Tag: Luciana Berger

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-10-20.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much of the £1.25 billion allocated to children and adolescent mental health services in the March 2015 Budget for the next five years has already been spent; on what that funding has been spent on; how much of the remainder of that sum is due to be allocated in each of the next four years; and on what he plans to spend that remaining budget in (a) Liverpool, Wavertree constituency, (b) Liverpool, (c) England and (d) each region.

Nicola Blackwood

To date, £393 million has been invested to drive an ambitious five year transformation programme to improve children and young people’s mental health. This has been invested as follows:

2015-16

– £75 million for clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to transform local services through development and implementation of Local Sustainability and Transformation Plans; and

– £68 million to fund further roll out and expansion of the Children and Young People’s Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Programme (CYP IAPT), improvements to perinatal mental health care, investment in inpatient services for children and young people, build workforce capability, and support innovation and development of online support.

2016-17:

– £119 million has been allocated to CCGs to transform local services through delivery of their Local Transformation Plans; and

– £131 million is for workforce and system development to support local transformation plans, a proportion of this will be allocated to commissioners for CYP IAPT and perinatal mental healthcare.

£4 million was retained by the Department to fund central projects.

A breakdown of funding at local levels is not available centrally and has not been published.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to publish the report of the Mental Health Taskforce commissioned by NHS England.

Alistair Burt

The report of the independent Mental Health Taskforce is due to be published by NHS England by the end of the calendar year.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) average and (b) maximum time taken by his Department to process applications for a warrant to transfer inmates to a (i) mental health unit and (ii) to a different ward within a mental health unit was in each of the last five years.

Andrew Selous

The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the implications of coroners recording narrative verdicts in cases of suicide on the provision of accurate suicide statistics.

Alistair Burt

We have been working with the Chief Coroner to address areas around suicide, including narrative verdicts and the information recorded by coroners in deaths where suicide may have been suspected. However, coroners must meet the standard of proof of an intention beyond reasonable doubt in order to record a conclusion of suicide – to establish beyond reasonable doubt that a person took their own life and that they intended to take their own life.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has also worked with the Chief Coroner to improve the coding for narrative verdicts to improve data quality around suicide. The suicide rates published by the ONS may include deaths that were given an open verdict where the person’s intent was unknown.

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 much the Information Commissioner’s Office has spent on processing assessments pursuant to section 42 of the Data Protection Act 1998 in each of the last five financial years; how many such requests that Office has received in each of the those years; and what the recorded outcomes were of those requests.

Mr Edward Vaizey

Under section 42 of the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA), any person who is, or believes that he is, directly affected by the processing of personal data, can ask the Information Commissioner to consider whether the processing is likely to comply with the law. On receiving such a request, the Commissioner is obliged to consider the concern and make an assessment. Any such request, and cases taken forward are dealt with by the ICO’s customer contact and performance improvement business areas. The ICO does not cost up S42 assessments separately from other data protection casework, but the total staffing costs for these two business areas for the last five financial years are set out below:

2015/16 (April-Nov)	£2,883,256.14
2014/15	£3,879,782.83
2013/14	£3,969,104.17
2012/13	£3,581,161.82
2011/12	£3,389,336.87

Numbers of assessments received and concluded for each of the past 5 years are set out below:

Financial years
	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15
Number of assessments received under s42 DPA	13034	12980	13760	14738	14268
Number of assessments completed under s42 DPA	14276	12725	14280	15492	15052

The recorded outcomes of those assessments are set out below:

	Financial years
Outcome of s42 assessment	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15
Not progressed	14%	11%	13%	14%
Compliance likely	22%	21%	22%	19%
Compliance unlikely	33%	31%	35%	34%
Ineligible/Made too early	27%	36%	30%	33%
Reopened – pending final outcome	4%	1%
No Action for Data Controller					35%
Data Controller Action required					22%
Concern to be raised with Data Controller					17%
compliance advice given to Data Controller					10%
Response needed from Data Controller					7%
Complaint not applicable under DPA					4%
General advice given to Data Controller					4%
Data Controller outside UK					1%
Improvement action plan agreed with Data Controller					1%

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure the efficient and timely transfer of prisoners to hospitals under the Mental Health Act 1983; and how many prisoners have waited for more than 14 days for such a transfer in each of the last five years.

Ben Gummer

NHS England has revised good practice guidance on transferring adult prisoners to secure hospitals under sections 47 and 48 of the Mental Health Act 1983. This guidance includes the expectation that a transfer will take place within 14 days, when the need for hospital admission is urgent, and that longer transfer periods should be reported to NHS commissioners, so that steps can be taken to improve. The guidance will be published shortly.

Between April to September 2015, 343 prisoners waited more than 14 days for a transfer. Data on prisoner transfer waiting times was not held centrally prior to April 2015. Since then, NHS England has collected data from Health and Justice Indicators of Performance (HJIPs) at a national level.

HJIPs include data on waiting times for transfers between prisons and secure hospitals in England since April 2015 and available information is shown in the attached table, Health & Justice Indicators of Performance – Mental Health Secure Assessment and Transfer. NHS England intends to publish future HJIP data online from April 2016.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to collect information centrally on how many doctors and nurses have been signed off work as a result of stress and other mental illness.

Ben Gummer

The Health and Social Care Information Centre publishes data on overall levels of sickness absence in the National Health Service. The Department has to balance the usefulness of information collected against the burden placed on NHS employing organisations. There are no plans to increase this burden by publishing information on the reasons for sickness absence including stress and other mental illness. Individual NHS employing organisations are responsible for managing sickness absence including where due to mental health.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many specialist inpatient services for older adult mental health patients have closed in each of the last five years.

Alistair Burt

This information is not held centrally.

In-patient services for older mental health patients are now included in the range of services provided by NHS mental health trusts and independent providers.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons applicants who reside in Liverpool, Wavertree constituency who have outstanding asylum claims are no longer given a timeframe for completion of that application.

James Brokenshire

Asylum Operations has existing processes that ensure claimants and legal representatives have contact details should they wish to discuss case progression. In addition, all claimants and representatives are kept informed should an initial decision on their asylum claim be delayed beyond 6 months with this correspondence outlining the reason for delay and providing an approximate timescale as to when a decision can be expected.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Prime Minister’s announcement of extra funding for relationship support of 11 January 2016, how many hours of support will be provided to each couple; and whether there will be a financial cost to each couple for that support.

Priti Patel

The Department will be working through the details of what will be provided by the contracted relationship support provision in the next few months.