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Schools: Maternity Pay

Mark Hendrick: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what guidance he has given education authorities, free schools and academies on maternity pay for staff transferring schools during pregnancy. [202492]

Mr Laws: Maternity pay arrangements for most teachers transferring schools are set out in ‘Conditions of Service for School Teachers in England and Wales’ and wider employment legislation. Similar arrangements are determined by the ‘National Agreement on Pay and Conditions of Service’ for school support staff employed by local authorities. Academies and free schools are not bound by these arrangements but are free to adopt them for their staff if they choose to do so.

Home Department

DNA: Databases

Philip Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate she has made of the number of DNA profiles on the DNA database which had been previously removed. [201979]

Karen Bradley: No record is kept of profiles which have been removed from the national DNA database. It is not, therefore, possible to ascertain whether the profile has been reloaded.

Philip Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many DNA profiles of current prisoners have not been added to the DNA database. [201981]

Karen Bradley: The information requested is not held.

Philip Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many successful matches there have been between DNA profiles taken from crime scenes and those stored on the national DNA database in each of the last two years. [201982]

Karen Bradley: The requested data are shown in the following table.

 Crime scene to crime scene matches1Crime scene to subject matches

2012-13

1,247

24,894

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2013-14

1,410

24,953

1Data source: NDNAD management information. If one crime scene matches to several subject profiles, only one match is counted. Only new matches are counted—if a crime scene has produced a match in a previous year, then matches again in 2012-13, it is not counted. Where several crime scene profiles are obtained from one crime, resulting in several matches, it is counted as one crime with a match. These figures are for matches from routine searching of profiles. Offence types are recorded by forensic staff processing the DNA sample and do not correspond to police recorded crime codes.

Domestic Violence

Dan Jarvis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the TecSOS system for high-risk victims of domestic abuse; and what plans she has to roll-out the programme to other areas of the country. [200933]

Norman Baker: The report by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) on the police response to domestic abuse, published in March 2014, clearly set out the importance of using new technology to help protect victims of domestic abuse. Whilst it is an operational matter for chief constables on procuring technology, we are aware that the TecSOS system is used by 16 police forces across England and Wales.

Through the National Oversight Group, set-up and chaired by the Home Secretary to drive delivery against the HMIC recommendations, the Government is ensuring that best practice on the use of new technology, like TecSOS, is identified and shared so that the policing of domestic abuse is robust.

As part of its commitment to support high risk victims of domestic abuse, the Government part-funds 144 Independent Domestic Violence Advisors and 54 Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conference co-ordinator posts. This funding amounts to £3.4 million per year.

Energy

Tom Greatrex: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate she has made of her Department's consumption in kWh of (a) gas and (b) electricity in each month since June 2010; and what the cost of such consumption has been in each such month. [202707]

Karen Bradley: Electricity and gas cost and consumption data for each month since June 2010, for those buildings (excluding sponsored ALBs) where the Department is directly invoiced for energy, are provided in the following table. Data for financial year 2014-15 are not yet available.

Monthly electricity and gas cost and consumption data since June 2010 to date
   20102011201220132014

January

Gas

kWh

1,862,985

1,886,579

2,446,044

2,161,027

  

£

53,019

72,170

88,224

77,188

 

Elec

kWh

4,502,519

4,132,372

3,933,006

3,809,931

  

£

448,896

407,677

406,473

447,262

        

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February

Gas

kWh

2,004,444

2,672,946

2,412,556

1,956,215

  

£

59,183

99,266

106,906

68,806

 

Elec

kWh

4,206,913

4,063,684

3,655,461

3,456,015

  

£

411,163

385,456

386,001

404,495

        

March

Gas

kWh

442,141

1,448,182

2,539,303

1,720,441

  

£

98,712

58,506

92,095

61,275

 

Elec

kWh

4,544,779

4,323,043

3,870,338

3,577,708

  

£

411,442

402,293

415,873

413,262

        

April

Gas

kWh

569,897

1,231,576

1,489,393

  

£

27,112

52,821

51,201

 

Elec

kWh

4,335,114

3,826,278

3,757,760

  

£

438,003

415,828

439,266

        

May

Gas

kWh

938,280

967,011

834,039

  

£

38,980

79,897

32,565

 

Elec

kWh

4,306,364

4,244,849

3,750,300

  

£

439,858

454,402

438,121

        

June

Gas

kWh

311,118

822,044

659,160

488,519

  

£

13,945

35,325

31,091

23,043

 

Elec

kWh

5,278,782

4,377,736

4,106,200

3,841,666

  

£

422,494

479,630

434,936

446,712

        

July

Gas

kWh

308,117

305,171

696,281

318,348

  

£

30,821

28,853

43,465

16,657

 

Elec

kWh

5,545,133

4,581,490

4,450,078

4,520,539

  

£

472,730

459,876

479,946

521,657

        

August

Gas

kWh

411,714

380,853

418,754

279,305

  

£

17,971

22,437

18,935

12,258

 

Elec

kWh

5,094,744

4,574,442

4,560,612

4,300,566

  

£

436,809

453,845

481,571

495,638

        

September

Gas

kWh

503,295

450,457

599,067

393,035

  

£

21,105

25,267

25,208

16,810

 

Elec

kWh

4,883,891

4,341,778

3,930,782

3,883,045

  

£

427,102

425,084

426,692

447,864

        

October

Gas

kWh

923,079

800,558

1,126,662

1,008,343

  

£

28,623

36,315

43,855

37,417

 

Elec

kWh

4,843,055

4,252,840

4,085,297

3,995,271

  

£

438,204

430,531

418,188

465,962

        

November

Gas

kWh

1,749,439

1,330,511

1,525,794

1,982,680

  

£

49,178

53,846

57,032

69,984

 

Elec

kWh

4,706,972

4,317,892

3,880,980

3,745,355

  

£

432,945

450,434

400,807

437,260

        

December

Gas

kWh

2,996,545

1,911,221

2,059,677

1,960,387

  

£

79,999

72,767

75,407

69,189

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Elec

kWh

4,718,749

4,089,519

3,814,350

3,750,061

  

£

422,899

397,159

386,689

430,847

Note: Monthly figures are affected by seasonal variations and credit notes issued when converting estimated to actual meter readings.



HM Passport Office

Mr Hanson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department from which other Departments temporary additional staff at the Passport Office have been deployed; and what training costs have arisen from such redeployment. [200810]

James Brokenshire: To date, all but one of the additional staff have been redeployed from within HM Passport Office and the wider Home Office.

Discussions are continuing with other Government Departments about whether deployment of any more of their staff would be necessary.

The training that has arisen from this deployment has been delivered using internal resources and this has not incurred any additional costs other than the time of those involved and certain travel and subsistence costs.

Human Trafficking

Graham Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to the answer of 25 April 2014, Official Report, column 717W, on human trafficking, what tailored support is given to victims who have received a Conclusive Grounds decision to safely return home; to which countries such victims returned in January to March 2014; and if she will make a statement. [202510]

Karen Bradley: Currently, there is no specific return and reintegration package for those who have received a positive Conclusive Grounds decision and wish to return home. The Assisted Voluntary Returns package is available to nationals of non-EEA countries. Where possible and appropriate to do so, the Government will work with host countries’ Government agencies to ensure that the victim receives adequate support.

Information pertaining to the countries to which victims returned via the AVR programme is not collated centrally and it would require a detailed examination of case files in order to extract such data.

Between January and March 2014, the Salvation Army recorded that 30 individuals in their care returned to their country of origin. These were:

Country of originCount

China

1

Czech Republic

2

Hungary

3

Latvia

3

Lithuania

4

Poland

1

Romania

9

Slovakia

4

Sri Lanka

1

Congo

1

Uganda

1

Grand total

30

Care and support for victims once they receive a positive Conclusive Grounds decision is being considered as part of the review of the National Referral Mechanism and as part of the re-tender of the Government’s victim support service.

Graham Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to the answer of 25 April 2014, Official Report, column 717W, on human trafficking, what information her Department holds on the current safety of victims who received Conclusive Grounds decisions and returned home in (a) January, (b) February and (c) March 2014; and if she will make a statement. [202511]

Karen Bradley: The Government do not hold information on the whereabouts of victims once they have left the victim support service.

Care and support for victims once they receive a positive Conclusive Grounds decision is being considered as part of the review of the National Referral Mechanism and as part of the retender of the Government’s victim support service.

Graham Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to the answer of 25 April 2014, Official Report, column 717W, on human trafficking, what tailored support is given to victims who have received Conclusive Grounds decisions to integrate into the UK; where such victims came from in January to March 2014; which organisations provide her Department with information on the progress of the victim integration process; and what information her Department holds on how victims have integrated into the UK. [202515]

Karen Bradley: Currently, there is no specific integration package for those who have received a positive Conclusive Grounds decision and wish to stay in the UK. The Salvation Army, which delivers the Government’s support service for adult victims of human trafficking, provides support to those victims leaving its service by facilitating access to mainstream benefits, housing and local services as well as pastoral support such as assistance with completing application forms.

Care and support for victims, once they receive a positive Conclusive Grounds decision is being considered as part of the review of the National Referral Mechanism and as part of the re-tender of the Government’s victim support service.

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Graham Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will ensure that the regulations governing the new contract for the specialist support providers allow bids to provide ongoing care and support once victims exit the shelter service at the end of the 45-day period irrespective of whether they have received a Conclusive Grounds decision. [202652]

Karen Bradley: Once they receive a positive Reasonable Grounds decision, potential victims of trafficking are entitled to a minimum of 45 days’ care and support, which can continue up to the point they receive a positive Conclusive Grounds decision, whichever is the later. Article 12 of the European Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings requires the UK to provide a minimum of 30 days’ support for victims of human trafficking. The current UK Government policy goes further than the European Convention on Action against Trafficking obligations by providing a minimum of 45 days’ support once a Reasonable Grounds decision is made.

Care and support for victims, once they receive a positive Conclusive Grounds decision, is being considered as part of the ongoing review of the National Referral Mechanism and as part of the retender of the Government’s care contract for adult victims of human trafficking.

Mr Frank Field: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department further to the answer of 25 June 2014, Official Report, column 210W, on human trafficking, how many calls in each of the years from 2011 to 2014 came from (a) victims, (b) other police forces, (c) the UK border force, (d) other professionals and (e) the public; and how many (i) traffickers were arrested and (ii) victims rescued as a result of information provided by those calls. [202902]

Karen Bradley: This information is recorded by the Trafficking and Kidnap Unit at the Metropolitan Police Service. The breakdown of data requested is only available from 2013 onwards. This is detailed in the following tables:

2014 (up to 30 June 2014)
Breakdown of calls received:Number of calls

(a) victims

0

(b) other police forces

8

(c) UK Border Force

1

(d) other professionals

8

(e) members of public

15

Total

32

  

Traffickers arrested

0

Victims rescued

0

2013
Breakdown of calls receivedNumber of calls

(a) victims

0

(b) other police forces

5

(c) UK Border Force

1

(d) other professionals

11

(e) members of public

35

Total

52

  

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Traffickers arrested

2

Victims rescued

2

For 2013, 52 calls were made to the helpline. A confirmed breakdown of calls is as follows:

 Number of calls

2014

129

2013

52

2012

41

2011

234

1 To 19 June 2 From June to December

Offences against Children: Internet

Mr Watson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what information her Department holds on how many UK-based registered users of the paedophile file-sharing network website boylover.net have been identified by international authorities in (a) the US and (b) Holland; what proportion of those was passed to UK authorities for investigation; what steps her Department is taking to trace those registered users; and if she will make a statement. [201056]

Norman Baker: I refer the hon. Member to the reply given on 19 June 2014, Official Report, columns 666-667W. Following two linked international investigations into the boylover.net website, information was provided to the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) by US authorities and Europol that related to UK-based registered users. CEOP was, at that time, an affiliate of the Serious Organised Crime Agency. We do not maintain a record of the number of UK-registered users of the website identified by United States or Dutch authorities, nor of what proportion of those users were passed to CEOP. However, as a consequence of the information provided, and through CEOP’s own investigations, 240 intelligence packages were prepared and subsequently disseminated to police forces across the UK. Further information regarding charges, convictions and open investigations is handled at a local level by the relevant police force and is not recorded nationally.

Pay

Mr Nicholas Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which organisations collect subscriptions through the employers' payroll service in her Department and its agencies. [203107]

Karen Bradley: The Ministry of Justice payroll services make deductions from salary on behalf of the Home Office and its agencies staff for the 42 organisations listed in the following table.

This does not include salary sacrifice schemes offered internally by the Home Office. The cross indicates those that had deductions collected in May 2014.

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NamePaycodeMain HODBSHMPO

Affinity Select INS S

558

X

Aig Europe UK

505

X

Benenden Health

518

X

X

X

BHCA Health Shield

617

X

X

Birmingham Hosp

504

X

X

X

Bupa Cash Plan

580

X

C and E Club Wales

502

X

Charity For CS

508

X

X

X

CS Club

510

X

X

CS Med Aid Ass

514

X

CS Sports Council

520

X

X

X

CUST Fund

503

X

CUST Fund Ins

515

X

Engage Mutual Ass

631

X

Family Friendly

603

X

X

X

First Div Ass

536

X

Forester Health PSY

582

X

X

X

GMB

542

X

Gwent Hosp

544

X

Health Scheme Hull

566

X

Healthsure Group

574

X

X

HO Bootle SP Soc

559

X

X

HO Golf Society

633

X

X

Hosp Sat Fund

562

X

X

Hosp Sav Ass Sin

565

X

Hosp Sav Assn

564

X

X

Immigration Union

568

X

X

IPMS Prospect

570

X

Leeds and Dist

572

X

X

X

Medicash

578

X

X

X

NPS Med Cash Plan

586

X

X

X

PCS

592

X

X

X

Peterborough PO SP

588

X

X

PSLA Ass

604

X

Simply Health

576

X

SOV Pers Acc Plan

611

X

X

SOVER Health Care

609

X

Sunlife (Friends Life)

614

X

X

TGWU

615

X

Unison

579

X

Welsh Hosp

635

X

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Westfield Hlth Sch

639

X

X

Prisoner Escapes

Philip Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of police hunts for all prisoners who have absconded or escaped from prisons in each of the last five years. [202787]

Damian Green: This information is not held centrally.

Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships

Dr Huppert: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will bring forward legislative changes to ensure deaths are registered within five to 10 days of the death occurring without it being necessary for the cause of death to be established. [201851]

Karen Bradley: Registrars of deaths are reliant on being informed by a doctor or coroner that a death has occurred. The certification processes currently require a cause of death to be given. Any changes would require doctors and coroners to change the way they certify deaths in advance of the death registration. Neither the Department of Health, for doctors, nor the Ministry of Justice, for coroners, have any plans to change the death certification process to certify fact of death in advance of cause of death.

The Department of Health is planning to consult on proposals to introduce medical examiners in England and Wales who will scrutinise the cause of death stated by an attending doctor on a Medical Certificate for Cause of Death (MCCD). The draft Death Certification Regulations propose that a prospective informant must provide a confirmed MCCD to the registrar within five days of a medical examiner’s confirmation of the stated cause of death.

Standford Hill Prison

Philip Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of the police hunt for Michael Wheatley, who absconded from HM Prison Standford Hill on 3 May 2014. [202784]

Damian Green: This information is not held centrally.

UK Border Agency

Sadiq Khan: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many contract or temporary employees were employed in (a) the Case Resolution Directorate and (b) the Case Assurance and Audit Unit in each year of those bodies' existence; and what proportion of the overall staff of such bodies were contract or temporary employees. [202285]

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Karen Bradley: The Case Resolution Directorate (CRD) employed a total of 350 temporary staff during the summer of 2011. It is not possible to provide a breakdown of how many contract/ temporary employees were employed for each year that CRD was in existence.

The Case Assurance and Audit Unit (CAAU) employed 98 full-time equivalent (FTE) staff in 2011, 134 FTE staff in 2012 and 224 FTE staff in 2013. It is not possible to break this down by how many were contract/temporary employees or employed full time. FTE means that part-time employees are counted by the proportion of full-time hours they work, so that staff working half the time of an equivalent full-time colleague would count as 0.5 FTE.

Sadiq Khan: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many full-time employees were employed in (a) the case resolution directorate and (b) the case assurance and audit unit in each year of those bodies’ existence. [202286]

Karen Bradley: The case resolution directorate (CRD) employed a total of 1,300 caseworkers in 40 regional teams during its existence. It is not possible to provide a breakdown by each year that CRD was in existence.

The case assurance and audit unit (CAAU) employed 98 full-time equivalent (FTE) staff in 2011, 134 FTE staff in 2012 and 224 FTE staff in 2013. FTE means that part-time employees are counted by the proportion of full-time hours they work, so that staff working half the time of an equivalent full-time colleague would count as 0.5 FTE.

Sadiq Khan: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the cost was of renaming (a) the Case Resolution Directorate in 2011 and (b) the Case Assurance and Audit Unit in 2013. [202287]

Karen Bradley: It is not possible to answer the question, as information is not held in the appropriate format and to extract the data would incur disproportionate cost.

UK Visas and Immigration

Sadiq Khan: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many contract or temporary employees are employed in the older live cases unit; and what proportion of the overall staff count are contract or temporary employees. [202313]

Karen Bradley: There were 208 full-time equivalent (FTE) temporary agency workers employed on OLCU casework at the end of Q1 2014, which was equal to 62.7% of the overall staff at the time. FTE means that part-time employees are counted by the proportion of full-time hours they work, so that staff working half the time of an equivalent full-time colleague would count as 0.5 FTE.

Sadiq Khan: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many full-time staff are employed in the older live cases unit. [202314]

Karen Bradley: There were 332 full-time equivalent (FTE) staff employed by OLCU at the end of Q1 2014. FTE means that part-time employees are counted by

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the proportion of full-time hours they work, so that staff working half the time of an equivalent full-time colleague would count as 0.5 FTE.

Verne Prison

Mr Hanson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Brent Central of 16 June 2014, Official Report, column 445W, on HMP Verne, in which prison establishment and for how long each person detained has been held. [200665]

Karen Bradley: It is not possible to provide details of how long those held in prison establishments have been detained without the examination of individual records at disproportionate cost.

Health

Abortion

Mr Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Health which 10 primary care areas in England had the (a) highest and (b) lowest abortion rates per 1,000 women aged between 15 and 44 years in 2013. [202525]

Jane Ellison: The following tables show the information requested.

Table 1: Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) with the 10 highest abortion rates, 2013
CCG nameRate per 1,000 resident women aged 15-44 ASR1, 2

NHS Barking and Dagenham

31.4

NHS Croydon

26.9

NHS Greenwich

26.6

NHS Lewisham

26.6

NHS Waltham Forest

25.8

NHS Southwark

25.0

NHS Brent

25.0

NHS Hounslow

24.6

NHS Lambeth

24.0

NHS Redbridge

23.8

1 Rates for CCGs are based on mid-2013 population estimates. 2 Aged standardised rates are calculated using the 2013 European Standard Population (ESP).
Table 2: CCGs with the 10 lowest abortion rates, 2013
CCG nameRate per 1,000 resident women aged 15-44 ASR1, 2

NHS Hardwick

9.2

NHS Vale of York

9.7

NHS North Durham

9.9

NHS South Norfolk

10.1

NHS North Derbyshire

10.1

NHS North Norfolk

10.2

NHS West Suffolk

10.5

NHS Rushcliffe

10.5

NHS South Lincolnshire

10.7

NHS Bath and North East Somerset

10.8

1 Rates for CCGs are based on mid-2013 population estimates. 2 Aged Standardised Rates are calculated using the 2013 ESP.

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Mr Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what research his Department has (a) undertaken and (b) evaluated since May 2010 on the number of women who died following complications from a legal abortion; when his Department last undertook an evidence review of the number of women who died following complications from a legal abortion that drew on (i) UK and (ii) international research; and if he will make a statement; [202526]

(2) how many women are known to have died within one month of operations for termination of pregnancy notified under the Abortion Regulations 1991 in each year since 1984; what cause of death was recorded on the death certificate in each case; and if he will make a statement. [202527]

Jane Ellison: The most comprehensive information about a death following an abortion is published in the Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths (CEMD) (previously known as the Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health).

Maternal deaths associated with termination of pregnancy; United Kingdom 1985-2008
Triennium1Number of deaths from termination of pregnancy

2006-08

20

2003-05

1

2000-02

5

1997-99

2

1994-96

1

1991-93

5

1988-90

3

1985-87

1

1 Data are collected for each three-year period. 2 The report also reviews the deaths of two women who died from sepsis following termination of pregnancy and one death associated with cocaine misuse interacting with anaesthesia.

Cause of death recorded on death certificates for women who died following an abortion is not reviewed by the Department. The Maternal, Newborn and Infant Clinical Outcome Review Programme which now oversees CEMD is funded by the Department and other organisations. CEMD takes account of all relevant United Kingdom and international research in its work. Data for 2009-12 are due to be published in December this year and annual updates will be produced in the future.

Alcoholic Drinks: Labelling

Mr Virendra Sharma: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make it his policy to support calorific labelling on alcoholic drinks. [202378]

Jane Ellison: Energy labelling of alcoholic drinks is regulated by the European Union. The EU Food Information for Consumers Regulation allows voluntary energy labelling for alcoholic drinks pending a European Commission report on nutrition labelling and ingredient listing on alcoholic drinks, which we expect later this year. The Government support mandatory energy declarations, and we will continue to press for this to be included in any new legislative proposals.

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Autism

Grahame M. Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many adults with autism in England receive support having previously been identified by a local authority as being at risk of abuse or neglect. [202594]

Norman Lamb: This information is not kept centrally.

Breast Cancer

Anas Sarwar: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps the Government are taking to reduce the number of avoidable deaths from breast cancer. [202906]

Jane Ellison: The Cancer Outcomes Strategy set out our ambition to save an additional 5,000 lives per year by 2014-15 and is backed with more than £750 million, including more than £450 million to achieve early diagnosis by improving public awareness of the symptoms of cancer and improving access to key diagnostic tests.

Public Health England, working with the Department and NHS England, ran a national Be Clear on Cancer campaign on breast cancer in women over 70. The campaign aimed to improve awareness of the signs and symptoms of breast cancer and urge people with relevant signs and symptoms to visit their general practitioner promptly.

Screening is an important way to detect cancer early and the national health service Breast Screening Programme (BSP) invites women aged 50 to 70 every three years. We want to expand the NHS BSP so that more women can make the important choice to take part, so the programme is currently being extended to women aged 47-49 and 71-73 as part of a major research trial. Results on the impact of the extension on breast cancer mortality will be known in the early 2020s.

Cancer

Nic Dakin: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what plans (a) his Department and (b) NHS England have to capture the experiences of cancer patients outside hospital settings; [202946]

(2) what plans NHS England has to conduct the National Cancer Patient Experience survey in 2015. [202903]

Jane Ellison: NHS England now has responsibility for the Cancer Patient Experience Survey (CPES) and advises that it plans to continue the survey in 2015.

Although the sample for the CPES is drawn from those who have had treatment for cancer within a hospital, the questionnaire also asks many questions about the patient’s experience outside of hospital too for example the initial process around diagnosis, interactions with a cancer nurse specialist (which may be outside of a hospital setting), home care and support, community nurses and care from their general practitioner. From this, it is possible to learn what the experience of cancer patients has been both inside and outside of a hospital setting.

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Care Act 2014

Grahame M. Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he expects the Care Act 2014 part 1 regulations to be laid before the House. [202566]

Norman Lamb: Subject to the parliamentary timetable, we intend to lay the final regulations in October 2014 and publish the statutory guidance at the same time. We are committed to setting out the detail of secondary legislation and statutory guidance six months in advance of when most of part 1 of the Care Act comes into force (April 2015), in order to give local authorities and their partners as much time as possible to plan for implementation.

Care Homes: Disability

Dr Huppert: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent discussions his Department has had with providers of residential care for people with physical impairments and learning difficulties on proposals for home closure. [202794]

Norman Lamb: The Department has not had any recent discussions with providers of residential care for people with physical impairments and learning difficulties on proposals for home closure.

The new Care Act, which will come into force in 2015, will give local authorities a core duty to promote their local market, with a particular focus on ensuring diversity, quality and sustainability which, importantly, will mean there should be sufficient high-quality services available to meet the needs of individuals in their local area.

The Department has worked with stakeholders, including provider organisations, to develop draft statutory guidance to support the implementation of the Care Act. The guidance will describe how local authorities must meet these new duties, including encouraging sustainability through appropriate fee levels. The draft guidance was published as part of a 10-week public consultation on the full package of regulations and guidance under part 1 of the Care Act on 6 June.

The Government believe that people who wish and who are able to live in their communities, rather than in an institutional care setting, should be given the support they need to do so.

Dr Huppert: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many places in residential care homes were available for people with (a) physical impairments and (b) learning difficulties or complex needs in each of the last four years. [202795]

Norman Lamb: Information provided by the Care Quality Commission, covering the four financial years to 31 March 2014, has been placed in the Library.

Dementia

Mark Menzies: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make available additional funding to improve care for people with dementia. [202449]

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Norman Lamb: Improving dementia care is a priority for the Government and the Prime Minister. On the 28 February, my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health announced his ambition for improving dementia care and support for people with dementia, their family and carers.

NHS England has identified around £90 million annually that is available nationally to the National Health Service to support timely diagnosis of dementia and to ensure that by 2015, two-thirds of people with dementia have a diagnosis and receive appropriate support following diagnosis.

The Department has committed to double funding for research for dementia by 2015.

The Department has also provided major funding to improve dementia care for the following:

Dementia Friends programme, £2.4 million funded by Cabinet Office and the Department;

Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN) £54 million in April 2012 and £108 million in April 2013;

Dementia Friendly Environments Capital Fund £50 million, October 2012;

Dementia Awareness Campaign £3.2 million, September 2012;

Dementia Workforce Development Fund for Social Care Staff (administered by Skills for Care) £2.4 million July 2012. In addition to this we have funded further Workforce Projects to the value of £1,640,000 since 2012-13 (£540,000 in 2012-13, £700,000 in 2013-14 and £400,000 planned for 2014-15);

Breakthrough Innovation Challenge Prize £1 million announced, June 2012; and

Social Services support to Memory Services £10 million, September 2011.

Mr Ivan Lewis: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether Ministers from the devolved Administrations were invited to attend the Global Dementia Legacy Event in London in June 2014. [202562]

Norman Lamb: Senior officials from each of the devolved Administrations are members of the Dementia Steering Group (International) and were involved and aware of plans for the UK Global Dementia Legacy event. They were also invited to attend the event. Ministers were not invited, senior officials were sent a formal invitation.

The Scottish Government hosted an international dementia event on 9 and 10 June, and officials from the Department attended.

Ministers from across the United Kingdom signed up to the Blackfriars Consensus to prevent and delay dementia, which was announced at the UK Global Dementia Legacy event.

Mr Ivan Lewis: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what discussions his Department has had with its counterparts in Northern Ireland ahead of the Global Dementia Legacy event in London on 19 June 2014. [202563]

Norman Lamb: Senior officials from each of the devolved Administrations are members of the Dementia Steering Group (International) and were involved and aware of plans for the UK Global Dementia Legacy event. They were also invited to attend the event. Ministers were not invited, but senior officials were sent a formal invitation.

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There were no discussions between the Secretary of State for Health, the right hon. Member for South West Surrey (Mr Hunt), and his ministerial counterparts. Senior officials in the devolved Administrations were involved in discussions via their participation in the Dementia Steering Group (International).

Ministers from across the United Kingdom signed up to the Blackfriars Consensus to prevent and delay dementia, which was announced at the UK Global Legacy event.

General Practitioners

Mike Weatherley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what meetings he has had with patient groups to discuss the difficulties patients face in booking appointments with their GP. [202308]

Dr Poulter: The Department’s Ministers regularly meet with Members of Parliament to discuss issues relating to general practice affecting their constituents. They have not had any meetings with patient groups to discuss the difficulties patients face in booking appointments.

Health Services

Nic Dakin: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will promote the roll-out of the values and behaviours of the 6 Cs beyond nursing, midwifery and care staff. [202941]

Dr Poulter: We recognise that the 6Cs—Care, Compassion, Competence, Communication, Courage and Commitment—the values and behaviours of the ‘Compassion in Practice, Nursing, Midwifery and Care Staff, Our Vision and Strategy’, published in December 21012, to deliver high-quality companionate care and to achieve excellent health and well-being outcomes, are contributing to improved patient and staff experience and safety.

Many trusts have signed up and rewritten their organisational strategy around the 6Cs and other health professionals have adopted the 6Cs into their practice across the national health service and social care.

During the past 12 months, the number of Care Makers—who act as ambassadors for the 6Cs—has continued to flourish and there are currently more than 1,200 throughout England. Care Makers have expanded beyond nursing, midwifery and care family to include other professions such as allied health professionals, doctors, chaplains and commissioners.

To ensure that this significant cultural change is developed across all NHS and social care professions, NHS England is hosting an event (on 4 July) for senior leaders from the NHS and social care, clinical and non-clinical, in conjunction with the Clinical Leaders Network. Attendees include patient advocates, representatives from partners, including the Hospital Caterers Association, and clinical colleagues who have actively engaged with the 6Cs and are eager to promote their spread and uptake among other disciplines.

The event aims to act as a springboard for individuals and organisations that are interested in listening to and sharing learning and good practice to engage their workforces to embed the values of the 6Cs across all professions and levels in health care practice.

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Mental Health Services: Ethnic Groups

Ms Abbott: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) if he will assess the effectiveness of the implementation of the conclusions of Delivering Race Equality in mental health care: An action plan for reform inside and outside services published in 2005; what his Department's strategy is for reducing inequalities in black and minority ethnic patients' access to, experience of, and outcomes from mental health services; and if he will make a statement; [202552]

(2) what proportion of beds in (a) residential mental health facilities and (b) psychiatric wards in NHS hospitals in England are occupied by black and minority ethnic people. [202500]

Norman Lamb: The Delivering Race Equality in mental health care programme, a five-year Department of Health programme launched in January 2005, was developed to address inequalities in patient admission, detention and experience of services.

The 2010 document ‘Race Equality Action Plan: A five-year review’ looks back at the work of the Delivering Race Equality in mental health care programme and describes some of the key challenges, successes and learning. A copy of ‘Race Equality Action Plan’ has been placed in the Library.

Our mental health Strategy, ‘No Health Without Mental Health’states that the ‘Race Equality Action Plan’ provides a strong base from which commissioners and service providers can make improvements. These will rely on:

local collection and monitoring of information on ethnicity and culture;

better use of these data to inform commissioning and provision in health and social care;

a focus on outcomes that work for individuals and communities;

monitoring and evaluating effectiveness of service delivery, especially around equality needs; and

establishing mechanisms that allow local user groups to engage with providers and commissioners, and that empower and support them so that they can engage effectively.

Additionally, our new mental health action plan, ‘Closing the Gap’sets out our priorities for essential change in mental health: 25 areas where people can expect to see and experience the fastest changes. The fourth priority is that we will tackle inequalities around access to mental health services. We know that people from black and minority ethnic (BME) communities have to date been less likely to use psychological therapies.

That is why we are working with the Race Equality Foundation and other stakeholders to try and understand why this is the case and to understand inequalities around access to other services. NHS England is also working with BME community leaders to encourage more people to use psychological therapies.

The Ministerial Working Group on Equality in Mental Health has been established to support the Mental Health Equality work-stream of the Mental Health Strategy programme. The group will report to the Mental Health Strategy Ministerial Advisory Group. This will help to ensure that equality issues directly inform strategy implementation and enable the Government to fulfil their duties under the Equality Act 2010 and the Human Rights Act.

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Information on the number of open hospital spells, the number of occupied beds on a single day as a proxy for beds available, broken down by ethnicity, is provided in the following table.

Number of people in adult mental health in-patient services at the end of March 2014
EthnicityBroad Ethnicity groupPeople with an open hospital spellProportion of people with an open hospital spell (percentage)

Total

23,246

100

British

White

16,435

70.7

Irish

White

272

1.2

Any Other White Background

White

987

4.2

White and Black Caribbean

Mixed

262

1.1

White and Black African

Mixed

69

0.3

White and Asian

Mixed

84

0.4

Any Other Mixed Background

Mixed

179

0.8

Indian

Asian or Asian British

336

1.4

Pakistani

Asian or Asian British

385

1.7

Bangladeshi

Asian or Asian British

174

0.7

Any Other Asian Background

Asian or Asian British

318

1.4

Caribbean

Black or Black British

865

3.7

African

Black or Black British

645

2.8

Any Other Black Background

Black or Black British

614

2.6

Chinese

Other Ethnic Groups

60

0.3

Any Other Ethnic Group

Other Ethnic Groups

386

1.7

Not Stated

Not Stated

569

2.4

Invalid Data Supplied

Invalid Data Supplied

23

0.1

Unspecified

Unspecified

92

0.4

Not Known

Not Known

491

2.1

Source: M12 2013/14 MHMDS, Health and Social Care Information Centre

NHS: Recruitment

Mark Hendrick: To ask the Secretary of State for Health which NHS health trusts have (a) recruited and (b) advertised for staff outside the UK since 1 January 2013. [202480]

Dr Poulter: The Department does not hold information on national health service trusts that have recruited or advertised for staff outside the United Kingdom since 1 January 2013.

It is the responsibility of local NHS organisations to plan and deliver a work force appropriate to the needs of their local population, based on clinical need and sound evidence.

The nature of the NHS labour market means that supply shortages in specific specialisms and geographies do exist. It is likely that some overseas recruitment will

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be necessary to support the qualified work force supply; however, the NHS now has many more health care professionals, and is much closer to self-sufficiency—in line with World Health Organisation recommendations.

Obesity: Alcoholic Drinks

Mr Virendra Sharma: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment his Department has made of potential links between alcohol and obesity. [202375]

Jane Ellison: The Government’s ‘Healthy Lives, Healthy People: A call to action on obesity in England’, October 2011, states that alcoholic drinks can be high in calories and contribute to the energy imbalance that can lead to being overweight and obesity. A copy of the document has already been placed in the Library.

Out-patients: Attendance

Mike Weatherley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what measures are currently in place to record the number of missed GP appointments; [202307]

(2) what estimate he has made of the annual cost to the NHS of missed appointments; [202304]

(3) how many GP appointments were missed in (a) 2009, (b) 2010, (c) 2011, (d) 2012 and (e) 2013; [202305]

(4) what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of missed GP appointments; and if he will make a statement. [202306]

Dr Poulter: Information is not collected centrally on the number of missed general practitioner (GP) appointments. This is a matter for local organisations. However, NHS England estimates that each year around 12 million GP appointments are missed, at a cost to the system of £162 million.

In order to reduce the number of missed GP appointments, the Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund is supporting pilots to ensure appointments are as convenient as possible for the patient. The pilots will offer millions more patients evening and weekend GP appointments, as well as introducing initiatives, such as email and Skype consultations.

Prostate Cancer

Nadine Dorries: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much the Government have spent on prostate cancer research in each of the last five years for which figures are available. [202567]

Dr Poulter: The following figures provide an annualised estimate of Government funding for prostate cancer research, provided by the National Cancer Research Institute Cancer Research Database 2009 to 2013.

 Prostate cancer (£)

2009

7,895,544

2010

7,158,048

2011

7,095,581

2012

9,484,685

2013

8,276,039

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These figures include only direct spend on prostate cancer research, or spend which directly supports prostate cancer research; it does not include fundamental research that could have implications for prostate cancer in the longer term.

Respiratory System

Mr Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will take steps so that Public Health England introduces a case-finding spirometry test component as part of the NHS Health Check for people aged between 40 and 74. [202535]

Jane Ellison: Public Health England (PHE) is responsible for advising the Department on potential content changes to the NHS Health Check programme. The agency has established an Expert Scientific and Clinical Advisory Panel to oversee this process. The panel includes representation from the National Screening Committee, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and wider experts.

It is not feasible to make frequent changes to the programme. PHE reviews new content proposals every 12 months and will consider spirometry when it next begins this process in the winter of 2014.

Respiratory System: Diseases

Mr Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much funding will be designated for basic and applied research into respiratory disease in 2014-15; and if he will make a statement. [202521]

Dr Poulter: The Department's National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) funds a range of applied clinical research but does not fund fundamental laboratory-based research, which is funded by other organisations, including the Medical Research Council (MRC) and medical research charities.

The usual practice of the NIHR and of the MRC is not to ring-fence funds for expenditure on particular topics: research proposals in all areas compete for the funding available.

The Department's NIHR welcomes funding applications for research into any aspect of human health, including respiratory disease. These applications are subject to peer review and judged in open competition, with awards being made on the basis of the importance of the topic to patients and the national health service, value for money and scientific quality. In all disease areas, the amount of NIHR funding depends on the volume and quality of scientific activity.

Spend on research funded directly by the Department’s NIHR from 2010-11 to 2012-13 in respiratory disease is shown as follows. The complete information on NIHR spend in 2013-14 is not currently available. These figures do not take account of NIHR expenditure on research infrastructure and systems where spend cannot be attributed to health categories.

£
Health category2010-112011-122012-13

Respiratory

18,192,188

20,234,850

24,692,314

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Mr Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps his Department is taking to reduce premature mortality from respiratory disease in Peterborough constituency. [202522]

Jane Ellison: The “NHS Outcomes Framework 2014/15 sets out the Department’s priority areas for the national health service. It includes reducing deaths from respiratory disease as a key indicator and highlights the need to reduce unplanned hospital admissions due to asthma.

The Mandate for NHS England, set by the Government, requires NHS England to improve outcomes, including the prevention of premature deaths from respiratory disease and to support people with long-term conditions.

Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) plan, develop and improve local NHS services for their population, taking into account local priorities. We are advised by NHS England that reducing premature mortality from respiratory disease is included in one of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG’s key priorities—reducing coronary heart disease. Activity is concentrated in the more deprived areas of Cambridgeshire, including Peterborough.

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Mr Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) for what reasons his Department’s Outcomes Strategy for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases and Asthma in England, published in 2011, does not include an implementation programme timetable; and if he will make a statement; [202555]

(2) if he will make it his policy to continue to fund a regular national audit of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; and if he will make a statement. [202523]

Jane Ellison: NHS England intends to continue to fund the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) audit as part of the NCAPOP (National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme).

The COPD and asthma outcomes strategy was published by the Department around the time of the national health service transition to the current structures. It was designed to help NHS commissioners understand the key evidence-based and cost-effective interventions which would improve the quality of care for patients with COPD. As such, it was not intended to be supported by an implementation plan.

In May 2012, the Department published the NHS Companion Document to the Outcomes Strategy, setting out how the NHS can implement changes at a local level.

Social Services: Disability

Dr Huppert: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment his Department has made of the availability of a range of housing and care options for people with physical disabilities and learning difficulties. [202793]

Norman Lamb: The Department has not made any assessment about the availability range of housing and care options for people with physical and learning disabilities.

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A key aim of this Government is to put people with disabilities, including learning disabilities, and the families who care for them, in the driving seat with greater choice and control and able to contribute to and influence decisions which affect their lives, including over where and with whom they live.

The Care Act puts into law a series of reforms to care and support, making it a modern system which is built around people’s individual needs and goals, and which puts them in control of their own care and support. The Act will help to improve care and support for everyone who uses care and support services, by placing personal budgets onto a statutory footing as part of the care and support plan. These reforms will allow people to exercise real choice and control over the care and support they receive, and are supported by new duties around market shaping and information and advice, to ensure that people fully understand the care system and have a wide range of high-quality services available in their local area to choose from.

Housing plays a critical role in helping adults with physical and learning disabilities to live as independently as possible. The Department is providing £315 million over five years for the Care and Support Specialised Housing fund. The fund is administered by the Homes and Communities Agency and, within London, by the Greater London Authority. The main aim of the fund is to support and accelerate the development of the specialised housing market for older people and disabled adults, which includes housing for adults who are physically disabled and those with learning difficulties.

Social Services: Learning Disability

Grahame M. Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many adults with (a) autism and (b) learning disabilities accessed care and support under the Fair Access to Care Services eligibility criteria in (i) Easington constituency, (ii) County Durham, (iii) North East England and (iv) the UK in each year since 2010. [202595]

Norman Lamb: The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) does not collect any data on the number of adults with autism accessing care and support under the Fair Access to Care Services eligibility criteria nor does it collect any data on the number of adults with learning disabilities accessing care and support in the Fair Access to Care Services eligibility criteria.

The revised guidance “Prioritising need in the context of Putting People First: A whole system government approach to eligibility for social care which came into effect in April 2010, replaces the Fair Access to Care Services guidance issued by the Department in 2003. A copy of the revised guidance has already been placed in the Library.

HSCIC has been able to provide the number of clients with learning disabilities receiving services each year since 2010 as follows:

Number of learning disability services users receiving services provided or commissioned by a Council with Social Services Responsibilities (CSSR)
  2009-102010-112011-122012-13

North East

Darlington

313

323

330

335

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Durham

1,895

1,933

1,972

1,990

 

Hartlepool

326

335

334

335

 

Stockton-on-Tees

507

505

515

560

 

County Durham total

3,041

3,096

3,151

3,220

 

North East England total

8,627

8,737

8,953

8,764

      
 

England total

141,761

142,455

144,130

144,831

Universal Credit

Chris Bryant: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will estimate the cost to the public purse of extending entitlement to Healthy Start vouchers and vitamins to all claimants of universal credit once universal credit has been fully rolled out. [202673]

Dr Poulter: We plan to provide access to Healthy Start for pregnant women, new mothers, and children under four in the lowest earning families receiving universal credit. Our intention is to ensure that a broadly similar number, and range, of universal credit families will qualify as currently do so through income-based benefits and tax credits.

The current annual delivery cost of Healthy Start throughout the United Kingdom (vouchers, vitamins and administration) is approximately £100 million. We estimate that if eligibility were extended to pregnant women, new mothers, and children under four in all families claiming universal credit, it would increase the total spent annually to around £290 million.

Valuation of Life and Health Interdepartmental Group

Mr O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what monetary thresholds were applied to the cost per quality-adjusted life year quoted in the evidence submitted as part of the Health Protection Agency's work with the Inter-departmental Group for the Valuation of Life and Health review in 2008; [202431]

(2) what the explicit monetary value per quality-adjusted life was in the context of ‘Evaluation of new pharmaceutical products or medical devices', as quoted as part of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence's submission to Inter-departmental Group for the Valuation of Life and Health review in 2008; [202426]

(3) if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's submission to the Inter-Departmental Group for the Valuation of Life and Health review and all evidence submitted to the series of interviews with his Department's staff conducted by researchers from the University of Leeds in 2008; [202414]

(4) if he will place in the Library a copy of the Health Protection Agency's submission to the Inter-Departmental Group for the Valuation of Life and

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Health review and all evidence submitted to the series of interviews with his Department's staff conducted by researchers from the University of Leeds in 2008; [202418]

(5) if he will place in the Library a copy of the Food Standards Agency's submission to the Inter-Departmental Group for the Valuation of Life and Health review and all evidence submitted to the series of interviews with his Department's staff conducted by researchers from the University of Leeds in 2008; [202419]

(6) if he will place in the Library a copy of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence's submission to the Inter-Departmental Group for the Valuation of Life and Health review and all evidence submitted to the series of interviews with his Department's staff conducted by researchers from the University of Leeds in 2008; [202420]

(7) what the explicit monetary value per quality-adjusted life was in the context of Interventions and Regulations, as quoted as part of his Department's submission to the Inter-Departmental Group for the Valuation of Life and Health review in 2008; [202424]

(8) what the explicit monetary value per quality-adjusted life was in the context of Advice on Nuclear power, centre for infections and modelling, as quoted as part of his Department's submission to the Inter-Departmental Group from the Valuation of Life and Health review in 2008; [202425]

(9) what monetary thresholds were applied to the cost per quality-adjusted life year quoted in the evidence submitted as part of his Department's work with the Inter-departmental Group for the Valuation of Life and Health review in 2008; [202429]

(10) what monetary thresholds were applied to the cost-per-quality adjusted life year quoted in the evidence submitted as part of the Food Standards Agency's work with the Inter-departmental Group for the Valuation of Life and Health review in 2008. [202430]

Dr Poulter: I refer my right hon. Friend to the answer given on 26 June 2014, Official Report, column 283W.