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Children's Hospices

Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much public funding children's hospices received in each of the last five years. [30388]

Mr. Byrne: The Department does not collect information on the funding of children's hospices and palliative care services for children.

Children's hospice services are funded from a number of sources, including services commissioned by primary care trusts based on their assessment of children's needs and their priorities. They are best placed to make decisions on the local need for palliative care and are able to take into account the needs of individual families' and their preferences. There is no ceiling to the amount of funding which the national health service can provide.

The Department continues to encourage children's hospices to engage actively with local NHS bodies over the contribution hospices can make to the overall pattern of palliative care commissioned for children and young people in their localities.

Our manifesto pledge to increase funding for end of life care will also include children who have life-threatening or life-limiting conditions.

Contagious Diseases

James Duddridge: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what contingency plans her Department has in place to prevent individuals who have contracted a highly contagious disease from passing that disease to others. [33321]

Caroline Flint [holding answer 1 December 2005]: The national health service has facilities and procedures in place for caring for people with infectious diseases in ways which minimise the risk of infecting others, and a wide range of advice is available to the public on how they can avoid spreading infection. In cases of last resort, local authorities have powers in certain circumstances under infectious disease legislation to apply to a justice of the peace for orders requiring a person suffering from a specified disease to be removed to, and detained in, hospital.

James Duddridge: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what powers her Department has to enforce the isolation in the interests of public safety of an individual who has contracted a contagious disease. [33322]

Caroline Flint [holding answer 1 December 2005]: Powers under the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 and associated regulations for the most part rest with local authorities. Local authorities have powers, in certain circumstances, to apply to a justice of the peace for orders requiring a person suffering from a specified disease to be removed to, and detained in, hospital (sections 37 and 38 of the Act and the Public Health (Infectious Diseases) Regulations 1988).

The diseases specified are, in the Act: cholera, plague, relapsing fever, smallpox, and typhus; and, in the regulations, acquired immune deficiency syndrome (with section 38 applying in a modified form); acute encephalitis; acute poliomyelitis; anthrax; diphtheria; dysentery (amoebic or bacillary); leprosy; leptospirosis;
 
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measles; meningitis; meningococcal septicaemia (without meningitis); mumps; paratyphoid fever; rabies; rubella; scarlet fever; tuberculosis of the respiratory tract in an infectious state; typhoid fever; viral haemorrhagic fever; viral hepatitis; and whooping cough.

Dentistry

Mr. Jenkins: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of five year olds in Tamworth constituency have no decayed, filled or missing teeth. [29379]

Mr. Byrne: From the last national health service survey in 2003–2004, 78.8 percent., of five year-old children in the Burntwood, Lichfield and Tamworth primary care trust area were found to have no decayed, missing or filled teeth.

Departmental Legislation

Simon Hughes: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list the criminal offences created in legislation sponsored by her Department from May 1997 up to and including April 2005, broken down by Act. [27592]

Jane Kennedy [holding answer 11 November 2005]: For criminal offences created by legislation sponsored by the Department in the 2002–03 and 2003–04 sessions I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave on 9 February 2005, Official Report, column 1614–15W to the hon. Member for Winchester (Mr. Oaten). The following are criminal offences created in other legislation sponsored by the Department in the period specified.

The Health Act 1999

Section 39—evading charges payable under the new section 122C of the NHS Act 1977 or securing the inappropriate remission, reduction or repayment of any charges due under the Act

Schedule 3, paragraph 6

Regulation of Healthcare and Associated Professionals etc—the power to make Orders in relation to the regulation of Healthcare and Associated Professionals may not be exercised to create a criminal offence, except an offence punishable on summary conviction with a fine not exceeding the amount specified as level 5 on the standard scale.

The Food Standards Act 1999

Section 11(7)—improperly disclosing a trade secret by an authorised person entering premises to carry out observations

Section 11(8)—Intentionally obstructing an authorised person exercising powers of entry, taking samples or inspecting and copying records

Failing without reasonable excuse to provide such assistance as the authorised person may request

Intentionally or recklessly providing false or misleading information

Section 14—improperly disclosing a trade secret by an authorised person who has entered premises for the purposes of monitoring enforcement action.

Section 16—intentionally obstructing an authorised individual from entering relevant premises, or from taking samples, or from inspecting and copying records

Failing without reasonable excuse to meet a reasonable request for information, records or assistance

Intentionally or recklessly providing false or misleading information.

 
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Care Standards Act 2000

Section 11(1)—Carrying on, managing or establishing an agency without registration under the Care Standards Act

Section 24—Failing to comply with conditions

Section 25—Contravening regulations1

Section 26—Falsely describing establishments and agencies

Section 27—Making false statements in applications

Section 28—Failing to display certificate of registration

Section 31—Offences relating to inspections by persons authorised by registration authority

Section 52—Contravening regulations1

Section 61—Misuse of the title social worker" etc

Section 75—Obstructing the work of the Children's Commissioner for Wales

Section 79—Amendment of Children Act 19891

Section 89—knowingly applying for, offering to do, accepting or doing any work in a care position when included on the list of adults deemed unsuitable to work with vulnerable adults

Schedule 3, paragraph 5

Offences in relation to child-minding and day care for young children

Health and Social Care Act 2001

Section 60—Power to make regulations relating to control of patient information1

Section 63—Extension of prescribing rights, amending section 67 of the Medicines Act 1968, inserting an offence of prescribing, directing or administering a medicinal product in contravention of a condition imposed by an order under section 58 of the Medicines Act 1968.

Human Reproductive Cloning Act 2001

Section 1—placing in a woman a human embryo which has been created otherwise than by fertilisation

Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Act 2002

Section 2—Prohibiting tobacco advertising;

Section 3—Advertising: Newspapers, periodicals etc;

Section 8—Displays

Section 9—Prohibition of free distributions

Section 10—Prohibition of sponsorship

Section 11—Brandsharing1

Section 15—Obstruction etc of officers

Adoption and Children Act 2002

Section 9—a power to provide for an offence in regulations1

Section 15—obstructing inspections, etc

Section 30—offences in relation to removal of children who are or may be placed by adoption agencies

Section 31

Section 33

Section 34

Section 35

Section 36—Restrictions on the removal of children in non-agency cases

Section 41—Breach of restrictions on removal

Section 59—Disclosure of information in relation to a person's adoption

Section 83—failing to comply with requirements in adoptions with a foreign element

Section 85

Section 93—breaching restrictions under section 92 (restrictions on arranging adoptions, etc)

Section 94—breaching restrictions on who may prepare a report re adoption

Section 95—making or receiving certain payments

 
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Section 124—Breaching restrictions on advertising in relation to adoption (section 123)

Section 129—Inappropriate disclosure of information on the Adoption and Children Act Register

Section 132—Amendment of Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978, new section 29A, breaching of various enactments of the Adoption and Children Act 2002

Section 133—Amendment of Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978 section 50A, breaching requirements on bringing a child into the United Kingdom.

¹ Represent provision entitling the making of regulations which may create offences.

Note:

Offences created in subordinate legislation have not been listed.

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