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Written Question
Schools: Fareham
Monday 3rd November 2014

Asked by: Mark Hoban (Conservative - Fareham)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many new places at (a) primary and (b) secondary schools have been created in Fareham constituency in the last 12 months.

Answered by Edward Timpson

The Department for Education collects information from local authorities on the number of school places in state-funded primary and secondary schools, except special schools, as part of the annual School Capacity Collection. The most recent data available relates to the position at May 2013 and is published online at: www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-capacity-academic-year-2012-to-2013.

Data on the number of school places for the past 12 months is not yet available as this information is currently being collected from local authorities and will be published in due course. The information is not available at constituency level.

Between May 2012 and May 2013, the number of places in primary schools in Hampshire increased by 585 and the number of places in secondary schools increased by 176.

Written Question
Queen Alexandra Hospital
Monday 3rd November 2014

Asked by: Mark Hoban (Conservative - Fareham)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the (a) mean and (b) median waiting time for treatment in Queen Alexandra Hospital's accident and emergency department was in each year from 2009-10.

Answered by Jane Ellison

The information is shown in the following table.

Mean and median duration (in minutes) to treatment for Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust accident and emergency (A&E) department, 2009-10 – 2012-13.

Year

Number of attendances with a valid Duration to Treatment

Mean Duration to Treatment

Median Duration to Treatment

2009-10

102,395

83

52

2010-11

108,101

83

55

2011-12

118,719

65

49

2012-13

128,728

70

48

Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) Analysis Team at the Health and Social Care Information Centre.

Notes:

  1. Mean and median – The mean (average) and median (middle in ranking when all values are sorted in order) duration in minutes to assessment, treatment or departure.
  2. The information supplied was available by Trust rather than by individual A&E Department and therefore the Department has supplied information on Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust as a whole rather than Queen Alexandra Hospital A&E specifically.
  3. Duration to assessment – The total amount of time in minutes between the patient's arrival and their initial assessment in the A&E department. This is calculated as the difference in time from arrival at A&E to the time when the patient is initially assessed.
  4. Duration to treatment – The total amount of time in minutes between the patient's arrival and the start of their treatment. This is calculated as the difference in time from arrival at A&E to the time when the patient began treatment.
  5. Duration to departure – the total amount of time spent in minutes in the A&E department. This is calculated as the difference in time from arrival at A&E to the time when the patient is discharged from A&E care. This includes being admitted to hospital, died in the department, discharged with no follow up or discharged - referred to another specialist department.
  6. Hospital provider - A provider code is a unique code that identifies an organisation acting as a health care provider (eg NHS trust or primary care trust). Data from some independent sector providers, where the onus for arrangement of dataflows is on the commissioner, may be missing. Care must be taken when using this data as the counts may be lower than true figures.
  7. Assessing growth through time (A&E) – HES figures are available from 2007-08 onwards. Changes to the figures over time need to be interpreted in the context of improvements in data quality and coverage and changes in NHS practice. For example, changes in activity may be due to changes in the provision of care.
  8. Data quality – The recording of duration in HES A&E is not mandatory and this may particularly have affected the quality of recorded durations to assessment and treatment.

Written Question
Dementia
Monday 3rd November 2014

Asked by: Mark Hoban (Conservative - Fareham)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of adults in (a) Fareham constituency, (b) Hampshire and (c) England have been diagnosed with dementia in each of the last 10 years.

Answered by Norman Lamb

Information on the number of people with dementia has been collected since 2006-07. Information is collected at National Health Service organisation level, and not constituency level. Data on the number of people with dementia in England, Hampshire Primary Care Trust, and the clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) that replaced it, are shown in the following table.

Table 1: Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF): Patients on the dementia register and prevalence rates in England, 2006-07 to 2013-14

Year

Number of Practices1

Sum of List Sizes1

Sum of Dementia Register1

Dementia Prevalence1

(percentage -

based on QOF registers)

2013-14

7,921

56,324,887

348,973

0.62

2012-13

8,020

56,012,096

318,669

0.57

2011-12

8,123

55,525,732

293,738

0.53

2010-11

8,245

55,169,643

266,697

0.48

2009-10

8,305

54,836,561

249,463

0.45

2008-09

8,229

54,310,660

232,430

0.43

2007-08

8,294

54,009,831

220,246

0.41

2006-07

8,372

53,681,098

212,794

0.40

Note:

1. Practices, practice list size and number of patients on the dementia register are based only on those GP practices that participated in QOF.

Table 2: Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF): Patients on the dementia register and prevalence rates in the specified CCGs, 2012-13 and 2013-14

2012/13

2013/14

CCG Name

Number of Practices1

Sum of List Sizes1

Sum of Dementia Register1

Dementia Prevalence1

(percentage - based on QOF registers)

Number of Practices1

Sum of List Sizes1

Sum of Dementia Register1

Dementia Prevalence1

(percentage - based on QOF registers)

North Hampshire

22

217,387

1,090

0.50

20

218,955

1,215

0.55

Fareham and Gosport

21

200,959

1,277

0.64

21

201,596

1,413

0.70

Portsmouth

26

217,685

1,473

0.68

26

218,672

1,510

0.69

South Eastern Hampshire

28

208,977

1,568

0.75

27

209,540

1,699

0.81

Southampton

36

267,765

1,376

0.51

35

269,948

1,467

0.54

West Hampshire

54

543,354

4,031

0.74

52

536,744

4,295

0.80

North East Hampshire and Farnham

24

218,868

1,079

0.49

24

220,174

1,317

0.60

Note:

1. Practices, practice list size and number of patients on the dementia register are based only on those GP practices that participated in QOF.

Table 3: Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF): Patients on the dementia register and prevalence rates in Hampshire Primary Care Trust, 2006-07 to 2011-12

Year

Number of Practices1

Sum of List Sizes1

Sum of Dementia Register1

Dementia Prevalence1

(percentage - based on QOF registers)

2011-12

146

1,334,272

8,695

0.65

2010-11

146

1,325,050

8,288

0.63

2009-10

147

1,316,394

7,998

0.61

2008-09

147

1,298,398

7,518

0.58

2007-08

146

1,289,145

7,109

0.55

2006-07

148

1,288,615

6,763

0.52

Note:

1. Practices, practice list size and number of patients on the dementia register are based only on those GP practices that participated in QOF.

Written Question
Obesity
Monday 3rd November 2014

Asked by: Mark Hoban (Conservative - Fareham)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of (a) children and (b) adults in (i) Fareham constituency, (ii) Hampshire and (iii) England were classed as (A) overweight and (B) obese in each of the last 10 years.

Answered by Jane Ellison

Data on childhood obesity are not collected by parliamentary constituency. The data in the attached table 1 and 2 are for the area of Fareham district, Hampshire County and England. The National Childhood Measurement Programme data collection began in 2006-07 and only collects data on two age groups; reception year (4-5 years) and year 6 (10-11 years).

Data on adult obesity and excess weight (overweight and obese) for Fareham district, Hampshire County and England are available from the ‘Local Health Profiles’ using data from the ‘Active People Survey’ commissioned by Sport England. The data are only available for 2012 and are presented as a total figure for males and females. This data is not collected by parliamentary constituency.

- Excess weight defined as the proportion of the adult population who are overweight or obese in 2012

Fareham district 64.8%

Hampshire County Council 65.1%

England 63.8%

- The proportion of the adult population classified as obese in 2012.

Fareham district 26.1%

Hampshire County Council 22.2%

England 23.0%

Written Question
Occupational Pensions
Monday 3rd November 2014

Asked by: Mark Hoban (Conservative - Fareham)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people who had no prior pension savings have been enrolled under automatic enrolment into workplace pension schemes.

Answered by Steve Webb

The information requested is not available.

The latest information published by The Pensions Regulator shows that over 4.7 million eligible jobholders have been automatically enrolled into a workplace pension. It is not possible to identify how many of these jobholders had no prior pension savings.

Written Question
Occupational Pensions
Monday 3rd November 2014

Asked by: Mark Hoban (Conservative - Fareham)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of people enrolled under automatic workplace pension schemes have chosen to opt out after (a) six, (b) nine and (c) 12 months.

Answered by Steve Webb

The information requested is not available.

Findings from qualitative research with large employers show the overall opt out rate was around 9 per cent. Most individual employers had an opt out rate between 5 and 15 per cent. Opt out is only possible within the opt out window which is one month after being automatically enrolled.

Written Question
Cancer: Hampshire
Wednesday 29th October 2014

Asked by: Mark Hoban (Conservative - Fareham)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what mortality rate from cancer was in (a) Fareham constituency and (b) Hampshire in each of the last 10 years.

Answered by Rob Wilson

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.

Written Question
Cerebral Palsy
Tuesday 22nd July 2014

Asked by: Mark Hoban (Conservative - Fareham)

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 to the public purse of supporting people with cerebral palsy.

Answered by Norman Lamb

No estimate has been made of the cost to the public purse of supporting people with cerebral palsy.

National Health Service expenditure on cerebral palsy is included in the programme budgeting category ‘neurological problems’, but cannot be separately identified. Aggregate annual NHS expenditure in this category in 2012-13, the latest period for which data is available, was £4.44 billion.

The programme budgeting data return is an analysis of commissioning expenditure by healthcare condition and care centre based on figures provided to NHS England by primary care trusts (PCTs) and PCT successor organisations. Programme budgeting data, as well as further information on how these figures were calculated, can be found on the NHS England website at the following link:

www.england.nhs.uk/resources/resources-for-ccgs/prog-budgeting/

Written Question
Cerebral Palsy
Tuesday 22nd July 2014

Asked by: Mark Hoban (Conservative - Fareham)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the average age at which children are diagnosed with cerebral palsy.

Answered by Dan Poulter

Information is not collected centrally on the age at which children are diagnosed with cerebral palsy and therefore no estimate of the average age of diagnosis has been made.

The age at which a diagnosis of cerebral palsy is made will depend on its severity and type. In some cases it will be diagnosed at birth other cases will be picked up through screening and monitoring.

Under the Healthy Child Programme schedule, babies undergo screening and health checks or immunisations at birth, at 72 hours, at five to eight days, at six to eight weeks, 12 weeks, 16 weeks, six to eight months and 12 months, 2½ years and at school entry.

Written Question
Academies
Friday 11th July 2014

Asked by: Mark Hoban (Conservative - Fareham)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many applications were received from academies to expand to meet parental demand as part of Round 1 of the Academies Capital Maintenance Fund 2014-15; and how many such applications were approved.

Answered by Edward Timpson

A full list of academies that were awarded an allocation through the latest round is published at:

https://www.gov.uk/academies-capital-maintenance-fund