Asked by: Jim McMahon (Labour (Co-op) - Oldham West and Royton)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the sufficiency of transitional/transformational funding for Greater Manchester health and social care devolution.
Answered by David Mowat
This is a matter for NHS England. Within its overall transformation resources NHS England has made an allocation of £450 million to Greater Manchester. Under the accountability arrangements established in its devolution agreement, the Greater Manchester Strategic Partnership Board will oversee the deployment of this funding to deliver the major change programme set out in its Health and Social Care Strategic Plan.
The Department and other national partners will continue to work with and support the National Health Service in Greater Manchester as the plans for its health and social care system are realised.
The Government welcomes the progress that has already been made.
Asked by: Jim McMahon (Labour (Co-op) - Oldham West and Royton)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the adequacy of mental health assessments in HM Prison Strangeways, Manchester.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust has provided healthcare in HMP Manchester since April 2015.
The Mental Health Inreach Team (MHIT) provides a specialist, comprehensive mental health service for prisoners at HMP Manchester.
MHIT staff use the Care Programme Approach to mental health assessment and care planning when working with prisoners. This includes liaising with any family and carers, services outside the prison, including community mental health services in the prisoner's home location and the National Probation Service and Criminal Justice Liaison Team, to ensure that continuity of planning and care occurs as people move in and out of prison.
Asked by: Jim McMahon (Labour (Co-op) - Oldham West and Royton)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was spent from the public purse on mental health awareness services in Greater Manchester in each year from 2006 to date.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
The information requested is not collected centrally.
Asked by: Jim McMahon (Labour (Co-op) - Oldham West and Royton)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many food safety officers were employed by local authorities in each year from 2012 to 2015.
Answered by Jane Ellison
Data collected by the Food Standards Agency on the number of full time equivalent professional staff employed by local authorities in the United Kingdom for food hygiene (microbiological quality and contamination of food by micro-organisms or foreign matter) and food standards (composition, chemical contamination, adulteration and labelling of food) regulatory activities are shown in the table.
| 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 |
England | |||
Food hygiene | 1,374.8 | 1,359.6 | 1,345.9 |
Food standards | 444.7 | 347.2 | 300.7 |
Northern Ireland* | |||
Food hygiene | 77.5 | 72.1 | 69.6 |
Food standards | 60.4 | 47.0 | 47.6 |
Wales | |||
Food hygiene | 160.1 | 166.7 | 152.2 |
Food standards | 54.8 | 48.6 | 43.8 |
Scotland | |||
Food hygiene | 222.7 | 229.0 | 228.3 |
Food standards | 136.1 | 127.0 | 114.8 |
UK | |||
Food hygiene | 1,835.1 | 1,827.4 | 1,796.0 |
Food standards | 695.9 | 569.8 | 506.9 |
* 2014/15 data reported for nine months
Asked by: Jim McMahon (Labour (Co-op) - Oldham West and Royton)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many social worker vacancies remained unfilled in (a) 2014 and (b) 2015.
Answered by Alistair Burt
The Department of Health has responsibility for adult social care policy which includes the activities of social workers in adult settings. The Department for Education has responsibility for the activities of social workers in children’s services.
The Health and Social Care Information Centre has recently published its report “Personal Social Services: Staff of Social Services Departments, England, as at September 2015”. This shows that the vacancy rates for adult social workers in local authorities are as follows:
2014 there were 1,100* vacancies (8%)
2015 there were 1,700** vacancies (12%)
*2014 based on 121 councils with vacancies data recorded.
**2015 based on 133 councils with vacancies data recorded.
Source: Skills for Care - NMDS-SC