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1061027

	registered interest
	date	14/02/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	UK-France Migration Committee
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 12th February to Question 218262 on UK-France Migration Committee, for what reason the dates and locations of those meetings were not provided in the answer.
	tabling member constituency	Dover
	tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
	uin	221662
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>As previously advised in the response to Question 218262, the UK-France Migration Committee meets on a bi-monthly basis and is hosted alternately by the UK Home Office and French Interior Ministry. It is not Home Office policy to release detailed information on meetings that ministers and/or officials attend</p><p><br>As regards payments to the French Government, no additional payments have been made beyond those detailed in the response to Question 217548, dated 12th February 2019.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 221671 question first answered 09/09/2019 15:39:15 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke

1061053

	registered interest
	date	14/02/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Human Trafficking and Immigration: France
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 12 February 2019 to Question 217548 on Human Trafficking and Immigration: France, whether any other payments in cash or kind have been made to France in connection with (a) border security, (b) infrastructure and (c) countering organised crime and people trafficking in addition to those set out in that answer.
	tabling member constituency	Dover
	tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
	uin	221671
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>As previously advised in the response to Question 218262, the UK-France Migration Committee meets on a bi-monthly basis and is hosted alternately by the UK Home Office and French Interior Ministry. It is not Home Office policy to release detailed information on meetings that ministers and/or officials attend</p><p><br>As regards payments to the French Government, no additional payments have been made beyond those detailed in the response to Question 217548, dated 12th February 2019.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 221662 question first answered 09/09/2019 15:39:15 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke

1108693

	registered interest
	date	01/04/2019
	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	Cannabis: Medical Treatments
	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 his Department has had with NICE on the prescription of medicinal cannabis oil for patients with (a) cerebral palsy and (b) arthritis.
	tabling member constituency	Banff and Buchan
	tabling member printed	David Duguid
	uin	239283
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2019 answer text <p>The Department has not discussed with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) the prescription of medicinal cannabis oil for patients with cerebral palsy and arthritis.</p><p> </p><p>NICE is the independent expert body that develops authoritative, evidence-based guidance for the National Health Service on whether drugs and other treatments represent a clinically and cost effective use of NHS resources. NICE is developing guidance on the prescribing of cannabis-based medicinal products by October 2019. It will be based on the best available international evidence and will have been produced using NICE’s world-renowned process for delivering such guidance.</p><p> </p><p>Following a public consultation on the draft scope, the guidance will focus on the use of cannabis-based products in the treatment of chronic pain, intractable nausea and vomiting, spasticity and severe treatment-resistant epilepsy, conditions where the evidence is currently most advanced. A consultation on the draft guidance is expected in the summer.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 09/04/2019 14:41:04 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4606 label Biography information for David Duguid

1108996

	registered interest
	date	02/04/2019
	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	Health Services: Travellers and Homelessness
	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 (a) his Department plans to take with the NHS to respond to the findings of the Friends Families and Travellers’ report entitled No room at the inn: How easy is it for nomadic Gypsies and Travellers to access primary care and (b) the NHS plans to take to ensure homeless people can access healthcare at any GP practice they choose.
	tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
	tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
	uin	240011
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2019 answer text <p>Registering with and access to primary medical care services is the same for all patients, whether they are gypsies, travellers, or homeless people. People do not need to provide proof of address to register with a general practice (GP). NHS England is working with a range of community groups to redesign the patient registration leaflet so that people are aware of this when registering. The free NHS 111 service can assist anyone who has faced difficulty finding a GP or accessing other services in their local area.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is aware of difficulties some individuals have faced when trying to register with a GP and is taking steps to address shortcomings with individual practices, working in partnership with the voluntary sector.</p><p> </p><p>The Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise Health and Wellbeing Alliance is a partnership arrangement with the aim to facilitate integrated working between the voluntary and statutory sectors, to promote equality and reduce health inequalities. It receives £1.2 million for core work from the Department, with each member receiving funding of up to £60,000. Families and Travellers is a member of the Alliance and have supported the Department on a range of work to date including the Inclusion Health Audit Tool, on maternal health, mental health, end of life care and dementia.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 09/04/2019 14:33:43 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

1109014

	registered interest
	date	02/04/2019
	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	Obesity
	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 access to Tier 3 obesity services.
	tabling member constituency	St Ives
	tabling member printed	Derek Thomas
	uin	240051
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2019 answer text <p>Public Health England has been working with NHS England to support approaches to obesity as part of the NHS Long Term Plan. The NHS Long Term Plan has a number of different actions to support the drive to reduce obesity, including investment in tier 3 services for both children and adults and plans are in development for this expansion. This will result in, for example, a further 1,000 children a year being treated by 2022/23 for severe complications related to obesity.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 09/04/2019 14:35:00 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4532 label Biography information for Derek Thomas

1109016

	registered interest
	date	02/04/2019
	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	Obesity
	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 has taken to establish the cost of obesity to the (a) NHS, (b) social services and (c) the wider economy.
	tabling member constituency	St Ives
	tabling member printed	Derek Thomas
	uin	240052
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2019 answer text <p>‘The economic burden of ill health due to diet, physical inactivity, smoking, alcohol and obesity in the UK: an update to 2006-07 NHS costs’ estimated that overweight and obesity cost the National Health Service in the United Kingdom £5.1 billion per year. This figure was uplifted to £6.1 billion in 2014/15 to take account of inflation.</p><p> </p><p>The Foresight team published ‘Tackling Obesities: Future Choices in 2007’. This estimated the annual costs of overweight and obesity to society and the economy as £27 billion in 2015, based on obesity prevalence at the time. In 2014 the McKinsey Global Institute estimated the cost of obesity to the UK economy as £46 billion per year.</p><p> </p><p>No further estimates of the costs of obesity are planned or have been made centrally.</p><p> </p><p>Copies of ‘The economic burden of ill health due to diet, physical inactivity, smoking, alcohol and obesity in the UK: an update to 2006-07 NHS costs’; ‘Tackling Obesities: Future Choices’; and the McKinsey Global Institute’s report ‘Overcoming obesity: An initial economic analysis’ are available at the following links:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/article/33/4/527/1568587" target="_blank">https://academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/article/33/4/527/1568587</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/reducing-obesity-future-choices" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/reducing-obesity-future-choices</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.mckinsey.com/industries/healthcare-systems-and-services/our-insights/how-the-world-could-better-fight-obesity" target="_blank">www.mckinsey.com/industries/healthcare-systems-and-services/our-insights/how-the-world-could-better-fight-obesity</a></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 240053 question first answered 10/04/2019 13:47:01 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4532 label Biography information for Derek Thomas

1109017

	registered interest
	date	02/04/2019
	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	Obesity
	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 cost of obesity to the (a) NHS, (b) social services and (c) wider economy.
	tabling member constituency	St Ives
	tabling member printed	Derek Thomas
	uin	240053
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2019 answer text <p>‘The economic burden of ill health due to diet, physical inactivity, smoking, alcohol and obesity in the UK: an update to 2006-07 NHS costs’ estimated that overweight and obesity cost the National Health Service in the United Kingdom £5.1 billion per year. This figure was uplifted to £6.1 billion in 2014/15 to take account of inflation.</p><p> </p><p>The Foresight team published ‘Tackling Obesities: Future Choices in 2007’. This estimated the annual costs of overweight and obesity to society and the economy as £27 billion in 2015, based on obesity prevalence at the time. In 2014 the McKinsey Global Institute estimated the cost of obesity to the UK economy as £46 billion per year.</p><p> </p><p>No further estimates of the costs of obesity are planned or have been made centrally.</p><p> </p><p>Copies of ‘The economic burden of ill health due to diet, physical inactivity, smoking, alcohol and obesity in the UK: an update to 2006-07 NHS costs’; ‘Tackling Obesities: Future Choices’; and the McKinsey Global Institute’s report ‘Overcoming obesity: An initial economic analysis’ are available at the following links:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/article/33/4/527/1568587" target="_blank">https://academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/article/33/4/527/1568587</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/reducing-obesity-future-choices" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/reducing-obesity-future-choices</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.mckinsey.com/industries/healthcare-systems-and-services/our-insights/how-the-world-could-better-fight-obesity" target="_blank">www.mckinsey.com/industries/healthcare-systems-and-services/our-insights/how-the-world-could-better-fight-obesity</a></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 240052 question first answered 10/04/2019 13:47:01 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4532 label Biography information for Derek Thomas

1109018

	registered interest
	date	02/04/2019
	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	Obesity
	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 27 March 2018 to Question 133501 on obesity, for what reason his Department does not hold information on the number of tier three obesity services commissioned by clinical commissioning groups or local authorities; and whether he plans to collate that information.
	tabling member constituency	St Ives
	tabling member printed	Derek Thomas
	uin	240054
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2019 answer text <p>It would not be cost-effective for the Department to collect data on every clinical intervention, including information on tier three obesity services commissioned by clinical commissioning groups or local authorities.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 09/04/2019 14:36:07 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4532 label Biography information for Derek Thomas

1109022

	registered interest
	date	02/04/2019
	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	Sterilisation
	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 Clinical Commissioning Groups commission vasectomy services for patients who are not in exceptional circumstances.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	240100
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>This is a matter for local clinical commissioning groups, and the information requested is not held centrally by the Department or NHS England.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 08/04/2019 15:26:41 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1109030

	registered interest
	date	02/04/2019
	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	Orthopaedics
	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 implications for his policies of the conclusions of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Vascular and Venous Disease report entitled Saving Limbs, Saving Lives: A Call to Action to Reduce Inequalities in Lower Limb Amputation Rates; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	St Ives
	tabling member printed	Derek Thomas
	uin	240055
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2019 answer text <p>The specialised commissioning Clinical Reference Group (CRG) for Vascular Disease, together with NHS Improvement’s Getting it Right First Time (GIRFT) team, aims to address many of the issues raised in the report. There is a joint NHS England and GIRFT Board for the ‘Action on Vascular’ work, which is focusing on the early availability of treatments to increase lower limb circulation and reduce amputation rates.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan published on 7 January commits to ensuring that hospitals provide patients with access to multi-disciplinary footcare teams and inpatient specialist nursing teams, in order to improve recovery and reduce lengths of stay and future readmissions. This commitment will support reducing inequalities by giving universal access to multi-disciplinary footcare teams and diabetes inpatient specialist nurses.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 240056 question first answered 10/04/2019 13:38:19 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4532 label Biography information for Derek Thomas