Data on staff turnover in private sector adult prisons are not held by NOMS. Such data need to be requested from each provider. It has not been possible to gather all the relevant data yet. However, I will write to you again when the figures on private sector prisons are available.

Prisoners: Repatriation

Jenny Chapman: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many foreign national prisoners have been transferred from the UK to (a) Nigeria, (b) Somalia, (c) India, (d) Pakistan, (e) Vietnam and (f) Jamaica in each of the last three years. [178797]

Jeremy Wright: Prisoners may be transferred to another state to serve their sentence where there is a prisoner transfer agreement in place between the United Kingdom and the state concerned. There is no prisoner transfer agreement in place between the United Kingdom and Jamaica or between the United Kingdom and Somalia. Therefore, no transfers have taken place to those countries.

Prisoner transfer agreements are in place between the United Kingdom and Nigeria, India, Vietnam and Pakistan. The following table gives the number of prisoners transferred from England and Wales in each of the last three years to date. The numbers transferred reflect the voluntary nature of the agreements with these countries, which require a prisoner to request and consent to transfer. The Government are committed to increasing the number of prisoners who are transferred through the negotiation of prisoner transfer arrangements which do not require the consent of the individual concerned.

The transfer of prisoners to and from Scotland and to and from Northern Ireland is a devolved matter and is the responsibility of the relevant Minister.

Prisons: Education

Kate Green: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) what recent assessment he has made of teaching standards and conditions at each private prison in the UK; [176501]

(2) what steps he is taking to improve teaching standards in private prisons. [176502]

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Jeremy Wright: I have ministerial responsibility for prisons in England and Wales. Prisons in Scotland and Northern Ireland are the responsibility of the respective devolved Administrations.

The assessment of teaching standards in prisons is independently undertaken by the Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (in England) and (in Wales) by Her Majesty's Inspectorate for Education and Training in Wales. It forms part of the inspections those bodies undertake in conjunction with Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP).

HMIP inspection reports on individual prisons are published on the Ministry of Justice website at:

http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/inspectorate-reports/hmi-prisons/prison-and-yoi

In private prisons, responsibility for the delivery of education lies with the main contractor or forms part of the Offender Learning and Skills Service (OLASS) arrangements and is delivered by an FE provider contracted by the Skills Funding Agency.

Private prisons that directly manage their own education services are responsible for making improvements in teaching standards through quality assurance. In those private prisons in which the OLASS arrangements apply the Skills Funding Agency places specific requirements on the education contractor. These include requirements relating to quality assurance and the teaching qualifications of staff. In both types of delivery within privately-operated prisons, the inspection regime assesses teaching resources.

Prisons: Overcrowding

Sadiq Khan: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what proportion of prisoners in (a) total and (b) each prison in England and Wales were in overcrowded conditions in (i) 2010, (ii) 2011 and (iii) 2012. [178086]

Jeremy Wright: The UK Government are committed to providing safe, decent and secure places for those in custody.

Figures relating to the number of prisoners who are currently held in cells that have been safely adapted to hold extra prisoners are published annually by the National Offender Management Service. In 2012-13 these figures were at their lowest point since 2001-02.

The proportions of prisoners in total and by prison for the years requested can be found via the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/225234/prison-performance-digest-12-13.xls

Prisons: Security

Sadiq Khan: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what budget was allocated to the National Tactical Response Group in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11, (c) 2011-12, (d) 2012-13 and (e) 2013-14; and what that budget is expected to be in 2014-15. [179576]

Jeremy Wright: The following table shows the budget allocated to the National Tactical Response Group (NTRG) in 2011-12, 2012-13, 2013-14. The budget for 2014-15 has yet to be determined:

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NTRG’s budget is for running costs, e.g. vehicles, maintenance of equipment, uniforms, and does not include staffing costs, which are part of the wider HR directorate staffing costs. To produce this information would be at a disproportionate cost.

NTRG call-out costs do not form part of NTRG’s budget allocation as these costs are charged back to the establishments they provide assistance to.

Prior to 2011-12, NTRG was managed by MOJ Shared Services, which also held the budget. Information is not provided for 2009-10 and 2010-11 because MOJ Shared Services used a different budget management system and, therefore, equivalent data cannot be extracted.

Between 2009 and 2013 there have been no significant fluctuations in NTRG staffing levels.

Stephen Ward

George Galloway: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice if he will grant Stephen Ward a posthumous pardon for his conviction for living off immoral earnings. [178627]

Damian Green: We understand that Geoffrey Robertson QC made an application to the Criminal Cases Review Commission.

This is the most appropriate route to explore this issue, and I am therefore not able to provide any further comment.

Written Questions

Alex Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) how many and what proportion of questions tabled for ordinary written answer by his Department (a) were answered after 30 days and (b) have not been answered in each Session of Parliament since 2010; [178242]

(2) who in his Department is involved in the sign-off for answers to written parliamentary questions; [178243]

(3) what role his Department's special advisers play in the sign-off process for answers to written parliamentary questions; [178244]

(4) how many and what proportion of questions for written answer on a named day made to his Department (a) received a substantive answer after the named day and (b) have not yet received a substantive answer in each Session of Parliament since 2010. [178245]

Mr Vara: The Department processes approximately 3,000 ordinary written and named day PQs per year, covering a diverse range of subject areas which often require complex answers. We endeavour to respond to all written answers within the deadlines set by Parliament.

Statistics relating to performance for the 2010-12 parliamentary Session (25 May 2010-1 May 2012) are available on the Parliament website as follows:

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http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/procedure/P35_Memorandum_Leader_of_the_House_ Monitoring_PQs.pdf

Statistics relating to performance for the 2012-13 parliamentary Session (9 May 2012-25 April 2013) are available on the Parliament website as follows:

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmselect/cmproced/writev/wpqs/wpq.pdf

Answers to parliamentary questions are signed off by a senior civil servant and the relevant Minister. Special advisers are employed to provide additional advice and assistance to Ministers across a wide range of areas.

The Government are committed to providing the Procedure Committee with information relating to written PQ performance on a sessional basis and will provide full information relating to the 2013-14 Session to the Committee at the end of the current Session.

Young Offenders

Dan Jarvis: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what assessment he has made of the support provided to young offenders on release from young offenders institutions. [178581]

Jeremy Wright: Effective resettlement should help ensure that all young people leaving custody receive the support that they need to help prevent them from reoffending.

The Youth Justice Board has been working with partners across Government and beyond to help develop an evidence base to understand how youth offending teams (YOTs), local authority partners, custodial providers and wider agencies can work alongside young people and their families and carers in supporting effective resettlement.

In recent years the YJB has worked with others to launch and evaluate resettlement initiatives including:

The Resettlement and Aftercare Provision (RAP)-evaluation findings can be found online:

http://yjbpublications.justice.gov.uk/en-gb/Scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=474&eP

Project Daedalus at the Heron Unit at Feltham Young Offenders Institution-evaluation findings can be found online:

http://www.london.gov.uk/priorities/policing-crime/mission-priorities/project-daedalus

The ‘resettlement consortia' (a series of regional-level pilot projects around the country, which each saw a number of local authority areas work together on resettlement issues)-evaluation findings can be found online:

http://www.justice.gov.uk/youth-justice/effective-practice-library/resettlement-consortia-evaluations

All young people leaving custody are supported and supervised by a multi-agency youth offending team (YOT). YOTs are responsible for engaging these young people in activities which aim to reduce the likelihood of reoffending and for helping to ensure that local authorities fulfil their statutory duties to meet the complex education, employment, housing and healthcare needs of these young people.

We are intending to build on the existing good practice in this area, and are considering a number of options to improve resettlement outcomes as part of our work to transform youth custody.

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Dan Jarvis: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what steps he is taking to prevent young offenders under the age of 18 being placed in adult prisons. [178583]

Jeremy Wright: There are no under-18s currently in the adult estate. The Youth Justice Board commissions a distinct secure estate into which children and young people under the age of 18 are placed. Capacity and demand is monitored and managed to ensure that adequate space is available for all children and young people aged under 18 who require placement.

Under 18s will only ever be placed in the adult estate in exceptional circumstances, and only after a thorough risk assessment has been made.

The YJB, youth secure estate and NOMS work closely together to manage a transition process, from the youth to the adult estate, for those young people who turn 18 in custody. Rigorous safeguards are in place to ensure that young people are not moved into adult prisons prematurely.

Dan Jarvis: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) what assessment he has made of the availability of family visiting programmes in (a) young offender institutions and (b) secure training centres; [178580]

(2) what steps he is taking to encourage further development of family visit programmes as part of the rehabilitation of young offenders. [178584]

Jeremy Wright: The Government recognise the importance of young people receiving family visits to support their rehabilitation and we are committed to promoting positive family contact and supporting young people and their families to achieve this. The YJB ensures, through its service assurance modules, that young people can access their entitled contact with their families. Youth Justice Board and NOMs issue a series of guidance documents, which establishments use to promote positive contact between young people and their families.

As part of our work to transform youth custody, we are looking at ways to further improve resettlement outcomes for young people. This includes strengthening links with families while young people are in custody.

Defence

Army

Mr Wallace: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many officers cap badged to regiments of the Household Division are currently serving. [179853]

Mr Francois: The numbers of officers cap badged to regiments of the Household Division are:

The figures are for trained regular Army only and therefore exclude Gurkhas, full-time reserve service, mobilised reserves, TA and all other reserves, but they include those personnel who have transferred from the category Gurkhas trained adult manpower over to UK trained adult personnel.

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All officers with a paid rank of colonel or above are included in the staff strength, and are therefore not included in the figure above.

Defence: Procurement

Angus Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what proportion of expenditure on defence procurement contracts valued in excess of £5 million was placed with small and medium-sized enterprises based in (a) Scotland and (b) the UK in the last three years for which figures are available. [178860]

Mr Dunne: For the proportion of expenditure on Defence procurement contracts with UK small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 7 November 2013, Official Report, column 305W, to the hon. Member for Barrow and Furness (John Woodcock).

It is not possible accurately to provide the proportion of expenditure of defence procurement contracts valued in excess of £5 million placed with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Scotland without incurring disproportionate cost.

However, expenditure that can be identified as with SMEs in Scotland is set out in the following table:

This analysis is based on expenditure with companies positively identified as SMEs who have a billing address in the Scotland geographic region. It does not include payments made on behalf of other Government Departments, by Ministry of Defence trading funds and Executive non-departmental public bodies, locally by the Department, through third parties such as prime contractors or other Government Departments, in relation to collaborative projects where the payments are made through international procurement agencies or overseas Governments or by Government procurement card.

Higher Education

Alison Seabeck: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many students his Department sponsored to undertake (a) engineering degrees and (b) other degree courses in British universities in each of the last three years. [178765]

Anna Soubry: The Ministry of Defence sponsors approximately 15 engineering and science under-graduates each year from those who have taken A-levels at the Defence Sixth Form College and progressed to university. A further four students were sponsored in 2011, three undertaking engineering degrees and one a ship science and naval architecture degree.

In addition, as part of the Defence Equipment and Support up-skilling programme a number of civil servants are funded to undertake higher education/degrees in engineering and science. The following table shows the type of qualification and the number of individuals the Department has funded over the last three years.

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Business, Innovation and Skills

Adoption

Kerry McCarthy: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what his policy is on extending statutory adoption leave and pay to special guardians and kinship and friends carers. [178751]

Jo Swinson: Statutory adoption leave and pay is limited to adoptive parents who have gone through the formal adoption process. The Government believe it is essential to understand the issues faced by special guardians and family and friends carers, in order to ensure they receive the support that is appropriate to address their needs. Therefore we will undertake research into the labour market participation of these groups, and what barriers there are to entering or maintaining employment. Separately, special guardians and other family and friends carers can qualify for financial support from local authorities.

Higher Education: Finance

Mike Weatherley: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills pursuant to the written ministerial statement of 19 November 2013, Official Report, column 43WS, on student support in England, how much funding the 23 alternative providers of Higher National Diplomas and Higher National Certificates received from his Department through the Higher Education Funding Council for England in 2012-13 and 2013-14. [179015]

Mr Willetts: These providers are not eligible to receive grant funding through the Higher Education Funding Council for England.

Human Trafficking

Lindsay Roy: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what steps he is taking to encourage British businesses to ensure that supply chain businesses are free from slavery and the effects of human trafficking. [178969]

Michael Fallon: The Government expect UK businesses to operate at all times in a way respectful of human rights, whether in Britain or overseas. We published in September an Action Plan on Business and Human Rights, which set out our expectations of business and our commitment to working with business to reduce the risk of abuses occurring in supply chains. The plan also affirmed our commitment to implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.

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Since October listed companies are now required to report on human rights issues where material to an understanding of their business in their annual reports.

We will shortly publish a draft Framework for Action on Corporate Responsibility that will take into account the views of around 150 organisations received over the summer. Supply chain transparency is one of the areas we are considering as part of this work.

Local Enterprise Partnerships

Graham Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what assessment he has made of the differences in progress being achieved by LEPs across the UK. [179864]

Michael Fallon: As partnerships of business and civic leaders, Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEP) are first and foremost accountable to their local community and local businesses. BIS works closely with LEPs to understand and support LEP progress in their delivery of their local growth strategies and programmes.

Regional Growth Fund

Graham Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills with reference to paragraph 3.24 of the National Audit Office report, Funding and structures for local economic growth, published on 6 December 2013, for what reasons 40 Regional Growth Fund schemes achieved less than 25 per cent of their annual job targets. [179862]

Michael Fallon: The Regional Growth Fund (RGF) is a public and private sector partnership meaning that we work with the private sector and move at its pace. This ensures that the jobs created by the RGF are sustainable.

In Rounds 1 and 2, some companies could not invest at the speed they originally envisaged for various commercial reasons. In most cases this was due to a desire to delay their investment timetable until the national economic picture was more certain. In those cases the payment of RGF was withheld as the terms of the original offer from Government had not been met.

We have agreed new job creation profiles with those projects and programmes, meaning those schemes will progress and the total jobs promised will be delivered in future years.

We work very closely with all beneficiaries to ensure they meet all the terms of the agreed offer and to ensure that any slippage in those terms is a last resort.

Regional Growth Fund: Northamptonshire

Andy Sawford: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what estimate he has made of the number of jobs that the Regional Growth Fund has created or will create in (a) Corby constituency and (b) East Northamptonshire. [178866]

Michael Fallon: There are no direct Regional Growth Fund (RGF) awards in Corby and East Northamptonshire constituency. There have been two programme awards to Northamptonshire Enterprise Partnership, which SMEs

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in Corby and East Northamptonshire are able to bid into. The first, from RGF Round 3, will create and safeguard 300 jobs across the county and the second, from RGF Round 4, will create and safeguard 850 jobs.

Regional Planning and Development

Graham Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills with reference to the National Audit Office report, Funding and structures for local economic growth, published on 6 December 2013, what assessment he has made of the effect on local growth of the dip in funding from central Government at the time of the transition from regional development agencies to the new local growth landscape. [179860]

Michael Fallon: The National Audit Office (NAO) report compares RDA spending with a narrow definition of new local growth programmes in order to reach its conclusion that there has been a marked dip in funding. What the NAO describes as a dip was minimal relative to wider growth-related spending of over £52 billion by central and local Government, including EU structural funds which continued, albeit at a reduced level, as the NAO reports.

Royal Mail

Ian Murray: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills when a judgement was made on the correct valuation of Royal Mail shares ahead of privatisation. [178973]

Michael Fallon: Final decisions about the Royal Mail share price were taken on 8 October 2013, with conditional trading beginning on 11 October 2013.

Ian Murray: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills how much the banks and advisers involved in the Royal Mail privatisation have been paid. [179020]

Michael Fallon: We took an aggressive approach to fees and they compare well with precedents. The underwriting banks will share a maximum fee of 1.2% of the institutional proceeds (compared with 2.5% for QinetiQ) equivalent to £16.9 million. That maximum includes a potential discretionary fee of £4.2 million. No decision has been made on the payment of the discretionary fee. Lazard received a fee of £1.5 million. These and details of the other advisers fees will be made available to the National Audit Office for its value-for- money investigation of the Royal Mail share offer which is due to be published next spring.

Tobacco: Packaging

Priti Patel: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills if he will assess the effects on small independent retailers of the introduction of the standardised packaging of tobacco products. [178820]

Jane Ellison: I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Department of Health.

The Government will consider the wider issues raised by standardised tobacco packaging, including the possible impact on small retailers, before making a final decision on this policy.

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Health

Accident and Emergency Departments

Ms Buck: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will rank each English acute hospital trust by the percentage change and number of accident and emergency attendances since 2009-10. [178810]

Jane Ellison: Tables showing the change in accident and emergency attendances between 2009-10 to 2012-13, for each English acute NHS foundation trust and acute NHS trust, sorted by percentage change and change in number, have been placed in the Library. These data reflect organisational changes as well as changes in activity levels and therefore comparison between trusts may not be appropriate. For example, prior to 2013 primary care trusts provided Type 3 accident and emergency services. From April this year, this activity is now undertaken by acute providers in many cases.

These tables do not include data for all accident and emergency departments, only those that belong to an acute NHS foundation trust or an acute NHS trust in England.

Ms Buck: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will rank each English acute hospital trust by the percentage change and number of accident and emergency admissions since 2009-10. [178811]

Jane Ellison: Tables showing the change in accident and emergency admissions between 2009-10 to 2012-13, for each English acute NHS foundation trust and acute NHS trust, sorted by percentage change and change in number, have been placed in the Library. These data reflect organisational changes as well as changes in activity levels and therefore comparison between trusts may not be appropriate. For example, prior to 2013 primary care trusts provided Type 3 accident and emergency services. From April this year, this activity is now undertaken by acute providers in many cases.

These tables do not include data for all accident and emergency departments, only those that belong to an acute NHS foundation trust or an acute NHS trust in England.

Mr Ainsworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) doctors and (b) nurses worked in NHS accident and emergency departments in (i) Coventry, (ii) the West Midlands and (iii) England in each of the last five years. [179019]

Dr Poulter: The number of doctors and nurses working in NHS accident and emergency (A&E) departments in England is not collected centrally.

The number of hospital doctors with an emergency medicine qualification working in NHS A&E departments in each NHS trust in the former West Midlands strategic health authority area and in England from 2008 to 2012 is shown in the table.

The source of the data is the annual NHS workforce census. The census is published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre and shows the numbers at 30 September each year. The September 2013 data will be published in March 2014.

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Accident and Emergency Departments: Greater London

Mr Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he (a) has made and (b) is aware of as to when the downgrading of emergency services at (i) West Middlesex, (ii) Hammersmith, (iii) Ealing, (iv) Charing Cross and (v) Central Middlesex will commence; and if he will make a statement. [178966]

Jane Ellison: In a statement to the House of Commons on 30 October 2013, Official Report, columns 921-22, the Secretary of State for Health, my right hon. Friend the Member for South West Surrey (Mr Hunt), announced that changes to accident and emergency (A&E) services at Hammersmith and Central Middlesex hospitals should be implemented as soon as practicable once the winter of 2013-14 is over.

The Secretary of State also announced that further work is needed before a final decision can be made about changes to urgent and emergency care at Ealing

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and Charing Cross hospitals. However, he stated that those hospitals should ultimately continue to offer an A&E service, even if it should be a different shape or size from that currently provided.

No changes to any of these services will take place until NHS England is assured that all the necessary increases in capacity in north-west London's hospitals and primary and community services have been developed.

A&E services at West Middlesex hospital are not affected by the proposals.

Alcoholic Drinks: Misuse

Luciana Berger: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans the Department has to create a cross-departmental working group on alcohol. [179908]

Jane Ellison: Meetings are held at ministerial level to discuss matters arising from the strategy, supported by regular official-level meetings of a cross-Government alcohol strategy implementation group, involving Departments with an interest in the strategy.

The Government also engage with other external partners, including health, enforcement and industry bodies, through the Government and Partners Alcohol Working Group.

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Breast Cancer

Hywel Williams: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average cost is of a breast cancer operation in England and Wales. [179892]

Jane Ellison: The information is not available in the form requested.

The Department collects reference costs annually from national health service trusts and NHS foundation trusts in England. Reference costs are the average unit cost to the NHS of providing defined services in a given financial year to NHS patients.

Reference costs for acute health care services are collected by Healthcare Resource Group (HRG), which are standard groupings of clinically similar treatments which use similar levels of health care resource. HRGs are organised into chapters and sub-chapters according to body systems. The following table shows the average cost of procedures relating to the breast in HRG sub-chapter J, which may include the costs of some procedures following diagnoses other than breast cancer. The average cost of all these procedures, when weighted for activity, is £1,567.

These costs do not include Wales, where health is a devolved matter.

Hywel Williams: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average cost of a mammogram is in England and Wales. [179893]

Jane Ellison: The information is not available.

The Department collects reference costs annually from national health service trusts and NHS foundation trusts in England. Reference costs are the average unit cost to the NHS of providing defined services in a given financial year to NHS patients.

Reference costs for acute health care services are collected by Healthcare Resource Group (HRG), which are standard groupings of clinically similar treatments which use similar levels of health care resource. However, mammography is not taken into account for the purpose of grouping to HRGs, and its costs are included in the cost of the patient attendance or episode where the diagnostic occurred.

Health is a devolved matter in Wales.

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Cancer: Drugs

Caroline Nokes: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many applications for funding have been accepted for exceptional cases from the Cancer Drugs Fund for treatments not on the approved list since 1 April 2013. [178818]

Norman Lamb: Information on individual Cancer Drugs Fund requests (ICDFRs) considered by NHS England since 1 April 2013 is included in the following table.

Clinical Commissioning Groups: Greater London

Ms Buck: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the actual budget allocation and percentage change for each London clinical commissioning group was in 2012-13; and what he estimates each will be in (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2014-15. [178814]

Dr Poulter: The information is not available in the format requested. Funding for commissioning health services in 2012-13 was allocated to primary care trusts (PCTs). Information relating to allocations for 2014-15 is not yet available. Information on allocations to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in London for 2013-14 is shown in the following table. Each CCG received a cash increase of 2.3% compared to the PCTs' funding for the equivalent set of services in 2012-13.

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Cystic Fibrosis

Luciana Berger: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many cases of cystic fibrosis have been diagnosed since 2010 in (a) total and (b) each parliamentary constituency. [178668]

Norman Lamb: Information concerning the number of cases of cystic fibrosis (CF) that have been diagnosed since 2010 in (a) total and (b) each parliamentary constituency is not centrally collected. However, in its service specification for adults with CF, NHS England has estimated that the disease affects about 9,000 people (one in 2,500 live births). The service specification can be found at the following link:

www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/a01-cyst-fibr-ad.pdf

Dementia: Cornwall

Sarah Newton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what funding his Department has allocated to Cornwall from the fund to help create care environments for people with dementia. [179060]

Norman Lamb: On 25 July 2013, we announced the successful bidders of the £50 million fund (£25 million for the national health service and £25 million for social care) for the “Improving the Environment for Care for People with Dementia” initiative. The money will be used to launch care environment pilot projects designed for the needs of people with dementia to inform future departmental policy initiatives and best practice. As part of this pilot initiative, Cornwall has been allocated a total of £1,489,752.

A list of the successful bidders has been placed in the Library and is available on the gov.uk website at:

www.gov.uk/government/publications/dementia-friendly-environments-funding-successful-bids

Depressive Illnesses: Musculoskeletal Disorders

Mike Weatherley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of the relationship between depression and musculoskeletal conditions; and how NHS England is working with primary care services to ensure that such multi-morbidities are addressed by GPs. [179027]

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Norman Lamb: This Government are committed to improving care for people with long-term conditions (LTC), so that they are able to enjoy an independent, fulfilling life, and have the support needed to manage their health. It is recognised that living with a long-term musculoskeletal condition can impact upon a person's mental wellbeing, which is why clinical guidance on musculoskeletal multidisciplinary team support includes psychological support.

The national health service is exploring ways to improve services for patients with more than one LTC, in particular patients with serious mental illness and common LTCs, such as obesity and diabetes, which impact on musculoskeletal health, through specialised annual health checks.

The Department, with experts and our partners, is examining policy options around multi-morbidity, including a set of principles that could inform better management of co-morbidity at individual and population level. These include promoting patient-led care and self-management, as well as improving data use. Their application to the population of older people with musculoskeletal conditions is being explored.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence is changing its focus from single disease recommendations to recommendations for approaches to care and service delivery. The guideline, “Common Mental Health Disorders: The NICE Guideline on identification and pathways to care”, covers depression and anxiety disorders in adults (18 years and older), including, where relevant, issues relating to multi-morbidity. It is intended that this guideline will be useful to clinicians and service commissioners in providing and planning high-quality care for people with a common mental health disorder, while also emphasising the importance of the experience of care for them and their families and carers.

Health Education

Luciana Berger: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what proportion of the current marketing budget for Public Health England is being spent on (a) alcohol, (b) tobacco, (c) obesity and physical health, (d) sexual health and (e) drugs campaigns. [179905]

Jane Ellison: Public Health England's (PHE) 2013-14 marketing budget has been allocated across six major programmes (Smoke free, Change for life, Start for life, Youth, Healthy older adults and Innovation). These programmes cover alcohol, tobacco and drug use, obesity, physical health and sexual health.

The percentage of the budget allocated to each of these issues is shown in the following table:

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Tobacco remains a single-issue campaign because of the significant health harms caused by smoking and the importance of this as a public health issue. The Youth marketing programme is taking a life-stage approach because it focuses on building young people's resilience, and challenging specific risky behaviour which impacts on their development, health and well-being. Topics addressed include smoking, substance misuse, alcohol and sex and relationships

PHE's marketing plan and its underpinning approach that guides the campaigns for 2013-14 can be found at:

www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/186957/PHE_Marketing_Plan_2013-14_1651.pdf

Health Services: Harrow

Mr Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he (a) has and (b) is aware of for further investment (i) in primary care services in Harrow, (ii) for extending the opening hours of GP surgeries and (iii) for expanding the opening hours of Alexandra Avenue polyclinic; and if he will make a statement. [178965]

Jane Ellison: In a statement to the House of Commons on 30 October 2013, Official Report, columns 921-22, about proposals for health services in north-west London under the “Shaping a Healthier Future” reconfiguration scheme, the Secretary of State for Health, my right hon. Friend the Member for South West Surrey (Mr Hunt), made it clear that no changes to any of these services will take place until NHS England is assured that all the necessary increases in capacity in north-west London's hospitals and primary and community services have been developed.

We are assured that NHS England will be working with local clinical commissioning groups to develop a system of seven-day working for general practitioner (GP) practices, meaning patients will have regular access to a GP, seven days a week.

Health Services: Older People

Mike Weatherley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment Public Health England has made of (a) the effect of an aging population on prevalence of disease and (b) the consequent public health challenges. [179028]

Jane Ellison: Although Public Health England (PHE) has made no new, specific assessment of the effect of an aging population on the prevalence of disease, it has developed disease prevalence models showing the levels of different diseases for various age groups for each local authority area. For example the diabetes model specifically examines the impact of age on prevalence, projecting this into the future. The Global Burden of Disease—co-authored by PHE—shows how the prevalence of all of the most common diseases vary by age at a national level.

In addition, PHE is commissioning a piece of work to model the future prevalence of disease which will include predictions of population aging.

The key public health challenges that will be faced as a result of the aging population are not dramatically different from current issues. Continued improvement

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and expansion of prevention programmes will be necessary to maximise impact upon, and amelioration of, the increased burden of disease we can expect to see.

Health: Greater London

Ms Buck: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will rank each London local authority by the per capita allocation for public health in 2013-14. [178812]

Jane Ellison: The per capita public health allocations for London local authorities is shown in the following table.

Actual allocations did not reflect the target allocation immediately. Giving all areas their target allocation immediately would risk destabilising existing services in areas receiving more than their target allocation, and give other areas a rapid increase in funding that they could not use effectively.

Ms Buck: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will rank each London local authority by the actual and percentage distance from the public health formula funding target. [178813]

Jane Ellison: The actual and percentage distance from target (DFT) for public health allocations for London local authorities is shown in the following table.

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The Government have allocated £5.46 billion over two years for the new public health responsibilities of local authorities. All authorities will see real terms growth in both years. The average growth across two years is 10.8%, with a majority receiving at least 5.7% and a significant number receiving 21.0%.

Liver Diseases

Luciana Berger: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when the national liver strategy will be published. [179906]

Jane Ellison: Responsibility for determining the overall national approach to improving clinical outcomes from health care services lies with NHS England.

NHS England advises that it is adopting a broad strategy for delivering improvements in relation to premature mortality. It is working with commissioners and Public Health England to support clinical commissioning groups to understand where local challenges lie and to identify the evidence in relation to the priorities for reducing

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mortality at a national level. It is generally avoiding trying to work in a condition-specific way and has no plans to produce a liver-specific strategy.

Luciana Berger: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what role Public Health England is playing in providing the national liver strategy. [179907]

Jane Ellison: Responsibility for determining the overall national approach to improving clinical outcomes from health care services lies with NHS England. NHS England has a broad strategy for delivering improvements in relation to premature mortality, and is working with commissioners and Public Health England (PHE) to support clinical commissioning groups to understand where local challenges lie and to identify the evidence in relation to the priorities for reducing mortality at a national level. It is generally avoiding trying to work in a condition-specific way and has no plans to produce a liver-specific strategy. PHE is working alongside the Department, NHS England and primary care to improve early diagnosis and prevention of the contributing factors related to liver disease.

Northwick Park Hospital

Mr Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what capital investment took place at Northwick Park Hospital, part of North West London Hospitals NHS Trust, between 1997 and 2010; and if he will make a statement. [178962]

Dr Poulter: The Department holds financial data by NHS trust, and it is not possible to disaggregate this into individual hospitals. Data in respect of Northwick Park Hospital are therefore not held centrally.

In common with many other public and private sector organisations, the Department holds accounting data at organisation level for only seven years, and therefore data have been provided for the financial years 2006-07 to 2010-11.

In line with HM Treasury guidance, 2009-10 was the first year that data were compiled in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), whereas the earlier years' data were compiled under UK Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (UK GAAP). This is a fundamental change to the basis on which the data are compiled, and means that a direct comparison should not be made between 2009-10 and the earlier years' data. The change to IFRS means that many assets previously held off-balance sheet, such as PFI schemes, are now fully recognised in organisations'

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books, which will mean the amount charged against the capital resource limit is likely to be higher in 2009-10.

The figures provided in the following table show the charge against Capital Resource Limit of North West London Hospitals NHS Trust.

Mr Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he expects refurbishment work at Northwick Park accident and emergency department to be completed; and if he will make a statement. [178964]

Jane Ellison: NHS England has advised that refurbishment work at the Northwick Park accident and emergency department is due to be completed in 2014.

Tuberculosis

Andy Sawford: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) children and (b) adults were diagnosed with tuberculosis in (i) Corby constituency, (ii) Northamptonshire and (iii) England in each of the last five years. [178872]

Jane Ellison: The incidence of tuberculosis (TB) in the United Kingdom is assessed through systematic analysis of notification data obtained from the Enhanced Tuberculosis Surveillance System run by Public Health England. In 2012 in the UK, a total of 8,751 cases of TB were reported, a rate of 13.9 cases per 100,000 population.

TB rates in the UK showed a sustained increase from 2000 until 2005, and have remained among the highest in Western Europe. Certain sub-groups, such as new migrants, ethnic minority groups, and those with social risk factors (homelessness, imprisonment or problem drug/alcohol use) have particularly high rates.

The following table shows the number of TB case reports for Corby, Daventry, East Northamptonshire, Kettering, South Northamptonshire, Northampton and Wellingborough local authorities and England by age group from 2008 to 2012.

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Energy and Climate Change

Energy

Pauline Latham: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change for what period his Department has committed funding to the (a) carbon reduction commitment, (b) climate change levy and (c) feed-in tariffs schemes. [178439]

Gregory Barker: The Environment Agency's costs in administering the carbon reduction commitment (CRC) energy efficiency scheme are met by participants. DECC funds the set-up of the scheme and enforcement. Such funding is agreed only for the spending review period; that is to 2015-16. The climate change levy is administered by HM Revenue and Customs and so DECC commits no funding to it.

The feed-in tariffs scheme is part of the Levy Control Framework (LCF), which has been greed to 2020-21. The LCF profile to 2020-21 can be found in Annex D of the draft delivery plan:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/223654/emr_consultation_annex_d.pdf

Energy Supply

Mr Weir: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what progress Ofgem has made on considering the generation industry's CMP213 modification proposal; and when he expects the decision on approval and implementation to be (a) made and (b) communicated. [179894]

Michael Fallon: The timeline for this modification proposal is a matter for Ofgem. In its consultation, which closed on 10 October 2013, Ofgem said that it planned to publish a final decision on whether to approve its preferred approach, and if so when it should be implemented, towards the end of 2013.

Mr Weir: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change when he expects the National Grid to issue formally the draft Transmission Network Use of System figures for the 2014-15 charging year. [179895]

Michael Fallon: National Grid is expected to publish final Transmission Network Use of System (TNUoS) figures for the 2014-15 charging year on 31 January 2014.

National Grid's licence requires it to produce forecast TNUoS figures on a quarterly basis. The last update was on 4 November 2013 and can be found here:

http://www2.nationalgrid.com/UK/Industry-information/System-charges/Electricity-transmission/Approval-conditions/Condition-5/

Energy: Prices

Mr Bellingham: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what assessment he has made of the decision by Ofgem to stop energy companies from offering a prompt payment discount; and if he will make a statement. [178790]

Michael Fallon: Ofgem is introducing reforms to the retail energy market to give consumers simpler tariff choices and clearer information. Ofgem has introduced rules to standardise discounts across suppliers and has banned discounts that are dependent on consumers' behaviour, such as prompt payment discounts. Suppliers are still able to offer discounts to customers for paying by direct debit or managing their account online.

Ofgem's reforms overall will lead to a fairer and more transparent market and will enable consumers to compare tariffs more easily and accurately.

Hywel Williams: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change whether the reduction in consumer energy bills announced on 2 December 2013 will apply to off-grid gas consumers. [178936]

Michael Fallon: The package of measures announced on 2 December 2013 will see households receive a reduction in their energy bill of around £50 on average. The Government-funded rebate element of the package (£12) will be applied to household electricity accounts, meaning that homes off the gas grid are not excluded. The Government have encouraged energy suppliers to ensure that all customers benefit from the whole package of measures.

Power Stations

Dr Whitehead: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change (1) how many power stations of what capacity are currently mothballed; [178825]

(2) what the readiness to produce power is of each power station in the UK that is currently mothballed; [178852]

(3) what the expected remaining operational life is of each power station in the UK that is currently mothballed. [178854]

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Michael Fallon: The Government have not historically held information on mothballed power stations. Based on information that is in the public domain, we are aware of two power stations (Keadby and King's Lynn) which have declared that they are mothballed, or similarly unavailable to generate this winter, but could return if market conditions improve. These power stations had a total generating capacity of around 1.1 GW.

In addition, there may be other power stations which are closed but could return to operation if market conditions improved sufficiently. However, it is very difficult to estimate the amount of capacity which falls into this category.

The readiness to produce power of any mothballed power stations and their operational lifetime is a commercial matter for the companies involved.

Radioactive Waste

Paul Flynn: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what evaluation he has made of the geological capacity to co-dispose of legacy and radioactive waste from new build nuclear reactors in a single geological disposal repository. [178821]

Michael Fallon: The UK Government and the devolved Administrations for Wales and Northern Ireland published a White Paper in June 2008, as part of the Government's Managing Radioactive Waste Safely (MRWS) programme, outlining a framework for the implementation of geological disposal of higher activity wastes (HAW) in the UK. The inventory of wastes for disposal in the UK is updated on a regular basis.

As noted in the National Policy Statement (NPS) for Nuclear Power Generation published in 2011, the Government consider, based on scientific consensus and international experience, that despite some differences in characteristics, waste and spent fuel from new nuclear build would not raise such different technical issues compared with nuclear waste from legacy programmes as to require a different technical solution.

The NPS also stated that the Government favour a single geological disposal facility for all higher activity wastes if that proves technically possible. However, it has not ruled out the alternative of there being more than one facility, and the GDF site selection process as set out in the 2008 MRWS White Paper was designed to be sufficiently flexible to accommodate this. The Government have recently consulted on proposals for a revised GDF siting process in which we proposed maintaining a similar level of flexibility, and we will publish our response to the consultation in due course.

Trawsfynydd Power Station

Guto Bebb: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what discussions he has had on the future of the Trawsfynydd nuclear site. [179000]

Michael Fallon: I have had no specific discussions on the future of the Trawsfynydd nuclear site. The site is currently in decommissioning and is designated as the statutory responsibility of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) under the Energy Act 2004. The NDA's 2011 Strategy, as approved by Ministers, includes

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a plan to accelerate the decommissioning of the Trawsfynydd nuclear site so that it enters the care and maintenance phase by the end of 2016.

Warm Front Scheme: Mobile Homes

Julian Sturdy: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change for what reason park home residents are excluded from receiving the Warm Home benefit; and if he will review the current policy. [178905]

Gregory Barker: The Warm Home discount provides assistance to over 2 million low-income and vulnerable households annually. In most cases, support takes the form of a direct rebate off a household electricity bill.

The scheme necessarily has eligibility rules. One of the criteria for receiving the rebate is that the person receiving it, or their partner, is named on the electricity account. Therefore, anyone who does not meet the criteria is not eligible for the discount. In the case of park home residents it is usually the site operator who is responsible for the electricity account, rather than individual park home owners. Where this is the case, individual park home residents do not meet the scheme's eligibility criteria.

All the scheme's rules serve an important purpose. This winter, as a result of data matching between DWP and participating energy suppliers, over 1.1 million households have received a £135 rebate automatically. To be able to operate this kind of scheme at this kind of scale, we need rules that help with delivery practicalities and, importantly, rules that help reduce the risk of fraud and error.

We will be consulting next year on changes to the scheme for 2015-16 onwards. As part of that we will welcome practical suggestions on how energy suppliers can pay electricity bill rebates to those, such as park home residents, who do not have an account with them.