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1150833

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date	21/10/2019
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	Cancer: Screening
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 increase the number of women attending breast and cervical cancer screening programmes.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	2721
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2019 answer text <p>Prevention, public health and early diagnosis are key priorities for this Government, but we acknowledge that more can be done. The recently published Independent Review of Adult Screening Programmes, conducted by Professor Sir Mike Richards, recommended that high priority should be given to wider implementation of evidence-based initiatives to increase uptake of screening programmes, including breast and cervical screening programmes. The Department, NHS England and Public Health England are now considering the findings of Professor Richards’ report and will publish an implementation plan early next year.</p><p>In the interim, NHS England is investing in initiatives to help ensure equality of access to screening. These include locally-targeted interventions such as text and general practitioner (GP) reminder letters. As part of the delivery of the GP Five Year Forward View, the NHS has invested more than £258 million to improve access to general practice including improved access to all routine appointments (including screening) at weekends and/or evenings.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 29/10/2019 12:42:00 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1150846

registered interest
date	21/10/2019
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	Measles: Disease Control
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 reinstate the UK's World Health Organisation measles-free status.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	2732
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2019 answer text <p>As a first step toward the World Health Organization reinstating the United Kingdom’s measles-free status, Public Health England (PHE) re-convened a multi-stakeholder measles and rubella elimination group, including NHS England, to develop a UK-wide strategy. The purpose of the strategy is to renew stakeholders’ commitment to elimination and re-focus efforts to ensure this will be sustained in the medium- and long-term. A multi-agency implementation board is taking forward the actions of the strategy working with key national and local stakeholders.</p><p>NHS England and General Practitioners Committee England also agreed the introduction of a new measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) catch-up programme for 10 and 11-year olds who have not received a completed course of vaccines via the routine immunisation programme.</p><p>In addition, NHS England is running a catch-up programme for those who missed out on MMR vaccination at the scheduled time to get vaccinated. PHE is also running the Value of Vaccines campaign to help share messages and information on vaccination at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://campaignresources.phe.gov.uk/resources/campaigns/94-value-of-vaccines/overview" target="_blank">https://campaignresources.phe.gov.uk/resources/campaigns/94-value-of-vaccines/overview</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 29/10/2019 12:40:53 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1150924

registered interest
date	21/10/2019
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	Department of Health and Social Care: Islam
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 staff in his Department reported their religion as Islam in the latest period for which figures are available; what the reported ethnicity of those staff was; and how many of those staff were employed at each grade.
tabling member constituency	Bradford West
tabling member printed	Naz Shah
uin	2777
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2019 answer text <p>As part of our commitment to achieving a workforce representative of the society we serve and providing equality of opportunity, we monitor representation of all protected characteristics across the department. Providing diversity information relies on employees voluntarily completing their diversity information on our electronic Human Resources system and we continue to encourage staff to complete their self-declaration.</p><p>The declaration rate for faith and belief within the Department is 58%, which is 937 members of Departmental staff as of 23 October 2019 and therefore, it should be noted that the information provided below refers only to staff who have completed their self-declaration. This information refers only to Departmental staff and does not include staff from our executive agencies or arm’s length bodies.</p><p>The number of Departmental staff who have declared their faith and belief as Muslim, which we have grouped into grades to ensure that we do not disclose personally identifiable information, are:</p><p>- Administrative Officer – Grade 7 – 37; and</p><p>- Senior Civil Servant – less than five.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 29/10/2019 17:28:55 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4409 label Biography information for Naz Shah

1150964

registered interest
date	21/10/2019
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	Catheters: Research
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 Answer of 7 October 2019 to Question 291565, whether all catheters used in the proposed Multicath clinical trial comparing single use and reuse of catheters will be CE marked as appropriate specifically for that single or multiple use.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	2804
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2019 answer text <p>Applications to the National Institute for Health Research Programme Grants for Applied Research programme are not published. Further information about the trial can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.southampton.ac.uk/multicath/index.page" target="_blank">https://www.southampton.ac.uk/multicath/index.page</a></p><p>The Heath Research Authority (HRA) does not routinely publish applications for ethical approval or the minutes from Research Ethics Committee meetings, as they are commercially sensitive. A summary of the study is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.hra.nhs.uk/planning-and-improving-research/application-summaries/research-summaries/multicath/" target="_blank">https://www.hra.nhs.uk/planning-and-improving-research/application-summaries/research-summaries/multicath/</a></p><p>The Cliny intermittent catheter was identified as suitable for use in the trial. This catheter is CE-marked for re-use over 28 days provided a cleaning process is followed between uses.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 2805 question first answered 29/10/2019 17:28:12 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

1150965

registered interest
date	21/10/2019
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	Catheters: Research
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 Answer of 7 October 2019 to Question 291565, if he will publish (a) the application for funding submitted in relation to the Multicath study into catheter use; (b) the application for ethical approval submitted to the South Central, Hampshire A Research Ethics Committee and to the Health Research Authority and (c) the responses to those applications.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	2805
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2019 answer text <p>Applications to the National Institute for Health Research Programme Grants for Applied Research programme are not published. Further information about the trial can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.southampton.ac.uk/multicath/index.page" target="_blank">https://www.southampton.ac.uk/multicath/index.page</a></p><p>The Heath Research Authority (HRA) does not routinely publish applications for ethical approval or the minutes from Research Ethics Committee meetings, as they are commercially sensitive. A summary of the study is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.hra.nhs.uk/planning-and-improving-research/application-summaries/research-summaries/multicath/" target="_blank">https://www.hra.nhs.uk/planning-and-improving-research/application-summaries/research-summaries/multicath/</a></p><p>The Cliny intermittent catheter was identified as suitable for use in the trial. This catheter is CE-marked for re-use over 28 days provided a cleaning process is followed between uses.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 2804 question first answered 29/10/2019 17:28:12 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

1150992

registered interest
date	21/10/2019
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	Department of Health and Social Care: Living Wage
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 staff his Department are paid less than the London Living Wage; and what requirements his Department places on contractors to pay the London Living Wage to London-based staff.
tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
tabling member printed	Matthew Pennycook
uin	2823
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2019 answer text <p>Whilst Government Departments do not seek accreditation to the Living Wage Foundation in relation to their rates of pay, the Department’s pay levels are above the current London Living Wage rates (as defined by the Living Wage Foundation) for directly employed members of staff and agency staff that are also sourced via the Crown Commercial Services Framework Contingent Labour Framework.</p><p>Contractor pay levels adhere to the statutory requirements to pay the National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage. We do not require pay levels for our contractors to be above London Living Wage levels.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 29/10/2019 17:29:31 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook

1151124

registered interest
date	21/10/2019
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	HIV Infection: Drugs
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 gay and bisexual men in Lewisham, Deptford constituency have access to places on the PrEP impact trial.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	2888
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2019 answer text <p>Participation in the trial is on a voluntary basis and it is for clinics and local authorities to decide the number of allocated places they can accept. Almost all clinics remain open to recruitment with thousands of places on the trial available across all eligible at-risk groups and geographies.</p><p>The trial website has been updated to reflect the availability of places in each clinic at the following link:</p><p><a href="http://www.prepimpacttrial.org.uk" target="_blank">www.prepimpacttrial.org.uk</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 29/10/2019 12:41:28 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft