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Written Question
Mental Health Services: Finance
Tuesday 24th November 2015

Asked by: Steve Rotheram (Labour - Liverpool, Walton)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what level of funding his Department has provided for mental health services in (a) Liverpool, Walton constituency, (b) Merseyside and (c) England in the last three years.

Answered by Alistair Burt

NHS England does not split the Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) programme allocation across service categories. CCGs receive an annual allocation calculated by reference to the size of population they commission for, and it is up to the CCG to decide how to spend it, taking into account national policy considerations and a local assessment of need.

CCGs are required to submit their spending plans and their annual accounts to NHS England. NHS England reviews spending, including for mental health (MH), through the CCG assurance process.

NHS England has made a requirement of clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in the planning guidance for 2015/16, The Forward View Into Action: Planning Guidance for 2015/16, that each CCG’s spending on MH services in 2015/16 should increase in real terms, and grow by at least as much as each CCG’s overall funding allocation increase.

CCG actual and planned spend (not funding) can be split between MH and other categories of expenditure. The table below shows CCG MH spend for Liverpool CCG, for Merseyside CCGs and nationally for all CCGs. These figures are actual spend for 2013/14 and 2014/15 and planned spend for 2015/16:

2013/14
Outturn
£k

2014/15
Outturn
£k
2015/16
Outturn
£k

Liverpool CCG Total

76,335

85,500

89,609

Merseyside CCGTotal

181,521

209,004

217,948

EnglandCCGsTotal

7,818,924

8,289,153

8,602,990


Specialised health services, primary care and other directly commissioned services includes some spend on MH services. This direct commissioning spend on MH services is not routinely split into the different categories of expenditure and is not included in the figures in the table above.


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

"The Secretary of State will know that prevention is better than cure. He spoke about parity of esteem for mental health services. I wrote to him last year about a teenager who was threatening to commit suicide. He had been given a counselling appointment through his GP four weeks ahead, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 26 Feb 2015
Epilepsy

"On that point, I have had correspondence with a hospital in my constituency called the Walton neuro centre. It says that neuropsychological care is very important, especially for younger people who, if they have access early enough, have the propensity to go on and achieve their full potential. Does the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 11 Feb 2015
Francis Report: Update and Response

"I, too, welcome the report. In his statement, the Secretary of State committed to the view that the new measures are not about “naming and shaming”. Does he therefore agree with the Prime Minister, who said:

“Francis does not blame any specific policy. He does not blame the last Secretary …..."

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 21 Jan 2015
National Health Service

"Can the hon. Gentleman be absolutely certain of what his party might or might not do should it ever—unfortunately—find itself propping up a Government? Can he assure us that the road to Damascus-style conversion that he is describing represents the view of the whole of his party, and not just …..."
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Written Question
Christmas
Thursday 18th December 2014

Asked by: Steve Rotheram (Labour - Liverpool, Walton)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department and its agencies and non-departmental public bodies plan to spend on Christmas (a) cards, (b) postage, (c) parties and (d) decorations and trees in 2014.

Answered by Dan Poulter

The Department has identified there is no planned expenditure set aside to fund Christmas cards, postage and parties in 2014.

For decorations and trees, as separately identified from our Facilities Management suppliers (EMCOR), there are no plans to purchase Christmas decorations or trees from them.

Spend as identified from the Department’s non-departmental public bodies and its agencies is separately reported below:

NHS England confirm they hold no planned expenditure for any of these categories.

Monitor’s planned 2014 expenditure is contained in the table below:

£

Christmas cards

Nil

Postage

Nil

Parties

£4,695.50

Decorations and trees

Nil

Total

£4,695.50

The Care Quality Commission confirm they hold no planned expenditure for any of these categories.

Public Health England confirm they hold no planned expenditure for any of these categories.

The Health and Social Care Information Centre’s planned 2014 expenditure is contained in the table below:

£

Christmas cards

0

Postage

0

Parties

0

Decorations and trees

200 (+vat)

Total

£200 (+vat)

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s planned 2014 expenditure is contained in the table below:

£

Christmas cards

£0

Postage

£0

Parties

£1,556

Decorations and trees

£0

Total

£1,556

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency confirm they hold no planned expenditure for any of these categories.

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority confirm they hold no planned expenditure for any of these categories.

The Human Tissue Authority’s planned 2014 expenditure is contained in the table below:

£

Christmas cards

£0

Postage

£0

Parties

£1,155

Decorations and trees

£0

Total

£1,155


Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 21 Nov 2014
National Health Service (Amended Duties and Powers) Bill

"Like me, is my hon. Friend amazed by the faux indignation of some Government Members? Those Members will be the ones who will benefit from the donations of some of the private sector companies that are winning the contracts in our NHS service...."
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Written Question
Public Health
Monday 3rd November 2014

Asked by: Steve Rotheram (Labour - Liverpool, Walton)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the annual public health budget is for (a) Birmingham City Council, (b) Manchester City Council, (c) Leeds City Council, (d) Newcastle City Council, (e) Bristol City Council, (f) Southampton City Council, (g) Sunderland City Council and (h) the London Assembly.

Answered by Jane Ellison

Information is not available in the format requested. The information is provided for the upper tier and unitary local authority for the areas requested and for London boroughs within the Greater London Authority area. The allocations are below.

Public health allocation to upper tier and unitary local authorities in 2014-15

Office for National Statistics Local Authority Name

2014-15 allocation
£'000

Birmingham

80,838

Manchester

44,116

Leeds

40,540

Newcastle Upon Tyne

21,301

Bristol, City of

29,122

Southampton

15,050

Sunderland

21,234

Greater London Authorities:

577,514

City of London

1,698

Barking and Dagenham

14,213

Barnet

14,335

Bexley

7,574

Brent

18,848

Bromley

12,954

Camden

26,368

Croydon

18,825

Ealing

21,974

Enfield

14,257

Greenwich

19,061

Hackney

29,818

Hammersmith and Fulham

20,855

Haringey

18,189

Harrow

9,146

Havering

9,717

Hillingdon

15,709

Hounslow

14,084

Islington

25,429

Kensington and Chelsea

21,214

Kingston upon Thames

9,302

Lambeth

26,437

Lewisham

20,088

Merton

9,236

Newham

26,112

Redbridge

11,411

Richmond upon Thames

7,891

Southwark

22,946

Sutton

8,619

Tower Hamlets

32,261

Waltham Forest

12,277

Wandsworth

25,431

Westminster

31,235

The annual public health budget for 2014-15 is £2.79 billion provided to upper tier and unitary local authorities, we are providing local authorities with £8.2 billion ring- fenced public health funding over three years.


Written Question
Hospitals: Mortuaries
Monday 27th October 2014

Asked by: Steve Rotheram (Labour - Liverpool, Walton)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average length of time was a deceased body spent in the mortuary of an English hospital in each year since 2004.

Answered by Jane Ellison

This information is not held centrally.


Written Question
Chronic Illnesses
Monday 20th October 2014

Asked by: Steve Rotheram (Labour - Liverpool, Walton)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of the population in the city of (a) Birmingham, (b) Manchester, (c) Leeds, (d) Newcastle, (e) Bristol, (f) Southampton and (g) Nottingham has a long-term medical condition.

Answered by Norman Lamb

The Department does not have the information available in the format requested. In total, more than 15 million people in England have a long-term condition.

However, the Office for National Statistics ‘2011 Census: Long-term health problem or disability, local authorities in the United Kingdom’ has data relating to the number of people with disabilities which limit their 'Day-to-day activities'. This is defined as ‘any health problem or disability (including problems related to old age) which has lasted or is expected to last for at least 12 months.’ The Data for Bristol, Southampton and Nottingham is from unitary authorities (UA) and is presented in the following format1:

Total Population

Day-to-day activities limited a lot (%)

Day-to-day activities limited a little (%)

Day-to-day activities not limited

(%)

Birmingham

1,073,045

9.1

9.3

81.6

Manchester

503,127

9.4

8.3

82.2

Leeds

751,485

7.9

8.9

83.3

Newcastle upon Tyne

280,177

9.5

9.2

81.2

Bristol, City of UA

428,234

8.1

8.7

83.3

Southampton UA

236,882

7.7

8.5

83.8

Nottingham UA

305,680

9.1

9.1

81.9

Notes:

  1. http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/datasets-and-tables/index.html?pageSize=50&sortBy=none&sortDirection=none&newquery=long-term+conditions&content-type=Reference+table&content-type=Dataset