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448328

registered interest
date	27/01/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Motor Neurone Disease
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make changes to the clinical guidelines for motor neurone disease to improve diagnosis and treatment.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	24378
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2016 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is the independent body responsible for developing robust, evidence-based guidance for the National Health Service. NICE is currently developing a clinical guideline on the assessment and management of motor neurone disease, and expects to publish its final guidance in February 2016. NICE is also producing a quality standard on motor neurone disease and its anticipated publication date is August 2016.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 01/02/2016 12:47:43 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

447910

registered interest
date	26/01/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Organs: Donors
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people from BAME communities registered to become organ donors in each of the last five years; and what assessment he has made of trends in such registration.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	24337
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2016 answer text <p>Organ Donation Rate figures for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic registrations for the last five years are listed below:</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p><br></p></td><td colspan="7"><p>Ethnicity</p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Financial year</p></td><td><p>White</p></td><td><p>Asian</p></td><td><p>Black</p></td><td><p>Chinese</p></td><td><p>Mixed</p></td><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p>Not stated</p></td><td><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>161,367</p></td><td><p>8,562</p></td><td><p>2,022</p></td><td><p>537</p></td><td><p>3,203</p></td><td><p>607</p></td><td><p>911,509</p></td><td><p>1,087,807</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>228,966</p></td><td><p>5,564</p></td><td><p>1,709</p></td><td><p>527</p></td><td><p>3,622</p></td><td><p>678</p></td><td><p>755,907</p></td><td><p>99,6973</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>212,333</p></td><td><p>6,776</p></td><td><p>1,938</p></td><td><p>577</p></td><td><p>3,663</p></td><td><p>792</p></td><td><p>820,193</p></td><td><p>1,046,272</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>204,546</p></td><td><p>6,764</p></td><td><p>1,891</p></td><td><p>598</p></td><td><p>3,593</p></td><td><p>860</p></td><td><p>741,993</p></td><td><p>960,245</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16 (1 April 2015 - 27 January 2016)</p></td><td><p>352,455</p></td><td><p>9,210</p></td><td><p>3,012</p></td><td><p>977</p></td><td><p>6,215</p></td><td><p>1,780</p></td><td><p>57,3872</p></td><td><p>947,521</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>1,159,667</p></td><td><p>36,876</p></td><td><p>10,572</p></td><td><p>3,216</p></td><td><p>20,296</p></td><td><p>4,717</p></td><td><p>3,803,474</p></td><td><p>50,38,818</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> <br /><p><em>Taking Organ Transplantation to 2020: A UK Strategy</em>, launched in 2013, aims to achieve world class performance in organ donation and transplantation. It was developed by NHS Blood and Transplant (NHBST) and the four United Kingdom Health Departments.</p><br /><p>To achieve these aims, NHSBT has developed a behaviour change communication strategy and have a wide range of leaflets promoting organ donation that are translated into a number of different languages including Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu.</p><br /><p>NHSBT has also promoted the need for more sign ups from black communities to the Organ Donation Register (ODR), during campaigns such as the ‘Be There’ initiative during Black History Month – which encouraged ODR registrations from the Black African, Black Caribbean and Black mixed race communities.</p><br /> <br /> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 29/01/2016 10:41:49 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

447911

registered interest
date	26/01/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will discuss with his counterparts in the devolved administrations steps to ensure that programmes such as Young People's Improving Access to Psychological Therapies can be implemented across the UK.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	24338
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2016 answer text <p>We have no specific plans at present for a Ministerial meeting on the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme, but Departmental officials are in regular contact with colleagues in the Devolved Administrations on cross-cutting issues.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 29/01/2016 14:35:13 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

447912

registered interest
date	26/01/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Blood: Contamination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress his Department has made on establishing ex gratia financial support for people who were affected prior to 1991 by (a) HIV and (b) hepatitis C over the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	24340
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2016 answer text <p>The Government launched its consultation on proposals to reform the current payment schemes for those affected by HIV and/or hepatitis C through National Health Service-supplied blood/blood products on 21 January 2016.</p><br /><p>The consultation can be accessed on the gov.uk website:</p><br /><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/infected-blood-reform-of-financial-and-other-support" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/infected-blood-reform-of-financial-and-other-support</a></p><p><br> <br> <br></p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 29/01/2016 10:22:30 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

447405

registered interest
date	25/01/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Zika Virus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps are being taken to ensure (a) pregnant women and (b) other people intending to visit South America and the Caribbean are aware of the risks posed by Zika virus.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	23943
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>Public Health England (PHE) and the National Travel Health Network and Centre (NaTHNaC) have been carefully monitoring the Zika virus outbreak in the Americas since it was first reported in Brazil during May 2015. When the Brazilian Ministry of Health announced a potential link between maternal Zika virus infection and microcephaly in December 2015, PHE and NaTHNaC published updated advice for travellers to South and Central America and the Caribbean, including specific advice for pregnant women. This advice continues to be updated regularly as more information becomes available.</p><br /><p>PHE has been and continues to liaise with the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Association of British Neurologists and the Association of British Travel Agents who have published updates on their respective websites. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has also updated its country travel advice pages with information about Zika virus.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 28/01/2016 16:01:12 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

446350

registered interest
date	20/01/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Department of Health: Charities
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department paid to charities in 2014-15; and what criteria were used to make decisions about those payments.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	23458
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2016 answer text <p>The Department works with charities and other voluntary sector organisations and makes grant and procurement payments to these organisations. In 2014-15, £120 million was paid to the voluntary sector. Payment data is held at voluntary sector level, as such, charities are not separately categorised within this data set. It would incur disproportionate cost to extract this subset of the information.</p><br /><p>Payments made through the procurement route are processed in line with Departmental processes, which are consistent with payments made to other organisations. Grant payments are made in accordance with the individual terms of the grant.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 25/01/2016 16:25:03 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

445965

registered interest
date	19/01/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that young people with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis are made aware of their possible suitability for lung transplants.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	23209
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2016 answer text <p>There are a number of lung diseases of childhood, including pulmonary fibrosis that may require lung transplantation, depending on disease progression and severity.</p><br /><p>These conditions should be referred to, assessed and initially managed by a tertiary paediatric respiratory unit, who would confirm the diagnosis and monitor treatment.</p><br /><p>If the treatments failed to hold the progression of the disease, then a referral to one of the two paediatric lung transplant centres, Newcastle and Great Ormond Street may be appropriate.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 22/01/2016 13:56:46 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

445016

registered interest
date	14/01/2016
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 information his Department holds on research being undertaken to assist those severely affected by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	22695
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2016 answer text <p>The Department’s National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) funds a wide range of research relating to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).</p><br /><p>Major investments include a £2.2 million programme of research with an overall aim to set up a primary care COPD cohort including the full range of disease severity, as a platform for testing novel health service interventions.</p><br /><p>The NIHR Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit at Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust and Imperial College London has a £0.8 million research area in COPD, including severe COPD. Details of this research are available on the unit’s website at:</p><br /><p><a href="http://www.rbht.nhs.uk/research/our-research/brus/research-areas/chronic-obstructive-pulmonary-disease/" target="_blank">www.rbht.nhs.uk/research/our-research/brus/research-areas/chronic-obstructive-pulmonary-disease/</a></p><br /><p>Current studies relating to severe COPD delivered by the NIHR Clinical Research Network include:</p><p>- a study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of two doses of benralizumab in patients with severe to very severe COPD with a history of COPD exacerbations;</p><p>- a study to evaluate the effect of 52 weeks of once daily treatment of orally inhaled tiotropium and olodaterol fixed dose combination compared with tiotropium on COPD exacerbation in patients with severe to very severe COPD; and</p><p>- a study to optimise dose selection and evaluate safety after treatment with the Holaira™ Lung Denervation System in patients with moderate to severe COPD.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 19/01/2016 10:41:30 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

444245

registered interest
date	12/01/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 26 November 2014 to Question 215220, what information his Department holds on further research on the use of dogs to detect cancer.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	22156
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2016 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Network is recruiting to a study of canine olfactory detection of human urological cancer from the odour of human urine samples. The study is funded by the charity Medical Detection Dogs.</p><br /><p>The NIHR is funding a programme of systematic reviews to determine the accuracy of tests for the diagnosis and staging of skin cancer. The report from this programme is expected to be published in December 2017. One of the ongoing reviews funded within the programme is on canine odour detection for the diagnosis of cutaneous melanoma in adults.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 18/01/2016 10:57:06 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

443694

registered interest
date	11/01/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Suicide: Children and Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people aged between 15 and 18 took their own lives in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	21874
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2016 answer text <p>The information is not available in the format requested. The table below shows the number of deaths by suicide in people aged 15-29 in the United Kingdom between 2011 and 2013. 2013 is the latest year in which statistics are available.</p><br /><p>Age-specific deaths by suicide (15-29 years): males and females, United Kingdom, 2011 to 2013</p><p><strong></strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Deaths (Males)</p></td><td><p>Deaths (Females)</p></td><td><p>Deaths (Total)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>844</p></td><td><p>259</p></td><td><p>1,103</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>862</p></td><td><p>214</p></td><td><p>1,076</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>797</p></td><td><p>180</p></td><td><p>977</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p><em>Notes:</em></p><p>1. In the United Kingdom, suicide is defined as deaths given an underlying cause of intentional self-harm or injury/poisoning of undetermined intent.</p><p>2. Figures include deaths of non-residents.</p><p>3. Figures are for deaths registered in each calendar year.</p><p><strong></strong></p><p><em>Source:</em> Office for National Statistics, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, National Records of Scotland<strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 19/01/2016 11:05:35 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell