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934747

registered interest
date	04/07/2018
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	Influenza: Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether funding will be made available from the public purse to provide free flu vaccinations for staff working in independent care services for the winter of 2018-19.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	160750
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2018 answer text <p>NHS England will continue to make funding available in 2018/19 to support the vaccination of social care workers that offer direct patient/client care. This will supplement any established occupational health schemes that employers have in place to offer the flu vaccination to their workforce. In addition, funding will be extended to include health and care staff in the voluntary managed hospice sector that offer direct patient/client care.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England will be writing to organisations representing the independent and voluntary care sector shortly to confirm the details of the scheme for 2018/19.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 09/07/2018 14:18:55 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

934748

registered interest
date	04/07/2018
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	Obesity: Children
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 oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Care of 25 June 2018, Official Report, column 633, on the Childhood Obesity Strategy: Chapter 2, what the timelines are for (a) developing and (b) publishing chapter 3 of that strategy.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	160751
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2018 answer text <p>We will measure progress towards our ambition to halve childhood obesity by 2030 annually through the National Child Measurement Programme and Health Survey for England. We know achieving this will not be easy, but it is a measure of our ambition and resolve to tackle this issue.</p><p> </p><p>We remain committed to reviewing what more can be done to make sure we meet our ambition of halving childhood obesity and will continue to monitor progress and emerging evidence carefully. Where progress is not being delivered, we will consider what further action can be taken to help us to achieve what no other country in the world has yet achieved: success in tackling childhood obesity.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 160752 question first answered 09/07/2018 14:29:39 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

934749

registered interest
date	04/07/2018
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	Obesity: 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 mechanisms the Government plans to use to monitor progress towards achieving the ambition to halve childhood obesity by 2030; and how regularly the outcomes of the policies designed to meet that target will be evaluated.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	160752
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2018 answer text <p>We will measure progress towards our ambition to halve childhood obesity by 2030 annually through the National Child Measurement Programme and Health Survey for England. We know achieving this will not be easy, but it is a measure of our ambition and resolve to tackle this issue.</p><p> </p><p>We remain committed to reviewing what more can be done to make sure we meet our ambition of halving childhood obesity and will continue to monitor progress and emerging evidence carefully. Where progress is not being delivered, we will consider what further action can be taken to help us to achieve what no other country in the world has yet achieved: success in tackling childhood obesity.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 160751 question first answered 09/07/2018 14:29:39 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

934751

registered interest
date	04/07/2018
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	Children: Obesity
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 Government's Childhood Obesity Plan: Chapter 2, published in June 2018, whether the Government's consultation on introducing a 9pm watershed for TV advertising of products high in fat, salt or sugar will cover (a) whether such a policy should be implemented and (b) the timing of such a watershed.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	160753
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2018 answer text <p>Our ambition is to see further advertising restrictions applied which limit children’s exposure to high fat, salt and sugar (HFSS) food and drink advertising, incentivise reformulation, and ensure that the healthiest of products are advertised freely across all programming. We also want to put control back into parents’ hands by making it clearer for them when and where HFSS adverts can and cannot be shown, so that they can make the best choices for their children.</p><p> </p><p>The consultation will explore options for implementing a 9pm watershed on TV advertising to ensure that any restrictions are proportionate, help to incentivise reformulation in line with the aims of the sugar and calorie reduction programmes, and consider a focus on those products that children consume and most contribute to the problem of childhood obesity.</p><p> </p><p>Further details about the consultation will be available later this year.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 160754 question first answered 09/07/2018 14:27:50 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

934752

registered interest
date	04/07/2018
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	Children: Obesity
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 Government's Childhood Obesity Plan: Chapter 2, published in June 2018, whether the Government's consultation on introducing a 9pm watershed for TV advertising of products high in fat, salt or sugar will include an explicit preferred option of prohibiting such advertising before 9pm.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	160754
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2018 answer text <p>Our ambition is to see further advertising restrictions applied which limit children’s exposure to high fat, salt and sugar (HFSS) food and drink advertising, incentivise reformulation, and ensure that the healthiest of products are advertised freely across all programming. We also want to put control back into parents’ hands by making it clearer for them when and where HFSS adverts can and cannot be shown, so that they can make the best choices for their children.</p><p> </p><p>The consultation will explore options for implementing a 9pm watershed on TV advertising to ensure that any restrictions are proportionate, help to incentivise reformulation in line with the aims of the sugar and calorie reduction programmes, and consider a focus on those products that children consume and most contribute to the problem of childhood obesity.</p><p> </p><p>Further details about the consultation will be available later this year.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 160753 question first answered 09/07/2018 14:27:50 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

934770

registered interest
date	04/07/2018
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	Pharmacy: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the NHS Business Services Authority on payments to pharmacists.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	160805
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2018 answer text <p>The Department has regular accountability review meetings with the NHS Business Service Authority (BSA) to discuss their performance including for prescription pricing and payments to pharmacies. The NHS BSA is obliged to report on a monthly basis against key performance indicators which cover timeliness of service delivery; and quality (accuracy) of service delivery for the National Health Service prescription services. The latest published data for accuracy of prescription processing affecting payment to pharmacies, shows a high and continuing improving level of accuracy. This is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/pharmacies-gp-practices-and-appliance-contractors/payments-and-pricing/how-we-process-prescriptions" target="_blank">https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/pharmacies-gp-practices-and-appliance-contractors/payments-and-pricing/how-we-process-prescriptions</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 160806 question first answered 09/07/2018 14:21:28 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

934772

registered interest
date	04/07/2018
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	Pharmacy: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the level of reported underpayments to pharmacists by the NHS Business Services Authority.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	160806
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2018 answer text <p>The Department has regular accountability review meetings with the NHS Business Service Authority (BSA) to discuss their performance including for prescription pricing and payments to pharmacies. The NHS BSA is obliged to report on a monthly basis against key performance indicators which cover timeliness of service delivery; and quality (accuracy) of service delivery for the National Health Service prescription services. The latest published data for accuracy of prescription processing affecting payment to pharmacies, shows a high and continuing improving level of accuracy. This is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/pharmacies-gp-practices-and-appliance-contractors/payments-and-pricing/how-we-process-prescriptions" target="_blank">https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/pharmacies-gp-practices-and-appliance-contractors/payments-and-pricing/how-we-process-prescriptions</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 160805 question first answered 09/07/2018 14:21:28 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

934774

registered interest
date	04/07/2018
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	Pharmacy: Finance
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 trends in the level of Government funding for pharmacies.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	160807
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2018 answer text <p>In addition to Government funding set out within the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework (CPCF) community pharmacies can also receive Government funding from local National Health Service teams and local authorities for locally commissioned services. The data currently available to the Department allow regular and reliable monitoring of funding provided via the CPCF for the reimbursement of dispensed products on NHS prescriptions, including margin, and the delivery of fees and allowances. This is regularly assessed and shared on a confidential basis with the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee and following negotiations adjustments are made to ensure that the full allocation of funding is delivered.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 09/07/2018 14:26:22 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

934803

registered interest
date	04/07/2018
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	General Practitioners
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 July 2018 to Question 158305, how many GPs there were for every 100,000 people in September for each of the last eight years.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	160794
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2018 answer text <p>The requested information is presented in the following table. Retainers, registrar and locums numbers are not comparable across the timescale requested and have therefore been excluded.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Census</p></td><td><p>All Practitioners (excluding Retainers and Registrars and Locums) headcount per 100,000 population</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>69.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>67.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>67.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>66.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>66.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>66.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>65.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>63.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>62.0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS Digital</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>All data as at 30 September for the relevant year.</li><li>Prior to 2015 figures are sourced from National Health Application and Infrastructure Services general practitioner (GP) Payments (Exeter) System. From 2015 figures are sourced from the workforce Minimum Dataset and include estimates for missing data.</li><li>GP Headcount per 100,000 population figures calculated based on the Office for National Statistics figures for England population that were available at the time the relevant GP headcount figures were originally published.</li></ol><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 09/07/2018 14:25:00 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

934242

registered interest
date	03/07/2018
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	Antimicrobials: Drug Resistance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information he holds on the number of patients diagnosed with (a) antimicrobial- and (b) antibiotic-resistant diseases in England in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Wallasey
tabling member printed	Ms Angela Eagle
uin	160097
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2018 answer text <p>Public Health England does not hold umbrella data on all antimicrobial and antibiotic-resistant diseases in England as there are over 100 antimicrobial drugs in use and a large number of bacteria, fungi and viruses that could show resistance to one or more of them. Data on specific bug/drug combinations are available in the attached table: Number of cases of antimicrobial/antibiotic resistant infections identified in specific drug combinations.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 06/07/2018 13:31:18 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine attachment 1 file name Table_PQ160097.pdf title PQ160097 attached table
tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle