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1000277

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date	02/11/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Tobacco: Licensing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Government plans to introduce licensing laws for the sale of tobacco in England.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	187384
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to introduce licensing laws for the sale of tobacco in England. Earlier this year we introduced legislation providing for the licencing of tobacco products manufacturing machinery.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 12/11/2018 17:18:59 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1000279

registered interest
date	02/11/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Smoking: Barnsley
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the statistics from the Smoking Data Guide, published by Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council's research and business intelligence team in August 2016, that 21.2 per cent of adults and 10.7 per cent of 15 year olds in Barnsley smoke, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of young adults who smoke.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	187385
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government has a strong track record of reducing the harm caused by tobacco, based on a comprehensive approach to tobacco control, including bans on smoking in public places, and on promotion and advertising of tobacco products; high duty rates; the provision of smoking cessation services; and social marketing campaigns. The Government will maintain this comprehensive approach. The Government’s Tobacco Control Plan for England, published last year, commits to reducing smoking in 15 year olds from 8% in 2017 to 3% in 2022 and the Tobacco Control Delivery Plan, published in June 2018 sets out the various activities different agencies are taking to meet the aims of the plan.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 12/11/2018 17:19:44 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

999512

registered interest
date	01/11/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Heroin: Medical Treatments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will allocate funding to local authorities that plan to implement heroin assisted treatment.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	187009
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2018 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for making decisions on how to spend their allocation of the public health grant based on the needs of their local population. Local authorities are responsible for commissioning drug treatment to meet those needs, including heroin assisted treatment services.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 06/11/2018 15:08:16 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

999628

registered interest
date	01/11/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Influenza: Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 25 October 2018 to Question 183928 on Influenza: Vaccination, and with reference to the guidance, Flu Vaccination Programme Delivery Guidance 2018-19 published by NHS England, what assessment he has made of appropriateness of delivering aTIV to healthcare providers by mid-November.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	187015
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2018 answer text <p>The adjuvanted trivalent flu vaccine is the recommended vaccine for those aged 65 years and over because it is a more effective vaccine for this age group and should offer better protection against flu compared to those previously used in the United Kingdom programme. This is explained in the Flu Vaccination Programme Delivery Guidance 2018-19 available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/flu-vaccination-programme-delivery-guidance-2018-19/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/flu-vaccination-programme-delivery-guidance-2018-19/</a></p><p> </p><p>To ensure equitable access across the UK, deliveries of this vaccine are being phased between September and November. General practices and pharmacies were informed of the phased deliveries in April 2018 and given confirmed delivery dates in August. The supply to date has been on schedule.</p><p> </p><p>With appropriate planning, all eligible patients should be able to be offered vaccine before the flu season starts.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 06/11/2018 15:13:14 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson