Mental Health Services: Young People

Sarah Newton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when NHS England's review of Tier 4 Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services provision will be complete. [198794]

Norman Lamb: This mapping exercise looking at Tier 4 Child and Adolescent Mental Health services has been completed. NHS England is now formulating an implementation plan and is preparing to publish a report of the exercise along with the implementation plan as soon as possible via the governance processes of NHS England.

The implementation will proceed via two distinct phases recognising that there are urgent actions which need to be taken to improve access and to reduce long distance referrals. The second phase will focus on the more medium-term actions required. The implementation plan when finalised, will be clear about the timescales.

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Motor Vehicles: Smoking

Luciana Berger: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he plans to bring forward secondary legislation on (a) banning smoking in cars with children in them and (b) the introduction of standardised packaging of tobacco. [199087]

Jane Ellison: The Children and Families Act 2014 provides regulation-making powers for the introduction of standardised packaging of tobacco and banning smoking in cars.

Regulations for making it an offence to smoke in private vehicles carrying children are being drafted at present.

A final, short consultation in order to ensure that a final decision on whether to introduce standardised packaging is properly and fully informed will be published shortly.

NHS Property Services

Charlotte Leslie: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what salary the Chair of NHS Property Services receives for (a) that role and (b) his other roles in the Department of Health and the NHS; and for what hours he is contracted to work in each of his roles. [198886]

Dr Poulter: Mr Robin Williams holds the following positions within Department/National Health Service organisations:

Chair of NHS Property Services Limited (NHS PS)

He receives a directors’ fee of £60,000 per annum, less any tax and/or national insurance contributions payable monthly in arrears for this role. He is required to devote 10 days a month to this role. He was appointed in April 2014.

Non-Executive Chair of NHS Professionals Limited (NHSP)

He receives a directors’ fee of £60,000 per annum, less any tax and or national insurance contribution payable monthly in arrears for this role. He is required to devote eight days a month to this role. He was appointed in January 2010.

The workload on both posts is such that the time commitment is the monthly average over the year. On his appointment to NHS PS, he formally confirmed his other commitments did not prevent him fulfilling his contractual obligations to NHSP.

Palliative Care

Debbie Abrahams: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many full-time equivalent employees of his Department are engaged in forward planning to 2030 for end-of-life care. [198793]

Norman Lamb: There are currently 2.9 full-time equivalent staff in the Department working exclusively on policy areas in Domain 2 of the NHS Outcomes Framework, which includes end-of-life care.

Since April 2013, NHS England has been responsible for delivering improvements in end-of-life care, with Public Health England responsible for providing information and data on this policy area.

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Forward planning for future end-of-life care needs is considered by all three organisations as part of their responsibility for policy development.

Pregnant Women: Alcoholic Drinks

Luciana Berger: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what Government-funded education and support on alcohol consumption during pregnancy is available to pregnant women. [199091]

Jane Ellison: The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence’s 2008 guideline includes recommendations for doctors and midwives on the advice they should give to pregnant women about drinking alcohol.

This advice is complemented by Government funded information provided through the Start4Life Information Service for Parents, Start4Life and NHS Choices websites.

The Government fund the Start4Life Information Service for Parents, which provides pregnant women/new mothers and their partners with comprehensive advice on staying healthy in pregnancy, preparing for birth and looking after their baby, and includes advice on risks of drinking before conception and during pregnancy.

The Information Service for Parents is a digital service which provides national health service and other quality assured advice, including on alcohol consumption via regular text and e-mail updates. Since launching on 18 May 2012, 339,277 new parents have signed up to the service (as of 1 June 2014).

The Government are also committed to improving the labelling of alcoholic drinks, including a warning for women who are pregnant or trying to conceive.

As part of the Public Health Responsibility Deal, alcohol retailers and producers have a responsibility to help raise this awareness and are committed to putting an agreed warning or a pregnancy warning logo on 80% of labels on bottles and cans by the end of 2013. An independent market survey is under way to measure compliance.

Public Health England

Luciana Berger: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people who used to work in his Department have taken up jobs at Public Health England; and what their job titles and salary levels (a) were at his Department and (b) are at Public Health England. [199089]

Jane Ellison: Public Health England (PHE) was established as an Executive Agency of the Department of Health on 1 April 2013. 184 staff from the Department were transferred to PHE as part of a planned transfer of functions. Their terms and conditions of employment, job titles and salary levels all remained the same.

PHE has since appointed 21 staff formerly employed by the Department as set out below. These appointments were made following competitive selection procedures carried out in accordance with the Civil Service Commission’s recruitment principles.

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PHE’s salary levels were published in November 2012 in the Public Health England People Transition Policy Module 2 and can be found at:

www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/213175/single-combined-document.pdf

Senior civil service salary levels are set centrally by the Cabinet Office. The range for SCS1 is £60,000 to £117,800.

Radiotherapy

Tessa Munt: To ask the Secretary of State for Health with reference to the answer of 24 March 2014, Official Report, column 132W, on radiotherapy and with reference to section 3 of the guidance issued by Monitor on the Commissioning of Radiosurgery Services on 4 April 2014, which primary care trusts in the south west of England commissioned treatment with the gamma knife at University College Hospital London for patients before 1 April 2013. [198759]

Jane Ellison: NHS England has advised that no primary care trusts in the south west of England commissioned gamma knife treatment for patients at University College Hospital London before 1 April 2013.

Tessa Munt: To ask the Secretary of State for Health with reference to the answer of 24 March 2014, Official Report, column 132W, on radiotherapy, and with reference to section 3 of the guidance issued by Monitor on the Commissioning of Radiosurgery

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Services on 4 April 2014, (1) for what reasons NHS England is not funding patients to be treated with the gamma knife at University College Hospital London; [198760]

(2) with reference to section 3 of the guidance issued by Monitor on the Commissioning of Radiosurgery Services on 4 April 2014, if he will require NHS England to publish the evidence on which it based its decision not to allow patients to be treated with the gamma knife at University College Hospital London. [198758]

Jane Ellison: Section 3 of Monitor’s substantive guidance on ‘The National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No.2) Regulations 2013’ provides guidance to commissioners on publishing new contract opportunities for national health service health care services.

On page 42 of the guidance, it states that:

"a commissioner may decide to carry out a detailed review of the provision of particular services (for example, A&E services) in its local area in order to understand how those services can be improved in the interests of patients. The review may involve extensive public consultation and engagement with existing and potential providers and other stakeholders. Reviewing available services and providers in this way is good commissioning practice and something that commissioners should consider doing as a matter of course."

In its role as commissioner, NHS England is currently undertaking such a review of stereotactic radiosurgery services. This will inform procurement decisions for these services.

University College London Hospital is not contracted by NHS England, nor was it contracted by former primary care trusts, to provide Gamma Knife services. It is for this reason that NHS patients cannot normally be treated at this facility. Instead, NHS patients requiring Gamma Knife treatment should be treated by the Gamma Knife services commissioned by the NHS, that have been shown to meet NHS England service specifications. These can be accessed by patients in London without a waiting time, fully maintaining the continuity of their care and normally with the same consultant and clinical team.

Until the capacity requirements are made clear as part of the review being undertaken, NHS England has said that it would be inappropriate to encourage new market entrants to provide this service as it cannot be clear what the potential consequential impacts on service quality, sustainability (financial and clinical) and potential unintended changes to patient pathways will be. Until the review is complete NHS England has said no substantive changes will be made to the current provision.

Tomography

Mr Frank Field: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will take steps to ensure access to CT scanning is more readily available to NHS patients. [198783]

Jane Ellison: All acute trusts have access to computerised tomography (CT) and NHS England is not aware of any patient access problems. The NHS England standards for seven day services support seven day access to CT. CT involves ionising radiation, so is a test that has to be justified and used in appropriate patient pathways.

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Education

Chief Social Worker for Children and Families

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) what public speeches the Chief Social Worker for Children and Families has made since taking up her post; and where those speeches are published; [R] [199084]

(2) what meetings (a) he and (b) other Ministers in his Department have had with the Chief Social Worker for Children and Families since she took up her post. [R] [199082]

Mr Timpson: Since starting as the Chief Social Worker for Children and Families in September 2013, Isabelle Trowler has spoken at a wide range of events. In particular she has made presentations to and engaged in discussion with more than 2,500 social workers to support and challenge the profession and spoke at the National Fostering Association conference on 13 May 2014. Isabelle's presentations are not published.

As the Chief Social Worker for Children and Families, Isabelle provides independent expert advice to Ministers on social work reform. She meets the Secretary of State for Education, my right hon. Friend the Member for Surrey Heath (Michael Gove), and other Ministers in the Department for Education frequently to discuss her ideas for social work reform and to provide policy advice.

Children in Care

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what estimate he has made of the number of children in care in residential children's homes who have been placed outside their local authority area. [R] [199085]

Mr Timpson: This information is available in Table A3 of “Children looked after in England, including adoption” statistical first release:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption

Children: Abuse

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will take steps to liaise with the Secretary of State for Health over publication of reports into historic child abuse. [199083]

Mr Timpson: Officials from the Department for Education are already working closely with other relevant Departments to ensure that there is a consistent approach to investigations into allegations of historical child abuse, including on the publication of reports.

Passports

Steve McCabe: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what representations his Department has received from families groups on allowing the names of parents and legal guardians to be included on a child's passport. [198577]

Mr Timpson: The Department for Education has no record of family groups (or anyone else) making representations on this matter.

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Private Education: Offences Against Children

Steve McCabe: To ask the Secretary of State for Education with reference to the answer of 6 May 2014, Official Report, columns 59-61W, on private education: offences against children, how many referrals the National College for Teaching and Leadership has (a) received and (b) acted upon since that body's establishment. [198607]

Mr Timpson: The National College for Teaching and Leadership has received 40 referrals from independent schools in respect of matters outlined in the answer of 6 May 2014, Official Report, columns 59-61W.

All of these referrals have been considered, or are in the course of being considered, in accordance with the procedures outlined in that answer.

Pupils: Foreign Nationals

Steve Rotheram: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many pupils in (a) infant schools, (b) junior schools, (c) secondary schools and (d) sixth form colleges in (i) Liverpool, (ii) the North West and (iii) England are non-UK nationals. [198909]

Mr Laws: The Department for Education does not collect information on the nationality of pupils and students.

Teachers: Offences Against Children

Steve McCabe: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what records his Department maintains of instances where a teacher has had a sexual relationship

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with a student under the age of 16 years in

(a)

maintained schools and

(b)

independent schools. [198580]

Mr Timpson: Since April 2012, where a teacher has been dismissed, or resigned in the face of dismissal, as a result of serious misconduct all schools have had a statutory duty to consider referring the matter to the National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL). The NCTL acts as the regulator of the teaching profession on behalf of the Secretary of State. It is responsible for determining whether the referred individual should be prohibited from teaching on the grounds of unacceptable professional conduct, conduct that might bring the profession into disrepute and/or conviction of a relevant offence. Information about cases considered by NCTL is not held in the format requested and to obtain the information requested would incur disproportionate cost.

In addition to the NCTL process for regulating teachers, the Department’s Independent Education and Boarding Team (IEBT) administer the wider regulatory system for independent schools. This team can receive information about allegations of abuse from a variety of sources, including Ofsted, local authorities, parents and the police. The Department’s records show that there have been five referrals since April 2012 and two from January 2009 to March 2012 where sexual abuse of a pupil by an adult working at the school was a factor. When such referrals are received, the Department’s role is not to investigate the allegations, which are a matter for the local authority and the police, but to determine whether the school is meeting the independent school standards, and take action to ensure it does so.