Asked by: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) premature deaths and (b) illnesses have been attributed to poor air quality in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
In 2010 the Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants published the report “The Mortality Effects of Long-Term Exposure to Particulate Air Pollution in the United Kingdom”, which concluded, using 2008 data, that the 2008 burden of man-made particulate matter air pollution is, an effect on mortality equivalent to nearly 29,000 deaths in the UK.
In 2014 a Public Health England (PHE) report estimated the annual mortality burden attributable to long-term exposure to man-made particulate air pollution as being equivalent to 25,000 deaths in England.
Estimates of the fraction of mortality attributable to long-term exposure to man-made particulate air pollution for local authority areas in England (2010-15) are provided by the Public Health Outcomes Framework indicator 3.01.,available to view here:
http://www.phoutcomes.info/search/air%20pollution#pat/6/ati/102/par/E12000004
PHE has not quantified the number of illnesses attributed to poor air quality for each of the last ten years.
Asked by: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Labour - Life peer)
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 the Success Regime in West, North and East Cumbria.
Answered by Philip Dunne
The Success Regime was launched in June 2015 and is aimed at providing challenge and support to some of the most challenged health and care economies in the country in order to improve the quality and sustainability of services offered to local people. It takes a whole systems-approach to help address long-standing, deep-rooted and systemic issues. The programme will oversee progress from diagnosis of the underlying issues through to implementation of solutions, and aims to build local leadership capacity in order to ensure that improvements made are maintained.
The allocations followed a business case process and were approved by NHS England. The information requested is shown in the following table:
Allocations to the Success Regimes in 2015/16 and 2016/17
Success Regime | 2015/16 | 2016/17 |
Devon Success Regime | £1.4 million | £6.0 million |
Mid and South Essex Success Regime | £900,000 | £5.7 million |
West, North and East Cumbria Success Regime | £1.2 million | £5.0 million |
Asked by: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Labour - Life peer)
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 the Success Regime in North, East and West Devon.
Answered by Philip Dunne
The Success Regime was launched in June 2015 and is aimed at providing challenge and support to some of the most challenged health and care economies in the country in order to improve the quality and sustainability of services offered to local people. It takes a whole systems-approach to help address long-standing, deep-rooted and systemic issues. The programme will oversee progress from diagnosis of the underlying issues through to implementation of solutions, and aims to build local leadership capacity in order to ensure that improvements made are maintained.
The allocations followed a business case process and were approved by NHS England. The information requested is shown in the following table:
Allocations to the Success Regimes in 2015/16 and 2016/17
Success Regime | 2015/16 | 2016/17 |
Devon Success Regime | £1.4 million | £6.0 million |
Mid and South Essex Success Regime | £900,000 | £5.7 million |
West, North and East Cumbria Success Regime | £1.2 million | £5.0 million |
Asked by: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Labour - Life peer)
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 the Success Regime in Mid and South Essex.
Answered by Philip Dunne
The Success Regime was launched in June 2015 and is aimed at providing challenge and support to some of the most challenged health and care economies in the country in order to improve the quality and sustainability of services offered to local people. It takes a whole systems-approach to help address long-standing, deep-rooted and systemic issues. The programme will oversee progress from diagnosis of the underlying issues through to implementation of solutions, and aims to build local leadership capacity in order to ensure that improvements made are maintained.
The allocations followed a business case process and were approved by NHS England. The information requested is shown in the following table:
Allocations to the Success Regimes in 2015/16 and 2016/17
Success Regime | 2015/16 | 2016/17 |
Devon Success Regime | £1.4 million | £6.0 million |
Mid and South Essex Success Regime | £900,000 | £5.7 million |
West, North and East Cumbria Success Regime | £1.2 million | £5.0 million |
Asked by: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health of 14 September 2016, Official Report, column 998, if he will deposit a document in the Library describing how stakeholders will be consulted as part of the NHS Sustainability and Transformation Plans.
Answered by David Mowat
Guidance on consultation as part of the National Health Service Sustainability and Transformation Plans, entitled ‘Engaging local people’ was published on the 15 September 2016. A copy has been placed in the Library and is also available at the following address:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/engag-local-people-stps.pdf
Asked by: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Written Ministerial Statement of 6 December 2010, Col 7WS, what consideration his Department has given to the articles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child when making new policy and legislation since May 2015.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
The Department recognises the importance of considering the articles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child when making new policy and legislation.
Alongside other Government Departments we report every five years to the UN Committee on our compliance. Following the most recent oral hearing in May 2016, the UN Committee has made a number of concluding observations. We will be able to demonstrate progress against these observations during the next reporting round.