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1063846

registered interest
date	19/02/2019
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	Pregnancy: Alcoholic Drinks
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What discussions he has had with the Home Secretary on including awareness-raising of the risks of pre-natal exposure to alcohol in the Government's alcohol strategy.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	909317
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>Through the NHS Maternity Transformation Programme, Public Health England is leading work to raise awareness of the risks of pre-natal exposure to alcohol. A reduction in the proportion of women drinking alcohol during pregnancy has been identified as a public health priority for the five-year programme.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 19/02/2019 16:51:04 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1063847

registered interest
date	19/02/2019
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	Self-harm and Suicide: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to prevent self-harm and suicide among children.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Paul Masterton
uin	909318
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>Although suicides among children are relatively rare, I am concerned about increases in suicide and self-harm amongst teenagers. As Suicide Prevention Minister I am personally committed to do whatever we can to prevent suicides in children.</p><p>We have challenged social media companies to step up and protect children from harmful suicidal and self-harm content and cyberbullying.</p><p>The NHS long-term plan commits to increasing funding for children and young people’s mental health services which will ensure children can access the right support, including crisis care provision.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 19/02/2019 16:51:57 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4625 label Biography information for Paul Masterton

1060638

registered interest
date	13/02/2019
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 Equipment: UK Trade with EU
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 has taken to support exporters of medical devices to the EU with respect to certification by an EU notified body.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	220823
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>In leaving the European Union it is in the interests of the United Kingdom and EU to secure a good deal for both sides. One that ensures that patients are not disadvantaged; that the UK will continue to play a leading role promoting and ensuring public health; and that industry must be able to get their products into the UK and EU markets as quickly and simply as possible.</p><p> </p><p>If a deal is agreed by Parliament, then during the implementation period CE marking will continue to be used and recognised for both the UK and EU markets, and UK-based industry will not require an authorised representative established in the EU. UK notified bodies will continue to conduct third-party conformity assessment in the UK and the certificates they issue will continue to be used and recognised for both the UK and EU markets.</p><p> </p><p>If the UK leaves the EU without a deal, the European Commission has issued guidance to industry which says the UK will become a third country, meaning UK-based notified bodies and UK-based Authorised Representatives will no longer be recognised within the EU. The position taken by the European Commission would therefore require UK manufacturers of devices to have an Authorised Representative in the EU in order to continue to supply the EU market.</p><p> </p><p>Certificates issued by UK-based notified bodies will not be recognised by the EU and UK manufacturers who want to place products on the EU market will have to use an EU member state notified body. Once the conformity assessment has been successfully completed, they can place a CE mark on their device and place the product on the UK or EU market.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is in regular contact with the medical devices industry to advise them of the regulatory and export requirements arising from EU Exit.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 18/02/2019 17:00:15 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1059955

registered interest
date	12/02/2019
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	Hospitals: Transport
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 the Huffington Post article entitled Police Driving Mental Health Patients To Hospital In 48 per cent Of All Crisis Cases, published on the 11 February 2019, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that mental health crisis cases are transferred to hospital in an NHS vehicle rather than a police car.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	220197
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>The Code of Practice for the Mental Health Act 1983 is clear that “hospital or ambulance transport will usually be preferable to police transport, which should only be used exceptionally, such as in cases of extreme urgency or where there is an immediate risk of violence”. There are cases, as recognised in the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act, where a patient may request police transportation to minimise their own distress, and where police officers do not request an ambulance.</p><p> </p><p>The Independent Review recommended in December that NHS England should invest capital and revenue to improve the ambulance fleet for mental health conveyance, to create new joined up functions between mental health services, ambulance services and other urgent and emergency care services. NHS England has confirmed in the NHS Long Term Plan that will be the case, and it will introduce new mental health transport vehicles to reduce inappropriate conveyance by police.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has not made an assessment of how police transportation affects the recovery and health of people in mental health crisis.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 220198 question first answered 18/02/2019 16:56:24 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

1059956

registered interest
date	12/02/2019
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	Hospitals: Transport
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 the Huffington Post article entitled Police Driving Mental Health Patients To Hospital In 48 per cent Of All Crisis Cases, published on the 11 February 2019, what assessment his Department has made of (a) how mental health patients have been affected (b) how their recovery has been impacted by the experience of being transferred to hospital by a police car and not an ambulance.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	220198
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>The Code of Practice for the Mental Health Act 1983 is clear that “hospital or ambulance transport will usually be preferable to police transport, which should only be used exceptionally, such as in cases of extreme urgency or where there is an immediate risk of violence”. There are cases, as recognised in the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act, where a patient may request police transportation to minimise their own distress, and where police officers do not request an ambulance.</p><p> </p><p>The Independent Review recommended in December that NHS England should invest capital and revenue to improve the ambulance fleet for mental health conveyance, to create new joined up functions between mental health services, ambulance services and other urgent and emergency care services. NHS England has confirmed in the NHS Long Term Plan that will be the case, and it will introduce new mental health transport vehicles to reduce inappropriate conveyance by police.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has not made an assessment of how police transportation affects the recovery and health of people in mental health crisis.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 220197 question first answered 18/02/2019 16:56:25 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

1058877

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
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	Housing: Heating
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of National Energy Action's report entitled, Cold homes claiming needless lives and costing every local Health and Wellbeing Board in England over £27,000 each day, published in February 2016.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
uin	219307
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2019 answer text <p>No assessment has been made of the implications for public health policies of the National Energy Action report of February 2016 ‘Cold homes claiming needless lives and costing every local Health and Wellbeing Board in England over £27,000 each day’.</p><p> </p><p>Public Health England is working with local authorities, the National Health Service, the Commission for Fuel Poverty and with other Government departments to try to address the health impacts of those living in fuel poverty and cold homes.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 14/02/2019 15:20:02 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

1058914

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
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	Emigration: Children
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 his Department has to develop a communication strategy to help publicise the Government's ex gratia payment scheme for former British child migrants.
tabling member constituency	Wigan
tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
uin	219412
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2019 answer text <p>On 19 December the Government published its response to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse's Interim Report and its report on Child Migration Programmes. The response states that the Government will establish an ex-gratia payment scheme and will ensure that former child migrants receive a payment as soon as possible, in recognition of the fundamentally flawed nature of the historic child migration policy. Further details were provided at the end of January on the Child Migrants Trust website.</p><p> </p><p>The figure of £20,000 has been set using the methodology of the Northern Ireland Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry, which recommended a payment of £20,000 for former child migrants sent from Northern Ireland as part of the Child Migrant Programmes. This is to ensure fairness between former child migrants sent from different parts of the United Kingdom.</p><p> </p><p>We have coordinated communications about the payment scheme with the Child Migrants Trust and the International Association of former Child Migrants and their Families. We have also publicised the scheme through High Commissions in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Zimbabwe.</p><p> </p><p>The ex-gratia payment will be £20,000 for each former British child migrant and we anticipate that about 2000 former British child migrants will be eligible. Through the business planning process, the Government will ensure that there is sufficient funding to support the scheme based on the current estimates of payments and demand. The scheme is open to any former British child migrant who was alive on 1 March 2018, or the beneficiaries of any former British child migrant who was alive on 1 March 2018 and has since passed away.</p><p> </p><p>The payments are being made in respect of the harm done to former British child migrants in being separated from their families and sent overseas as part of the UK Government’s historic participation in child migration programmes. Children who went overseas with their parents or guardians, or were sent overseas by their parents or guardians, are clearly in a different category: they were not the responsibility of local authorities or Government organisations in the United Kingdom and their parents or guardians made the arrangements voluntarily.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 219413 219414 219415 question first answered 14/02/2019 12:03:43 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

1058925

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
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	Emigration: Children
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 publish the methodology that was used to calculate the £20,000 figure payable to those eligible for redress under the Government's ex gratia payment scheme for child migrants.
tabling member constituency	Wigan
tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
uin	219413
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2019 answer text <p>On 19 December the Government published its response to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse's Interim Report and its report on Child Migration Programmes. The response states that the Government will establish an ex-gratia payment scheme and will ensure that former child migrants receive a payment as soon as possible, in recognition of the fundamentally flawed nature of the historic child migration policy. Further details were provided at the end of January on the Child Migrants Trust website.</p><p> </p><p>The figure of £20,000 has been set using the methodology of the Northern Ireland Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry, which recommended a payment of £20,000 for former child migrants sent from Northern Ireland as part of the Child Migrant Programmes. This is to ensure fairness between former child migrants sent from different parts of the United Kingdom.</p><p> </p><p>We have coordinated communications about the payment scheme with the Child Migrants Trust and the International Association of former Child Migrants and their Families. We have also publicised the scheme through High Commissions in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Zimbabwe.</p><p> </p><p>The ex-gratia payment will be £20,000 for each former British child migrant and we anticipate that about 2000 former British child migrants will be eligible. Through the business planning process, the Government will ensure that there is sufficient funding to support the scheme based on the current estimates of payments and demand. The scheme is open to any former British child migrant who was alive on 1 March 2018, or the beneficiaries of any former British child migrant who was alive on 1 March 2018 and has since passed away.</p><p> </p><p>The payments are being made in respect of the harm done to former British child migrants in being separated from their families and sent overseas as part of the UK Government’s historic participation in child migration programmes. Children who went overseas with their parents or guardians, or were sent overseas by their parents or guardians, are clearly in a different category: they were not the responsibility of local authorities or Government organisations in the United Kingdom and their parents or guardians made the arrangements voluntarily.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 219412 219414 219415 question first answered 14/02/2019 12:03:43 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

1058932

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
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	Emigration: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what budget his Department has allocated to the Government's ex gratia payment scheme for former British child migrants.
tabling member constituency	Wigan
tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
uin	219414
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2019 answer text <p>On 19 December the Government published its response to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse's Interim Report and its report on Child Migration Programmes. The response states that the Government will establish an ex-gratia payment scheme and will ensure that former child migrants receive a payment as soon as possible, in recognition of the fundamentally flawed nature of the historic child migration policy. Further details were provided at the end of January on the Child Migrants Trust website.</p><p> </p><p>The figure of £20,000 has been set using the methodology of the Northern Ireland Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry, which recommended a payment of £20,000 for former child migrants sent from Northern Ireland as part of the Child Migrant Programmes. This is to ensure fairness between former child migrants sent from different parts of the United Kingdom.</p><p> </p><p>We have coordinated communications about the payment scheme with the Child Migrants Trust and the International Association of former Child Migrants and their Families. We have also publicised the scheme through High Commissions in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Zimbabwe.</p><p> </p><p>The ex-gratia payment will be £20,000 for each former British child migrant and we anticipate that about 2000 former British child migrants will be eligible. Through the business planning process, the Government will ensure that there is sufficient funding to support the scheme based on the current estimates of payments and demand. The scheme is open to any former British child migrant who was alive on 1 March 2018, or the beneficiaries of any former British child migrant who was alive on 1 March 2018 and has since passed away.</p><p> </p><p>The payments are being made in respect of the harm done to former British child migrants in being separated from their families and sent overseas as part of the UK Government’s historic participation in child migration programmes. Children who went overseas with their parents or guardians, or were sent overseas by their parents or guardians, are clearly in a different category: they were not the responsibility of local authorities or Government organisations in the United Kingdom and their parents or guardians made the arrangements voluntarily.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 219412 219413 219415 question first answered 14/02/2019 12:03:43 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

1058935

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
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	Emigration: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reasons claimants who were accompanied by an adult family member on their journey to receiving countries are ineligible for payment under the Government's ex gratia payment scheme for former British Child Migrants.
tabling member constituency	Wigan
tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
uin	219415
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2019 answer text <p>On 19 December the Government published its response to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse's Interim Report and its report on Child Migration Programmes. The response states that the Government will establish an ex-gratia payment scheme and will ensure that former child migrants receive a payment as soon as possible, in recognition of the fundamentally flawed nature of the historic child migration policy. Further details were provided at the end of January on the Child Migrants Trust website.</p><p> </p><p>The figure of £20,000 has been set using the methodology of the Northern Ireland Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry, which recommended a payment of £20,000 for former child migrants sent from Northern Ireland as part of the Child Migrant Programmes. This is to ensure fairness between former child migrants sent from different parts of the United Kingdom.</p><p> </p><p>We have coordinated communications about the payment scheme with the Child Migrants Trust and the International Association of former Child Migrants and their Families. We have also publicised the scheme through High Commissions in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Zimbabwe.</p><p> </p><p>The ex-gratia payment will be £20,000 for each former British child migrant and we anticipate that about 2000 former British child migrants will be eligible. Through the business planning process, the Government will ensure that there is sufficient funding to support the scheme based on the current estimates of payments and demand. The scheme is open to any former British child migrant who was alive on 1 March 2018, or the beneficiaries of any former British child migrant who was alive on 1 March 2018 and has since passed away.</p><p> </p><p>The payments are being made in respect of the harm done to former British child migrants in being separated from their families and sent overseas as part of the UK Government’s historic participation in child migration programmes. Children who went overseas with their parents or guardians, or were sent overseas by their parents or guardians, are clearly in a different category: they were not the responsibility of local authorities or Government organisations in the United Kingdom and their parents or guardians made the arrangements voluntarily.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 219412 219413 219414 question first answered 14/02/2019 12:03:43 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy