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922426

registered interest
date	12/06/2018
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: Re-employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	Can the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many staff made redundant by his Department between January and March 2017 have been reemployed by his Department on (a) permanent, (b) agency or (c) contractor contracts.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	152853
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2018 answer text <p>No staff have been reemployed by the Department who previously left under compulsory or voluntary redundancy, between January and March 2017.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 20/06/2018 11:09:19 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

922427

registered interest
date	12/06/2018
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: Vacancies
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 number of job vacancies in his Department is.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	152854
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2018 answer text <p>As of 18 June 2018 there are 28 advertised vacancies in the Department. Due to the way information about vacant posts is held in the department, this is the most accurate figure we are able to provide.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 20/06/2018 11:05:33 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

911264

registered interest
date	24/05/2018
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	Pain: Females
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 people were prescribed GnRH analogue treatment by the NHS in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	147966
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2018 answer text <p>The following table provided by the NHS Business Services Authority (NHS BSA), shows the number of people prescribed GnRH analogue treatment by the National Health Service in England in a primary care setting. Figures are provided for the last three years as patient information for prescribing is only available from April 2015 onwards.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Number of patients receiving prescriptions for drugs identified as &quot;GnRH Analogue Treatment</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>Number of identified patients</p></td><td><p>Proportion of prescription items where the patient could be identified</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2015 - March 2016</p></td><td><p>128,524</p></td><td><p>94.88%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2016 - March 2017</p></td><td><p>130,238</p></td><td><p>95.75%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2017 - March 2018</p></td><td><p>131,178</p></td><td><p>96.33%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Note:</p><p> </p><p>Care should be taken when interpreting the patient counts as some patients could appear in the results for multiple time periods. Therefore, the patient numbers should not be combined and reported at any other levels than as provided in the dataset.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS numbers are not captured for every prescription and hence the NHS BSA has included the number of patients who could be identified along with the proportion of applicable prescription items for which the patient data could be identified.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 07/06/2018 16:09:49 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

909450

registered interest
date	22/05/2018
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	Antimicrobials: Drug Resistance
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 his Department is taking to increase public awareness of antimicrobial resistance.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	146974
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2018 answer text <p>Public Health England (PHE) has developed a number of initiatives which support the Government’s ambition to halve inappropriate prescribing of antibiotics by 2020.</p><p> </p><p>PHE launched a major new national campaign, ‘Keep Antibiotics Working’, in October 2017 following a successful pilot in the North West, to alert the general public to the issue of antibiotic resistance, with the aim of reducing patient pressure on general practitioners to prescribe. The mass-media campaign targets all adults with a focus on groups most likely to use antibiotics: older adults and women aged 20-45 years old, who typically have primary responsibility for family health as younger children are heavy users of antibiotics. The campaign is advertised through a numbers of mediums including television, radio and social media. There is also extensive partner support from health care professionals and local authorities in local communities.</p><p> </p><p>The United Kingdom-wide Antibiotic Guardian campaign, now in its fourth year, aims to stimulate behaviour change and increase engagement to tackle antimicrobial resistance by healthcare professionals and engaged members of the public.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 04/06/2018 14:16:00 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

909452

registered interest
date	22/05/2018
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	Antimicrobials: Prescriptions
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 have been taken to prevent the over-prescription of antimicrobials.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	146975
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/05/2018 answer text <p>The Government’s ambition in response to Lord O’Neill’s Review on Antimicrobial Resistance is to halve inappropriate prescribing of antibiotics by 2020/21. The English Surveillance Programme for Antimicrobial Utilisation and Resistance has shown that the number of antibiotic prescriptions in primary care decreased by 13% between 2012 and 2016.</p><p> </p><p>To support the Government’s ambition, NHS England and Public Health England are leading a range of measures to optimise the prescribing of antibiotics, including education and training, financial incentives and raising awareness. The measures include:</p><p> </p><p>- A Quality Premium focused on driving down inappropriate prescribing in primary care;</p><p>- A Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN) scheme to incentivise providers to reduce antibiotic consumption in secondary care; and</p><p>- A national awareness campaign launched by Public Health England to increase patient awareness about inappropriate prescribing of antibiotics.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the NHS England Chief Pharmaceutical Officer will be reinforcing what constitutes inappropriate prescribing (as recently defined by the Advisory Committee on Antimicrobial Prescribing, Resistance and Healthcare Associated Infection) in direct communications to trusts.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 31/05/2018 11:22:24 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

904023

registered interest
date	14/05/2018
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	Medical Treatments: Innovation
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 his Department is taking to shorten the approval process time for treatments that are not selected for the accelerated access pathway.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	143872
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>The Life Sciences Industrial Strategy set out our vision of being a world-leader in developing and bringing to market innovative medicines to improve patient outcomes. It highlighted the importance of evolving and simplifying the access system for new medicines by implementing, and building on, the findings of the Accelerated Access Review.</p><p> </p><p>The response to the Accelerated Access Review, published last year, set out a series of actions the Government and the National Health Service are taking to increase the rate of uptake of innovative products. We have brought together the key Government, NHS and industry partners together through the newly formed Accelerated Access Collaborative, who will oversee the Accelerated Access Pathway, to streamline regulatory and market access decisions, getting breakthrough products that we believe will be truly transformative to patients more quickly. The response also committed to £86 million of support, including £39 million to improve local adoption and uptake of innovative medical technologies through a greater role for the Academic Health and Science Networks and £6 million to help the NHS to adopt and integrate new technologies into everyday practice, through the Pathway Transformation Fund. These build on our existing schemes to encourage quicker patient access such as the Early Access to Medicines Scheme and the Innovation Technology Tariff. Additionally, the Innovation Scorecard tracks the uptake of cost-effective new medicines approved by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 22/05/2018 14:12:45 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

904024

registered interest
date	14/05/2018
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	Drugs: Innovation
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 plans to make an assessment of the effectiveness of the accelerated access pathway to enable access to new, innovative medicines.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	143873
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>As set out in the response to the Accelerated Access Review, published last year, the Accelerated Access Pathway is being developed and overseen by the newly formed Accelerated Access Collaborative (AAC) which brings together key leaders from the Government, the National Health Service, patient groups, and industry. The AAC will assess and review the effectiveness of the pathway, and provide an evaluation of its impact as part of regular reports to Ministers at the Department.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 22/05/2018 14:11:40 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

904104

registered interest
date	14/05/2018
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	Obesity: Children and Young People
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 provide for the treatment of children and young people who are already (a) overweight, (b) obese and (c) severely obese.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	143874
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>Public Health England (PHE) is supporting the local implementation of National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance relating to weight management through the publication of an evidence based guide and tools to support the local delivery of lifestyle approaches to help children and their families achieve a healthier weight.</p><p> </p><p>PHE is currently exploring how digital approaches could help to extend access of behavioural approaches to families who might benefit the most from support to adopt healthier lifestyles and achieve a healthier weight.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England commissions obesity surgery for children with severe complex obesity in line with the commissioning policy. Further information is available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/16053p-obesity-surgery-children-severe-complex-obesity.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/16053p-obesity-surgery-children-severe-complex-obesity.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 22/05/2018 14:09:02 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

902115

registered interest
date	11/05/2018
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	Abortion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to amend the law on abortion to make it easier for women with complex medical conditions to access abortion services.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	143232
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2018 answer text <p>Parliament decided the circumstances under which abortion can be legally undertaken. As with other matters of conscience, abortion is an issue on which the Government adopts a neutral stance. It is accepted Parliamentary practice that proposals for changes in the law on abortion come from back-bench members and that decisions are made on the basis of free votes.</p><p> </p><p>The Department recognises that some women with complex medical needs face challenges in accessing timely abortion care and is working with NHS England to ensure there are sufficient facilities in the National Health Service to provide abortions for women who have medical conditions.</p><p> </p><p>Currently clinical commissioning groups are responsible for commissioning NHS-funded termination of pregnancy services in England. Ministers have agreed that in 2018/19 NHS England will become the responsible commissioner for a small number of terminations, estimated at between 2,500 and 3,000, where the woman has significant comorbidities, which require critical care and/or medical support that would only be available in co-located NHS facilities. A national service specification will be developed to formally commission this service.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 21/05/2018 16:09:19 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

895323

registered interest
date	01/05/2018
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	CJD
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 diagnosed cases of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease were reported in the UK in each year since 2012.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	140219
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2018 answer text <p>Diagnosed cases of variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease since 2012 can be accessed here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.cjd.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/figs.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.cjd.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/figs.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 10/05/2018 13:25:05 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel