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1000277

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2018
	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	Tobacco: Licensing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Government plans to introduce licensing laws for the sale of tobacco in England.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	187384
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to introduce licensing laws for the sale of tobacco in England. Earlier this year we introduced legislation providing for the licencing of tobacco products manufacturing machinery.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 12/11/2018 17:18:59 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1000279

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2018
	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	Smoking: Barnsley
	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 statistics from the Smoking Data Guide, published by Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council's research and business intelligence team in August 2016, that 21.2 per cent of adults and 10.7 per cent of 15 year olds in Barnsley smoke, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of young adults who smoke.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	187385
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government has a strong track record of reducing the harm caused by tobacco, based on a comprehensive approach to tobacco control, including bans on smoking in public places, and on promotion and advertising of tobacco products; high duty rates; the provision of smoking cessation services; and social marketing campaigns. The Government will maintain this comprehensive approach. The Government’s Tobacco Control Plan for England, published last year, commits to reducing smoking in 15 year olds from 8% in 2017 to 3% in 2022 and the Tobacco Control Delivery Plan, published in June 2018 sets out the various activities different agencies are taking to meet the aims of the plan.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 12/11/2018 17:19:44 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1008477

	registered interest
	date	16/11/2018
	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	Gambling: Rehabilitation
	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 9 November 2018 to Question 186383 on Gambling: Rehabilitation, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that local authorities are able to adequately support people who have gambling addictions.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	192126
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2018 answer text <p>In summer 2018, Public Health England and the Local Government Association published a guide for local authorities which provides an overview of gambling-related harms and how councils can begin to try to help local residents who are impacted by it. It provides information on the current framework for prevention and support, information on the regulatory tools councils can use to help tackle gambling-related harm and the role of public health.</p><p> </p><p>‘Tackling Gambling Related Harm: A whole council approach’ is available to view at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.local.gov.uk/sites/default/files/documents/10.28%20GUIDANCE%20ON%20PROBLEM%20GAMBLING_07.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.local.gov.uk/sites/default/files/documents/10.28%20GUIDANCE%20ON%20PROBLEM%20GAMBLING_07.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 21/11/2018 14:34:06 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1017449

	registered interest
	date	30/11/2018
	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	Diabetes
	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 plans for blood glucose testing strips and needles to remain available by prescription.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	197624
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2018 answer text <p>This is a matter for NHS England, working in partnership with NHS Clinical Commissioners to support clinical commissioning groups to use their prescribing resources effectively in the interests of their local population.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England has launched a public consultation on proposals to update and review commissioning guidance on eight products, which includes blood glucose testing strips for type 2 diabetes and needles for pre-filled and re-useable insulin pens. The consultation runs from 28 November 2018 until 28 February 2019. Details of how to respond and attend the public consultation events can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.engage.england.nhs.uk/consultation/items-routinely-prescribed-update/" target="_blank">https://www.engage.england.nhs.uk/consultation/items-routinely-prescribed-update/</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 05/12/2018 16:40:09 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1019946

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2018
	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	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, how many people have faced charges as a result of claiming for free prescriptions to which they were not entitled; and how much money has been accrued to the public purse as a result of those charges.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	198829
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>Information provided by the NHS Business Services Authority (BSA) on the number of penalty charge notices (PCNs) issued in England and the value recovered, in each calendar year since 2014 is provided in the following table:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Total PCNs issued</p></td><td><p>Value recovered (£)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>35,812</p></td><td><p>525,666.43</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>408,477</p></td><td><p>7,311,485.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>864,360</p></td><td><p>13,832,273.25</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>1,052,419</p></td><td><p>18,239,279.25</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>1,285,488</p></td><td><p>20,787,780.69</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>NHS BSA assumed responsibility for the Prescription Exemption Checking Service in September 2014, so no data is held prior to this.</li><li>The 2018 data range is from 1 January to 30 November 2018.</li><li>Cleansing of PCN data is responsible for minor variation from previously published figures.</li><li>Value recovered data can change over time.</li></ol> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 10/12/2018 15:38:04 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1020450

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2018
	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	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, what proportion of people who have faced charges as a result of claiming for free prescriptions to which they were not entitled to were on universal credit or any other form of welfare payment in each year for which information is available.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	199408
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>The NHS Business Services Authority (NHS BSA) delivers the Prescription Exemption Checking Service and first began prescription exemption checks relating to Department for Work and Pensions benefits in June 2017.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS BSA reports that it issued a total of 1,863,098 prescription penalty charge notices between 4 June 2017 and 30 November 2018. Of these 508,830 went to people who ticked an exemption box relating to a Department for Work and Pensions benefit.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 10/12/2018 15:27:40 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

909563

	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	Obesity: South Yorkshire
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how his Department is working with NHS services in South Yorkshire to ensure obesity services are properly funded and effectively managed.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	146858
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2018 answer text <p>Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are responsible for commissioning health care services to meet the needs of their population. Health and Wellbeing Boards will bring together local partners including CCGs and local authorities to ensure the right services are in place.</p><p> </p><p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) provides national clinical guidance and advice, based on best evidence of clinical and cost effectiveness, for use of interventions, technology and devices.</p><p> </p><p>NICE has produced a suite of guidance on tackling obesity including ‘Obesity: identification, assessment and management of overweight and obesity in children, young people and adults’, which includes access to all tiers of obesity services. This guidance is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg189" target="_blank">www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg189</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 04/06/2018 14:09:35 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

909564

	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	Obesity: Children
	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 with the Department for Education to ensure schools are supported to help tackle childhood obesity.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	146859
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2018 answer text <p>In August 2016 we published Childhood Obesity: A Plan for Action which contained a number of commitments to support schools in creating healthy environments for their pupils.</p><p> </p><p>Included were a number of announcements of funding for schools including doubling the PE and Sport Premium to £320 million per year, investing £26 million over three years to improve and increase the number of breakfast clubs in over 1,770 schools with a focus on the Department for Education’s Opportunity Areas, and continued support for the Bikeability programme.</p><p> </p><p>We are also working with the Department for Education to update the School Food Standards with the latest scientific advice on nutrition and introduce a new healthy ratings scheme for schools to recognise and encourage their contribution to helping their pupils eat better and move more.</p><p> </p><p>The Department of Health and Social Care and the Department for Education work with partners such as Public Health England to produce tool and resources for schools through their Change4Life campaign and NHS Choices domain. We also funded the Youth Sport Trust to produce the Active School Planner, a free to use, interactive tool to help schools review and improve their current physical activity offer in-line with the Chief Medical Officer’s recommendations.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 04/06/2018 13:49:12 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

910379

	registered interest
	date	23/05/2018
	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: Barnsley
	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 is taking steps to ensure that recovery services for drug addiction in Barnsley are receiving sufficient funding.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	147445
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2018 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for improving the health of their local population and reducing health inequalities by assessing local need and commissioning services to meet identified needs, including drug dependence.</p><p> </p><p>In the current financial year, local authorities are receiving a £3.215 billion public health grant for their public health duties for all ages. Information about the 2018-19 grant, how it breaks down and indicative public health allocations for each local authority in 2019-20 is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/public-health-grants-to-local-authorities-2018-to-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/public-health-grants-to-local-authorities-2018-to-2019</a></p><p> </p><p>Public Health England supports local authorities in their work of needs assessment and commissioning of alcohol and drug prevention and treatment services by providing advice, guidance and data.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 04/06/2018 13:53:19 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

943898

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2018
	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	Antibiotics: 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 assessment his Department has made trends in the number of super bugs becoming resistant to antibiotics.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	165573
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2018 answer text <p>The English surveillance programme for antimicrobial utilisation and resistance (ESPAUR), run by Public Health England (PHE), found that resistance in Staphylococcus aureus has declined. From 2011/12 to 2017/18 there was a 41% decline in the number of cases reported to Public Health England; 846 cases were reported in 2017/18 compared to 1,116 in 2011/12.</p><p> </p><p>In 2016, Escherichia coli was the commonest cause of bloodstream infections (BSIs) and 41% were resistant to co-amoxiclav, the commonest antibiotic used to treat infections in hospitals. Almost one in five of these bacteria were resistant to at least one of other key antibiotics, though multi-drug resistance (resistance to three antibiotics) remained uncommon (less than 5%). The overall number of infections has increased over the last five years and the number of resistant infections has also increased.</p><p> </p><p>Similarly, Klebsiella pneumoniae resistance to key antibiotics remained stable between the years 2012 and 2016, the burden of resistance, reflected in the numbers of resistant BSIs increased over time.</p><p> </p><p>Carbapenem resistance remains low in blood culture isolates in England although data from other countries shows how quickly resistance can rise over a relatively short time period.</p><p> </p><p>The 2017 ESPAUR report is available to view at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/656611/ESPAUR_report_2017.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/656611/ESPAUR_report_2017.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 23/07/2018 14:59:25 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis