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1129227

registered interest
date	03/06/2019
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	5G: Health Hazards
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 of the decision by the Belgian authorities to halt the roll out of 5G because of health concerns.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	259316
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2019 answer text <p>The United Kingdom supports European Council Recommendation 1999/519/EC on limiting exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMFs), which include radio waves. The Recommendation incorporates exposure restrictions from the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP), as advised by Public Health England (PHE).</p><p>An overview of the radio wave exposure restrictions applied in a range of countries has been provided by the World Health Organization (WHO) at the following link:</p><p><a href="http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.EMFLIMITSPUBLICRADIOFREQUENCY?lang=en" target="_blank">http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.EMFLIMITSPUBLICRADIOFREQUENCY?lang=en</a></p><p>This shows that the majority of countries are following the ICNIRP guidelines (41 volts per meter at 900 MHz and 58 volts per meter at 1,800 MHz).</p><p>PHE is a collaborating body in WHO’s International EMF Project, which brings together organisations from around the world to share information on this topic. PHE is committed to keeping its advice under review and to updating its advice should new evidence dictate that is necessary.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 06/06/2019 13:26:51 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1128955

registered interest
date	03/06/2019
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: Rivers
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 reduce the concentration of antibiotics in UK rivers.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	259425
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2019 answer text <p>The United Kingdom’s national action plan for antimicrobial resistance (AMR), published on 24 January 2019, takes a fully integrated and comprehensive One-Health approach for tackling AMR, and includes challenging five-year commitments across human and animal health, agriculture, the environment and food.</p><p>Without more research into AMR in the environment we cannot design effective interventions to minimise risk and protect public health, food production and natural ecosystems. The national action plan therefore includes commitments to deepen our understanding about AMR in the environment, including a specific commitment to explore the establishment of a river catchment-based research programme with clear standards for sample collection, analysis and review, with the aim of delivering AMR monitoring data that can be used to evaluate existing management interventions and inform new policy initiatives.</p><p>The Environment Agency is working with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and water companies to undertake an extensive programme of investigations to assess a wide range of chemicals entering rivers through wastewater treatment works. As part of this programme, levels of four antibiotics have been monitored in treated sewage effluent in order to quantify levels. The choice of antibiotics was based on the levels of prescription and environmental toxicity studies. Outputs will inform the development of future policy and regulatory decisions.</p><p>The Department is establishing a UK AMR national action plan delivery board which will drive and oversee delivery of this work.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 06/06/2019 13:21:36 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1129371

registered interest
date	03/06/2019
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	Cancer: 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, how much the Government spent on cancer (a) research and (b) treatment in 2017-18.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	259146
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2019 answer text <p>For cancer research, the National Institute for Health Research spent £136 million in 2017/18, an increase from £101 million in 2010/11. This constitutes the largest investment in a disease area.</p><p>For cancer treatment, NHS England can only provide information on those services that it commissions through its specialised commissioning function. Other services would be commissioned locally by clinical commissioning groups and therefore not collected centrally. In 2017-18, NHS England estimates that £3.9 billion was spent by NHS England Specialised Commissioning. The attached table shows a breakdown of figures.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 06/06/2019 14:31:33 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy attachment 1 file name 259146 table.docx title Specialised Commissioning Spend 2013-18
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1129376

registered interest
date	03/06/2019
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	Cancer: 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, how much and what proportion of the NHS cancer budget was spent on (a) surgery, (b) drugs, (c) chemotherapy and (d) radiotherapy in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	259149
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2019 answer text <p>We are not able to provide this information. NHS England can only provide information on those services that it commissions through its specialised commissioning function. Other services would be commissioned locally by clinical commissioning groups and therefore not collected centrally.</p><p>The attached table shows a breakdown of figures for 2013-14 to 2017-18, as estimated for NHS England Specialised Commissioning by NHS England.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 06/06/2019 14:27:51 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy attachment 1 file name 259149 table.docx title Specialised Commissioning Spend 2013-18
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1129388

registered interest
date	03/06/2019
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	Contraceptives
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 his Department has to promote the uptake of long-acting reversible contraception methods.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	259467
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2019 answer text <p>A wide range of contraceptive choices, including long-acting reversible contraception (LARC), are available free of charge in a range of primary and community venues and local authorities are mandated to provide reasonable access to all methods of contraception. The proportion of women attending sexual and reproductive health services who use LARC methods has been steadily rising over the last ten years. The Department will work with Public Health England to consider what more we can do to ensure that all women have access to the full range of contraception.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 06/06/2019 13:19:12 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1129402

registered interest
date	03/06/2019
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	Drugs: Prices
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 effect of the Government’s decision to not support the World Health Assembly's resolution on greater transparency for drug pricing on the affordability of medicines in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	259098
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2019 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. However, 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. 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 NHS to undertake commercial negotiations with pharmaceutical companies on the price of new medicines. The approach taken by the National Health Service has meant we were the first country in Europe to offer innovative CAR-T therapies, alongside many other new medicines.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 06/06/2019 15:58:52 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1129389

registered interest
date	03/06/2019
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	Genito-urinary Medicine: Expenditure
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 spending on sexual health services reflects local levels of need.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	259112
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2019 answer text <p>The Government has mandated local authorities to commission comprehensive open access sexual health services, including free sexually transmitted infection testing and treatment, and notification of sexual partners of infected persons.</p><p>The precise level of spending on sexual health services is a matter for individual local authorities, reflecting local need.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 06/06/2019 13:15:28 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1128881

registered interest
date	03/06/2019
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	Measles: Vaccination
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 Secretary of State for Education on making the measles vaccination compulsory before children start school.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	259034
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2019 answer text <p>There have been no discussions between the Department of Health and Social Care and the Department for Education, on making the measles vaccination compulsory before children start school.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 06/06/2019 14:32:33 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1128950

registered interest
date	03/06/2019
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	Mumps
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 instances of mumps there were in the first quarter of (a) 2019, (b) 2018, (c) 2017 and (d) 2016.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	259029
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2019 answer text <p>Mumps is a notifiable disease and healthcare professionals are legally required to report all suspected cases to their local Health Protection Team. The number of confirmed cases of mumps in quarter 1 of each year from 2016 is shown in the following table.</p><p>Number of laboratory confirmed mumps cases in England for Quarter 1 (Q1) in 2016 - 19</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number of cases in Q1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>795</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>275</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>280</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>145</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Sources:</p><ol><li>2016: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/526457/hpr1816_mmr.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/526457/hpr1816_mmr.pdf</a></li><li>2017: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/616215/hpr1917_mmr.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/616215/hpr1917_mmr.pdf</a></li><li>2018: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/711941/1918_AA_mmr.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/711941/1918_AA_mmr.pdf</a></li><li>2019: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/804024/hpr1819_mmr2.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/804024/hpr1819_mmr2.pdf</a></li></ol><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 06/06/2019 13:51:30 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1129088

registered interest
date	03/06/2019
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	Pneumoconiosis
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 new diagnoses of pneumoconiosis there have been among ex-miners in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	259235
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2019 answer text <p>This data is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 06/06/2019 13:17:34 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth