Tag: Justin Madders

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.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Justin Madders on 2015-11-25.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the cost-effectiveness of the Government’s spending on infrastructure since 2010.

Greg Hands

In 2010, the government launched the Infrastructure Cost Review seeking to improve the cost effective delivery of infrastructure projects and programmes. In 2014, the Cost Review reported savings of around 15% – worth around £3billion per annum – by addressing a number of drivers of high costs. But more can and is being done, working closely with infrastructure clients from public and private sectors to continue to bear down on costs and improve delivery performance.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Justin Madders on 2015-12-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) nurse consultants, (b) modern matrons and (c) community matrons were employed in the NHS in the (i) latest period for which figures are available and (ii) same period in 2009-10.

Ben Gummer

The following table shows the number of nurse consultants, modern matrons and community matrons employed in the National Health Service in England.

full-time equivalent

	August 2010	August 2015
Nurse consultants	1,007	882
Modern Matrons	4,802	3,919
Community Matrons	1,536	1,214

Source: Health and Social Care Information Centre monthly workforce statistics

Data is not available for August 2009 as the monthly workforce statistics commenced in September 2009.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Justin Madders on 2016-01-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many affordable housing completions there were in Ellesmere Port and Neston constituency for each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.

Brandon Lewis

Figures on the numbers of affordable housing completions for each local authority area in England in each year since 1991-92 are published by the department in Live Table 1008 which is available to download at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-affordable-housing-supply

The figures are not compiled on the basis of parliamentary constituencies.

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Justin Madders on 2016-02-22.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent representations he has made to Premier League football clubs on the level of ticket prices.

David Evennett

While ticket prices are matter for individual clubs, this Government is aware how important this is to so many football fans. Football is enjoying an enormous amount of financial success at present, however it should not be forgotten that this is built on the hard work and the money of millions of loyal supporters. Clubs should ensure that ticket pricing strikes the right balance between value for supporters, and generating the income necessary to sustain their business.

I will be looking for football to embrace fully a key recommendation from a recently published Government Expert Working Group on supporter ownership and engagement that requires clubs meet with fans at least twice yearly to discuss matters of most importance.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Justin Madders on 2016-03-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 9 February 2016 to Question 25939, what proportion of the income from estimated Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme payments for 2016-17 will be brought forward from estimated payments due in (a) 2017-18 and (b) 2018-19.

Ben Gummer

The Government announced in December 2015 that the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme (PPRS) payment percentage for the 2016 calendar year is 7.80%. This represents an increase of 2.64 percentage points as a result of the addendum to the PPRS agreed with the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry and published alongside the 2016 payment percentage. The income brought forward to 2016 as a result of this agreement will depend on a number of factors, including total branded medicine sales to the National Health Service over the course of the year.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to address historic allegations of mistreatment of whistleblowers in the NHS.

Ben Gummer

The Department supports the right of staff working in the National Health Service to raise concerns and expects all NHS organisations to support staff in raising concerns. We expect all NHS organisations to adopt the national whistleblowing policy for the NHS as a minimum standard, which will be published by NHS Improvement and NHS England next month, and comply with the Employment Rights Act 1996, as amended by the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998.

A regulation-making power was included in the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 to prohibit discrimination against whistleblowers (or applicants believed by the prospective employer to have been whistleblowers) when they apply for jobs with prescribed NHS employers. The Department is aiming to consult shortly on draft regulations to implement this power.

NHS England, Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority are currently developing a support scheme for NHS workers and former NHS workers, whose performance is sound and who can demonstrate that they are having difficulty finding employment in the NHS as a result of having made protected disclosures. This scheme will be piloted in the next financial year.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Justin Madders on 2016-04-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the legal status is of Sustainability and Transformation Plan (a) footprints and (b) leadership teams.

George Freeman

Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) footprints and leadership teams do not have legal status or legal duties. The local, statutory architecture for health and care remains, as do the existing accountabilities for provider and local authority chief executives and clinical commissioning group accountable officers. Health and care organisations remain accountable for their individual organisational plans, which should form part of their footprint’s STP.