Tag: Luciana Berger

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-05-04.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 4 May 2016 to Question 35960, on universal credit, what the exclusion criteria are.

Priti Patel

In some cases, where a claimant would be excluded from work related requirements they will be excluded from the pool of “qualifying claimants”. They will also cease to be part of the scheme if the same circumstances apply after they have been selected. These are:

• recent victims of domestic violence;
• claimants who provide medical evidence of unfitness for work pending a work capability assessment;
• prisoners;
• claimants absent from GB for medical treatment etc;
• claimants suffering a bereavement;
• claimants undergoing treatment for drug or alcohol addiction.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-06-06.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to page 20 of the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health, published in February 2016, what steps he is taking to oversee implementation of the recommendations of that report.

Alistair Burt

The Government is working with delivery partners to carefully consider the 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. This will include detail of the governance and reporting arrangements.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-07-06.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to support patients and families affected by the closure of the Antelope Centre in Southampton; and if he will make a statement.

Alistair Burt

These are matters for the National Health Service. NHS Improvement advises that the majority of patients requiring Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) care during the period of closure of the PICU at Antelope House will receive this at the Huntercombe unit in Roehampton, London.

The Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, which provides services at Antelope House, is working with partners to provide PICU bed capacity on another site for an interim period of eight months by redistributing staff from the PICU to the hospital’s other two wards. NHS Improvement further advises that the recruitment focus will be on addressing the root causes of staffing issues.

The Antelope House team has begun talking to patients, carers and family members to make sure they are fully aware of decisions that affect them.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-09-06.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to ensure access to social housing for people in Liverpool, Wavertree constituency who require such housing.

Gavin Barwell

Through the Spending Review the Government has committed to investing £8 billion to deliver 400,000 affordable housing starts, doubling our investment from 2018/19. This includes £1.6 billion towards delivering 100,000 affordable homes for rent by 2021.

Since April 2010, we have delivered over 293,000 affordable homes. Between 1997 and 2010 the stock of rented affordable homes fell by 420,000. Between 2010 and 2015, the stock of rented affordable homes rented increased by 64,000.

Alongside increasing supply, the Localism act 2011 has maintained the statutory ‘reasonable preference’ criteria which ensure that overall priority for social housing is given to those who need it most.

The introduction of fixed term tenancies in the Housing and Planning Act 2016 will ensure councils get the best use out of their social housing stock by focusing it on those who need it the most for as long as they need it.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-09-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the levels of sexual harassment and sexual violence in schools.

Edward Timpson

The Department contributed a written submission to the Women and Equalities Select Committee’s inquiry into the scale and impact of sexual harassment and sexual violence in schools in 2016. This is published on the Parliament website.[1] The Committee published the report of its inquiry on 13 September, and the Government will make a formal response to the usual timetable.

The Department does not collect information on the number of cases of sexual harassment or sexual violence either by pupils or by teachers – and it has not produced any estimates.

The closest information held on levels of sexual harassment and sexual violence by pupils is the number of permanent and fixed period exclusions for sexual misconduct, which includes lewd behaviour, sexual abuse, sexual assault, sexual bullying, sexual graffiti and sexual harassment.

Exclusions information, broken down by reason for exclusion, is published annually by the Department in the ‘Permanent and fixed-period exclusions in England’ National Statistics release.[2]

The 2015 National Foundation for Educational Research’s teacher voice survey is a nationally representative survey commissioned by the Department. Teachers were asked questions on a range of topics, including common forms of bullying. Sexual bullying was not included as a category, however, a minority reported that homophobic, biphobic, or transphobic bullying was common at their school. The report and data have been published by the Department.[3]

The closest information held on sexual harassment and sexual violence by teachers relates to the number of cases of teacher misconduct relating to sexual misconduct reported to the Department. However, cases of teacher misconduct relating to sexual misconduct cover a broad range of incidents and it is not recorded whether these relate to incidents that took place on school sites.

[1] http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/women-and-equalities-committee/sexual-harassment-and-sexual-violence-in-schools/written/34902.pdf

[2] https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-exclusions

[3] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teacher-voice-omnibus-june-2015-responses

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were treated for body dysmorphic disorder in (a) Liverpool Wavertree constituency, (b) Liverpool, (c) England and (d) each region in each year since 2010.

Nicola Blackwood

This information is not available in the format requested.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-10-20.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many perinatal mental health specialist (a) doctors and (b) nurses were in place in each year since 2009-10.

Ben Gummer

The information is not collected.

Perinatal mental health specialist midwives, doctors and nurses are not identified separately in the Health and Social Care Information Centre’s workforce statistics. Mental health specialists work predominantly in psychiatric services but also across a range of settings and the independent sector.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-10-20.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the net change has been in the number of inpatient perinatal mental health beds since 2010.

Alistair Burt

Since 2010 there has been a net reduction in the number of inpatient perinatal mental health beds from 118 beds in 2010 to 115 beds in 2015.

Since 2010 there has been a net reduction of mother and baby units from 17 units to 15 units.

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-10-20.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many perinatal mental health admissions there were in each financial year since 2009-10.

Alistair Burt

The information requested is in the table. It shows the count of finished admission episodes (FAEs) with a primary diagnosis of a mental health issue associated with the puerperium in each year from 2009-10 to 2013-14.

Activity in English NHS Hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector

Year	Count of FAEs
2009-10	278
2010-11	307
2011-12	267
2012-13	325
2013-14	325

Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre

Note:

An FAE is the first period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FAEs are counted against the year or month in which the admission episode finishes. Admissions do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the period.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-10-20.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many in-patient mother and baby units specialising in psychiatric care during the perinatal period there were in (a) 2010 and (b) the latest year for which figures are available; and which such units were open in (i) 2010 and (ii) the latest year for which figures are available.

Alistair Burt

The number and location of mother and baby units in 2010 and 2015, as supplied by NHS England, are detailed in the tables.

Mother and Baby Units open in 2010:

1. Newcastle Beadnell Ward, St George’s Park, Morpeth, Northumberland
2. Leeds Mother and Baby Unit, Leeds Partnership Foundation Trust
3. Manchester Anderson Ward, Wythenshawe Hospital
4. Nottingham Perinatal Psychiatric Services, Perinatal Inpatient Unit
5. Derby Mother and Baby Psychiatric Unit, Derby City General, Uttoxeter Rd, Derby
6. Leicester Mother and Baby Unit, Brandon Unit, Leicester General Hospital (closed 2014)
7. Stafford Brockington Mother and Baby Unit, St George’s Hospital Foundation
8. Birmingham Mother and Baby Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital
9. Welwyn Garden Thumbswood, Queen Elizabeth II Hospital, Howlands, Welwyn
10. Hackney Mother and Baby Unit, Mermaid Ward, City and Hackney Centre for Mental Health, Homerton Hospital, Homerton Row
11. North Middlesex Coombe Wood Perinatal Mental Health Unit, Coombe Wood Annexe, Park Royal Centre for Mental Health
12. Beckenham Mother and Baby Unit, Bethlem Royal Hospital, Monks Orchard Rd, Beckenham, Kent
13. Bristol New Horizon Mother and Baby Centre, Southmead Hospital
14. Basingstoke Fairways House, Parklands Hospital (Moved to Winchester in 2013)
15. The Eastbourne Clinic Mother and Baby Unit, Eastbourne, East Sussex (this unit was open in 2010 but not referenced in report closed 2014)
16. Mother and Baby Unit, Godden Green Clinic, Godden Green, Sevenoaks, Kent (closed in 2010)
17. York Mother and Baby Unit, Bootham Park Hospital (closed temporarily in 2010 and remained closed)

Source: National Perinatal Mental Health Project Report 2010

Mother and Baby units open in 2015

1. Beadnell Mother and Baby Unit, Morpeth
2. Leeds Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Mother and Baby Unit
3. Manchester Mother and Baby Unit
4. Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Perinatal Psychiatric Services
5. Derby Mother and Baby Unit, Derby City General
6. Brockington Mother and Baby Unit, St. George’s Hospital, Stafford
7. Barberry Mother and Baby Unit, Birmingham
8. Thumbswood Mother and Baby Unit, Welwyn
9. Rainbow Mother and Baby Unit, Chelmsford (new unit opened 2013)
10. Margaret Oates Mother and Baby Unit, Homerton Hospital
11. Coombe Wood Mother and Baby Unit, Coombe Wood, London
12. South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust Mother and Baby Unit
13. The New Horizon Mother and Baby Centre, Southmead Hospital, Bristol
14. Winchester Mother and Baby Unit, Royal Hampshire County Hospital
15. Florence House Mother and Baby unit, Bournemouth (new unit opened 2013)

Source: NHS England National ERG Report 2015