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229133

registered interest
date	23/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Radiotherapy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of cancer patients received (a) intensity modulated and (b) stereotactic radiotherapy in the most recent month for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	228690
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2015 answer text <p>NHS England monitors the progress in achieving the following standard:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- A minimum 24% of patients requiring radical radiotherapy have access to inverse planned Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England monitors this standard as a three month rolling average. The latest data shows that 6,492 patients received IMRT during the period from October to December 2014, a proportion of 36% of patients requiring radical radiotherapy.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Data relating to the proportion of cancer patients receiving stereotactic radiotherapy is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 228390 question first answered 25/03/2015 16:30:50 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

229258

registered interest
date	23/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research reports his Department has commissioned from external bodies between September 2010 and December 2014 have not been published; when each such report was commissioned; what the nature of the research commissioned for each report was; from whom each such research report was commissioned; what the value of each such commission was; on what date each such report was received by his Department; for what reason each such research report has not yet been published; and when he plans to publish each such report.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	228818
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department funds research through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and the Department’s Policy Research Programme (PRP). The NIHR’s policy statement on open access for its funded research can be found on the NIHR website:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.nihr.ac.uk/policy-and-standards/nihr-policy-on-open-access-for-its-funded-research.htm" target="_blank">http://www.nihr.ac.uk/policy-and-standards/nihr-policy-on-open-access-for-its-funded-research.htm</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Details of commissioned and researcher-led projects funded through programmes managed by the NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre can be found on the centre’s website:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.nets.nihr.ac.uk/projects?collection=netscc&amp;meta_P_sand=Project" target="_blank">http://www.nets.nihr.ac.uk/projects?collection=netscc&amp;meta_P_sand=Project</a></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>These details include research summary, contractor, cost, start date, estimated date of publication, and links to commissioning briefs and published reports.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>Details of projects, initiatives and long-term programmes of research currently funded by the PRP are available on the website of the PRP Central Commissioning Facility:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.prp-ccf.org.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.prp-ccf.org.uk/</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>These details include research summary, contractor, start date, and estimated date of completion. Cost will be included in future updates. The website also has links to summary final reports received since April 2011.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 25/03/2015 17:28:13 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

228804

registered interest
date	20/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average length of stay in hospital was for people with a primary diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in England in each year from 2009-10 to 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	Leicester West
tabling member printed	Liz Kendall
uin	228589
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2015 answer text <p>The attached table gives the mean and median length of stay and the number of finished discharge episodes where length of stay was recorded for patients with a primary diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease for years 2009-10 to 2013-14. Complete and quality checked data for 2014-15 is not yet available.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 25/03/2015 14:44:40 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison attachment 1 file name COPD length of stay and FDEs.xlsx title COPD length of stay and FDEs 2009-14
tabling member	4026 label Biography information for Liz Kendall

228806

registered interest
date	20/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was spent on the prescription of drugs to manage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the NHS in each year from 2009-10 to 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	Leicester West
tabling member printed	Liz Kendall
uin	228591
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2015 answer text <p>The information requested cannot be provided as information on why a drug is prescribed is not collected. This is a particular issue for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) as medicines used to treat COPD are also used to treat a number of other medical conditions, for example asthma.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 25/03/2015 17:26:42 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	4026 label Biography information for Liz Kendall

228807

registered interest
date	20/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were recorded on a general practice register with a diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in England in each year from 2009-10 to 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	Leicester West
tabling member printed	Liz Kendall
uin	228588
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2015 answer text <p>The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) are able to provide the number of people recorded on the disease register and the prevalence for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), at England level from 2009-10 to 2013-14. The data for 2014/15 are not expected to be published until the end of October 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) registers are constructed to underpin indicators on quality of care, they do not necessarily equate to prevalence as may be defined by epidemiologists. For example, prevalence figures based on QOF registers may differ from prevalence from other sources because of coding and definitional issues.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The number of patients on clinical registers can be used to calculate disease prevalence, expressing the number of patients on each register as a percentage of the number of patients on practices’ lists. Therefore, ‘raw prevalence’ for a clinical area is defined as:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>Raw Prevalence = (number on clinical register / number on practice list) *100</em></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>Table A: Prevalence of COPD at England level, 2009/10 to 2013/14</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>COPD Register</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>2013/14 1,004,920</p><p> </p><p>2012/13 974,999</p><p> </p><p>2011/12 938,511</p><p> </p><p>2010/11 898,989</p><p> </p><p>2009/10 861,341</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 25/03/2015 18:00:17 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4026 label Biography information for Liz Kendall

228810

registered interest
date	20/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Sugar
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent steps his Department has taken to encourage confectionery retailers to reduce the sugar content of their products.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	David Simpson
uin	228518
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2015 answer text <p>We are working in voluntary partnership with the food and drink industry to cut calories, including sugar, across a range of products including confectionery and fizzy drinks. Businesses have taken billions of calories out of their products, including by cutting sugar in juice and fizzy drinks, and by reducing the size of single serving confectionery.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 25/03/2015 16:29:52 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

228812

registered interest
date	20/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Bowel Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps the Government is taking to provide support and assistance for patients with bowel cancer.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	David Simpson
uin	228520
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2015 answer text <p>The National Cancer Survivorship Initiative (NCSI) has set out to understand the numbers, needs, and experiences of people living with and beyond cancer, including bowel cancer, and the most effective service solutions to meet the growing numbers of survivors. The NCSI has recommended four priority areas: recovery packages; consequences of treatment and Patient Report Outcome Measures; stratified pathways of care; and physical activity. To support this work NHS England, in partnership with Macmillan Cancer Support, has established the Living with and Beyond Cancer Programme, a two-year programme of work to embed the four priority areas from NCSI into mainstream commissioning.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Living with and beyond cancer has also been identified as a key theme by the independent Cancer Taskforce, which is developing a new cancer strategy to be published in summer 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 25/03/2015 16:42:35 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

228813

registered interest
date	20/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Nutrition: Health Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions his Department has had with the Department for Education on increasing the level of healthy-eating advertising within primary schools.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	David Simpson
uin	228540
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2015 answer text <p>Officials from the Department of Health and Department for Education meet regularly to discuss public health issues including food in schools. Formal discussions have not included increasing the level of healthy-eating advertising in primary schools, however they have included the Change4Life programme.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>Change4Life is Public Health England’s social marketing programme which aims to support families to eat well, move more and live longer. The programme works with schools by providing teachers with resources, which include recipes and ideas for including healthy eating messages across the curriculum.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 25/03/2015 16:15:30 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

228815

registered interest
date	20/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 24 February 2015 to Question 223927, if he will review the range of data collected centrally within his Department and the subjects of Parliamentary Questions received by his Department in the present Parliament to ensure that a higher proportion of hon. Members' Questions can be answered with substantive information.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Mark Hendrick
uin	228557
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department answers parliamentary questions where it is able to, based on the information it collects. Transparency in public services and access to open data are key Government priorities. Transparency in the health and social care sector is important to support public accountability of services and choice for service users.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 25/03/2015 12:39:09 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

228816

registered interest
date	20/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Nursing and Midwifery Council
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will provide funding to the Nursing and Midwifery Council to enable it to avoid increasing annual registration fees for registered nurses.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Mark Hendrick
uin	228551
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2015 answer text <p>The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) is an independent body. Accordingly, the NMC Council is responsible for determining the level of the annual fee it charges for registration, which must cover the full cost of its regulatory activity.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In 2012 the NMC identified that £120 per registrant per year is the amount required to cover its regulatory costs. The NMC had intended to increase the level of its fee to £120 in February 2013. However, for two years the NMC’s costs have been subsidised by a £20 million Government grant, which in-part enabled the NMC to charge a lower registration fee of £100 instead of £120.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government has no plans to offer the NMC a further grant to subsidise the registration fee increase to £120, which came into force on 1 February 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 25/03/2015 12:41:54 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick