Universal Credit
Stephen Timms: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the number of people who will be in receipt of universal credit by 30 April 2014. [165813]
Mr Hoban: We remain committed to delivering universal credit by 2017. Between October 2013 and March 2014 six more Jobcentres will be taking new claims for universal credit. This means we will be testing UC in each region across the country. This will significantly expand our ability to test and learn as we progressively roll out universal credit. The exact number of claims will depend on local economic conditions.
Stephen Timms: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether someone in receipt of universal credit who moves into employment before April 2014 with a small firm not yet operating Real Time Information for PAYE would continue if eligible to receive universal credit; and how their entitlement would be established. [165814]
Mr Hoban: A universal credit claimant who moves into employment will continue to receive universal credit regardless of whether their employer is reporting PAYE in real time or not. DWP processes will require such a claimant to self-report their earnings at the appropriate time.
Universal Credit: Ashfield
Gloria De Piero: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will make an estimate of the likely number of households in Ashfield constituency in the poverty bracket following the implementation of universal credit. [165725]
Mr Hoban: Measuring the poverty bracket using income levels is not available by parliamentary constituency as sample sizes are too small to yield reliable results.
Work Programme
Stephen Timms: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether he has reviewed or plans to review the performance targets for Year 3 non-intervention in the Work programme for (a) jobseeker's allowance 18 to 24, (b) jobseeker's allowance 25 and over and (c) employment and support allowance flow that were set out in the invitation to tender. [165570]
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Mr Hoban: Work programme performance targets have not been reviewed and there are no current plans to review them.
Written Questions
Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many answers to parliamentary questions involving tables of statistics fewer than four pages in length were (a) printed in full and (b) provided via a weblink to a website in the last year. [165479]
Mr Hoban: The information is not collated centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what guidance his Department follows in determining whether, when answers to parliamentary questions include statistics, those statistics are (a) provided in full, (b) provided via a weblink to a website or (c) placed in the Library. [165499]
Mr Hoban: I refer the hon. Member to the reply given by the Leader of the House of Commons, my right hon. Friend the Member for South Cambridgeshire (Mr Lansley), to the hon. Member for West Bromwich East (Mr Watson) on 12 February 2013, Official Report, column 649W.
Health
Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy
15. Andrew Stephenson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what his policy is on the availability of selective dorsal rhizotomy treatments for young patients. [165212]
Dr Poulter: Selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR) falls within the direct commissioning responsibilities of NHS England.
In April 2013, NHS England issued a clinical commissioning policy statement on selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR). The document states that the procedure is not routinely commissioned, but may become available on a limited basis under the “commissioning through evaluation” approach.
Whistleblowers
16. Charlotte Leslie: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he is taking to protect whistleblowers in the NHS. [165214]
Dr Poulter: We have improved the rights of whistleblowers by:
introducing a contractual right for staff to raise concerns;
issuing guidance on good practice policies;
strengthening the NHS constitution;
funding a whistleblowing helpline; and
amending legislation to secure protections for all staff in the Public Interest Disclosure Act.
Health and Social Care
19. Mr Sanders: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he is taking to encourage integration of health and social care services. [165217]
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Dr Poulter: The £3.8 billion pooled health and care fund we recently announced as part of the spending review, alongside the establishment of integration pioneers to share and promote innovation and best practice, will support localities to improve outcomes and deliver better care and support in an integrated way.
Health Tourism
21. Chris Skidmore: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he is taking to tackle health tourism and ensure a fair system of contribution to the costs of the NHS. [165219]
Mr Jeremy Hunt: On 3 July, my Department and the Home Office launched co-ordinated consultations on a range of proposals on a new charging system for visitors and migrants in which everyone makes a fair contribution to healthcare.
These include making temporary migrants from outside of the EEA contribute to the cost of their healthcare, and introducing easier and more practical ways for the NHS to identify and charge those not entitled to free healthcare.
NHS: Redundancy Payments
22. Meg Hillier: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much the NHS has spent on redundancy payments since June 2010. [165220]
Dr Poulter: The Department does not collect this information in the format requested. However, the national health service has spent £268.9 million on compulsory redundancy payments between April 2010 and March 2012, the latest date for which figures are available. This needs to be set alongside the £5.5 billion net savings on administration and bureaucracy during this Parliament as a result of our NHS reforms to cut bureaucracy in the NHS, which will also deliver £1.5 billion every year after 2015.
Whittington Hospital
23. Jeremy Corbyn: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what his plans are for future service provision by the Whittington Hospital. [165221]
Anna Soubry: This is a matter for the local national health service, in particular the Whittington Health NHS Trust. We understand that the trust announced its revised clinical strategy, under the heading “Transforming Healthcare for Tomorrow”, on 9 July 2013.
Ambulance Services
24. Lorely Burt: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what contingency plans he has in place to ensure safe and appropriate delivery of ambulance services if the new arrangements fail to meet delivery standards. [165222]
Anna Soubry: Commissioners are responsible for the routine performance monitoring and contractual management of providers, to ensure safe and appropriate delivery of ambulance services.
In the event of persistent underperformance, Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority have the power to intervene to address delivery issues.
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Cancer
Lyn Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many times the cancer guarantee has been missed by hospital trusts in the last three years; [164881]
(2) how many times the cancer guarantee has been missed by Barts Health NHS Trust in the last three years; [164882]
(3) how many times the cancer guarantee has been missed by hospital trusts in London in the last three years; [164883]
(4) what the top 20 (a) best and (b) worst performing hospitals in meeting the two-week cancer guarantee are; [164885]
(5) if he will publish a league table of hospital trusts in London according to their performance in meeting the two-week cancer guarantee; [165066]
(6) at what point hospital trusts begin counting the length of time a patient with cancer waits to see a specialist for the purposes of the two-week cancer guarantee. [165087]
Anna Soubry: The answer to these parliamentary questions reflects performance against the operational standard that 93% of patients should be seen by a specialist within two weeks of an urgent general practitioner (GP) referral for suspected cancer. This is a right under the NHS Constitution. Performance against this standard is published on a quarterly basis.
Table 1 shows how many times the quarterly cancer two-week wait standard was not achieved by all NHS and NHS foundation trusts in England, in London and by Barts Health NHS Trust in the last three years.
Table 2 shows the 111 organisations that have achieved the operational standard in every quarter in the last three years.
Table 3 shows the 18 organisations that did not achieve the quarterly operational standard two or more times in the last three years.
The standard was not achieved in one quarter by the remaining organisations.
Table 4 sets out for each NHS trust and NHS foundation trust in London the number of times they did not achieve the quarterly two-week cancer standard in the last three years.
Hospitals begin counting the length of time a patient with cancer waits to see a specialist for the purposes of the operational standard from the point of urgent referral by a GP.
| Table 1: All cancer two-week wait, number of times the quarterly operational standard of 93% was not achieved in the last three years 2010-11 to 2012-13 | |
| Number | |
| Notes: 1. Trusts that treated fewer than 60 patients during the period have been excluded from the analysis 2. Barts Health NHS Trust was formed on 1 April 2012 by merging Barts and the London NHS Trust, Whipps Cross University Hospital NHS Trust and Newham University Hospital NHS Trust | |
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| Notes: 1. Trusts that treated fewer than 60 patients during the period have been excluded from the analysis. 2. Barts Health NHS Trust was formed on 1 April 2012 by merging Barts and the London NHS Trust, Whipps Cross University Hospital NHS Trust and Newham University Hospital NHS Trust. | |
Drugs: Poisoning
Ms Abbott: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many women have been admitted to hospital for drug poisoning in each of the last six years. [164988]
Anna Soubry: The information requested has been placed in the Library. It provides a count of finished admission episodes for females with a primary diagnosis of poisoning by drugs (ICD10 T36 - T50 shown separately at 4 character level) for 2006-07 to 2010-11.
It should be noted that this is not a count of patients as the same patient may have been admitted more than once in a year.
Equality
Philip Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much has been spent by his Department (a) in total and (b) on staff costs on promoting equality and diversity in each of the last three years for which figures are available; and how many people are employed by his Department for this purpose. [165456]
Dr Poulter: The number of staff directly involved in promoting equality and diversity over the last three years for which figures are available are in the following table.
Salary costs are not available for these staff as these are not held centrally. However, staff numbers employed in these teams have decreased over the period and therefore salary costs have also decreased.
All officials across the Department are expected to consider the equality impacts of their policies and decisions as part of their mainstream work.
| Posts | Number (full-time equivalents) |
|
Full-time equivalent staff in the Equality and Inclusion Team | |
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Full-time equivalent staff in the Equality and Inclusion Team | |
|
Full-time equivalent staff in the Equality and Inclusion Team | |
General Practitioners
Sir Paul Beresford: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what Health Education England's role is in ensuring GPs are sufficiently trained to correctly diagnose and manage skin conditions. [R] [165678]
Dr Poulter: The Government have mandated Health Education England (HEE) to provide national leadership on education, training and workforce development in the national health service. This mandate includes a commitment that HEE will ensure that general practitioner (GP) training produces GPs with the required competencies to practise in the new NHS. The content and standard of medical training is ultimately the responsibility of the General Medical Council. However, HEE will work with stakeholders to influence training curricula as appropriate.
Sir Paul Beresford: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what progress there has been on the future accreditation of GPs with an interest in dermatology by the Royal College of General Practitioners; and if he will make a statement. [R] [165679]
Dr Poulter: The current framework for the accreditation and re-accreditation of general practitioners with a special interest remains under review by NHS England. This work is being led by Dr Mike Bewick, one of NHS England's two deputy national medical directors. Decisions on future arrangements will be confirmed in due course.
Government Procurement Card
Ms Abbott: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much has been spent on his Department's procurement cards since May 2010. [165043]
Dr Poulter: The Department's expenditure using Government Procurement Cards (GPC) with available data is set out in the following table.
| Financial year | GPC spend (£) | |
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The most recent year of expenditure (2012-13) shows that annual spending on the GPC is £2,479,423.29 less than under the last year of the previous Government.
Health Services: Families
Andrea Leadsom: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what specialist health support the Government provide for young families. [165213]
Anna Soubry: The Government are committed to supporting young families to give their children the best start in life.
We are increasing the number of health visitors by 4,200 and Family Nurse Partnership places to 16,000, by 2015. Children and young people with special educational needs will receive a joined-up Education, Health and Care plan—subject to passage of the Children and Families Bill.
Heart Diseases: Children
Stuart Andrew: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) whether the Children's Heart Federation will be involved in the new congenital cardiac review; [165576]
(2) whether meetings of his Department's review of congenital cardiac services will be open to the public, properly minuted and advertised in advance; [165577]
(3) what steps he is taking to ensure that advisers and decision-makers involved with the decision-making process on the congenital cardiac review are independent of vested interests. [165580]
Anna Soubry: NHS England, as the body responsible for commissioning specialised congenital heart services, is responsible for taking forward the new national review of these services.
We are advised by NHS England that it will work closely with all interested national and local stakeholders and charities including patients and the public, to develop, test and revise a proposition and will undertake work to identify a preferred approach to implementation.
NHS England will be transparent about its planned discussions in order to ensure all stakeholders have the chance to contribute, and to help mitigate any risk of undue weight being given to any particular local or national views.
Hepatitis
Mr Tom Clarke: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many known hepatitis C victims were recorded in each of the last five years in the UK. [164982]
Anna Soubry: The annual number of individuals in England(1), Scotland(2 )and Wales(1) hospitalised with hepatitis C virus (HCV) related end stage liver disease (ESLD) or HCV-related hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) for which data are available is shown as follows.
| Number hospitalised | |
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Data for 2011 will be published later this month.
Data for Northern Ireland will be published later this month.
ESLD is defined by codes or text entries for ascites, bleeding oesophageal varices, hepato-renal syndrome, hepatic encephalopathy or hepatic failure.
(1) Refers to individuals in England and Wales hospitalised with HCV related ESLD or HCV related HCC.
(2) Refers to individuals in Scotland diagnosed with hepatitis C and admitted to hospital for the first time with either ESLD or HCC.
Source:
Hepatitis C in the UK, Annual Report 2012
www.hpa.org.uk/webw/HPAweb&HPAwebStandard/HPAweb_C/1317135237627
Mr Tom Clarke: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many known hepatitis C victims have died in each of the last five years in the UK. [164983]
Anna Soubry: The following table shows deaths from end stage liver disease(1) or hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in those with hepatitis C mentioned on the death certificate in the United Kingdom: 2006-10.
| Number of deaths | |
(1 )Defined by codes or text entries for ascites, bleeding oesophageal varices, hepato-renal syndrome, hepatic encephalopathy or hepatic failure.
Source:
Hepatitis C in the UK, Annual Report 2012
www.hpa.org.uk/webw/HPAweb&HPAwebStandard/HPAweb_C/1317135237627
Mr Tom Clarke: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much financial support has been paid to hepatitis C victims in each of the last two years. [165287]
Anna Soubry: The following table shows the actual amounts paid by the Caxton Foundation and Skipton Fund Ltd in each of 2011-12 and 2012-13 to individuals infected with hepatitis C through treatment in England with contaminated blood or blood products supplied by the national health service, or to their families.
| £ | ||
| 2011-12 | 2012-13 | |
| (1 )Caxton Foundation only began operating in October 2011, so amounts for 2011-12 are for part of the year. | ||
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Human Papillomavirus
Mr Blunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many doses of Gardasil were administered as the sole HPV vaccine in the school immunisation programme between August 2012 and June 2013; [165291]
(2) how many doses of Gardasil have been administered in the UK since 2006. [165292]
Anna Soubry: Gardasil replaced Cervarix vaccine in September 2012 for use in the National Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) Vaccination Programmes 2012-13. It is estimated that 730,000 doses of Gardasil vaccine have been administered in England, Wales and Northern Ireland as part of the national HPV immunisation programme since September 2012. The requested information for Scotland is not currently available. Statistics on the HPV Immunisation programme in Scotland for the 2012-13 academic year are planned for publication on 24 September 2013.
Gardasil doses administered prior to September 2012 would have been offered privately and outside the national coverage programme—there are no data on how many doses were given this way.
Infant Mortality: Males
Paul Blomfield: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if his Department will commission research into the causes of higher rates of unexplained infant deaths in boys. [165153]
Dr Poulter: The Department has no plans to commission specific research on this topic.
The Department's National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) is funding a range of research on sudden unexpected deaths in infancy (SUDI). This includes ongoing work at the NIHR biomedical research centre at Great Ormond Street hospital and University College London Institute of Child Health, and support for the West Midlands SUDI Project. This project is exploring the impact and outcomes of the joint-agency investigation undertaken following SUDI, including the family's experience, recovery and possible changes in child care practice.
Invalid Vehicles: Children
Bill Wiggin: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the number of children who are on an NHS waiting list for a wheelchair or other mobility equipment. [165356]
Dr Poulter: Data on waiting times for wheelchairs are not collected centrally.
We are advised by NHS England that the commissioning of paediatric wheelchairs is a matter for local wheelchair services.
In “Healthcare for disabled children and young people” published in 2012, the Care Quality Commission reported waits for children's wheelchairs recorded between 1 April 2010 and 30 September 2010 and found the national average wait was nine weeks for manual, and 12 weeks for powered wheelchairs.
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Maternity Services
Mr Mike Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps his Department is taking to support maternity wards facing closure. [164794]
Dr Poulter: Health and Wellbeing Boards determine local priorities and provide oversight on their delivery and support the configuration of maternity services to ensure that every woman has high quality maternity care.
The Government are committed to improving choice of place of birth, continuity of care and women's experience of care through an increased number of midwives working in the national health service by almost 1,400 since 2010, and a record 5,000 more in training.
Health and Wellbeing Boards create a close partnership between the NHS clinical commissioning groups and local authorities and bring a new local accountability to assessing health and care needs.
Ministers' Private Offices
Ms Abbott: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much his Department's ministerial private offices have spent on mobile telephones since May 2010. [165044]
Dr Poulter: The Department is unable to provide expenditure figures for mobile phone usage by ministerial private offices since May 2010 as we do not maintain a central record of individual bills and details of staff with mobile phones are not held broken down by business unit.
Morecambe Bay Hospitals NHS Trust
David Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what representations his Department received expressing concerns regarding University Hospitals Morecambe Bay prior to May 2010. [165803]
Dr Poulter: Records are available from August 2005. A search of the Department's ministerial correspondence database has identified 90 items of correspondence expressing concerns about University Hospitals Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust received before 1 May 2010. This is a minimum figure which represents correspondence received by the Department's ministerial correspondence unit. The following table shows the 90 items of correspondence split by year due for answer.
| Year due | Items of correspondence |
David Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what representations his Department made to the Care Quality Commission regarding University Hospitals Morecambe Bay prior to May 2010. [165804]
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Dr Poulter: As part of its application process for foundation status for University Hospital Morecambe Bay, in May 2009, the Department routinely asked the Care Quality Commission (CQC) for its quality assessment of the trust. The Department's records do not show any other representations made to the CQC.
NHS: Foreign Workers
Mr Lammy: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many temporary non-EEA migrants are currently employed by NHS organisations in London. [165650]
Dr Poulter: This information requested is not centrally held.
Workforce census information held by the Health and Social Care Information Centre, does not capture data on migration status.
Prescription Drugs
Ms Abbott: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the cost to the public purse of medicine use reviews has been since 2010. [165039]
Norman Lamb: The cost of medicine use reviews provided by community pharmacy contractors, in England, was £54.6 million in 2010, £66.7 million in 2011 and £74.6 million in 2012.
The information is sourced from Pharmaceutical Services Cash Monitoring, NHS Business Services Authority.
Public Health England
Annette Brooke: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he took to observe the transparency and political neutrality mandated by the code of practice for ministerial appointments to public bodies when shortlisting for the Public Health England advisory board; and what steps he took to ensure a diverse and representative group for the final short-list of appointments. [165583]
Anna Soubry: The Secretary of State for Health has appointed the chair and four non-executive members to Public Health England's advisory board. They each bring to this role a great range of experience.
The recruitment campaigns to Public Health England's advisory board were managed in a way that complied with the principles of the Commissioner for Public Appointment's code of practice—they were open, transparent and appointments were made on merit. Political activity in itself is no bar to appointment.
We will shortly be advertising for further candidates to enhance the expertise available to Public Health England's advisory board and recognise the need to encourage applications from people from all walks of life, including from groups traditionally underrepresented at board level.
Respite Care: Northamptonshire
Michael Ellis: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will assess the effectiveness of the consultation process used by the Nene Commissioning Group to consult on re-provision of respite care and health checks for people with neuro-degenerative conditions and community podiatry services in Northamptonshire; and if he will make a statement. [165565]
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Norman Lamb: The provision of local health services is a matter for the local national health service. However, where NHS organisations put forward proposals for service change we would expect them to meet strengthened criteria to demonstrate:
support from general practitioner commissioners;
public and patient engagement;
clinical evidence base underpinning proposals; and
patient choice.
Staff: Birmingham
Steve McCabe: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many fully-trained paediatric nurses were employed by the NHS to serve Birmingham in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012 and (d) 2013 to date; [165067]
(2) how many fully-trained paramedics were employed by the NHS to serve Birmingham in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012 and (d) 2013 to date. [165068]
Dr Poulter: The information requested is provided in the following tables:
| National health service hospital and community health services: Qualified nursing staff in the paediatrics area of work in each specified organisation as at 30 September 2010-12 and 31 March 2013 | ||||
| Full-time equivalent | ||||
| 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | March 2013 | |
| '—' = Zero. Notes: 1. Full-time equivalent figures are rounded to the nearest whole number. 2. As a consequence of Transforming Community Services, the former provider arm of some former primary care trusts may have transferred into local acute and community trusts. 3. 2010-12 figures are from the annual Non-Medical Workforce Census. March 2013 figures are from the Provisional Monthly Workforce Statistics. Sources: 1. Health and Social Care Information Centre Non-Medical Workforce Census. 2. Health and Social Care Information Centre Provisional Monthly Workforce Statistics. | ||||
| National health service hospital and community health services: Ambulance paramedics in the West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust as at 30 September 2010-12 and 31 March 2013 | ||||
| Full-time equivalent | ||||
| 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | March 2013 | |
| '—'= Zero. Notes: 1. Full-time equivalent figures are rounded to the nearest whole number. 2. 2010-12 figures are from the annual Non-Medical Workforce Census. March 2013 figures are from the Provisional Monthly Workforce Statistics. Sources: 1. Health and Social Care Information Centre Non-Medical Workforce Census. 2. Health and Social Care Information Centre Provisional Monthly Workforce Statistics. | ||||
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International Development
Burma
Paul Blomfield: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what assistance her Department provides to displaced people living in model villages in Burma. [165676]
Mr Duncan: DFID support is not specifically targeted at so-called “model villages”, which some reporting refers to as camps for the forced relocation of people. DFID's support to displaced people is targeted at those most in need. DFID provides support to the displaced people in Kachin State, Rakhine State and to those along the Thai-Burma border. In Rakhine State this support reaches both sides of the community.
Commonwealth
Mr Frank Field: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development whether she has met with the Commonwealth Secretary General to discuss (a) her Department's Multilateral Aid Review update and (b) the Commonwealth Fund for Technical Co-operation; and if she will make a statement. [165664]
Justine Greening: I met with the Commonwealth Secretary General in July to discuss key issues of mutual interest, including the importance of ongoing reforms at the Secretariat, the Multilateral Aid Review update and DFID's continued support for the Commonwealth Fund for Technical Co-operation and the Commonwealth Youth Programme.
Mr Frank Field: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what assessment she has made of whether the Multilateral Aid Review's methodology and criteria is a fair basis on which to judge the development activities of the Commonwealth Secretariat; and if she will make a statement. [165677]
Mr Duncan: The purpose of the Multilateral Aid Review (MAR) is to understand whether multilateral organisations provide value for money for UK aid, and therefore to ensure that taxpayers' money has the maximum impact for development. We are confident that the basis on which to assess the contribution of the Commonwealth Secretariat and other multilateral organisations to UK development objectives is a fair one.
The Commonwealth is an irreplaceable international network of developed and developing countries. The Government recognise that the Commonwealth Secretariat has a unique role that goes beyond international development and is to the mutual benefit of its members. The MAR process, given its focus on UK development objectives, does not therefore encompass all aspects of that wider role.
Developing Countries: Family Planning
Mr Ivan Lewis: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what steps she is taking to make progress in achieving the commitments agreed at the Government's Family Planning Summit in 2012, and in ensuring that all the Government's partners are working to achieve those commitments. [165574]
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Justine Greening: Following the London Summit on Family Planning, DFID has worked with partners to establish Family Planning 2020, a global partnership and accountability arrangement to support and monitor progress to achieve the commitments made at the summit.
DFID has already funded the purchase of contraceptives in 2012-13, including over 4 million contraceptive implants. Work is under way to develop additional programmes to support DFID's own commitments made at the summit.
Mr Ivan Lewis: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what recent assessment her Department has made of progress on improving women's access to contraception in the developing world following the Government's Family Planning Summit in 2012. [165575]
Justine Greening: Following the London Summit on Family Planning, DFID has worked with partners to establish Family Planning 2020 (FP2020), a global partnership and accountability arrangement to support and monitor progress to achieve the commitments made at the summit. The first FP2020 progress report on improving women's access to contraception in developing countries is expected in the autumn.
Overseas Aid: North East
Guy Opperman: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development when she next intends to visit the North East of England to update churches, aid groups and interested parties on the co-ordination of UK humanitarian and aid support to key developing countries. [164939]
Justine Greening: Although my plans for travel within the UK during the coming year have not yet been confirmed, I am keen to meet directly with faith-based communities and NGOs across the country, including in the North East of England.
Regulation
Chi Onwurah: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what the title is of each regulation her Department (a) introduced and (b) revoked in (i) 2010, (ii) 2011, (iii) 2012 and (iv) 2013 to date; and if she will make a statement. [165916]
Mr Duncan: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Witham (Priti Patel) on 16 May 2013, Official Report, column 390W.
Written Questions
Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development (1) how many answers by her Department to parliamentary questions involving tables of statistics fewer than four pages in length were (a) printed in full and (b) provided via a link to a website in the last year; [165472]
(2) what guidance her Department follows in determining whether statistics in answers to parliamentary questions are (a) provided in full, (b)
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provided via a link to a website and
(c)
placed in the Library. [165491]
Mr Duncan: DFID answers to parliamentary questions are a matter of public record and can be found in the Official Report.
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I also refer the hon. Member to the answer given by the Leader of the House of Commons, my right hon. Friend the Member for South Cambridgeshire (Mr Lansley), to the hon. Member for West Bromwich East (Mr Watson), on 12 February 2013, Official Report, column 649W.