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449397

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many young people aged 17 or under of each age were sectioned under the Mental Health Act in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
	tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
	uin	25024
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2016 answer text <p>The National Police Chiefs Council has reported figures on the number of children held in police custody as a place of safety under section 136 of the Mental Health Act for only three years. These were as follows:</p><p> </p><p>2012-13 <ins class="ministerial">256</ins> <del class="ministerial">255</del>;</p><p>2013-14 <ins class="ministerial">161</ins> <del class="ministerial">256</del>; and</p><p>2014-15 <ins class="ministerial">145</ins> <del class="ministerial">161</del>.</p><p> </p><p>Data on children and young people sectioned under other sections of the Mental Health Act are not available centrally.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 08/02/2016 12:58:21 question first ministerially corrected 12/02/2016 15:22:26 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt previous answer version 43916 answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

449400

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many young people aged 17 or under of each age were held in police custody as a place of safety in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
	tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
	uin	25025
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2016 answer text <p>The National Police Chiefs Council has reported figures on the number of children held in police custody as a place of safety under section 136 of the Mental Health Act for only three years. These were as follows:</p><p> </p><p>2012-13 <ins class="ministerial">256</ins> <del class="ministerial">255</del>;</p><p>2013-14 <ins class="ministerial">161</ins> <del class="ministerial">256</del>; and</p><p>2014-15 <ins class="ministerial">145</ins> <del class="ministerial">161</del>.</p><p> </p><p>Data on children and young people sectioned under other sections of the Mental Health Act are not available centrally.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 08/02/2016 12:58:21 question first ministerially corrected 12/02/2016 15:22:17 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt previous answer version 43918 answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

449136

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Human Embryo Experiments
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answers by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health, Melanie Johnson, on 11 May 2004 (HC Deb, col 315W), by Lord Darzi of Denham on 21 April 2008 (WA 235) and by Lord Prior of Brampton on 27 January (HL5039), whether it remains the case that lay summaries of research proposals submitted to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) are placed on its website with an invitation to the public to submit comments; if so, when the last licence applications and lay summaries were placed on its website; where and when the title of the licence application to use CRISPR-Cas9 and the lay summary submitted by the applicant were published on the HFEA website; and why the section of the HFEA website that describes human embryo research awaiting approval (http://www.hfea.gov.uk/167.html) has continued to state that there "are currently no research projects awaiting approval".
	tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
	uin	HL5646
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has advised that lay summaries of research proposals submitted to the Authority are no longer placed on its website prior to consideration by a HFEA Licence Committee. Lay summaries are, however, available on the website in the inspection report for each research project, linked to a list of all licensed research projects.</p><p> </p><p>The noble Lord is correct that the HFEA website still mistakenly refers to past practice. We are advised that this will be rectified shortly.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 11/02/2016 14:59:37 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

449137

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Stem Cells
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what evidence the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has received that bona fide trophectoderm stem cells have already been successfully derived and propagated from human embryos; whether any such stem cell lines have been deposited in the UK Stem Cell Bank; and if so, when.
	tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
	uin	HL5647
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has advised that it holds information on the number of stem cell lines derived in each licensed research project and checks for compliance (on inspection) with the requirement for stem cell lines to be deposited in the UK Stem Cell Bank. However, this information does not differentiate between stem cells derived from the inner cell mass and those from trophectoderm.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 11/02/2016 14:59:22 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

449138

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Human Embryo Experiments
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Prior of Brampton on 24 July 2015 (HL1524), how many modifications can be made to an existing research licence previously approved by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority before it can no longer be legitimately considered as essentially the same research project as that for which a licence was originally sought; and what sort of modifications can be made to an existing research licence before it is no longer considered to have exactly the same aims as those in the initial licence application that were originally deemed to fulfil the purposes specified in the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 as amended.
	tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
	uin	HL5648
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has advised that there are no fixed number of modifications that can be made to an existing research licence project. Such questions are considered on a case by case basis with reference to the statutory tests.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 11/02/2016 14:47:19 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

449139

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Human Embryo Experiments
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Prior of Brampton on 27 January (HL5039), whether they are now able to say whether a stated aim of the recently approved application by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority to perform genome editing in human embryos by means of CRISPR-Cas9 was, and remains, to better understand why miscarriages occur in some pregnancies; and if not, whether the description of that research that will be made public will disclose the specific assay the researchers concerned had proposed using to determine whether embryos subjected to gene editing might be either able or unable to implant in a womb.
	tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
	uin	HL5649
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) publishes on its website the inspection report relating to a licence renewal application and the minutes of the Licence Committee’s decision. It does not publish other information associated with a licence application.</p><p> </p><p>The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 (as amended) permits the genetic modification of embryos in research, subject to an HFEA licence. As the regulator, the HFEA’s responsibility is to apply the test in the legislation, namely that the research is necessary or desirable for any of the purposes specified in the Act and that the use of embryos is necessary. The Licence Committee has added a condition to the licence that no research using genome editing may take place until it has received approval from an NHS Research Ethics Committee.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL5773 HL5959 HL5960 question first answered 11/02/2016 17:51:31 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

449148

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Prosthetics
	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 impact on patients of the decision by NHS England to refuse funding for micro-processor knees.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL5658
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2016 answer text <p>NHS England has not refused to fund micro-processor knees. A revised policy proposal for the routine commissioning of microprocessor controlled knees was considered by NHS England’s expert Clinical Priorities Advisory Group which recommended its adoption for routine commissioning. The proposal was then considered by NHS England’s Specialised Commissioning Oversight Group at its meeting on 9 December 2015 where it was agreed that NHS England would support this service development as a possible call on its resources. However given the potential scale of investment and the need to consider its priority relative to other treatments which would also have a possible call on the specialised commissioning resources it was decided that the policy should go forward for consideration as part of NHS England's next annual prioritisation round in June 2016.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL5659 question first answered 10/02/2016 15:05:59 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

449149

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Prosthetics
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of whether the decision by NHS England to refuse funding for micro-processor knees is consistent with its <i>Five Year Forward View</i>, which states that the NHS needs to adapt to take advantage of the opportunities that science and technology offer patients and carers.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL5659
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2016 answer text <p>NHS England has not refused to fund micro-processor knees. A revised policy proposal for the routine commissioning of microprocessor controlled knees was considered by NHS England’s expert Clinical Priorities Advisory Group which recommended its adoption for routine commissioning. The proposal was then considered by NHS England’s Specialised Commissioning Oversight Group at its meeting on 9 December 2015 where it was agreed that NHS England would support this service development as a possible call on its resources. However given the potential scale of investment and the need to consider its priority relative to other treatments which would also have a possible call on the specialised commissioning resources it was decided that the policy should go forward for consideration as part of NHS England's next annual prioritisation round in June 2016.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL5658 question first answered 10/02/2016 15:05:59 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

449150

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Prescriptions: Students
	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 cost of giving free prescriptions to students in full-time education.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL5660
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>We are unable to provide the cost of giving free prescriptions to students in full-time education.</p><p> </p><p>The estimated cost of giving free prescriptions to those young people aged 16, 17 and 18 in full-time education for the period April 2014 to March 2015 is £68,088,373. This is based on information captured when processing National Health Service FP10 prescription forms which were dispensed in the community during the period April 2014 to March 2015.</p><p> </p><p>We do not hold the information on how much the average student spends per year on prescriptions.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL5661 question first answered 11/02/2016 12:34:32 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

449151

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Prescriptions: Students
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of how much the average student spends per year on prescriptions.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL5661
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>We are unable to provide the cost of giving free prescriptions to students in full-time education.</p><p> </p><p>The estimated cost of giving free prescriptions to those young people aged 16, 17 and 18 in full-time education for the period April 2014 to March 2015 is £68,088,373. This is based on information captured when processing National Health Service FP10 prescription forms which were dispensed in the community during the period April 2014 to March 2015.</p><p> </p><p>We do not hold the information on how much the average student spends per year on prescriptions.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL5660 question first answered 11/02/2016 12:34:32 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath