Asked by: Heidi Alexander (Labour - Lewisham East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect on patients of the decision taken by Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group to place restrictions on routine surgery for patients who smoke or are clinically obese.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
Each individual Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is accountable for commissioning the care that will provide the best possible outcomes for their patients in line with their legal duties and National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance. As such, it is the responsibility of Vale of York CCG to make an assessment of what impact on patients its decisions will have.
Vale of York CCG has made clear that every patient’s case will be considered in the light of their own particular circumstances and on the basis of clinical need.
Asked by: Heidi Alexander (Labour - Lewisham East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how NHS England plans to ensure that patients are not put at risk by the decision taken by Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group to place restrictions on routine surgery for patients who smoke or are clinically obese.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
Each individual Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is accountable for commissioning the care that will provide the best possible outcomes for their patients in line with their legal duties and National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance. As such, it is the responsibility of Vale of York CCG to make an assessment of what impact on patients its decisions will have.
Vale of York CCG has made clear that every patient’s case will be considered in the light of their own particular circumstances and on the basis of clinical need.
Asked by: Heidi Alexander (Labour - Lewisham East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to provide additional funding for English language tuition for refugees who gain settlement rights in the UK under the standard procedure for claiming asylum.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
All those granted refugee status or humanitarian protection become eligible for government skills funding as any other UK resident and are not subject to the normal 3 year qualifying period.
When someone receives a positive decision on their asylum claim they are provided with relevant information to allow them to access the services they need.
Asked by: Heidi Alexander (Labour - Lewisham East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to provide additional funding for English language tuition for refugees on the Gateway Protection Resettlement Programme.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
English language tuition forms part of the support package provided to beneficiaries of the Gateway Protection Programme.
Asked by: Heidi Alexander (Labour - Lewisham East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how long, on average, it took to match sponsors with schools where an Academy Order was made in each year before the Education and Adoption Act 2016 came into force.
Answered by Edward Timpson
We routinely publish all open academy details and academy projects in development.
These details can be easily accessed online and can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-academies-and-academy-projects-in-development
The Sponsored Pipeline tab features a list of Sponsored academy projects currently in progress, the local authority in which they are located and, where applicable, the agreed sponsor.
We do not hold data on the time taken to match a sponsor with a school.
Asked by: Heidi Alexander (Labour - Lewisham East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 20 July 2016 to Question 42278, what the average time taken has been to match a sponsor with a school once it has been judged by Ofsted to be failing since the Education and Adoption Act 2016 came into force.
Answered by Edward Timpson
We routinely publish all open academy details and academy projects in development.
These details can be easily accessed online and can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-academies-and-academy-projects-in-development
The Sponsored Pipeline tab features a list of Sponsored academy projects currently in progress, the local authority in which they are located and, where applicable, the agreed sponsor.
We do not hold data on the time taken to match a sponsor with a school.
Asked by: Heidi Alexander (Labour - Lewisham East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 20 July 2016 to Question 42278, if she will list the (a) schools for which Academy Orders have been made, (b) sponsors matched to each of those schools, (c) local authority area in which each of those schools is located and (d) average time taken to match a sponsor to each of those schools once an Academy Order had been made under the provisions of the Education and Adoption Act 2016.
Answered by Edward Timpson
We routinely publish all open academy details and academy projects in development.
These details can be easily accessed online and can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-academies-and-academy-projects-in-development
The Sponsored Pipeline tab features a list of Sponsored academy projects currently in progress, the local authority in which they are located and, where applicable, the agreed sponsor.
We do not hold data on the time taken to match a sponsor with a school.
Asked by: Heidi Alexander (Labour - Lewisham East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will provide a list stating the value of each grant that has been awarded by her Department to each academy sponsor matched to a school with an Academy Order; and what the average value is of those grants that have been made under the provisions of the Education and Adoption Act 2016.
Answered by Edward Timpson
As of 24 October 2016, there have been 33 grant payments made as a result of an Academy Order being issued under the provisions of the Education and Adoption Act 2016. They consist of the following:
Grants Paid | Total |
1 part payment of grant of £45,000 | £45,000 |
22 grants of £70,000 | £1,540,000 |
2 grants of £80,000 | £160,000 |
7 grants of £90,000 | £630,000 |
1 grant of £110,000 | £110,000 |
Grand Total | £2,485,000 |
This brings an average cost of £75,303 supporting these sponsored academies. The details of the grant amounts can be found on page 4 of the Sponsored academies funding Advice for sponsors document. This guidance is published online and can be accessed via the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/511128/sponsored_academies_funding_advice_for_sponsors.pdf
This does not include any award of sponsor capacity fund (SCF) which may previously have been made to relevant sponsors as part of their developing greater capacity to support schools.
Asked by: Heidi Alexander (Labour - Lewisham East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what data his Department (a) records and (b) publishes on the nationality of NHS staff.
Answered by Philip Dunne
The Department does not record or publish data on the nationality of staff working in the National Health Service. Data on nationality is published twice a year by NHS Digital and turnover data is published quarterly and available by nationality.
Nationality is a data item within the National Workforce Data set used with a range of other data items to support workforce planning, analysis of staff movement and equality monitoring. It is not mandatory, but self-declared.
In 2015 and 2016 requests for nationality data on NHS staff in England were published on the supplementary information part of the NHS Digital website, rather than as part of the routine Hospital and Community Health Services statistical publications. In 2016, following NHS Digital’s public consultation, NHS Digital now routinely publish tables showing the self-declared nationality of staff in staff groups and regions, bi-annually, together with quarterly turnover statistics which show the nationality of joiners and leavers to and from the NHS in England.
The latest nationality data was published in March 2016 and the next set will be published in December 2016 showing the position at September 2016.
The latest turnover data published in September 2016 covers the 12 month period to 30 June 2016.
Asked by: Heidi Alexander (Labour - Lewisham East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether it is mandatory for NHS staff to report their nationality for NHS workforce data collection.
Answered by Philip Dunne
The Department does not record or publish data on the nationality of staff working in the National Health Service. Data on nationality is published twice a year by NHS Digital and turnover data is published quarterly and available by nationality.
Nationality is a data item within the National Workforce Data set used with a range of other data items to support workforce planning, analysis of staff movement and equality monitoring. It is not mandatory, but self-declared.
In 2015 and 2016 requests for nationality data on NHS staff in England were published on the supplementary information part of the NHS Digital website, rather than as part of the routine Hospital and Community Health Services statistical publications. In 2016, following NHS Digital’s public consultation, NHS Digital now routinely publish tables showing the self-declared nationality of staff in staff groups and regions, bi-annually, together with quarterly turnover statistics which show the nationality of joiners and leavers to and from the NHS in England.
The latest nationality data was published in March 2016 and the next set will be published in December 2016 showing the position at September 2016.
The latest turnover data published in September 2016 covers the 12 month period to 30 June 2016.