The below Parliamentary question was asked by Norman Lamb on 2015-12-07.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential effect on claimants with mental illness of his proposals to extend jobseeker’s allowance conditionality.
Priti Patel
We have made no proposals to extend Jobseekers Allowance conditionality.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Norman Lamb on 2016-02-01.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many safeguarding incidents occurred in child and adolescent mental health services in England by provider of such services in each of the last 10 years.
Alistair Burt
While information on safeguarding incidents is not held centrally, National Health Service organisations have a duty to investigate local safeguarding issues, where appropriate in conjunction with the relevant local authority. Reports from investigations into safeguarding concerns are typically held by the relevant clinical commissioning group, and local authority where appropriate.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Norman Lamb on 2016-02-03.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the end of year budget surplus or deficit was for each clinical commissioning group in (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2014-15.
Alistair Burt
The end of year surplus or deficit for each clinical commissioning group in 2013-14 and 2014-15 can be found on the NHS England website at:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/publications/financial-performance-reports/
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Norman Lamb on 2016-02-29.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what overlap there is between the £1.4 billion funding for improving children and young people’s mental health services referenced in the Answer of 10 February 2016 to Question 25482, the £600 million funding for mental health services referenced in paragraph 1.99 of the Autumn Statement and Spending Review 2015, the almost £1 billion funding to enhance mental health services made in the announcement by the Prime Minister, Prime Minister pledges a revolution in mental health treatment, published on 11 January 2016, and the commitment to spend an extra £1 billion by 2020-21 to improve access to mental health services made in response to the report of the Mental Health Taskforce, 23 February 2016, Official Report, column 153.
Alistair Burt
The £1.4 billion funding for improving children and young people’s mental health services was announced by the previous Coalition Government and consists of £30 million per year for five years announced in the 2014 Autumn Statement to develop community-based eating disorder services and £1.25 billion over five years announced by the then Deputy Prime Minister on 14 March 2015 and included in the Spring Budget for 2015.
The subsequent announcements of funding represent additional money on top of that £1.4 billion.
All of the Taskforce recommendations are funded from the overall envelope agreed in the Spending Review.
The £600 million set out by the Chancellor set the foundation for the Taskforce by establishing the minimum amount of additional new money that would need to be spent to transform mental health services. This was underpinned by an understanding that improving mental health services will improve how the wider NHS functions and generate savings that can be reinvested into services.
The Prime Minister announced investment for mental health on 11 January comprising:
― £290 million to provide specialist care to mothers before and after having their babies;
― £247 million for mental health services in hospital emergency departments; and
― over £400 million to enable 24/7 treatment in communities as a safe and effective alternative to hospital.
The figures in the Prime Minister’s announcement represent the total amount that we anticipate will be invested in these three priority areas over the five-year period from 2016/17 to 2020/21.
The £1 billion in 2020/21 announced on 23 February 2016 will fund all of the priority recommendations for the National Health Service set out in the Mental Health Taskforce report. It includes the anticipated costs in the year 2020/21 of the three priority areas that the Prime Minister announced.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Norman Lamb on 2016-04-20.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect of the new junior doctors’ contract on elective weekend care.
Ben Gummer
The Department does not routinely collect this information. However NHS Employers conducted a survey of employers in January 2016, which asked what percentage of junior doctors worked 1 in 4 weekends or more frequently. The data returned reflected a snapshot (rather than the last six months).
Based on a response from 14 employers in England, 40% worked more frequently than 1 in 4 Saturdays.
Our manifesto commitment, which was translated into the mandate that shaped the contract negotiation, was for the National Health Service to standardise urgent and emergency care, it is not about elective care. It is true that some hospitals do elective work at weekends. That is part of the trust’s local decision-making and it is right for the hospital to make that decision.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Norman Lamb on 2016-06-20.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data or other information on the deployment of tasers in mental health settings was provided by Chief Constable David Shaw’s review of taser use.
Mike Penning
Data is not recorded centrally on the number of times the police have deployed Taser devices on psychiatric wards. A Taser record is completed by police officers each time a Taser is used. However, this record does not currently show the detailed geographical or type of location.
Police Use of Taser statistics are published by the Home Office and most recently on 28 April 2016. These provide a snapshot of Taser use.
We have been very clear that the public need greater transparency and that is why the Home Secretary asked Chief Constable David Shaw to lead an in-depth review of the publication of Taser data and other use of force by police officers.
The review recommended that the police record and publish the ethnicity, age, location and outcome of all serious use of force by police officers, including physical restraint and Taser. Pathfinder forces started to collect this data from April this year, and it is anticipated that the collection will form part of the 2017-18 Home Office Annual Data Return.
A copy of Chief Constable David Shaw’s review will be placed in the House library. The review contained no data on the number of times the police have used Taser in mental health settings.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Norman Lamb on 2015-11-05.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether clinical commissioning groups have received real terms increases in mental health care funding in 2015-16; and if he will publish information on changes to mental health core funding in that year.
Alistair Burt
NHS England (NHSE) and the National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health published on 3 August 2015, a commissioning guide for clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) that will set out how to implement the access and waiting time standard for children and young people with an eating disorder. The standard will be refined for implementation from 2017–18. From 2017, NHSE will set a minimum proportion of young people referred for assessment or treatment that are expected to receive treatment within the standard’s timeframe.
We expect that the Mental Health Taskforce report and Mental Health Five Year Forward View will set a plan for developing appropriate pathways and we will work with NHSE to agree next steps.
Departmental Ministers meet with the Chief Executive of NHS England regularly and discuss a wide range of issues, including access and waiting time standards for mental health services.
CCGs do not receive a specific allocation for mental health services, but are required to allocate funds as appropriate to all the services that they are responsible for commissioning. For 2015/16, CCGs received increases in allocations in total of 3.7%, though the increase varied for each CCG.
In the planning guidance for 2015/16, NHS England asked that all CCGs increase their spend on mental health by at least as much as their overall increase in allocation.
In total, CCGs have set plans for 2015/16 which reflect an increase in mental health care expenditure which exceeds the increase in their allocation.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Norman Lamb on 2015-12-09.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made on the roll-out of liaison and diversion services; and what timetable he has set for completion of the business case for completing the national roll-out of those services.
Alistair Burt
Liaison and diversion services are currently available to approximately 50 per cent of the population in England.
Further rollout is conditional upon completing business case approvals. The business case approval process is underway and we hope that this process will be completed early in 2016.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Norman Lamb on 2016-02-01.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress her Department has made in conducting an audit of educational provision within children and adolescent mental health service tier 4 settings.
Mr Sam Gyimah
The Department for Education has been working with the National Health Service to determine the scope and nature of the audit of educational provision within Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) tier 4 settings, as a result of the Health Select Committee report on CAMHS in 2014. We will release the outcomes of this audit in due course.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Norman Lamb on 2016-02-09.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions he has had with the Care Quality Commission on proposed changes to the contracts of Experts by Experience.
Ben Gummer
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator for health and adult social care. The CQC is responsible for its own staffing requirements, including any decisions on contracts around the supplying of experts by experience for its inspections of providers.
In line with Cabinet Office approvals processes, the Department: