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1023180

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2018
	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	Alcoholic Drinks: 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 the Government is taking to ensure that children are protected from the marketing of alcohol products.
	tabling member constituency	Congleton
	tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
	uin	201158
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to working with industry to address concerns over any irresponsible promotions, advertising and marketing relating to alcohol, particularly to ensure that children and young people are suitably protected. Advertising in the United Kingdom is regulated by the Advertising Standards Authority, the industry’s independent regulator, who enforces the Advertising Codes through a system of self-regulation and co-regulation with Ofcom. The Codes apply to all media, including broadcast and online, and set standards for accuracy and honesty to which advertisers are expected to adhere, including specific conditions on advertising to children, causing offence and social responsibility. The Codes currently state that alcohol advertising must not be targeted at people under 18 and “should not imply, condone or encourage immoderate, irresponsible or anti-social drinking.&quot;</p><p> </p><p>The Codes are regularly reviewed and updated to ensure they remain effective. The Portman Group also provides a Code to the alcohol industry on Naming and Packaging and Promotion of Alcoholic Drinks, which includes that drinks should not have a particular appeal to under-18s.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 17/12/2018 17:44:46 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

1023291

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2018
	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	Rare Diseases: Drugs
	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 has been made of the appropriateness of the Single Technology Appraisal process for rare diseases that do not meet the Highly Specialised Technology criteria.
	tabling member constituency	Newton Abbot
	tabling member printed	Anne Marie Morris
	uin	201198
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>All topics, including selected drugs for rare diseases, are considered through a rigorous topic selection process before formal referral to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to ensure that NICE guidance is appropriate and will add value. NICE assesses most significant new drugs through its technology appraisal programme through which it has been able to recommend a number of drugs licenced for the treatment of rare diseases for routine use on the National Health Service.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 17/12/2018 17:43:30 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4249 label Biography information for Anne Marie Morris

1023292

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2018
	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	Rare Diseases: Drugs
	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 rare disease treatments appraised through the Single Technology Appraisal process have been approved by NICE.
	tabling member constituency	Newton Abbot
	tabling member printed	Anne Marie Morris
	uin	201199
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has advised that it has published 48 technology appraisals of orphan medicines of which it has recommended 75% for some or all of the eligible patient population.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 17/12/2018 17:44:06 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4249 label Biography information for Anne Marie Morris

1023293

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2018
	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	Rare Diseases: Drugs
	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 are being taken to reduce variations in access to rare disease medicines in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
	tabling member constituency	Newton Abbot
	tabling member printed	Anne Marie Morris
	uin	201200
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>All issues relating to healthcare provisions are matters for the devolved administrations.</p><p> </p><p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) makes recommendations on whether selected medicines for rare diseases and other treatments should be routinely funded by the National Health Service in England through its technology appraisal and highly specialised technologies programmes.</p><p> </p><p>NHS commissioners in England are legally required to fund drugs and treatments recommended by NICE to ensure consistent access across England. In the absence of NICE guidance on a treatment, commissioning decisions are made locally by individual clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). CCGs make funding decisions based on the needs of their population. Commissioning is about getting the best possible health outcomes for the local population and this involves assessing local needs and deciding priorities and strategies.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 17/12/2018 17:46:54 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4249 label Biography information for Anne Marie Morris

1023324

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2018
	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	Pneumococcal Diseases: Vaccination
	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 his Answer of 3 December 2018 to Question 195079 on Pneumococcal Diseases: Vaccination, whether the modelling paper used by Public Health England to support the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation in its advice on the pneumococcal vaccination programme will be (a) made publicly available and (b) reviewed by external experts in advance of any ministerial decision being made on a change to the pneumococcal vaccination schedule.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	201209
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>Modelling prepared by Public Health England supported the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation’s advice to move to a 1+1 schedule for Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine and outlines the expected impact of the change. This model has been submitted for publication in a peer reviewed journal, and will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 201210 question first answered 17/12/2018 17:46:17 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1023325

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2018
	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	Pneumococcal Diseases: Vaccination
	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 his Answer of 24 October 2018 to Question 180205 on Pneumococcal Diseases: Vaccination, whether the expected number of cases of pneumococcal disease following the advice to change the vaccination schedule will be (a) made publicly available, (b) communicated to patient groups and (c) open to peer review in advance of any ministerial decision being made on a change to the pneumococcal vaccination schedule.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	201210
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>Modelling prepared by Public Health England supported the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation’s advice to move to a 1+1 schedule for Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine and outlines the expected impact of the change. This model has been submitted for publication in a peer reviewed journal, and will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 201209 question first answered 17/12/2018 17:46:17 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1024019

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2018
	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	Life Expectancy
	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 regional disparities on life expectancy.
	tabling member constituency	Blackburn
	tabling member printed	Kate Hollern
	uin	201724
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>Public Health England has published ‘A review of recent trends in mortality in England’. This shows that life expectancy is as high as it has ever been in this country, but improvements have slowed down, and there remain differences in life expectancy between areas across the country. The review is available to view at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/recent-trends-in-mortality-in-england-review-and-data-packs" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/recent-trends-in-mortality-in-england-review-and-data-packs</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 17/12/2018 17:45:31 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4363 label Biography information for Kate Hollern

1020809

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2018
	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	NHS: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on making available additional funding for the NHS to prepare for a potential increase in demand for health services between December 2018 and March 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Sunderland Central
	tabling member printed	Julie Elliott
	uin	200129
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>My Rt hon. Friend The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care regularly meets with colleagues across Government to discuss a range of subjects. The Government is supporting the National Health Service with £1.6 billion of extra resource for 2018-19 to support accident and emergency and elective care performance. In addition, the Government has provided £145 million capital funding to support emergency care across the country to prepare for winter pressures; £36 million for ambulance trusts, which will go towards buying 256 new state-of-the-art ambulances; and, £240 million for local authorities to help ease winter pressures on the NHS, getting patients home quicker and freeing up hospital beds across England.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 17/12/2018 17:47:07 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	4127 label Biography information for Julie Elliott

1023197

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2018
	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	NHS: Migrant Workers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of EU nationals recruited to work in the NHS in (a) Coventry, (b) West Midlands and (c) England in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	201105
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), but not staff working in general practitioner surgeries, local authorities or other providers.</p><p> </p><p>The following table shows the headcount figures for the number of European Union national joiners to National Health Service trusts and CCGs in England, West Midlands and Coventry as at 30 June each year and the latest data available.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>West Midlands Strategic Health Authority</p></td><td><p>Coventry</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2010 - June 2011</p></td><td><p>6,101</p></td><td><p>321</p></td><td><p>22</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2011 - June 2012</p></td><td><p>6,239</p></td><td><p>321</p></td><td><p>27</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2012 - June 2013</p></td><td><p>8,061</p></td><td><p>397</p></td><td><p>24</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2013 - June 2014</p></td><td><p>11,457</p></td><td><p>643</p></td><td><p>35</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2014 - June 2015</p></td><td><p>13,667</p></td><td><p>822</p></td><td><p>47</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2015 - June 2016</p></td><td><p>15,449</p></td><td><p>782</p></td><td><p>64</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2016 - June 2017</p></td><td><p>12,720</p></td><td><p>687</p></td><td><p>83</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August 2017 - August 2018</p></td><td><p>11,565</p></td><td><p>557</p></td><td><p>77</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS HCHS monthly workforce statistics, NHS Digital. Nationality is self reported.</p><p><em> </em></p><p>Joiners and leavers data shows people leaving or returning to active service, this would include those going on or returning from maternity leave or career break, for example. EU nationals may have been employed in the United Kingdom before joining the NHS.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 17/12/2018 17:38:18 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1023254

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2018
	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	Healthcare Environmental Services
	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 Written Statement of 11 December 2018 on Clinical Waste, Official Report, HCWS1168, if he will publish the NHS trusts that continue to receive services from Healthcare Environmental Services.
	tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
	tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
	uin	201130
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>As of 13 December, no National Health Service trusts with remaining contacts in place with Healthcare Environment Services are reporting that they are continuing to receive their scheduled clinical waste collections from Healthcare Environmental Services. Contingency arrangements are in place for each of the affected trusts. An optional extension in the Mitie contract has been exercised, which will allow all affected trusts to access a replacement clinical waste collection service, should they choose to do so.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 17/12/2018 17:40:40 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb