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1223848

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2020
	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	NHS Low Income Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people received financial support from the NHS low income scheme, HC2 certificate in (a) 2015, (b) 2016, (c) 2017, (d) 2018 and (e) 2019.
	tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
	tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
	uin	72913
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/08/2020 answer text <p>The NHS Business Services Authority processes the NHS Low Income Scheme and issues HC2 certificates. It does not hold data on how many people have used their certificate after it is issued; and multiple people in a household in addition to the applicant might be covered by a certificate, including partner and children. However, data is supplied on the number of HC2 certificates issued in 2014/15, 2015/16, 2017/18 and 2018/19. This is shown in the following table:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Period</p></td><td><p>Number of HC2 certificates issued</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>214,975</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>225,239</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>214,867</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>206,599</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>182,661</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Data is recorded April-March. Data provided is recorded on a monthly basis and recorded in the NHS Low Income Scheme Annual Statistics Report. This data relates to the number of certificates issues, not the number of people supported by the NHS Low Income Scheme.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 03/08/2020 11:50:21 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon

1308498

	registered interest
	date	13/04/2021
	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	Surgery: Foetuses
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many surgeries were performed by the NHS on foetuses under 20 weeks' gestation in each year for the last five years; and how many (a) of those surgeries and (b) surgeries on foetuses over 20 weeks' gestation used fetal pain relief.
	tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
	tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
	uin	180494
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2021 answer text <p>The Department does not hold the information requested.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 20/04/2021 14:11:35 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon

1243362

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2020
	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	Spina Bifida: Surgery
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many unborn babies have received surgery for open spina bifida; and how much money has been spent on those surgeries since the introduction of the open spina bifida surgery in 2018.
	tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
	tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
	uin	103512
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2020 answer text <p>NHS Digital data collection for open repair of spina bifida in a fetus was introduced from 1 April 2020. However, finalised Hospital Episode Statistics data is only available up to March 2020, so we are unable to provide this information.</p><p>NHS England and NHS Improvement commissioned a United Kingdom-wide ‘Open fetal surgery to treat foetuses with open spina bifida’ service since November 2019. Since the start of the service to the end of July 2020, surgery has been undertaken on 13 unborn babies and the total cost of these surgeries was £164,021.</p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 22/10/2020 14:40:47 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
	tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon

1223857

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2020
	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	Hospitals: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much and what proportion of the additional funding allocated by his Department to emergency discharge during the covid-19 outbreak has been spent by NHS trusts.
	tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
	tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
	uin	72920
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/07/2020 answer text <p>We originally made up to £1.3 billion available via the National Health Service to support the discharge process. This has been supplemented by an additional £588 million as part of the announcement by the Prime Minister on 17 July that £3 billion is being made available to support the NHS this winter. This funding has been made available to and drawn down by clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), working with their local authority partners to support appropriate discharge from acute settings. We do not hold information on the breakdown of how CCGs have used the funds split between NHS and non-NHS providers.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 28/07/2020 13:43:54 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon

1361318

	registered interest
	date	19/10/2021
	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	Parkinson's Disease: Mental Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much and what proportion of the £1 billion covid-19 backlog funding announced on 6 September 2021 will be allocated to Parkinson's (a) treatment and (b) care.
	tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
	tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
	uin	58853
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2021 answer text <p>Information on specific allocations through the Elective Recovery Fund to each elective service in England is not held centrally.</p><p>As set out in the National Health Service ‘2021/22 priorities and operational planning guidance’, systems are asked to deliver activity levels above set thresholds in order to access this additional funding. This will increase activity including in neurology services for patients affected by Parkinson’s.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 58854 question first answered 26/10/2021 14:42:10 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon

1586846

	registered interest
	date	17/02/2023
	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	Suicide
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding his Department will provide for the suicide prevention strategy.
	tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
	tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
	uin	146965
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2023 answer text <p>We have committed to publish a new national suicide prevention strategy later this year and are engaging widely across the sector to understand what further action we can take to reduce suicides amongst different groups. We will publish the new strategy this year.</p><p> </p><p>We are already investing an additional £57 million in suicide prevention from 2019/20 to 2023/24 through the NHS Long Term Plan. Through this, all areas of the country are seeing investment to support local suicide prevention plans and the development of suicide bereavement services.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 27/02/2023 17:55:44 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon

1605570

	registered interest
	date	20/03/2023
	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	Dementia: Hearing Impairment
	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 will commission research on the potential impact of unaddressed hearing loss on dementia.
	tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
	tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
	uin	169285
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2023 answer text <p>Since 2018, the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) has allocated around £2 million to research the links between unaddressed hearing loss and dementia. This includes the DIADEM project, which is being supported by the NIHR invention for innovation funding programme (i4i) and will evaluate new hearing tests that measure early brain changes in dementia. More information is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.nihr.ac.uk/news/11m-investment-into-digital-innovations-to-detect-and-diagnose-dementia/32869" target="_blank">https://www.nihr.ac.uk/news/11m-investment-into-digital-innovations-to-detect-and-diagnose-dementia/32869</a></p><p>Through NIHR-funded Biomedical Research Centres, the NIHR is also supporting medical research into hearing loss and dementia.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 27/03/2023 15:11:24 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon

935056

	registered interest
	date	05/07/2018
	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	Alcoholic Drinks: Health Education
	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 will ensure that the Government's forthcoming alcohol strategy introduces a requirement for alcohol product labels to carry the Chief Medical Officers’ alcohol guidelines.
	tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
	tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
	uin	161162
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2018 answer text <p>The Government remains committed to tackling all-alcohol related harms, including cancer, which is why we are developing a new alcohol strategy. Ministers and officials are currently engaged in a series of meetings with stakeholders in the development of the strategy, which we hope to be able to publish early next year.</p><p> </p><p>The United Kingdom Chief Medical Officers’ low risk drinking guidelines were published in 2016 to provide the public with the most up to date scientific information to help people make informed decisions about their own drinking. The Department subsequently issued guidance in March 2017 setting out how the guidelines can be communicated on alcohol labels to better inform consumers. We will work with industry partners during the development of the strategy on promoting dissemination of the guidelines.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 161161 question first answered 12/07/2018 13:52:17 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon

1121921

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2019
	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	Alcoholic Drinks: Consumption
	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 will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the public information campaign in Scotland on increasing awareness of the Chief Medical Officers’ low risk-drinking guidelines of 14 units a week.
	tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
	tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
	uin	245791
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2019 answer text <p>There are no plans to make an independent assessment of the recent count 14 campaign in Scotland. The Department will review the Scottish Government’s evaluation of the campaign, when this becomes available.</p><p>The Department continues to promote the UK Chief Medical Officers’ Low Risk Drinking guidelines in England through online platforms and by encouraging producers to reflect the guidelines on the labels of alcoholic drinks. Local authorities also continue to promote these guidelines as part of their public health duties.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 30/04/2019 13:21:19 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon

1605571

	registered interest
	date	20/03/2023
	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	Dementia: Hearing Aids
	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 will make an assessment of the potential impact of increasing the number of people issued with NHS hearing aids on trends in the level of dementia diagnoses in the next 20 years.
	tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
	tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
	uin	169286
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2023 answer text <p>We have no current plans to make a specific assessment.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 27/03/2023 11:29:00 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon