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1126067

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date	13/05/2019
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 Illness: Prisoners
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 prisoners were prescribed medication for mental health issues in 2018.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	253597
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 21/05/2019 10:48:35 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1126141

registered interest
date	13/05/2019
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	Maternity Services: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the conduct of maternity investigations into term intrapartum stillbirths will continue to be the responsibility of the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch for the next three years.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	253439
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>We have not set a definitive timescale for the duration of the maternity investigations. As we said in our response to the Joint Committee’s report ‘Draft Health Service Safety Investigations Bill: A new capability for investigation patient safety incidents’, the Department’s view is that the best approach is to allow the current maternity investigations programme to complete its rollout to all healthcare regions in England, which is now complete and will continue for a limited period so that the learning and benefit can be gained from these investigations.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 21/05/2019 11:05:29 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1125931

registered interest
date	10/05/2019
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	England Infected Blood Support Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, from which budget in his Department the increase in funding for the England Infected Blood Support Scheme has been allocated.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
uin	252870
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2019 answer text <p>The Department undertakes a comprehensive annual planning exercise each year to allocate resources. The increase in infected blood payments was factored into this exercise for 2019/20 and scope was found to ensure that the costs can be met.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 15/05/2019 16:36:57 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard

1125935

registered interest
date	10/05/2019
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	NHS: Cybercrime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the level of vulnerability of NHS Microsoft operating systems to cyber attack.
tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
tabling member printed	Matthew Pennycook
uin	252873
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2019 answer text <p>We are supporting National Health Service organisations to upgrade their existing Microsoft Windows operating systems, allowing them to reduce potential vulnerabilities and increase cyber resilience.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 20/05/2019 14:15:35 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook

1125939

registered interest
date	10/05/2019
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: Students
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 adequacy of NHS mental health support for university students.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	252889
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2019 answer text <p>Mental health is a priority for this Government. That is why the Department of Health and Social Care is continuing to work closely with the Department for Education to improve the mental health of university students.</p><p> </p><p>To support this, the NHS Long Term Plan commits to a comprehensive expansion of mental health services, including a new approach to mental health services for people aged 18-25, supporting transitions to college and to adulthood, with services being adapted to create a comprehensive offer for 0 to 25 year olds.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is working closely with Universities UK through the Mental Health in Higher Education programme to build the capability and capacity of universities to improve student welfare services and improve access to mental health services for the student population, including focusing on suicide reduction, and improving access to psychological therapies to support and treat students suffering from stress and anxiety.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 15/05/2019 16:39:08 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1125944

registered interest
date	10/05/2019
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	Stem Cells: 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 steps his Department is taking to engage with BAME communities on stem cell donations.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	252891
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2019 answer text <p>Since 2011 the Department has provided more than £26 million in financial support to NHS Blood and Transplant and Anthony Nolan to enable the establishment of a unified United Kingdom Stem Cell Registry and improve stem cell donation. This includes improving equity of access to unrelated donor stem cell transplantation for Black African Minority Ethnic (BAME) patients through targeted recruitment to the UK Stem Cell Registry and the Department has set specific targets about the proportion of donors that must be from BAME backgrounds.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 15/05/2019 16:37:40 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1125703

registered interest
date	09/05/2019
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	Homelessness: Death
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 Answer of 11 April 2019 to Question 244122 on Homelessness: Death, what definitions of abuse and neglect are provided to local authorities.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	252631
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2019 answer text <p>The Department has published the Care and Support Statutory Guidance, which provides information on what constitutes abuse or neglect. The list is not intended to be exhaustive, rather it provides guidance on the sort of behaviour which could give rise to a safeguarding concern. It includes physical, domestic, sexual, psychological, discriminatory, financial and material abuse. Local authorities should not limit their view of what constitutes abuse and should consider the circumstances of the individual’s case.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 16/05/2019 12:05:34 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1125788

registered interest
date	09/05/2019
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	Prisoners: Injuries
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 introduce a pilot to trial screening for traumatic brain injuries on entry into prison.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	252677
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2019 answer text <p>NHS England has commissioned liaison and diversion services in custody suites and courts aimed at identifying those who are vulnerable. It is anticipated that by 2020-21, that service will cover the whole of England.</p><p>All children and young people within the secure estate are screened for brain injury through the comprehensive health assessment tool.</p><p>The NHS England prison health care national standards service specification requires providers to screen individuals where it is suspected that they may have an acquired brain injury. If an adult prisoner presents with a significant brain injury, a specialist neurological referral is made.</p><p>There are specific diagnostics for those whose presentations suggest a cause for concern. Where individuals so assessed are then sentenced to custody, this information will be passed to the escorts for prison reception.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 16/05/2019 11:47:27 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1125285

registered interest
date	08/05/2019
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	Health Services: Rural Areas
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 his Department taking to enable the use of digital technology to increase access to healthcare for people in rural communities.
tabling member constituency	North Cornwall
tabling member printed	Scott Mann
uin	252028
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2019 answer text <p>Digital technology is improving access to healthcare for rural communities:</p><p>- In April 2018, NHS Digital published a digital inclusion guide for health and social care aimed at local health and care organisations to help them to take practical steps to support digital inclusion in their communities, including those in rural areas who are more likely to be digitally excluded;</p><p> </p><p>- We are working closely with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to ensure that health and care needs are taken into account in national digital infrastructure policy, are running two test beds under Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport’s 5G programme focused on improving access, and the 5G programme itself will address rural connectivity; and</p><p> </p><p>- The NHS App is now connected in over 52% of general practitioner (GP) practices. It provides a universal offer regardless of postcode. It gives patients a single safe and secure means to interact with their GP, including access to their GP record, make GP appointments, order repeat prescriptions, access 111 online for urgent medical questions. The improved NHS website has over 40 million visits a month.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 17/05/2019 13:15:13 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4496 label Biography information for Scott Mann

1125327

registered interest
date	08/05/2019
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	Healthy Start Scheme
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 encourage (a) Morrisons, (b) Tesco, (c) Asda, (d) Sainsburys and (d) other supermarket chains to promote the acceptance of Healthy Start Vouchers to their customers; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Harrow West
tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
uin	251898
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2019 answer text <p>Information about the Healthy Start scheme is available to the public and retailers on the Healthy Start website. Retailers are encouraged to use promotional materials available on the Healthy Start website to promote their acceptance of the vouchers.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 16/05/2019 11:59:47 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas