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1278658

	registered interest
	date	20/01/2021
	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	St Giles Hospice: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when an outstanding payment of £483,393 dating from July 2020 will be paid to St Giles Hospice of Whittington near Lichfield.
	tabling member constituency	Lichfield
	tabling member printed	Michael Fabricant
	uin	140742
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2021 answer text <p>NHS England and Improvement are in the process of reconciling the final payments covering July 2020 from this scheme. NHS England and NHS Improvement have not yet set a date by which final payments will be made but advise they expect the process to be completed and payments made, including any final funding due to St Giles Hospice, shortly.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 05/03/2021 12:12:16 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	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

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

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

1348830

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2021
	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, whether the proposed autumn Covid-19 booster vaccination programme will include a modified vaccine with improved efficacy against the (a) delta and (b) other covid-19 variants.
	tabling member constituency	Lichfield
	tabling member printed	Michael Fabricant
	uin	36517
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2021 answer text <p>The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation’s (JCVI) interim advice on a potential COVID-19 booster vaccination programme states that vaccines designed specifically against variants of concern will not be available in time for booster revaccination this autumn. The use of variant vaccines will be considered by the JCVI in due course.</p><p>Final decisions on the timing, scope and cohort eligibility of any COVID-19 vaccine booster programme will be confirmed once the JCVI has provided their final advice. The JCVI’s advice will take into account the latest epidemiological situation, additional scientific data from trials such as COV-Boost, surveillance of the effectiveness of the vaccines over time and emerging variants.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 06/09/2021 11:33:35 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	280 label Biography information for Michael Fabricant

1365368

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2021
	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	NHS Covid Pass
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the NHS Covid Travel pass on the NHS App in England will be adapted to show the date of the third and any subsequent booster shots.
	tabling member constituency	Lichfield
	tabling member printed	Michael Fabricant
	uin	68110
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2021 answer text <p>From 19 November, the NHS COVID Pass can now be used to demonstrate proof of a booster or third dose for outbound international travel. This record is available through the NHS App and NHS.UK and includes the date of each vaccination. Booster vaccinations are not required for domestic certification in England. In light of recent advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation to extend the booster programme, we will keep the inclusion of boosters for domestic certification under review.</p> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup question first answered 06/12/2021 16:41:23 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
	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

1399371

	registered interest
	date	04/01/2022
	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	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 plans he has to initiate a fourth mass covid-19 vaccination programme.
	tabling member constituency	Lichfield
	tabling member printed	Michael Fabricant
	uin	96759
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2022 answer text <p>We have no current plans for a fourth mass COVID-19 vaccination programme.</p><p>The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has stated that it is not known whether recurrent boosters will be required in the long term. The current advice on booster vaccinations applies to this highly active phase of the pandemic. We will continue to be informed by the latest scientific advice from the JCVI on whether further action is required.</p> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup question first answered 10/01/2022 17:55:09 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
	tabling member	280 label Biography information for Michael Fabricant