Tag: Stephen Hepburn

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Hepburn on 2016-02-03.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average time taken was between a fatal accident occurring in construction and the start of a prosecution on the latest date for which data is available.

Justin Tomlinson

For fatalities in construction (Standard Industrial Classification, section F) reported to HSE between 2005/06 and 2014/15, the average time between the date of incident and the date prosecution action was approved is 751 days. This number does not include some more recent or complex incidents, which remain under investigation. The time between the incident and prosecution approved to date by yearly time bands is as follows:

Time between incident and approval	Number	Percentage
0 – 1 year	43	23
1-2 years	51	27
2-3 years	56	30
3-4 years	28	15
4-5 years	9	5
5 years +	2	1
	189

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Hepburn on 2016-01-06.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS GPs were working in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK in each year since 2005.

Ben Gummer

The number of general practitioners employed in the National Health Service for South Tyneside and the North East region since 2005 is in the attached table. The figures are taken from the NHS annual workforce statistics published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre.

Figures are only available for recognised NHS geography and therefore no information has been provided for Jarrow constituency.

The provision of health services in the United Kingdom is a devolved matter so total figures are for England only.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Hepburn on 2016-02-03.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what change there has been in the length of time between a fatal accident and a prosecution over the last five years.

Justin Tomlinson

For fatalities in construction (Standard Industrial Classification Section F) resulting in a prosecution approval by HSE between 2010/11 and 2014/15, the average time between the date of incident and the date prosecution action was approved in each year is as follows:

Year of approval	Average number of days between incident and prosecution approval by HSE
2010/11	877
2011/12	841
2012/13	783
2013/14	851
2014/15	879

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Hepburn on 2016-01-06.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS beds there were in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK in each year since 2005.

Ben Gummer

The average daily number of available open overnight and open day only beds under the care of a consultant in each year since 2005-06 and in each quarter since 2010-11 in (a) South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust, (b) the North East and (c) England is in the attached table. Health is a devolved matter in the rest of the United Kingdom.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Hepburn on 2016-02-03.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of construction prosecutions has resulted in a conviction in each of the last five years.

Justin Tomlinson

The percentage of construction (Standard Industrial Classification, section F) prosecutions completed in the relevant year and resulting in a conviction in each of the last five years, is as follows:

Year	Cases for which legal proceedings have been instituted	Convictions	Percentage resulting in conviction
2010/11	218	201	92%
2011/12	241	220	91%
2012/13	220	209	95%
2013/14r	225	209	93%
2014/15p	258	243	94%
p – provisional
r – revised

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Hepburn on 2016-01-06.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS dentists were employed in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK in each year since 2005.

Alistair Burt

Data is not available in the exact format requested.

The attached tables provide the information for the period 2005-2006 for England, Northumberland, Tyne & Wear Strategic Health Authority (SHA), County Durham and Tees Valley SHA and all the primary care trusts (PCT) in these two SHAs. These data are based on the old contractual arrangements, which were in place up to and including 31 March 2006 and were a count of practitioners on PCT lists regardless of whether they had done any National Health Service work.

For the period 2007-2013, data is available for England, North East SHA and all the PCTs in this single SHA. Data for the post 2006 contractual arrangements only count dentists who have carried out any NHS activity in each financial year.

For the period 2014-2015, following the 2013 NHS re-organisation, data is available for England, Durham, Darlington and Tees Area Team, Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear Area Team and the clinical commissioning groups within these two area teams.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Hepburn on 2016-02-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average time taken was between a fatal accident in construction and a conviction on the latest date for which data is available.

Justin Tomlinson

For fatalities in construction (Standard Industrial Classification, section F) reported to HSE between 2006/07 and 2014/15, the average time between the date of the incident and the date of the first hearing where a conviction is recorded is 1208 days. The time between the incident and conviction dates by yearly time bands is as follows:

Date of Conviction	Average number of days between incident date and conviction date
2006/2007	985
2007/2008	1234
2008/2009	1153
2009/2010	1214
2010/2011	1251
2011/2012	1251
2012/2013	1336
2013/2014	1185
2014/2015	1267

Within the overall time frame from fatal incident to conviction a number of discrete stages may be involved and these are performed by different agencies largely out of HSE’s control:

• The police assume primacy initially and retain it until negligent homicide offences have been identified or eliminated.

• Where negligent homicide is suspected, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) will consider a file submitted to them by the Police.

• HSE works closely with the police and CPS throughout this phase in accordance with the Work Related Deaths Protocol (WRDP) to which the Police, CPS, HSE and other regulators are signatories.

• Before HSE brings a prosecution it is normal to await the outcome of an inquest held by HM Coroner.

• If a defendant has been charged it can take some time for the case to come to trial particularly where if　it is defended and heard in the Crown Court.

Recognising the importance to victims of ensuring all stages of the process are concluded as quickly as possible, the WRDP National Liaison Committee recently agreed that any decision to prosecute should be made within 3 years of the date of death other than in exceptional circumstances – currently approximately 85% of investigations are completed within this timescale.

For its part HSE has an internal target of completing 95% of fatal accident investigations within 12 months of assuming primacy – attainment is now at 70% and the trend is improving.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Hepburn on 2016-01-06.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what change there was in the number of NHS beds in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK in each year since 2005.

Ben Gummer

The average daily number of available open overnight and open day only beds under the care of a consultant in each year since 2005-06 and in each quarter since 2010-11 in (a) South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust, (b) the North East and (c) England is in the attached table. Health is a devolved matter in the rest of the United Kingdom.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Hepburn on 2016-03-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect of changes to housing benefit eligibility in respect of under-occupancy in the social rented sector on low-income families.

Justin Tomlinson

This measure puts social sector tenants on a par with their counterparts in the private rented sector who receive Housing Benefit based on household need rather than the full rental costs. Affected claimants can mitigate the impact by entering work, increasing their working hours or downsizing to a smaller property.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Hepburn on 2016-01-06.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS nurses were employed in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK in each year since 2005.

Ben Gummer

The number of hospital and community health services nurses employed in the National Health Service for South Tyneside and the North East region in each year since 2005 is in the attached table. The figures are taken from the NHS annual workforce statistics published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre.

Figures are only available for recognised NHS geography and therefore no information has been provided for Jarrow constituency.

The provision of health services in the United Kingdom is a devolved matter so total figures are for England only.