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date	19/02/2019
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	HIV Infection: Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the Government's commitment to double the number of places available for men on the PrEP Impact Trial will be rolled out at the Whitegate Health Centre in Blackpool.
tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
uin	223523
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2019 answer text <p>The HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Impact trial that began in October 2017 was funded by NHS England to recruit 10,000 participants over a three-year study period. In 2018, the allocation of places was increased to 13,000 to take account of a surge in people taking part. On 30 January, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care announced that the PrEP Impact trial would be expanded to 26,000 places. Work is underway with partners to take this forward. The PrEP Oversight Board has requested information on local capacity to make the additional places available and will review this shortly. After assessing their capacity to utilise any extra places, investigators in each site, including those in Blackpool, can request additional trial places.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 27/02/2019 16:16:50 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

771515

registered interest
date	16/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Drugs: Rehabilitation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effects of budgetary changes to the funding of drug treatment programmes on mortality rates among heroin and crack cocaine users in England between 2013 and 2017.
tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
uin	107820
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 answer text <p>No assessment has been made on this specific issue. The Government is investing over £16 billion over the Spending Review period for local authorities (LAs) to spend on public health. LAs are responsible for making decisions on how to spend their local allocation but the public health grant conditions make it clear that they must have regard for the need to improve the take up of, and outcomes from, their drug and alcohol misuse treatment services.</p><p> </p><p>Public Health England (PHE) led an inquiry last year into the rises in drug-related deaths. The report of the expert working group convened by PHE concluded that the reasons behind the increase in drug-related deaths are multiple and complex. However, the recent rise has likely been caused – at least in part – by an increase in the availability of heroin, following a fall in deaths during a period when heroin purity and availability was significantly reduced.</p><p> </p><p>The longer-term upward trend in drug-related deaths is largely caused by an ageing cohort of heroin users, many of whom started to use heroin in the 1980s and 90s, who are now experiencing cumulative physical and mental health conditions that make them more susceptible to overdose.</p><p> </p><p>The inquiry report was published in September 2016 and is available at:</p><p><a href="http://www.nta.nhs.uk/uploads/phe-understanding-preventing-drds.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.nta.nhs.uk/uploads/phe-understanding-preventing-drds.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 19/10/2017 10:14:43 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

771516

registered interest
date	16/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Drugs: Blackpool
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much funding from the public health grant his Department allocated to Blackpool for drug treatment budgets in the years (a) 2010-11, (b) 2013-14, (c) 2014-15, (d) 2015-16 and (e) 2016-17.
tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
uin	107821
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 answer text <p>The public health grant is allocated to local authorities to meet all of their public health responsibilities and no amount is specifically allocated for drug treatment. It is up to each local authority to decide how much of the grant they wish to allocate to drug treatment services.</p><p> </p><p>The public health grant has a condition which requires local authorities to have regard to the need to improve the take up of, and outcomes from, its drug and alcohol misuse treatment services.</p><p> </p><p>Since it began in 2013, the public health grant allocation to Blackpool has been as follows;</p><p> </p><p>2013-14 £17.46 million</p><p>2014-15 £17.95 million</p><p>2015-16 £18.29 million</p><p>2016-17 £19.39 million</p><p> </p><p>Prior to 2013, drug treatment was mainly funded through a central government contribution known as the pooled treatment budget. In 2010-11, the pooled treatment budget allocation to Blackpool was £2.7 million.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 19/10/2017 10:13:05 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden