Found: be that the London Overground, the Elizabeth Line, London buses, the Bee Network, or Metrolink in Greater

Found: has a total population of over 600,000 and is located at the centre of the highly urbanised Greater

Found: strategic transport bodies in England, which, between them, serve over twenty million people in Greater

Found: government, both in the Plan for Rail and also in the TDDDs given to both the West Midlands and Greater

Found: RRB0046 - Scrutiny of the draft Rail Reform Bill Transport for Greater Manchester Written Evidence

Found: Altrincham in Greater Manchester tackled long-term issues with high vacancy by creating a Landlord

Found: For example, the Greater Manchester Combined Authorities’ strategic spatial plan sets out a long-term

Found: Market Hall: Radcliffe Market Hall is a rejuvenated historic market hall in the town of Radcliffe, Greater

Found: In support of that overall framework, Greater Manchester and the West Midlands have agreed to organise

Found: Through bringing younger members of the Greater Manchester community together with these older residents

Found: To date MVP has purchased the first of these – The Snug, Atherton, Greater Manchester – with the purchase

Found: Appellant Mr Squires also placed reliance on the judgment of Lord Reed JSC in R (T) v Chief Constable of Greater

Found: Cornwall and Norfolk have started, to be followed quite soon by Greater Manchester and south-east

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance her Department issues NHS trusts on establishing commissioning structures for Health Technology Assessments; and whether trusts have discretion to adopt different processes.

Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

Ministers have not met with Greater Manchester NHS Board about the statutory commissioning of National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommended medicines. Similarly I am informed that NHS England is not aware of any such discussions.

The National Health Service in England is legally required to make funding available for treatments recommended in NICE technology appraisal and highly specialised technologies guidance, normally within three months of the publication of final guidance. This requirement is reflected in the NHS Constitution as a right to drugs and treatments that have been recommended by NICE for use in the NHS, if their doctor believes they are clinically appropriate.

The NHS Standard Contract is mandated by NHS England for use by commissioners for all contracts for healthcare services other than primary care. The 2024/25 standard contract states that, where any service involves or may involve the prescribing of medicines, the provider must ensure that its formulary reflects all relevant positive NICE technology appraisals. NICE’s guideline on developing and updating local formularies states that when a NICE technology appraisal recommends a medicine, it should be adopted into the local formulary automatically if clinically appropriate and relevant to the services provided by the organisation, and that this process should take place within three months.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions NHS England have had with Greater Manchester NHS on their statutory responsibilities to commission NICE approved medicines.

Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

Ministers have not met with Greater Manchester NHS Board about the statutory commissioning of National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommended medicines. Similarly I am informed that NHS England is not aware of any such discussions.

The National Health Service in England is legally required to make funding available for treatments recommended in NICE technology appraisal and highly specialised technologies guidance, normally within three months of the publication of final guidance. This requirement is reflected in the NHS Constitution as a right to drugs and treatments that have been recommended by NICE for use in the NHS, if their doctor believes they are clinically appropriate.

The NHS Standard Contract is mandated by NHS England for use by commissioners for all contracts for healthcare services other than primary care. The 2024/25 standard contract states that, where any service involves or may involve the prescribing of medicines, the provider must ensure that its formulary reflects all relevant positive NICE technology appraisals. NICE’s guideline on developing and updating local formularies states that when a NICE technology appraisal recommends a medicine, it should be adopted into the local formulary automatically if clinically appropriate and relevant to the services provided by the organisation, and that this process should take place within three months.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when she last met with Greater Manchester NHS Board to discuss the statutory commissioning of NICE approved medicines.

Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

Ministers have not met with Greater Manchester NHS Board about the statutory commissioning of National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommended medicines. Similarly I am informed that NHS England is not aware of any such discussions.

The National Health Service in England is legally required to make funding available for treatments recommended in NICE technology appraisal and highly specialised technologies guidance, normally within three months of the publication of final guidance. This requirement is reflected in the NHS Constitution as a right to drugs and treatments that have been recommended by NICE for use in the NHS, if their doctor believes they are clinically appropriate.

The NHS Standard Contract is mandated by NHS England for use by commissioners for all contracts for healthcare services other than primary care. The 2024/25 standard contract states that, where any service involves or may involve the prescribing of medicines, the provider must ensure that its formulary reflects all relevant positive NICE technology appraisals. NICE’s guideline on developing and updating local formularies states that when a NICE technology appraisal recommends a medicine, it should be adopted into the local formulary automatically if clinically appropriate and relevant to the services provided by the organisation, and that this process should take place within three months.

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people completed unpaid work on the Community Payback Rapid Deployment Project pilot schemes between June and December 2023; how many hours of unpaid work were completed; and how many and what proportion of those hours were attributable to schemes run in the (a) Greater Manchester, (b) East of England, (c) Wales and (d) North East Probation Service regions.

Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)

Between 19 June and 31 December 2023, a total of 8,809 community payback hours have been completed as a part of the Community Payback Rapid Deployment Project pilot scheme by 509 different people.

The data source is nDelius, the Case Management System used by the Probation Service. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the information collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system. While the figures shown have been checked as far as practicable, they should be regarded as approximate and not necessarily accurate to the last whole number shown in the tables.

To note, the figures are different to those provided in parliamentary question responses in October and December 2023, due to work undertaken to improve the accuracy of the data recorded.

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Found: surrounding areas of Wakefield, Leeds and Sheffield, but also from elsewhere in the UK, from areas including Greater

Found: surrounding areas of Wakefield, Leeds and Sheffield, but also from elsewhere in the UK, from areas including Greater

Found: NHS England Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust Greater Mancheste

Found: Prison status and key providers Public Physical and mental health provider: Greater Manchester Mental

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Found: NHS England Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust Greater Mancheste

Found: Prison status and key providers Public Physical and mental health provider: Greater Manchester Mental

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