Asked by: Andrew Griffiths (Conservative - Burton)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time is for access to cognitive behavioural therapy and talking therapy for under 18 year olds, by clinical commissioning group.
Answered by Nadine Dorries
This information is not collected centrally.
Asked by: Andrew Griffiths (Conservative - Burton)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison officers have made applications under the criminal injury compensation scheme in each year since 2010.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The information requested is not available.
The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority does not ask an applicant to provide their occupation when applying for compensation.
Asked by: Andrew Griffiths (Conservative - Burton)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison officers were awarded compensation under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme in each year since 2010.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The information requested is not available.
The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority does not ask an applicant to provide their occupation when applying for compensation.
Asked by: Andrew Griffiths (Conservative - Burton)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the total amount awarded was each year to prison officers under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme in each year since 2010.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The information requested is not available.
The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority does not ask an applicant to provide their occupation when applying for compensation.
Asked by: Andrew Griffiths (Conservative - Burton)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 24 June 2019 to Question 266816 on Offences against Children: Compensation, what estimate his Department has made of the number of private prosecutions brought by victims of child sexual abuse in the week commencing 2 January 2017.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
Centrally held information does not identify whether or not prosecutions were brought forward privately by victims of child sex abuse. To identify whether the relevant cases would require manual searching of court records, which would be of disproportionate cost.
Officials within my Department would be happy to extend an invitation to my Honourable Friend, the Member for Burton and Uttoxeter, to discuss what data is available and its limitations.
Asked by: Andrew Griffiths (Conservative - Burton)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 27 June 2019 to Question 266815 on Cannabis: Medical Treatments, how many prescriptions for the use of medicinal cannabis were issued in each of the last 12 months for which data is available.
Answered by Seema Kennedy
NHS England and NHS Improvement are using extant systems to monitor use of the newly rescheduled unlicensed cannabis-based products for medicinal use in England. In England, these systems monitor the number of items dispensed and associated costs in primary care and the volume of products used and associated cost in secondary care. NHS England and NHS Improvement Controlled Drug Accountable Officers are also collecting local intelligence in both the National Health Service and independent sector.
The NHS Business Services Authority is only able to provide information on prescriptions for cannabis-based medicines that have been dispensed and submitted to the NHS Business Services Authority. The NHS Business Services Authority does not hold information on prescriptions for cannabis-based medicines which have been issued but not fulfilled.
The following table shows the number of items for Nabilone and Sativex (licensed cannabis-based medicines) and unlicensed cannabis-based medicines that were prescribed on an NHS prescription, dispensed in the community and submitted to the NHS Business Services Authority for reimbursement since May 2018.
Month | Nabilone | Sativex | Unlicensed cannabis-based medicines |
May 2018 | 45 | 183 |
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June 2018 | 42 | 157 |
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July 2018 | 48 | 170 | 2* |
August 2018 | 54 | 161 |
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September 2018 | 45 | 172 | 1* |
October 2018 | 50 | 164 |
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November 2018 | 46 | 175 | 2 |
December 2018 | 49 | 181 | 1 |
January 2019 | 44 | 167 | 2 |
February 2019 | 36 | 159 | 1 |
March 2019 | 51 | 171 | 2 |
April 2019 | 49 | 156 | 0 |
May 2019 | Data not yet available | Data not yet available | 2 |
Note: * These figures represent prescribing of unlicensed cannabis-based medicines imported on a Home Office licence.
The following table shows the same products listed above covering the same time period but this data relates to private prescribing on an FP10PCD where the forms have been submitted to the NHS Business Services Authority for reporting and monitoring purposes only.
Month | Nabilone | Sativex | Epidiolex | Unlicensed cannabis-based medicines |
May 2018 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
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Jun 2018 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
|
July 2018 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
|
August 2018 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
|
September 2018 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
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October 2018 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
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November 2018 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
December 2018 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
January 2019 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 4 |
February 2019 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
March 2019 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
April 2019 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
May 2019 | Data not yet available | Data not yet available | Data not yet available | 1 |
Unlike NHS primary care where all dispensed prescriptions are processed centrally, this is not the case for secondary care. This information is collected by a third party and not routinely published.
Intelligence from NHS England and NHS Improvement Controlled Drugs Accountable Officers is that, up until the end of March 2019, five patients have had private prescriptions issued for a cannabis-based product for medicinal use in independent secondary/tertiary care in England.
145 patients have accessed Epidiolex though GW Pharma’s early access programmes ahead of a licensing decision by the European Medicines Agency.
Asked by: Andrew Griffiths (Conservative - Burton)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many licences have been issued for the prescription of medicinal cannabis.
Answered by Seema Kennedy
The law stipulates that any doctor on the General Medical Council’s Specialist Register can prescribe cannabis-based products for medicinal use. No licences are required to prescribe.
Asked by: Andrew Griffiths (Conservative - Burton)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 10 June 2019 to Question 260612 on Offences Against Children: Compensation, if he will name the judge in each of the 26 cases.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The judiciary are statutorily obliged to consider making a compensation order in all appropriate cases and this obligation is outlined in sentencing guidelines which are set by the Sentencing Council. The judiciary must give reasons where no such order is made. However, both the imposition of compensation orders, and decisions as to amount, are at judicial discretion. The separation of powers and judicial independence are key to upholding the rule of law therefore it would be inappropriate for MPs and Ministers (as members of the legislative and executive branches) to seek to influence the judiciary in the exercise of their powers. Therefore, it is not appropriate to provide the names of the judges in relation to each of the 26 cases
Asked by: Andrew Griffiths (Conservative - Burton)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate his Department has made of the number of private prosecutions brought for compensation for victims of child sexual abuse in January 2017.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
It is not possible to identify private prosecutions in the courts proceedings database; this would require a manual search of court records which would be of disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Andrew Griffiths (Conservative - Burton)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate his Department has made of the number of private prosecutions brought for compensation for the victims of child sexual abuse in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
Answered by Paul Maynard - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
It is not possible to identify private prosecutions in the courts proceedings database; this would require a manual search of court records which would be of disproportionate cost.