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800716

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	NHS: Drugs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the UK leaving the Customs Union on the the ability of the NHS to procure medicines and medical devices.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	117337
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2017 answer text <p>The potential implications of the United Kingdom leaving the customs union on the ability of the National Health Service to procure medicines and medical devices are currently being assessed.</p><p> </p><p>It is in the interest of both the UK and European Union to avoid disruption in the timely access of these products; and to ensure that cross-border trade with the EU is as frictionless as possible. This will be part of the broader negotiations of the UK’s future relations with the EU.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 12/12/2017 17:01:50 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

156332

	registered interest
	date	18/11/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Drugs: Licensing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many full-time equivalent officials in his Department work on the availability of off-patent drugs to be used in new indications.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Michael Connarty
	uin	215052
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2014 answer text <p>These issues are relevant to the responsibilities of a number of officials in the Department and in the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency. The amount of official time spent on such issues is not fixed and will vary.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 25/11/2014 17:40:27 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	602 label Biography information for Michael Connarty

746856

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Brain: Tumours
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will bring forward proposals to increase funding for brain tumour research over the current Parliament; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	2093
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2017 answer text <p>The Department Task and Finish Working Group on Brain Tumour Research is bringing together clinicians, charities, patients, and officials to discuss how, working together with research funding partners, we can address the need to increase the level and impact of research into brain tumours. The Working Group is chaired by Professor Chris Whitty, the Department's Chief Scientific Adviser. The Working Group met for the third time on 17 May, and plans to report to the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health (Lord O’Shaughnessy) by autumn 2017.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 04/07/2017 14:10:18 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

746855

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Motor Neurone Disease
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to double research funding for Motor Neurone Disease.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	2092
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2017 answer text <p>The Department funds research mainly through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). The Medical Research Council (MRC), an independent research funding body which receives its grant in aid from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy also funds medical research.</p><p> </p><p>The usual practice of the NIHR and of the MRC is not to ring-fence funds for expenditure on particular topics: research proposals in all areas compete for the funding available. Applications are subject to peer review and judged in open competition, with awards being made on the basis of the importance of the topic to patients and health and care services, value for money and scientific quality.</p><p> </p><p>The MRC currently spends approximately £5.3 million per annum on research relating to Motor Neurone Disease (MND). The MRC, as part of the Network of Centres of Excellence in Neurodegeneration, has recently made available up to £1 million to support research in the United Kingdom.</p><p> </p><p>Spend by the NIHR in the Health Research Classification System (HRCS) health category ‘neurological’ has increased from £29.9 million in 2010/11 to £52.6 million in 2015/16 (the latest year for which data is available). There are no HRCS health sub-categories such as for MND or other specific neurological conditions, and information on total annual NIHR spend on research into treating MND is not held.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 06/07/2017 15:45:09 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

758746

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Tobacco
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish details of all communications between his Department and the tobacco industry on the Tobacco Control Plan; and what steps he has taken to encourage tobacco companies to engage with the Government in written, as well as oral, form.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	9323
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2017 answer text <p>The United Kingdom is a signatory to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). Article 5.3 of the FCTC states that “in setting and implementing their public health policies with respect to tobacco control, Parties shall act to protect these policies from commercial and other vested interests of the tobacco industry in accordance with national law.” The Department has therefore not invited the tobacco industry to contribute to the development of the Tobacco Control Plan. The Government will continue to uphold its obligations under the World Health Organization FCTC.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 14/09/2017 14:09:17 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

443898

	registered interest
	date	11/01/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Fast Food: Packaging
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to establish an inquiry into the use of perfluorochemicals in fast-food packaging.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	21723
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2016 answer text <p>European Union Legislation already requires that food contact materials must not transfer harmful chemicals into food. Recent reports in the media have referred to changes being introduced in the United States to ban the use of some perfluorochemicals in food packaging. The Food Standards Agency has confirmed that perfluorochemicals are not used in paper and cardboard fast food packaging in the United Kingdom and will continue to work with the industry to ensure they meet their responsibilities under the legislation.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 18/01/2016 16:23:31 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

731287

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Nurses: Migrant Workers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect of the UK leaving the EU on the number of nurses from the EU working in the NHS.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	61
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2017 answer text <p>We are monitoring the impact on the National Health Service.</p><p> </p><p>The latest NHS Digital data available on nationality shows the number of nurses with European Union (excluding United Kingdom) nationalities (EU27) has increased by over 400 between June 2016 and March 2017. This number as a percentage of all nurses has also increased slightly, from 6.9% to 7.0%.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Digital publishes data on the nationality of staff working in the National Health Service in England. Nationality is self-reported within the NHS human resources and payroll system, the electronic staff record.</p><p> </p><p>The Secretary of State has repeatedly said that overseas workers form a crucial part of our NHS and we value their contribution immensely.</p><p> </p><p>We understand the need to give valued NHS staff from the EU certainty, which is why securing an agreement that will guarantee the status of EU nationals here and UK nationals in the EU is one of our top priorities in Brexit negotiations.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 27/06/2017 15:30:12 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

732999

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	NHS: Drugs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect on obtaining authorisations for new drugs of the UK withdrawing from the European Medicines Agency.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	1340
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2017 answer text <p>The extent to which European Medicines Agency procedures will apply in the United Kingdom after we have exited the European Union will be subject to negotiations. Whatever the outcome of negotiations, the Government will ensure that we have a regulatory system that protects the best interests of patients – without regulatory delay in the approval of new medicines - and encourages innovation.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 05/07/2017 08:23:01 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

694234

	registered interest
	date	24/02/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Brain: Tumours
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the implications for his Department's policies of recommendations made by the Brain Tumour Charity in its Patient Guide to Brain Tumour Treatment and Services, published in November 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	65516
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2017 answer text <p>The recommendations made by The Brain Tumour Charity in its report and guidance align with the recommendations in the independent Cancer Taskforce’s 2015 report, <em>Achieving World-Class Cancer Outcomes: A strategy for England 2015-2020<sup>1</sup></em>, which represented the consensus views of the whole cancer community.</p><p> </p><p>Improving early diagnosis of cancer is a priority for this Government. We have committed to delivering the independent Taskforce’s recommendations on early diagnosis, including the introduction of a 28 day waiting times standard. NHS England’s Accelerate, Co-ordinate, Evaluate programme is testing innovative ways of diagnosing cancer earlier. The second wave of the programme is piloting multi-disciplinary diagnostic centres for patients with vague or non-specific symptoms. The pilots are taking place in London, Greater Manchester, Leeds, Bristol, Oxfordshire and Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven (Yorkshire).</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, patient experience was one of the six strategic priorities identified by the independent Cancer Taskforce, and ‘overall patient experience’ is one of the four key metrics included in the Clinical Commissioning Group Improvement and Assessment Framework published for the first time in 2016.</p><p> </p><p>A new Department of Health Task and Finish Working Group on Brain Tumour Research is bringing together clinicians, charities, patients, and officials to discuss how, working together with research funding partners, we can address the need to increase the level and impact of research into brain tumours. The Working Group is chaired by Professor Chris Whitty, the Department's Chief Scientific Adviser. The Working Group met for the second time on 30 January, and plans to report to the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health and Innovation by summer 2017.</p><p> </p><p>The Department’s National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) supports brain tumour clinical trials via its Biomedical Research Centres, Clinical Research Facilities, and its Clinical Research Network (CRN). The CRN comprises 15 Local CRNs (LCRNs). In a new initiative from April 2015, each of these LCRNs has designated a senior clinician as the Subspecialty Lead for Brain Tumours. These local leaders are liaising with the National Cancer Research Institute’s Clinical Studies Groups to help plan the development and delivery of the national portfolio of brain tumour research, identifying new research opportunities and areas of clinical need. In the financial year 2015/16 the NIHR CRN supported recruitment of 1,061 patients to 37 brain cancer studies.</p><p> </p><p>To support people after treatment ends, in December 2016, NHS England announced a fund of over £200 million available to Cancer Alliances over the next two years, specifically to support those areas of the Cancer Taskforce strategy that it estimated would need significant investment. This includes implementation of the Recovery Package so that patients have personalised care and support from the point they are diagnosed to improve their quality of life.</p><p> </p><p>The report also included recommendations on palliative care. The Government’s ambition is for everyone approaching the end of life to receive high quality care that reflects their individual needs, choices and preferences. On 5 July 2016, we set out plans to improve end of life care in England. Our proposals are based on a commitment to high quality, personalised end of life care that we are making to all people at, or approaching the end of life.</p><p> </p><p>Note:</p><p> </p><p><sup>1</sup> <a href="http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/sites/default/files/achieving_world-class_cancer_outcomes_-_a_strategy_for_england_2015-2020.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/sites/default/files/achieving_world-class_cancer_outcomes_-_a_strategy_for_england_2015-2020.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat grouped question UIN 65517 question first answered 06/03/2017 15:21:01 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

694235

	registered interest
	date	24/02/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Brain: Tumours
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the implications for his Department's policies of recommendations made by the Brain Tumour Charity in its report, Finding Myself: The Reality of Brain Tumour Treatment and Care, published in February 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	65517
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2017 answer text <p>The recommendations made by The Brain Tumour Charity in its report and guidance align with the recommendations in the independent Cancer Taskforce’s 2015 report, <em>Achieving World-Class Cancer Outcomes: A strategy for England 2015-2020<sup>1</sup></em>, which represented the consensus views of the whole cancer community.</p><p> </p><p>Improving early diagnosis of cancer is a priority for this Government. We have committed to delivering the independent Taskforce’s recommendations on early diagnosis, including the introduction of a 28 day waiting times standard. NHS England’s Accelerate, Co-ordinate, Evaluate programme is testing innovative ways of diagnosing cancer earlier. The second wave of the programme is piloting multi-disciplinary diagnostic centres for patients with vague or non-specific symptoms. The pilots are taking place in London, Greater Manchester, Leeds, Bristol, Oxfordshire and Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven (Yorkshire).</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, patient experience was one of the six strategic priorities identified by the independent Cancer Taskforce, and ‘overall patient experience’ is one of the four key metrics included in the Clinical Commissioning Group Improvement and Assessment Framework published for the first time in 2016.</p><p> </p><p>A new Department of Health Task and Finish Working Group on Brain Tumour Research is bringing together clinicians, charities, patients, and officials to discuss how, working together with research funding partners, we can address the need to increase the level and impact of research into brain tumours. The Working Group is chaired by Professor Chris Whitty, the Department's Chief Scientific Adviser. The Working Group met for the second time on 30 January, and plans to report to the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health and Innovation by summer 2017.</p><p> </p><p>The Department’s National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) supports brain tumour clinical trials via its Biomedical Research Centres, Clinical Research Facilities, and its Clinical Research Network (CRN). The CRN comprises 15 Local CRNs (LCRNs). In a new initiative from April 2015, each of these LCRNs has designated a senior clinician as the Subspecialty Lead for Brain Tumours. These local leaders are liaising with the National Cancer Research Institute’s Clinical Studies Groups to help plan the development and delivery of the national portfolio of brain tumour research, identifying new research opportunities and areas of clinical need. In the financial year 2015/16 the NIHR CRN supported recruitment of 1,061 patients to 37 brain cancer studies.</p><p> </p><p>To support people after treatment ends, in December 2016, NHS England announced a fund of over £200 million available to Cancer Alliances over the next two years, specifically to support those areas of the Cancer Taskforce strategy that it estimated would need significant investment. This includes implementation of the Recovery Package so that patients have personalised care and support from the point they are diagnosed to improve their quality of life.</p><p> </p><p>The report also included recommendations on palliative care. The Government’s ambition is for everyone approaching the end of life to receive high quality care that reflects their individual needs, choices and preferences. On 5 July 2016, we set out plans to improve end of life care in England. Our proposals are based on a commitment to high quality, personalised end of life care that we are making to all people at, or approaching the end of life.</p><p> </p><p>Note:</p><p> </p><p><sup>1</sup> <a href="http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/sites/default/files/achieving_world-class_cancer_outcomes_-_a_strategy_for_england_2015-2020.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/sites/default/files/achieving_world-class_cancer_outcomes_-_a_strategy_for_england_2015-2020.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat grouped question UIN 65516 question first answered 06/03/2017 15:21:02 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day