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Fractures
John Battle: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether financial incentives are available to primary care trusts to encourage health professionals to identify and treat those at a high risk of fragility fracture. [279624]
Phil Hope: The forthcoming prevention package for older people will contain guidance to support commissioners to be more cost effective in commissioning services for falls and fractures within their existing budgets in the form of a patient care pathway. It is for local primary care trusts to decide how they take forward work in this area.
John Battle: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent progress his Department has made in the development of coherent clinical guidance on the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care of falls, fragility fractures and osteoporosis. [279633]
Phil Hope: The Department is committed to work on falls and fracture prevention. The National Service Framework for Older People (2001) (a copy of which has already been placed in the Library) already sets out clear standards and actions for the prevention and treatment of falls. In addition, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence is in the process of reviewing its clinical guideline on the prevention of falls in older people. The new prevention package for older people will also support improvement in this area through a commissioning pathway for falls.
Mental Health Services
Mr. Willis: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much his Department allocated to cognitive behavioural therapy treatments in NHS facilities in each of the last three years. [279565]
Phil Hope:
The Department does not allocate funding to specific treatments in national health service facilities and so does not have this information. However, throughout the last three years, the Government have been running the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme, which is helping the NHS implement National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
guidance for the treatment of common mental health problems and over the next few years will make cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) more widely available than ever before. This is because CBT is one of the key treatments recommended by NICE.
In 2006-07, the programme launched two pilot projects in Newham and Doncaster, to which it allocated a total of £3 million.
In 2007-08, the programme also ran 11 smaller pilots, to which it allocated a further £2 million.
In 2008-09, a national roll-out of NICE-compliant psychological therapies began with the creation of services in 35 primary care trusts (PCTs) costing a total of £33 million. This involves a training programme for 3,600 new therapy workers over three years. Initially, the training for this workforce has focused on CBT because this is where the biggest shortage lies and it supports the NHS in delivering the NICE treatment guidelines.
This investment is continuing to increase substantially, with a further 80 services coming on stream in the autumn bringing the total to £103 million in 2009-10, and every PCT beginning to establish these new services in 2010 when the investment will rise to £173 million.
Mr. Willis: To ask the Secretary of State for Health which mental health conditions are treated by cognitive behavioural therapy available on the NHS; and what the average waiting time between diagnosis and commencement of a course of treatment was in each primary care trust in the latest period for which figures are available. [279566]
Phil Hope: The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence recommends the national health service to offer cognitive behavioural therapy as a treatment for: antenatal and postnatal mental health problems; anti-social personality disorder; anxiety; attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; bipolar disorder; borderline personality disorder; dementia; depression in adults, children and young people; drug misuse; bulimia; obsessive compulsive disorder; post-traumatic stress disorder; schizophrenia; self-harming; and violence. The actual use of this treatment is recorded in individual patient records and not held centrally. No data are held centrally on the average waiting time between diagnosis and the start of treatment. However, one of the central aims of the improving access to psychological therapies programme is to ensure that people needing to access these treatments are able to do so more rapidly by providing them in primary and community settings, such as general practitioner surgeries.
Mr. Willis: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average waiting time between diagnosis and the commencement of a course of cognitive behavioural therapy was for persons diagnosed with schizophrenia in each primary care trust area in the latest period for which figures are available. [279567]
Phil Hope: Data about the waiting time between diagnosis and the start of a course of cognitive behavioural therapy for people with schizophrenia are not held centrally.
NHS: Public Consultation
Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what funding his Department has allocated to local involvement networks for each of the next 10 years. [279217]
Ann Keen: The allocations to local authorities with social services responsibilities for the purposes of establishing and supporting local involvement networks (LINks) were announced as part of the local government finance settlement for 2008-09. The announcement covered the three years from 2008-09 to 2010-11.
No Government spending beyond this date has been agreed.
Skin Cancer: Health Education
Mr. Bruce George: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent steps he has taken to increase levels of public awareness of skin cancer. [278798]
Gillian Merron: SunSmart is the national skin cancer and sun protection campaign and is run by Cancer Research UK on behalf of the UK Health Departments. The 2009 campaign highlights the rising rate of skin cancer, focuses on teenagers and young people, and aims to raise public awareness of the dangers of sunbeds and sunburn. It offers practical information on protecting the skin in the sun. As well as engaging with the media to promote skin cancer prevention, the SunSmart website
provides information and advice and downloadable resources on the risks to health of sunbeds and sunburn. The campaign has also created interventions to reach young people through social networking sites.
Olympics
Football: Olympic Games 2012
Bob Spink: To ask the Minister for the Olympics what her most recent estimate is of the cost of hosting the London 2012 Olympics football events at (a) Hampden Park, (b) the Millennium Stadium, (c) Old Trafford, (d) St James' Park, (e) Villa Park and (f) Wembley Stadium. [278321]
Tessa Jowell: The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) has responsibility for staging the Olympic and Paralympic Games at existing venues. The direct costs associated with staging the events at existing venues come from LOCOG's revenues which are primarily derived from commercial sponsorship, broadcast rights, ticket sales and merchandising/licensing—not from the public purse.
There will be attributable costs to the public purse, for example in respect of the security and transport functions associated with the venue. However these costs have not yet been identified separately for individual venues, but they will form part of the overall security and transport budgets.
Olympic Games 2012: Hadleigh
Bob Spink: To ask the Minister for the Olympics what her most recent estimate is of the cost to the public purse of hosting the Olympic mountain biking event at Hadleigh. [278012]
Tessa Jowell: The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) has responsibility for delivering the mountain bike event at Hadleigh Farm, working with Essex county council. Direct costs of staging the event come from LOCOG's revenues which are primarily derived from commercial sponsorship, broadcast rights, ticket sales and merchandising/licensing—not from the public purse.
There will be attributable costs to the public purse, for example in respect of the security and transport functions associated with the venue. However these costs have not yet been identified separately for individual venues, but they will form part of the overall security and transport budgets.
Culture, Media and Sport
Climate Change
Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what steps his Department has taken to adapt to climate change in the last two years. [277650]
Barbara Follett: Operational measures the Department for Culture, Media and Sport took to adapt to climate change included the introduction of a new waste management scheme which ensured that as much is recycled as possible. With the help of the Carbon Trust, the Department worked with manufacturers to pilot an innovative lighting scheme which reduced the energy used and improved efficiency. The Department also trialled a scheme which is now being rolled out across Government which adjusted the voltage used to the lowest optimal level. The Department has also replaced new gas boilers with more energy efficient ones, which means that our premises are able to respond more effectively to changing weather conditions while ensuring the safety of staff is maintained.
We are encouraging our non departmental public bodies to introduce similar measures.
Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what estimate he has made of his Department’s potential gross (a) costs and (b) savings arising from its climate change adaptation measures in the next three years. [277727]
Barbara Follett: It is not currently possible to provide estimates of the potential costs and savings over the next three years.
The Government are undertaking a climate change risk assessment and economic analysis, which will provide estimates of the costs and benefits of adaptation to the UK. This analysis will be presented to Parliament within three years of the Climate Change Act coming in to force.
Cultural Heritage
Richard Younger-Ross: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport whether he plans to publish details of the Government's vision and priorities for the historic environment before the Summer Adjournment. [279113]
Mr. Bradshaw: We are aiming to publish the Historic Environment Vision Statement in the summer.
Demos
Mr. Watson: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport whether his Department has any contracts with the think-tank Demos. [279513]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The Department does not have any contracts with Demos.
Departmental Billing
Mr. Prisk: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many and what proportion of invoices his Department and its agencies paid within 10 days of receipt in each of the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement. [278824]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The Department's performance of payment of invoices within 10 days of receipt in each month since November 2008 is set out in the table. Prior to November 2008, there was no requirement to gather and maintain data on this basis. To provide this information would incur disproportionate cost.
The Department's Agency, The Royal Parks, is not able to record the information in the format requested and can provide it only at disproportionate cost.
| Month | Percentage of invoices paid within 10 working days |
Gambling: Sports
Mr. Ellwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (1) when he expects the new expert panel on sports betting to produce its first report on its work; [278937]
(2) what the (a) terms of reference and (b) work plan of the new expert panel on sports betting will be; [278938]
(3) who the members of the new expert panel on sports betting will be; [278939]
(4) when he expects the new expert panel on sports betting to be established. [278940]
Mr. Sutcliffe:
The expert panel on sports betting will be established very soon and I will announce the members, terms of reference and work plan at that time. I will be
asking the chair to recommend to me, within six months, a practical, effective and proportionate plan of action that has the support of those responsible for delivery.
Sports: Drugs
Hugh Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what legal obligations are imposed on the Government by the 2005 UNESCO International Convention on Doping in Sport. [279123]
Mr. Sutcliffe [holding answer 11 June 2009]: The UNESCO International Convention against Doping in Sport (the Convention) provides a legally binding framework for Governments to take a range of measures to tackle doping in sport and apply the principles set out in the World Anti-Doping Code (the Code).
In summary this includes, where appropriate—funding and supporting a national testing programme; supporting education and training on anti-doping; adopting, or encouraging sport and anti-doping organisations to adopt, measures to restrict the availability and prevent the misuse of prohibited substances and methods in sport; withholding funding from persons suspended for doping violations, or bodies not in compliance with the Code; encouraging and promoting anti-doping research; encouraging best practice in the marketing of nutritional supplements; and encouraging international cooperation in the fight against doping.
The UK primarily complies with its obligations under the Convention by way of administrative action taken by UK Sport, the UK’s national anti-doping organisation. Full details of the Convention can be found at:
http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=31037&;URL_ DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
Hugh Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what obligations arise in UK law from the Government’s signature of the 2009 World Anti-Doping Code. [279124]
Mr. Sutcliffe [holding answer 11 June 2009]: The UK Government are not a signatory to the World Anti-Doping Code (the Code). However, it supports the principles set out in the Code through its ratification of the UNESCO International Convention against Doping in Sport (the Convention). This provides a legally binding framework for Governments to take a range of measures to tackle doping in sport and apply the principles set out in the Code.
The UK primarily complies with its obligations under the Convention by way of administrative action taken by UK Sport, the UK’s national anti-doping organisation. UK Sport is responsible for the implementation of the national anti-doping testing programme in accordance with the UK’s anti-doping policy, which is fully compliant with the requirements of the Code. UK Sport ensures National Governing Bodies of sport comply with the Code through a policy and administrative approach.
Hugh Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what the legal basis is for the testing of professional sportsmen and women for drug use in the UK. [279125]
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