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1055803

registered interest
date	06/02/2019
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	Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
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 the effectiveness of the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	217538
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2019 answer text <p>The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman carries out independent investigations about unfair or improper or poor service by United Kingdom Government departments and their agencies, and the National Health Service in England. The Ombudsman is independent of Government, accountable directly to Parliament through the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 11/02/2019 15:08:49 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

1055867

registered interest
date	06/02/2019
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	Down's Syndrome
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 monitor the effect of non-invasive pregnancy testing on the number of babies born with Down’s syndrome.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	217541
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2019 answer text <p>The national evaluative roll out for non-invasive pregnancy testing (NIPT) as a contingent screening test is yet to be implemented into the NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme (FASP). Therefore, no information is held on the effect of NIPT on the number of babies born with Down’s syndrome.</p><p> </p><p>Once NIPT is rolled out, data on the choices women make regarding screening and/or diagnosis will be collected. Data will also be collected on the pregnancy outcomes of women who choose to have screening, including babies born with Down’s syndrome.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 11/02/2019 15:02:56 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

1055935

registered interest
date	06/02/2019
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	Abortion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the reasons for the increase in the rate of abortions among women aged 30 to 34 in the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	217569
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2019 answer text <p>The abortion rate for women aged 30-34 has increased steadily from 15.1 per 1,000 women in 2007 to 18.5 in 2017. This is a complex area and overall increases in conception rates for women aged 30-34 need to be taken into account in any assessment. We continue to monitor this trend.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 11/02/2019 14:59:17 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

1056045

registered interest
date	06/02/2019
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	Medical Treatments: Innovation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to page 77 of the NHS Long Term Plan, what criteria will determine which medical technology innovations are ready for adoption; and what plans are being put in place for the individualised support described in that document.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	217587
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2019 answer text <p>As part of the NHS Long Term Plan, NHS England sets out accelerating the uptake of proven, affordable innovations through a new funding mandate for diagnostics, devices and digital innovation. This will apply to innovations that the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has assessed as cost-saving. NICE will increase the number of evaluations for these products, and these assessments will form the basis of the ‘ready for spread’ status.</p><p> </p><p>Further work to develop implementation plans on criteria and the individualised support described in the NHS Long Term Plan is currently underway, and will be published later this year.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 11/02/2019 14:54:11 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1056873

registered interest
date	06/02/2019
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	Mental Health Services: Young 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 guidelines his Department has put in place for local authorities and health trusts on target waiting times for young people with severe mental health issues before they are (a) assessed and (b) offerered appropriate treatment.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	218168
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2019 answer text <p>The Department has introduced two waiting time standards for children and young people and are on track to meet both of these standards. The first aims for 95% of children (up to 19 years old) with eating disorders to receive treatment within a week for urgent cases and four weeks for routine cases.</p><p> </p><p>81.3% of children and young people’s eating disorder patients started urgent treatment within one week and 80.2% of patients started routine treatment within four weeks in April to June 2018. The second aims for 50% of patients of all ages experiencing a first episode of psychosis to receive treatment within two weeks of referral. Nationally, the National Health Service is exceeding the target, with 76.2% of patients started treatment within two weeks in November 2018.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England publishes guidance for commissioners on waiting times standards for eating disorders and early intervention in psychosis, respectively, available at the following links:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/cyp-eating-disorders-access-waiting-time-standard-comm-guid.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/cyp-eating-disorders-access-waiting-time-standard-comm-guid.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/mentalhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2016/04/eip-guidance.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/mentalhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2016/04/eip-guidance.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>As set out in the NHS Long Term Plan, NHS England will test approaches that could feasibly deliver four week waiting times for access to NHS support, ahead of introducing new national waiting time standards for all children and young people who need specialist mental health services.</p><p> </p><p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence provide national guidance for recognising and managing psychosis and schizophrenia in children and young people, which aims to improve early recognition of psychosis and schizophrenia so that children and young people can be offered the treatment and care they need to live with the condition. This guidance can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg155" target="_blank">https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg155</a></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 12/02/2019 16:56:05 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1055014

registered interest
date	05/02/2019
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	Blood: Donors
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the change has been in the number of people making blood donations between 2008 and 2018.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	216948
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>NHS Blood and Transplant is responsible for the collection, manufacturing and issuing of blood products to the NHS in England. NHS Blood and Transplant collects around 1.5 million blood donations every year to make sure hospitals have the blood they need to treat patients.</p><p> </p><p>The following table below shows that the number of active blood donors has decreased by 11.61% between 2008 and 2018.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Date</p></td><td><p>Active Donors<sup>1</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January - December 2008</p></td><td><p>1,478,332</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January - Dec ember 2009</p></td><td><p>1,447,808</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January - December 2010</p></td><td><p>1,408,849</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January - December 2011</p></td><td><p>1,375,145</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January - December 2012</p></td><td><p>1,330,783</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January - December 2013</p></td><td><p>1,289,266</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January - December 2014</p></td><td><p>1,237,652</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January - December 2015</p></td><td><p>1,281,695</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January - December 2016</p></td><td><p>1,275,292</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January - December 2017</p></td><td><p>1,259,175</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January - December 2018</p></td><td><p>1,306,752</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS Blood and Transplant</p><p> </p><p>Note:</p><p><sup>1</sup>The data are based on a two-year measure. This is because up until 2014, NHS Blood and Transplant’s active donor base was based on donors who had made at least one donation within two years, and not within one year as is now the case with NHS Blood and Transplant.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 08/02/2019 12:46:49 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1055046

registered interest
date	05/02/2019
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	Juliet Bauer
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 times and for what reasons NHS England chief digital officer Juliet Bauer met Livi in her official capacity.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	217027
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>Juliet Bauer had one meeting and one phone call with Livi in her capacity as Chief Digital Officer at NHS England;</p><p>- January 2018 (phone call) - introductory discussion on Livi’s services and products; and</p><p>- October 2018 (meeting) – discussion on the progress Livi had made in Sweden and whether the NHS could learn from this.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 08/02/2019 13:18:35 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1055281

registered interest
date	05/02/2019
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	Suicide
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will list the (a) Government departments, b) executive agencies and (c) non-departmental public bodies that have contributed to the Cross-Government Suicide Prevention Plan.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	216975
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>In 2018, the Department of Health and Social Care established a National Suicide Prevention Strategy Delivery Group (NSPSDG). The NSPSDG has developed the Cross-Government Suicide Prevention Workplan, which we published last month, and will be responsible for tracking, monitoring and reporting on the implementation of the Workplan. Further information is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/suicide-prevention-cross-government-plan" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/suicide-prevention-cross-government-plan</a></p><p> </p><p>The NSPSDG comprises lead policy officials across Government and delivery agencies, including the voluntary and charitable sector through the National Suicide Prevention Alliance (NSPA), including:</p><p>- Department of Health and Social Care;</p><p>- Public Health England;</p><p>- NHS England/ NHS Improvement (joint representative);</p><p>- Care Quality Commission;</p><p>- Ministry of Justice;</p><p>- Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service;</p><p>- Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody;</p><p>- Office for National Statistics;</p><p>- Home Office;</p><p>- Department for Education;</p><p>- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government;</p><p>- Department for Work and Pensions;</p><p>- Department for Transport;</p><p>- Health Education England;</p><p>- Highways England;</p><p>- Chief Coroner’s Office;</p><p>- Government Equalities Office;</p><p>- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs;</p><p>- British Transport Police;</p><p>- Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport;</p><p>- Local Government Association;</p><p>- Association of Directors of Public Health; and</p><p>- National Suicide Prevention Alliance.</p><p> </p><p>The membership of the NSPSDG will be reviewed regularly to ensure that it continues to reflect the strategic direction and priorities of the strategy. The Delivery Group will ensure that the Suicide Prevention Workplan is implemented and continues to evolve as new actions to prevent suicide are identified.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 08/02/2019 12:45:37 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1055360

registered interest
date	05/02/2019
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	Mental Health and Employers Independent Review
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 4 February 2019 to Question 214031 on Mental Health and Employers Independent Review, on what date the Work Leadership Council next plans to meet.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	217136
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>The Thriving at Work Leadership Council is an employer-led group and they are aiming to meet for a second time in April 2019.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 08/02/2019 13:19:48 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

1054675

registered interest
date	04/02/2019
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	Incinerators: Health Hazards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 31 January 2019 to Question 212303 on Air Pollution: Research, what proportion of the £1billion will be allocated to research into the health effects of ultrafine particles from incinerators.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	216125
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2019 answer text <p>The Department is investing over £1 billion a year in health research through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). It is not usual practice for the NIHR to ring-fence a proportion of its budget for research into particular topics or conditions. The NIHR will consider funding applications for research into any aspect of human health, including the effect of ultrafine particles. These 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.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 12/02/2019 16:58:25 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew