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449136

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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	Human Embryo Experiments
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answers by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health, Melanie Johnson, on 11 May 2004 (HC Deb, col 315W), by Lord Darzi of Denham on 21 April 2008 (WA 235) and by Lord Prior of Brampton on 27 January (HL5039), whether it remains the case that lay summaries of research proposals submitted to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) are placed on its website with an invitation to the public to submit comments; if so, when the last licence applications and lay summaries were placed on its website; where and when the title of the licence application to use CRISPR-Cas9 and the lay summary submitted by the applicant were published on the HFEA website; and why the section of the HFEA website that describes human embryo research awaiting approval (http://www.hfea.gov.uk/167.html) has continued to state that there "are currently no research projects awaiting approval".
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL5646
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has advised that lay summaries of research proposals submitted to the Authority are no longer placed on its website prior to consideration by a HFEA Licence Committee. Lay summaries are, however, available on the website in the inspection report for each research project, linked to a list of all licensed research projects.</p><p> </p><p>The noble Lord is correct that the HFEA website still mistakenly refers to past practice. We are advised that this will be rectified shortly.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 11/02/2016 14:59:37 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

449137

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	Stem Cells
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what evidence the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has received that bona fide trophectoderm stem cells have already been successfully derived and propagated from human embryos; whether any such stem cell lines have been deposited in the UK Stem Cell Bank; and if so, when.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL5647
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has advised that it holds information on the number of stem cell lines derived in each licensed research project and checks for compliance (on inspection) with the requirement for stem cell lines to be deposited in the UK Stem Cell Bank. However, this information does not differentiate between stem cells derived from the inner cell mass and those from trophectoderm.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 11/02/2016 14:59:22 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

449138

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	Human Embryo Experiments
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Prior of Brampton on 24 July 2015 (HL1524), how many modifications can be made to an existing research licence previously approved by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority before it can no longer be legitimately considered as essentially the same research project as that for which a licence was originally sought; and what sort of modifications can be made to an existing research licence before it is no longer considered to have exactly the same aims as those in the initial licence application that were originally deemed to fulfil the purposes specified in the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 as amended.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL5648
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has advised that there are no fixed number of modifications that can be made to an existing research licence project. Such questions are considered on a case by case basis with reference to the statutory tests.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 11/02/2016 14:47:19 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

449139

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	Human Embryo Experiments
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Prior of Brampton on 27 January (HL5039), whether they are now able to say whether a stated aim of the recently approved application by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority to perform genome editing in human embryos by means of CRISPR-Cas9 was, and remains, to better understand why miscarriages occur in some pregnancies; and if not, whether the description of that research that will be made public will disclose the specific assay the researchers concerned had proposed using to determine whether embryos subjected to gene editing might be either able or unable to implant in a womb.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL5649
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) publishes on its website the inspection report relating to a licence renewal application and the minutes of the Licence Committee’s decision. It does not publish other information associated with a licence application.</p><p> </p><p>The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 (as amended) permits the genetic modification of embryos in research, subject to an HFEA licence. As the regulator, the HFEA’s responsibility is to apply the test in the legislation, namely that the research is necessary or desirable for any of the purposes specified in the Act and that the use of embryos is necessary. The Licence Committee has added a condition to the licence that no research using genome editing may take place until it has received approval from an NHS Research Ethics Committee.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL5773 HL5959 HL5960 question first answered 11/02/2016 17:51:31 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

449148

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	Prosthetics
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact on patients of the decision by NHS England to refuse funding for micro-processor knees.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL5658
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2016 answer text <p>NHS England has not refused to fund micro-processor knees. A revised policy proposal for the routine commissioning of microprocessor controlled knees was considered by NHS England’s expert Clinical Priorities Advisory Group which recommended its adoption for routine commissioning. The proposal was then considered by NHS England’s Specialised Commissioning Oversight Group at its meeting on 9 December 2015 where it was agreed that NHS England would support this service development as a possible call on its resources. However given the potential scale of investment and the need to consider its priority relative to other treatments which would also have a possible call on the specialised commissioning resources it was decided that the policy should go forward for consideration as part of NHS England's next annual prioritisation round in June 2016.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL5659 question first answered 10/02/2016 15:05:59 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

449149

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	Prosthetics
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of whether the decision by NHS England to refuse funding for micro-processor knees is consistent with its <i>Five Year Forward View</i>, which states that the NHS needs to adapt to take advantage of the opportunities that science and technology offer patients and carers.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL5659
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2016 answer text <p>NHS England has not refused to fund micro-processor knees. A revised policy proposal for the routine commissioning of microprocessor controlled knees was considered by NHS England’s expert Clinical Priorities Advisory Group which recommended its adoption for routine commissioning. The proposal was then considered by NHS England’s Specialised Commissioning Oversight Group at its meeting on 9 December 2015 where it was agreed that NHS England would support this service development as a possible call on its resources. However given the potential scale of investment and the need to consider its priority relative to other treatments which would also have a possible call on the specialised commissioning resources it was decided that the policy should go forward for consideration as part of NHS England's next annual prioritisation round in June 2016.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL5658 question first answered 10/02/2016 15:05:59 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

449150

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	Prescriptions: Students
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the cost of giving free prescriptions to students in full-time education.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL5660
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>We are unable to provide the cost of giving free prescriptions to students in full-time education.</p><p> </p><p>The estimated cost of giving free prescriptions to those young people aged 16, 17 and 18 in full-time education for the period April 2014 to March 2015 is £68,088,373. This is based on information captured when processing National Health Service FP10 prescription forms which were dispensed in the community during the period April 2014 to March 2015.</p><p> </p><p>We do not hold the information on how much the average student spends per year on prescriptions.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL5661 question first answered 11/02/2016 12:34:32 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

449151

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	Prescriptions: Students
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of how much the average student spends per year on prescriptions.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL5661
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>We are unable to provide the cost of giving free prescriptions to students in full-time education.</p><p> </p><p>The estimated cost of giving free prescriptions to those young people aged 16, 17 and 18 in full-time education for the period April 2014 to March 2015 is £68,088,373. This is based on information captured when processing National Health Service FP10 prescription forms which were dispensed in the community during the period April 2014 to March 2015.</p><p> </p><p>We do not hold the information on how much the average student spends per year on prescriptions.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL5660 question first answered 11/02/2016 12:34:32 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

449152

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	NHS Low Income Scheme: Students
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether students qualify for the NHS Low Income Scheme.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL5662
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>The NHS Low Income Scheme provides income-related help with health costs to students, as for all other adults.</p><p> </p><p>The extent of any help is based on a comparison between a person’s weekly income and requirements at the date they apply to the NHS Low Income Scheme. For a student, income will include any maintenance grant or loan available, the assessment of which may be based on parental income, and the amount of parental contribution assessed by an education authority as payable. Any other income a student may have, such as non-assessed contributions from parents or earnings, will also be taken into account in calculating entitlement. Bursaries will not be included so long as they are clearly not intended for day to day living expenses.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL5663 question first answered 11/02/2016 12:32:48 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

449153

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	NHS Low Income Scheme: Students
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the NHS Low Income Scheme refers to personal income or family income with regard to university students.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL5663
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>The NHS Low Income Scheme provides income-related help with health costs to students, as for all other adults.</p><p> </p><p>The extent of any help is based on a comparison between a person’s weekly income and requirements at the date they apply to the NHS Low Income Scheme. For a student, income will include any maintenance grant or loan available, the assessment of which may be based on parental income, and the amount of parental contribution assessed by an education authority as payable. Any other income a student may have, such as non-assessed contributions from parents or earnings, will also be taken into account in calculating entitlement. Bursaries will not be included so long as they are clearly not intended for day to day living expenses.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL5662 question first answered 11/02/2016 12:32:49 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath