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1056741

	registered interest
	date	07/02/2019
	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	Electronic Cigarettes
	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 implementing the recommendations accepted by the Government in its response to the Science and Technology Committee's Seventh Report of Session 2017-19 on E-cigarettes, HC505.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	218245
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government published its response to the Science and Technology Committee on the 10 December 2018. Good progress is being made on implementing the report’s recommendations: for example, Public Health England will publish its latest annual evidence review on e-cigarettes by the end of March 2019 and NHS England is developing guidance on e-cigarettes for mental health trusts. The Department will continue to monitor progress as part of its monitoring of the delivery of the Tobacco Control Plan for England.</p><p> </p><p>The Government believes in proportionate regulation of e-cigarettes, recognising that they are not risk-free. Through the European Union Tobacco Products Directive 2014/40/EU (TPD), transposed into United Kingdom law by the UK Tobacco and Related Products Regulations 2016 (TRPR), we have introduced measures to regulate e-cigarettes to reduce the risk of harm to children, protect against any risk of renormalisation of tobacco use, provide assurance on relative safety for users, and give businesses legal certainty. This has enabled the UK to implement appropriate standards for products whilst allowing smokers to move to e-cigarettes should they wish.</p><p> </p><p>While the UK Government is a member of the EU it will continue to comply with the requirements of the EU’s TPD. The Government has made a commitment to review the TRPR by May 2021 to consider its regulatory impact. In addition, as announced in the Tobacco Control Plan the Government will review where the UK’s exit from the EU offers us opportunities to re-appraise current regulation to ensure this continues to protect the nation’s health.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 218246 question first answered 15/02/2019 11:10:04 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

1056744

	registered interest
	date	07/02/2019
	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	Electronic Cigarettes
	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 Seventh Report of Session 2017-19 of the Science and Technology Committee on E-cigarettes, HC505, what steps he has taken to ensure that the regulatory system for e-cigarettes is risk-proportionate.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	218246
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government published its response to the Science and Technology Committee on the 10 December 2018. Good progress is being made on implementing the report’s recommendations: for example, Public Health England will publish its latest annual evidence review on e-cigarettes by the end of March 2019 and NHS England is developing guidance on e-cigarettes for mental health trusts. The Department will continue to monitor progress as part of its monitoring of the delivery of the Tobacco Control Plan for England.</p><p> </p><p>The Government believes in proportionate regulation of e-cigarettes, recognising that they are not risk-free. Through the European Union Tobacco Products Directive 2014/40/EU (TPD), transposed into United Kingdom law by the UK Tobacco and Related Products Regulations 2016 (TRPR), we have introduced measures to regulate e-cigarettes to reduce the risk of harm to children, protect against any risk of renormalisation of tobacco use, provide assurance on relative safety for users, and give businesses legal certainty. This has enabled the UK to implement appropriate standards for products whilst allowing smokers to move to e-cigarettes should they wish.</p><p> </p><p>While the UK Government is a member of the EU it will continue to comply with the requirements of the EU’s TPD. The Government has made a commitment to review the TRPR by May 2021 to consider its regulatory impact. In addition, as announced in the Tobacco Control Plan the Government will review where the UK’s exit from the EU offers us opportunities to re-appraise current regulation to ensure this continues to protect the nation’s health.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 218245 question first answered 15/02/2019 11:10:04 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

1054831

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2019
	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	Yellow Fever: Vaccination
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits on including yellow fever in the list of vaccines under the Vaccine Damage Payment Act 1979 for which compensation may be paid.
	tabling member constituency	Gravesham
	tabling member printed	Adam Holloway
	uin	216214
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2019 answer text <p>The Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS) is not a compensation scheme. There is no assessment of what losses were actually suffered. It provides a one off tax-free lump sum payment, currently £120,000, to successful claimants and is one part of the wide range of support and help available to severely disabled people in the United Kingdom.</p><p> </p><p>The VDPS is primarily designed to cover adverse reactions for vaccination in the child immunisation programme which is a Government initiative to protect the community from infectious disease and does not include travel vaccines.</p><p> </p><p>The Scheme is being kept under review if further inclusions are thought necessary.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 12/02/2019 11:47:07 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	1522 label Biography information for Adam Holloway

1054838

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2019
	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	Vaccination: Compensation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of changing the provisions of the Vaccine Damage Payment compensation scheme so that people who suffer a psychiatric injury as a result of an adverse event involving a vaccine can also be fairly compensated for the effects of (a) loss of earnings, (b) the stigma of mental illness and (c) incarceration.
	tabling member constituency	Gravesham
	tabling member printed	Adam Holloway
	uin	216215
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2019 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions administers the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS) on our behalf.</p><p> </p><p>The VDPS is not a compensation scheme. There is no assessment of what losses were actually suffered. It provides a one off tax-free lump sum payment, currently £120,000, to successful claimants and is one part of the wide range of support and help available to severely disabled people in the United Kingdom.</p><p> </p><p>This Scheme is not designed as an alternative to litigation and does not prejudice the right of the injured person to pursue a claim against the manufacturer of the vaccine for compensation.</p><p> </p><p>To qualify for a VDPS payment, the applicant has to meet two legal tests:</p><p>- establishing, on a balance of probabilities, that the disablement was caused by a vaccination covered by the VDPS; and</p><p>- the resulting disablement is severe disablement (60% or more), assessed on the same basis as for the Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit Scheme.</p><p> </p><p>Disablement is the overall effect of the disability arising from a loss of faculty caused by the vaccine. It is an assessment of the effects of the medical condition, not an assessment of the condition itself. The effects may be physical or mental or both. The level of disablement is made by comparison of the disabled person to a person of the same age and sex whose physical and mental condition is normal.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 12/02/2019 15:44:36 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	1522 label Biography information for Adam Holloway

1083686

	registered interest
	date	07/03/2019
	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 patients have been prescribed cannabis-based products for medicinal use; and how many were (a) private prescriptions and (b) prescriptions funded by NHS or NHS Scottish.
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Alan Brown
	uin	229804
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2019 answer text <p>NHS England has set up systems to monitor the prescribing of cannabis-based products for medicinal use via the NHS Business Services Authority and NHS England Controlled Drugs Accountable Officers. We expect the first data to be available by the end of March 2019. In Scotland, work is underway to establish similar systems.</p><p> </p><p>There are 95,532 specialist doctors registered on the General Medical Council’s Specialist Register. The law allows any specialist doctor to prescribe cannabis-based products for medicinal use. Specialist doctors may decide to prescribe these products on a case-by-case basis, and where it is clinically appropriate. The Department does not hold information on how many of those practitioners operate private practices and are National Health Service or NHS Scotland employees or where they work.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 229805 question first answered 12/03/2019 16:17:58 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1083687

	registered interest
	date	07/03/2019
	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 medical practitioners are registered to prescribe cannabis-based products for medicinal use; how many of those practitioners (a) operate private practices and (b) are NHS or NHS Scotland employees; and if he will list the (i) Trusts and (ii) Health boards at which each of those NHS and NHS Scotland employee works.
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Alan Brown
	uin	229805
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2019 answer text <p>NHS England has set up systems to monitor the prescribing of cannabis-based products for medicinal use via the NHS Business Services Authority and NHS England Controlled Drugs Accountable Officers. We expect the first data to be available by the end of March 2019. In Scotland, work is underway to establish similar systems.</p><p> </p><p>There are 95,532 specialist doctors registered on the General Medical Council’s Specialist Register. The law allows any specialist doctor to prescribe cannabis-based products for medicinal use. Specialist doctors may decide to prescribe these products on a case-by-case basis, and where it is clinically appropriate. The Department does not hold information on how many of those practitioners operate private practices and are National Health Service or NHS Scotland employees or where they work.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 229804 question first answered 12/03/2019 16:17:58 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1015401

	registered interest
	date	27/11/2018
	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	Electronic Cigarettes
	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 and meetings the Government has had with the (a) tobacco and (b) vaping industries on e-cigarette regulation and policy in the last three years for which information is available.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	196229
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2018 answer text <p>The Department has held discussions and meetings with the Independent British Vape Trade Association (IBVTA), who is independent of the tobacco industry, over the past three years. I also met the IBVTA on 12 March 2018 to discuss United Kingdom vaping and regulations.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not collect data on discussions with the vaping industry from other Government Departments.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 05/12/2018 16:26:49 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1015402

	registered interest
	date	27/11/2018
	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	Electronic Cigarettes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the Government plans to publish its Command Paper in response to the Science and Technology Committee's Seventh Report of Session 2017-19 on E-cigarettes, HC 505; and whether it has taken steps to implement the report’s recommendations.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	196230
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government will respond to the report shortly.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 05/12/2018 16:50:24 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1016239

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2018
	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	Smoking: 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, if he will take steps to ensure that the tobacco industry is excluded from funding or helping to provide stop smoking services at a local government level.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	196780
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2018 answer text <p>The United Kingdom Government is a signatory to the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC), Article 5.3 of which commits Parties to protect public health policies with respect to tobacco control from commercial and other vested interests of the tobacco industry. The Government and local authorities take very seriously their obligations under the WHO FCTC, including the commitment under Article 5.3. The Government has endorsed the Local Government Declaration on Tobacco Control, which was launched in 2013.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 07/12/2018 13:00:22 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1023915

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2018
	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	Electronic Cigarettes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December 2018 to Question 196229 on Electronic Cigarettes, what (a) discussions and (b) meetings his Department has held with representatives from the tobacco industry on e-cigarette regulation and policy.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	201629
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2018 answer text <p>The Department met representatives of the tobacco industry to discuss the introduction of the Tobacco and Related Products Regulations 2016. The Department has not discussed e-cigarette policy with the tobacco industry during this period, as this would breach our commitments under the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 20/12/2018 17:05:56 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham