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Departmental Pay
John McDonnell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the (a) average and (b) highest non-consolidated performance related payment for senior civil servants in his Department was in cash terms in each of the last five years. [303072]
Phil Hope [holding answer 30 November 2009]: Non-consolidated performance payments are made under the terms set out in the Government's response to the recommendations of the independent Senior Salaries Review Body. A close and effective link between pay and performance and increased use of variable pay is a key element of the reward arrangements for the senior civil service. Over the last five years, average (median) and maximum non-consolidated payments have been:
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Departmental Public Expenditure
Mrs. Maria Miller: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much his Department has allocated to Maternity Matters programmes in (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2010-11. [305298]
Ann Keen: In January 2008, the Department announced an additional £330 million for maternity services to help support the implementation of Maternity Matters over the three years 2008-09 to 2010-11. This funding has been included in primary care trusts (PCT) baseline allocations. It is for PCTs to determine how best to use it, based on the needs of local maternity services.
Mrs. Maria Miller: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much his Department has allocated for NHS Baby Lifecheck in (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2010-11. [305299]
Gillian Merron: Expenditure on NHS Baby Lifecheck in 2009-10 is expected to be approximately £1.3 million. The allocation for NHS Lifecheck in 2010-11 is still under consideration.
Departmental Public Relations
Mr. Hurd: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what payments the NHS Supply Chain has made to Fleishman-Hillard in the last 12 months; for what purpose; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the contract under which such payments have been made. [305165]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: The Department does not hold this information.
The operation of NHS Supply Chain was outsourced to a DHL Group company, Exel Europe Ltd., following the signing of a Master Services Agreement in September 2006.
Mr. Hurd: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what payments the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has made to (a) Weber Shandwick Public Affairs and (b) Citigate Public Affairs in the last 12 months; for what purposes; and if he will place in the Library a copy of each contract under which such payments were made. [305421]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: The information requested is not held centrally. Payments made by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) to individual companies are a matter for NICE as an independent body.
Mr. Hurd: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what payments the Food Standards Agency has made to Stratagem in the last 12 months; for what purposes; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the contract under which such payments were made. [305425]
Gillian Merron: The Food Standards Agency has made 12 payments totalling £22,875.70 over the last 12 months to Stratagem. These payments were made to Stratagem for the purposes of public affairs support and stakeholder management.
The contract will not be placed in the Library due to commercial considerations.
Mr. Hurd: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what payments the Food Standards Agency has made to Edelman in the last 12 months; for what purposes; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the contract under which such payments were made. [305438]
Gillian Merron: There have been no payments made by the Food Standards Agency to Edelman in the last 12 months.
Departmental Publicity
Mr. Philip Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much his Department has spent on (a) Ministerial photoshoots and (b) production of videos in which Ministers appear in the last three years for which figures are available. [305518]
Phil Hope: Group and individual photos were taken of the ministerial team in November 2007. The cost for this photoshoot is not separately identifiable within our records.
Videos are sometimes produced in which Ministers appear as part of a wider production. The costs of such videos are not held centrally and cannot be provided except at disproportionate cost.
Departmental Responsibilities
Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 3 December 2009, Official Report, column 934W, on departmental ministerial duties, at what time on 27 October 2009 the Secretary of State (a) arrived at and (b) left Clarence House; and if he will make a statement. [306879]
Phil Hope: My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State did not visit Clarence House on 27 October 2009.
My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State did visit Clarence House on 29 October 2009, as is recorded in the Court Circular of that date.
Departmental Telephone Services
Mark Lazarowicz: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many telephone lines with the prefix (a) 0870, (b) 0845 and (c) 0800 his Department (i) operates and (ii) sponsors; how many calls were received to each number in the last 12 months; and whether alternative numbers charged at the BT local rate are available in each case. [305205]
Phil Hope: The Department's Communications Directorate currently maintains no '0870' phone numbers but runs or promotes four '0845' phone numbers and 188 '0800' phone numbers.
Information on any other telephone services that may be run on behalf of the Department is not held centrally and cannot be provided except at disproportionate cost.
Records on the number of calls to individual numbers over the period requested are not available. Many of the numbers are received by the same campaign call centre and to collate records for individual phone numbers would incur disproportionate costs.
There are no alternative numbers available.
Drugs: Misuse
David Simpson:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate his Department has made of the number of people attending accident and emergency
departments in each region with (a) drug-related conditions and (b) injuries in which the misuse of drugs was a contributory cause in each of the last three years. [305009]
Gillian Merron: The information requested is not collected centrally.
Family Nurse Partnership Programme
Mrs. Maria Miller: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what proportion of Family Nurse Partnership programme staff are health visitors; [306635]
(2) what the estimated total cost is of providing the Family Nurse Partnership scheme; and what estimate has been made of the average cost per family of the scheme; [306636]
(3) what his Department's plans are for expansion of the Family Nurse Partnership. [306637]
Ann Keen: Of all the family nurses currently employed in Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) sites, 54 per cent. had been in a health visiting post immediately prior to becoming a family nurse and 67 per cent. were currently registered health visitors.
A formative evaluation of implementation in the first 10 FNP sites is being conducted by Birkbeck college, university of London. This will conclude by 2011 and will include an assessment of costs. A report of findings from the second year was published on the Department for Children, Schools and Families research website in September this year, and this suggested that the cost of FNP per client for those completing the programme is around £4,500 over two and a half years.
The FNP is also being evaluated through a randomised controlled trial, led by the South East Wales Trials Unit at the School of Medicine, Cardiff university. This will test the impact of the FNP compared with other services on pregnancy and birth outcomes, on child health and development and on parental life course; and it will also assess costs, through an economic evaluation.
The FNP programme gives us a real opportunity to transform the life chances of some of our most vulnerable children. It has been shown in the United States to have strong and consistent short and long-term benefits for children and parents. Early learning in England suggests that the FNP can be delivered well by our skilled family nurses, that the programme is highly valued by clients, that fathers engage with it well, and that early impacts look promising.
We will be testing FNP in 50 sites across England by January 2010 and over 3,000 clients have enrolled on FNP to date. The Child Health Strategy, published in February 2009, said the Government wished to expand to 70 pilot sites by April 2011. This would allow capacity to deliver FNP to at least 7,000 families. The Child Health Strategy also said that if the research findings are positive we would like to see FNP offered to the most vulnerable first-time young mothers across England over the next decade.
Health Services: Inspections
Mark Simmonds:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) planned and (b) unannounced
inspection visits the Care Quality Commission has conducted in each month since its inception; and how many (i) planned and (ii) unannounced inspection visits its predecessor organisations conducted in each year since 1997-98. [304769]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: The Care Quality Commission has provided the following information.
The information is not available in the format requested.
The Care Quality Commission has completed the following inspections of health and social care providers since 1 April 2009.
| 2009-10 (up to 30 October 2009) | ||||||||
| April | May | June | July | August | September | October | Total | |
| (1)This includes 84 inspections of NHS trusts and 186 healthcare associated infection inspections that are not broken down monthly. (2) This includes 84 inspections of NHS trusts that are not broken down monthly. | ||||||||
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