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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 28 Apr 2016
World Autism Awareness Week

"In common with other speakers, my hon. Friend is making a very powerful speech about awareness and understanding. Does he agree—I thought his remarks were leading towards this—that we also need to translate such awareness into some hard practical action on service delivery, and that this applies whether it be …..."
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Written Question
Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
Wednesday 10th February 2016

Asked by: Karen Buck (Labour - Westminster North)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what change there has been in the proportion of children and young people referred to Tier 2 CAMHS services since 2013 in (a) England, (b) each region, (c) each clinical commissioning group area and (d) each local authority area.

Answered by Alistair Burt

This information is not held centrally.

Written Question
Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
Monday 8th February 2016

Asked by: Karen Buck (Labour - Westminster North)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children and young people were referred to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in each local authority in each of the last eight quarters for which figures are available.

Answered by Alistair Burt

This information is not currently collected.

Written Question
Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
Monday 8th February 2016

Asked by: Karen Buck (Labour - Westminster North)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children and young people have been referred to Tier 2 Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in each local authority area in each of the last five years.

Answered by Alistair Burt

We do not hold this information centrally.

Written Question
Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
Monday 8th February 2016

Asked by: Karen Buck (Labour - Westminster North)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children and young people have been referred to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in each clinical commissioning group area in each quarter since April 2013.

Answered by Alistair Burt

We do not hold this information centrally.

Written Question
Home Care Services
Monday 8th February 2016

Asked by: Karen Buck (Labour - Westminster North)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many home visits were provided to adult social care clients (a) in total and (b) per 1,000 of the population aged 65 and over in each English local authority in (i) 2009-10 and (ii) 2014-15.

Answered by Alistair Burt

We are informed by the Health and Social Care Information Centre that the information requested is not collected centrally.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 09 Dec 2015
Mental Health

"Does my hon. Friend share my concern about the scale of the stress—by common agreement, often inappropriate stress—on the police as a consequence of the pressure on emergency mental health services? My local police have advised me that they sometimes spend half a shift with severely mentally ill patients who …..."
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Written Question
Obesity: Children
Wednesday 22nd July 2015

Asked by: Karen Buck (Labour - Westminster North)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of children was classified as obese in each local authority area in (a) 2009 and (b) 2014.

Answered by Jane Ellison

In 2009/10, prevalence of obesity at reception ranged from 5.52% (York) to 14.74% (Southwark). At Year 6, prevalence of obesity ranged from 12.08% (Richmond upon Thames) to 28.60% (Westminster).

In 2013/14, prevalence of obesity at reception ranged from 5.51% (Windsor and Maidenhead) to 14.38% (Hackney). At Year 6, prevalence of obesity ranged from 11.06% (Richmond upon Thames) to 26.68% (Southwark).

Attached for information is the proportion of children classified as obese in each local authority.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 02 Jun 2015
Health and Social Care

"Is it not true that the NHS’s greatest resource, and indeed greatest cost, is its staff? Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust overspent on staff by £24 million last year, and at the end of the financial year 12% of all its spending was going on agency and “bank” staff. While …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 21 Jan 2015
National Health Service

"If the causes of the A and E crisis are deep and structural, as the Secretary of State has implied, why is it that the number of people in London waiting outside A and E in ambulances rose by 66% in one month—between November and December?..."
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