Clive Efford: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether he plans to invite community health councils to continue to operate after 31 August 2003 in those areas where the new Independent Patient Advocacy Service is not in place on 1 September 2003.
Clive Efford: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether the Independent Patient Advocacy Services will be in place by the time community health councils are abolished; and if he will make a statement.
Clive Efford: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to his answer of 19 March 2003, Official Report, column 850W, on patient advocacy, which organisations will be invited to tender for interim contracts to become specialist complaints support providers.
Clive Efford: To ask the Secretary of State for Health on what basis individuals will be assessed to be suitable candidates to be specialist patient support providers under the Independent Complaints Advocacy Service.
Clive Efford: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many motor bikes have been confiscated since the Police Reform Act 2002 came into force.
Clive Efford: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects the Metropolitan Police to issue instructions to borough commanders to use the new powers to confiscate motor bikes under the Police Reform Act 2002 to combat anti-social behaviour.
Clive Efford: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) pursuant to his answer of 18 March 2003, Official Report, columns 677–78W, on insurance, if he will provide a breakdown of the numbers of complaints about travel insurance from customers sold their policies by (a) tour operators and (b) travel agents and insurance companies; (2) pursuant to his answer of 18 March 2003, Official Report, columns...
Clive Efford: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to his answer of 18 March, Official Report, column 677–8, on insurance, (1) how many responses he has had to the consultation on regulating insurance mediation; if he will place copies in the Library; and what representations he has received from travel agents and tour operators; (2) if he will carry out a cost benefit analysis of each of...
Clive Efford: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will make it her policy to impose penalties on airlines and ferry companies whose passengers are found to have brought illegal meat imports and animal products into the United Kingdom.
Clive Efford: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the Government's response to the recommendations of the Transitional Advisory Board regarding the abolition of Community Health Councils and the introduction of patients' forums and independent complaints advisory services.
Clive Efford: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether TUPE—Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations—will apply to Community Health Council staff in relation to patients' forums and independent complaints advisory services.
Clive Efford: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what steps he plans to take to eradicate variation in the quality of services under the new arrangements for patient advocacy following the abolition of Community Health Councils; (2) what arrangements he has made to ensure the continuity of patient advocacy and a smooth transition to the new arrangements after the abolition of Community Health...
Clive Efford: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he has taken to ensure that the expertise and knowledge of Community Health Council staff are not lost in the new arrangements for patients' forums and independent complaints advisory services.
Clive Efford: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what consultations the Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health commissioners have undertaken on patients' forums and the independent complaints advisory services; and what discussions they have had with the Association of Community Health Councils in England and Wales.
Clive Efford: To ask the Secretary of State for Health who will be responsible for taking up the cases of those patients that remain unresolved by the Community Health Councils on 1 September 2003.
Clive Efford: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) when he will respond to the report from the Financial Services Authority on the regulation of the sale of travel insurance by tour operators and travel agents; (2) what representations he has received regarding regulation of the sale of travel insurance; (3) what proportion of complaints about travel insurance were from customers whose policies...
Clive Efford: To ask the Secretary of State for Health which agency has responsibility for overseeing the conduct of a Part 8 Review following the death of a child.
Clive Efford: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average length of time taken in the last five years to complete a Part 8 Review following the death of a child is; and how many have taken longer than (a) six months, (b) 12 months, (c) 18 months and (d) 24 months.
Clive Efford: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the purpose is of undertaking a Part 8 Review following the death of a child.
Clive Efford: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) when the Medical Control Agency will complete the review of the safety of Roaccutane; and what independent sources of information have been used by the Medical Control Agency in the assessment of the side effects of Roaccutane; (2) what research has been undertaken into those suffering the most serious side effects of Roaccutane to identify...