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1722436

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date	22/07/2024
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	Cervical Cancer: Screening
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 he has to roll-out self-sampling cervical cancer tests.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	953
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2024 answer text <p>A recently published YouScreen study provides evidence on offering a self-sampling test to non-attenders in the NHS Cervical Screening Programme. The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) plans to review this evidence and make a recommendation by the end of the year.</p><p>In addition, an in-service evaluation is being commissioned by the National Institute for Health and Care Research to determine whether self-sampling could be offered as an option to everyone eligible for cervical screening. The findings from this evaluation will be used to inform any recommendations made by the UK NSC.</p> answering member constituency Gorton and Denton answering member printed Andrew Gwynne question first answered 24/07/2024 09:44:09 answering member 1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1722561

registered interest
date	22/07/2024
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	Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, If he will make it his policy to publish a national cancer plan.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	900
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2024 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Plan, published in January 2019, sets out the National Health Service’s key ambitions on cancer. The plan sets out the NHS ambition to increase the number of cancers diagnosed at stages 1 and 2 to 75% by 2028, and to increase the number of people surviving cancer for five years by 55,000 as a result.</p><p>Professor Lord Darzi is currently undertaking an independent investigation into the state of the NHS, the findings of which will feed into the Government’s 10-year plan to build a health service that is fit for the future. The Government will set out any further priorities on cancer and health in due course.</p> answering member constituency Gorton and Denton answering member printed Andrew Gwynne question first answered 25/07/2024 09:09:07 answering member 1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1722564

registered interest
date	22/07/2024
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	Radiotherapy: Standards
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 he plans to take to increase radiotherapy treatment capacity in the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	901
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2024 answer text <p>Since April 2022 the responsibility for investing in new radiotherapy machines sits with local systems. This is supported by the 2021 Spending Review, which set aside £12 billion in operational capital for the National Health Service for 2022 to 2025, and the latest Capital Planning Guidance.</p> answering member constituency Gorton and Denton answering member printed Andrew Gwynne question first answered 24/07/2024 09:46:31 answering member 1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1722685

registered interest
date	22/07/2024
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	Tobacco and Vapes Bill
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 Scottish Government on the Tobacco and Vapes Bill.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Tracy Gilbert
uin	1132
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2024 answer text <p>My Rt hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has been discussing the new United Kingdom-wide Tobacco and Vapes Bill with Neil Gray, the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care for Scotland, and will send formal correspondence prior to its introduction. As the bill covers the whole of the UK, the Department will stay in close contact with all our devolved government counterparts, throughout the passage of the bill.</p><p>Department officials have engaged frequently with officials from Public Health Scotland, and the rest of the devolved governments, to help shape and develop proposals for new legislation. Each of the devolved governments, including the Scottish Government, are in support of a new and strengthened bill, and the benefits it will provide to the health of our nations. Once the bill has been introduced to the UK Parliament, the devolved governments will seek consent motions from their respective legislatures, including the Scottish Parliament.</p> answering member constituency Gorton and Denton answering member printed Andrew Gwynne question first answered 25/07/2024 09:42:06 answering member 1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne
tabling member	5188

1722718

registered interest
date	22/07/2024
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	General Practitioners: Hitchin
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the number of people who have been waiting more than four weeks for a GP appointment in Hitchin constituency.
tabling member constituency	Hitchin
tabling member printed	Alistair Strathern
uin	1165
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2024 answer text <p>The Hitchin constituency sits within the Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board where, in May 2024, 649,000 general practice appointments were delivered. Of those, 29,000 appointments, or 4.1%, were delivered 28 days after booking, 0.7% less than the national average.</p><p>In the 12 months up to May 2024, more than 156,000 appointments, which are not usually booked in advance, were delivered more than 28 days after they were booked. There are a number of factors which can influence the timing of appointments, and it is not possible to estimate the time between the patient’s first attempt to contact their surgery and an appointment.</p> answering member constituency Aberafan Maesteg answering member printed Stephen Kinnock question first answered 25/07/2024 14:22:52 answering member 4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock
tabling member	5000 label Biography information for Alistair Strathern

1722719

registered interest
date	22/07/2024
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	Dental Health: Hitchin
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 children aged 11 and under with tooth decay were admitted to hospital for a tooth extraction in Hitchin constituency in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Hitchin
tabling member printed	Alistair Strathern
uin	1166
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2024 answer text <p>he information requested is not available on a constituency basis, or for the desired age band.</p> answering member constituency Aberafan Maesteg answering member printed Stephen Kinnock question first answered 25/07/2024 14:20:19 answering member 4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock
tabling member	5000 label Biography information for Alistair Strathern

1722720

registered interest
date	22/07/2024
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	Dental Services: Hitchin
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 he is taking to help reduce the time taken to access dental services in Hitchin constituency.
tabling member constituency	Hitchin
tabling member printed	Alistair Strathern
uin	1167
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2024 answer text <p>The Government plans to tackle the challenges patients face when trying to access National Health Service dental care with a rescue plan to provide 700,000 more urgent dental appointments, and to recruit new dentists to areas that need them most. To rebuild dentistry in the long term and increase access to NHS dental care, we will reform the dental contract, with a shift to focus on prevention and the retention of NHS dentists.</p><p>The local integrated care boards (ICBs) for Hitchen are also taking actions to support access to dental services. In May 2024, the Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes ICB introduced a Dental Access Pilot which all patients can access via the NHS111 service. This pilot involves a small cohort of dental contractors working across four areas, providing additional dental sessions on evenings, weekends, and bank holidays.</p><p>The Hertfordshire and West Essex ICB has been running a pilot scheme since December 2023 which provides additional urgent appointments during the day and in the evenings, as well as over weekends, to patients who are referred via NHS111.</p> answering member constituency Aberafan Maesteg answering member printed Stephen Kinnock question first answered 25/07/2024 14:17:10 answering member 4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock
tabling member	5000 label Biography information for Alistair Strathern

1722721

registered interest
date	22/07/2024
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	Dental Health: Hitchin
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number and proportion of children aged four and under who were admitted to hospital for a tooth extraction due to decay in Hitchin constituency in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Hitchin
tabling member printed	Alistair Strathern
uin	1168
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2024 answer text <p>The information requested is not available on a constituency basis, or for the desired age band for each of the last five years.</p> answering member constituency Aberafan Maesteg answering member printed Stephen Kinnock question first answered 25/07/2024 14:25:38 answering member 4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock
tabling member	5000 label Biography information for Alistair Strathern

1722266

registered interest
date	19/07/2024
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	Cancer: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will commission a strategy on the (a) research, (b) diagnosis and (c) management of cancer.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	806
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2024 answer text <p>The NHS Long-Term Plan published in January 2019 sets out the National Health Service’s key ambitions on cancer, including acknowledging the importance of research and cancer management. The Plan also sets out the NHS ambition to increase the number of cancers diagnosed at stage one and two to 75% by 2028 and to increase the number of people surviving cancer for five years by 55,000 as a result.</p><p>Lord Ara Darzi is currently undertaking an independent investigation into the state of the NHS, the findings of which will feed into the Government’s 10-year plan to build a health service that is fit for the future. The Government will set out any further priorities on cancer and health in due course.</p> answering member constituency Gorton and Denton answering member printed Andrew Gwynne question first answered 24/07/2024 13:14:55 answering member 1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1722267

registered interest
date	19/07/2024
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	Pancreatic Cancer: Diagnosis and Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of recent trends in the number of pancreatic cancer diagnoses; and what steps he plans to take to help support research into less treatable cancers.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	807
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2024 answer text <p>The National Health Service’s latest available data shows that the number of pancreatic cancer cases diagnosed in 2021 was 9,728, compared to 9,263 in 2019, showing a gradual increase. Delivering more research is key to understanding and assessing the challenges around cancers with lower survival rates. The Department invests £1.3 billion per year into health research, through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The NIHR welcomes funding applications for research into any aspect of human health, including all cancers. As with other Government funding of health research, the NIHR does not allocate funding for specific disease areas, including less survivable cancers. The level of research spend in a particular area is driven by factors including scientific potential and the number and scale of successful funding applications.</p><p>The NHS Cancer Programme has commissioned 10 clinical cancer audits, which will provide timely evidence for cancer service providers where patterns of care in England may vary, increase the consistency of access to treatments, and help stimulate improvements in cancer treatment and outcomes for patients. This includes an audit on pancreatic cancer. NHS England’s Getting it Right First Time (GIRFT) programme has appointed a team of 5 specialist clinicians to lead a national review into services for pancreatic cancer patients in England. As part of their review, the GIRFT clinicians are visiting 23 networks. Early evidence shows that tracking patients throughout their pathway, both geographically and chronologically, supports an optimal service, making good use of Clinical Nurse Specialists. The final report will be completed in 2024/25.</p> answering member constituency Gorton and Denton answering member printed Andrew Gwynne question first answered 24/07/2024 08:28:16 answering member 1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell