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724160

registered interest
date	25/04/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Meningitis: Children
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 (a) improve the (i) prevention and (ii) management of meningitis in children and (b) enhance rehabilitation programmes for children who have had that disease.
tabling member constituency	Woking
tabling member printed	Mr Jonathan Lord
uin	71997
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>Prevention of meningococcal disease is primarily achieved by vaccination. Two vaccines have been added to the national programme recently to help protect against meningitis and septicaemia; the meningitis B vaccine for babies and the meningitis ACWY vaccine for school leavers and university students. Where there is a case, local Public Health England Centres advise on the use of antibiotics and vaccination for appropriate close contacts.</p><p> </p><p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has produced both a quality standard (QS) and a clinical guideline (CG) relevant to bacterial meningitis and meningococcal septicaemia in children:</p><p> </p><p>- QS19 - ‘Meningitis (bacterial) and meningococcal septicaemia in children and young people’ available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/qs19" target="_blank">https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/qs19</a></p><p> </p><p>- CG102 - ‘Meningitis (bacterial) and meningococcal septicaemia in under 16s: recognition, diagnosis and management’ available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg102" target="_blank">https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg102</a></p><p> </p><p>Basic inpatient care combined with out-patient rehabilitation is delivered by Specialty Multidisciplinary Teams who will engage with other specialties as required to address any additional identified needs following recovery from infection.</p><p> </p><p>Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are responsible for commissioning rehabilitation services, in line with their assessment of the specific rehabilitation needs of different groups within their localities. In 2016, NHS England published “Commissioning Guidance for Rehabilitation”, which is intended to support local CCGs in the commissioning of local rehabilitation services across a range of settings.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood question first answered 27/04/2017 09:09:59 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord

724161

registered interest
date	25/04/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health: Children and Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Government's aspiration number 7 and paragraph 407 of his Department's Future in Mind report, published in March 2015, what plans he has to invest in universal services to support children and young people's wellbeing through delivering mental health promotion and prevention activities.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	71984
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>Children and young people’s mental health continues to be a priority area for this Government. We are committed to delivering the vision set out in Future in Mind through a major system-wide transformation programme working alongside our partners in the Government and arms’ length bodies. This will improve access and make services more widely available across the country.</p><p> </p><p>The core delivery mechanism in making this happen is the system-wide publicly available, Local Transformation Plans (LTPs), that should cover the full spectrum of children and young people’s mental health need from prevention, raised awareness and resilience building to support and care for existing or emerging mental health problems and include plans for how clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) will ensure that the needs of all children and young people are met locally. In developing LTPs local areas were asked to work with their key partners across health, education, youth justice and local authorities, and crucially, involving young people and their families, to agree locally how best to meet the mental health needs of children and young people in their local populations, which includes delivery through universal settings and through targeted services for children experiencing mental health problems. LTPs are refreshed annually, and it is for CCGs and their partners to decide which local organisations should be involved in developing and refreshing these plans.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A national programme of work will support local areas, including the extension and expansion of the use of evidence-based interventions, tackling stigma, improving data and information to inform greater transparency and accountability and developing a specialist and stronger workforce. The Department has also invested £3 million into MindEd to improve awareness and knowledge of children and young people’s mental health, which provides a free e-learning platform so that those in contact with children can better recognise when a child needs help and ensures they get it. MindEd is extending the skills and knowledge of National Health Service clinicians, staff working in universal settings, such as teachers, social workers, and counsellors and supervisors working in a range of educational and youth settings.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood question first answered 27/04/2017 09:05:33 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

724162

registered interest
date	25/04/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Cancer: Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much funding has been invested by (a) his Department, (b) the National Institute for Health Research and (c) the Medical Research Council in research on (i) bowel, (ii) prostate, (iii) breast, (iv) lung, (v) testicular and (vi) throat cancer in each of the last seven years.
tabling member constituency	Woking
tabling member printed	Mr Jonathan Lord
uin	71996
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>During the last seven years, the Department has funded research through its Policy Research Programme (PRP) and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). The PRP commissions research to inform the development and implementation of policy, and the Department’s investment in cancer research is mainly through the NIHR.</p><p> </p><p>Spend on research funded directly by NIHR is categorised by Health Research Classification System (HRCS) health categories including ‘cancer’. There are no HRCS health sub-categories such as for bowel cancer and other specific cancer sites and information on total annual NIHR spend on research on specific cancer sites is not held. A figure for total NIHR cancer research spend in 2016/17 is not yet available. Figures for the previous six years are as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>£ million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>100.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>104.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>133.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>129.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>134.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>142.4</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The Medical Research Council (MRC) is an independent research funding body which receives its grant in aid from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. MRC expenditure on cancer research includes research into the biology, causes, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer as well as research on outcomes. Figures for MRC cancer research spend are provided below (source: National Cancer Research Institute). Data on spend from 2015 is not currently available.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>£ million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>107.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>112.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>95.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>79.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>76.2</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Information on MRC spend on research on specific cancer sites covering the seven year period requested is not held and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood question first answered 27/04/2017 09:16:33 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord

723870

registered interest
date	24/04/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	British Pregnancy Advisory Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much has been spent from the public purse on the provision of abortions by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	71670
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>This information is not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood question first answered 27/04/2017 09:01:44 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

723871

registered interest
date	24/04/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Surrogacy: Lone Parents
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 8 March 2017 to Question 66737, on Surrogate mothers: lone parents, when he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to give single parents with children born through surrogacy the same rights as couples.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
uin	71671
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2017 answer text <p>Decisions on the timing of introducing a remedial order to Parliament to address the incompatibility in the Human Fertility and Embryology Act 2008 will be a matter for the incoming administration.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood question first answered 26/04/2017 12:40:24 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald

723126

registered interest
date	21/04/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Slaughterhouses: Horses
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many horses and ponies were slaughtered in UK abattoirs (a) with no CCTV, (b) with no CCTV installed in stunning, killing or bleeding areas and (c) with CCTV in all areas in 2016.
tabling member constituency	Penistone and Stocksbridge
tabling member printed	Angela Smith
uin	71576
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>The Food Standards Agency has the following data on numbers of equines slaughtered in approved premises in England. There were no operating equine slaughter premises in Wales during the year 2016.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Type of CCTV in slaughterhouse</p></td><td><p>Number of horses slaughtered between 1 January 2016 and 31 December 2016</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>With no CCTV</p></td><td><p>136</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>With no CCTV installed in stunning, killing or bleeding areas</p></td><td><p>3,077</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>With CCTV in all areas</p></td><td><p>115</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood question first answered 27/04/2017 08:30:19 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	1564 label Biography information for Angela Smith

723154

registered interest
date	21/04/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the costs to the NHS and social care system of treatment for (a) alcohol abuse, (b) obesity and (c) viral hepatitis in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Mrs Flick Drummond
uin	71657
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>Data on costs is not available in the format requested. However the health costs associated with alcohol misuse are estimated to cost the National Health Service in England around £3.5 billion each year and the latest estimate of the cost to the NHS in England of overweight or obesity related ill-health is £5.1 billion each year.</p><p> </p><p>Data is not available by cause of condition to provide an expenditure estimate requested for viral hepatitis.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood question first answered 27/04/2017 08:35:51 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	4459 label Biography information for Mrs Flick Drummond

723155

registered interest
date	21/04/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Cider: Health Hazards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the potential effect of a new duty band for super-strength cider on health outcomes.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Mrs Flick Drummond
uin	71658
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2017 answer text <p>Taxation policy is a matter for the Chancellor of the Exchequer; the United Kingdom Government believes alcohol duties should be proportional to alcohol content. A consultation on the introduction of a new band to target, high strength ‘white’ ciders is underway and ends on 12 June.</p><p> </p><p>No estimate has currently been made of the effect of a possible new duty band on health.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood question first answered 26/04/2017 12:39:14 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	4459 label Biography information for Mrs Flick Drummond

723169

registered interest
date	21/04/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Genito-urinary Medicine: Charities
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether funding given to sexual health charities is ring-fenced so that it is only spent on service provision and not on lobbying activities; and how his Department ensures surpluses that are made from services are not used for lobbying.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	71537
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>The conditions applicable to any grants awarded to sexual health charities are set out in the grant award letters, including a specific clause stating that the award has been made under the provisions of Section 64 and may not be used for lobbying. Any underspend is also required to be reported and returned to the Department.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood question first answered 27/04/2017 08:31:38 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

723178

registered interest
date	21/04/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Genito-urinary Medicine: Charities
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department has allocated to sexual health charities (a) directly and (b) through local authorities in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	71530
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>The Department and Public Health England (PHE) have provided funding to a number of sexual health charities, including Brook and the Family Planning Association in the past five years through the Innovation, Excellence and Strategic Development fund. These contracts are for national HIV prevention, specialist sexual health information services and other nationally funded work. Total allocations are:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2012/13:</p></td><td><p>£3,215,362</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14:</p></td><td><p>£3,021,434</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15:</p></td><td><p>£3,119,318</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16:</p></td><td><p>£1,672,660</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17:</p></td><td><p>£1,758,120</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>In addition, PHE has run an HIV Prevention Innovation Fund for local voluntary sector organisations in 2015 (up to £500,000) and 2016 (up to £600,000) and are running another call in 2017.</p><p> </p><p>Details of the 2015 and 2016 funds are publically available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk/2016/12/01/health-matters-a-look-at-the-hiv-prevention-innovation-fund/" target="_blank">https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk/2016/12/01/health-matters-a-look-at-the-hiv-prevention-innovation-fund/</a></p><p> </p><p>with details on specific call available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/launch-of-innovative-hiv-prevention-fund" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/launch-of-innovative-hiv-prevention-fund</a></p><p> </p><p>and:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-funding-for-local-hiv-prevention" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-funding-for-local-hiv-prevention</a></p><p> </p><p>Information on contracts local authorities hold with sexual health charities is not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood grouped question UIN 71643 71644 question first answered 27/04/2017 08:29:05 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce