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828810

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2018
	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	IVF
	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 18 December 2017 to Question 119189, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of his Department's policy on the provision of and access to IVF treatment in England.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	124439
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2018 answer text <p>Clinical commissioning groups are responsible for commissioning local health services and ensuring the needs of the local health population are met. NHS England is responsible for oversight of the commissioning system. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines are evidence-based best practice for clinicians but are not mandatory.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 31/01/2018 13:59:45 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

829817

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2018
	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	Cycling: Health
	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 Transport on the health benefits of bike-share schemes.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	124595
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2018 answer text <p>Public Health England (PHE) has not had any specific conversations nor conducted any specific work on the health benefits of bike-share schemes with the Department for Transport. PHE has commissioned a number of evidence reviews which include information on the health benefits of cycling, such as ‘Working Together to Promote Active Travel: A briefing for local authorities’ (2016), which is available to view here:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/523460/Working_Together_to_Promote_Active_Travel_A_briefing_for_local_authorities.pdf" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/523460/Working_Together_to_Promote_Active_Travel_A_briefing_for_local_authorities.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 01/02/2018 11:44:23 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

839166

	registered interest
	date	08/02/2018
	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	Medical Treatments: Innovation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what evidence his Department submitted to the OECD's report on Sustainable Access to Innovative Therapies.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	127724
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2018 answer text <p>Officials at the Department have commented on drafts of the Sustainable Access to Innovative Therapies report as it has been developed.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 26/02/2018 17:34:43 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

846236

	registered interest
	date	21/02/2018
	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	Spectacles: Voucher Schemes
	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 extend the NHS optical voucher scheme to cover the cost of tinted lenses for children with dyslexia.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	128914
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2018 answer text <p>Where an optician prescribes lenses, including tinted lenses, eligible patients receive vouchers to help with the cost of glasses. This would include children with defects of sight who also have dyslexia. Help with the cost of glasses however is only available where lenses have been prescribed to correct a defect of sight and there are no plans to change this.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 28/02/2018 14:49:07 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

855938

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2018
	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	Drugs: Costs
	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 article in the British Medical Journal, Estimated costs of production and potential prices for the WHO Essential Medicines List, published on 29 January 2018, if he will make an assessment of potential changes to the costs of medicines in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	131104
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2018 answer text <p>No such assessment has been made. The costs of branded medicines are controlled by the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme and the statutory scheme for branded medicines. For unbranded generic medicines, the Department encourages competition between suppliers to keep prices down. In primary care, community pharmacies are incentivised to source products at the lowest possible cost and in secondary care competitive tenders ensure value-for-money to the National Health Service. Recent research published in the Milbank Quarterly demonstrated that the United Kingdom pays considerably less for unbranded generic medicines than other countries with a comparable income level.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 14/03/2018 11:36:13 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

855942

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2018
	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	General Practitioners: Training
	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 support GP placements for medical students.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	131108
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2018 answer text <p>There are more people training to be general practitioners than ever before with a record 3,157 graduates entering general practice training in 2017-18.</p><p> </p><p>In October 2016 my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care announced a historic expansion of undergraduate medical education in England, by funding up to 1,500 additional medical school places in each year from 2019. The criteria for the award of these additional training places includes as a focus the need to include priority specialties such as general practice.</p><p> </p><p>Medical schools are responsible for setting education curricula at undergraduate level. Clinical placements are arranged locally to align with the requirements of medical schools and of local healthcare providers.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 14/03/2018 11:43:05 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

858565

	registered interest
	date	09/03/2018
	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	IVF
	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 he has to reduce the number of clinical commissioning groups that have decommissioned IVF services.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	131820
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2018 answer text <p>The level of provision of infertility treatment is decided by local clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and will take into account the needs of the population overall. NHS England has advised that it recognises that there is a great deal of interest in the quality and availability of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) services, and is developing a benchmark price that the National Health Service pays for fertility treatments, which will become available for use in 2018/19. NHS England is also working with CCGs and various stakeholders including the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, to understand how best to help them commission IVF services.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England has advised that, because CCGs are responsible for the commissioning of IVF, it is essential that any support that is given is developed in partnership with them. That is why NHS England are now working with NHS clinical commissioners, the national member organisation for CCGs, to identify the best way of supporting CCGs. NHS England have advised that any guidance will be led by NHS clinical commissioners and will contribute to their work as appropriate.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 131821 question first answered 19/03/2018 11:36:24 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

858566

	registered interest
	date	09/03/2018
	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	IVF
	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 he has to introduce commissioning guidance on IVF services for clinical commissioning groups.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	131821
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2018 answer text <p>The level of provision of infertility treatment is decided by local clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and will take into account the needs of the population overall. NHS England has advised that it recognises that there is a great deal of interest in the quality and availability of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) services, and is developing a benchmark price that the National Health Service pays for fertility treatments, which will become available for use in 2018/19. NHS England is also working with CCGs and various stakeholders including the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, to understand how best to help them commission IVF services.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England has advised that, because CCGs are responsible for the commissioning of IVF, it is essential that any support that is given is developed in partnership with them. That is why NHS England are now working with NHS clinical commissioners, the national member organisation for CCGs, to identify the best way of supporting CCGs. NHS England have advised that any guidance will be led by NHS clinical commissioners and will contribute to their work as appropriate.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 131820 question first answered 19/03/2018 11:36:24 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

860744

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2018
	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	Endometriosis
	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 is being made on reducing the diagnosis times and improving the eventual treatment for endometriosis.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	132101
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2018 answer text <p>To support women with endometriosis, all obstetricians and gynaecologists have been trained in the diagnosis, investigation and management of the condition, which is specifically listed as topic in the core curriculum for obstetrics and gynaecology. The European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology has published clinical guidelines on the management of women with endometriosis to assist clinicians.</p><p> </p><p>Through its mandate to NHS England, the Government has set out ambitions to improve the care and support of people with long-term conditions in order to help them to live healthily and independently, with much better control over the care they receive.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England has developed a service specification for severe endometriosis under the specialised commissioning area of complex gynaecology. NHS England expects all units providing a service to women with severe endometriosis to provide care which meets the standards they have provided.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 15/03/2018 17:32:23 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

864464

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2018
	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	Obesity: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is developing a new child obesity plan; and what assessment he has made of the potential merits of developing a new child obesity plan that includes steps to reduce child tooth decay.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	132947
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>Improving the oral health of children is a priority for this Government. Key measures in our world-leading childhood obesity plan include the soft drinks industry levy and sugar reduction and wider reformulation programme which are reducing the amount of sugar children consume.</p><p> </p><p>Current advertising restrictions in the United Kingdom on high fat, salt or sugar (HFSS) products are among the toughest in the world. Strict new rules came into effect in July 2017 banning the advertising of HFSS food or drink products in children’s media. These restrictions apply across all non-broadcast media including in print, cinema, online and in social media.</p><p> </p><p>In August 2017 we announced £5 million investment in a policy research unit on childhood obesity to provide a robust evidence, evaluation and research capability including looking at the impact of marketing (including advertising) on childhood obesity. We will use this, alongside other reports and data published on progress in delivering our plan, to determine whether sufficient progress has been made and whether alternative levers need to be considered.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 132948 question first answered 20/03/2018 16:39:52 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe