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834322

registered interest
date	31/01/2018
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	Flour: Folic Acid
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 require that folic acid is added to all flour sold in the UK to reduce the number of birth defects.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
uin	125942
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2018 answer text <p>Ministers are considering the issue of mandatory fortification and will set out their position in due course.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 05/02/2018 16:37:03 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

828571

registered interest
date	23/01/2018
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	Cancer: Screening
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will take steps to introduce testing for all women over 30 years old for early signs of (a) ovarian and (b) breast cancer.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
uin	124244
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>The United Kingdom National Screening Committee (UK NSC) offers screening to an asymptomatic population for conditions which have been evaluated against their robust and extensive criteria. The UK NSC last reviewed the evidence to screen for ovarian cancer in 2016 and recommended that population screening should not be offered. Research has shown that screening women under the age of 50 is less effective especially when they have not entered into the menopause phase.</p><p> </p><p>There are currently no plans to offer screening to women over the age of 30 for either ovarian or breast cancer.</p><p> </p><p>A proposal to change an existing programme, such as age to the breast screening programme would follow the UK NSC’s evidence review process. Information about this process is available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-nsc-evidence-review-process" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-nsc-evidence-review-process</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 29/01/2018 17:00:31 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

820838

registered interest
date	11/01/2018
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	Genito-urinary Medicine
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what activities Ministers of his Department took part in as part of STIQ day on 14 January 2018 in order to encourage more people to get regular sexual health checks.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
uin	122256
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2018 answer text <p>No specific activities were undertaken as part of STIQ day. We remain committed to continuing to reduce rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). To support this ambition, Public Heath England launched the ‘Protect against STIs’ campaign on 15 December 2017 aimed at 16 to 24-year-olds. The campaign uses innovative, nationwide digital advertising to highlight the increased likelihood of contracting an STI if having sex without a condom and help normalise condom use.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 16/01/2018 11:52:43 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

819082

registered interest
date	09/01/2018
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: Lancashire
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 (a) general consultant-led outpatient clinics dealing with suspected cancer and Crohn’s disease and (b) nurse-led speciality colorectal clinics are held each week by (i) Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, (ii) University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust, (iii) Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and (iv) East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
uin	121759
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 15/01/2018 17:52:02 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

816867

registered interest
date	05/01/2018
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Prescriptions: Fees and Charges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many FP57 forms were processed by the NHS Business Services Authority in 2017 for people seeking a refund for prescription charges; and what the average cost of processing a FP57 form and returning the prescription charge to the applicant was in 2017.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
uin	121294
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>The number of FP57 forms processed by the NHS Business Services Authority in 2017 for people seeking a refund for prescription charges cannot be provided as this information is not available. We can verify that a total of 9,819 refund applications for prescription charges were processed in England during the period of 1 January 2017 and 30 November 2017. Prescription refund applications may contain one or more FP57 forms. Applications received during December 2017 are still being processed and the data for this month is not yet available.</p><p> </p><p>The average cost of processing a FP57 form and returning the prescription charge to the applicant in 2017 cannot be provided as this information is not available.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 15/01/2018 17:38:17 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

816943

registered interest
date	05/01/2018
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Clinical Commissioning Groups: Sponsorship
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which Clinical Commissioning Groups have a policy of not accepting sponsorship from drug companies and similar organisations; and whether his Department plans to regulate or stop such sponsorship arrangements.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
uin	121370
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>NHS England does not collect data centrally on which clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have a policy of not accepting sponsorship from drug companies and similar organisations. NHS England published statutory guidance on managing conflicts of interest for CCGs in June 2017 which aims to support CCGs to identify and manage a range of conflicts of interests, which is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p>https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/revised-ccg-coi-guidance-jul-17.pdf</p><p> </p><p>This guidance addresses the issue of sponsorship. In addition, NHS England published system-wide guidance in February 2017 on managing conflicts of interest in the NHS which is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p>https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/guidance-managing-conflicts-of-interest-nhs.pdf</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 15/01/2018 17:39:53 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

804264

registered interest
date	11/12/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Compassionate Leave
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what provisions are in place for NHS staff based at (a) Quarry House in Leeds and (b) Richmond House in London to have time off for duties as carers; and how many staff were given time off in each month in 2017 to date.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Mr Mark Hendrick
uin	118454
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>NHS England’s Leave and Employment Break Policy and Procedure provides for carers’ leave under the provision of Special (unplanned) Leave.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England has staff based at Quarry House in Leeds, Skipton House in London and numerous regional offices across England. There are no staff based at Richmond House in London.</p><p> </p><p>No data is available for staff based in London and regional offices.</p><p> </p><p>Since January 2017 the number of NHS England staff whose main base is Quarry House in Leeds, that have requested special leave provision reclassified as carers leaves is less than five per month for each month of the year apart from October where it was five and July and December when there were zero requests.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 19/12/2017 17:35:48 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

776261

registered interest
date	23/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Docetaxel
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 by each clinical commissioning group in England on Docetaxel since the publication of Docetaxel in combination with androgen deprivation therapy for the treatment of hormone naive metastatic prostate cancer by NHS England on 20 January 2016.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Mr Mark Hendrick
uin	109008
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2017 answer text <p>There were no prescriptions of docetaxel by clinical commissioning groups in primary care over this period.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Digital is unable to identify the specific indication for which a prescription has been prescribed. Information on hospital costs (at list price) covering all possible uses is available at NHS England Region level and is provided in the table below:</p><p> </p><p>National Health Service estimated costs (£) of docetaxel (at list price) issued by hospital pharmacies in England<sup>1</sup>, by region, 2015 and 2016</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>2016</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>64,346,509</p></td><td><p>71,385,551</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Central Midlands</p></td><td><p>4,681,236</p></td><td><p>5,933,700</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cheshire and Merseyside</p></td><td><p>4,725,933</p></td><td><p>4,126,694</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cumbria and North East</p></td><td><p>3,020,396</p></td><td><p>3,571,486</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East</p></td><td><p>5,375,050</p></td><td><p>5,603,733</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater Manchester</p></td><td><p>3,349,575</p></td><td><p>2,833,002</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lancashire</p></td><td><p>1,528,395</p></td><td><p>1,718,229</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>8,746,042</p></td><td><p>10,175,348</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Midlands</p></td><td><p>4,125,206</p></td><td><p>5,538,382</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Central</p></td><td><p>3,269,040</p></td><td><p>4,113,010</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East</p></td><td><p>6,448,259</p></td><td><p>6,182,164</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>3,924,561</p></td><td><p>4,038,755</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wessex</p></td><td><p>3,325,580</p></td><td><p>4,016,453</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>5,432,613</p></td><td><p>6,522,771</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire and Humber</p></td><td><p>5,825,101</p></td><td><p>6,429,341</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: 2017 QuintilesIMS: Hospital Pharmacy Audit Index;</p><p> </p><p>Note:</p><p><sup>1</sup>National figures are grossed up to give England level estimates. Sub-national figures are not adjusted in any way. Therefore, the sum of the regions will not match the England total.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 01/11/2017 11:56:38 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

776262

registered interest
date	23/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Breast Cancer: Health Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish the events that he and Ministers of his Department attended as part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October 2017.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Mr Mark Hendrick
uin	109072
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2017 answer text <p>The Department’s Ministers attended three events recently as part of this year’s breast cancer awareness month. These were: a “Breast Cancer Now” event in September to promote breast cancer awareness month, attended by my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State; a reception on 9 October hosted by His Excellency the Ambassador of the United States marking the 25th anniversary of the United Kingdom’s Breast Cancer campaign, attended by my hon. Friend the Minister of State; and I spoke at the All Party Parliamentary Group on breast cancer’s reception on 23rd October.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 01/11/2017 11:58:30 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

773698

registered interest
date	19/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Incontinence
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 9 October 2017 to Question 9587, on incontinence, if he will make it his policy to collect centrally that information.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Mr Mark Hendrick
uin	108697
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2017 answer text <p>NHS England currently have no plans to collect centralised data to measure any reduction in the number of prescriptions for catheters, out-patient appointments, surgical interventions and costs relating to pads and other incontinence products.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 01/11/2017 12:02:21 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick