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1087074

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date	12/03/2019
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	Blood: Contamination
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 UK Government has accepted responsibility for the contaiminated blood products that were imported from the US during the 1970s and 1980s that caused some people in the UK to be infected with both HIV and Hepatitis.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	231547
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2019 answer text <p>In July 2017 the Prime Minister announced a full public inquiry, under the Inquiries Act 2005, to conduct an independent review of all the events surrounding the tragedy of infection with blood products.</p><p> </p><p>Following a consultation, the Inquiry’s wide ranging, and United Kingdom-wide terms of reference were presented to Parliament by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Rt. hon David Lidington MP), and published in July 2018.</p><p> </p><p>Those terms of reference include to “…identify…any individual responsibilities, as well as organisational and systemic failures.”</p><p> </p><p>Further information is available on the Inquiry’s website at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.infectedbloodinquiry.org.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.infectedbloodinquiry.org.uk/</a></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 15/03/2019 13:51:16 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1087075

registered interest
date	12/03/2019
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	England Infected Blood Support Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the support provided to people through the England Infected Blood Support Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	231548
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2019 answer text <p>Following two extensive public consultations in 2016 and 2017, the current infected blood support scheme for England was introduced in 2017. These reforms committed an additional £125 million of support to those affected over the Spending Review period to April 2021, more than doubling the Department’s annual spending on the scheme. New annual payments for people with stage 1 hepatitis C infection and a new one-off payment for bereaved partners and spouses were introduced. In addition, a new process for those with stage 1 hepatitis C infection who consider their infection, or its treatment, to have a substantial and long-term impact on their ability to carry out routine daily activities to apply for the higher payment amount was also announced. Alongside these reforms a single programme of discretionary support for all, infected and bereaved, was introduced with an increased level of funding available.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has noted recent concerns that have been raised through the Infected Blood Inquiry about the support provided. This matter is receiving careful consideration and an update will be provided as soon as practicable.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 15/03/2019 13:52:28 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1087112

registered interest
date	12/03/2019
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Technology: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps the Government is taking to increase the number of women who work in the (a) tech and (b) ICT sectors.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	231549
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2019 answer text <p>This is a critical issue and the government has set an ambition for 50% of students at Ada, the National College for Digital Skills, to be women by 2020.</p><p> </p><p>The £1million Digital Skills Innovation Fund was launched in 2018, specifically aiming to help people from underrepresented groups (such as women) to take up digital roles.</p><p> </p><p>The Institute of Coding consortium will be looking to boost diversity in technology-related education and careers. Government has provided £20 million to help fund this consortium.</p><p> </p><p>We are investing £84m of new funding over the next four years to deliver a comprehensive programme to improve the teaching of the computing curriculum. This includes a pilot of targeted activities to identify effective approaches to improve gender balance in computing and increase the number of girls who take up computer science.</p><p> </p><p>The Digital Skills Partnership, launched in the Digital Strategy, is also tackling diversity on a national and local level, such as in Coventry via the West Midlands Local Digital Skills Partnership, where PWC’s Tech She Can programme are piloting their new Tech We Can lesson plans to attract more girls to STEM subjects and tech careers.</p><p> </p><p>We also support the Tech Talent Charter (TTC) which has over 300 signatories, and gives organisations tangible actions they can adopt to become more gender-diverse and commits signatories to measuring the diversity profile of their UK employees in tech roles.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 15/03/2019 09:48:59 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1087169

registered interest
date	12/03/2019
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	Drugs: Misuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if the Government will legislate for the mandatory provision by local authorities of treatment for drug misuse.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	231550
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2019 answer text <p>In 2018 the Department published a call for evidence of the impact of regulations that require local authorities to take certain steps under their duties to improve health. We are considering the responses to that exercise and will publish for consultation any proposal for changes to the existing regulations. Meanwhile the public health grant that funds local authorities’ health responsibilities remains subject to the condition that they must use it with regard to the need to improve the take up of, and outcomes from, their substance misuse treatment services.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 15/03/2019 13:41:42 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1087179

registered interest
date	12/03/2019
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 his Department will support the provision of heroin-assisted treatment services throughout England.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	231553
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2019 answer text <p>Heroin Assisted Treatment (HAT) can be an effective way of treating individuals for whom other opioid substitutes have not been effective. This is an option open to local areas under the existing legal framework. Given that funding decisions on drug and alcohol treatment have been devolved, it is for local areas to decide whether to commission HAT services based on an assessment of local need.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 15/03/2019 13:42:36 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan