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1140302

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2019
	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	Rehabilitation Centres: County Durham
	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 increase the number of residential drug recovery services for women in County Durham.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	278956
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government provides funding to local authorities for their public health responsibilities through a public health grant. It is for individual local authorities to decide their spending priorities based on an assessment of local need, including the need for residential drug treatment services taking account of their statutory duties.</p><p>Future funding for local authority public health functions will be a matter for the Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 278960 question first answered 23/07/2019 16:50:57 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1140335

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2019
	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	Rehabilitation Centres: Finance
	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 increase the (a) funding for and (b) provision of residential drug treatment services.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	278960
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government provides funding to local authorities for their public health responsibilities through a public health grant. It is for individual local authorities to decide their spending priorities based on an assessment of local need, including the need for residential drug treatment services taking account of their statutory duties.</p><p>Future funding for local authority public health functions will be a matter for the Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 278956 question first answered 23/07/2019 16:50:57 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1139684

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2019
	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	Smoking: County Durham
	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 the adequacy of public health funding for smoking cessation services in County Durham.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	278474
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>Local authorities will receive over £3.1 billion in 2019/20 for use on public health. It is for local authorities themselves to determine how best to use these resources based on their assessment of local need and with regard to their statutory duties. Future funding for local authorities’ public health responsibilities will be considered carefully in the next spending review, taking full account of the available evidence.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 22/07/2019 15:35:40 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1139685

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2019
	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: County Durham
	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 NHS England's Commissioner-based Cancer Waiting Times for May 2019 (Provisional), published on 11 July 2019, for what reason the NHS Durham Dales, Easington and Sedgefield Clinical Commissioning Group is not meeting the target for patients to receive their first cancer treatment within 62 days of an urgent GP referral.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	278475
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>Cancer is a priority for this Government and impetus has been given to ensuring that more patients are seen and treated for cancer. The drive to improve survival rates through earlier diagnosis, therefore, has meant that demand and activity have been rising for a number of years. This has resulted in more people being referred and diagnosed than ever before.</p><p>Improving diagnosis and ensuring better outcomes for patients diagnosed with cancer is a priority for Durham Dales, Easington and Sedgefield Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), and County Durham is consistently better in terms of coverage than the national average for all three cancer screening programmes. The CCG is working collaboratively with colleagues from public health, primary care and secondary care on a strategic piece of work, with a view that a multi-disciplinary approach is necessary in order to address inequalities in cancer.</p><p> </p><p>The CCG has developed the Action Plan ‘County Durham Reducing Health Inequalities in Cancer Action Plan for 2018-19’.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 22/07/2019 14:29:17 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1139213

	registered interest
	date	16/07/2019
	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: County Durham
	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 is he taking to reduce the number of emergency cancer diagnoses in County Durham.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	277701
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>Improving diagnosis and ensuring better outcomes for patients diagnosed with cancer is a priority for the Durham Dales, Easington and Sedgefield Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). To achieve this, the CCG is working collaboratively with colleagues from public health, primary care and secondary care on a strategic piece of work. The CCG believes that a multi-disciplinary approach is necessary in order to address inequalities.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 22/07/2019 14:26:20 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1139214

	registered interest
	date	16/07/2019
	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 fully-funded long-term cancer workforce plan for the NHS to help ensure increased patient demand is met.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	277702
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>The interim NHS People Plan, published on 3 June 2019, puts the workforce at the heart of the National Health Service and will ensure we have the staff needed to deliver high quality care. A final People Plan will be published soon after the conclusion of the 2019 Spending Review.</p><p>Phase 1 of the Cancer Workforce Plan for England, published in December 2017 by Health Education England (HEE), set out plans to expand capacity and skills in the cancer workforce, including targeting additional training support for seven priority professions which are key to cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment, such as clinical radiology, histopathology, oncology and diagnostic and therapeutic radiography.</p><p>HEE will now work with NHS England and NHS Improvement to understand the longer-term workforce implications of further development of cancer services. This work will inform the final People Plan.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 22/07/2019 14:31:02 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1137556

	registered interest
	date	08/07/2019
	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	Naloxone: County Durham
	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 assessment of the adequacy of the (a) accessibility and (b) provision of take-home naloxone in County Durham to help reduce drug-related deaths.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	274505
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2019 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for assessing local needs and commissioning drug prevention, treatment and harm reduction services to meet these needs. This includes making sure they have sufficient coverage of take-home naloxone to prevent drug-related deaths.</p><p>Durham Public Health funds take-home naloxone for vulnerable service users, and their carers, in hostels and in police custody suites. Naloxone is also available in prison and on prison release.</p><p>The Government is encouraging and supporting local areas to increase the accessibility and expand the provision of naloxone with guidance, advice and tools.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 11/07/2019 13:27:03 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1134470

	registered interest
	date	25/06/2019
	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: Misuse
	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 conducted an impact assessment of the potential effect of the planned cessation of ring-fencing of the Public Health Grant in 2020 on the (a) quality of drug treatment and (b) rate of drug-related deaths.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	269034
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government is concerned by the number of drug-related deaths, which is largely caused by an ageing cohort of heroin users. We are supporting local areas to develop a more joined up approach to commissioning and delivering the range of services that are essential to supporting recovery and preventing drug-related deaths. In October, the Home Office announced that there would be a major independent review of drug misuse. This will look at a wide range of issues, including the system of support and enforcement around drug abuse, to better inform our thinking about what more can be done to tackle drug harms including deaths. The review will inform our thinking about what more can be done to mitigate the harm caused through drug use.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities will receive £3.1 billion in 2019/20, ring-fenced exclusively for use on public health, including drug addiction. We are investing over £16 billion in local authority public health services over the five years of the 2015 Spending Review until 2020/21. Public health funding for 2020 onwards, including for addiction services, will be considered carefully in the next Spending Review, in the light of the available evidence.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 269042 question first answered 01/07/2019 15:13:26 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1134552

	registered interest
	date	25/06/2019
	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	Prescriptions: Fees and Charges
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 24 June 2019 to Question 266839 on Prescriptions: Fees and Charges, how his Department monitors the National Health Service Business Services Authority in relation to appeals against wrongly issued prescription penalty charge notices.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	269036
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2019 answer text <p>The NHS Business Services Authority the body responsible for issuing Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs), does not operate an appeals process against wrongly issued PCNs. However, we are informed that the NHS Business Services Authority has reduced the number of wrongly issued PCNs from an average of 30% across several years to 25% in 2018/19.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 01/07/2019 15:49:53 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1133888

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2019
	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: Misuse
	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 the effect of the change in the level of the Public Health Grant on the (a) quality of drug treatment services and (b) number of drug-related deaths in the 2015 to 2019 Spending Review period .
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	267731
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2019 answer text <p>The Government is concerned by the number of drug-related deaths, which is largely caused by an ageing cohort of heroin users. We are supporting local areas to develop a more joined up approach to commissioning and delivering the range of services that are essential to supporting recovery and preventing drug-related deaths. In October, the Home Office announced that there would be a major independent review of drug misuse. This will look at a wide range of issues, including the system of support and enforcement around drug abuse, to better inform our thinking about what more can be done to tackle drug harms including deaths. The review shall inform our thinking about what more can be done to mitigate the harm caused through drug use.</p><p>Local authorities will receive £3.1 billion in 2019/20, ring-fenced exclusively for use on public health, including drug addiction. We are investing over £16 billion in local authority public health services over the five years of the 2015 Spending Review until 2020/21. Public health funding for 2020 onwards, including for addiction services, will be considered carefully in the next Spending Review, in the light of the available evidence.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 267732 question first answered 26/06/2019 16:34:53 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris