Tag: Luciana Berger

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2014-07-16.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department allocated to National Breastfeeding Week in each year since 2010.

Dr Daniel Poulter

The last year for which the Department provided funding for National Breastfeeding Week was 2010, when the contribution was £110,000.

Since 2011 the Department has collaborated with key partners including the Royal College of Midwives, Public Health England and UNICEF UK to promote National Breastfeeding Week through material and information on the NHS Choices website that can be used locally.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2014-06-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people aged (a) under 18 and (b) 18 years and over were admitted to hospital with a condition related to alcohol misuse in each year since 2010.

Jane Ellison

The attached tables contain the sum of the estimated alcohol attributable fractions (AAFs) for admissions for patients aged (a) 0-17 years and (b) 18 years and over for the years 2010-11 to 2012-13.

It should be noted that these figures are not a count of people and represent an estimated number of admissions that were attributable to alcohol.

AAFs are based on the proportion of a given diagnosis or injury that is estimated to be attributed to alcohol. Some diagnoses or injuries will, by definition, be wholly attributable to alcohol and have an AAF of one, others will only be partly attributable to alcohol and have an AAF greater than zero, but less than one. Diagnoses or injuries that are not attributable at all to alcohol will have an AAF of zero.

These figures are derived by summing all AAFs for the relevant admissions and should, therefore only be interpreted as an estimate of the number of admissions that can be attributed to alcohol.

In addition, partial AAFs are not applicable to children aged under 16 years, therefore figures for this age group relate only to wholly – attributable admissions.

The Health and Social Care Information Centre – Statistics on Alcohol: England, 2014 report manually implemented new methodology against the 2012-13 data in their report. However, no change to the underlying Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data has been currently made.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2014-07-16.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department has an infant feeding coordinator.

Dr Daniel Poulter

The Department does not employ an infant feeding co-ordinator, but works collaboratively with the National Infant Feeding Steering Group, which brings together key partners including Public Health England, NHS England and UNICEF UK.

In December 2013, the Department provided £80,000 to UNICEF for two projects to maintain and develop the National Infant Feeding Network and to promote care and compassion through infant feeding as part of universal midwifery and health visiting services, including those services delivered in neonatal units and children’s centres.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2014-06-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children aged (a) under 10 and (b) 10 years and over were admitted to hospital with a (i) primary and (ii) secondary diagnosis of liver disease in each year since 1997.

Dr Daniel Poulter

The attached tables give the number of finished admission episodes for children aged (a) under 10 years and (b) 10 – 17years,who were admitted to hospital with a (i) primary and (ii) secondary diagnosis of liver disease from 1997-98 to 2012-13.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2014-07-16.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his assessment is of the trial publication online of the Red Book for expectant mothers.

Dr Daniel Poulter

The Personal Child Health Record, commonly known as the Red Book, is not a Departmental publication but has been part of children’s services in the National Health Service for the last 20 years. Its content and format are overseen by a multi-disciplinary group hosted by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH). The RCPCH is working in partnership with Sitekit Ltd, the developers of the online Red Book, and will undertake an assessment of the product on its completion.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-02-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which hospitals have not met their staffing requirements for registered nurse day hours in each month since May 2010.

Dr Daniel Poulter

The information is not available for the period requested. As part of our drive to make the National Health Service more transparent NHS England introduced mandatory reporting of monthly actual and planned nursing and midwifery staffing levels by hospital wards in May 2014.

In November 2013 the National Quality Board (NQB) supported by Jane Cummings, the Chief Nursing Officer for England, published guidance on How to ensure the right people, with the right skills, are in the right place at the right time’. The guidance specifies that the skill mix of the workforce should reflect the patient care needs and local requirements, considering the experience and capabilities of the workforce employed. The skill mix should reflect outcome indicators such as incidents of harm, patient experience and staff experience. Each ward has to identify the appropriate knowledge and nursing skill mix required in the team to meet the nursing needs of the ward’s patients, with registered nurses remaining accountable for the overall care and safety of patients.

NHS trust boards are required to scrutinise exception reports on any variations in actual versus planned, as part of the Board’s responsibility for assuring safe staffing. Reports to Trust Boards must meet the requirements set out in the NQB guidance. Trusts will triangulate the safe staffing fill rate with other indicators for example outcome indicators of safety – levels of harm, staff and patient feedback. Boards must be able to demonstrate to their commissioners that robust systems and processes are in place to assure themselves that the nursing, midwifery and care staffing capacity and capability in their organisations is sufficient. These staffing decisions will then be subject to external scrutiny and challenge by commissioners, regulators and the public, and inspection by the Chief Inspector of Hospitals.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2014-07-15.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much HM Revenue and Customs has spent on Tackling Tobacco Smuggling strategy in each year since 2010-11; how many of his Department’s staff worked on implementing that strategy in each such year; and how many such staff were engaged in (a) detection, (b) intelligence-gathering and analysis, (c) investigations and (d) the provision of legal advice.

Priti Patel

It is not possible to provide the requested breakdown of the total HM Revenue and Customs spent on salaries for staff employed on tackling tobacco smuggling in the way requested. The total costs for each year are as follows:

	Salary Cost (millions) 2010-11	Salary cost (millions) 2011-12	Salary cost (millions) 2012-13	Salary cost (millions) 2013-14
Total	£37.044	£36.882	£35.734	£37.731

HM Revenue and Customs does not operate any x-ray scanners. Border Force has responsibility for the operation of x-ray scanners as part of the joint strategy to tackle tobacco smuggling.

HM Revenue and Customs total expenditure on tobacco work since 2010-11 is detailed in the table below. This includes administration and policy, as well as enforcement.

HMRC Activity	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14
Total expenditure on tobacco work (millions)	£65.750	£68.918	£67.641	£76.000

It is not possible to provide the staff information in the format requested. However, the total figures are set out below:

HMRC Activity	2010/11 Full Time Equivalent	2011/12 Full Time Equivalent	2012/13 Full Time Equivalent	2013/14 Full Time Equivalent
Total	758	777	777	832

For the year 2012/13, the UK cigarette illicit market was reported at 9%, which is half the level seen a decade ago. The illicit market share for hand-rolling tobacco is 36%, lower than in 2010/11 and significantly lower than the level seen in 2008/09, when it was 50 per cent.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-02-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent meetings he and other Ministers of his Department have had with representatives of the food industry.

Jane Ellison

Details of all Ministerial meetings with external parties are published in arrears on the Department’s website. The latest publication which covers meetings between January and March 2014 can be found on the Department’s website:

www.gov.uk/government/publications/ministerial-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-external-meetings-2014

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2014-07-15.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cost in salaries was for those officials in his Department employed in tackling tobacco smuggling (a) in total, (b) in detection, (c) in investigations and (d) on intelligence matters in each year since 2010-11.

Priti Patel

It is not possible to provide the requested breakdown of the total HM Revenue and Customs spent on salaries for staff employed on tackling tobacco smuggling in the way requested. The total costs for each year are as follows:

	Salary Cost (millions) 2010-11	Salary cost (millions) 2011-12	Salary cost (millions) 2012-13	Salary cost (millions) 2013-14
Total	£37.044	£36.882	£35.734	£37.731

HM Revenue and Customs does not operate any x-ray scanners. Border Force has responsibility for the operation of x-ray scanners as part of the joint strategy to tackle tobacco smuggling.

HM Revenue and Customs total expenditure on tobacco work since 2010-11 is detailed in the table below. This includes administration and policy, as well as enforcement.

HMRC Activity	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14
Total expenditure on tobacco work (millions)	£65.750	£68.918	£67.641	£76.000

It is not possible to provide the staff information in the format requested. However, the total figures are set out below:

HMRC Activity	2010/11 Full Time Equivalent	2011/12 Full Time Equivalent	2012/13 Full Time Equivalent	2013/14 Full Time Equivalent
Total	758	777	777	832

For the year 2012/13, the UK cigarette illicit market was reported at 9%, which is half the level seen a decade ago. The illicit market share for hand-rolling tobacco is 36%, lower than in 2010/11 and significantly lower than the level seen in 2008/09, when it was 50 per cent.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-02-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether Public Health England plans to publish its analysis of how the public health grant has been spent by each local authority.

Jane Ellison

Department for Communities and Local Government published full detail of the amounts spent against the public health grant by local authorities in 2013/14, and recorded in Revenue Outturn forms, on 30 November 2014.

Public Health England is planning to publish a more in depth analysis of the figures at a national level during March 2015.