Asked by: Charlotte Leslie (Conservative - Bristol North West)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of helping to provide a legal address at which homeless people can register better to enable them to apply for jobs.
Answered by Marcus Jones - Treasurer of HM Household (Deputy Chief Whip, House of Commons)
One person without a home is one too many. That is why the Government has increased central investment to tackle homelessness over the next four years to £139 million, including a new £10 million fund to support innovative ways to prevent and reduce rough sleeping, and a new £10 million Social Impact Bond to support rough sleepers with the most complex needs. This will build on the success of the world’s first homelessness Social Impact Bond in London, which aimed to turn around the lives of 830 entrenched rough sleepers. So far, over half have achieved positive outcomes, including employment outcomes.
Employment can be an important part of an individual’s recovery from a homelessness crisis, and homeless people can use addresses at hostels and day centres to make job applications.
Asked by: Charlotte Leslie (Conservative - Bristol North West)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 18 April 2016 to Question 32920, where the allegations of fraudulent benefit claims are collected.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
There are a variety of ways that allegations of Benefit Fraud are received by the DWP including telephone calls to the National Benefit Fraud Hotline (NBFH), online and letter. Once an allegation has been received and, if it meets the required criteria containing enough information, a Fraud Referral Form (FRF) is completed which is then entered into the internal Fraud Referral and Information Management System (FRAIMS).
Asked by: Charlotte Leslie (Conservative - Bristol North West)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether the Government plans to meet with the (a) Australian, (b) New Zealand and (c) Canadian governments to discuss the potential effect on trade with those countries of the UK leaving the EU.
Answered by Liam Fox
Until we have left the EU, the UK will remain a member of the EU with all of the rights and obligations that membership entails. In due course, Britain will be leaving the EU. This offers us an opportunity to forge a new role for ourselves in the world: to negotiate, in time, our own trade agreements and to be a positive and powerful force for free trade. We recognise the need for a smooth transition which minimises disruption to our trading relationships. It would be wrong to set out unilateral positions at this stage. Already though we have seen expressions of interest in future trade deals with the United Kingdom, such as from the Prime Minister of Australia.
Asked by: Charlotte Leslie (Conservative - Bristol North West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many prescriptions of individual antidepressants were dispensed in the community in 2015.
Answered by David Mowat
This information is given in the table below:
The number of prescription items written in the United Kingdom and dispensed in the community in England in 2015, classified as antidepressant drugs in British National Formulary (BNF) section 4.3, using the classification system prior to edition 70 | |
BNF Chemical Name | Prescription items (000s) |
Agomelatine | 21.6 |
Amitriptyline Hydrochloride | 12,404.5 |
Amoxapine | -1 |
Citalopram Hydrobromide | 14,403.8 |
Citalopram Hydrochloride | 78.3 |
Clomipramine Hydrochloride | 304.8 |
Dosulepin Hydrochloride | 1,034.2 |
Doxepin | 40.4 |
Duloxetine Hydrochloride | 1,595.5 |
Escitalopram | 932.6 |
Fluoxetine Hydrochloride | 6,469.7 |
Flupentixol Hydrochloride | 153.2 |
Fluvoxamine Maleate | 27.9 |
Imipramine Hydrochloride | 167.1 |
Isocarboxazid | 1.8 |
Lofepramine Hydrochloride | 253.1 |
Mianserin Hydrochloride | 4.4 |
Mirtazapine | 6,783.9 |
Moclobemide | 20.5 |
Nefazodone Hydrochloride | 0.2 |
Nortriptyline | 574.6 |
Other Antidepressant Preps | -1 |
Oxitriptan | -1 |
Paroxetine Hydrochloride | 1,466.5 |
Phenelzine Sulfate | 17.5 |
Reboxetine | 32.0 |
Sertraline Hydrochloride | 9,447.8 |
Tranylcypromine Sulfate | 8.6 |
Trazodone Hydrochloride | 1,084.0 |
Trimipramine Maleate | 73.6 |
Tryptophan | 2.3 |
Venlafaxine | 3,617.1 |
Vortioxetine | 0.1 |
Total2 | 61,021.6 |
Source: Prescription Cost Analysis system data provided by the Health and Social Care Information Centre
1 Less than 50 prescription items dispensed.
2 Total figure may not sum due to rounding
Asked by: Charlotte Leslie (Conservative - Bristol North West)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reasons her Department plans to begin collecting country of birth data on children aged two to 19 from Autumn 2016; what limitations will be placed by her Department on disclosure of such information to (a) other government departments and (b) private third parties; and whether her Department plans to change its protocols or processes for handling and disclosure of confidential information when country of birth data begins to be collected.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The collection of data on the country of birth and nationality of pupils will be used to improve our understanding of the scale and impact of pupil migration on the education sector, and provide the Department with a better evidence base for future policy decision making. These new data items will provide valuable statistical information on the characteristics of these groups of children, and along with their attainment and destinations, will allow the Department to measure whether the individual pupils, or the schools they attend, face additional educational challenges.
The data will be collected solely for internal Departmental use for the analytical, statistical and research purposes described above. There are currently no plans to share the data with other government Departments and decisions on whether the Department will release any personal data to third parties are subject to a robust approval process and are based on a detailed assessment of who is requesting the data, the purpose for which it is required, the level and sensitivity of data requested and the arrangements in place to store and handle the data. Details about the process are available here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/national-pupil-database-apply-for-a-data-extract
There are currently no plans for the Department to change the existing protocols and processes for the handling and disclosure of confidential information.
Asked by: Charlotte Leslie (Conservative - Bristol North West)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when the Government plans to enter into talks with non-EU countries on initiating free trade agreements.
Answered by Anna Soubry
This will ultimately be up to the new Prime Minister and their team to decide. However, I have been encouraged by the interest coming from a range of non-EU countries, including some of our closest allies.
Asked by: Charlotte Leslie (Conservative - Bristol North West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many prescriptions of individual benzodiazepine drugs were dispensed in 2015.
Answered by Alistair Burt
Information is given in the tables below.
Table 1: Number of benzodiazepine prescription items written in the United Kingdom and dispensed in the community in England in 2015, as classified as hypnotics and anxiolytics in British National Formulary (BNF) Section 4.1 | |
BNF chemical name | Prescription items (000s) |
Alprazolam | - 1 |
Chlordiazepoxide Hydrochloride | 90.6 |
Diazepam | 5,324.1 |
Flurazepam Hydrochloride | - 1 |
Loprazolam Mesilate | 50.9 |
Lorazepam | 1,090.4 |
Lormetazepam | 28.1 |
Nitrazepam | 663.9 |
Oxazepam | 113.7 |
Temazepam | 1,423.5 |
Total2 | 8,785.2 |
Source: Prescription Cost Analysis (PCA) system data provided by the Health and Social Care Information Centre
1 Less than 50 prescription items dispensed.
2 Total figure may not sum due to rounding
Table 2: Number of benzodiazepine prescription items written in the United Kingdom and dispensed in the community in England in 2015, as classified as antiepileptic drugs in BNF Section 4.8 | |
BNF chemical name | Prescription items (000s) |
Clobazam | 267.5 |
Clonazepam1 | 892.7 |
Clonazepam2 | 0.1 |
Midazolam Hydrochloride | 48.6 |
Midazolam Maleate | 21.6 |
Total 3 | 1,230.5 |
Source: PCA system data provided by the Health and Social Care Information Centre
1 From BNF 4.8.1 Control of the epilepsies
2 From BNF 4.8.2 Drugs used in status epilepticus
3 Total figure may not sum due to rounding
Table 3: Number of benzodiazepine prescription items written in the United Kingdom and dispensed in the community in England in 2015, as classified as anaesthesia drugs in BNF Section 15.1.4 | |
BNF chemical name | Prescription items (000s) |
Midazolam Hydrochloride | 166.5 |
Total | 166.5 |
Source: PCA system data provided by the Health and Social Care Information Centre
Asked by: Charlotte Leslie (Conservative - Bristol North West)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government plans to establish a Department for Trade.
Answered by Oliver Letwin
The Prime Minister announced during his statement to the House on the 27th June, the Cabinet will create a new EU unit in Whitehall, which will bring together officials and policy expertise from across the Cabinet Office, HM Treasury, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
Asked by: Charlotte Leslie (Conservative - Bristol North West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what mechanisms there are for hospitals to recharge insurance companies for the costs associated with the treatment of customers who are involved in road traffic accidents.
Answered by Alistair Burt
The Department already has a scheme in place for the recovery of National Health Service treatment costs for patients involved in accidents that subsequently go on to make a successful claim for personal injury compensation.
The NHS Injury Cost Recovery scheme places a legal obligation on insurers to notify the Secretary of State of all claims for personal injury compensation and provide information about whether the injured person was treated in an NHS hospital. The scheme is administered on behalf of the Secretary of State for Health by the Compensation Recovery Unit, which is part of the Department for Work and Pensions so in practice, notifications are made to them. Recovered costs are paid direct to the NHS hospital or ambulance trust that provided the treatment.
Asked by: Charlotte Leslie (Conservative - Bristol North West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were employed by NHS Protect at each Civil Service pay grade in each year since 2010.
Answered by George Freeman
NHS Protect co-ordinates anti-crime work in the National Health Service in England. This not only includes investigations and prosecutions but also managing information and intelligence and, wherever possible, ensuring crime is deterred and prevented.
2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | |
Number of NHS Protect prosecutions | 105 | 41 | 18 | 7 | 16 | 9 |
Note:
NHS Protect staff are employed on NHS Agenda for Change terms and conditions and the following table shows the number of NHS Protect staff by NHS pay scales.
Number of NHS Protect staff by grade | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 |
Band 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Band 4 | 22 | 17 | 13 | 15 | 16 | 15 |
Band 5 | 23 | 34 | 28 | 30 | 30 | 30 |
Band 6 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Band 7 | 106 | 87 | 78 | 78 | 85 | 81 |
Band 8a | 30 | 32 | 34 | 34 | 35 | 30 |
Band 8b | 13 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
Band 8c | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 3 |
Band 8d | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Band 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Associates | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Total | 217 | 190 | 173 | 178 | 186 | 174 |
Note: