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934014

	registered interest
	date	02/07/2018
	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	Gluten-free Foods: 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 his policy is on CCGs discontinuing prescriptions for gluten-free food; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Broxbourne
	tabling member printed	Mr Charles Walker
	uin	159536
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2018 answer text <p>Clinical commissioning groups hold the budget for primary care prescribing. It is their responsibility to give prescribing guidance to their member general practitioner practices, taking into account best practice, national guidance and the needs of their local populations.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 05/07/2018 14:11:28 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker

934013

	registered interest
	date	02/07/2018
	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	Gluten-free Foods: 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 assessment he has made of the (a) advantages and (b) disadvantages of removing access to gluten-free foods on prescription.
	tabling member constituency	Broxbourne
	tabling member printed	Mr Charles Walker
	uin	159535
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2018 answer text <p>An assessment of the advantages and disadvantages of removing access to gluten-free foods on prescription was undertaken by the Department in the impact and equality impact assessments. The impact assessments can be found here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/678190/GF_foods_impact_assesment.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/678190/GF_foods_impact_assesment.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/678183/Equality_impact_assessment_-_GF_food.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/678183/Equality_impact_assessment_-_GF_food.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 05/07/2018 14:13:09 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker

938669

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2018
	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	Gluten-free Foods: Prescriptions
	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 potential savings to the NHS budget of limiting access to gluten-free food via prescription.
	tabling member constituency	Broxbourne
	tabling member printed	Mr Charles Walker
	uin	163037
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>The estimate of savings to be made by reducing the National Health Service provision of gluten free foods to breads and mixes is £4.1 million per annum. The details of how this was calculated are set out in the published Impact Assessment.</p><p> </p><p>The impact assessment can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/678190/GF_foods_impact_assesment.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/678190/GF_foods_impact_assesment.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 16/07/2018 16:19:46 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker

989623

	registered interest
	date	17/10/2018
	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	Sheep Meat
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of England's total sheep stock slaughtered annually do not pass vet inspections for release into the human food chain.
	tabling member constituency	Broxbourne
	tabling member printed	Mr Charles Walker
	uin	180665
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2018 answer text <p>The proportion of total condemnations was 0.17% for sheep in Food Standard Agency approved slaughterhouses in England.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 22/10/2018 16:15:30 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker

989594

	registered interest
	date	17/10/2018
	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	Beef
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of England's total cattle stock slaughtered annually do not pass vet inspections for release into the human food chain.
	tabling member constituency	Broxbourne
	tabling member printed	Mr Charles Walker
	uin	180664
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2018 answer text <p>The proportion of total condemnations was 0.40% for cattle in Food Standard Agency approved slaughterhouses in England.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 22/10/2018 16:16:39 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker

989592

	registered interest
	date	17/10/2018
	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	Pigmeat
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of England's pig stock slaughtered annually do not pass vet inspections for release into the human food chain.
	tabling member constituency	Broxbourne
	tabling member printed	Mr Charles Walker
	uin	180663
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2018 answer text <p>The proportion of total condemnations was 0.12% for pigs in Food Standard Agency approved slaughterhouses in England.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 22/10/2018 16:17:32 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker

1137815

	registered interest
	date	09/07/2019
	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	Stargardt Disease
	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 his Department has made of the (a) prevalence and (b) adequacy of treatment options for the retinal degenerative disease Stargardt's.
	tabling member constituency	Broxbourne
	tabling member printed	Mr Charles Walker
	uin	275160
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not hold prevalence figures of retinal degenerative disease Stargardt's in England at present. The Government is working with Public Health England‘s National Congenital Anomaly and Rare Disease Registration Service (NCARDRS) which collects information about people with congenital abnormalities and rare diseases and covers the whole of England. NCARDRS is working to expand its data collection and work with interested parties to advance data collection including Stargardt's retinal degenerative disease.</p><p>Services for patients with retinal degenerative disease Stargardt's are provided by local clinical commissioning groups. There is currently no curative treatment available for patients. Patients are advised to reduce the speed of degeneration by avoiding exposure to bright light and wearing sunglasses.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 16/07/2019 14:39:18 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker

1173704

	registered interest
	date	27/01/2020
	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: Research
	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 the Green Paper entitled Advancing our health: prevention in the 2020s, when he will call for independent evidence to assess the effectiveness of heated tobacco products in helping people to quit smoking and reduce the health harms from smoking.
	tabling member constituency	Broxbourne
	tabling member printed	Sir Charles Walker
	uin	8193
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2020 answer text <p>As announced in the Prevention Green Paper, as part of our commitment to evaluate the evidence on new products , we will run a call for independent evidence to assess further how effective heated tobacco products are, or are not, in helping people quit smoking and reducing the associated health harms.</p><p> </p><p>The call for evidence will be announced by summer 2020. We continue to monitor the evidence base on e-cigarettes and novel tobacco products. The next Public Health England annual review is to be published shortly.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 8194 question first answered 30/01/2020 11:39:05 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker

1173705

	registered interest
	date	27/01/2020
	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
	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 evaluate and harness the potential benefits of (a) heated tobacco products and (b) other new technologies in order for the Government to meet its smoke-free target by 2030.
	tabling member constituency	Broxbourne
	tabling member printed	Sir Charles Walker
	uin	8194
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2020 answer text <p>As announced in the Prevention Green Paper, as part of our commitment to evaluate the evidence on new products , we will run a call for independent evidence to assess further how effective heated tobacco products are, or are not, in helping people quit smoking and reducing the associated health harms.</p><p> </p><p>The call for evidence will be announced by summer 2020. We continue to monitor the evidence base on e-cigarettes and novel tobacco products. The next Public Health England annual review is to be published shortly.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 8193 question first answered 30/01/2020 11:39:05 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker

1200604

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2020
	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	Coronavirus: 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 guidance the Medical Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency has issued in relation to the releasing of results to laboratories analysing test results of swabs provided to them by employers; and if he will make statement.
	tabling member constituency	Broxbourne
	tabling member printed	Sir Charles Walker
	uin	54870
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2020 answer text <p>The release of results to laboratories analysing test results of swabs provided to them by employers is not within the remit of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and so it has not issued any guidance on this subject.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 10/06/2020 17:49:58 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries previous answer version 27462 answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
	tabling member	1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker