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1091090

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	date	18/03/2019
	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	Vaccination: Disinformation
	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 tackle anti-vaccine misinformation.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	233488
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2019 answer text <p>We are aware there is a persistent minority who seek to spread misinformation about vaccinations. The Department for Health and Social Care is working with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to explore actions to address this and a range of other online harms, including working with platforms. Collaboration with the Department for Education is underway to ensure pupils understand that vaccines protect against diseases which can cause serious long-term ill-health, including mental and/or physical disability, and death.</p><p> </p><p>Public Health England annual surveys show parents have high levels of confidence in the national childhood immunisation programme and trust the advice about vaccination that comes from the National Health Service and health care workers. In contrast, trust in social media is much lower. However, we are not complacent and continue to look for ways to improve vaccine coverage and promote the facts relating to the value of immunisation and vaccination.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 26/03/2019 17:16:31 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1091091

	registered interest
	date	18/03/2019
	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	Poultry: Contamination
	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 incidence of contaminated chicken being sold at supermarkets.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	233489
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2019 answer text <p>There are comprehensive controls in place throughout the food chain to reduce the levels of contamination in chicken being sold in supermarkets and other locations. These controls include, for example, the national salmonella control programme for broiler chickens at all stages of production, which defines a range of measures to reduce the risk of Salmonella. The Food Standards Agency has also worked closely with industry on reducing Campylobacter contamination over a number of years. This has seen the highest contamination levels of Campylobacter fall from an average of 19% in 2014/15 to 5% in 2016/17 in surveys undertaken at retail level. Latest levels according to major retailers’ data show an average of 3.1% for October-December 2018.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 26/03/2019 17:21:27 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell