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1191249

	registered interest
	date	28/04/2020
	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: Assessments
	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 plans to take to prevent a shortfall of GPs qualifying in 2020 due to the cancellation of the postgraduate assessments (a) Applied Knowledge Test and (b) Clinical Skills Assessment, as a result of covid-19 outbreak; and what assessment he has made of the viability of using another form of such assessment during the covid-19 lock-down.
	tabling member constituency	Lichfield
	tabling member printed	Michael Fabricant
	uin	40966
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2020 answer text <p>The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) and the four statutory education bodies are rapidly developing a temporary recorded alternative to the Clinical Skills Assessment (subject to approval by the General Medical Council). The RCGP have advised that this will provide trainees with an opportunity to demonstrate their competence to be awarded a Certificate of Completion of Training and qualify as a GP.</p><p>At the same time, the RCGP is working with their testing partner to enable the Applied Knowledge Test to resume at test centres with appropriate social distancing safeguards in place from July. The RCGP is also investigating options for remote invigilation for those who are shielding.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 13/05/2020 16:12:16 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	280 label Biography information for Michael Fabricant

1299371

	registered interest
	date	03/03/2021
	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	Dental 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 issue guidance to dentists on when they might be expected to return to normal working.
	tabling member constituency	Lichfield
	tabling member printed	Michael Fabricant
	uin	162510
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2021 answer text <p>Dentistry has been particularly affected by the risk of COVID-19 transmission due to the number of aerosol generating procedures carried out. This has resulted in the need for an enhanced level of personal protective equipment and reduced throughput to allow for thorough cleaning and resting of rooms between patients, as set out in Public Health England’s Infection Prevention and Control guidance.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is working closely with NHS England and NHS Improvement and the Chief Dental Officer for England to increase levels of service, as fast as is safely possible. We have been closely monitoring what has been possible and on 29 March announced that the threshold for full National Health Service contractual payment would be raised to 60% of normal activity. We continue to explore what more can be done to increase capacity including piloting pre-appointment testing.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 162549 question first answered 08/04/2021 11:23:38 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	280 label Biography information for Michael Fabricant

1301837

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2021
	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	Dental Services: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether dentists will be able to return to normal working practices in (a) Step 3 or (b) Step 4 of the national covid-19 roadmap.
	tabling member constituency	Lichfield
	tabling member printed	Michael Fabricant
	uin	167158
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2021 answer text <p>We are working with NHS England and NHS Improvement to increase levels of dental activity as fast as is safely possible. Contractual arrangements for the first six months of the 2021/22 financial year have been introduced by NHS England and NHS Improvement. The revised unit of dental activity threshold set at 60% is based on data that indicates practices may now have capacity to safely achieve more dental activity. Arrangements will be monitored on a monthly basis and are expected to be in place for six months in order to provide increased stability for dental practices. National Health Service commissioners have the discretion to make exceptions, for instance in cases where a dental practice has been impacted by staff being required to self-isolate.</p><p> </p><p>We are working to address oral health inequalities. NHS England and NHS Improvement have provided local commissioners with a flexible commissioning toolkit to illustrate how best to use current flexibilities in commissioning to target capacity on improving access to urgent care and delivering care to high risk patient groups.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 08/04/2021 10:39:58 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	280 label Biography information for Michael Fabricant

1287103

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2021
	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	Coronavirus: 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 support his Department is providing for (a) research on and (b) trials of oral vaccines offering immunity to covid-19.
	tabling member constituency	Lichfield
	tabling member printed	Michael Fabricant
	uin	154738
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2021 answer text <p>Through a joint rolling research call for COVID-19 research between the National Institute for Health Research and UK Research and Innovation, funding of over £500,000 has been committed to a study looking at the safety and immunogenicity of two candidate COVID-19 vaccines administered to the respiratory tract in aerosol form, with an expected end date in August 2021.</p><p>In addition, Innovate UK, have been managing the delivery of £75 million of the £110 million Department-funded UK Vaccine Network programme. Nine Departmental projects within this portfolio were repurposed to identify other COVID-19 vaccines solutions. Also, two Innovate UK grants worth over £2.2 million in total, were awarded to Stabilitech, now known as IosBio, to assess its COVD-19 vaccine candidate that has an oral capsule delivery system in animal efficacy studies. This technology is now being tested in participants in clinical trials in South Africa and the United States.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 03/03/2021 16:21:42 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	280 label Biography information for Michael Fabricant

1299369

	registered interest
	date	03/03/2021
	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	Coronavirus: Vaccination
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, further to the Answer of 3 March to Question 154738, what support his Department is providing for (a) research on and (b) trials of vaccines offering immunity to covid-19 which can be delivered by gradual absorption through the skin using an adhesive patch.
	tabling member constituency	Lichfield
	tabling member printed	Michael Fabricant
	uin	162509
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2021 answer text <p>The Department has not currently commissioned any research into COVID-19 vaccines which can be delivered through an adhesive patch but the National Institute for Health Research, as the biggest public funder of health research in the United Kingdom, continues to welcome funding applications for research into any aspect of human health, including on COVID-19 vaccine related research.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 15/03/2021 13:23:04 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	280 label Biography information for Michael Fabricant

1341161

	registered interest
	date	28/06/2021
	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	Department of Health and Social Care: CCTV
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, who (a) installed and (b) gave the authority for the installation of a surveillance camera in the office of the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care; and whether the Secretary of State was made aware of that camera.
	tabling member constituency	Lichfield
	tabling member printed	Michael Fabricant
	uin	23045
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2021 answer text <p>The closed circuit television camera was installed by the Department as part of the office fit prior to moving into the building in 2017. The camera was authorised as part of an approval for the installation of cameras by the Department’s internal governance. The previous Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (the Rt hon. Matt Hancock MP) was not made aware of the camera.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 06/07/2021 13:04:53 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar previous answer version 10929 answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	280 label Biography information for Michael Fabricant

1387784

	registered interest
	date	14/12/2021
	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	Health Services: Israel
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what collaboration is taking place between the UK and Israel in the digital health sector; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Lichfield
	tabling member printed	Michael Fabricant
	uin	92804
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2021 answer text <p>Digital health collaboration between the United Kingdom and Israel includes the UK-Israel Tech Corridor, where the Leeds Corridor pairs National Health Service organisations with Israeli health technology companies to advance their product or clinical work. The UK also plans to host a UK-Israel Innovation Summit next year, where digital health will feature.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 20/12/2021 17:10:15 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
	tabling member	280 label Biography information for Michael Fabricant

1467783

	registered interest
	date	06/06/2022
	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	Disease Control
	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 his letter of 6 June 2022, reference PO-1405720, if he will make it his policy not to be a signatory to any treaty with the World Health Organisation which would enable instructions to be given to the Government on when lockdowns may or may not be imposed in any future pandemic; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Lichfield
	tabling member printed	Michael Fabricant
	uin	13031
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2022 answer text <p>The Government supports a new international legally binding instrument to strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness and response.</p><p>The process for developing this new pandemic instrument will be led by the member countries of the World Health Organization, including the United Kingdom. The instrument would become binding if and when the UK accepts it in accordance with our constitutional process. The UK would remain in control of any future domestic decisions about national restrictions or other measures and would be subject to Parliamentary approval.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 09/06/2022 16:15:09 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
	tabling member	280 label Biography information for Michael Fabricant

1603056

	registered interest
	date	10/03/2023
	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: Windsor Framework
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether vaccines are contained within the definition of medicines in the Windsor Framework.
	tabling member constituency	Lichfield
	tabling member printed	Michael Fabricant
	uin	162462
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2023 answer text <p>Vaccines are a type of medicine. ‘Medicinal products’ are defined in Regulation 2 of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012. The Windsor Framework secures a United Kingdom-wide regime for the approval and supply of medicines, removing the role of the European Medicines Agency and helping to ensure that medicines are available at the same time and on the same basis right across the UK.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 27/03/2023 14:58:51 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince previous answer version 62354 answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield answering member 4492
	tabling member	280 label Biography information for Michael Fabricant

1603057

	registered interest
	date	10/03/2023
	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 and Vaccination: Clinical Trials
	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 plans to take to increase the number of clinical trials for (a) vaccines and (b) other medicines.
	tabling member constituency	Lichfield
	tabling member printed	Michael Fabricant
	uin	162463
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2023 answer text <p>In March 2021, the Government published its vision Saving and Improving Lives: The Future of UK Clinical Research Delivery. The Future of UK Clinical Research Delivery: 2022 to 2025 implementation plan, published June 2021, outlines the steps that the Department and its partners will take to increase the number of clinical trials and studies, including those for vaccines and other medicines.</p><p>The Government has recently entered a 10-year partnership with Moderna which includes substantial investment in United Kingdom-based research and development, including running a significant number of clinical trials in the UK.</p><p>In addition, Lord James O’Shaughnessy was appointed in February 2023 to undertake a review of commercial clinical trials in the UK. He will publish his advice this spring, this will include recommendations of priority actions to make progress in 2023, as well as setting out longer-term ambitions for UK clinical trials.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 21/03/2023 10:39:14 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince previous answer version 62355 answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield answering member 4492
	tabling member	280 label Biography information for Michael Fabricant