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1678469

registered interest
date	18/12/2023
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	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when she plans to respond to the correspondence of (a) 17 October 2023 and (b) 23 November 2023 from the hon. Member for Lewisham East, case reference JD36657.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
tabling member printed	Janet Daby
uin	7400
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2024 answer text <p>I replied to the hon. Member on 8 December 2023.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 08/01/2024 10:56:44 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby

1678470

registered interest
date	18/12/2023
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	Lisdexamfetamine
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies of trends in the level of the availability of Elvanse medication.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	7394
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2024 answer text <p>It is the responsibility of integrated care boards (ICBs) to make available appropriate provision, including for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) assessment and support, to meet the health and care needs of their local population, in line with relevant National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines. NICE guidelines for ADHD diagnosis and management aim to improve the diagnosis of ADHD and the quality of care and support people receive. The Department is looking into options for improving data collection and reporting on ADHD assessment waiting times, to help improve access to ADHD assessments in a timely way and in line with the NICE guidelines.</p><p>Disruptions to the supply of medicines used for the management of ADHD, including Lisdexamfetamine (Elvanse), have been primarily driven by issues which have resulted in capacity constraints at key manufacturing sites. The Department has been working closely with the respective manufacturers and some issues have now been resolved. However, we know that there continue to be disruptions to the supply of some other medicines, which should resolve by April 2024.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 10/01/2024 10:05:59 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1678484

registered interest
date	18/12/2023
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	Royal Shrewsbury Hospital: Accident and Emergency Departments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Hospitals Transformation Programme will (a) increase capacity and (b) reduce delays at the Emergency Department at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.
tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
uin	7311
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2024 answer text <p>The Hospital Transformation Programme (HTP) should enable greater capacity for patients with immediate or very serious life-threatening illness or injury at the emergency department (ED) at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital. There will be comprehensive support to the ED from all the medical and surgical specialists required. The new clinical model delivered through the HTP will improve the efficiency of the ED by ensuring patients are seen by the right teams at the right time. This means that the Department not only has the required capacity but also the systems to support immediate patient care and ensure a reduction in delays within the ED.</p><p>The Department has accepted the recommendations of the Independent Reconfiguration Panel that the HTP is the best way forward to improve acute hospital services for the Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care System.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 08/01/2024 10:09:41 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

1678494

registered interest
date	18/12/2023
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	Measles: Disease Control
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help prevent a measles outbreak.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Daisy Cooper
uin	7420
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2024 answer text <p>The Department monitors and drives vaccine coverage in the United Kingdom, prepares the National Health Service, and tests the ability to respond to a potential outbreaks. In January 2024, we will be running a national multi-agency exercise to assess the system-wide preparedness to respond to a large measles outbreak at a regional and national level.</p><p>National measles guidance has been updated, and a range of resources have been published including posters and training resources, which are all available at the following links:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-measles-guidelines" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-measles-guidelines</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/measles-information-and-poster-for-health-professionals" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/measles-information-and-poster-for-health-professionals</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/measles-guidance-data-and-analysis" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/measles-guidance-data-and-analysis</a></p><p>The Department, NHS England, and wider health system partners are also working to raise awareness of the risks of measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) and to increase vaccination coverage. This is being done through national and regional exercises, communication campaigns and targeted outreach for underserved communities.</p><p>NHS England has agreed with general practices to focus their annual MMR campaign to ensure that consistent efforts are made to contact those eligible who have not taken up a vaccine offer between November 2023 and March 2024. A national call recall for individuals aged six years old up to and including 25 years old who are not up to date with their MMR vaccine is planned for 2024.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 08/01/2024 10:40:35 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4769 label Biography information for Daisy Cooper

1678495

registered interest
date	18/12/2023
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	Vaccination: 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 steps her Department is taking to help increase the uptake of routine childhood immunisations.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Daisy Cooper
uin	7421
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2024 answer text <p>The Department works alongside the UK Health Security Agency and NHS England on a range of initiatives to support increased uptake of the routine childhood programmes, including improved data collection to identify and address underserved populations, communication campaigns aimed at parents and guardians and improving children’s access to vaccination services through diverse delivery methods, making getting vaccinated easier for all.</p><p>NHS England has also rolled out additional programmes to improve immunisation coverage for children and catch those up who missed their initial offer, including NHS London’s measles, mumps and rubella campaign and a multi-phase polio campaign. Both campaigns also provide opportunities to catch up children for other important childhood vaccines, too.</p><p>It is vitally important that everyone takes up the vaccinations to which they are entitled, for themselves, their families, and wider society. Anyone unsure about their child’s eligibility or vaccination status should contact their general practitioner for advice.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 08/01/2024 10:56:16 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4769 label Biography information for Daisy Cooper

1678516

registered interest
date	18/12/2023
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	Coronavirus: Vaccination
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 unused covid-19 vaccine doses have been destroyed as of 18 December 2023.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	7245
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2024 answer text <p>From December 2020 to 20 December 2023, 732,060 doses have been disposed of by the UK Health Security Agency. Vaccines are disposed of due to product damage or product expiry.</p><p>NHS England holds some information in relation to disposal within the NHS England supply chain, equating to 21,000 doses. This data was reported in the NAO report February 2022 and is the last published data, which is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/The-rollout-of-the-COVID-19-vaccination-programme-in-England.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/The-rollout-of-the-COVID-19-vaccination-programme-in-England.pdf</a></p><p>NHS England does not hold the data for disposal of vaccine once the vaccine has been delivered to vaccination sites.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 08/01/2024 10:02:16 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1678528

registered interest
date	18/12/2023
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	Gambling: Football Pools
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to her Department's publication entitled Gambling-related harms evidence review: quantitative analysis, updated on 11 January 2023, what methodologies were used to gather data on Football Pools.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	7256
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2024 answer text <p>The Gambling-related harms evidence review: quantitative analysis has not been updated since original publication on 30 September 2019. The Health Survey for England (2012, 2015, 2016 and 2018) was used as the primary dataset for this review and analysis was carried out on this four-year combined and weighted dataset. Information on methods for data collection for the Health Survey for England is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="http://healthsurvey.hscic.gov.uk/support-guidance/public-health/health-survey-for-england-2018/introduction.aspx" target="_blank">http://healthsurvey.hscic.gov.uk/support-guidance/public-health/health-survey-for-england-2018/introduction.aspx</a></p><p>The Health Survey for England asks whether survey respondents have participated in several different types gambling activities, and is included in the quantitative analysis which is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/gambling-related-harms-evidence-review" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/gambling-related-harms-evidence-review</a></p><p>Gambling activities were not specifically labelled as ‘pools betting’.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom grouped question UIN 7258 question first answered 09/01/2024 11:54:57 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

1678530

registered interest
date	18/12/2023
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	Gambling: Football Pools
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to her Department's publication entitled Gambling-related harms evidence review: quantitative analysis, updated on 11 January 2023, what definition of pools betting her Department used during the evidence gathering process; and which gambling activities were labelled as pools betting.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	7258
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2024 answer text <p>The Gambling-related harms evidence review: quantitative analysis has not been updated since original publication on 30 September 2019. The Health Survey for England (2012, 2015, 2016 and 2018) was used as the primary dataset for this review and analysis was carried out on this four-year combined and weighted dataset. Information on methods for data collection for the Health Survey for England is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="http://healthsurvey.hscic.gov.uk/support-guidance/public-health/health-survey-for-england-2018/introduction.aspx" target="_blank">http://healthsurvey.hscic.gov.uk/support-guidance/public-health/health-survey-for-england-2018/introduction.aspx</a></p><p>The Health Survey for England asks whether survey respondents have participated in several different types gambling activities, and is included in the quantitative analysis which is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/gambling-related-harms-evidence-review" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/gambling-related-harms-evidence-review</a></p><p>Gambling activities were not specifically labelled as ‘pools betting’.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom grouped question UIN 7256 question first answered 09/01/2024 11:54:57 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

1678551

registered interest
date	18/12/2023
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	Ambulance Services: Warwickshire
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 average wait time for an ambulance was in (a) Coventry and (b) Warwickshire in each winter since 2010-2011.
tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
tabling member printed	Matt Western
uin	7382
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2024 answer text <p>The information is not available in the format requested.</p><p>Ambulance response times are measured by response time category down to regional ambulance trust level. Coventry and Warwickshire are both served by the West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS).</p><p>The current ambulance response time standards were introduced in 2017 following extensive clinical trials and include average response times by response time category. Prior to this average response times were not centrally collected.</p><p>The following table shows average ambulance response times for WMAS in December, January and February between 2017 and 2023.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Month</p></td><td><p>Category 1 mean</p></td><td><p>Category 2 mean</p></td><td><p>Category 3 mean</p></td><td><p>Category 4 mean</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>December</p></td><td><p>00:07:03</p></td><td><p>00:13:12</p></td><td><p>0:39:49</p></td><td><p>1:04:30</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>January</p></td><td><p>00:06:48</p></td><td><p>00:12:22</p></td><td><p>0:35:20</p></td><td><p>0:57:11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>February</p></td><td><p>00:07:03</p></td><td><p>00:13:14</p></td><td><p>0:41:35</p></td><td><p>1:00:51</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>December</p></td><td><p>0:06:48</p></td><td><p>0:12:29</p></td><td><p>0:36:14</p></td><td><p>0:51:31</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>January</p></td><td><p>0:06:44</p></td><td><p>0:12:11</p></td><td><p>0:35:17</p></td><td><p>0:51:40</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>February</p></td><td><p>0:06:46</p></td><td><p>0:12:32</p></td><td><p>0:38:22</p></td><td><p>0:51:10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>December</p></td><td><p>0:07:02</p></td><td><p>0:14:56</p></td><td><p>1:01:08</p></td><td><p>1:16:39</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>January</p></td><td><p>0:06:59</p></td><td><p>0:12:29</p></td><td><p>0:32:47</p></td><td><p>0:48:36</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>February</p></td><td><p>0:07:09</p></td><td><p>0:13:06</p></td><td><p>0:41:16</p></td><td><p>0:56:45</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>December</p></td><td><p>0:06:57</p></td><td><p>0:14:46</p></td><td><p>0:47:41</p></td><td><p>1:01:10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>January</p></td><td><p>0:06:51</p></td><td><p>0:14:48</p></td><td><p>0:51:45</p></td><td><p>1:03:04</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>February</p></td><td><p>0:06:35</p></td><td><p>0:12:01</p></td><td><p>0:25:06</p></td><td><p>0:35:28</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021/22</p></td><td><p>December</p></td><td><p>0:08:19</p></td><td><p>0:48:19</p></td><td><p>3:20:50</p></td><td><p>3:46:03</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>January</p></td><td><p>0:08:10</p></td><td><p>0:34:44</p></td><td><p>2:35:07</p></td><td><p>2:54:24</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>February</p></td><td><p>0:08:11</p></td><td><p>0:33:36</p></td><td><p>2:26:14</p></td><td><p>3:15:26</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022/23</p></td><td><p>December</p></td><td><p>0:09:14</p></td><td><p>1:31:10</p></td><td><p>4:48:31</p></td><td><p>4:33:46</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>January</p></td><td><p>0:08:11</p></td><td><p>0:27:21</p></td><td><p>1:39:18</p></td><td><p>1:51:52</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>February</p></td><td><p>0:08:18</p></td><td><p>0:25:49</p></td><td><p>1:54:42</p></td><td><p>2:37:55</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS England Ambulance Quality Indicators.</p><p>Note: The national standards for Category 3 and 4 incidents are 90<sup>th</sup> percentile response times, rather than mean response.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 08/01/2024 10:57:03 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1678559

registered interest
date	18/12/2023
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	Hospices: 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 her planned timetable is for informing children's hospices of the (a) timeframe and (b) process for distribution of the children's hospice grant for 2024-25.
tabling member constituency	Mitcham and Morden
tabling member printed	Siobhain McDonagh
uin	7244
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2024 answer text <p>Financial year 2023/24 marks the final year of NHS England’s current grant agreement for the centrally funded and administered Children and Young People’s Hospice Grant, provided to all children and young people’s hospices in England. NHS England’s proposed plan for 2024/25 is to maintain the same funding as 2023/24, namely £25 million, and to use the same prevalence-based allocation approach as in 2022/23 and 2023/24.</p><p>NHS England is in the process of reprioritising budgets for 2024/25, in light of the revised assessment of financial position and, whilst it is holding funding aside for the children and young people’s hospice sector, it cannot confirm further details, including the distribution mechanism, until 2024/25 financial planning is concluded.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 30/01/2024 09:33:19 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	193 label Biography information for Dame Siobhain McDonagh