Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of how many suicides involving (a) 10 to 14-year olds and (b) 15 to 19-year olds were the result of online bullying.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
The Department does not hold information on the number of suicides by people aged 10-19 years of age as a result of online bullying.
However, the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness, which is commissioned by NHS England and supported by the Department, published a thematic review in 2016, Suicide by Children and Young People in England. A copy of the report is available at the following link:
http://www.hqip.org.uk/resources/report-suicide-by-children-and-young-people-in-england/
The report identified ten common themes relating to suicides by people under 20 years of age between 2014 and 2015, including bullying (online and face-to-face) and suicide-related internet use.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the role of school and nursery milk in the Government's Childhood Obesity Plan.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
Where the school food standards apply, milk must be available during school hours and offered free to disadvantaged pupils, and free milk is also available to infants if served as part of their lunch.
As part of the Childhood Obesity Plan, the Government will publish and promote example menus for early year’s settings in England later this year. This will help settings to meet the latest Government dietary recommendations, including the consumption of milk and dairy products.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the role of school and nursery milk in supporting the health of children in deprived communities.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
Where the school food standards apply, milk must be available during school hours and offered free to disadvantaged pupils, and free milk is also available to infants if served as part of their lunch.
As part of the Childhood Obesity Plan, the Government will publish and promote example menus for early year’s settings in England later this year. This will help settings to meet the latest Government dietary recommendations, including the consumption of milk and dairy products.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of healthcare research funding was allocated to each region in the most recent year for which figures are available.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
The Department does not hold this information.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many full time equivalent health visitors there were in (a) England, (b) each region and (c) each local authority in (i) May 2015 and (ii) the most recent period for which figures are available.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
Health visitors are employed by a range of organisations, including National Health Service trusts, clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), local authorities and private providers. Current data collections do not cover the complete range of these organisations. As a result, it is not possible to provide accurate data on the total size of the health visitor workforce.
NHS Digital’s NHS Hospital and Community Health Service workforce statistics capture the total number of health visitors directly employed in NHS trusts and CCGs in England and by Health Education England region.
NHS Digital used to collect data on health visitors employed by local authorities and other organisations through the Health Visitors National Minimum Dataset however this collection ceased at the end of September 2015.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with how many families the family nurse partnership has worked (a) nationally and (b) in each local authority area that it has been in place in each year since that partnership scheme was established.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
Figures for the number of families assisted by the Family Nurse Partnership are only held centrally for the past three years. They are as follows:
| 2014/15 | 2015/16 |
Number of families | 13,212 | 15,789 |
The above is national data. Figures by local authority are not held centrally, but can be obtained from the Family Nurse Partnership National Unit at:
http://fnp.nhs.uk/commission-fnp/national-unit-leadership
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of children receive an assessment of their development by health visitors (a) after birth, (b) at six to eight weeks, (c) at one year old and (d) between two and two and a half years old in (i) England, (ii) each region and (iii) each local authority.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
This information is not available in the requested format. Information available from the Health Visitors Service Delivery Metrics can be found at:
http://www.chimat.org.uk/transfer
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will estimate the amount of funding spent by (a) clinical commissioning groups and (b) local authorities on supporting children and families in the early years in (i) England, (ii) each region and (iii) each local authority.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
The Department allocated funding of over £8 billion to local authorities from 2013/14 to 2015/16. It is not possible to provide a break-down of the estimated spend by local authorities and clinical commissioning groups on early years support for children and families for the last year in each region of England.
2015-16 data for individual local authorities can be viewed on the National Statistics website at:
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cases of perinatal depression there have been recorded in each (a) region and (b) clinical commissioning group area in each year since 2010.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
The information is not collected in the requested format.
It is important to note that perinatal mental illness includes a range of conditions, including antenatal depression, postnatal depression, maternal obsessive compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and postpartum psychosis.
NHS Digital has started to publish monthly experimental statistics collected via the Mental Health Dataset (MHDS) which include basic caseload measures for community based specialist perinatal mental health services.
NHS Digital is working with system partners to further develop perinatal mental health metrics for the MHDS collection.