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449393

registered interest
date	01/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Food
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions (a) Ministers, (b) Special Advisers and (c) senior officials in his Department have had with representatives of (i) the Food and Drink Federation, (ii) Coca-Cola, (iii) PepsiCo and (iv) the British Soft Drinks Association in each of the last 18 months; and what the subject was of each such meeting.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	24988
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2016 answer text <p>Details of all Ministerial and Special Adviser meetings with external stakeholders are published quarterly in arrears on the GOV.UK website.</p><p> </p><p>Information for 2014 is available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ministerial-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-external-meetings-2014" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/ministerial-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-external-meetings-2014</a></p><p> </p><p>The latest publications up to September 2015 are available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ministerial-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-external-meetings-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ministerial-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-external-meetings-2015</a></p><p> </p><p>Information for October to December 2015 will be published at the end of March.</p><p> </p><p>Departmental officials have ongoing discussions with representatives from companies producing food and drink. Discussions have included actions and commitments being made by industry to improve the nation’s diet, successes achieved and challenges to make further substantial progress.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 04/02/2016 16:48:25 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

449399

registered interest
date	01/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Prostate Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the potential cost to the NHS of introducing a national prostate cancer screening programme.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	25062
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2016 answer text <p>The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) recently examined and consulted upon the international peer reviewed evidence regarding prostate cancer screening. The UK NSC recommended against a systematic population screening programme for prostate cancer. This is because the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is not an accurate enough test for prostate cancer. Additionally, the UK NSC identified that there is still an incomplete understanding of which prostate cancers are aggressive and require treatment and which are safe to actively monitor. There is a significant amount of research activity underway, but currently the evidence suggests that a systematic screening programme would do more harm than good.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 25059 25076 question first answered 04/02/2016 16:47:00 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

449402

registered interest
date	01/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Hospitals: Infectious Diseases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients have died due to a hospital acquired infection in primary care trusts in (a) 2015, (b) 2014, (c) 2013, (d) 2012 and (e) 2011.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	25066
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2016 answer text <p>The Health and Social Care Information Centre has advised the general practitioner (GP) Extraction System is not currently flowing data from GP practices and primary care, so data from a community setting is not available.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 04/02/2016 16:50:23 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

449404

registered interest
date	01/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Breast Cancer: Clinical Reference Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions the Breast Cancer Clinical Reference Group has had with organisations in the devolved administrations on the sharing of best practice.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	25065
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2016 answer text <p>The Breast Cancer Clinical Reference Group (CRG) was recently set up, by the NHS England National Clinical Director for Cancer, to provide whole pathway consensus clinical advice to commissioners in England. Although the CRG has no formal remit to liaise with the devolved administrations, we recognise the benefit of sharing best practice throughout the United Kingdom and the important role this has in improving services.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 04/02/2016 16:49:33 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

449405

registered interest
date	01/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Prostate Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of (a) how many cases of prostate cancer could be identified earlier by a national prostate cancer screening programme and (b) what effect such a programme would have on survival rates.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	25059
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2016 answer text <p>The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) recently examined and consulted upon the international peer reviewed evidence regarding prostate cancer screening. The UK NSC recommended against a systematic population screening programme for prostate cancer. This is because the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is not an accurate enough test for prostate cancer. Additionally, the UK NSC identified that there is still an incomplete understanding of which prostate cancers are aggressive and require treatment and which are safe to actively monitor. There is a significant amount of research activity underway, but currently the evidence suggests that a systematic screening programme would do more harm than good.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 25062 25076 question first answered 04/02/2016 16:47:00 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

449407

registered interest
date	01/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Prostate 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 (a) raise awareness and (b) prevent the prevalence of prostate cancer.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	25060
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2016 answer text <p>Public Health England (PHE) ran a local pilot campaign from 20 October to 16 November 2014, specifically targeting prostate cancer within Black African-Caribbean men, because of their significantly increased risk of developing prostate cancer. The campaign was delivered in partnership with Prostate Cancer UK and was designed to support their awareness raising activity.</p><p> </p><p>The campaign ran in six London boroughs – Hackney, Haringey, Newham, Southwark, Lambeth and Lewisham – and was delivered mainly through face to face activity, supported by posters in key outdoor locations and in salons and a programme of targeted public relations.</p><p> </p><p>The campaign was delivered in partnership with Prostate Cancer UK and was designed to support their awareness raising activity.</p><p> </p><p>PHE will shortly be re-running the national campaign on “Blood in Pee”. Although primarily aimed at bladder and kidney cancer, blood in the urine can also be a sign of prostate cancer.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 04/02/2016 16:44:49 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

449415

registered interest
date	01/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Prostate Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans the Government has to introduce a prostate cancer screening programme.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	25076
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2016 answer text <p>The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) recently examined and consulted upon the international peer reviewed evidence regarding prostate cancer screening. The UK NSC recommended against a systematic population screening programme for prostate cancer. This is because the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is not an accurate enough test for prostate cancer. Additionally, the UK NSC identified that there is still an incomplete understanding of which prostate cancers are aggressive and require treatment and which are safe to actively monitor. There is a significant amount of research activity underway, but currently the evidence suggests that a systematic screening programme would do more harm than good.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 25059 25062 question first answered 04/02/2016 16:47:00 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

449423

registered interest
date	01/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Sepsis: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cases of sepsis there were in children and infants under five years of age in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	25224
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2016 answer text <p>The figures provided in the table refer only to hospital admissions and are not a count of patients as a patient may have had more than one episode of care within the same year.</p><p> </p><p>Data for finished discharge episodes with a primary or secondary diagnosis of sepsis for patients aged 0 to 4 years, in each year from 2010-11 to 2014-15.</p><p> </p><p>Information is not held centrally on patients diagnosed in a primary care setting.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>2014-15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Finished discharged episodes</p></td><td><p>18,417</p></td><td><p>20,080</p></td><td><p>22,915</p></td><td><p>23,840</p></td><td><p>26,725</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, Health and Social Care Information Centre</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><em>Notes:</em></p><ol><li>Finished Discharge Episode - A discharge episode is the last episode during a hospital stay (a spell), where the patient is discharged from the hospital or transferred to another hospital. Discharges do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one discharge from hospital within the period.</li><li>Number of episodes in which the patient had a primary or secondary diagnosis - The number of episodes where this diagnosis was recorded in any of the 20 (14 from 2002-03 to 2006-07 and 7 prior to 2002-03) primary and secondary diagnosis fields in a Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) record. Each episode is only counted once, even if the diagnosis is recorded in more than one diagnosis field of the record.</li><li>ICD-10 codes for Sepsis – “A02.1 Salmonella sepsis, A20.7 Septicaemic plague, A21.7 Generalized tularaemia, A22.7 Anthrax sepsis, A26.7 Erysipelothrix sepsis, A28.0 Pasteurellosis, A28.2 Extraintestinal yersiniosis, A32.7 Listerial sepsis, A39.2 Acute meningococcaemia, A39.3 Chronic meningococcaemia, A39.4 Meningococcaemia, unspecified, A40.- Streptococcal sepsis, A41.- Other sepsis, A42.7 Actinomycotic sepsis, B37.7 Candidal sepsis, O85.X Puerperal sepsis, P36.- Bacterial sepsis of newborn, <br> The following pair of codes is a dagger/asterisk code pair (D and A) which must be present together: A39.1 Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome, E35.1 Disorders of adrenal glands in diseases classified elsewhere.</li></ol><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 04/02/2016 16:51:52 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

449426

registered interest
date	01/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the vacancy rates are in (a) child psychiatry, (b) child psychology and (c) mental health nursing for child and adolescent mental health services in each (i) region and (ii) clinical commissioning group in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	25219
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2016 answer text <p>The vacancy rates in child psychiatry, child psychology and mental health nursing for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services are not collected.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 04/02/2016 11:19:28 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

449428

registered interest
date	01/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Electronic Cigarettes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which vaping or e-cigarette products the NHS can prescribe to help smokers quit; and what the process was for selecting those products.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	25230
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2016 answer text <p>Only e-cigarettes that have been granted a marketing authorisation by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) can be prescribed by the National Health Service.</p><p> </p><p>By law, before a medicine can be placed on the market, it must be given a marketing authorisation (product licence) by a medicines regulator. The United Kingdom regulator is the MHRA. A specially trained panel of medicines assessors reviews all the available evidence arising out of the pre-clinical research and clinical trials. Manufacturers may also be asked to supply additional information. The MHRA also inspects the factory where the medicine is to be made, to make sure that supplies will be of a uniformly and consistently high standard.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>To date one e-cigarette, e-Voke (10and 15mg electronic inhalers) has been granted a marketing authorisation by the MHRA. It is, however, not yet commercially available on the UK market to prescribe.</p><p> </p><p>It is a commercial decision whether to apply to a medicines regulator for a marketing authorisation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 04/02/2016 16:39:42 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman