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521221

registered interest
date	24/05/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	HIV Infection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to advance the development of a cure for HIV; what assessment he has made of the development by the US government of HIV antibodies which bind to the target site and stop the virus from infecting the cell; and what international research partnerships his Department currently has for developing a cure for HIV.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	38379
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2016 answer text <p>The United Kingdom Government provides funding to the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI). IAVI has been instrumental in working with partners, including the United States National Institutes of Health who have undertaken the work to identify broadly neutralising antibodies from asymptomatic people infected with HIV. IAVI and its partners are still at an early stage of working with these broadly neutralising antibodies, to investigate how they might be used to prevent and treat HIV infection.</p><p> </p><p>Funding from the UK Government has allowed IAVI to bring together expertise from academia and the pharmaceutical sector, and from across regions, including the UK and Eastern and Southern Africa, to collaboratively design and evaluate novel vaccine candidates, to demonstrate, in the longer-term, that at least one can be fully developed into an effective vaccine to help prevent HIV infection or AIDS.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 02/06/2016 15:33:06 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

521301

registered interest
date	24/05/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Zika Virus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to prevent the spread of the Zika virus to the UK following travel to South America for the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	38380
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2016 answer text <p>The risk to the United Kingdom population posed by Zika virus – and of the mosquito species which transmit the virus establishing itself in the UK – remains extremely low.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is ensuring the UK and those travelling to countries with active Zika transmission by mosquitoes are protected. Up-to-date travel advice is in place, and clinical advice is available to UK medical professionals. Public Health England has been working with Royal Colleges to provide guidance to healthcare professionals on managing symptomatic patients (including pregnant women) returning from areas with active transmission of Zika. This has been cascaded by appropriate Royal Colleges. Furthermore, NHS Blood and Transplant will defer donors returning from areas with active Zika transmission from donating for 28 days.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>On 13 May 2016 the Department of Health, along with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, convened an Olympic and Paralympic health advisory group. The group brought together academic experts and cross-government representatives to support the British Olympic Association (BOA) and British Paralympic Association (BPA) in updating their guidance to athletes and staff travelling to Brazil for the Olympics and to ensure consistency with that provided to the travelling public. Zika virus was a key topic for discussion along with other potential health risks. The BOA and BPA are updating their guidance in light of discussions at the meeting and with further input from the academics and clinicians present. The Foreign Office will link this to their wider consular campaign ‘Stay ahead of the Games’.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 02/06/2016 15:33:41 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

512593

registered interest
date	13/04/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Tobacco: Packaging
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will delay the start date for the introduction of standardised packaging on tobacco products in light of the post-implementation review of the measure in Australia.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	33862
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2016 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 11 April 2016 to Question <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;uin=32266" target="_blank">32266</a>.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 22/04/2016 13:10:50 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

512601

registered interest
date	13/04/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Tobacco: Retail Trade
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many prosecutions there have been under legislation on tobacco display in retail outlets since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	33863
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2016 answer text <p>The number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts under legislation on tobacco display in retail outlets, England and Wales, 2010 to 2014 can be viewed in the table:</p><p> </p><p>Defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts under legislation on tobacco display in retail outlets<sup>1</sup> England and Wales, 2010 to 2014<sup>2,3</sup></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><sup>1 </sup>Includes Sec 8, and 16(2) of Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Act 2002</p><p><sup>2 </sup>The figures given in the table relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been cautioned for or found guilty of two or more offences it is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe.</p><p><sup>3 </sup>Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.</p><p> </p><p>Source: Justice Statistics Analytical Services - Ministry of Justice.</p><p> </p><p>Court proceedings data for 2015 are planned for publication in due course.</p><p> </p><p>Legislation restricting the display of tobacco products in retail outlets came into force for large stores in 2012 and for all other retailers in April 2015. The penalty for non-compliance is a fine not exceeding £5,000 on summary conviction in a magistrates' court. Trading standards have taken a compliance building approach at both stages of implementation, providing information and advice on the first visit, with follow up visits if needed and issuing warnings before considering court action. Compliance by large retailers has been almost universal since the legislation came into force. Early indications are that compliance in small shops is also high.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 21/04/2016 15:21:48 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

447394

registered interest
date	25/01/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	All Party Parliamentary Group on Smoking and Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answers of 10 December 2015 to Questions 18458 and 18543, what assessment he has made of the compatibility with the conditions applicable to grants awarded to Action on Smoking and Health of its the provision of secretariat assistance to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Smoking and Health; if he will review the conditions set out in the award letters for such grants; and if he will investigate any breaches in such conditions.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	24088
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2016 answer text <p>The conditions applicable to grants awarded to Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) are set out in the grant award letters. The Department has made clear that none of this funding is to be used for lobbying purposes.</p><p> </p><p>The Section 64 grant must be spent in delivering the agreed project outputs set out in the grant award letter and it does not fund secretariat support for the All Party Parliamentary Group on Smoking and Health.</p><p> </p><p>ASH’s compliance with the conditions of the grant is assessed at the grant monitoring meetings held between the Deputy Director of tobacco control and representatives from ASH as well as in the final full year grant monitoring and governance reports.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 01/02/2016 11:59:48 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

433822

registered interest
date	02/12/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Action on Smoking and Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 23 November 2015 to Question 16779, if he will assess the extent to which grants made by his Department to Action on Smoking and Health were used for activities designed to influence his Department, other departments or Parliament.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	18543
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2015 answer text <p>The conditions applicable to grants awarded to Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) are set out in the grant award letters. The Department has made clear that none of this funding is to be used for lobbying purposes.</p><br /><p>ASH’s compliance with the conditions of the grant is assessed at the grant monitoring meetings held between the Deputy Director of tobacco control and representatives from ASH as well as in the final full year grant monitoring and governance reports.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 10/12/2015 13:39:28 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

423895

registered interest
date	26/10/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Obesity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to tackle obesity.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	13413
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2015 answer text <p>We will put forward our plans to tackle obesity in our childhood obesity strategy in the new year.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 03/11/2015 16:22:37 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

421117

registered interest
date	13/10/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Human Papillomavirus: Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the implications for its policy of the potential link between the HPV Vaccine and Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome; and what assessment he has made of the effect of such a link on the progress of the Government's HPV vaccination programme.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	11694
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2015 answer text <p>The human papillomavirus (HPV) sub-committee of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises the Department on immunisation matters, considered the safety of HPV vaccine when it met in June 2015. The sub-committee reviewed safety information provided by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), as well as reports in the media and literature investigating temporal associations of the HPV vaccine to a range of overlapping syndromes including postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS). The HPV sub-committee agreed that no available evidence supports a causative link between HPV vaccination and POTS or other overlapping syndromes. It strongly supported the continued use of the HPV vaccine to prevent infection with HPV and to protect adolescent girls from cervical and other HPV associated cancers. This position was agreed by the JCVI, which concluded it has no concerns about the safety of the HPV vaccine.</p><br /><p>As with all vaccines and medicines, the safety ofHPV vaccines will be kept under continual review.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 21/10/2015 16:21:45 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

421120

registered interest
date	13/10/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust: Care UK
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made in the arbitration dispute between the Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Trusts and Care UK, over which institution will deliver services from the King George Elective Care Centre, Redbridge, on behalf of the Barking/Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge Clinical Commissioning Groups; and what steps his Department is taking to ensure that both parties receive a prompt decision by the arbitration tribunal.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	11720
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2015 answer text <p>We understand that Monitor is responding to a complaint made by Care UK about the procurement of elective care services at The North East London NHS Treatment Centre located at King George Hospital, Goodmayes.</p><p>We are advised that the investigation is on-going. Monitor published a statement of issues on 21 August and will publish its findings in due course.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 21/10/2015 14:50:17 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

384978

registered interest
date	23/06/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Bladder Cancer: Medical Treatments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to increase the level of investment in treatment for bladder cancer.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	3790
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2015 answer text <p>Improving cancer outcomes, including for those with bladder cancer, is a major priority for this Government and we await the recommendation of the independent Cancer Taskforce this summer.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In commissioning cancer services, NHS England is supported by Clinical Reference Groups (CRGs) which are responsible for developing strategies, pathways and service specifications for each group of cancer types, including a Specialised Urology CRG which covers bladder cancer.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>My colleague, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Life Sciences, has launched an Accelerated Access Review to make recommendations to Government later in the year on speeding up access for National Health Service patients to innovative and cost effective new medicines, diagnostics and medical technologies.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 01/07/2015 15:24:40 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell