Asked by: Jonathan Djanogly (Conservative - Huntingdon)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the effect of the proposed merger of the South and West Cambridgeshire and North and East Cambridgeshire and Peterborough coroner areas on the time taken for completion of investigations and inquests.
Answered by Simon Hughes
The Ministry of Justice and the Chief Coroner are clear that the amalgamation of coroner areas, usually after Senior Coroner retirements, improves the consistency and standard of services and can deliver savings.
The Ministry of Justice is currently carrying out a consultation to assess the impact of the proposed amalgamation of the South and West Cambridgeshire, North and East Cambridgeshire and Peterborough coroner areas. All individuals and organisations identified as being potentially affected by the merger have been invited to respond. We will consider all responses after the consultation closes on Monday, 16 February.
The table below sets out the number of senior coroners (formerly “coroners”), Assistant Coroners (formerly “deputy or assistant deputy coroners”) and coroner’s officers in the South and West Cambridgeshire, North and East Cambridgeshire and Peterborough coroner areas and in the proposed amalgamated area.
| South and West Cambridgeshire | North and East Cambridgeshire | Peterborough | Proposed amalgamated area |
No. of Senior Coroners | 1 part-time | 1 part-time | 1 part-time | 1 full-time |
No. of Assistant Coroners | 3 | 3 (1 also covers South and West Cambridgeshire) | 2 | 5 |
Number of Coroner’s Officers | 5 (shared across the two Cambridgeshire areas) | 2 | 7 | |
Asked by: Jonathan Djanogly (Conservative - Huntingdon)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) coroners, (b) deputy coroners and (c) coroner's staff are employed in (i) South and West Cambridgeshire and (ii) North and East Cambridgeshire and Peterborough coroner areas; and what estimate he has made of how many such employees will be working in the new area after the proposed merger of those areas.
Answered by Simon Hughes
The Ministry of Justice and the Chief Coroner are clear that the amalgamation of coroner areas, usually after Senior Coroner retirements, improves the consistency and standard of services and can deliver savings.
The Ministry of Justice is currently carrying out a consultation to assess the impact of the proposed amalgamation of the South and West Cambridgeshire, North and East Cambridgeshire and Peterborough coroner areas. All individuals and organisations identified as being potentially affected by the merger have been invited to respond. We will consider all responses after the consultation closes on Monday, 16 February.
The table below sets out the number of senior coroners (formerly “coroners”), Assistant Coroners (formerly “deputy or assistant deputy coroners”) and coroner’s officers in the South and West Cambridgeshire, North and East Cambridgeshire and Peterborough coroner areas and in the proposed amalgamated area.
| South and West Cambridgeshire | North and East Cambridgeshire | Peterborough | Proposed amalgamated area |
No. of Senior Coroners | 1 part-time | 1 part-time | 1 part-time | 1 full-time |
No. of Assistant Coroners | 3 | 3 (1 also covers South and West Cambridgeshire) | 2 | 5 |
Number of Coroner’s Officers | 5 (shared across the two Cambridgeshire areas) | 2 | 7 | |
Asked by: Jonathan Djanogly (Conservative - Huntingdon)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to pages five and six of the summary of findings of the Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust Quality Report of 9 January 2015, if he will publish the full list of organisations which were asked to share what they know about that hospital.
Answered by Norman Lamb
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England. The CQC is responsible for developing and implementing its methodology for assessing whether providers are meeting the registration requirements through its inspection and monitoring of providers.
The CQC has provided the following information:
Pages five and six of CQC’s inspection report for Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust outline the background of the Trust, including additional statistical data. These pages also include detail of the composition of the CQC inspection team and the specifics of how it carried out this inspection. This includes a list of organisations that hold data about the trust that CQC share information with.
Although listed in the report, The Royal College of Radiologists was not contacted prior to this inspection. The CQC is always happy to be contacted by the Royal Colleges at any time if they do have concerns about an inspection report. Monitor was erroneously listed in the report as being contacted, in place of the NHS Trust Development Authority. This error will be corrected in an addendum to the report.
Before inspecting the Trust, CQC reviewed a range of information it held, and asked other organisations to share what they knew about the hospital. The organisations CQC contacted were: the General Medical Council, the Health and Care Professionals Council, Health Education England, National Peer Review Programme, NHS England (relevant national and local teams), NHS Litigation Authority, the Nursing and Midwifery Council, the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, the College of Emergency Medicine, the Royal College of Anaesthetists, the Royal College of Nursing, the Royal College of Surgeons, local authorities, the NHS Trust Development Authority, local clinical commissioning groups and the local Healthwatch.
CQC contacts a range of organisations before each inspection and will tailor which organisations are contacted depending on the sector of the inspection and the data sources that are already available.
Asked by: Jonathan Djanogly (Conservative - Huntingdon)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the local hon. Member would ordinarily be one of the stakeholder consultees to a Care Quality Commission Quality Report.
Answered by Norman Lamb
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England. The CQC is responsible for developing and implementing its methodology for assessing whether providers are meeting the registration requirements through its inspection and monitoring of providers.
The CQC has provided the following information about Members of Parliament (MPs) involvement in its inspection process for National Health Service acute providers.
CQC informs MPs of its plans for scheduled inspections around three months in advance of those inspections taking place. The views of members of the public are sought through local listening events, which local MPs are also invited to attend. Listening events are organised to coincide with the start of an inspection.
MPs and members of the public are informed of the dates as soon as the arrangements are in place. MPs are usually informed via email and are also able to send information to CQC for consideration as part of future inspections even if an inspection of a specific trust is not currently planned.
Once an inspection report has been finalised it is taken to a quality summit where the report’s findings are presented to the trust, NHS England and local stakeholders who will be directly involved in providing ongoing practical support to the trust.
Attendees receive copies of CQC reports in advance of the quality summit. MPs are not invited to quality summits though they usually receive an embargoed copy of the report via email the day before publication. An offer of more detailed information or a briefing is made at the same time.
Asked by: Jonathan Djanogly (Conservative - Huntingdon)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to require the Care Quality Commission to consult committees of (a) local district and (b) county councils when preparing Quality reports.
Answered by Norman Lamb
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England. The CQC is responsible for developing and implementing its methodology for assessing whether providers are meeting the registration requirements through its inspection and monitoring of providers.
The CQC has provided the following information:
CQC does not formally consult committees of local district and county councils during the inspection and reporting process of NHS acute providers. Representatives of local authorities may be invited to attend to provide input in accordance with their statutory roles and support the provider in developing and taking forward their action plan. In the case of large or complex NHS providers, this may include representatives from a number of different local authorities.
Asked by: Jonathan Djanogly (Conservative - Huntingdon)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when his Department plans to provide an initial response to the Law Commission's report, Matrimonial Property, Needs and Agreements, published in March 2014.
Answered by Simon Hughes
In line with the terms of the protocol we have with the Law Commission, I submitted my preliminary views on the recommendations in the report to the Law Commissioner in March. In September 2014 the Government proposed to the Law Commission that a final response should be given in the next Parliament. This will allow the next Government to give the proposals full consideration without the current pressures on Parliamentary time. The Family Justice Council is also carrying out further work to clarify the meaning of ‘financial need’ in divorce cases. This will include the Council producing guidance for separating couples to help them understand the likely outcomes of their case. We expect this to be completed by the end of the year
Asked by: Jonathan Djanogly (Conservative - Huntingdon)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many motor vehicle accidents occurred on the A14 in each month in 2013.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The numbers of reported personal injury motor vehicle accidents on the A14 for each of the 12 months in 2013 are given in following table; by severity:
Number of reported personal injury accidents involving at least one motor vehicle1 on the A14 from Felixstowe to its junction with M6: 2013 | |||||||
Fatal | Serious | Slight | Total | ||||
January | 6 | 2 | 45 | 53 | |||
February | 0 | 2 | 14 | 16 | |||
March | 0 | 3 | 34 | 37 | |||
April | 1 | 5 | 46 | 52 | |||
May | 0 | 3 | 38 | 41 | |||
June | 4 | 7 | 32 | 43 | |||
July | 0 | 1 | 29 | 30 | |||
August | 0 | 13 | 41 | 54 | |||
September | 0 | 4 | 38 | 42 | |||
October | 0 | 11 | 53 | 64 | |||
November | 1 | 7 | 57 | 65 | |||
December | 2 | 4 | 43 | 49 | |||
Total |
| 14 | 62 | 470 | 546 | ||
1. excludes pedal cycles, horse riders and mobility scooters. | |||||||
Asked by: Jonathan Djanogly (Conservative - Huntingdon)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many motor vehicle accidents occurred on the A428 in each month in 2013.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The numbers of reported personal injury motor vehicle accidents on the A428 in each of the 12 months in 2013 are given in the following table; by severity
Number of reported personal injury accidents involving at least one motor vehicle1 on the A428 in 2013: | |||||||
|
|
|
|
Number of accidents | |||
Fatal | Serious | Slight | Total | ||||
January | 0 | 0 | 17 | 17 | |||
February | 0 | 2 | 10 | 12 | |||
March | 0 | 1 | 17 | 18 | |||
April | 0 | 3 | 20 | 23 | |||
May | 0 | 7 | 17 | 24 | |||
June | 0 | 7 | 13 | 20 | |||
July | 0 | 0 | 16 | 16 | |||
August | 0 | 6 | 12 | 18 | |||
September | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 | |||
October | 0 | 5 | 23 | 28 | |||
November | 0 | 2 | 10 | 12 | |||
December | 0 | 3 | 24 | 27 | |||
Total |
| 0 | 36 | 185 | 221 | ||
1. excludes pedal cycles, horse riders and mobility scooters. | |||||||
Asked by: Jonathan Djanogly (Conservative - Huntingdon)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which areas of forestry and woodland in Huntingdon constituency are classed by his Department as ancient woodland.
Answered by Dan Rogerson
Of the 1,721.9 hectares of woodland identified within the Huntingdon constituency, 540.5 hectares (1.6% of land within the constituency or 31.4% of woodland within the constituency) is classed as ancient woodland.
There are 45 discrete areas of ancient woodland in the Huntingdon constituency. Twenty-nine are located in the western arm of the constituency to the west of the A1, mainly around Grafham Water. The others are mostly in two pockets: in the southern arm of the constituency to the west of Great Gransden; and in the far north side of the constituency north of Alconbury.
A map showing the location of the ancient woodland has been placed in the House Library.
Asked by: Jonathan Djanogly (Conservative - Huntingdon)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many motor vehicle accidents occurred on the A14 in each of the last 12 months.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The numbers of reported personal injury motor vehicle accidents on the A14 for each of the 12 months in 2012 are given in following table; by severity:
Number of reported personal injury accidents involving at least one motor vehicle1 on the A14 from Felixstowe to its junction with M6: 2012
| |||||||
Fatal
| Serious
| Slight
| Total
| ||||
January
| 0
| 2
| 40
| 42
| |||
February
| 1
| 12
| 36
| 49
| |||
March
| 3
| 7
| 36
| 46
| |||
April
| 3
| 6
| 35
| 44
| |||
May
| 6
| 5
| 32
| 43
| |||
June
| 0
| 9
| 30
| 39
| |||
July
| 4
| 7
| 62
| 73
| |||
August
| 3
| 14
| 38
| 55
| |||
September
| 1
| 1
| 31
| 33
| |||
October
| 0
| 5
| 29
| 34
| |||
November
| 2
| 3
| 54
| 59
| |||
December
| 5
| 1
| 50
| 56
| |||
Total
|
| 28
| 72
| 472
| 573
| ||
1 excludes pedal cycles, horse riders and mobility scooters.
| |||||||
Data for 2013 will be published on 26th June 2014.