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1127892

registered interest
date	21/05/2019
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	5G
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what (a) health-and-safety research and (b) risk assessments his Department has (i) undertaken and (ii) commissioned on 5G technology.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	256910
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/05/2019 answer text <p>Public Health England (PHE) has published a webpage about exposure to the radio waves from mobile phone base stations, including those for 5G networks, at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/mobile-phone-base-stations-radio-waves-and-health/mobile-phone-base-stations-radio-waves-and-health" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/mobile-phone-base-stations-radio-waves-and-health/mobile-phone-base-stations-radio-waves-and-health</a></p><p>This explains the health-related reviews and assessments have been performed, as well as the practical measures that are in place to protect public health.</p><p>PHE advises that the guidelines of the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) should be adopted and there is no convincing evidence that radio wave exposures below the ICNIRP guideline levels cause adverse health effects. The guidelines apply to exposures at frequencies up to 300 GHz, well above the maximum few tens of GHz frequencies anticipated for use by 5G systems.</p><p>Health and safety legislation requires companies deploying and operating communication networks to carry out suitable and sufficient risk assessments, as well as put in place measures to reduce the identified risks so far as reasonably practicable. In controlling risks arising from radio wave exposure, the Health and Safety Executive refer to compliance with the ICNIRP guidelines. Industry has committed to comply with the international guidelines and to provide certificates of compliance with planning applications for base stations.</p><p>PHE continues to monitor the health-related evidence applicable to radio waves, including in relation to base stations, and is committed to updating its advice as required.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 256911 256912 question first answered 29/05/2019 10:34:59 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1127894

registered interest
date	21/05/2019
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	5G
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has (a) undertaken and (b) commissioned a regulatory safety testing on 5G radiofrequency radiation.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	256911
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/05/2019 answer text <p>Public Health England (PHE) has published a webpage about exposure to the radio waves from mobile phone base stations, including those for 5G networks, at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/mobile-phone-base-stations-radio-waves-and-health/mobile-phone-base-stations-radio-waves-and-health" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/mobile-phone-base-stations-radio-waves-and-health/mobile-phone-base-stations-radio-waves-and-health</a></p><p>This explains the health-related reviews and assessments have been performed, as well as the practical measures that are in place to protect public health.</p><p>PHE advises that the guidelines of the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) should be adopted and there is no convincing evidence that radio wave exposures below the ICNIRP guideline levels cause adverse health effects. The guidelines apply to exposures at frequencies up to 300 GHz, well above the maximum few tens of GHz frequencies anticipated for use by 5G systems.</p><p>Health and safety legislation requires companies deploying and operating communication networks to carry out suitable and sufficient risk assessments, as well as put in place measures to reduce the identified risks so far as reasonably practicable. In controlling risks arising from radio wave exposure, the Health and Safety Executive refer to compliance with the ICNIRP guidelines. Industry has committed to comply with the international guidelines and to provide certificates of compliance with planning applications for base stations.</p><p>PHE continues to monitor the health-related evidence applicable to radio waves, including in relation to base stations, and is committed to updating its advice as required.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 256910 256912 question first answered 29/05/2019 10:34:59 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1127582

registered interest
date	20/05/2019
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	Food Standards Agency and Food Standards Scotland
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 additional funding has been allocated to (a) the Food Standards Agency and (b) Food Standards Scotland for preparations for the UK leaving the EU.
tabling member constituency	Wallasey
tabling member printed	Ms Angela Eagle
uin	256234
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2019 answer text <p>For financial years 2017/18, 2018/19 and 2019/20 the Food Standard Agency was allocated £30,900,000 cumulatively for preparations for the United Kingdom leaving the European Union.</p><p> </p><p>Food safety in Scotland is a devolved matter.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 23/05/2019 15:06:37 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle

1127593

registered interest
date	20/05/2019
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	Breast Cancer: Screening
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 vacancies there are in (a) mammography and (b) breast radiology departments in England.
tabling member constituency	Burton
tabling member printed	Andrew Griffiths
uin	256287
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2019 answer text <p>NHS Improvement publishes vacancy data for three staff groups; doctors, nurses and ‘other staff’. These vacancy statistics are published for England and at the regional level of North, Midlands and East, London and South.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Improvement does not specifically produce vacancy data for staff working in mammography or breast radiology at national, regional, county, constituency or hospital trust level.</p><p>The latest NHS Improvement report can be found in the following link:</p><p><a href="https://improvement.nhs.uk/documents/4942/Performance_of_the_NHS_provider_sector_for_the_quarter_ended_31_Dec_2018.pdf" target="_blank">https://improvement.nhs.uk/documents/4942/Performance_of_the_NHS_provider_sector_for_the_quarter_ended_31_Dec_2018.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 256288 256289 256290 256291 question first answered 23/05/2019 14:37:17 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths

1127595

registered interest
date	20/05/2019
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	Breast Cancer: Screening
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 vacancies there are in (a) mammography and (b) breast radiology departments in each region.
tabling member constituency	Burton
tabling member printed	Andrew Griffiths
uin	256288
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2019 answer text <p>NHS Improvement publishes vacancy data for three staff groups; doctors, nurses and ‘other staff’. These vacancy statistics are published for England and at the regional level of North, Midlands and East, London and South.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Improvement does not specifically produce vacancy data for staff working in mammography or breast radiology at national, regional, county, constituency or hospital trust level.</p><p>The latest NHS Improvement report can be found in the following link:</p><p><a href="https://improvement.nhs.uk/documents/4942/Performance_of_the_NHS_provider_sector_for_the_quarter_ended_31_Dec_2018.pdf" target="_blank">https://improvement.nhs.uk/documents/4942/Performance_of_the_NHS_provider_sector_for_the_quarter_ended_31_Dec_2018.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 256287 256289 256290 256291 question first answered 23/05/2019 14:37:17 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths

1127596

registered interest
date	20/05/2019
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	Breast Cancer: Screening
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 vacancies there are in (a) mammography and (b) breast radiology departments by each county in England.
tabling member constituency	Burton
tabling member printed	Andrew Griffiths
uin	256289
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2019 answer text <p>NHS Improvement publishes vacancy data for three staff groups; doctors, nurses and ‘other staff’. These vacancy statistics are published for England and at the regional level of North, Midlands and East, London and South.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Improvement does not specifically produce vacancy data for staff working in mammography or breast radiology at national, regional, county, constituency or hospital trust level.</p><p>The latest NHS Improvement report can be found in the following link:</p><p><a href="https://improvement.nhs.uk/documents/4942/Performance_of_the_NHS_provider_sector_for_the_quarter_ended_31_Dec_2018.pdf" target="_blank">https://improvement.nhs.uk/documents/4942/Performance_of_the_NHS_provider_sector_for_the_quarter_ended_31_Dec_2018.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 256287 256288 256290 256291 question first answered 23/05/2019 14:37:17 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths

1127597

registered interest
date	20/05/2019
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	Breast Cancer: Screening
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 vacancies there are in (a) mammography and (b) breast radiology departments in each parliamentary constituency.
tabling member constituency	Burton
tabling member printed	Andrew Griffiths
uin	256290
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2019 answer text <p>NHS Improvement publishes vacancy data for three staff groups; doctors, nurses and ‘other staff’. These vacancy statistics are published for England and at the regional level of North, Midlands and East, London and South.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Improvement does not specifically produce vacancy data for staff working in mammography or breast radiology at national, regional, county, constituency or hospital trust level.</p><p>The latest NHS Improvement report can be found in the following link:</p><p><a href="https://improvement.nhs.uk/documents/4942/Performance_of_the_NHS_provider_sector_for_the_quarter_ended_31_Dec_2018.pdf" target="_blank">https://improvement.nhs.uk/documents/4942/Performance_of_the_NHS_provider_sector_for_the_quarter_ended_31_Dec_2018.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 256287 256288 256289 256291 question first answered 23/05/2019 14:37:17 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths

1127598

registered interest
date	20/05/2019
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	Breast Cancer: Screening
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 vacancies there are in (a) mammography and (b) breast radiology in each hospital trust.
tabling member constituency	Burton
tabling member printed	Andrew Griffiths
uin	256291
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2019 answer text <p>NHS Improvement publishes vacancy data for three staff groups; doctors, nurses and ‘other staff’. These vacancy statistics are published for England and at the regional level of North, Midlands and East, London and South.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Improvement does not specifically produce vacancy data for staff working in mammography or breast radiology at national, regional, county, constituency or hospital trust level.</p><p>The latest NHS Improvement report can be found in the following link:</p><p><a href="https://improvement.nhs.uk/documents/4942/Performance_of_the_NHS_provider_sector_for_the_quarter_ended_31_Dec_2018.pdf" target="_blank">https://improvement.nhs.uk/documents/4942/Performance_of_the_NHS_provider_sector_for_the_quarter_ended_31_Dec_2018.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 256287 256288 256289 256290 question first answered 23/05/2019 14:37:17 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths

1127642

registered interest
date	20/05/2019
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	Animals and Food: Packaging
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 his Department is taking to ensure that businesses are prepared to transition from the EC abbreviation health mark on packaging for animal carcasses and foods of animal origin to the GB abbreviation after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Wallasey
tabling member printed	Ms Angela Eagle
uin	256244
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2019 answer text <p>To ensure that businesses are aware of the necessary changes to the health and identification marks, the Food Standard Agency (FSA) has produced guidance which explains the form of the mark and when the necessary changes will take effect.</p><p> </p><p>The FSA has worked with industry bodies to promote awareness of the guidance amongst members, as well as communicating directly with industry via key representative organisations. The FSA has and continues to attend and organise stakeholder meetings to promote awareness of the guidance.</p><p> </p><p>FSA operational staff and local authorities have also been briefed on the guidance so that they can promote awareness directly with food business operators. The guidance continues to be publicly available on the FSA’s website at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.food.gov.uk/business-guidance/eu-exit-changes-to-health-and-identification-marks" target="_blank">https://www.food.gov.uk/business-guidance/eu-exit-changes-to-health-and-identification-marks</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 23/05/2019 15:03:51 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle

1127698

registered interest
date	20/05/2019
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	Sickle Cell Diseases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 16 April 2018 to Question 135010 on Sickle Cell Diseases, if he will provide updated estimates of the costs to the NHS of treating sickle cell anaemia in (a) England (b) each NHS England region and (c) each Clinical Commissioning Group area in each year since 2009-10.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	256313
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2019 answer text <p>NHS England specialised commissioning only reports the costs of the National Health Service specialised commissioning services by region and hub for treating sickle cell disease, which includes sickle cell anaemia. This information is shown in the following table. The data is not broken down by clinical commissioning group (CCG) area. This information does not include non-specialised activity that CCGs may fund. Information was not collected prior to 2015/16 and information for 2018/19 is not currently available.</p><p> </p><p>Costs of NHS specialised commissioning services by region and hub for treating sickle cell disease</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Region</p></td><td><p>Hub</p></td><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>2017/18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>£ million</p></td><td><p>£ million</p></td><td><p>£ million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>29.9</p></td><td><p>31.0</p></td><td><p>44.8</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>Midlands and East</p></td><td><p>East of England</p></td><td><p>1.6</p></td><td><p>1.7</p></td><td><p>3.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>0.8</p></td><td><p>0.8</p></td><td><p>1.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>2.7</p></td><td><p>2.5</p></td><td><p>3.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Midlands and East Total</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>5.1</p></td><td><p>5.0</p></td><td><p>7.9</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>North</p></td><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>0.1</p></td><td><p>0.2</p></td><td><p>0.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>2.8</p></td><td><p>2.3</p></td><td><p>2.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Yorkshire &amp; Humber</p></td><td><p>1.1</p></td><td><p>0.5</p></td><td><p>0.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Total</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>4.0</p></td><td><p>3.0</p></td><td><p>3.4</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>South</p></td><td><p>South East</p></td><td><p>1.8</p></td><td><p>1.9</p></td><td><p>2.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>0.2</p></td><td><p>0.2</p></td><td><p>0.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Wessex</p></td><td><p>0.5</p></td><td><p>0.5</p></td><td><p>0.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Total</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2.5</p></td><td><p>2.5</p></td><td><p>4.2</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> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>41.6</p></td><td><p>41.5</p></td><td><p>60.4</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: Costs extracted from the annual CCG exercise.</p><p>Between 2012/13 and 2018/19, approximately 117,000 patients were admitted to hospital with a primary diagnosis of sickle cell disease. Information for years prior to 2012/13 is not available. NHS England has advised that it is unable to separate expenditure between admitted patient care episodes and the overall costs provided in the table without incurring disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 256314 question first answered 23/05/2019 14:40:15 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson