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1134462

registered interest
date	25/06/2019
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	Alcoholic Drinks: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the effect of the introduction of minimum unit pricing of alcohol in Scotland on the level of alcohol consumption in Scotland.
tabling member constituency	Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
tabling member printed	Hugh Gaffney
uin	269105
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2019 answer text <p>No assessment has been made. NHS Scotland publishes annual reports on the impact of the Scottish Government’s alcohol strategy, a core element of which is minimum unit pricing. However, the Scottish Government will not publish its statutory report on the impact of minimum unit pricing (MUP) until five years post-implementation of the legislation, in 2023. The Government shall monitor the impact of MUP as robust evidence emerges.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 03/07/2019 13:24:47 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4614 label Biography information for Hugh Gaffney

1134491

registered interest
date	25/06/2019
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	Health Services: British Nationals Abroad
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 he has made of the potential effect on the provision of healthcare for UK citizens in the EU of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	David Simpson
uin	269017
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2019 answer text <p>Under current European Union-based entitlements, the United Kingdom pays for the healthcare costs of 180,000 UK nationals, mostly pensioners, in health systems across the EU. There are around 50 million UK tourist visits to the EU annually; the European Healthcare Insurance Card (EHIC) is used in around 0.5% of these visits. Moreover, approximately 50,000 posted workers are protected through the current arrangements.</p><p>The UK Government has proposed to EU Member States that, in a no-deal scenario, we should maintain the existing healthcare arrangements until 31 December 2020, with the aim of minimising disruption to UK nationals’ and EU citizens’ healthcare provision. The UK Government is working to put in place bilateral agreements with Member States to protect existing healthcare arrangements for UK nationals beyond exit day. For UK nationals that live in EU Member States, the UK cannot unilaterally guarantee the continuation of current arrangements, as this depends on decisions by Member States.</p><p>EU Member States such as Spain have made public commitments that they will enable resident UK nationals and visitors to access healthcare in the same way they do now, and we hope to reach such agreements with all Member States.</p><p>Although we are hopeful that we can agree reciprocal healthcare arrangements, as a responsible Government we have developed a multi-layered approach to minimise disruption to healthcare provision to UK nationals currently in or travelling to the EU Member States.</p><p>The UK Government has committed to fund healthcare for UK nationals (and others for whom the UK is responsible) who have applied for, or are undergoing, treatments in the EU prior to and on exit day, for up to one year, to protect the most vulnerable.</p><p>Individuals are always responsible for ensuring they have sufficient healthcare insurance. Anyone who is living, working or studying in EU Member States should check the country specific guidance on GOV.UK and NHS.UK for updates.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 03/07/2019 15:33:20 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

1134551

registered interest
date	25/06/2019
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	Mental Health Services: Veterans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that veterans with mental health problems receive the treatment they need.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	269084
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2019 answer text <p>As part of the Government’s continued commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant, veterans are able to access National Health Service-provided mainstream and bespoke evidence-based mental health services.</p><p>The NHS in England has developed two bespoke veterans’ services; the Transition, Intervention and Liaison Service, which supports serving personnel who need additional mental health support as they are leaving the Armed Forces and veterans who have mental health issues; and the Complex Treatment Service, that has been designed to support veterans with complex mental health issues, not limited to post-traumatic stress disorder, that have not improved with previous treatment.</p><p>In December last year, NHS England announced an extra £10 million to expand these services and seek ways to close the gaps in current mental health provision to meet the needs of those individuals that are nearing crisis. This expansion will increase capacity and help to ensure that specialist health support for veterans is available across a wider geographical area, helping many more vulnerable ex-Service Personnel, families and those in the criminal justice system.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 03/07/2019 16:04:52 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1134618

registered interest
date	25/06/2019
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	Public Health: Hertfordshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to (a) improve the quality of and (b) increase access to public health care in (i) Stevenage and (ii) Hertfordshire.
tabling member constituency	Stevenage
tabling member printed	Stephen McPartland
uin	269050
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2019 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for assessing the public health needs of their local population, developing public health strategies and commissioning services to improve the health of their populations.</p><p>Local authorities have responsibility for the commissioning of public health services such as sexual health, stop smoking, drug and alcohol services and the NHS Health Check. Public Health England supports local authorities to do this through the provision of national public health campaigns, public health intelligence, evidence-based advice and guidance on what works in practice, commissioning support packs and service assessment and quality improvement frameworks.</p><p>At a local level, Public Health England East of England supports local authorities through a series of commissioner networks that share good practice, support sector led improvement and effective service delivery.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 03/07/2019 16:50:36 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4093 label Biography information for Stephen McPartland

1134626

registered interest
date	25/06/2019
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	Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on Government expenditure on mental health provision for children and young people (a) under the age of 18; (b) from 18 to 25 years old in 2018-19.
tabling member constituency	High Peak
tabling member printed	Ruth George
uin	269148
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2019 answer text <p>Information on spend on mental health provision for children and young people aged 0-25, by clinical commissioning group (CCG), is published by NHS England in the Mental Health Five Year Forward View Dashboard.</p><p>NHS England also publishes spend on specialised commissioning on mental health provision for children and young people.</p><p>For 2018/19, the latest figures show planned expenditure by CCGs of £727 million and for specialised commissioning planned expenditure of £376 million.</p><p>These figures do not distinguish between those aged under the age of 18 and those aged 18 years to 25 years old.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 03/07/2019 16:02:52 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George

1134627

registered interest
date	25/06/2019
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	Out-patients: Attendance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS appointments have been missed in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Stevenage
tabling member printed	Stephen McPartland
uin	269057
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2019 answer text <p>Data for missed outpatient appointments in the years 2013-14 to 2017-18 is provided in the following table. This is a count of appointments, not people, as the same person may have had more than one appointment within the same time period:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Total number of appointments</p></td><td><p>Did not attends (DNAs)</p></td><td><p>DNA’s as a % of total appointments</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>101,844,824</p></td><td><p>7,095,839</p></td><td><p>7.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>107,188,423</p></td><td><p>7,442,949</p></td><td><p>6.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>113,298,661</p></td><td><p>7,519,829</p></td><td><p>6.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>118,578,912</p></td><td><p>7,938,009</p></td><td><p>6.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>119,378,895</p></td><td><p>7,984,183</p></td><td><p>6.7%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Hospital Episode Statistics – NHS Digital</p><p>Information surrounding the cost of missed hospital appointments is not collected or held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond grouped question UIN 269058 question first answered 03/07/2019 15:31:57 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4093 label Biography information for Stephen McPartland

1134628

registered interest
date	25/06/2019
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	Out-patients: Attendance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the annual cost to the public purse was of missed NHS appointments in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Stevenage
tabling member printed	Stephen McPartland
uin	269058
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2019 answer text <p>Data for missed outpatient appointments in the years 2013-14 to 2017-18 is provided in the following table. This is a count of appointments, not people, as the same person may have had more than one appointment within the same time period:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Total number of appointments</p></td><td><p>Did not attends (DNAs)</p></td><td><p>DNA’s as a % of total appointments</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>101,844,824</p></td><td><p>7,095,839</p></td><td><p>7.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>107,188,423</p></td><td><p>7,442,949</p></td><td><p>6.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>113,298,661</p></td><td><p>7,519,829</p></td><td><p>6.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>118,578,912</p></td><td><p>7,938,009</p></td><td><p>6.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>119,378,895</p></td><td><p>7,984,183</p></td><td><p>6.7%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Hospital Episode Statistics – NHS Digital</p><p>Information surrounding the cost of missed hospital appointments is not collected or held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond grouped question UIN 269057 question first answered 03/07/2019 15:31:57 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4093 label Biography information for Stephen McPartland

1134088

registered interest
date	24/06/2019
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	Hospitals: Construction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many new NHS hospital facilities specifically for secondary and acute care in England (a) have been built, (b) are under construction and (c) are planned for completion between 2015 and 2025; what the (i) location and (ii) estimated capital value is of each of those new hospital facilities, including those that are valued at less than £100 million; and what the proportion of financing for each project is (A) public and (B) private financing.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	268474
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2019 answer text <p>In the 2017 Spring and Autumn Budgets, the Government committed £3.9 billion in new capital investment for the National Health Service. £2.4 billion of this has been allocated to over 150 sustainability and transformation partnership (STP) schemes to modernise and transform buildings and services across the country. In the Spending Review later this year, the Government will consider proposals from the NHS for a multi-year capital plan to support the health service as outlined in the NHS Long Term Plan.</p><p> </p><p>Separate from the STP capital programme, the Department has also supported a variety of other investments in new NHS facilities. Under Section 40 of the NHS Act 2006, the Secretary of State may give financial assistance, such as loans or Public Dividend Capital to any NHS foundation trust.</p><p> </p><p>The Papworth Hospital and the Alder Hey Children’s Hospital were completed in 2018 and 2015 respectively under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI). The Royal Liverpool Hospital and Midland Metropolitan Hospital started off as PFI schemes and are now being completed with public capital.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 27/06/2019 12:57:06 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

1134097

registered interest
date	24/06/2019
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	Smoking: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of children under the age of 16 that smoke who smoke in each year since 2003.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	268429
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2019 answer text <p>The smoking prevalence among regular smokers aged 11-15 years has been falling since 2002. The most recent estimate was 3% in 2016, down from 9% in 2003 as presented in the following table:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Smoking prevalence (%)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2003</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2004</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>-*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Note: *No data available as the survey changed from annual to every two years.</p><p>Source: NHS Digital – Smoking, drinking and drug use in young people survey.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 27/06/2019 15:24:00 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1134110

registered interest
date	24/06/2019
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	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, what estimate he has made of the (a) number of doses of flu vaccine required in winter 2019-20 and (b) proportion of those doses which will need to be sourced from outside the UK; and what plans he has in place to ensure the adequate supply of flu vaccine in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal on 31 October 2019.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	268344
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2019 answer text <p>Flu vaccines for people aged 18 years and older are procured directly from manufacturers and suppliers by providers, based on their local assessment of need. The procurement and distribution of flu vaccines for the children’s aspect of the national flu programme is managed by Public Health England (PHE). Doses of flu vaccine for 2019/20 is estimated using end of season for 2018/19 that are published on GOV.UK at the following links:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/seasonal-flu-vaccine-uptake-in-gp-patients-monthly-data-2018-to-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/seasonal-flu-vaccine-uptake-in-gp-patients-monthly-data-2018-to-2019</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/seasonal-flu-vaccine-uptake-in-healthcare-workers-monthly-data-2018-to-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/seasonal-flu-vaccine-uptake-in-healthcare-workers-monthly-data-2018-to-2019</a></p><p>Seasonal flu vaccines for 2019/20 are currently being manufactured and due for delivery to the market in the autumn. Vaccine production is a complex and multi-stage process, which will involve a touch-point outside of the United Kingdom.</p><p>Officials continuously monitor the flu vaccine supply landscape to enable timely and appropriate action to be taken in the event of supply issues.</p><p>The Department, PHE and NHS England are in regular discussion with the manufacturers to ensure they have appropriate contingency plans in place to prepare for a potential ‘no deal’ scenario.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 27/06/2019 15:20:53 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake