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1131187

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2019
	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	Medical Treatments
	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 UK Government’s response to the resolution on improving the transparency of markets at the 72nd World Health Assembly in Geneva on the ability of people in the UK to access medicines.
	tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
	tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
	uin	263223
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2019 answer text <p>The United Kingdom participates in various transparency initiatives, including the European Integrated Price Information Database, the World Health Organization’s Pharmaceutical Pricing Reimbursement Information Network, and the Global Fund Price and Quality Database. The UK has a long-established and globally-recognised track record of assessing the price of new, innovative medicines according to their clinical value, rather than pricing by their development costs or international reference prices.</p><p>We believe that is the right approach: ensuring the development of the best medicines in areas of high unmet need are rewarded. The Government could not, therefore, agree to a resolution which had the potential to increase medicines prices and reduce patient access, by reducing the ability of the National Health Service to undertake commercial negotiations with pharmaceutical companies on the price of new medicines.</p><p>The approach taken by the NHS has meant we were the first country in Europe to offer innovative CAR-T therapies, alongside many other new medicines.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 19/06/2019 14:20:00 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1131208

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2019
	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	NHS: 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 steps he is taking to tackle shortages of (a) Adalat, (b) Nifedipine and (c) other common medicines.
	tabling member constituency	Bury North
	tabling member printed	James Frith
	uin	263235
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2019 answer text <p>The vast majority of medicines are not subject to supply problems and every day over 2 million prescription items are successfully dispensed in England.</p><p>Where problems do occur the Department’s Medicines Supply Team has well established procedures to deal with medicine shortages and works closely with all stakeholders to help prevent shortages and to ensure that the risks to patients are minimised when they do arise.</p><p>We are aware of ongoing supply issues with the Adalat range of the drug nifedipine due to manufacturing capacity constraints. We have been working closely with all suppliers of generic and other brands of nifedipine to maintain overall supply of this medicine to patients and have provided regular updates about the situation to the National Health Service.</p><p>We will continue to work closely with all manufacturers of nifedipine preparations to monitor the overall supply situation to ensure supplies continue to remain available.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 19/06/2019 14:22:30 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

1131255

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2019
	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	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 tackle obesity.
	tabling member constituency	North Antrim
	tabling member printed	Ian Paisley
	uin	263150
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2019 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by the former Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health and Primary Care (Steve Brine MP) to the hon. Member for Cardiff Central (Jo Stevens MP) on 28 February 2019 to Question <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2019-02-25/225540/" target="_blank">225540</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 19/06/2019 14:17:06 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4129 label Biography information for Ian Paisley

1131293

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2019
	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	Cannabis: Medical Treatments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many companies are licensed to sell cannabis products to the NHS.
	tabling member constituency	Ross, Skye and Lochaber
	tabling member printed	Ian Blackford
	uin	263171
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2019 answer text <p>Any company meeting the standards for the manufacture of unlicensed medicinal products, can supply cannabis-based products for medicinal use.</p><p> </p><p>Cannabis-based products for medicinal use are Schedule 2 controlled drugs under the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001, which means that manufacturers, importers and distributors of these products must hold valid Home Office and Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) licences for the relevant activities which will include possession, supply and production of controlled drugs. Where products are sourced from abroad, importers must obtain an import licence from the Home Office and non-objection to import from the MHRA for each individual import of a controlled drug.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 19/06/2019 09:39:54 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4390 label Biography information for Ian Blackford

1131321

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2019
	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	Cannabis: Medical Treatments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made on ensuring that medical cannabis is available to people who need it.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	263063
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2019 answer text <p>The law was changed on 1 November 2018 to allow clinicians on the General Medical Council’s ‘Specialist Register’ to prescribe cannabis-based products for medicinal use, where clinically appropriate and in the best interest of patients.</p><p>Interim clinical guidance has been issued by the Royal College of Physicians, the British Paediatric Neurology Association and the Association of British Neurologists to support doctors looking to prescribe cannabis-based products. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has been commissioned to develop updated clinical guidance on the prescribing of cannabis-based medicinal products, which will be published by October 2019. It will be based on the best available international evidence and will have been produced using NICE’s world-renowned process for delivering such guidance.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 19/06/2019 14:21:18 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1131323

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2019
	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	Lung Diseases: Medical Equipment
	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 merits for his Department's policies of the recommendation by the Committee on Climate Change in its Net Zero report to switch NHS patients to (a) dry powder and (b) low-global warming inhalers by 2027 to help the NHS meet its carbon targets.
	tabling member constituency	Swansea West
	tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
	uin	263022
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2019 answer text <p>NHS England and NHS Improvement is currently reviewing cost and system pressures from changing prescribing practice linked to lower carbon inhalers and potential medication change impacts for patients. The NHS Long Term Plan has committed to a reduction in the carbon impact of inhalers of 4% of the total National Health Service carbon reduction required over the next 10 years to meet the current Climate Change Act targets.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 19/06/2019 14:16:14 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1130903

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2019
	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	Diabetes: Health Services
	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 NHS Long Term Plan and NHS Planning Guidance commitments for 2019-20, what progress his Department has made against the commitment to develop and expand the Diabetes Prevention Programme to offer digital access; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	262384
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>As set out in the NHS Long Term Plan, an Implementation Framework will be published shortly which will set out the next steps the National Health Service will take to deliver the commitments and the national activity and support available to systems. The Implementation Framework will assist local health systems, who will build on the engagement already taking place across the country, in developing their strategic Long Term Plan implementation plan over the summer. NHS England and NHS Improvement will then publish a national implementation plan in the autumn.</p><p>The Long Term Plan committed to fund a doubling of the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme over the next five years, including a new digital option to widen patient choice and target inequality.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 18/06/2019 16:26:50 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1130951

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2019
	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	Alzheimer's Disease: Chlamydia and Cold Sores
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the Royal College of Nursing on the relationship between herpes, chlamydia and Alzheimers.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	262367
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>No discussions have been held with the Royal College of Nursing on the relationship between herpes, chlamydia and Alzheimer’s disease.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 18/06/2019 10:54:24 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1130954

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2019
	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	Lung Cancer: Carbohydrates
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the Royal College of Nursing on the relationship between carbohydrates and lung cancer.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	262368
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>No such discussions have taken place.</p><p>The Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) published a report on carbohydrates and health in July 2015. The SACN was asked to review the evidence on carbohydrates and colorectal, metabolic and oral health; it did not consider evidence in relation to lung cancer. The SACN has no plans to review the evidence on carbohydrates and health again in the near future.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 18/06/2019 10:52:29 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1130961

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2019
	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	Antibiotics: 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 discussions he has had with Royal College of Nursing on the effectiveness of antibiotics in children.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	262370
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>Ministers have discussions with the Royal College of Nursing on a range of subjects. We hold no record of meetings that have taken place specifically to discuss the effectiveness of antibiotics in children.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 18/06/2019 10:53:41 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon