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Departmental Data Protection
Mr. Blunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many breaches of information security there have been at (a) his Department and (b) its agencies in the last five years. [281065]
Phil Hope: In the last five years the Department of Health has recorded one notifiable breach of information security.
There were no reportable breaches for either of the Department's two executive agencies—the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency (PASA).
The Department and its agencies report all significant personal data security breaches to the Cabinet Office and the Information Commissioner (IC). Information on personal security data breaches are published on an annual basis in the Department's annual resource accounts as required under the mandatory requirements of the Data Handling Report published on 25 June 2008.
The Department reported on the above personal data breach in its 2007-08 annual resource account, which can be found at
A copy has been placed in the Library.
Additionally, all significant control weaknesses including other significant security breaches are included in the Statement of Internal Control which is published within the annual resource accounts.
Departmental Energy
Gregory Barker: To ask the Secretary of State for Health which official is responsible for the energy efficiency of his Department's estate. [280559]
Phil Hope: The official responsible for the energy efficiency of the Department's estate is the Department's permanent secretary, Sir Hugh Taylor.
Departmental Legislation
Norman Lamb: To ask the Secretary of State for Health which provisions of (a) primary and (b) secondary legislation for which his Department is responsible in each of the last 10 years have yet to be brought into force. [282192]
Phil Hope: The request for information on secondary legislation could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Listed in the following table are Acts of Parliament introduced by the Department since 1999, which include some sections and schedules not yet brought into force:
Departmental Pay
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how staff pay levels are agreed with Solace Enterprises for the NHS Flexible Resourcing Service; and how much staff at each level who are recruited through the service are paid per hour. [282775]
Ann Keen: The Department does not hold this information centrally. This is a matter for NHS Employers.
Doctors: Working Hours
Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many additional doctors have been recruited since 2004 to enable compliance with the requirements of the European Working Time Directive; and how many he estimates will be so required from August 2009. [283212]
Ann Keen: The number of additional doctors needed to comply with European working time directive (EWTD) is not collected centrally. It is for trusts to determine how many doctors they require to deliver services within an EWTD compliant working environment.
Since 2004 the number of doctors working in the national health service has increased by 16,119 (+13.8 per cent.). This figure excludes general practitioner retainers.
Domestic Accidents: North East
Dr. Kumar: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many children were admitted to hospital as a result of an accident in the home in (a) the North East, (b) Teesside, (c) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency and (d) England in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. [282902]
Ann Keen: This information is not collected centrally. Information on admissions to hospital for accidental injury is available, but the number of admissions for accidents in the home cannot be reliably identified.
Health Professions: Regulation
David Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will consult members of the public on the means by which health professional regulators are held to account to (a) the public and (b) Parliament might be achieved; and if he will make a statement. [280696]
Ann Keen:
Extensive public consultation has already taken place through two reviews of professional regulation in 2006: ‘Good doctors, safer patients’ and ‘The regulation of the non-medical health care professions’. Following these reviews the White Paper, ‘Trust Assurance and
Safety—The Regulation of Health Professionals in the 21st Century’ was published in 2007, setting out a substantial programme of reform to the system of health care professional regulation.
As part of this programme of work a working group, chaired by Niall Dickson, produced a number of recommendations about ways to enhance public confidence in the health care regulators.
In 2008 and 2009 extensive reforms to the governance of the health care regulatory bodies was taken forward to provide for independently appointed councils with parity between lay and registrant members. These reforms also improved arrangements for accountability to Parliament. The health professions regulators are now required to produce an annual report and a strategic plan which must be laid before Parliament.
The Minister of State for Health and Lord Darzi have also written to the Leaders of the House of Commons and House of Lords to recommend that Parliament establish a committee on professional regulation.
Heart Diseases: Health Services
Andrew George: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 18 June 2009, Official Report, column 473W, on heart diseases: health services, how many finished consultant episodes for congenital heart disease in those aged 16 years and older there were in each hospital trust in 2007-08. [282202]
Ann Keen: A table which shows how many finished consultant episodes for congenital heart disease for those aged 16 and over, by hospital provider, in 2007-08, has been placed in the Library.
Hospital Beds: Essex
Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many beds were available to mental health patients in the South Essex Strategic Health Authority in each of the last five years. [282811]
Phil Hope: Data are not collected in the format requested. Data are available for the South Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and are shown in the following table.
| Number of beds available to mental health patients in the South Essex area in each of the last five years( 1) | |
| South Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust | Number |
| (1) Average daily number of available beds in wards open overnight, mental illness sector. Source: Department of Health form KH03 | |
Hyperactivity
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what recent guidance his Department has issued to primary care trusts on the provision of services to adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; [283293]
(2) what estimate he has made of the number of people requiring treatment for adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD); and what recent research his Department has (a) evaluated and (b) commissioned on the (i) efficacy and (ii) cost-effectiveness of treatments for ADHD delivered by the NHS. [283295]
Phil Hope: The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) published clinical guidance in September 2008 (“Clinical Guideline 72”) on the diagnosis and management of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children, young people and adults. Primary care trusts (PCTs) are expected to follow this guidance, although local service provision is a matter for individual PCTs.
No departmental estimate has been made of the incidence of adult ADHD. NICE evaluated the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of ADHD treatments in preparing “Clinical Guideline 72”.
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will consider the merits of a strategy to support adults with adult deficit hyperactivity disorder akin to that for adults with autism. [283296]
Phil Hope: Guidance to help health care professionals in England to commission, together with other relevant agencies, an effective service for the diagnosis and management of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in adults (ADHD) was issued in September 2008 by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.
The Department does not feel that the delivery of support for adults with deficit hyperactivity would be best met by developing a separate strategy and a copy of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidance has been placed in the Library.
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