Tag: Luciana Berger

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-10-21.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken to reduce homophobic hate crimes since January 2016.

Sarah Newton

The Home Office was part of the steering group of an Equalities and Human Rights Commission project to tackle homophobic, biphobic and transphobic hate crime, which ended earlier this year.

As a result, we have committed to work with organisations such as the anti-violence charity Galop to develop resources that specifically meet the needs of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans (LGBT) communities. We are also sharing existing good practice, including across the LGBT Hate Crime Network which was established by the project and is made up of over 30 groups across the country.

The cross-Government Hate Crime Action Plan, developed following consultation with a number of LGBT groups, contains actions designed to tackle hate crime against LGB&T people. This includes an assessment of the levels of homophobic bullying in schools, renewed CPS legal guidance on homophobic, biphobic and transphobic crime and funding for community groups who are working to tackle hate crime, including homophobic, biphobic and transphobic hate crime.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-11-04.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 20 October 2015 to Question 11305, if he will ask NICE to undertake a technical appraisal of psychological therapies.

George Freeman

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has issued guidelines recommending the use of psychological therapies in the treatment of a number of conditions and there are no plans to ask NICE to undertake a technology appraisal of psychological therapies.

Details of NICE guidelines available can be found at: www.nice.org.uk/Guidance.

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-11-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what (a) amount and (b) proportion of the grants awarded by the National Institute for Health Research have been related to mental health in each of the last five years.

George Freeman

The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) awards funding of varying durations through a wide range of research programmes, research training and career development schemes, and funding streams for research infrastructure, systems and support services.

Spend on research funded directly by the NIHR has been categorised by Health Research Classification System (HRCS) health categories. NIHR expenditure on research infrastructure, systems and support services where spend cannot be attributed to health categories is excluded. The following table shows NIHR spend in the ‘mental health’ category, and this spend as a proportion of total categorised spend and as a proportion of total revenue expenditure.

	NIHR spend in ‘mental health’ HRCS health category
	£ million	Proportion of total categorised NIHR spend %	Proportion of total NIHR revenue spend %
2010/11	49.8	9.0	5.4
2011/12	53.2	9.0	5.8
2012/13	70.0	9.5	7.3
2013/14	71.7	9.5	7.3
2014/15	72.6	9.0	7.4

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-11-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much of the additional £1.25 billion allocated in the Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015 for funding for child and adolescent mental health services over five years will be allocated in each financial year to 2020.

Alistair Burt

In total £1.4 billion will be made available over the course of this Parliament to improve children and young people’s mental health. In addition to the £1.25 billion made available in the March 2015 budget, which includes £75 million for perinatal mental health services, an additional £150 million was also allocated in the 2014 Autumn Statement to improve community-based eating disorder services.

The Government is firmly committed to delivering the major changes needed to improve services for children and young people with mental health problems, including investment in early intervention and prevention.

The Government is taking a targeted and phased approach to the additional investment to enable local areas to develop additional capacity and a collaborative approach across health, education and children’s services. This is what is needed to make a real difference. We are spending £143 million this year, much of which is going to local area, underpinned by a national programme of work.

Exact allocations for each financial year will be confirmed as part of the annual planning process, but the government remains committed to delivering the full amount over the five year period to 2019/20.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-11-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many requests under section 42 of the Data Protection Act have been made in respect of (a) Google Commerce Limited, (b) Google Inc., (c) Google Payment Limited and (d) Google UK Limited.

Mr Edward Vaizey

Information relating to the number of requests under section 42 of the Data Protection Act that have been made in respect of (a) Google Commerce Limited, (b) Google Inc, (c) Google Payment Limited and (d) Google UK Limited is outlined below:

Year	Google Inc	Google UK Ltd	Google Payment Limited
2012/2013	4	16	0
2013/2014	1	4	0
2014/2015	3	0	3
2015/2016	1	0	0

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-12-04.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of publicly-funded child and adolescent mental health in-patient services are provided by private providers; what the names of those providers are; how many and what types of services each such provider provides; and what proportion of all privately-provided services such services represent.

Alistair Burt

Approximately 47% of in-patient Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) are provided by independent providers.

The table below contains a list of the specialised commissioned CAMHS and the names of the independent providers who provided these services in 2014/15.

Acute – Adolescent Inpatient

Alpha Hospitals

Cambian Healthcare

Oak View

Riverdale Grange

Acute – Adolescent Inpatient

Priory

Acute – Adolescent Inpatient (High Dependency Unit)

Priory

Acute – Child Inpatient

Cygnet Healthcare

Plymouth Community Healthcare

Eating Disorder – Adolescent Inpatients

Newbridge

Eating Disorders – Adolescent Inpatient

CareUK

Ellern Mede Centre For Eating Disorders

Priory

The Huntercombe Group

Eating Disorders – Adolescent Inpatient High Dependency

CareUK

Eating Disorders – Adolescent Short term Intensive

CareUK

Low Secure – CAMHS

The Huntercombe Group

Low Secure Female and Male

Priory

Low Secure Learning Disabled

Oak View

Low Secure Male MI

Alpha Hospitals

Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit

The Huntercombe Group

Alpha Hospitals

Priory

Secure and Specialised Mental Health Services (Child)

Low Secure Female Autistic Spectrum Disorder

St Andrews

Low Secure Female Learning Disabled

St Andrews

Low Secure Female Mental Illness

St Andrews

Low Secure Male Autistic Spectrum Disorder

St Andrews

Low Secure Male Learning Disabled

St Andrews

Low Secure Male Mental Illness

St Andrews

The proportion of CAMHS spend with these independent providers represents approximately 23% of the total mental health spend on independent providers (based on 2014/15 figures).

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-12-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to publish details of his proposal to introduce Ofsted-style ratings for clinical commissioning groups’ mental health services.

Alistair Burt

My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State has announced that the new Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) assessment framework being developed by NHS England will contain six key clinical areas, including mental health. The framework will be published in March 2016 and will be operational from 1 April 2016.

An annual assessment of these clinical areas will be moderated by independent panels of experts. Paul Farmer, Chief Executive of MIND, has been appointed panel chair for mental health.

A first simple assessment of all CCGs in these six areas will be published in June 2016. The formal annual summative assessment of all CCGs for 2016/17 will happen at the end of that financial year and be published in summer 2017. The annual assessment will be based on a four point scale of outstanding, good, requires improvement and inadequate.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-12-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect of the Equality Act 2010 on the care of older adult mental health patients.

Alistair Burt

The Department has made no assessment of the effect of the Equality Act 2010 on the care of older adult mental health patients.

In September 2012, following the introduction of the Equality Act 2010, the Department published guidance Implementing a ban on age discrimination in the NHS – making effective, appropriate decisions. This is available at

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/implementing-a-ban-on-age-discrimination-in-the-nhs-making-effective-appropriate-decisions

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-12-15.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which years are included in his Department’s consultation on the annual registration fee that local health trusts pay to the Care Quality Commission.

Ben Gummer

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is consulting on its fee levels from 2016-17 to move it to a full chargeable cost recovery position by either 2018 or 2020. The Department is consulting on a regulation that will bring the CQC’s new comprehensive inspections which look beyond compliance with registration and any associated rating within the scope of its fee raising power. Subject to Parliamentary approval, the regulation will come into force from 2016-17 onwards.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-01-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many health trusts (a) Simon Stevens and (b) Sir Bruce Keogh have visited in each year since their appointments as Chief Executive and Medical Director respectively of NHS England; and on what dates they visited which health trusts in which locations.

George Freeman

This information is not held by the Department. NHS England has advised that this information is not routinely collected and it could only be collated and provided at disproportionate cost.