The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-03-04.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of those who have not (i) attended a work capability assessment or (ii) reported to a jobcentre when requested have been exempt from benefit sanctions because of extenuating circumstances in each month in 2015-16.
Priti Patel
The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-03-10.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of women accessing mental health services experienced sexual or domestic abuse in each of the last five years.
Alistair Burt
Information on the number and the proportion of women who access mental health services having experienced sexual or domestic abuse is not held centrally.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-03-17.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many incidents of face-down restraint there have been in mental health services in each year since 2010.
Alistair Burt
The information requested has only been collected by the Health and Social Care Information Centre since January 2016 with the intention of publishing a report when a meaningful data set is available.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-03-24.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress he has made on implementing recommendation 10 in the executive summary of Public Health England’s March 2015 report entitled, Public mental health leadership and workforce development framework, on building the capacity of the National Mental Health Intelligence Network.
Jane Ellison
Progress on implementing recommendation 10, which is to build the mental health intelligence capability through the National Mental Health Intelligence Network (NMHIN) can be categorised into three sections and is as follows:
1) Capacity – NMHIN increased capacity in 2015/16 through NHS England investment. This enabled recruitment to work on additional/enhanced programmes on Crisis Care and Perinatal Mental Health and the first stage of a mental health Joint Strategic Needs Assessment toolkit. NHS England have committed to continue investment in 2016/17.
2) Products – the NMHIN has enhanced mental health intelligence capability through the development of;
a) Profiling tools (i.e. new tool on Suicide Prevention; expanded tool on Severe Mental Illness and Common Mental Health Disorders; updated tools which include; Children and Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing) and,
b) ntelligence products (i.e. Measuring Mental Wellbeing in Children and Young People).
3) Dissemination – the NMHIN has enabled more people to use mental health intelligence through a communication and training programme that provides: routine updates on products and work programmes, training sessions on using products, online access to video and document guides, and a programme of presentations that promote products and encourages use. The Public Health England Local Intelligence Service support this programme and increasingly a range of partners request sessions.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-04-12.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions his Department had with the Department for Education on improving data centrally collected on the mental health and therapeutic support needs of children who have experienced abuse.
Alistair Burt
As part of the Government strategy to tackle child sexual abuse the Department has engaged with other Government departments including the Department for Education to deliver the actions set out in in the Government’s Tackling Child Sexual Exploitation report of March 2015, on how to improve services to vulnerable groups including children who have experienced abuse. We shall consider how local data collected through this process might be made available nationally.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-04-20.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that police officers receive appropriate psychological support after witnessing traumatic events.
Mike Penning
Policing, by its nature, can be a stressful and demanding job and it is the responsibility of chief officers, supported by the College of Policing, to ensure that good management systems are in place to support police in their work.
The Government recognise the importance of police welfare. In October 2014 we allocated £10 million to help support emergency services personnel and volunteers, focused on mental health, physical recuperation and bereavement support for those who need it.
The Home Office is working with the national policing lead for wellbeing and engagement on the development of his strategy but this must remain a sector led initiative.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-04-26.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 21 April 2016 to Question 34485, on mental health services, when he expects NHS England to publish the website addresses referred to in that Answer.
Alistair Burt
The Department is currently working with NHS England and the Local Government Association to ensure that all local transformation plans (LTPs) are brought together in one place as soon as possible.
A quantitative analysis on LTPs by NHS England is available on NHS England’s website at the following page:
A qualitative analysis will be available on key themes later this year. The intention from 2016-17 is to mainstream children and young people’s mental health as part of the normal NHS England planning cycle and to integrate LTPs into the new Sustainability and Transformation Plan.
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-05-09.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will require NHS England to set out commissioning responsibilities for mental healthcare.
Alistair Burt
NHS England has a five-year strategy – the Mental Health “Five Year Forward View” to improve mental health outcomes across the National Health Service, for people of all ages. The Forward View explains how national bodies will work together between now and 2021 to help people have good mental health and make sure they can access evidence-based treatment rapidly when they need it.
In relation to commissioning, NHS England has direct commissioning responsibility for a number of specialised mental health services – as set out in regulations. These services include: adult secure in-patient services; in-patient services for children and adolescents; in-patient perinatal services; gender identity services; specialist in-patient services for people who have a mental health illness and are deaf; in- patient services for patients who have eating disorders and some specialist personality disorder in-patient services.
The Mental Health Taskforce report – published in February, recommended that NHS England should ensure that by April 2017 population-based budgets are in place, which give clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) or other local partners the opportunity to collaboratively commission the majority of specialised services across the life course.
CCGs are responsible for commissioning all other mental health services for both adults and children; working with partners such as local authorities, where appropriate.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-06-07.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the NHS England Five Year Forward View on Mental Health, published in February 2016, what progress has been made on Recommendation 33 on health and wellbeing support to NHS organisations.
Alistair Burt
The Government is working with delivery partners to carefully consider the independent Mental Health Taskforce’s recommendations and aims to publish a strategic implementation plan in the autumn that will set out how Government and partners will deliver the recommendations.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-07-12.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the end of year budget surplus or deficit was for each further education college in the Liverpool City Region in each financial year since 2010-11.
Robert Halfon
Colleges own this information. They are required to publish the information on their own website and the Skills Funding Agency publish a collated picture on GOV.UK. All the information requested for this question is already in the public domain: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sfa-financial-management-college-accounts
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