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General Practitioners

Mr Anderson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) if he will support the campaign to direct more resources to frontline services via GPs; [177940]

(2) if he will make it his policy to increase resources for general practice up to 11 per cent of total funding by 2017; and if he will make a statement. [177941]

Dr Poulter: Commissioning primary medical care is the responsibility of NHS England and it will be for NHS England to determine the level of funding required to deliver those services in order to meet the needs of patients.

NHS England are developing a strategic framework for commissioning of primary care services, strengthening general practice and enabling it to play an even more pivotal role at the heart of more integrated systems of out-of-hospital care for patients and local communities.

The Government recognise the central role that primary care has to play in helping keep people healthy, supporting proactive management of long-term health needs and reducing the need for hospital admissions. In 2014, the Government will set out plans for improving care for vulnerable older people, including the central role that general practitioners have to play in helping people to stay healthy and live independently.

Health

Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what funds his Department has provided for promotion of (a) five-a-day fruit and vegetable consumption and (b) physical exercise in the last 12 months; and if he will take steps to promote five-a-day habits for good mental health. [177915]

Jane Ellison: In the last 12 months, the Department of Health has invested in the following programmes led by other Government Departments in promoting/supporting physical activity:

£1.2 million on active travel (led by Department for Transport);

£120 million on School Sports Premium (led by Department for Education);

£23.5 million on School Games (led by Department for Culture Media and Sport);

£150,000 to NHS Confederation to promote physical activity at workplace; and

£150,000 to English Federation for Disability and Sport in the last three financial years (FY 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2012-13).

Over the past 12 months the Department has spent £38.2 million on the Schools Fruit and Vegetable Scheme and the forecast spend for FY 2013-14 is £38.3 million.

The overall budget for Public Health England's (PHE) Change4Life marketing campaign for the financial year 2013-14 is £11,945,000. Five-a-day and the encouragement of physical activity are integral parts of PHE's Change4Life campaign. It is not possible to break out the contribution to those two elements of the campaign.

We are not aware of any scientific evidence directly linking the consumption of fruit and vegetables with mental health.

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Health Education

Luciana Berger: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the written answer of 29 November 2013, Official Report, column 467W, on health education, what continued development has been undertaken since the guidance was suspended. [178227]

Norman Lamb: Following the decision in November 2010 to suspend the development of its public health guidance on personal, social, health and economic education focusing on sex and relationships and alcohol education, we understand that the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has not undertaken any further development work on this topic.

Health Visitors

Lucy Powell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answers of 21 November 2013, Official Report, columns 1003-4W and 3 December 2013, Official Report, column 644W, on health visitors, what the expected net growth is in the number of health visitors from August 2013 to the end of 2013-14. [178647]

Dr Poulter: NHS England report that plans for 2013-14 indicate that the health visitor work force in England is expected to grow by 1,724 full-time equivalents between 31 August 2013 and 31 March 2014. By April 2015 it is planned that there will be 4,200 extra health visitors in the work force over the May 2010 baseline.

Hospitals: Mortality Rates

Mr Jamie Reed: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will take steps to raise public awareness of the conclusion drawn by Sir Bruce Keogh in his review into hospital mortality rates over the last decade in NHS hospitals, that overall mortality has fallen by about 30 per cent and that the improvement is even greater when the increasing complexity of patients being treated is taken into account. [178421]

Dr Poulter: As Sir Bruce Keogh's mortality review highlighted, improvements in health care mean that patients with complex needs now have better chance of survival. The review highlighted that

“mortality in all NHS hospitals has been falling over the last decade: overall mortality has fallen by about 30 per cent and that the improvement is even greater when the increasing complexity of patients being treated is taken into account”.

The report on the review was widely publicised and received national coverage, with a number of national, regional and local press articles highlighting the improvement in mortality rates specifically.

Mortality rates in local hospitals are important to the public. We want hospitals to engage with their local populations to raise awareness of local rates and challenge them to improve further.

Hospitals: Older People

Mr Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many emergency readmissions to hospital within 28 days of discharge of adults aged over 65 years there were in (a) each region of England and (b) England in (i) 2010-11 and (ii) 2011-12; and what the indirect (A)

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age-standardised, (B) sex-standardised, (C) method of admission of discharge spell-standardised, (D) diagnosis-standardised and (E) procedure-standardised proportion was for such readmissions in each such region in each such year; [178646]

(2) how many patients aged (a) 75 or over and (b) 65 or over were readmitted to hospital as an emergency case within 28 days of being discharged in (i) 2010-11, (ii) 2011-12 and (iii) 2012-13 in each English hospital trust area; and if he will make a statement. [178651]

Dr Poulter: This information is not available in the format requested.

Data on emergency readmissions to hospital within 28 days of discharge of adults are published as the percentage of emergency admissions to any hospital in England occurring within 28 days of discharge from hospital after admission. Latest published data are for 2011-12.

These data are published for age groups 0-15 years, 16-74 years and 75 and over and are indirectly standardised for age, sex, method of admission of discharge spell, diagnosis within medical specialties and procedure within surgical specialties (standardised to 2007-08).

Geographical breakdowns are available by Government office region, strategic health authority (boundaries as at July 2006); county; local authority (boundaries as at April 2009); primary care organisation (boundaries as at April 2011); NHS provider trusts (as during financial year); and provider clusters.

This information is publicly available at the Health and Social Care Information Centre Indicator Portal at the following link, (under the category ‘Compendium of population health indicators’/Hospital Care/Outcomes/Readmissions):

https://indicators.ic.nhs.uk/webview/

Hyperactivity: Young People

Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 3 December 2013, Official Report, column 645W, on hyperactivity: young people, if he will state the incidence of (a) severe and (b) moderate attention deficit hyperactivity disorder by region. [178605]

Norman Lamb: The data are not available in the form requested.

Hyperkinetic Disorder is the term used by the World Health Organisation's International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) to refer to the more severe form of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. The Mental Health

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of Children and Young People in Great Britain, 2004 found that there were no significant differences between the countries in Great Britain in the distribution of children with hyperkinetic disorder. The only regional differences identified were that those with hyperkinetic disorder were found to be more likely than other children to live in non-metropolitan areas of England (53% compared with 44%).

Meningitis

Pauline Latham: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what discussions he has had with the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation regarding the licensing of Bexsero and the potential for nationwide vaccination programme against meningitis B. [178649]

Jane Ellison: My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health wrote to the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) on 10 June 2013 requesting a recommendation on whether there should be a national routine meningococcal B immunisation programme, based on an assessment of cost effectiveness, under the provisions set out in the Health Protection (Vaccination) Regulations 2009. A copy of this letter, which is available on GOV.UK, has been placed in the Library.

JCVI published an interim position statement on the use of MenB vaccine on 24 July for consultation with key stakeholders. Following consultation, JCVI announced on 25 October that it had requested further analyses to be undertaken in the light of new or recently published evidence submitted.

JCVI will finalise its advice once the analyses have been completed in early 2014.

Mental Health Services: Essex

Mr Simon Burns: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what per capita spend on mental health services was in (a) Chelmsford constituency and (b) Essex in each of the last five years. [178351]

Norman Lamb: Information is not available in the format requested. The Department of Health does not collect information on per capita breakdown of spending on mental health services in constituencies or counties. The following table however provides information on reported investment in mental health services covering the areas requested. Prior to 2013-14, primary care trusts were responsible for commissioning services to meet the health care needs of their local populations, taking account of national and local priorities.

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Mental Health Services: Young People

Paul Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 25 November 2013, Official Report, column 152W, on mental health services: young people, what practical and physical conditions must be met before a patient under 18 years old is recorded as in part of an adult ward set aside for child and adolescent mental health services' patients; and how many (a) under 16-year-olds and (b) 16 to 17-year-olds were admitted to part of an adult ward set aside for child and adolescent mental health services' patients in each of the last five years. [177921]

Norman Lamb: Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) is unable to provide information about the criteria for recording patients aged under 18 who occupy beds in adult wards that are set aside for children and adolescents.

The following table provides the number of under 16-year-olds and 16 to 17-year-olds who have been admitted to in-patient care in national health service funded adult and elderly secondary mental health services for each of the last five years. The data supplied cover both NHS providers and independent providers and differ from the answer of 25 November 2013, Official Report, column 152W, where figures were supplied for NHS providers only.

Mental Health: ICT

Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent assessment he has made of the effects of long-term use of mobile telephones, hand-held computers and other digital hardware on mental health. [178016]

Norman Lamb: The Department has commissioned Imperial College London to undertake a five-year study called COSMOS to monitor the effects on the health of a cohort of 105,000 adults of all digital devices including mobile phones, hand-held computers, and other digital hardware which operate on radio-frequency electro-magnetic fields. The study includes an assessment of self-reported effects on sleep quality and disorders, quality of life and depression, and general mental well-being. Data will be collected for in-patient hospital admissions for mental illnesses. This study will end in February 2014.

NHS: Innovation

Paul Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health with reference to the statement by Mr James Palmer of 15 October 2013 on the Specialised Services Commissioning Innovation Fund, what the level of unplanned expenditure on specialised commissioning has been in 2013 to date; what the forecast level of such expenditure is at the end of the current financial year; by how much the specialised commissioning budget is expected to be overspent in (a) 2013-14 to date, (b) 2013-14 and (c) 2014-15; what steps NHS England is taking to reduce the level of unplanned expenditure; and if he will make a statement. [178013]

Jane Ellison: NHS England advises that, as at month six (October 2013), the Specialised Services position measured against its planned surplus is as detailed in the following tables. “Unplanned” expenditure is not measured separately from the overall position.

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NHS England advises that work is continuing during 2013-14 to minimise the level of the adverse position.

The 2014-15 allocation for Specialised Services is due to be discussed at the NHS England Board meeting on 17 December 2013 as part of an overarching allocations paper. Following the Board meeting, NHS England will announce two year allocations.

Work is already under way by NHS England to develop Quality Innovation Productivity and Prevention schemes for implementation from 1 April 2014 onwards in order to assist in mitigating the impact of any pressures. As part of the process of forward planning, NHS England issued its 2014-15 commissioning intentions in October 2013 to provide the context for constructive engagement with providers, with a view to achieving the shared goal of improved patient outcomes and service transformation within the fixed resources available.

NHS: Standards

Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent assessment he has made of long-term trends in patient satisfaction levels in the NHS. [178019]

Dr Poulter: Putting patients at the heart of the national health service and ensuring they ‘have a positive experience of care' is a key priority for this Government and the NHS. This is reflected through the Mandate and Domain 4 of the NHS Outcomes Framework.

Patient experience of services is assessed regularly in a number of ways; results allow service providers to improve services, commissioners and the public to hold services to account and patients to make informed choices.

Some of these methods generate data on satisfaction with NHS services. Overall, these show that patient satisfaction with NHS services is relatively high. Data from the Ipsos Mori Public Perceptions of the NHS and Social Care Tracker (see table 1) and in the Care Quality Commission (CQC) Adult Inpatient Survey (see table 2a and 2b) show that there has been a slow shift respectively towards more satisfaction and more positive rating of care over time.

However the data also show that some patients are still dissatisfied with services or rate their overall experience or aspects of it as poor. It is important that we understand why that is so the NHS can take action to respond and improve.

To help improve the transparency and responsiveness of services, in April 2013 we introduced the Friends and Family Test into acute in-patients and accident and emergency.

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The test asks patients how likely they would be to recommend the care they just received to a friend or family member if they needed similar care or treatment. The test enables patients to provide virtual real-time feedback on services with results published down to ward level and it is being rolled out across the wider NHS. Already there is evidence that providers are using this feedback to celebrate what is good but tackle areas where improvements are needed.

In 2012 the question and answer was changed to:

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Mr Jamie Reed: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to his contribution of 16 July 2013, Official Report, column 927, if he will define the special measures into which these trusts will be placed; and what criteria these trusts need to satisfy to be taken out of special measures. [178226]

Dr Poulter: Special measures include the following components:

a contractual partnership with a high-performing partner to provide both guidance and direct input into improvement areas;

an improvement director will be appointed by the NHS Trust Development Authority/Monitor to oversee and drive improvements on the ground;

an improvement plan is created to address the failings identified, and progress against the plan published monthly; and

a leadership capability review is performed to ensure the correct leadership is in place to drive improvement.

All trusts in special measures will be re-inspected by the Chief Inspector of Hospitals within 12 months of entering. Where the Chief Inspector concludes that the necessary improvements to patient safety, quality of care, leadership and governance have been made he will recommend that either the NHS Trust Development Authority or Monitor exit the trust from special measures.

Obesity

Andy Sawford: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will meet representatives of Cambridge Manufacturing to discuss initiatives to tackle obesity and the Cambridge Diet. [179671]

Jane Ellison: Obesity is a priority area for the Government—the Department and Public Health England (PHE) share the ambition to achieve a downward trend in child and adult obesity. PHE has responsibility for the delivery of weight management services and PHE officials have recently met with representatives from Cambridge Weight Plan with regards the Cambridge Diet. This forms part of wider engagement, which includes commissioners of services and other weight management providers, commercial and non-commercial.

Perinatal Mortality

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what representations he has received about changing the law about designation of babies born before 24 weeks gestation as stillborn; and if he will make a statement. [178617]

Dr Poulter: A search of the Department’s ministerial correspondence database has identified 12 items of correspondence received since 1 December 2012 about changing the law regarding the designation of babies born before 24 weeks gestation as stillborn. This is a

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minimum figure which represents correspondence received by the Department’s ministerial correspondence unit only.

The Government currently have no plans to change the definition of stillbirth, which is based on the legal age at which the unborn baby is considered viable. We are guided on this issue by the clinical evidence. This shows that, while there have been medical advances in caring for premature babies, only a small number of babies born under 24 weeks gestation survive.

Radiotherapy

Tessa Munt: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 11 November 2013, Official Report, column 504W, on Radiotherapy and the 2014/2015 National Tariff Payment System: A Consultation Notice published by NHS England and Monitor on 3 October 2013, how NHS England plans to require providers of stereotactic ablative radiotherapy to make productivity improvements. [179752]

Dr Poulter: NHS England contracts for stereotactic ablative radiotherapy services through its Area Teams using a nationally defined clinical commissioning policy. The focus on productivity of individual services is the responsibility of the local Area Team, which forms a part of their discussion with providers in agreeing and monitoring contracts for this service.

Tessa Munt: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 25 November 2013, Official Report, column 160W, on radiotherapy, for what reason NHS England and Monitor will not be introducing a non-mandatory tariff for stereotactic ablative radiotherapy for the financial year 2014-15. [179753]

Dr Poulter: NHS England and Monitor will not be introducing a non-mandatory price for stereotactic ablative radiotherapy for the financial year 2014-15 for two main reasons. Firstly, to ensure 2014-15 is a year of relative stability in the national tariff, only a very small number of changes are being made.

The second reason is the absence of robust cost data which could be used as the basis for setting a non-mandatory price for this activity. Approval has been secured from the Health and Social Care Information Centre for a new activity code to be used for stereotactic ablative radiotherapy, which will enable a Healthcare Resource Group to be created for this activity against which cost data can be collected as part of the 2013-14 reference cost collection in summer 2014.

It is possible therefore that the cost data collected could help to inform the setting of a non-mandatory price for use in future years, but until these data have been collected and assessed it is not possible to estimate when non-mandatory prices could be made available by Monitor and NHS England.

Commissioners and providers are able to agree local prices for stereotactic ablative radiotherapy—the absence of a national price should not be an excuse for not providing this treatment where commissioners determine it to be in the best interest of patients.

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School Milk

Mr Jim Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for Health with reference to the impact assessment accompanying his Department's consultation entitled, Next Steps for Nursery Milk, (1) by what process officials in his Department estimated the costs associated with (a) a contract for direct supply of milk to settings and (b) an e-voucher system; [178491]

(2) what the cost would be of policy option 4, national contract model for direct supply of milk; and what proportion of that cost would relate to setting up and managing the associated procurement process. [178492]

Dr Poulter: The Department of Health has set out possible options for the operation of the Nursery Milk scheme, in its consultation Next Steps for Nursery Milk published in 2012. The Impact Assessment which accompanied the consultation included the costs of a new national procurement process for the Nursery Milk Scheme and the costs of the adoption of the Direct Supply option and an e-voucher scheme. The methodology for calculating the costs of these options is included in the Impact Assessment. A copy of the consultation document has already been placed in the Library.

A decision on the future operation of the Nursery Milk scheme will be taken after full consideration is given to the Final Impact Assessment, the consultation responses and other relevant information.

Mr Jim Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps his Department took to mark the Food and Agricultural Organization's World School Milk Day. [178493]

Dr Poulter: The Department is not actively involved in the World School Milk Day.

Secondment

Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answers of 19 November 2013, Official Report, column 862W, and 21 November 2013, Official Report, column 1010W, on secondment, what the estimated cost is of providing the information requested in those questions. [178005]

Dr Poulter: With reference to the answer provided on 19 November 2013, Official Report,column 862W, this is a matter for the Home Office.

With reference to the answer provided on 21 November 2013, Official Report, column 1010W, I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by the Minister of State, Department of Health, the hon. Member for North Norfolk (Norman Lamb) on 2 December 2013, Official Report, column 553W.

Vaccination: Immigrants

Mr Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Health which group is responsible for the monitoring, implementation and funding of measures to vaccinate newly-arrived migrants to communities within England; and if he will make a statement. [179754]

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Jane Ellison: NHS England is responsible for commissioning immunisation programmes under the terms of the NHS Public Health Functions agreement 2014-15 (Section 7A Agreement). Public Health England is responsible for monitoring and supporting their implementation including for newly-arrived migrants to communities within England.

Newly-arrived migrants who register with a general practitioner (GP) are offered vaccines in line with national guidance on immunisation against infectious diseases. Clinical commissioning groups are responsible for assessing the local need for provision of outreach immunisation services for newly-arrived migrants who are not registered with a GP.

Cabinet Office

Employment: Hampshire

Mr Mike Hancock: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many people are employed in (a) commerce and (b) manufacturing in (i) Portsmouth South constituency and (ii) Hampshire. [178594]

Mr Hurd: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.

Letter from Glen Watson, dated December 2013:

As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking how many people are employed in (a) commerce and (b) manufacturing in (i) Portsmouth South constituency and (ii) Hampshire. [178594]

Annual employment statistics are available from the Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES). Table 1 below contains estimates of the number employed in businesses considered to be part of industries involved in commerce for Portsmouth South constituency and Hampshire in 2012, the most recent year that figures are available. Although there is no standard definition of commerce used by the Office for National Statistics, in this table commerce is taken to be the service sector with public administration, education, health and arts, entertainment and recreation removed. This is intended to reflect businesses that are involved in the activity of buying and selling. Table 2 contains estimates of the number employed in the manufacturing sector for these areas.

National and local area estimates for many labour market statistics, including employment, unemployment and claimant count are available on the NOMIS website at:

http://www.nomisweb.co.uk

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Employment: Portsmouth

Mr Mike Hancock: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many people are employed in (a) the service sector and (b) the financial sector in Portsmouth South constituency. [178593]

Mr Hurd: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.

Letter from Glen Watson, dated December 2013:

As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people are employed in (a) the service sector and (b) the financial sector in Portsmouth South constituency. [178593]

Annual employment statistics are available from the Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES). Table 1 as follows contains estimates of the number employed in businesses considered to be part of industries that make up the service sector for Portsmouth South constituency in 2012, the most recent year that figures are available. The table also shows the number employed in the financial & insurance sector, which forms part of the service sector.

National and local area estimates for many labour market statistics, including employment, unemployment and claimant count are available on the NOMIS website at

http://www.nomisweb.co.uk

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Food Banks

Fiona O'Donnell: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what money has been given by his Department to help with the cost of establishing food banks. [R] [178057]

Mr Hurd: None.

Older People: Cannock Chase

Mr Burley: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what estimate he has made of the change over the next 20 years to the proportion of the population of Cannock Chase constituency who are over 85. [178345]

Mr Hurd: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.

Letter from Glen Watson, dated December 2013:

As Director General for the Office for National Statistics I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking the Minister for the Cabinet Office what estimate he has made of the change over the next 20 years to the proportion of the population of Cannock Chase constituency who are over 85 [178345].

Estimates of future population are available as population projections. The most recent subnational population projections are based on mid-year population estimates for 2011 but only project the population growth for 10 years to mid-2021, therefore the 2010-based subnational projections have been used to respond to your Parliamentary Question. These projections do not take account of results of the 2011 Census. As population projections are not produced by ONS for parliamentary constituencies, figures for the local authority of Cannock Chase have been provided.

The proportion of the population aged over 85 in the local authority of Cannock Chase is projected to be 4.1 percent in mid-2033, compared to a projected 1.7 percent in mid-2013.

Subnational population projections are not forecasts and do not attempt to predict the impact of future government policies, changing economic circumstances or the capacity of an area to accommodate a change in population. They provide an indication of the future size and age structure of the population if recent demographic trends continued.

ONS are planning to release the 2012-based subnational population projections to take account of rebased fertility, migration and mortality assumptions to include results from the 2011 Census, in Spring 2014.

Pay: Middlesbrough

Tom Blenkinsop: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what change there has been in median gross pay for women in Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency since 2010. [178349]

Mr Hurd: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.

Letter from Glen Watson:

As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what change there has been in median gross pay for women in Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency since 2010. (178349).

The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), carried out in April each year, is the most comprehensive source of earnings information in the United Kingdom. Weekly levels of earnings are estimated from ASHE, and are provided for employees on adult rates of pay, whose earnings for the survey pay period

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were not affected by absence. Figures relate to employee jobs, which are defined as those held by employees and not the self-employed.

I attach a table showing estimates of median gross weekly earnings for female employees in Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency from 2010 to 2012, the latest period for which results are available. These figures show that there was a 10.6 per cent decrease in median gross weekly earnings for women between April 2010 and April 2012.

Private Sector: Staffordshire

Mr Burley: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what the net change in the number of private sector jobs in (a) Cannock Chase constituency and (b) Staffordshire was in the latest period for which figures are available. [178346]

Mr Hurd: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.

Letter from Glen Watson, dated December 2013:

As Director General for the Office for National Statistics (ONS), I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking the Minister of the Cabinet Office what the net change in the number of private sector jobs in (a) Cannock Chase constituency, and (b) Staffordshire was in the latest period for which figures are available. (178346).

Information regarding the number of private sector jobs for parliamentary constituencies is not available. As an alternative, estimates relating to the number of people employed in the private sector have been provided. Employment statistics for local areas are calculated from the Annual Population Survey (APS).

Individuals in the APS are classified to the public or private sector according to their responses to the survey. The private sector estimates provided do not correspond to those derived as part of the calculation of the official Public Sector Employment estimates. These are based on a National Accounts' definition, are generally higher and are not available for areas smaller then regions.

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The table shows the number and net change of people employed in the private sector in the requested areas. These estimates are compiled from APS interviews held during the period July 2012 to June 2013, the latest period available, and the 12 month period ending in June 2012.

As with any sample survey, estimates from the APS are subject to a margin of uncertainty. A guide to the quality of the estimates is given in the table.

National and local area estimates for many labour market statistics, including employment, unemployment and claimant count are available on the NOMIS website at:

http://www.nomisweb.co.uk

Telephone Services

Valerie Vaz: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office (1) how many telephone lines with the prefix (a) 0845, (b) 0844 and (c) 0843 his Department (i) operates and (ii) sponsors; how many calls each number has received in the last 12 months; and whether alternative numbers charged at the BT local rate are available in each case; [174990]

(2) when he intends to answer question 174990 tabled on 6 November 2013. [178416]

Mr Hurd [holding answer 18 November 2013]:The Cabinet Office has identified no telephone lines with the prefix 0844 or 0843, and two with the prefix 0845. One of these was inherited from the previous Government.

Neither line is targeted at users of public services and one of them has an alternative local landline number and call-back service.

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One of the 0845 numbers will be replaced in the new year with a web portal and call-back service. We will also review the use of the other 0845 line in the new year.

My Department does not hold information on the exact number of calls to these numbers.

Voluntary Work: Young People

Mr Burley: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many young people in (a) Cannock Chase constituency and (b) Staffordshire participated in the National Citizen Service in the last 12 months. [178344]

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Mr Hurd: Over 30 young people from the Cannock Chase area, and over 330 from Staffordshire, participated in National Citizen Service in 2013. In 2013 the programme has expanded significantly, with 40,000 young people having taken part in spring, summer and. autumn programmes.

NCS will continue to grow in 2014, with even more places available for young people to participate in programmes running across England and Northern Ireland.

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his support of the programme over the past two years, and am keen that as many Members as possible should engage with NCS in their constituencies.