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1330538

	registered interest
	date	08/06/2021
	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: Disease Control
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on preventing the spread of new and existing covid-19 variants.
	tabling member constituency	Southport
	tabling member printed	Damien Moore
	uin	900839
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2021 answer text <p>We continue to strengthen our partnership between local and national public health experts, local government and the National Health Service and employers to coordinate our response to the virus and share resources and intelligence to increase our impact. NHS Test and Trace initiated a programme to pilot additional interventions to improve compliance with self-isolation and encourage people to come forward for testing, particularly in areas of enduring transmission and variant of concern outbreaks.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 08/06/2021 16:34:29 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4669 label Biography information for Damien Moore

1330539

	registered interest
	date	08/06/2021
	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: Disease Control
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on supporting areas experiencing an increase in covid-19 infection rates.
	tabling member constituency	Bury North
	tabling member printed	James Daly
	uin	900843
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2021 answer text <p>We continue to strengthen our partnership between local and national public health experts, local government and the National Health Service and employers to coordinate our response to the virus and share resources and intelligence to increase our impact. NHS Test and Trace initiated a programme to pilot additional interventions to improve compliance with self-isolation and encourage people to come forward for testing, particularly in areas of enduring transmission and variant of concern outbreaks.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 08/06/2021 16:35:05 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4854 label Biography information for James Daly

1288556

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2021
	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	Medicine: Research
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What assessment he has made of the adequacy of financial support available to medical research charities during the covid-19 pandemic.
	tabling member constituency	Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
	tabling member printed	Allan Dorans
	uin	912281
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2021 answer text <p>We have some of the finest, globally-recognised medical research charities right across the United Kingdom, which are an integral part of our world-leading life sciences sector. Last week I met medical research charities to discuss what more we can do to support them and our life sciences sector as a whole go from strength to strength across all parts of the UK.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 23/02/2021 17:03:21 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4740 label Biography information for Allan Dorans

1288561

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2021
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps his Department is taking to support the provision of non-covid-19 healthcare treatment.
	tabling member constituency	Dudley North
	tabling member printed	Marco Longhi
	uin	912288
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2021 answer text <p>In addition to the funding already provided to the National Health Service, we are providing an additional £3 billion next year, on top of the long-term settlement, to support recovery from COVID-19.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 23/02/2021 17:04:36 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4789 label Biography information for Marco Longhi

1288565

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2021
	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	Department of Health and Social Care: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of his Department’s response to the covid-19 outbreak.
	tabling member constituency	Dundee West
	tabling member printed	Chris Law
	uin	912309
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2021 answer text <p>The Government has assessed and managed the impact of COVID-19, taking the necessary action to suppress the virus, prevent the National Health Service from becoming overwhelmed and save lives. Levels of infection are showing clear signs of coming down and over 17 million people – one in three – have received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 23/02/2021 17:05:38 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4403 label Biography information for Chris Law

1166955

	registered interest
	date	29/10/2019
	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	NHS: Facilities
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps he is taking to improve NHS facilities.
	tabling member constituency	Fylde
	tabling member printed	Mark Menzies
	uin	900206
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2019 answer text <p>Government is committed to improving the quality of National Health Service premises including hospitals, primary and community estate and facilities. That is why we have announced the Health Infrastructure Plan – a new, long-term programme of investment in NHS buildings, estates and equipment.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 29/10/2019 16:28:52 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	3998 label Biography information for Mark Menzies

1166956

	registered interest
	date	29/10/2019
	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: Diagnosis
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps he is taking to increase the rate of early cancer diagnosis.
	tabling member constituency	Basildon and Billericay
	tabling member printed	Mr John Baron
	uin	900207
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2019 answer text <p>We have committed within the NHS Long Term Plan to have 75% of cancers diagnosed within the first two stages. In September 2019 we announced funding of £200 million for new equipment to drive earlier diagnosis of cancer and improve survival.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 29/10/2019 16:53:33 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	1390 label Biography information for Mr John Baron

1166957

	registered interest
	date	29/10/2019
	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	Antimicrobials: Drug Resistance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on vaccine research to tackle antimicrobial resistance.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	900208
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2019 answer text <p>My Right Honourable friend and I recognise the importance of vaccination in tackling antimicrobial resistance (or AMR). Our AMR national action plan, developed across Government, includes commitments to optimise use of vaccines in humans and animals, and stimulate vaccine research and development.</p><p>A cross-departmental Delivery Board, co-chaired by my Department and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, will drive and oversee delivery of this work and met for the first time this month.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 29/10/2019 16:46:31 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

1132764

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2019
	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	Cannabis: Medical Treatments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What progress the Government has made on making medical cannabis available to people who need it.
	tabling member constituency	Gower
	tabling member printed	Tonia Antoniazzi
	uin	911421
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>The Government acted swiftly to change the law and those patients for whom it is clinically appropriate can be prescribed medicinal cannabis. It is a clinical decision whether to prescribe, and prescriptions of medicinal cannabis are available, and being issued where it is judged clinically appropriate for the patient.</p><p /><p /> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 18/06/2019 16:50:49 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4623 label Biography information for Tonia Antoniazzi

1124756

	registered interest
	date	07/05/2019
	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	Gambling
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps he is taking to improve support and treatment for people with a gambling addiction.
	tabling member constituency	Gloucester
	tabling member printed	Richard Graham
	uin	910735
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2019 answer text <p>We want to reduce gambling-related harm, protect the vulnerable and make sure that those experiencing problems are getting the help they need. The NHS Long Term Plan set out our commitment to invest in expanding National Health Service specialist clinics to help more people with serious gambling problems.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 07/05/2019 16:19:27 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	3990 label Biography information for Richard Graham

1124763

	registered interest
	date	07/05/2019
	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	NHS
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps he is taking to secure the long-term future of the NHS.
	tabling member constituency	Gillingham and Rainham
	tabling member printed	Rehman Chishti
	uin	910734
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2019 answer text <p>We are increasing the National Health Service budget by £33.9 billion in cash terms over the next five years. This major investment will support the NHS to continue to deliver world class care. The NHS Long Term Plan has set out a vision for the NHS, ensuring that every penny is well spent.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 07/05/2019 16:19:13 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	3987 label Biography information for Rehman Chishti

1105060

	registered interest
	date	26/03/2019
	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	Alcoholic Drinks: Misuse
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps he is taking to support children living with alcohol-dependent parents.
	tabling member constituency	Congleton
	tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
	uin	910044
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2019 answer text <p>Alcohol addiction has a devastating impact on individuals and their families and it is unacceptable that children bear the brunt of their parents’ condition.</p><p>This is why we have set up a £6 million three-year programme to improve outcomes for vulnerable children living with alcohol dependent parents.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 26/03/2019 14:04:44 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

1063848

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2019
	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	General Practitioners: ICT
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps he is taking to improve IT systems in GP surgeries.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
	tabling member printed	Royston Smith
	uin	909322
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>By 2021 we want every patient in England to be able to access GP services digitally, with practices able to offer online or video consultations and clinicians and patients able to securely access crucial, life-saving information in real time. A new GP IT Futures framework will encourage the best technology companies to invest in the NHS.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 19/02/2019 16:44:54 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

1041493

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2019
	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	NHS: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps he is taking to secure the long-term future of the NHS.
	tabling member constituency	Gillingham and Rainham
	tabling member printed	Rehman Chishti
	uin	908576
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>The National Health Service published its Long Term Plan last week, backed by £20.5 billion a year of taxpayers money, ensuring patients will be supported with world-class care at every stage of their life.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 15/01/2019 16:35:03 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	3987 label Biography information for Rehman Chishti

995553

	registered interest
	date	26/10/2018
	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	Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
	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 oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State of 15 May 2018, Official Report, column 111WH, what progress has been made in discussions with NHS digital on data available on waiting times for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder assessments using the mental health dataset.
	tabling member constituency	Leigh
	tabling member printed	Jo Platt
	uin	184411
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2018 answer text <p>The Department and NHS Digital are looking at whether and how waiting times for attention deficit hyperactivity disorders (ADHD) might be measured using data collected by NHS Digital. These discussions have included understanding which services undertake ADHD assessments and how they align with the scope of various datasets held by NHS Digital, and the quality and completeness of the relevant datasets including the completeness of diagnosis and diagnostic activity.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 31/10/2018 17:11:05 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

995598

	registered interest
	date	26/10/2018
	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	NHS Shared Business Services: Lost Property
	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 adequacy of the performance of Steria UK in the delivery of NHS Special Business Service (NHS SBS) the failure of NHS SBS to disclose in a timely manner the loss of large numbers of personal documents.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	184437
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2018 answer text <p>The company has made organisational changes to ensure accurate assessment and reporting of risk is embedded in processes across the organisation, and made structural changes to the management of risk to ensure appropriate focus and reporting to the NHS Shared Business Services Management Team and the NHS Shared Business Services Main Board.</p><p>The Department has already increased its membership of the NHS Shared Business Services Board.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 31/10/2018 17:04:48 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

995601

	registered interest
	date	26/10/2018
	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	NHS Shared Business Services: Lost Property
	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 place in the Library, copies of the internal (a) reviews and (b) documents in relation to the (i) loss of personal documents and (ii) failure to disclose the loss of personal documents by the NHS Special Business Service between 2004 and 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	184440
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2018 answer text <p>Copies of the internal reviews cannot be provided as this would be likely to prejudice the exercise of audit functions.</p><p> </p><p>The internal correspondence relating to loss of personal documents is not available in the format requested and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 31/10/2018 17:11:29 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

995622

	registered interest
	date	26/10/2018
	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	Mental Health Services: Safety
	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 improve the safety of patients on mental health wards.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	184453
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2018 answer text <p>NHS Improvement and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) launched a national Mental Health Safety Improvement Programme in May 2018. The overall aim of the programme is to ensure every National Health Service trust providing core mental health services in England has understood and agreed their safety priorities and made a measurable improvement in at least one key area of mental health safety by 31 March 2020. The focus the programme introduces is a three-way engagement meeting between the trust, the CQC and NHS Improvement that takes place after the CQC publishes its inspection report, resulting in a safety improvement plan.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 31/10/2018 17:08:18 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

994675

	registered interest
	date	25/10/2018
	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	Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
	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 page 9 of the National Audit Office report Improving children and young people’s mental health services, what plans he is putting in place to monitor reliably workforce expansion in children and young people’s mental health services.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	183923
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2018 answer text <p>To track progress with implementation of the workforce plan, the Department has asked Health Education England (HEE) to develop a Mental Health Workforce Dashboard to monitor plans for the delivery of the workforce targets. This uses:</p><p>- Data from Strategic Transformation Partnership regional plans (to monitor staff expansion plans);</p><p>- NHS Digital data to track the size of the whole mental health workforce;</p><p>- Data from NHS Improvement on staff retention rates; and</p><p>- Data from HEE on the numbers of trainee staff currently studying and those undertaking specific courses for upskilling themselves to work in mental health.</p><p>For the longer term a project is underway, led by the Department, to improve the way in which NHS Digital data captures changes in workforce numbers. We are hoping that this will enable more accurate reporting of actual staff changes from early next financial year.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 30/10/2018 17:00:10 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

993991

	registered interest
	date	24/10/2018
	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	Eating Disorders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the treatment options for people suffering with eating disorders and subsequent mental health conditions but who are denied treatment due to weighing more than the required benchmark for diagnosis.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	183240
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2018 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) clinical guidance on managing and treating eating disorders, and the Eating Disorder Commissioning Guide, are both clear that people should not be rejected for treatment solely on the grounds of weight or Body Mass Index (BMI).</p><p> </p><p>The NICE clinical guideline for the recognition and treatment of an eating disorder (2017) states “Do not use single measures such as BMI or duration of illness to determine whether to offer treatment for an eating disorder (ref 1.2.8)”. We expect commissioners and providers to adhere to this guidance.</p><p> </p><p>The Eating Disorder Commissioning Guide recognises that “There are reported problems associated with health professionals delaying the provision of appropriate treatment due to their treatment decisions being based primarily on the young person’s weight and BMI. These decisions can lead to a delay in access to appropriate treatment” and re-states that commissioners should adhere to NICE guidelines.</p><p> </p><p>Source:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng69/chapter/Recommendations#identification-and-assessment" target="_blank">https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng69/chapter/Recommendations#identification-and-assessment</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/cyp-eating-disorders-access-waiting-time-standard-comm-guid.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/cyp-eating-disorders-access-waiting-time-standard-comm-guid.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 29/10/2018 14:13:34 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

994001

	registered interest
	date	24/10/2018
	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	NHS: Private Sector
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether private providers of NHS services are using patient data gathered through the provision of NHS service to target patients with advertisements for additional private healthcare and services.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	183246
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2018 answer text <p>We are not aware of such practice.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 29/10/2018 14:21:02 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

994080

	registered interest
	date	24/10/2018
	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	Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the NHS and its agencies spent on specialised commissioning for children and young people’s mental health services in (a) 2016-17 and (b) 2017-18.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	183395
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2018 answer text <p>The amount that the National Health Service spent on specialised commissioning for children and young people’s mental health in 2016-17 and 2017-18 is shown in the following table. Where this data is incomplete specialised commissioning hubs will apportion / estimate any missing values.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Expenditure £ million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>341.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>355.2</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 29/10/2018 17:36:29 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

994091

	registered interest
	date	24/10/2018
	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	Mental 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, with reference to the report, Next Steps on the Five Year Forward View, published by NHS England in March 2017, what progress his Department has made on the objective for 60,000 more people to access psychological, or talking therapies, for common mental health conditions during 2017-18.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	183401
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2018 answer text <p>This information is not currently available.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 29/10/2018 14:14:48 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

994267

	registered interest
	date	24/10/2018
	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	Organs: China
	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 potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to ban (a) organ trafficking and (b) transplant tourism to China.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
	tabling member printed	Ian Murray
	uin	183334
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2018 answer text <p>The Human Tissue Act 2004 prohibits commercial dealings in human material for transplantation and makes it an offence to traffic organs.</p><p> </p><p>Clinical advice to United Kingdom patients is not to travel to less well-regulated countries to seek an organ transplant. It is thought that very few patients in the UK choose to do so but data on those who do is not available.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has welcomed China's move to stop using organs harvested from executed prisoners from January 2015. The Government continues to monitor the degree of implementation of this commitment, and encourages China to make further progress in bringing transparency to their organ transplant process.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 29/10/2018 14:15:57 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

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	registered interest
	date	24/10/2018
	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	Suicide: Bereavement Counselling
	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 to ensure that every family bereaved by suicide is proactively offered bereavement support within seven days.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	183510
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2018 answer text <p>The Cross-Government Suicide Prevention Strategy (2012), updated in 2017, has two main aims: to reduce suicides and to improve the support and information provided to people bereaved by suicide. Suicide bereavement support should be provided locally by health and social care services working together along with the third sector.</p><p> </p><p>We are investing £25 million over the next three years in support of the strategy. In 2018/19, £5 million has been provided and £10 million will be provided in each year in 2019/20 and 2020/21. This funding is being provided to sustainability and transformation partnerships (STP) areas to support them to develop their suicide prevention plans and a national quality improvement programme across the National Health Service to improve patient safety and reduce suicides. This first eight STP areas received funding this year. The second year of this funding will be used to support some STPs to develop specific areas of their local suicide prevention plans, including suicide bereavement services.</p><p> </p><p>The Department funds the provision of the ‘Help is at Hand advice and information tool’ which is distributed to local services and can be provided to families bereaved by suicide as soon as is possible and appropriate following a suspected death by suicide.</p><p> </p><p>In July this year, the NHS National Quality Board published ‘Guidance for NHS trusts on working with bereaved families and carers.’ This aims to improve the way the NHS supports, engages and communicates with people who are bereaved, including through suicide, especially when a death is subject to an investigation. It advises that trusts should provide information to bereaved families on support and care that is available to them inside and outside the trust.</p><p> </p><p>Every local authority in England, now has a suicide prevention plan in place, or in development, to reduce suicides in their community. Public Health England published planning guidance to local authorities in 2016 which recommended priorities for local suicide prevention plans including the provision of suicide bereavement support. We are working with the local government sector to ensure their plans are effective, looking at what works and identifying areas for improvement to feed into a wider national programme of support for local authorities.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 29/10/2018 14:17:49 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger