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1001996

	registered interest
	date	05/11/2018
	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: Reciprocal Arrangements
	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 progress has been made on securing healthcare agreements with the EU similar to those set out in EU Regulations (a) 883/2004 and (b) 987/2009.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	187987
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2018 answer text <p>The Withdrawal Agreement provides that reciprocal healthcare should continue until the end of the Implementation Period (until 31 December 2020) and provides longer-term rights for people covered by the Withdrawal Agreement.</p><p> </p><p>The United Kingdom Government remains focused on securing a broader agreement with the European Union on reciprocal healthcare rights as part of the UK’s future relationship with the EU. It has made clear in the White Paper of July 2018, ‘The Future Relationship Between The United Kingdom and the European Union’, that it is seeking agreement on reciprocal healthcare cover for state pensioners retiring to the EU or the UK, continued participation in the European Health Insurance Card scheme and cooperation on planned medical treatment.</p><p> </p><p>On Friday 26 October, the Government introduced The Healthcare (International Arrangements) Bill which will provide the Government with the powers that are needed to fund and effectively implement arrangements for UK nationals to obtain healthcare abroad after the UK exits the EU.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 13/11/2018 11:54:41 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

1011610

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2018
	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	Lumacaftor/ivacaftor
	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 ensure that cystic fibrosis sufferers have access to Orkambi.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	194005
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2018 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and NHS England are in dialogue with Vertex Pharmaceuticals around access to their portfolio of cystic fibrosis medicines. It is critical that Vertex now re-engages fully with the NICE appraisal process and gives serious consideration to the portfolio deal offer that NHS England made at the end of July. This deal would provide immediate access for patients to all Vertex licensed medicines and future pipeline products once licensed and in advance of the individual NICE appraisals concluding.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 29/11/2018 16:56:46 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

1011611

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2018
	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	Cancer
	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 introduce a new 5-year survival target of 28 per cent by 2029 for (a) lung, (b) liver, (c) brain, (d) oesophageal, (e) pancreatic and (f) stomach cancer.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	194006
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2018 answer text <p>The Prime Minister announced ambitions for the National Health Service Long Term Plan that will see 55,000 more people surviving cancer for five years in England each year from 2028 and three quarters of all cancers detected at an early stage by 2028. To achieve these ambitions, we will need to make signification progress on survival across all cancers, including lung, liver, brain, oesophageal, pancreatic and stomach cancers.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 29/11/2018 17:24:18 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

1017233

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2018
	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	Patients: Travel
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the finding of CLIC Sargent in their report entitled Are We Nearly There Yet?, published in September 2018, that only six per cent of parents have received help from the Healthcare Travel Costs Scheme, what steps his Department is taking to ensure all families on low incomes have access to financial support to manage healthcare-related travel costs.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	197311
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2018 answer text <p>The Healthcare Travel Costs Scheme is set up to assist those on low income or in receipt of certain qualifying benefits to obtain assistance with travel to hospitals.</p><p> </p><p>Information on how to obtain assistance with travel costs is widely available from National Health Service organisations including general practitioner surgeries, hospitals, clinical commissioning groups and the NHS website. Outside of the NHS, information may also be obtained from Healthwatch, Citizen Advice, cancer and other charities.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 07/12/2018 13:01:21 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

1017234

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2018
	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	Out of Area Treatment: Northern Ireland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans the Government has to facilitate cross-border arrangements to allow for sufferers of medical illnesses in Northern Ireland to easily enter the Republic of Ireland in order to have treatment administered in specialist centres in that country in the event of the UK leaving the EU (a) with and (b) without a deal.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	197312
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>The agreement we have reached with the European Union is that during the implementation period all reciprocal healthcare rights will continue and there will be no changes to healthcare for pensioners, workers, students, tourists and other visitors, the European Health Insurance Card scheme, or planned treatment. The Healthcare (International Arrangements) Bill will then allow us to implement a deal regarding our future healthcare relationship with the EU, including the Republic of Ireland.</p><p> </p><p>A deal remains in the best interests of the United Kingdom. However, as a responsible Government we are planning for all outcomes.</p><p> </p><p>In the event of a no-deal, the UK would like to enter into reciprocal agreements with individual EU Member States including with Ireland after the UK’s withdrawal from the EU.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise our unique relationship with Ireland and the importance of the Common Travel Area (CTA). The UK and Ireland are both committed to maintaining the current access to health care under the CTA after the UK’s withdrawal from the EU.</p><p> </p><p>Our focus is on securing the right outcome for the whole of the UK, including Northern Ireland.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 04/12/2018 14:42:24 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

388251

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Health and Social Care Information Centre
	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 ensure future data returns by local authorities to the Health and Social Care Information Centre are designed to help evaluate local authorities' performance under the Care Act 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	5959
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2015 answer text <p>To help understand the needs of local authorities and support them and their partners in delivering the Care Act, together with local government we are have agreed approaches to:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- implementation assurance: to monitor progress with preparations for delivery, including the required actions of all organisations across the whole programme;</p><p> </p><p>- implementation support: identifying requirements for support with implementation, including specific support materials and more bespoke advice and consultancy; and</p><p> </p><p>- benefits realisation and evaluation: to track that changes to the care and support system are being embedding into practice and delivering what was intended.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>National stocktake surveys led by the Local Government Association and Association of Directors of Adult Social Service provide an overview of readiness, delivery confidence and key issues, supported by follow-up discussions and analysis to validate results.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department has also agreed with the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services and the Local Government Association a process for the ongoing monitoring of specified demand data in all local authorities from 1 April 2015, based on the areas of most significant risk as identified by local authorities.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Over the past year, the national statutory local authority data returns collected by the Health and Social Care Information Centre have all been assessed to ensure that they collect the information required on the Care Act. Consultations were carried out during Summer 2014 and subsequent amendments were disseminated to local authorities for the collections from 1 April 2015 onwards.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 5960 question first answered 14/07/2015 14:08:19 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

388257

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Care Act 2014
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he plans to take to monitor local authorities' implementation of the Care Act 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	5960
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2015 answer text <p>To help understand the needs of local authorities and support them and their partners in delivering the Care Act, together with local government we are have agreed approaches to:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- implementation assurance: to monitor progress with preparations for delivery, including the required actions of all organisations across the whole programme;</p><p> </p><p>- implementation support: identifying requirements for support with implementation, including specific support materials and more bespoke advice and consultancy; and</p><p> </p><p>- benefits realisation and evaluation: to track that changes to the care and support system are being embedding into practice and delivering what was intended.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>National stocktake surveys led by the Local Government Association and Association of Directors of Adult Social Service provide an overview of readiness, delivery confidence and key issues, supported by follow-up discussions and analysis to validate results.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department has also agreed with the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services and the Local Government Association a process for the ongoing monitoring of specified demand data in all local authorities from 1 April 2015, based on the areas of most significant risk as identified by local authorities.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Over the past year, the national statutory local authority data returns collected by the Health and Social Care Information Centre have all been assessed to ensure that they collect the information required on the Care Act. Consultations were carried out during Summer 2014 and subsequent amendments were disseminated to local authorities for the collections from 1 April 2015 onwards.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 5959 question first answered 14/07/2015 14:08:19 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

389065

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Department of Health: Freedom of Information
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what legal costs the Government has incurred to date relating to the Freedom of Information request for the former Secretary of State for Health's diary of engagements referred to in Information Commissioner Decision Notice No. FS50406024 and the subsequent appeals.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	6508
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2015 answer text <p>In house legal advisory costs attributable to this particular case are not separately identifiable. Litigation and Counsel's costs will be accounted for at the end of the process.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 15/07/2015 13:45:30 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

416154

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Hospitals: Parking
	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 set conditions for the financing of (a) NHS trusts and (b) NHS Foundations Trusts to ensure that these bodies implement the NHS patient, visitor and staff car parking principles.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	8396
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>National Health Service organisations have the freedom to make decisions on their car parking to reflect their local situation and needs. The car parking principles provide clear direction and leadership but a central interference in these freedoms would not help NHS trusts and could result in unwarranted interference in how their clinical services are locally managed and delivered.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The powers available to the Secretary of State for Health under Section 42 of the NHS Act 2006 to provide funding to NHS organisations in distress are not appropriate for car parking. There are no other levers or other conditions available for the financing of NHS organisations to implement the NHS patient, visitor and staff car parking principles.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 14/09/2015 16:21:03 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

416592

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	NHS: Awards
	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 introduce two clinical excellence awards schemes for both clinical academic excellence and clinical service excellence.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	8874
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p>As my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State announced in his Written Ministerial Statement of 16 July, we will consult on removal of the current local clinical excellence award scheme in the autumn, alongside proposals for a reformed national clinical excellence award scheme based on the recommendations previously made by the Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration. We will be mindful of the importance of recognising those doctors who have national leadership roles in the National Health Service and the substantial contribution made by clinical academics.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 8936 question first answered 14/09/2015 16:45:50 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake