Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will ensure that Mr Peter Axon of Birmingham Community Healthcare Trust provides the data on the trust's budget requested in correspondence on 18 December 2017.
Answered by Philip Dunne
The Department has no record of receiving any correspondence relating to Birmingham Community Healthcare Trust as at 19 December.
Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of minimum unit pricing in England on the number of children living with an alcohol dependent parent.
Answered by Steve Brine
No assessment has been made on the potential effect of Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) in England on the number of children living with an alcohol dependent parent. MUP and its effects will continue to remain under review pending the impact of its implementation in Scotland.
Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, meetings Ministers of his Department have had with representatives of the Legatum Institute in the last 12 months.
Answered by Philip Dunne
The Department adheres to transparent Government guidelines and publishes quarterly returns on Ministerial meetings with external organisations. The most recent data, for 2017, is available at the following link:
Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress his Department has made on developing a national strategy for children of alcoholics.
Answered by Steve Brine
The Government is considering what further support it can provide to tackle alcohol harms, focusing on vulnerable groups including families and children.
Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS apprenticeships have been provided in the West Midlands in each (a) local authority and (b) NHS Trust area in (i) the last year for which figures are available, (ii) 2015 and (iii) 2010; and how many nursing associates have been appointed in the West Midlands in the same areas and in the same years.
Answered by Philip Dunne
Data on the number of Apprenticeships provided by individual Trusts and local authorities across the West Midlands is not collected centrally.
From April 2017, a new apprenticeship levy and public sector apprentice target will come into force. As part of the public sector target, Trusts and other public sector organisations will be required to report annually their number of apprentice starts.
The Nursing Associate role is a new role, with the first 1,000 trainees commencing their training in January 2017; as such data for previous years is not available.
As at January 2017, 95 Nursing Associates have commenced training at Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust.
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust is an established Nursing Associate Test Pilot Partnership spanning a wide area of Employment Partners across the West Midlands. The test sites are as follows:
- Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust;
- Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust;
- Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust;
- South Staffordshire and Shropshire Healthcare NHS Foundation;
- Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Partnership NHS Trust;
- The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust;
- The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust;
- Dudley Clinical Commissioning Group; and
- Wolverhampton Clinical Commissioning Group.
Further trainees across other Partnerships in the West Midlands below will be recruited for an April 2017 start.
- Birmingham and Solihull Partnership (Heart of England);
- Black Country and Partners (Walsall);
- The Herefordshire and Worcestershire Partnership (Worcestershire);
- Coventry and Warwickshire Nursing Associate Pilot (South Warwickshire); and
- Transforming Care Together (Birmingham).