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1147135

registered interest
date	30/09/2019
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	Dementia
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 he is taking to ensure that all adult social care workers caring for dementia patients are trained to level Tier 2 of the Dementia Training Standards Framework.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	292137
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>The national dementia strategy for England, the Challenge on Dementia 2020, set the expectation that all relevant health and care staff would have the appropriate dementia training, with the requisite training needs at different “tiers” set out in the ‘Dementia Training Standards Framework’.</p><p>Good progress has been made to date in training the social care workforce. It is estimated that around half of social care workers considered to need tier 2 dementia training have undertaken training to a level equivalent to it. The Department is currently exploring value for money options for further increasing take up of tier 2 training to everyone who needs it.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 03/10/2019 13:32:22 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1146773

registered interest
date	27/09/2019
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	Care Homes: Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of (a) nursing homes and (b) providers of domiciliary care have made preparations for the UK leaving the EU without a deal; and what support his Department has provided to those organisation to ensure that preparedness.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	291528
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/10/2019 answer text <p>The primary responsibility for ensuring continuity in the provision of adult social care – and for supporting providers to take the necessary steps to prepare for European Union exit on 31 October - lies with local authorities. The Government recognises the additional pressure that EU exit could place on providers and local authorities. That is why we have taken steps, nationally, to ensure all registered providers have the advice and support they need to make their preparations.</p><p>We are working closely with the Care Providers Alliance, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services and the Care Quality Commission to support local authorities and care providers to ensure that contingency plans are in place and are as robust as possible, including through regular monitoring of local-level intelligence. We are strengthening further our communication to providers and local authorities about the preparations they need to make. We are also assessing the robustness of the supply chain for non-clinical consumables for the adult social care sector to identify and enable us to act on any particular weaknesses.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 291599 question first answered 02/10/2019 15:57:18 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

1146798

registered interest
date	27/09/2019
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	Care Homes: Brexit
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 and what proportion of (a) nursing homes and (b) other social care providers have complied with his advice on contingency planning for the UK leaving the EU; and what discussions officials of his Department have had with providers that have not complied with that advice.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Dr Rosena Allin-Khan
uin	291599
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/10/2019 answer text <p>The primary responsibility for ensuring continuity in the provision of adult social care – and for supporting providers to take the necessary steps to prepare for European Union exit on 31 October - lies with local authorities. The Government recognises the additional pressure that EU exit could place on providers and local authorities. That is why we have taken steps, nationally, to ensure all registered providers have the advice and support they need to make their preparations.</p><p>We are working closely with the Care Providers Alliance, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services and the Care Quality Commission to support local authorities and care providers to ensure that contingency plans are in place and are as robust as possible, including through regular monitoring of local-level intelligence. We are strengthening further our communication to providers and local authorities about the preparations they need to make. We are also assessing the robustness of the supply chain for non-clinical consumables for the adult social care sector to identify and enable us to act on any particular weaknesses.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 291528 question first answered 02/10/2019 15:57:18 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4573 label Biography information for Dr Rosena Allin-Khan

1145978

registered interest
date	25/09/2019
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	IVF: Single People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the NHS on NHS spending following media reports on 8 September 2019 that the NHS is to review the ban on single women receiving fertility treatment.
tabling member constituency	North East Hampshire
tabling member printed	Mr Ranil Jayawardena
uin	291091
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2019 answer text <p>The level of provision of local health services, including fertility treatment, available to patients is, and has been since the 1990s, a matter for local healthcare commissioners, who must consider the needs and priorities of all their population. Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have the current statutory responsibility to commission high quality services that meet the needs of their local population. Decisions about treatment should always be based on patients’ clinical needs.</p><p>If there are concerns about provision of care, it is for NHS England to ensure the CCG is not breaching its statutory responsibility to provide services that meet the needs of the local population. Where performance concerns are identified, NHS England has the ability to exercise formal legal powers to either provide an enhanced support to a CCG, or in rare circumstances to intervene where it is believed that a CCG is failing, or is at risk of failing, to discharge its functions.</p><p>NHS England has advised that the CCGs in south east London have agreed to undertake a rapid review of the NHS South East London’s Treatment Access Policy Document in relation to access criteria for funding in vitro fertilisation (IVF) by the end of November 2019.</p><p>The CCGs have made a public apology for any offence caused by the wording in the Treatment Access Policy Document in relation to single women’s access to IVF treatment and the review document it refers to and agree that this wording is unacceptable.</p><p>The rapid review will also specifically consider issues relating to equality and discrimination in relation to single women. The CCGs will publish the review alongside any changes to the revision of the policy.</p><p>NHS England and NHS Improvement are aware that the CCGs are undertaking a review of the policy, as the body responsible for that policy. All CCG governing bodies were asked to review and approve any changes to the NHS South East London Treatment Access Policy made for 2019/20.</p><p>In taking clinical decisions about fertility treatment and taking account of their public sector equality duty, CCGs should make assessments based on clinical infertility and not on relationship status.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 30/09/2019 16:38:45 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena

1146110

registered interest
date	25/09/2019
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	Social Services
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 plans to publish its Green Paper on improving social care.
tabling member constituency	York Outer
tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
uin	290933
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>As the Prime Minister said on the steps of Downing Street, the Government will set out its plans to fix the crisis in social care once and for all, to give every older person the dignity and security that they deserve.</p><p>We will set out our proposals in due course.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 03/10/2019 15:15:53 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

1145449

registered interest
date	24/09/2019
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	Cancer: Research
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 the Government allocated to cancer research in each financial year since 2009.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	290349
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2019 answer text <p>The Department’s National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) does not allocate funding for specific disease areas. The level of research spend in a particular area, such as cancer, is driven by factors including scientific potential and the number and scale of successful funding applications.</p><p>The NIHR’s expenditure on cancer research constitutes the largest investment in a disease area, and expenditure since 2009 is set out in the attached table.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 30/09/2019 16:41:14 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage attachment 1 file name PQ290349 attachment.docx title PQ290349 table
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1145480

registered interest
date	24/09/2019
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	Department of Health and Social Care: Energy Supply
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which provider supplies energy to his Department; how much CO2 was emitted through his Department’s energy consumption in the latest period for which figures are available; whether the criteria his Department uses to selecting an energy supplier includes how environmentally friendly the supplier is; and what recent steps his Department has taken to reduce CO2 emissions from its energy use.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	290332
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not set selection criteria for its energy suppliers. Energy is provided by suppliers selected by Crown Commercial Services and the suppliers are currently EDF and Corona. In 2018/19 the Department produced 2,987.64 tonnes of CO2 through energy consumption. The Department has an ongoing programme of initiatives to reduce emissions.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 01/10/2019 09:48:35 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

1145062

registered interest
date	05/09/2019
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	Social Services: Employment
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 the Government is taking to ensure adequate staffing levels in the social care sector in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a withdrawal agreement.
tabling member constituency	Stockton South
tabling member printed	Dr Paul Williams
uin	287614
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>The Government hugely values the contribution of the 104,000 European Union staff who work in the social care sector. The Prime Minister has made it clear that we not only want them to stay, but also to feel welcomed and encouraged to do so. The EU Settlement Scheme has now fully opened, is free and will allow EU nationals employed in the social care sector to secure their long-term status in the United Kingdom.</p><p>The Department continues to monitor and analyse overall staffing levels across both the health and social care sectors and we have been monitoring leaver and joiner rates of European Union staff on a regular basis since the 2016 referendum. We are not complacent and have plans in place to ensure there will continue to be enough staff to deliver the high-quality services on which the public relies.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 09/09/2019 16:12:57 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4666 label Biography information for Dr Paul Williams

1144593

registered interest
date	04/09/2019
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	Motor Neurone Disease: Sports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has commissioned research into the connection between head injuries sustained through sport and and motor neurone disease.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	286744
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>The Department funds health research through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). The NIHR welcomes funding applications for research into any aspect of human health. However, the NIHR has not conducted any research into links between head injuries sustained through sport and motor neurone disease.</p><p>It is not usual practice to ring-fence funds for particular topics or conditions. Applications are subject to peer review and judged in open competition, with awards being made on the basis of the importance of the topic to patients and health and care services, value for money and scientific quality. In all disease areas, the amount of NIHR funding depends on the volume and quality of scientific activity.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 09/09/2019 17:30:07 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1144595

registered interest
date	04/09/2019
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	Parkinson's Disease: Surgery
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to make deep brain stimulation for the treatment of Parkinson's disease available on the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	286746
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance ‘Parkinson’s disease in adults’, published in July 2017 sets out evidence-based guidance for healthcare professionals and commissioners in the care treatment and support of people with Parkinson’s disease.</p><p>The guidance recommends that clinicians should consider deep brain stimulation for people with advanced Parkinson's disease whose symptoms are not adequately controlled by best medical therapy.</p><p>NHS England commissions deep brain stimulation for people with movement disorders, including Parkinson’s disease, in line with the criteria set out in its national commissioning. Both the NICE guidance and the commissioning policy can be found at the following links:</p><p><a href="http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng71" target="_blank">www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng71</a></p><p><a href="http://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/spec-services/npc-crg/group-d/d04/" target="_blank">www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/spec-services/npc-crg/group-d/d04/</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 09/09/2019 17:24:11 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon