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	date	10/06/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Shipbuilding: Portsmouth
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the capacity of English, Welsh and Northern Ireland shipyards to build surface warships following the closure of the BAE shipyard in Portsmouth.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
	tabling member printed	Mr John Denham
	uin	199842
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p>As part of the wider maritime negotiations with the Ministry of Defence in 2013, BAE Systems took the decision to focus its shipbuilding activities on the Clyde in Scotland. This decision has secured a sustainable future for the UK shipbuilding industry. <br><br>There are a number of commercial yards outside Scotland that could be considered as potential alternatives; however, no assessment of the viability of these shipyards as a potential focus for complex warship building has been undertaken.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 16/06/2014 16:57:36 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
	tabling member	61 label Biography information for Mr John Denham

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	date	06/12/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Streptococcus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to introduce the gold-standard framework, developed by Dr Keri Thomas, for detecting group B streptococcus infection.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
	tabling member printed	Royston Smith
	uin	56291
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2016 answer text <p>The Gold Standards Framework Centre that was developed by Dr Keri Thomas is a private, non-profit organisation that provides training to National Health Service and care home staff in improving the quality of end of life care. There is not an equivalent gold standard framework for detecting group B streptococcus (GBS) infection.</p><p> </p><p>The Enriched Culture Medium (ECM) test is used for detecting GBS carriage at 35-37 weeks of pregnancy and is included in Public Health England’s UK Standards for Microbiology Investigations: Detection of Carriage of Group B Streptococci. In June 2015, Public Health England, in response to requests to introduce the ECM test into Public Health England laboratories, published an advisory position paper which sets out that within current accepted clinical guidelines, there are no indications for testing women using ECM methods. The position paper is available on the gov.uk website at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/group-b-streptococcus-infection-enriched-culture-medium-test" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/group-b-streptococcus-infection-enriched-culture-medium-test</a></p><p> </p><p>The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC), the body which advises Ministers in all four United Kingdom countries on all aspects of screening, recommended in 2012 that antenatal screening for GBS carriage at 35 -37 weeks of pregnancy should not be offered because currently there is insufficient evidence to demonstrate that the benefits to be gained from screening would outweigh the harms. The UK NSC is currently reviewing its recommendation on antenatal screening for GBS carriage. A public consultation on the UK NSC’s review opened on 28 October 2016 and will close on 25 January 2017. A copy of the consultation is available at:</p><p><a href="https://legacyscreening.phe.org.uk/groupbstreptococcus" target="_blank">https://legacyscreening.phe.org.uk/groupbstreptococcus</a></p><p> </p><p>A recommendation is expected from the UK NSC following its meeting in February 2017.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 14/12/2016 11:47:38 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
	tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith