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	registered interest
	date	01/10/2019
	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	Babies: Screening
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report by Genetic Alliance UK Fixing the Present, Building for the Future: Newborn screening for rare conditions, published in July, in particular its finding that the UK tests for fewer conditions in new-borns in its new-born bloodspot screening programme than similar high income countries; and what plans they have to increase the number of serious conditions they test for.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Redfern
	uin	HL17975
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>In the United Kingdom, screening is an end to end service from test to treatment. This is not necessarily the case in other countries such as the United States of America. Therefore, comparisons with other health systems can be misleading.</p><p>In April 2014, the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) recommended extending the newborn bloodspot screening programme to include four additional conditions: maple syrup urine disease; homocystinuria; glutaric acidaemia type 1; and isovaleric acidaemia. The newborn blood spot screening is currently offered to all babies to identify nine conditions, as recommended by the UK NSC.</p><p>The UK NSC welcomes any new topic proposals through its annual call for topics. Using research evidence, pilot programmes and economic evaluation, the UK NSC assesses the evidence for programmes against a set of internationally recognised criteria. To ensure that screening is offered where the balance of benefit outweighs the harms.</p><p>In August 2019, the UK NSC published <em>Generation genome and the opportunities for screening programmes</em>. The report reflects the specific opportunities identified by each of the 11 population screening programmes, including the antenatal and newborn screening programmes. The report concluded that the advances in genomic technologies present exciting and potentially effective developments for screening programmes. Current and developing research and technology will be used to determine how, in future, genetics can best be used in screening. A copy of the report is attached.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 08/10/2019 16:39:50 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford attachment 1 file name Generation_genome_and_opportunities_for_screening_programmes.pdf title Generation_genome
	tabling member	4551 label Biography information for Baroness Redfern

1121604

	registered interest
	date	11/04/2019
	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	Nurses: Re-employment
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many nurses have returned to the NHS in the last 12 months.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Redfern
	uin	HL15255
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2019 answer text <p>The data is not held in the format requested.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 26/04/2019 10:55:07 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
	tabling member	4551 label Biography information for Baroness Redfern

1047847

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2019
	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	Obesity
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they are considering taking steps to reduce differences in levels of obesity between more and less deprived areas; and if so, what steps.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Redfern
	uin	HL13125
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>In <em>Childhood obesity: a plan for action, chapter 2</em>, published in June 2018, we have set a bold ambition to halve childhood obesity by 2030 and significantly reduce the gap in obesity between children from the most and least deprived areas by 2030. We want to achieve this by ensuring that we are supporting parents, particularly in the most deprived families, to help their children have the best start in life. We have reiterated this ambition in our vision document <em>Prevention is better than cure</em>, published on 5 November 2018, and in the <em>NHS Long Term Plan</em> published on 8 January 2019.</p><p> </p><p>The childhood obesity plan delivers school based interventions including revenue from the soft drinks industry levy being invested in programmes targeted at disadvantaged children including up to £26 million to fund a breakfast club programme between 2017-18 and 2019-20 and £22 million in an Essential Life Skills programme in 12 Opportunity Areas to enable disadvantaged children aged 5-18 to participate in regular extra-curricular activities, including sporting activities, to develop essential life skills.</p><p> </p><p>Through the Healthy Food Schemes, the Government provides a nutritional safety net to those who need it the most. The three schemes that make up this programme, Healthy Start, Nursery Milk and School Fruit and Vegetables, help to support children, babies and women through pregnancy, when they are at home, in childcare and in early years at school.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 07/02/2019 14:47:48 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
	tabling member	4551 label Biography information for Baroness Redfern