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50169

registered interest
date	07/05/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what ambulance response times were in each local authority area in the Yorkshire and the Humber region in the latest period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	198043
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p>This information is not available in the format requested. The hon. Member may wish to contact Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust, who may hold data at a more local level.</p><p> </p><p>The following table shows median ambulance response times for Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust in the latest three months for which figures are available.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust</p><p> </p><p>Median response times (minutes) for Category A calls</p><p><strong> </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p><p>January 2014</p></td><td><p> </p><p>5.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p><p>February 2014</p><p> </p></td><td><p> </p><p>5.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p><p>March 2014</p></td><td><p> </p><p>5.6</p><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p><em>Source</em>: Ambulance quality indicators, NHS England</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><em>Note:</em></p><p>Response time shown is for Category A (Red) calls. These are defined as those that are the result of immediately life threatening incidents.</p><p><strong><em> </em></strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

50174

registered interest
date	07/05/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average ambulance response time for each category of call was in Warrington in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Helen Jones
uin	198047
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p>The information is not available in the format requested. The hon. Member may wish to contact North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust, who may hold data at a more local level.</p><p> </p><p>The following table shows median ambulance response times for North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust in each month for which figures are available:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p>North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust</p><p> </p><p>Median response times (minutes) for Category A calls</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2011</p></td><td><p>4.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2011</p></td><td><p>5.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2011</p></td><td><p>5.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July 2011</p></td><td><p>5.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August 2011</p></td><td><p>4.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2011</p></td><td><p>4.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October 2011</p></td><td><p>4.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2011</p></td><td><p>4.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December 2011</p></td><td><p>5.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January 2012</p></td><td><p>4.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February 2012</p></td><td><p>5.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2012</p></td><td><p>5.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2012</p></td><td><p>5.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2012</p></td><td><p>5.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2012</p></td><td><p>5.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July 2012</p></td><td><p>5.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August 2012</p></td><td><p>5.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2012</p></td><td><p>5.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October 2012</p></td><td><p>5.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2012</p></td><td><p>5.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December 2012</p></td><td><p>5.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January 2013</p></td><td><p>5.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February 2013</p></td><td><p>5.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2013</p></td><td><p>5.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2013</p></td><td><p>5.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2013</p></td><td><p>5.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2013</p></td><td><p>5.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July 2013</p></td><td><p>5.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August 2013</p></td><td><p>5.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2013</p></td><td><p>6.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October 2013</p></td><td><p>6.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2013</p></td><td><p>6.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December 2013</p></td><td><p>6.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January 2014</p></td><td><p>5.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February 2014</p></td><td><p>6.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2014</p></td><td><p>6.1</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>Source</em>: Ambulance quality indicators, NHS England</p><p> </p><p><em>Note:</em></p><p>Response time shown is for Category A (Red) calls. These are defined as those that are the result of immediately life threatening incidents.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones

50175

registered interest
date	07/05/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, by how much each ambulance trust in England underspent or overspent their budget in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Helen Jones
uin	198048
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p>National Health Service trusts and foundation trusts do not receive funding directly from the Department of Health and therefore do not have budgets against which they underspend. They are semi-autonomous organisations whose income derives from the provision of services to NHS England and clinical commissioning groups, through what might be described as trading activity.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS trust and foundation trust regime has similarities to the regime for Government Trading Funds, where expenditure for Government activity is met from income from third parties, rather than direct funding from resources voted to the Department.</p><p> </p><p>The equivalent “underspend” would be where the trust spends less than the income it receives as a result of its activity. This is referred to as a “surplus”.</p><p> </p><p>The following table summarises the year-end surpluses for each NHS Ambulance trust in the financial years 2009-10, 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2012-13.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>2012-13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>£000s</p></td><td><p>£000s</p></td><td><p>£000s</p></td><td><p>£000s</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Isle Of Wight NHS Trust<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>543</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust</p></td><td><p>2,016</p></td><td><p>467</p></td><td><p>2,409</p></td><td><p>30</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust</p></td><td><p>757</p></td><td><p>2,364</p></td><td><p>3,121</p></td><td><p>4,175</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London Ambulance Service NHS Trust</p></td><td><p>1,425</p></td><td><p>1,002</p></td><td><p>2,751</p></td><td><p>262</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>4,736</p></td><td><p>3,120</p></td><td><p>2,312</p></td><td><p>2,340</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust</p></td><td><p>1,041</p></td><td><p>2,065</p></td><td><p>1,558</p></td><td><p>2,707</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust<sup>3</sup></p></td><td><p>602</p></td><td><p>1,383</p></td><td><p>2,049</p></td><td><p>1,560</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust<sup>4</sup></p></td><td><p>1,130</p></td><td><p>3,153</p></td><td><p>3,486</p></td><td><p>3,055</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust<sup>5</sup></p></td><td><p>511</p></td><td><p>890</p></td><td><p>1,645</p></td><td><p>36,934</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust</p></td><td><p>255</p></td><td><p>99</p></td><td><p>925</p></td><td><p>5,797</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust</p></td><td><p>518</p></td><td><p>237</p></td><td><p>428</p></td><td><p>2,223</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><sup>1</sup>Isle Of Wight NHS Trust established April 2012</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><p><sup>2</sup>North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust - FT status established November 2011. 2009-10 to 2011-12 figures - as NHS Trust</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><p><sup>3</sup> South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust - FT status established March 2012. 2009-10 to 2011-12 figures - as NHS Trust</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><p><sup>4</sup>South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust - FT status established March 2011. 2009-10 to 2010-11 - as NHS Trust</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><p><sup>5</sup>South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust - FT status established March 2011. 2009-10 to 2010-11 - as NHS Trust</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones

50176

registered interest
date	07/05/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to raise public awareness of transient ischaemic attacks (TIAs) and of the need to seek immediate treatment for TIAs; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Helen Jones
uin	198145
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p>There are no plans for any specific marketing activity around raising public awareness of transient ischaemic attacks (TIAs). However, Public Health England continues to run the highly impactful Act FAST stroke awareness campaign that covers very similar signs with a message to call 999 if these signs are witnessed. Two new television executions ran in March 2014 with plans to run them again later in the current financial year.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England produced a resource for clinical commissioning groups (CCG) to support them in setting and delivering on a level of ambition to reduce premature mortality. The resource included information on high-impact interventions that CCGs could consider commissioning to reduce premature mortality. One of these is to increase the proportion of patients with TIA treated within 24 hours from 71% to 100%.</p><p> </p><p>The resource is available here:</p><p> </p><p>www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/sop/red-prem-mort/</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones

50186

registered interest
date	07/05/2014
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will make an assessment of the British Medical Journal editorial Public Health England's draft report on shale gas extraction: Mistaking best practices for actual practices published on 17 April 2014; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	198116
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p>I have been asked to reply.</p><p> </p><p>Public Health England (PHE) has considered the British Medical Journal (BMJ) editorial on Public Health England's draft report on shale gas extraction: Mistaking best practices for actual practices, published on 17 April 2014. PHE's response to the article was published on-line on 30 April 2014 and can be found here:</p><p> </p><p>www.bmj.com/content/348/bmj.g2728?tab=responses</p><p> </p><p>PHE's response to the BMJ article states that the conclusion of the report that risks from the process of shale gas extraction will be low if operations are properly run and regulated was a considered judgement. PHE has identified those aspects of operations that are considered to pose the greatest risks. PHE has made a number of recommendations for the control of risks, as have others. If shale gas extraction does take place, PHE will work with regulators to help ensure that environmental monitoring and health surveillance programmes are implemented appropriately. PHE agrees with Kovats <em>et al</em><sup> </sup>(Lancet 383, 757-8; 2014) on the potential for Health Impact Assessments (HIA) to play a role in informing policy and local planning processes, considering all issues associated with shale gas extraction which may affect health, including Green House Gas emissions and climate change. PHE will seek to support HIAs and will continue to evaluate evidence on health risks associated with shale gas extraction and related technologies.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

49867

registered interest
date	06/05/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many incidents of lyme-disease have been diagnosed in humans in the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	197938
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p>There were 959 laboratory confirmed cases of Lyme disease in England and Wales in 2011. The number of positive tests in 2012 was 998, and in 2013 1,200, although these data have not yet been disaggregated to exclude repeat tests on the same patients. Most cases of Lyme disease are diagnosed clinically by general practitioners and the numbers are not recorded, but there are probably around 3,000 cases of clinically apparent disease each year in the United Kingdom. The disease occurs over the whole of the country, but is more prevalent in some areas including the New Forest, Thetford, the Lake District and Scottish Highlands. Approximately 20% of cases confirmed by laboratory testing were acquired abroad. Lyme disease is considerably more common in parts of the United States of America and Northern and Central Europe than in the UK, and tourists to rural areas are at risk.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

49887

registered interest
date	06/05/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the implementation plan for the elimination of Hepatitis C will be published.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	197909
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p>On 28 April 2014 the Department of Health published <em>Living Well for Longer: National Support for Local Action to Reduce Premature Avoidable Mortality</em>, a copy of which has been placed in the Library. This document sets out what Public Health England, NHS England, the Department and others will do at a national level towards meeting the Secretary of State's ambition to reduce premature mortality in five key areas, including liver disease. Hepatitis C is identified as one of the main contributory factors for the increasing rates of liver disease in England.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison attachment 1 file name PQ197909 - Library Doc - Report.pdf title Living Well for Longer
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

49640

registered interest
date	02/05/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what figures he holds on the life expectancy of men with metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South West
tabling member printed	Paul Uppal
uin	197677
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p>The Government's Mandate to NHS England sets out an ambition to make England one of the most successful countries in Europe at preventing premature deaths from all cancers, including prostate cancer.</p><p> </p><p>Cancer indicators in the NHS Outcomes Framework and the Public Health Outcomes Framework will help NHS England to assess progress in improving cancer survival and mortality for men with prostate cancer.</p><p> </p><p>Data related to men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer is not collected to permit the calculation of a reliable figure for average life expectancy.</p><p> </p><p>However, Cancer Research UK has estimated that men with advanced, incurable prostate cancer treated in trials or under drug access schemes at the Royal Marsden Hospital survived on average 41 months, compared to between 13 and 16 months 10 years ago.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4078 label Biography information for Paul Uppal

49399

registered interest
date	01/05/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what cross-departmental government scrutiny will take place of the forthcoming Implementing and Delegated Acts of the EU Tobacco Products Directive.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	197557
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p>During the negotiations on the revised Tobacco Products Directive, the Government sought to ensure that any delegation of powers to the European Commission, to propose further rules, was limited, appropriate and well defined. The Government's proposed negotiating position on any Implementing and Delegated Acts put forward by the Commission will be subject to the normal cross government clearance and scrutiny procedures.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

49400

registered interest
date	01/05/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, who the members were of Sir Cyril Chantler's Review team working as part of the Standardised Packaging for Tobacco Independent Review; and what the cost was of commissioning expert advice from (a) Dr Yanzhong Wang and (b) Professor Catherine Pope as part of this review.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	197605
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p>The members of Sir Cyril's team are named, and their roles noted in the acknowledgements on page 9 of Sir Cyril's report. The costs of commissioning expert advice from Dr Wang and Professor Pope were £12,000 (plus VAT) and £3,000 (plus VAT) respectively.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies