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	date	19/12/2016
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to review the 10-year rule with respect to the prescription for osteoarthritis of the knee in former miners; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Gedling
	tabling member printed	Vernon Coaker
	uin	58344
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2017 answer text <p>There are no current plans to review the ’10 year rule’ with respect to the prescription for osteoarthritis of the knee for specific mining occupations.</p><p>I am advised on matters relating to the Industrial Injuries Scheme by the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (IIAC). IIAC keeps all occupational diseases under continuous review, including osteoarthritis of the knee, and is always ready to receive and consider robust scientific evidence from any source.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 09/01/2017 15:48:13 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker

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	date	18/10/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Obesity
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the trends in (a) obesity and (b) people being overweight among prisoners in England and Wales since the covid-19 outbreak began.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
	uin	58344
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2021 answer text <p>Information on trends in prisoners’ weight across the estate is not collected by HMPPS.</p><p> </p><p>Prison Rules require that prisoners are provided with wholesome, nutritious, well prepared and served food that should be reasonably varied and sufficient in quantity. Meals take medical requirements into account and are informed by Government guidance on eating a healthy diet.</p><p> </p><p>In relation to exercise, since the beginning of the pandemic prisons have been authorised to use external exercise yards for access to the open air and to deliver external physical education.</p><p>As prison regimes have opened up again in line with our National Framework for Regimes and Services, all establishments are encouraged to continue to support outdoors sports and activities and the majority are reintroducing indoor fitness facilities and classroom based PE activity.</p><p> </p><p>HMPPS encourages exercise within prisons, and has a range of schemes designed to encourage this. This includes the Twinning Project which links prisons in England and Wales with a local professional football club. This offers skills to prisoners and promotes healthy living.</p><p> </p><p>Any medical concerns about an individual’s weight can be referred to NHS prison healthcare services.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 26/10/2021 15:55:17 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown