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1037867

	registered interest
	date	08/01/2019
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Trade Agreements
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential effect on future trade agreements between the UK and non-EU countries of the UK remaining within a WTO-defined customs union with the EU (a) after 29 March 2019, (b) during the transition period and (c) after the transition period ends.
	tabling member constituency	Witham
	tabling member printed	Priti Patel
	uin	206313
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>Under the terms of the Withdrawal Agreement with the EU, the UK will be free to negotiate, sign, and ratify FTAs during the Implementation Period.</p><p> </p><p>During the Backstop, if it were ever to come into effect, we would be free to operate our own independent trade policy, including by negotiating our own FTAs, and implementing the areas that don’t affect the functioning of the backstop - including services and investment.</p><p> </p><p>As agreed in the Political Declaration, the UK’s future relationship with the EU must recognise the development of an independent UK trade policy. The government has been clear that we will not be in the Single Market or the Customs Union as part of this.</p> answering member constituency Meon Valley answering member printed George Hollingbery question first answered 15/01/2019 13:29:24 answering member 4016 label Biography information for Sir George Hollingbery
	tabling member	4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel

1037127

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2019
	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	Palliative Care: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will provide guidance to local commissioners to encourage the commissioning of support for the siblings of children with life-threatening and terminal conditions.
	tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
	uin	205852
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>In December 2016, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published the guideline ‘End of Life Care for Infants, Children and Young People: Planning and Management’.</p><p> </p><p>This guidance emphasises the need to be aware that siblings will need support to cope with their brother's or sister's condition and death and the effects of their parents' or carers' grieving. This may include social, practical, psychological and spiritual support.</p><p> </p><p>To support implementation of the guidance NHS England commissioned Together for Short Lives, a leading children’s end of life care charity, to examine services across the country to identify best practice in implementation of the guidance, as well as barriers, through interviews with local NHS services. More information about this work and a copy of the NICE guidance can be found at the following links:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.togetherforshortlives.org.uk/changing-lives/supporting-care-professionals/introduction-childrens-palliative-care/nice-guidelines/" target="_blank">www.togetherforshortlives.org.uk/changing-lives/supporting-care-professionals/introduction-childrens-palliative-care/nice-guidelines/</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng61" target="_blank">www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng61</a> <br></p><p>Hospices providing children and young people’s palliative care can also provide important support to the families of those caring for children with life limiting conditions. NHS England has recently announced plans to increase funding for children’s hospices to as much as £25 million a year over the next five years, as part of the NHS long term plan.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 205854 question first answered 15/01/2019 12:30:02 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

1037128

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2019
	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	Palliative Care: 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 assessment his Department has made of the needs of siblings of children with palliative care needs as part of the programme of work to deliver the Carers Action Plan.
	tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
	uin	205853
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to making sure young carers are not left behind. While some caring can be rewarding for young carers, they can experience poorer mental and physical health and miss out on opportunities in education and employment. We want to make sure that all young carers receive the support that they need.</p><p> </p><p>The Carers Action Plan aims to do this by focusing on improving the identification of young carers; improving their educational opportunities and outcomes; providing support to young carers, particularly to vulnerable children; and improving access to services.</p><p> </p><p>In December 2016 the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence published the guideline ‘End of Life Care for Infants, Children and Young People: Planning and Management’. The guidance emphasises the need to be aware that siblings will need support to cope with their brother's or sister's condition and death the effects of their parents' or carers' grieving. This may include social, practical, psychological and spiritual support.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 15/01/2019 12:20:14 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

1037129

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2019
	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	Palliative Care: 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 funding is available to support the siblings of children with palliative care needs.
	tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
	uin	205854
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>In December 2016, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published the guideline ‘End of Life Care for Infants, Children and Young People: Planning and Management’.</p><p> </p><p>This guidance emphasises the need to be aware that siblings will need support to cope with their brother's or sister's condition and death and the effects of their parents' or carers' grieving. This may include social, practical, psychological and spiritual support.</p><p> </p><p>To support implementation of the guidance NHS England commissioned Together for Short Lives, a leading children’s end of life care charity, to examine services across the country to identify best practice in implementation of the guidance, as well as barriers, through interviews with local NHS services. More information about this work and a copy of the NICE guidance can be found at the following links:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.togetherforshortlives.org.uk/changing-lives/supporting-care-professionals/introduction-childrens-palliative-care/nice-guidelines/" target="_blank">www.togetherforshortlives.org.uk/changing-lives/supporting-care-professionals/introduction-childrens-palliative-care/nice-guidelines/</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng61" target="_blank">www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng61</a> <br></p><p>Hospices providing children and young people’s palliative care can also provide important support to the families of those caring for children with life limiting conditions. NHS England has recently announced plans to increase funding for children’s hospices to as much as £25 million a year over the next five years, as part of the NHS long term plan.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 205852 question first answered 15/01/2019 12:30:02 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

1038448

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupils: Mental Health
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to support pupils who experience mental health problems at school.
	tabling member constituency	Wakefield
	tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
	uin	206794
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>Many schools provide support to pupils with mental health issues, but teachers are not mental health professionals and need specialist support.</p><p>The Department is making available an additional £1.4 billion between 2015 and 2020 to improve mental health services for children and young people. The NHS Long Term Plan sets out a continued focus on improving specialist services to build on this. It makes a commitment that expenditure on children and young people’s mental health services will grow faster than overall NHS spending and sets out plans to increase access to treatment.</p><p>This provision will include new Mental Health Support Teams working in or near schools and colleges to provide earlier access to a wider range of support and treatments. The first of these teams will be set up this year in 25 trailblazer areas that will test how they can work in practice. The aim is to cover a fifth to a quarter of England by 2023.</p><p>To support schools to engage with specialist support, the Government will fund the training of a designated senior lead in every school on how to put in place a whole school approach to mental health and wellbeing.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 15/01/2019 12:22:09 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb previous answer version 95257 answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

1037066

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2019
	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	Dementia
	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 (i) quality and (ii) availability of dementia care and (b) ensure that patients in receipt of dementia care are treated equitably.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	205917
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>Dementia remains a key priority for the Government. We will implement the Government’s Challenge on Dementia 2020, published in February 2015, in full to make sure the lives of those with dementia are transformed by 2020.</p><p> </p><p>Working with our partners, we continue to make progress against the ambitions set out in the March 2016 Implementation Plan which details how the commitments in the Challenge, across the four core themes of risk reduction, health and care, awareness and social action, and research will be met. Reducing health inequalities is an important priority and one that applies to all themes of the 2020 Challenge on Dementia.</p><p> </p><p>The Government also remains strongly committed to supporting research into dementia and the United Kingdom research community is playing a significant role in the global effort to find a cure or a major disease-modifying treatment by 2025.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan commits to better support for people with dementia through a more active focus on supporting people in the community and ongoing close work with the voluntary sector, e.g. supporting Alzheimer’s Society’s dementia connect programme.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Department is working with the adult social care sector to implement Quality Matters – a shared commitment to take action to achieve high quality adult social care for service users, families, carers and everyone working in the sector. Under the Care Act 2014, local authorities are required to shape their whole local markets to ensure that they are sustainable, diverse and offer high quality care and support for people in their local area.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 15/01/2019 12:27:56 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1037085

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2019
	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	Cervical Cancer: Screening
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to introduce an epigenetics-based test for cervical cancer on the NHS.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	205920
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>The United Kingdom National Screening Committee (UK NSC) has not reviewed the evidence for an epigenetics-based test within the cervical screening programme.</p><p> </p><p>It is important that any screening test introduced into a screening programme is based on robust published peer reviewed evidence demonstrating more good than harm. A change to the main screen test such as using epigenetics-based testing would be considered as a major programme modification to the cervical screening programme.</p><p> </p><p>Submissions to the UK NSC to consider a programme modification can be submitted throughout the year with more information available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-nsc-evidence-review-process" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-nsc-evidence-review-process</a></p><p> </p><p>NHS England is currently working to implement primary human papillomavirus screening in England.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 15/01/2019 12:11:45 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1037117

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2019
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Exports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what plans his Department has to support UK businesses to increase exports after the UK leaves the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	205926
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>The UK produces billions of pounds worth of high-quality goods and services each year, and there is a clear demand from around the world for these products with UK exports rising 2.0% (12bn) to <strong>£626.4bn</strong>, in the 12 months ending October 2018. [<em>ONS UK Trade: October 2018</em>]. The Export Strategy, launched in August 2018, sets out how the Government will encourage, inform, connect and finance UK businesses to enable them to take advantage of this international demand.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for International Trade’s offer to UK businesses includes impartial export advice from International Trade Advisors and our overseas network in markets across the world. British businesses are also promoted via the government’s network of Trade Envoys and given assistance in the Midlands and Northern Powerhouse through our Export Champions.</p><p> </p><p>The Department also runs a major UK facing marketing campaign called “Exporting is Great” which inspires and encourages business to start exporting and seek new markets. The campaign is UK wide and includes a mobile outreach export hub.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>DIT is building on the Export Strategy with a whole of Government Approach and has recently enhanced digital service on great.gov.uk which allows business to connect to over 20,000 export opportunities and ensures finance is at the heart of its offer: in 2017/18 UKEF provided £2.5bn in support, helping 191 UK companies sell to 75 markets around the world. 77% of these companies were SMEs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The full Export Strategy can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/export-strategy-supporting-and-connecting-businesses-to-grow-on-the-world-stage" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/export-strategy-supporting-and-connecting-businesses-to-grow-on-the-world-stage</a></p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 15/01/2019 11:24:38 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1037176

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2019
	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	Palliative Care: 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 he is taking to ensure that (a) clinical commissioning groups and (b) local authorities take account of demand for children's palliative care in planning and funding services.
	tabling member constituency	St Austell and Newquay
	tabling member printed	Steve Double
	uin	205969
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>Work undertaken by NHS England and system partners at a national level includes supporting sustainability and transformation partnership (STP) planning to address end of life care in all settings, providing key data on services and populations to support appropriate planning and funding of end of life care. STPs bring together National Health Service, local authorities and other partners to agree system-wide priorities, and to plan collectively.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is actively working to improve support to commissioners in funding and delivering children’s end of life care, and hospice care. In April 2017 NHS England made available a new specialist palliative care currency, one for adults and one for children, to support local areas in planning and delivering services, including hospice services. The currency can help local services better understand the complexity of palliative care and the investment needed to deliver it.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England also commissioned Together for Short Lives to promote the adoption of important new guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, which sets out best practice on the care and treatment of children at the end of life.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England has established an Expert Group to bring together knowledge and expertise in children’s end of life care to consider the development of commissioning models suitable for this vulnerable group of patients. NHS England has identified clinical commissioning groups to pilot the new models and work is expected for completion in spring 2019.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 15/01/2019 12:24:07 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4452 label Biography information for Steve Double

1039018

	registered interest
	date	10/01/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Places for Growth Programme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what progress has been made on implementing the Places for Growth programme.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
	tabling member printed	Royston Smith
	uin	207296
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>The Places for Growth programme seeks to deliver the Government’s commitment to move Civil Service roles and public bodies out of London and the South East of England. This commitment was set out in the Conservative Party Manifesto of 2017 and then restated in the Industrial Strategy White Paper and the Government Estates Strategy (July 2018).</p><p> </p><p>The Cabinet Office is supporting departments and public bodies to identify opportunities for relocation of roles to cities across the regions and nations of the United Kingdom. The Programme is providing support and coordination across Whitehall to move roles and organisations to locations that have the skills and capacity to enable organisations and cities to flourish.</p><p> </p><p>The Programme is also engaging with city leaders across the UK to understand the local economic and industrial priorities which will inform the decision-making process.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 15/01/2019 11:29:07 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith