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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to tackle substance abuse in (a) the City of York local authority, (b) Yorkshire and the Humber and (c) the UK.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to tackle substance abuse in (a) the City of York local authority, (b) Yorkshire and the Humber and (c) the UK.
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
What recent assessment he has made of trends in the level of drugs being smuggled into prisons.
What recent assessment he has made of trends in the level of drugs being smuggled into prisons.
One of the first things the Lord Chancellor did was to visit HMP Leeds with the Prime Minister where they set out our focus on tackling crime, investing up to £2.5 billion transforming the prison estate and providing 10,000 additional prison places.
At HMP Leeds there is an X-ray body scanner installed there to identify items internally concealed on prisoners. HMP Wakefield also has an X-ray body scanner. At HMP New Hall in our women’s estate, the drug threat is different and staff there have worked hard to respond to the inspection report published in April. They have put in place an updated local drug strategy, do more suspicion-led drug testing and store medications in line with clinical guidelines.
We have previously invested £70 million to improve safety, security and decency in prisons. We use body, property, cell and area searches across the estate, aided by dedicated search teams and drug detection dogs.
As announced in August, we will be spending a further £100 million on prison security. Airport-style security, including X-ray scanners, will be put into prisons across the estate to help stop contraband such as drugs from getting in.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to improve drug and alcohol support for homeless people and rough sleepers.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to improve drug and alcohol support for homeless people and rough sleepers.
The government is committed to halving rough sleeping by 2022, before ending it altogether and has now committed over £1.2 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the spending review period to April 2020.
Whilst we recognise that suitable housing is a key part of the solution, health services have a significant role to play, alongside other public services. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) is working with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) to ensure that rough sleepers have the health care they need, when the need it. This includes several commitments that were made in the Rough Sleeping Strategy, such as:
- rapid audit of health service provision to rough sleepers, including mental health and substance misuse treatment;
- providing up to £2 million in health funding to test models of community-based provision designed to enable access to health and support services for people who are sleeping rough;
- new training for front-line workers to help them support rough sleepers under the influence of New Psychoactive Substances such as spice, and;
- working with the Home Office to ensure rough sleepers are considered in the forthcoming Alcohol Strategy, which will focus on vulnerable people.
We are continuing to work with colleagues in the DHSC, Public Health England and the Home Office on this issue, including through the forthcoming independent review of drugs policy, led by Professor Dame Carol Black.
At the start of September, the Chancellor announced the Spending Round outcome for the next financial year (2020/21). MHCLG secured £422 million funding for homelessness in 2020/21, an increase of £54 million. The Chancellor also announced an increase in the level of funding for the public health grant to bring it back up to the same level as last year. This means local authorities can continue to invest in prevention and essential front-line health services.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of homeless deaths in 2018 attributable to substance misuse; and what representations his Department has made to the Department of Health and Social Care on drug and alcohol support for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of homeless deaths in 2018 attributable to substance misuse; and what representations his Department has made to the Department of Health and Social Care on drug and alcohol support for...
It should not happen that people die prematurely because they are homeless.
The recent ONS statistics emphasise the devastating impact of substance and alcohol misuse. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) is working with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) to ensure that rough sleepers have the health care they need, when they need it. This includes several commitments that were made in the Rough Sleeping Strategy, such as:
- rapid audit of health service provision to rough sleepers, including mental health and substance misuse treatment ;
- £2 million to test community-based models of access to health services for rough sleepers, including mental health and substance misuse services ;
- new training for front-line workers to help them support rough sleepers under the influence of New Psychoactive Substances such as spice, and;
- working with the Home Office to ensure rough sleepers are considered in the forthcoming Alcohol Strategy, which will focus on vulnerable people .
My Department will continue to work with colleagues in the DHSC, Public Health England and the Home Office, including through the forthcoming independent review of drugs policy. Professor Dame Carol Black has been appointed to carry out this major review of drug misuse. The review, which is building on existing government strategies to combat drugs, serious violence and serious and organised crime, is examining the harms that drugs cause and the best ways to prevent drug-taking.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people were treated for alcohol-related illnesses in (a) York, (b) North Yorkshire and Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group area and (c) England in each year since 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people were treated for alcohol-related illnesses in (a) York, (b) North Yorkshire and Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group area and (c) England in each year since 2010.
Public Health England (PHE) holds data on alcohol-related hospital admissions for each local authority area in England which is shown in the following table.
Alcohol specific hospital admissions between 2010-11 and 2017-18
Year | York | North Yorkshire | East Riding of Yorkshire | England |
2010-11 | 841 | 2,679 | 1,234 | 284,660 |
2011-12 | 793 | 2,562 | 1,401 | 302,281 |
2012-13 | 891 | 2,480 | 1,232 | 293,859 |
2013-14 | 1,124 | 2,687 | 1,266 | 303,932 |
2014-15 | 1,138 | 3,134 | 1,279 | 301,056 |
2015-16 | 1,254 | 3,159 | 1,350 | 307,247 |
2016-17 | 1,281 | 3,163 | 1,495 | 298,797 |
2017-18 | 1,266 | 3,097 | 1,480 | 304,073 |
Source: Local Alcohol Profiles for England: https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/local-alcohol-profiles
Note: These three local authority areas cover the areas requested.
PHE also collects data on people who are in treatment for alcohol problems in the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS), for each local authority area in England which is shown in the following table.
Numbers of people in treatment who reported alcohol as a problematic substance between 2010-11 and 2017-18
Area | York | North Yorkshire | East Riding of Yorkshire | England |
2010-11 | 751 | 1,358 | 523 | 150,573 |
2011-12 | 604 | 1,507 | 516 | 149,403 |
2012-13 | 670 | 1,185 | 604 | 150,267 |
2013-14 | 703 | 1,046 | 712 | 155,381 |
2014-15 | 699 | 1,106 | 631 | 150,640 |
2015-16 | 743 | 1,340 | 637 | 144,908 |
2016-17 | 724 | 1,376 | 583 | 138,606 |
2017-18 | 635 | 1,339 | 511 | 131,008 |
Source: NDTMS: https://www.ndtms.net/
Note: These three local authority areas cover the areas requested.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the (a) number of deaths related to opioid usage and (b) rates of opioid addiction.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the (a) number of deaths related to opioid usage and (b) rates of opioid addiction.
The Office for National Statistics reported that there were 2,208 drug poisonings deaths in England and Wales registered in 2018 that had an opiate mentioned on the death certificate. The data can be viewed at the following link:
Information about the prevalence of opiate (and crack cocaine) use in England is produced by Liverpool John Moores University. The latest estimated number of people who use illicit opiates (mainly heroin) aged 15-64 in England in 2016-17 was 261,294. The report can be viewed at the following link:
Today’s publication by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) on homelessness deaths in England and Wales in 2018 makes for sobering reading. The Government will continue to take strong action to address this vitally important issue.
This important report from ONS draws attention to the tragic deaths of those who...
Today’s publication by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) on homelessness deaths in England and Wales in 2018 makes for sobering reading. The Government will continue to take strong action to address this vitally important issue.
This important report from ONS draws attention to the tragic deaths of those who...
My Hon Friend, the Minister for Local Government and Homelessness (Luke Hall) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement.
Today’s publication by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) on homelessness deaths in England and Wales in 2018 makes for sobering reading. The Government will continue to take strong action to...
My Hon Friend, the Minister for Local Government and Homelessness (Luke Hall) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement.
Today’s publication by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) on homelessness deaths in England and Wales in 2018 makes for sobering reading. The Government will continue to take strong action to...
As part of the urgent review of the sentencing and release framework announced by the Prime Minister in August, we considered changes to sentencing for the most prolific offenders which could help break the cycle of reoffending. We know that these offenders generally have multiple and complex needs which are...
As part of the urgent review of the sentencing and release framework announced by the Prime Minister in August, we considered changes to sentencing for the most prolific offenders which could help break the cycle of reoffending. We know that these offenders generally have multiple and complex needs which are...
My Right Honourable friend the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice (Robert Buckland MP) has made the following Written Statement:
"As part of the urgent review of the sentencing and release framework announced by the Prime Minister in August, we considered changes to sentencing for the most prolific offenders...
My Right Honourable friend the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice (Robert Buckland MP) has made the following Written Statement:
"As part of the urgent review of the sentencing and release framework announced by the Prime Minister in August, we considered changes to sentencing for the most prolific offenders...
My Lords, with the leave of the House, I will now repeat in the form of a Statement the Answer given to an Urgent Question today by my honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government in the other place. The Statement is as follows:
“Mr...
My Lords, with the leave of the House, I will now repeat in the form of a Statement the Answer given to an Urgent Question today by my honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government in the other place. The Statement is as follows:
“Mr...
My Lords, first, I draw to the attention of the House my relevant interest as a vice-president of the Local Government Association. I thank the Minister for repeating the answer to the Urgent Question given in the other place earlier today.
We have seen a huge rise in rough sleeping. We...
My Lords, first, I draw to the attention of the House my relevant interest as a vice-president of the Local Government Association. I thank the Minister for repeating the answer to the Urgent Question given in the other place earlier today.
We have seen a huge rise in rough sleeping. We...
I agree with the noble Lord, Lord Kennedy, and the rest of the House that one death in this way is one too many. I am very sorry to report that there was one further death in Wiltshire last night, which noble Lords may have heard of.
I will answer the...
I agree with the noble Lord, Lord Kennedy, and the rest of the House that one death in this way is one too many. I am very sorry to report that there was one further death in Wiltshire last night, which noble Lords may have heard of.
I will answer the...
My Lords, I draw the House’s attention to my local government interests. While the Minister has used the example of the Homelessness
Reduction Act as being a good start, which I would agree with, the Government nevertheless have failed to repeal the Vagrancy Act, a nearly 200-year-old Act, which is...
My Lords, I draw the House’s attention to my local government interests. While the Minister has used the example of the Homelessness
Reduction Act as being a good start, which I would agree with, the Government nevertheless have failed to repeal the Vagrancy Act, a nearly 200-year-old Act, which is...
This matter has not particularly come up in my brief. It was discussed, but I do not agree with it. Having said that, the noble Baroness has raised an issue that I will certainly take back and consider. As she will know, of course we are talking about deaths here...
This matter has not particularly come up in my brief. It was discussed, but I do not agree with it. Having said that, the noble Baroness has raised an issue that I will certainly take back and consider. As she will know, of course we are talking about deaths here...
My Lords, I welcome the extra £54 million in last month’s spending review to combat rough sleeping and homelessness, particularly as there is strong evidence that, where the resources of the RSI have been focused, rough sleeping has fallen much faster than elsewhere. If we are to make further progress...
My Lords, I welcome the extra £54 million in last month’s spending review to combat rough sleeping and homelessness, particularly as there is strong evidence that, where the resources of the RSI have been focused, rough sleeping has fallen much faster than elsewhere. If we are to make further progress...
I thank my noble friend for that. I believe that he raised this in a debate, I think last week. It is clearly a matter of concern to him, and also to us. I will take this matter back to the Treasury, and no doubt it will be put into...
I thank my noble friend for that. I believe that he raised this in a debate, I think last week. It is clearly a matter of concern to him, and also to us. I will take this matter back to the Treasury, and no doubt it will be put into...
The noble Earl makes a good point. It is very important that we have skilled people on the ground, because the only way to help people is to go to them individually, find out what
their problems are and help them. To answer the noble Earl’s question, the number of...
The noble Earl makes a good point. It is very important that we have skilled people on the ground, because the only way to help people is to go to them individually, find out what
their problems are and help them. To answer the noble Earl’s question, the number of...
I do not have anything to declare, other than the period of 2003-05 when I had ministerial responsibility for this area. I inherited from my noble friend Lady Armstrong the scheme put together by Louise Casey that, between 1997 and 2010, led to the virtual elimination of rough sleeping in...
I do not have anything to declare, other than the period of 2003-05 when I had ministerial responsibility for this area. I inherited from my noble friend Lady Armstrong the scheme put together by Louise Casey that, between 1997 and 2010, led to the virtual elimination of rough sleeping in...
I do not believe so. I take note of what the noble Lord said about his experience, but I do think that, putting aside these tragic deaths, because that is the focus of the Question, the rough sleeping initiative is showing some success in terms of homelessness itself. As I...
I do not believe so. I take note of what the noble Lord said about his experience, but I do think that, putting aside these tragic deaths, because that is the focus of the Question, the rough sleeping initiative is showing some success in terms of homelessness itself. As I...