015
East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust	Requires improvement	10 May 2016
East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust	Requires improvement	9 August 2016
South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust	Good	20 September 2016
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust	Inadequate	29 September 2016
South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust	Requires improvement	6 October 2016
North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust	Report not yet published	To be confirmed
North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust	Report not yet published	To be confirmed
West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust	Report not yet published	To be confirmed

¹ Registered NHS Healthcare Organisation providers and active NHS Healthcare Organisation locations with primary inspection category of Ambulance Service. Ratings supplied are the overall for the trust, not that specific to Patient Transport Services. In addition, one trust, Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust, has a rating for Patient Transport Services but is excluded from the data supplied because it is not an ambulance trust.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Justin Madders on 2016-10-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children were (a) White British, (b) White British eligible for free school meals, (c) White Non-British, (d) White Non-British eligible for free school meals, (e) Black, (f) Black eligible for free school meals, (g) Indian, (h) Indian eligible for free school meals, (i) Chinese ethnicity, (j) Chinese ethnicity eligible for free school meals, (k) other Asian, (l) other Asia eligible for free school meals, (m) any other ethnicity and (n) any other ethnicity eligible for free school meals received a place in a grammar school in each of the last five years.

Nick Gibb

Proportion of Year 7 pupils in Selective schools by selected ethnic groups, gender & FSM eligibility

All pupils	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
White British	3.7%	3.7%	3.9%	3.9%	3.8%
White British – Eligible for FSM	0.6%	0.5%	0.6%	0.6%	0.7%
White non-British	3.1%	3.1%	3.4%	3.2%	3.3%
White non-British – Eligible for FSM	0.2%	0.5%	0.5%	0.5%	0.9%
Black	2.5%	2.9%	3.2%	3.1%	3.6%
Black – Eligible for FSM	0.3%	0.4%	0.6%	0.5%	0.8%
Indian	12.6%	12.9%	14.0%	15.5%	15.7%
Indian – Eligible for FSM	2.5%	2.1%	2.2%	3.0%	2.8%
Chinese	19.4%	19.3%	21.0%	18.0%	18.2%
Chinese – Eligible for FSM	10.2%	9.0%	12.0%	8.8%	5.2%
Other Asian	5.5%	5.6%	5.9%	5.9%	6.0%
Other Asian – Eligible for FSM	1.6%	1.1%	1.4%	1.4%	1.5%

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Justin Madders on 2016-10-18.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what checks his Department has in place to measure the standard of work carried out by contractors under the Energy Company Obligations scheme.

Jesse Norman

All Energy Company Obligation (ECO) measures are installed in accordance with the appropriate industry standards including PAS 2030 (Publicly Available Specification) and building regulations.

Ofgem, the scheme administrator, carries out checks to ensure that the relevant scheme requirements have been met and that the energy bill and carbon savings reported by suppliers are accurate. These checks include technical monitoring which verifies that measures have been installed in accordance with the relevant installation standards.

Ofgem also conducts audits on measures notified to them by suppliers and have a counter-fraud team which works to detect, prevent and deter fraudulent activity. In addition, energy suppliers are required to conduct their own technical monitoring to ensure their measures are compliant.

Further to this, last year Government commissioned the Bonfield review, an independent review of consumer advice, protection, standards and enforcement for energy efficiency and renewable energy which will be published shortly.