Asked by: Scott Mann (Conservative - North Cornwall)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much money has been spent from the public purse on children's cardiology in (a) Cornwall and (b) North Cornwall constituency in each of the last five years.
Answered by Steve Brine
The information is not available in the requested format. Paediatric cardiology spend on patients in Cornwall in each of the last five years is as follows:
- 2013/14: £514,308.17;
- 2014/15: £563,029.70;
- 2015/16: £509,222.37;
- 2016/17: £588,220.66;
- 2017/18: £854,337.98.
Asked by: Scott Mann (Conservative - North Cornwall)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding for mental health has been allocated from the public purse to Cornwall in each of the last three years; and how much such funding is planned to be allocated to Cornwall in 2018-19.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
Expenditure on mental health services for the years 2015/16 and 2016/17 spend by clinical commissioning group (CCG) is available in the mental health Five Year Forward View for Mental Health (FYFVMH) dashboard, which is available at the following link:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/mental-health/taskforce/imp/mh-dashboard/
For NHS Kernow CCG, which is responsible for commissioning services in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, the FYFVMH Dashboard shows that for 2015/16 its spend on mental health was £121.8 million, and for 2016/17, £120.7 million
Asked by: Scott Mann (Conservative - North Cornwall)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department holds records on the amount of money spent in (a) Cornwall, and (b) North Cornwall constituency on children’s mental health services.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
The information requested is not collected in the format requested.
However, information on the spend made by clinical commissioning groups on children and young people’s mental health services is published by NHS England in the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health Dashboard.
The latest information is for quarter 4 for 2016/17 and is available at:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/mental-health-five-year-forward-view-dashboard/
Asked by: Scott Mann (Conservative - North Cornwall)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the amount of money spent on research into Rhabdomyosarcoma in each of the last five years.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
The Department funds research into all aspects of human health, including cancer, through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) at the level of £1 billion per year. NIHR cancer research expenditure has risen from £101 million in 2010/11 to £137 million in 2016/17. The Department does not routinely collect data on research expenditure on individual tumour types.
As with other Government funders of health research, the NIHR does not allocate funding for specific disease areas. The level of research spend in a particular area is driven by factors including scientific potential and the number and scale of successful funding applications.
Asked by: Scott Mann (Conservative - North Cornwall)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the amount of money spent on research into childhood cancers in each of the last five years.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
The Department funds research into all aspects of human health, including cancer, through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) at the level of £1 billion per year. NIHR cancer research expenditure has risen from £101 million in 2010/11 to £137 million in 2016/17. The Department does not routinely collect data on research expenditure on individual tumour types.
As with other Government funders of health research, the NIHR does not allocate funding for specific disease areas. The level of research spend in a particular area is driven by factors including scientific potential and the number and scale of successful funding applications.
Asked by: Scott Mann (Conservative - North Cornwall)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the childhood obesity rate is in Cornwall.
Answered by Steve Brine
The prevalence of childhood obesity in Cornwall (including Isles of Scilly) for academic year 2016/17 for reception age children (aged four to five years) is 10.0%.
The prevalence of childhood obesity in Cornwall (including Isles of Scilly) for academic year 2016/17 for Year Six age children (aged 10-11 years) is 15.1%.
The data are publicly available on the Public Health England fingertips tool here:
Prevalence rates for childhood obesity for children at other ages are not collected in large enough samples to generate reliable county-level data.