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1126005

	registered interest
	date	13/05/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Mineworkers' Pension Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to respond to the open letter of 11 April 2019 on the Mineworkers' Pension Scheme ;and if he will meet with the signatories of that letter.
	tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
	tabling member printed	Nick Smith
	uin	253552
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2019 answer text <p>I have responded to the letter dated 11 April 2019 as the Minister responsible for the scheme. Discussions with the Trustees of the Scheme are ongoing about possible changes that would benefit all parties.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 15/05/2019 16:09:31 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith

1125900

	registered interest
	date	10/05/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Type 31 Frigates: Exports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the export strategy for the Type 31 frigate following increases to the construction costs of that frigate.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	252838
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2019 answer text <p>We still want all five Type 31e Frigates at an average production price of £250 million per ship. We are confident that it will be competitively priced in the global export market.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 252885 252886 question first answered 15/05/2019 16:18:36 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1125902

	registered interest
	date	10/05/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Type 31 Frigates: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether it is remains her Department’s policy (a) that the price for a Type 31e frigate is capped at £250 million and (b) to order five Type 31e frigates.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	uin	252885
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2019 answer text <p>We still want all five Type 31e Frigates at an average production price of £250 million per ship. We are confident that it will be competitively priced in the global export market.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 252838 252886 question first answered 15/05/2019 16:18:36 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1125903

	registered interest
	date	10/05/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Type 31 Frigates: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent estimate she has made of the cost of procuring a Type 31e frigate.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	uin	252886
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2019 answer text <p>We still want all five Type 31e Frigates at an average production price of £250 million per ship. We are confident that it will be competitively priced in the global export market.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 252838 252885 question first answered 15/05/2019 16:18:36 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1125919

	registered interest
	date	10/05/2019
	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	Cystic Fibrosis: 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 he has made of the progress by NHS Scotland in securing supplies of Orkambi and Symkevi.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
	tabling member printed	Gill Furniss
	uin	252864
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2019 answer text <p>The Department has made no assessment. All issues relating to healthcare provision in Scotland, such as the availability of Orkambi and Symkevi are matters for the devolved administrations.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 15/05/2019 16:48:13 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4571 label Biography information for Gill Furniss

1125931

	registered interest
	date	10/05/2019
	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	England Infected Blood Support Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, from which budget in his Department the increase in funding for the England Infected Blood Support Scheme has been allocated.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
	tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
	uin	252870
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2019 answer text <p>The Department undertakes a comprehensive annual planning exercise each year to allocate resources. The increase in infected blood payments was factored into this exercise for 2019/20 and scope was found to ensure that the costs can be met.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 15/05/2019 16:36:57 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard

1125937

	registered interest
	date	10/05/2019
	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	Radiology: Recruitment
	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 increase recruitment of radiologists.
	tabling member constituency	Slough
	tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
	uin	252888
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2019 answer text <p>In the Cancer Workforce Plan for England published in December 2017, Health Education England set out the case for additional training support for clinical radiology. The table below shows the increase in accepted post numbers, by recruitment year. Fill rates for clinical radiology in England over the last seven years have always been 100%. Clinical radiology is a popular speciality and each year has on average double the number of appointable candidates for the number of entry points (offers of places to commence the training programme).</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>2019</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of accepted radiology posts</p></td><td><p>183</p></td><td><p>186</p></td><td><p>212</p></td><td><p>212</p></td><td><p>226</p></td><td><p>234</p></td><td><p>240</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Health Education England</p><p>Locally, responsibility for assessing and managing staffing levels, including specialty staff, rests with individual National Health Service trusts and their boards who are best placed to decide how many staff they need to provide a given service.</p><p> </p><p><strong><br> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 15/05/2019 16:48:15 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1125939

	registered interest
	date	10/05/2019
	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	Mental Health Services: Students
	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 adequacy of NHS mental health support for university students.
	tabling member constituency	Slough
	tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
	uin	252889
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2019 answer text <p>Mental health is a priority for this Government. That is why the Department of Health and Social Care is continuing to work closely with the Department for Education to improve the mental health of university students.</p><p> </p><p>To support this, the NHS Long Term Plan commits to a comprehensive expansion of mental health services, including a new approach to mental health services for people aged 18-25, supporting transitions to college and to adulthood, with services being adapted to create a comprehensive offer for 0 to 25 year olds.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is working closely with Universities UK through the Mental Health in Higher Education programme to build the capability and capacity of universities to improve student welfare services and improve access to mental health services for the student population, including focusing on suicide reduction, and improving access to psychological therapies to support and treat students suffering from stress and anxiety.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 15/05/2019 16:39:08 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1125940

	registered interest
	date	10/05/2019
	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	Pharmacy: Access
	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 steps he has taken to ensure that patients have adequate access to pharmacy services.
	tabling member constituency	Slough
	tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
	uin	252890
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2019 answer text <p>In December 2016, the Department introduced the Pharmacy Access Scheme (PhAS), as part of a wider package of reforms to the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework. The PhAS helps to support the financial viability of pharmacies in areas where there are fewer pharmacies.</p><p>The Department continues to monitor closely the market to identify and address issues that may impact patient access to pharmacy services. Access to National Health Service pharmaceutical services remains good: there are over 11,500 pharmacies in England, an increase of approximately 12% in the last decade.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 15/05/2019 16:49:34 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1125944

	registered interest
	date	10/05/2019
	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	Stem Cells: Donors
	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 engage with BAME communities on stem cell donations.
	tabling member constituency	Slough
	tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
	uin	252891
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2019 answer text <p>Since 2011 the Department has provided more than £26 million in financial support to NHS Blood and Transplant and Anthony Nolan to enable the establishment of a unified United Kingdom Stem Cell Registry and improve stem cell donation. This includes improving equity of access to unrelated donor stem cell transplantation for Black African Minority Ethnic (BAME) patients through targeted recruitment to the UK Stem Cell Registry and the Department has set specific targets about the proportion of donors that must be from BAME backgrounds.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 15/05/2019 16:37:40 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi