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1126877

	registered interest
	date	15/05/2019
	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: Cybersecurity
	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 National Health Service spent on cyber security in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	254785
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2019 answer text <p>The information requested on cyber spending covers sensitive detail about cyber security investment for the National Health Service. In this instance, releasing this information at the level of any annual breakdown may assist in determining the effectiveness of detecting cyber-attacks on the NHS, and could compromise measures to protect NHS IT systems, leaving them vulnerable to future cyber-attacks.</p><p>However, in total, over £250 million will have been invested nationally to improve the cyber security of the health and care system between 2016 and 2021. This excludes both investment by local organisations, and wider national IT investment which supports better security such as Microsoft licensing for NHS organisations.</p><p>Regarding the steps taken to defend against cyber attacks on the NHS, the active cyber defence of NHS organisations is a local responsibility for each organisation to carry out. However, there is national support and practical guidance available to NHS organisations which is primarily delivered by NHS Digital but supported and prioritised for the highest risk organisations by NHS England and the Department. In the event of national-scale incidents that affect many health and care organisations, NHS Digital plays a vital role in coordinating and ensuring appropriate technical remediation, as part of the wider cross-system cyber security response led by the Department.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 254786 question first answered 24/05/2019 12:33:05 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

1126878

	registered interest
	date	15/05/2019
	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: Cybercrime
	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 ensure that NHS England is prepared to defend the NHS against cyber attacks.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	254786
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2019 answer text <p>The information requested on cyber spending covers sensitive detail about cyber security investment for the National Health Service. In this instance, releasing this information at the level of any annual breakdown may assist in determining the effectiveness of detecting cyber-attacks on the NHS, and could compromise measures to protect NHS IT systems, leaving them vulnerable to future cyber-attacks.</p><p>However, in total, over £250 million will have been invested nationally to improve the cyber security of the health and care system between 2016 and 2021. This excludes both investment by local organisations, and wider national IT investment which supports better security such as Microsoft licensing for NHS organisations.</p><p>Regarding the steps taken to defend against cyber attacks on the NHS, the active cyber defence of NHS organisations is a local responsibility for each organisation to carry out. However, there is national support and practical guidance available to NHS organisations which is primarily delivered by NHS Digital but supported and prioritised for the highest risk organisations by NHS England and the Department. In the event of national-scale incidents that affect many health and care organisations, NHS Digital plays a vital role in coordinating and ensuring appropriate technical remediation, as part of the wider cross-system cyber security response led by the Department.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 254785 question first answered 24/05/2019 12:33:05 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

845516

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2018
	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: Digital Technology
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department is making in harnessing digital technologies to deliver mental health services.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	128488
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to expanding access to mental health digital services to enable more people to receive effective care and provide greater accessibility and choice.</p><p> </p><p>There has been a lot of progress made to date in harnessing digital technologies such as the establishment of seven mental health global digital exemplars which are trusts leading the way in improving digital inclusion and uptake of digital therapies and tools. The National Health Service app library is now hosting six digital tools aimed at improving mental health support and early intervention for children and young people.</p><p> </p><p>There is also ongoing work to redesign the NHS.uk website to improve information and access to digital support for mental health. Development is also underway for a specialist mental health assessment module for NHS111 which will provide more appropriate support and signposting.</p><p> </p><p>For people in need of mental health crisis care who have been detained under the Mental Health Act, new technology is being trialled to enable health and social care professionals, community street triage teams and the police to access appropriate Health Based Places of Safety.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is working with the National Institute for Health and Care and Excellence in developing a digitally enabled therapy assessment programme which will assess up to 14 digital therapy products for use in Improving Access to Psychological Therapies services by 2020. Three of these 14 products have been assessed for inclusion in this programme so far.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 28/02/2018 13:07:29 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

845517

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2018
	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	Medical Treatments: Innovation
	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 ensure that hospitals use new technologies to improve patient care.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	128489
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2018 answer text <p>As set out in the response to the Accelerated Access Review, published last year, a total of £6 million has been announced to help the National Health Service adopt and integrate new technologies into everyday practice, through the Pathway Transformation Fund. The Pathway Transformation Fund will support NHS organisations to overcome these initial barriers to uptake, allowing the NHS to implement new innovative products where it otherwise would have struggled to do so.</p><p>We are also introducing a new Accelerated Access Pathway, to streamline regulatory and market access decisions, getting breakthrough products that we believe will be truly transformative to patients more quickly. All products including medical technologies, devices and diagnostics will be eligible for selection.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 28/02/2018 17:33:30 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

845518

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2018
	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, what steps he is taking to (a) improve the prevention of mental illness and (b) provide mental health support for children and young people.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	128490
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2018 answer text <p>We acknowledge that prevention is key to transforming children and young people’s mental health and are taking a number of actions to prevent problems occurring. This includes investment of £3 million to develop the MindEd e-portal, which provides free training on children and young people’s mental health to all professionals who work with children, and over the course of 2016/17-2020/21, providing just over £12 million to fund Time to Change. Time To Change aims to raise awareness of mental health illness and address the fear of stigma that can stop young people and their families from seeking the help that they need. We are also delivering mental health awareness training in every school in England, and given that maternal mental health has a significant impact on the child’s mental health, we are investing £365 million up until 2020/21 to improve access to specialist perinatal mental health services.</p><p> </p><p>In order to transform children and young people’s mental health services, we are making an additional £1.4 billion available from 2015/16 to 2019/20, to ensure access to specialist mental health services for 70,000 additional children and young people each year by 2020/21. This additional money provides funding for clinical commissioning groups and various national programmes, including improving crisis support, expanding the workforce and tackling stigma. Our recent Green Paper, which is supported by over £300 million of additional funding, aims to improve provision of support in schools, bolster links between schools and National Health Service specialist services and improve access through piloting a four week waiting time.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 28/02/2018 13:05:42 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

850758

	registered interest
	date	27/02/2018
	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: Cost Effectiveness
	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 of machine learning to deliver efficiency savings in the NHS.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	129993
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2018 answer text <p>A number of National Health Service providers are independently undertaking trials and test beds involving the use of machine learning techniques. As this work is at an early stage and focused on demonstrating clinical safety and effectiveness in a variety of use cases, we do not yet have an overview of the impact on efficiency.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 07/03/2018 17:40:34 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

850759

	registered interest
	date	27/02/2018
	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	Department of Health and Social Care: Artificial Intelligence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which artificial intelligence applications his Department uses; and what assessment his Department has made of the potential introduction of further such applications.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	129994
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not currently use any artificial intelligence applications. As with other emerging technologies, we will keep this under review.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 07/03/2018 17:35:42 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

850760

	registered interest
	date	27/02/2018
	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: Standards
	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 help ensure parity of treatment for patients diagnosed with (a) mental health and (b) physical health conditions.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	129995
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2018 answer text <p>The Government set parity of esteem in physical and mental health in law in the Health and Social Care Act 2012. The Government further reinforced this commitment by welcoming the independent Mental Health Taskforce’s Five Year Forward View for Mental Health report in February 2016. The report set out a strategy for change in four key areas to drive forward improvements in mental health: promoting good mental health and helping people lead the lives they want to live, integrating care, creating a seven-day National Health Service for mental health and hard wiring mental health across health and social care.</p><p>The Government accepted all the report’s recommendations in January 2017 and published a detailed action plan for taking forward the recommendations, including how we will monitor progress and report transparently. NHS England’s Implementation plan for the Five Year Forward View, published in July 2016, also set out a robust plan for delivering the commitments set out in the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health.</p><p>The Government has also set up the first waiting times standards for mental health, including for those experiencing a first episode of psychosis. Latest figures show that over 75% of people experiencing their first episode of psychosis commence treatment within two weeks, exceeding the 50% Early Intervention in Psychosis target set for 2016/17.</p><p>NHS England’s Mental Health Investment Standard also requires the local NHS to increase mental health investment by at least the same proportion as overall allocations. This is planned to be met across England as a whole in 2017/18 and 2018/19. For 2018/19 all clinical commissioning groups will be required to meet the Mental Health Investment Standard and this will be subject to confirmation by their auditors.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 07/03/2018 10:56:15 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

938573

	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	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, what steps his Department has taken to promote parity of treatment of mental and physical health conditions.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	163060
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2018 answer text <p>The Government enshrined parity of esteem in physical and mental health in law in the Health and Social Care Act 2012. The NHS Constitution now states that the National Health Service “is designed to improve, prevent, diagnose and treat both physical and mental health problems with equal regard”.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is investing in mental health to expand and improve services via the Mental Health Five Year Forward View. Spending on mental health increased to a planned £11.86 billion in 2017/18. NHS England’s Mental Health Investment Standard requires the local NHS clinical commissioning groups to increase mental health investment by at least the same proportion as overall allocations.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s mandate to NHS England for 2018-19 states that clinical commissioning groups should show “measurable progress towards the parity of esteem for mental health enshrined in the NHS Constitution, particularly for those in vulnerable situations”.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 19/07/2018 14:50:59 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

938574

	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	Mental Health: First Aid
	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 has taken to promote mental health first aid.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	163061
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2018 answer text <p>The Department has committed to delivering mental health “first aid” training to a member of staff in all schools across England by the end of this Parliament.</p><p> </p><p>The programme to deliver Youth Mental Health First Aid training to secondary school staff is in its second year of delivery. We have so far invested over £450,000 in the programme, and have delivered the training to staff in over 1,300 secondary schools. We expect to reach 2,000 schools by the end of 2018/19.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has set aside a further £5 million to deliver mental health first aid and awareness training to a member of staff in all primary schools across England by the end of this Parliament.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to this, the Department is working with Public Health England to launch a £15 million national campaign in autumn 2018 to train 1 million people in mental health awareness and first aid.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 19/07/2018 14:49:22 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie