Tag: Liam Byrne

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Liam Byrne on 2015-10-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his Department’s strategy is for supporting children who are the children of alcoholics; and if he will make a statement.

Jane Ellison

Parents play a crucial role in how their children develop and behave and act as role models for them and we recognise that parental alcohol dependency can limit parenting capacity and this can have serious consequences for children.

A number of initiatives to ensure that children have the best possible start in life have been introduced:

– the national Healthy Child Programme supports children’s health and development, by providing parenting support and health promotion guidance; and

– the expanded Troubled Families programme launched in April 2015 offers support on health issues to up to 400,000 families, including for alcohol and drug misuse.

We have given local authorities more than £8 billion in funding over three years so they can put the right services in place to help their communities.

Public Health England’s role in supporting local authorities undertake their public health functions is vital in reducing the levels of alcohol harm and supporting young people with parents who are alcohol dependent.

As part of this Public Health England funded the “Alcohol and other Drug use: The Roles and Capabilities of Social Workers”. This guidance sets out the key roles for social workers in relation to substance misuse.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Liam Byrne on 2015-10-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the proportion of children who are the children of alcoholics who go on to misuse alcohol.

Jane Ellison

This data is not available centrally.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Liam Byrne on 2015-10-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of which health and wellbeing boards are most effective in reducing misuse of alcohol; and if he will make a statement.

Jane Ellison

This data is not available centrally.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Liam Byrne on 2015-10-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which 50 areas have the highest incidence of the misuse of alcohol; and if he will make a statement.

Jane Ellison

We do not have any reliable data centrally for how areas are broadly affected by alcohol misuse.

We do have data from the public health outcomes framework indicator for hospital admissions where the main reason for admission was alcohol-related. Data for 2013-14 for each local authority is attached.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Liam Byrne on 2015-10-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department has issued to local authorities on steps to tackle alcohol misuse.

Jane Ellison

Local authorities are responsible for assessing local need for alcohol prevention and treatment services and commissioning interventions and services based on that need. Public Health England (PHE) works closely with local authorities – via nine regional centres – by providing advice, support and evidence-based guidance in a range of public health issues, including alcohol misuse.

An example of this is the support PHE gives to local authority commissioners with the joint strategic needs assessment (JSNA) process and their local joint health and wellbeing strategies. The annual JSNA support pack from PHE covers four topics including alcohol harm prevention, treatment and recovery. For more information, see the pack which is available online at:

http://www.nta.nhs.uk/healthcare-JSNA.aspx

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Liam Byrne on 2015-10-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans next to update the public health outcomes framework.

Jane Ellison

The consultation on updating the Public Health Outcomes Framework was published on 3 September and closed on 2 October. We are considering the responses and intend to publish our proposals in due course.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Liam Byrne on 2015-10-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the number of alcoholics in each local authority area.

Jane Ellison

Data on numbers of alcohol-dependent people is not currently available by local authority.

The Department has commissioned the University of Sheffield to produce local authority estimates and their report is expected to be published in spring 2016.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Liam Byrne on 2014-06-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much his Department has spent on funding for trade union representatives studying Trade Union Congress (TUC) learning aims in (a) each of the last five years and (b) 2014-15; and what his estimate is of funding in (i) 2015-16 and (ii) any future years for which budgets are available.

Matthew Hancock

I refer the Rt. Hon. Member to the answer given by my Rt. Hon. Friend, the Minister of State for Universities and Science (David Willetts), on 11 July 2011, Official Report, column 195W.

Further education (FE) colleges and training organisations receive a post-19 funding allocation each academic year at the programme level (for example budgets for adult skills, adult safeguarded learning and/or offender learning and skills).

As funding is not allocated at the learning aim level, the amount of money spent on TUC learning aims is not reported centrally by the Skills Funding Agency.

From the 2011/12 academic year a single adult skills budget was introduced. This will provide FE colleges and training organisations with the flexibility to offer the range and balance of programmes, from basic skills to higher-level skills, in the mode of delivery that will best meet the needs of learners, employers and communities (classroom, workshop, online and in the workplace).

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Liam Byrne on 2015-01-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will request that Simon Stevens, Chief Executive of NHS England, reply to the letter of 21 November 2014 from the hon. Member for Birmingham, Hodge Hill, on A&E services at Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham.

Jane Ellison

The Department understands that NHS England will be replying to the hon. Member’s letter of 21 November 2014.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Liam Byrne on 2015-02-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 29 January 2015 to Question 222138, which organisations are involved in the process of clearing home-owners’ applications to the Gaza Reconstruction Mechanism; how many applicants have been rejected during that process; and what the involvement of the Israeli government is in assessing the security risks associated with each application.

Mr Tobias Ellwood

The organisations involved in the process of clearing home-owners’ applications to the Gaza Reconstruction Mechanism (GRM) are the UN agencies doing the damage assessment, the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Public Works and Housing and Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Government of Israel.

No individuals have been rejected to date, but a number of the assessments submitted require review ahead of further processing. These were mostly caused by repetition of names of individuals or where the assessments were recorded under the names of owners who are deceased for example. The GRM does not allow for the disqualification of individuals assessed for shelter repair on grounds of political association or geographic location in Gaza.

The Government of Israel, like all participants in the mechanism, is able to object to individuals participating in the GRM.