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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time is for talking therapies in (a) Pendle constituency and (b) Lancashire.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time is for talking therapies in (a) Pendle constituency and (b) Lancashire.
The information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is shown in the following table. The Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) dataset contains information on referrals to IAPT services which provide talking therapies. Information is provided both for East Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and for all eight Lancashire CCGs combined for the year 2013-14. East Lancashire CCG includes Pendle constituency and the CCG is the smallest geographical breakdown available.
Table 1: The number of referrals entering treatment1 in the year, with mean and median waiting times (days), for IAPT services in 2013-14. Data shown for East Lancashire CCG2 and for all eight Lancashire CCGs combined. | ||||
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Organisation name | Referrals entering treatment | Mean waiting time to first treatment appointment (days) | Median3 waiting time to first treatment appointment (days) | |
NHS East Lancashire CCG | 3,495 | 104.6 | 84 | |
Combined Lancashire CCGs | 15,635 | 89 | 56 | |
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1In order to enter treatment a referral must have a first treatment appointment (an appointment with a therapy type recorded) in the year.
2CCG is based on general practitioner (GP) Practice. Where GP Practice is not recorded, or cannot be assigned to a CCG, the referral is categorised as 'Unknown'.
3Medians have been rounded up to the nearest whole number.
Waiting time is measured by counting the number of days between a referral being received and the first treatment appointment. For 2013-14, the presence of a valid therapy type is used as an indicator of whether treatment was provided in the course of the appointment. |
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Entering treatment figures, except England totals, are rounded to the nearest 5.
It is generally advised that the median is used as the most reliable measure of average waiting time, as this accounts for any outliers in the data.
Lancashire CCGs are: East Lancashire CCG Lancashire North CCG West Lancashire CCG Blackburn with Darwen CCG Blackpool CCG Chorley and South Ribble CCG Fylde and Wyre CCG Greater Preston CCG
Source: [Health and Social Care Information Centre,Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Dataset] |
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of adults in (a) Pendle constituency and (b) Lancashire have been diagnosed with dementia in each of the last 10 years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of adults in (a) Pendle constituency and (b) Lancashire have been diagnosed with dementia in each of the last 10 years.
Information is not available in the format requested.
Information on the number of patients on the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) dementia register and the raw prevalence rate for the specified organisations are shown in the following tables.
Data are shown for each of the last eight years only due to the inclusion of dementia on the QOF register from 2006-07.
Number of patients on the QOF dementia register, and the raw prevalence rate for East Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and East Lancashire Teaching Primary Care Trust (PCT).
East Lancashire | Number of practices | Total list size | Dementia register counts | Dementia prevalence rates |
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31 March 2014 | 59 | 371,608 | 2,323 | 0.63% |
31 March 2013 | 61 | 367,891 | 2,197 | 0.60% |
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31 March 2012 | 65 | 386,187 | 2,183 | 0.57% |
31 March 2011 | 67 | 388,324 | 1,975 | 0.51% |
31 March 2010 | 67 | 388,267 | 1,848 | 0.48% |
31 March 2009 | 65 | 388,345 | 1,715 | 0.44% |
31 March 2008 | 65 | 387,543 | 1,774 | 0.46% |
31 March 2007 | 65 | 386,260 | 1,744 | 0.45% |
Number of patients on the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) dementia register, and the raw prevalence rate for the whole of Lancashire.
All Lancashire | Number of practices | Total list size | Dementia register counts | Dementia prevalence rates |
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31 March 2014 | 231 | 1,519,892 | 10,408 | 0.68% |
31 March 2013 | 235 | 1,520,393 | 9,655 | 0.64% |
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31 March 2012 | 237 | 1,520,588 | 8,933 | 0.59% |
31 March 2011 | 240 | 1,514,700 | 8,046 | 0.53% |
31 March 2010 | 244 | 1,514,483 | 7,538 | 0.50% |
31 March 2009 | 243 | 1,513,166 | 7,118 | 0.47% |
31 March 2008 | 244 | 1,505,934 | 6,911 | 0.46% |
31 March 2007 | 248 | 1,497,074 | 6,812 | 0.46% |
Source: Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC)
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- Data are shown for each of the last eight years due to the inclusion of dementia on the QOF register from only 2006-07.
- Data are not available by constituency but are shown by East PCT and East Lancashire CCG due to NHS organisational changes in 2013.
- Data are for all patients.
- The number of people recorded on practice disease registers is available in the QOF, published by the HSCIC. The numbers of diagnoses are not available but the numbers of people on the dementia register are available. This is a measure of prevalence rather than incidence.
- The number of patients on clinical registers can be used to calculate disease prevalence, expressing the number of patients on each register as a percentage of the number of patients on practices’ lists. Therefore ‘raw prevalence’ for a clinical area is defined as: Raw prevalence = (number on clinical register / number on practice list) * 100
- The objective of the QOF is to improve the quality of care patients are given by rewarding practices for the quality of care they provide to their patients. QOF is therefore an incentive payment scheme. Participation by practices is entirely voluntary, though participation rates are high.
- As QOF registers are constructed to underpin indicators on quality of care, they do not necessarily equate to prevalence as may be defined by epidemiologists. For example, prevalence figures based on QOF registers may differ from prevalence figures from other sources because of coding or definitional issues.
- The Lancashire Area Team consists of:
- NHS Blackburn with Darwen CCG
- NHS Blackpool CCG
- NHS Chorley and South Ribble CCG
- NHS East Lancashire CCG
- NHS Fylde and Wyre CCG
- NHS Greater Preston CCG
- NHS Lancashire North CCG
- NHS West Lancashire CCG
9. The Lancashire PCTs making up the totals are:
- Blackburn with Darwen PCT
- Blackpool PCT
- Central Lancashire PCT
- East Lancashire Teaching PCT (previously East Lancashire PCT)
- North Lancashire Teaching PCT (previously North Lancashire PCT)
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what funding her Department has allocated for implementing the Lancashire and Blackpool local flood risk management strategy; and whether any of that funding is ring-fenced for dredging in West Lancashire constituency.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what funding her Department has allocated for implementing the Lancashire and Blackpool local flood risk management strategy; and whether any of that funding is ring-fenced for dredging in West Lancashire constituency.
For 2014-15 Blackpool Unitary Authority has received £23,000 and Lancashire County Council has received £316,000 from Defra to meet their responsibilities under the Flood and Water Management Act. Additional revenue funding is also provided by the Department for Communities and Local Government for the same purpose, through the local government finance settlement. The funding is not ring-fenced.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the number of days lost to long-term sick leave (a) in total and (b) for reasons related to mental health in (i) Pendle constituency and (ii) Lancashire in each of the last three years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the number of days lost to long-term sick leave (a) in total and (b) for reasons related to mental health in (i) Pendle constituency and (ii) Lancashire in each of the last three years.
The information requested is not available. Such information as is available on long-term sickness absence is published at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/long-term-sickness-absence. In addition to this, there is an ONS publication on sickness absence here http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171776_353899.pdf
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much additional revenue was raised by rises in council tax, including precepts by Lancashire County Council in (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2014-15 to date.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much additional revenue was raised by rises in council tax, including precepts by Lancashire County Council in (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2014-15 to date.
In 2013-14, Lancashire County Council reduced its council tax precept. They received a council tax freeze grant worth £4.3 million a year from the Government, which has been incorporated into the baseline.
In 2014-15, the County Council increased its council tax, raising an additional £7.2 million in revenue. However, they lost out on the offer of £4.3 million a year of council tax freeze grant funding.
Today is Lancashire day, when we celebrate all that is great about the red rose county. Will my right hon. Friend join me in celebrating Lancashire, and encourage people to come and visit our tourist attractions
such as East Lancashire railway, Healey Dell and Turton Tower, as well as the other tourism jewels in the red rose county?
Today is Lancashire day, when we celebrate all that is great about the red rose county. Will my right hon. Friend join me in celebrating Lancashire, and encourage people to come and visit our tourist attractions
such as East Lancashire railway, Healey Dell and Turton Tower, as well as the other tourism jewels in the red rose county?
I will wholeheartedly join my hon. Friend, not least because I was born in Lancashire and it is my home county, so I know more than most, perhaps, about everything that Lancashire has to offer by way of attractions, sites and heritage. Lancashire day is a fantastic day to showcase that.
I will wholeheartedly join my hon. Friend, not least because I was born in Lancashire and it is my home county, so I know more than most, perhaps, about everything that Lancashire has to offer by way of attractions, sites and heritage. Lancashire day is a fantastic day to showcase that.
I will wholeheartedly join my hon. Friend, not least because I was born in Lancashire and it is my home county, so I know more than most, perhaps, about everything that Lancashire has to offer by way of attractions, sites and heritage. Lancashire day is a fantastic day to showcase that.
Today is Lancashire day, when we celebrate all that is great about the red rose county. Will my right hon. Friend join me in celebrating Lancashire, and encourage people to come and visit our tourist attractions
such as East Lancashire railway, Healey Dell and Turton Tower, as well as the other tourism jewels in the red rose county?
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many businesses the Textiles Growth Programme has supported in (a) Lancashire and (b) Pendle in each of the last three years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many businesses the Textiles Growth Programme has supported in (a) Lancashire and (b) Pendle in each of the last three years.
To date, the Textile Growth Programme, (England wide) has engaged with 68 companies in Lancashire, 8 of which are based in Pendle.
14 companies in Lancashire have benefited from grants through this programme to the value of about £945,000, with a target to create or safeguard about 335 jobs. Two of these companies are in Pendle and have benefited from over £200,000 with a target to create 104 jobs.
Also, in Lancashire, there are five additional business applications currently in appraisal / project board review phase.
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Mark Menzies (Fylde) (Con):
I thank the Prime Minister for his Government having designated Warton in my constituency as an enterprise zone, but may I ask what steps they are taking to ensure that Warton is the most attractive zone for advanced manufacturing inward investment?
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Mark Menzies (Fylde) (Con):
I thank the Prime Minister for his Government having designated Warton in my constituency as an enterprise zone, but may I ask what steps they are taking to ensure that Warton is the most attractive zone for advanced manufacturing inward investment?
I am grateful to my hon. Friend for what he says about Warton. The enterprise zones are now all up and running, and they are all working well. They have created over 12,500 jobs, and 434 different businesses are coming into the enterprise zones. Making sure that they succeed means that we have to market them even better, using UK Trade & Investment and its resources both here and around the world. In terms of advanced manufacturing, if we promote to companies the tax rates we have, the patent box and the catapult institutes up and down the country to support advanced manufacturing, and bring all those things together, it is absolutely clear to me that there is no better place to invest in Europe right now than coming to invest in Britain.
I am grateful to my hon. Friend for what he says about Warton. The enterprise zones are now all up and running, and they are all working well. They have created over 12,500 jobs, and 434 different businesses are coming into the enterprise zones. Making sure that they succeed means that we have to market them even better, using UK Trade & Investment and its resources both here and around the world. In terms of advanced manufacturing, if we promote to companies the tax rates we have, the patent box and the catapult institutes up and down the country to support advanced manufacturing, and bring all those things together, it is absolutely clear to me that there is no better place to invest in Europe right now than coming to invest in Britain.
I am grateful to my hon. Friend for what he says about Warton. The enterprise zones are now all up and running, and they are all working well. They have created over 12,500 jobs, and 434 different businesses are coming into the enterprise zones. Making sure that they succeed means that we have to market them even better, using UK Trade & Investment and its resources both here and around the world. In terms of advanced manufacturing, if we promote to companies the tax rates we have, the patent box and the catapult institutes up and down the country to support advanced manufacturing, and bring all those things together, it is absolutely clear to me that there is no better place to invest in Europe right now than coming to invest in Britain.
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Mark Menzies (Fylde) (Con):
I thank the Prime Minister for his Government having designated Warton in my constituency as an enterprise zone, but may I ask what steps they are taking to ensure that Warton is the most attractive zone for advanced manufacturing inward investment?
Extent of heath priority habitat a) in Cheshire, b) across the county of Cumbria, c) within Greater Manchester, d) within Lancashire and e) within Merseyside. 5 docs.
Extent of heath priority habitat a) in Cheshire, b) across the county of Cumbria, c) within Greater Manchester, d) within Lancashire and e) within Merseyside. 5 docs.
In March, a new £9 million urgent care centre opened at Burnley general hospital; in July, a new £4 million health centre opened in Colne; and soon we will see a new £6.3 million accident and emergency department opening at Airedale hospital. May we have a debate on investing in...
In March, a new £9 million urgent care centre opened at Burnley general hospital; in July, a new £4 million health centre opened in Colne; and soon we will see a new £6.3 million accident and emergency department opening at Airedale hospital. May we have a debate on investing in...
My hon. Friend has already been extremely effective in highlighting those investments, which are an example of what is happening in many parts of the country. I know from visiting his constituency how strong and effective a champion he has been for additional investment in health care facilities there.
My hon. Friend has already been extremely effective in highlighting those investments, which are an example of what is happening in many parts of the country. I know from visiting his constituency how strong and effective a champion he has been for additional investment in health care facilities there.
What discussions he has had with Lancashire Local Enterprise Partnership on the timing and size of the second phase of Local Growth Deals.
What discussions he has had with Lancashire Local Enterprise Partnership on the timing and size of the second phase of Local Growth Deals.
The first round of growth deals gave a major boost to local economies by investing in transport, skills and housing, and by helping businesses to create thousands of new jobs. I am determined to build on the momentum of the growth deals, so I have invited local businesses and civic leaders from across England to propose the next set of projects to be funded from the local growth fund.
Lancashire is absolutely fundamental to the northern powerhouse. For our country to prosper at its optimal level, every part of it needs to be firing on all cylinders, and that certainly includes Lancashire. My hon. Friend has made a powerful case for the Brierfield mill development. I look forward to having the chance to see it in person before long. I encourage him and all Members of the House to engage with their local enterprise partnerships. In my view, Members of Parliament have a pretty good idea of what the most important economic priorities are, so they should feed those priorities into the LEPs.
Lancashire is absolutely fundamental to the northern powerhouse. For our country to prosper at its optimal level, every part of it needs to be firing on all cylinders, and that certainly includes Lancashire. My hon. Friend has made a powerful case for the Brierfield mill development. I look forward to having the chance to see it in person before long. I encourage him and all Members of the House to engage with their local enterprise partnerships. In my view, Members of Parliament have a pretty good idea of what the most important economic priorities are, so they should feed those priorities into the LEPs.
On 15 October, I met representatives of the Lancashire LEP, and I have since made my views known to them about the importance of Brierfield mill and other projects in my constituency. I have also made my views known to the Minister. How does Lancashire fit into the Deputy Prime Minister’s Northern Futures project and the Chancellor’s northern powerhouse project?
The first round of growth deals gave a major boost to local economies by investing in transport, skills and housing, and by helping businesses to create thousands of new jobs. I am determined to build on the momentum of the growth deals, so I have invited local businesses and civic leaders from across England to propose the next set of projects to be funded from the local growth fund.
The first round of growth deals gave a major boost to local economies by investing in transport, skills and housing, and by helping businesses to create thousands of new jobs. I am determined to build on the momentum of the growth deals, so I have invited local businesses and civic leaders from across England to propose the next set of projects to be funded from the local growth fund.
What discussions he has had with Lancashire Local Enterprise Partnership on the timing and size of the second phase of Local Growth Deals.
On 15 October, I met representatives of the Lancashire LEP, and I have since made my views known to them about the importance of Brierfield mill and other projects in my constituency. I have also made my views known to the Minister. How does Lancashire fit into the Deputy Prime Minister’s Northern Futures project and the Chancellor’s northern powerhouse project?
On 15 October, I met representatives of the Lancashire LEP, and I have since made my views known to them about the importance of Brierfield mill and other projects in my constituency. I have also made my views known to the Minister. How does Lancashire fit into the Deputy Prime Minister’s Northern Futures project and the Chancellor’s northern powerhouse project?
Lancashire is absolutely fundamental to the northern powerhouse. For our country to prosper at its optimal level, every part of it needs to be firing on all cylinders, and that certainly includes Lancashire. My hon. Friend has made a powerful case for the Brierfield mill development. I look forward to having the chance to see it in person before long. I encourage him and all Members of the House to engage with their local enterprise partnerships. In my view, Members of Parliament have a pretty good idea of what the most important economic priorities are, so they should feed those priorities into the LEPs.
Impact of New Housing in Longridge, Clitheroe and Whalley
I rise today to present a petition from the residents of Longridge and Whittingham, and other residents of the Ribble Valley. There has been a deluge of planning applications to build thousands of houses in my area, and in neighbouring areas under...
Impact of New Housing in Longridge, Clitheroe and Whalley
I rise today to present a petition from the residents of Longridge and Whittingham, and other residents of the Ribble Valley. There has been a deluge of planning applications to build thousands of houses in my area, and in neighbouring areas under...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many start-up loans have been granted to businesses in (a) Pendle constituency and (b) Lancashire to date.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many start-up loans have been granted to businesses in (a) Pendle constituency and (b) Lancashire to date.
In total more than 21,000 Start Up Loans have been issued to budding entrepreneurs across the country since the scheme launched in June 2012. 38 loans have been issued in Pendle constituency out of 794 loans in total across Lancashire.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will make an assessment of the effect of the removal of recycling credits by Lancashire County Council on weekly waste collections in that county.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will make an assessment of the effect of the removal of recycling credits by Lancashire County Council on weekly waste collections in that county.
Guidance
Recycling credits is a policy issue for which the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has the lead. DEFRA previously published guidance on the Recycling Credits Scheme in 2006 and this can be found at:
The guidance and legislation are clear that, further to Section 52 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, waste disposal authorities (the county council) have a legal duty to pay waste disposal credits to a waste collection authority (the borough council) in their area when the waste collection authority diverts waste from the household waste stream for recycling. This duty is waived only if the waste collection authority has agreed that such payments need not be made by the waste disposal authority.
Recycling credits
I understand the recycling credits system has worked well in Ribble Valley. It has encouraged the borough to improve recycling rates while retaining weekly collections of residual waste. Ribble Valley’s recycling collection is beneficial for Lancashire County Council as (i) the waste does not therefore go to landfill and incur landfill tax; and (ii) it receives the value of the recycled materials.
My Department does not collect data on or estimate the financial effect on councils as a result of the withdrawal of recycling credits. However, we have been made aware that the financial effect of the withdrawal of recycling credits by Lancashire County Council in Ribble Valley will be considerable.
It is unacceptable if Lancashire County Council is trying to force Ribble Valley to end its weekly bin collection due to the withdrawal of recycling credits. It should find a way of agreeing a fair financial deal which is acceptable to Ribble Valley and also maintains a weekly collection.
It is a myth that weekly bin collection and high levels of recycling cannot go hand in hand, as we have made clear in our practice guidance on weekly collections supported in January 2014, based on the evidence and best practice learnt from the Weekly Collections Support Scheme.
Funding
It does seem perverse and unfair that the cost of recycling should fall completely on Ribble Valley Borough Council when, based upon its efforts, Lancashire County Council avoids the costs of disposal to landfill and is able to sell the recyclate material.
There are no plans for my Department to provide special financial support to district councils in Lancashire, as this change stems from actions of the county council, not the Government. However, we would strongly recommend that Ribble Valley take its own legal advice on this matter, given the County Council may potentially be in breach of its legal duties under the 1990 Act.
More broadly, my Department has offered other means of support to councils from the Weekly Collection Support Scheme and in November 2012, Ribble Valley District Council was awarded £750,000 from the Scheme to introduce new fortnightly mixed food and garden waste collections and support weekly residual waste collections.