Tag: Luciana Berger

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.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-01-18.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people under 18 have been admitted to hospital as a result of self-harm in each year since 2010.

Alistair Burt

While information on the number of children and young people admitted to hospital as a result of self-harm is not available, the table below shows the total number of admissions in each year from 2009-10 to 2014-15.

The table provides a count of finished admission episodes with an external cause of self-harm and a patient age between 0-17 years for 2009-10 to 2014-15. This is a count of admissions, not people as the same person may have been discharged on more than one occasion during the same year.

Year	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15
Admissions	12,944	13,995	13,231	14,780	19,577	19,647

Source Hospital Episode Statistics data

In 2013, specific guidance around the recording of self-harm codes on patients admitted via accident and emergency was issued to all providers. This may explain the increase between 2012-13 and 2013-14; which means that figures between these two years cannot be fairly compared.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-01-20.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Prime Minister’s speech of 11 January 2016, on life chances, how the £400 million funding for community and home mental health teams will be allocated.

George Freeman

Funding announced by the Prime Minister on 11 January 2016 for mental health crisis response and home treatment teams will be allocated through clinical commissioning group baseline funding. The allocations will be in line with the net cost agreed as part of the spending review process.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-02-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 1 February 2016 to Question 24627, on mental health: tribunals, if he will make it his policy to record this information.

Caroline Dinenage

As noted in my response to PQ 24627, the Ministry of Justice does not hold this information and has no plans to record it.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-02-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the evidential basis provided by his Department to HM Treasury was to inform the decision to cap housing benefit for people in supported housing.

Alistair Burt

The Department did not submit any evidence to HM Treasury to inform the decision to cap housing benefit for those in supported housing, announced in the Spending Review 2015.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-02-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to publish data on out-of-area acute psychiatric care placements.

Alistair Burt

Experimental data on non-specialist out of area treatments for inpatients has been published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) since July 2015. Non specialist includes acute, older adult, psychiatric intensive care and rehabilitation treatment. There will be a gap in publication of this data from March 2016 whilst a new dataset is being introduced by HSCIC which will include data on out of area treatments.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-02-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to paragraph 3 on page 5 of the Five Year Forward View Mental Health Task Force report, published on 15 February 2016, if he will make it his policy to provide equal funding for mental health services.

Alistair Burt

We are committed to achieving parity of esteem between mental health and physical health. The Mental Health Taskforce estimates that the priority recommendations for the National Health Service set out in their report will cost an additional £1 billion annually by the year 2020/21. By the end of this Parliament we will make the Taskforce’s recommendations a reality.

This builds on the £1.4 billion over this Parliament that has been previously announced for transforming children and young people’s mental health and improving support for eating disorders.

All of the Taskforce report recommendations are funded from within the overall envelope agreed in the Spending Review. All of the £1 billion announced with the Taskforce report represents additional investment over and above what was allocated to the NHS in 2015/16.

We are already spending more money on mental health than ever before – an estimated £11.7 billion last year. This shows our commitment to achieving an equal status between mental and physical health services. We have been clear that commissioners must continue to increase investment in mental health services each year at a level which at least matches their overall expenditure increase.

We will monitor this closely to ensure this happens and know that clinical commissioning group spend is on track to increase as expected.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-02-26.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the employment rate for adults in England with (a) mental health, (b) physical health and (c) no declared health conditions has been in each year since 2010.

Mr Rob Wilson

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-03-02.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many prescriptions for mental health medications were dispensed to people with learning disabilities in (a) England and (b) each NHS England region in each year since 2010.

Alistair Burt

The information requested is not collected centrally.