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897225

registered interest
date	03/05/2018
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: Official Cars
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the job titles are of civil servants in his Department who have been provided with (a) an official car and (b) a driver.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	141013
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2018 answer text <p>Within the Department, no civil servants have a designated official car or driver. The Chief Medical Officer has access to an official Government car and driver from a shared cross government service. This has been used on occasions where there has been a need to make confidential or sensitive telephone calls whilst travelling and where it would be inappropriate to do so whilst travelling on public transport.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 14/05/2018 11:16:23 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

896308

registered interest
date	02/05/2018
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	Social Services: Learning Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans the Government has to include proposals on improving social care and support for people with learning difficulties in its forthcoming Green Paper on care and support for older people.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	140718
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2018 answer text <p>The Green Paper on care and support for older people is expected to cover a range of issues that are common to all adults with care and support needs, including those with a learning disability.</p><p> </p><p>The Department of Health and Social Care and Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government are taking forward a complementary piece of work to identify any issues relating to social care that are only relevant to working age adults with care and support needs and ensure that these are given the right attention.</p><p> </p><p>We are currently engaging with stakeholders to identify the issues this work should focus on and will set out plans in due course.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 14/05/2018 10:52:28 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

896333

registered interest
date	02/05/2018
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	Hospitals: Domestic Visits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which hospitals he has visited in an official capacity since 2016-17; and what the date of each such visit was.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	140727
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2018 answer text <p>Since the response from the previous Minister of State (Mr Philip Dunne MP) of 21 December 2017 to Question <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2017-12-18/120103/" target="_blank">120123</a>, my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State has visited the following hospitals.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Date</p></td><td><p>Hospitals</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>21 December 2017</p></td><td><p>Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham Women’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>4 January 2018</p></td><td><p>The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, West London Mental Health NHS Trust</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>18 January 2018</p></td><td><p>The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>19 January 2018</p></td><td><p>Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Essex Partnership University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 February 2018</p></td><td><p>Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2 February 2018</p></td><td><p>Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust Surrey and Sussex NHS Healthcare Trust, Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>15 February 2018</p></td><td><p>George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Northampton NHS Trust</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>16 February 2018</p></td><td><p>Bedford Hospital NHS Trust, Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Luton and Dunstable University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 March 2018</p></td><td><p>Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2 March 2018</p></td><td><p>University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>8 March 2018</p></td><td><p>Barts Health NHS Trust</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>15 March 2018</p></td><td><p>Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>16 March 2018</p></td><td><p>Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>29 March 2018</p></td><td><p>Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Central and Northwest London NHS Foundation Trust</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>26 April 2018</p></td><td><p>West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>27 April 2018</p></td><td><p>Wye Valley NHS Trust Gloucestershire Care Services NHS Trust, Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 14/05/2018 11:12:06 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

896335

registered interest
date	02/05/2018
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: Lobbying
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his policy is on use of grant funding provided by his Department to third parties to lobby his Department.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	140729
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2018 answer text <p>The Department’s policy is that grant funding should not be provided to third parties to lobby the Department. Since May 2017 the grant agreements with third parties specifically state in the terms and conditions that this is not eligible.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 14/05/2018 11:18:44 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

896336

registered interest
date	02/05/2018
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	Hospitals: Infectious Diseases
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 patients died due to a hospital acquired infection in primary care trusts in (a) 2017, (b) 2016, (c) 2015, (d) 2014 and (e) 2013.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	140730
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2018 answer text <p>Data on the number of patients who died due to a hospital acquired infection are not available in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p>Estimated 30-day all-cause deaths among patients following bacteraemia (bloodstream infection) due to meticillin-resistant <em>Staphylococcus aureus</em>, meticillin-susceptible <em>Staphylococcus aureus</em> and <em>Escherichia coli</em> bacteraemia and <em>Clostridium difficile</em> infection for the years 2013–17 are available to view here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/mrsa-mssa-and-e-coli-bacteraemia-and-c-difficile-infection-30-day-all-cause-fatality" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/mrsa-mssa-and-e-coli-bacteraemia-and-c-difficile-infection-30-day-all-cause-fatality</a></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 14/05/2018 11:21:19 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

896337

registered interest
date	02/05/2018
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: Defibrillators
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 defibrillators are provided in each building his Department manages.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	140731
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2018 answer text <p>The number of defibrillators provided in each building the Department manages is shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Building</p></td><td><p>Number of defibrillators</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>39 Victoria Street (London)</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Skipton House (London)</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wellington House (London)</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Blenheim House (Leeds)</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Premier House (Reading)</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 14/05/2018 11:14:14 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

896392

registered interest
date	02/05/2018
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: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what training his Department has provided to (a) general civil servants, (b) fast stream civil servants and (c) senior civil servants on devolution and inter-governmental relations; how many such courses have taken place; and how many civil servants have attended such training courses in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Arfon
tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
uin	140636
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2018 answer text <p>The Department offers the Policy Certificate to all civil servants (including fast streamers and senior civil servants) within the Department and the Department’s arm’s length bodies (ALBs). The Department Devolution Policy Certificate module has been running since February 2015. Since February 2015 this module has run 19 times and 191 people registered to attend this training session, which includes representatives from the Department’s ALBs.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 14/05/2018 11:15:18 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

896396

registered interest
date	02/05/2018
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	Blood Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the effect of the UK leaving the EU on medical research into blood cancer.
tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
tabling member printed	Colleen Fletcher
uin	140781
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2018 answer text <p>The Government’s commitment to funding cancer research has not changed because of the referendum.</p><p> </p><p>The Department invests £1 billion per year in health research through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). NIHR expenditure on cancer research has risen from £101 million in 2010/11 to £137 million in 2016/17. This is the largest NIHR spend in a disease area.</p><p> </p><p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Prime Minister has made it clear that we want to work closely with Europe in science and research, stating in a speech on 3 March: “the UK is also committed to establishing a far-reaching science and innovation pact with the EU, facilitating the exchange of ideas and researchers. This would enable the UK to participate in key programmes alongside our EU partners”.</p><p> </p><p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Chancellor has also said that the Treasury will guarantee EU structural and investment funding, promised before the Autumn Statement. He has also promised to underwrite payments for competitive EU funding awards through the Horizon 2020 underwrite guarantee, which was announced on 13 August 2016.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committing to being as closely aligned with the new EU Clinical Trials Regulation as we possibly can, subject to the outcome of the future relationship negotiation.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 14/05/2018 11:17:39 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4378 label Biography information for Colleen Fletcher

896463

registered interest
date	02/05/2018
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: Disclosure of Information
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 non-disclosure agreements his Department has signed with employees in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	140810
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2018 answer text <p>No employees have been subject to a non-disclosure agreement in the last five years in the Department.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 14/05/2018 10:49:48 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

896574

registered interest
date	02/05/2018
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	Speech and Language Disorders: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Education on the recommendations of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapist report, Bercow: Ten Years, published on 20 March 2018.
tabling member constituency	Charnwood
tabling member printed	Edward Argar
uin	140777
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2018 answer text <p>Officials from the Department of Health and Social Care, and the Department for Education are in regular contact and work closely with national and local partners on policy to support children with speech, language and communication needs.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 14/05/2018 15:32:28 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar