Asked by: Caroline Flint (Labour - Don Valley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce child vulnerability to alcohol-related harm.
Answered by Steve Brine
The Government is committed to reducing the harm of alcohol addiction and to ensuring there is improved availability of support for children of alcohol dependent parents.
On 23 April 2018, the Department of Health and Social Care and the Department of Work and Pensions announced a jointly funded package of measures totalling up to £6 million to improve the availability of support for these children. Priority measures include a local authority innovation fund, national capacity building through voluntary sector organisations and additional helpline support for children. We will be announcing details of the organisations receiving funding for this work shortly.
Asked by: Caroline Flint (Labour - Don Valley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department’s priorities are for expanding support services for children of alcoholic parents.
Answered by Steve Brine
The Government is committed to reducing the harm of alcohol addiction and to ensuring there is improved availability of support for children of alcohol dependent parents.
On 23 April 2018, the Department of Health and Social Care and the Department of Work and Pensions announced a jointly funded package of measures totalling up to £6 million to improve the availability of support for these children. Priority measures include a local authority innovation fund, national capacity building through voluntary sector organisations and additional helpline support for children. We will be announcing details of the organisations receiving funding for this work shortly.
Asked by: Caroline Flint (Labour - Don Valley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made on improving the availability of support and advice for children of alcoholic parents.
Answered by Steve Brine
The Government is committed to reducing the harm of alcohol addiction and to ensuring there is improved availability of support for children of alcohol dependent parents.
On 23 April 2018, the Department of Health and Social Care and the Department of Work and Pensions announced a jointly funded package of measures totalling up to £6 million to improve the availability of support for these children. Priority measures include a local authority innovation fund, national capacity building through voluntary sector organisations and additional helpline support for children. We will be announcing details of the organisations receiving funding for this work shortly.
Asked by: Caroline Flint (Labour - Don Valley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding his Department has allocated to the promotion of public information on prescription prepayment certificates.
Answered by Steve Brine
The NHS Business Services Authority (BSA) actively prepares, circulates and promotes information for the public on Prescription Prepayment Certificates as part of its duties in administering this service. The funding information requested cannot be provided, as it is not separately identified.
Asked by: Caroline Flint (Labour - Don Valley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of his Department's invoices for goods and services supplied by (a) private companies and (b) small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are completed on time; and what proportion of the (i) number and (ii) value of contracts between his Department and private companies are held by SMEs.
Answered by Jane Ellison
Whilst the Department holds information in respect of contracts and supplier type it would require a full search through all supplier records to satisfy the full detail of the request which would incur a disproportionate cost.
However, the Department does publish quarterly information on prompt payments to our suppliers (within 5, 10 and 30 days) on gov.uk at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/department-of-health-prompt-payment-of-suppliers-data
Also, the Department publishes information relating to SME procurement expenditure in line with government policy and the latest financial years 2013-14 and 2014-15 are available on GOV.UK at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/central-government-spend-with-smes-2014-to-2015
Asked by: Caroline Flint (Labour - Don Valley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the cost of training a consultant in vascular surgery.
Answered by Ben Gummer
The Department does not hold information on the average cost to the taxpayer of training someone to become a consultant in vascular surgery.
The Personal Social Services Research Unit at the University of Kent estimates within their report ‘Unit Costs of Health and Social Care 2014’, published March 2014 (latest data available), that the average cost in 2013/14 of consultant training to be £726,551. These figures reflect the pre-registration costs of tuition, living expenses/lost production and clinical placements and the post-graduate costs of tuition and replacement costs not the average cost to the taxpayer.
Asked by: Caroline Flint (Labour - Don Valley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of nurses that are eligible for tax credits.
Answered by Ben Gummer
This information is not collected centrally. Eligibility for tax credits is dependent on individual circumstances and income, including for example the financial circumstances of any partner.
Asked by: Caroline Flint (Labour - Don Valley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many admissions to hospital for cold-related illnesses of people aged (a) 0 to 14 years, (b) 15 to 19 years, (c) 20 to 64 years and (d) 65 and over there have been in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Jane Ellison
This information is not available in the format requested. The Health and Social Care Information Centre has advised that the term 'cold-related illness' is too broad to be indexed in the classification system used within the Hospital Episode Statistics database.