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166930

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date	01/12/2014
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Animal Experiments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what research his Department has commissioned on the contribution of testing households products and their ingredients on animals to the UK economy; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Derby North
tabling member printed	Chris Williamson
uin	216683
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Innovation &amp; Skills has not commissioned research on the contribution of testing household products and their ingredients on animals to the UK economy.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Animal testing in the UK is licensed through the Home Office.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 08/12/2014 14:56:42 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	3976 label Biography information for Chris Williamson

167037

registered interest
date	01/12/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Prescription Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with (a) NHS England, (b) the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, (c) patient groups and (d) professional groups about prescribing drugs for licensed and off-label indications.
tabling member constituency	Knowsley
tabling member printed	Mr George Howarth
uin	216568
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2014 answer text <p>In developing our response to the Off-patent Drugs Bill, we have taken advice from clinicians and officials at NHS England, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, and taken account of views expressed by other stakeholder organisations. Officials have also had discussions with Breast Cancer Campaign to understand their concerns around the prescribing of off-patent drugs and the implications for patients.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 08/12/2014 15:07:13 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	481 label Biography information for Sir George Howarth

167067

registered interest
date	01/12/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Pancreatic Cancer: Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what action he plans to take to ensure that the Cancer Drugs Fund panel consults with expert clinicians when re-evaluating listed treatments for pancreatic cancer.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	216521
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2014 answer text <p>This is a matter for NHS England. NHS England has advised us that its Cancer Drugs Fund panel includes expert oncologists, haemato-oncologists and oncology pharmacists, as well as patient representatives.</p><p> </p><p><em> </em></p><p> </p><p>Should the panel consider that it requires additional advice on a particular cancer to aid its decision making, it will access this externally as appropriate.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England’s standard operating procedures for the Fund are available at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/pe/cdf/" target="_blank">www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/pe/cdf/</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 08/12/2014 15:08:13 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

167078

registered interest
date	01/12/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
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, what research his Department has published on sickle cell anaemia in the last four years.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South East
tabling member printed	Mr Pat McFadden
uin	216525
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2014 answer text <p>The NIHR Journals Library comprises a suite of open access journals providing a permanent archive of research funded by the Department’s National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) through five NIHR programmes (Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation; Health Services and Delivery Research; Health Technology Assessment; Programme Grants for Applied Research; Public Health Research). The NIHR Journals Library is available at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The following reports relating to sickle cell anaemia have been published in the NIHR Journals Library in the last four years:</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>- The clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of primary stroke prevention in children with sickle cell disease: a systematic review and economic evaluation (2012)</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>- Antenatal screening for haemoglobinopathies in primary care: a cohort study and cluster randomised trial to inform a simulation model. The Screening for Haemoglobinopathies in First Trimester (SHIFT) trial (2010)</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>Across all NIHR funding streams, and across all topic areas including sickle cell anaemia, the Department and the NIHR require that NIHR funded researchers seek to publish their research outputs in a peer-reviewed journal that is compliant with the NIHR policy on open access.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 08/12/2014 15:18:07 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	1587 label Biography information for Pat McFadden