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	date	06/01/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Level Crossings: Accidents
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of fatalities at level-crossings.
	tabling member constituency	Clacton
	tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
	uin	219803
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2015 answer text <p>We must not be complacent about level crossing safety. An industry safety framework is in place to manage risks.</p><p> </p><p>As the relevant safety duty holder, Network Rail is best placed to assess the risks at level crossings and ensure that the most appropriate infrastructure is in place given local circumstances.</p><p> </p><p>Having already reduced risk significantly across the network, the company has set further challenging targets for risk reduction at level crossings by 2019. The Department is supporting this work through a dedicated £109 million ring-fenced fund which aims to close around a further 500 level crossings and improve safety at hundreds more of the highest risk crossings.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 13/01/2015 11:24:54 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell

172245

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	HIV Infection
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to increase HIV screening.
	tabling member constituency	Clacton
	tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
	uin	219802
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2015 answer text <p>The Department has asked the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) to commission a review of the evidence for a universal HIV screening programme in adults. The UK NSC plan to consult on their review in spring 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department’s <em>A Framework for</em> <em>Sexual Health Improvement in England</em> (2013) sets out how we will continue to tackle HIV through prevention and increased access to testing to enable early diagnosis and treatment. Also, reducing the proportion of people with HIV diagnosed late is included as an indicator for local authorities in the Public Health Outcomes Framework.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 13/01/2015 15:13:10 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell