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1077199

registered interest
date	25/02/2019
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	Health Professions: Insurance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to bring forward legislative proposal for a state-backed indemnity scheme for health care professionals.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Sir Kevin Barron
uin	225395
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2019 answer text <p>The National Health Service (Clinical Negligence Scheme for General Practice) Regulations 2019 were laid in parliament on 25 February 2019 and come into force on 1 April 2019. The Regulations establish a scheme which provides indemnity cover for future clinical negligence liabilities of general practitioners, and others working in general practice in respect of services provided as part of the National Health Service in England.</p><p> </p><p>The Department also intends to establish the arrangements for an existing liabilities scheme in April 2019, subject to satisfactory discussions with the Medical Defence Organisations.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 28/02/2019 16:22:50 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	392 label Biography information for Sir Kevin Barron

1077356

registered interest
date	25/02/2019
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	Obesity
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 has taken to reduce obesity in England.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	225540
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2019 answer text <p>We published the second chapter of our world-leading childhood obesity plan in June 2018. This builds on the real progress we have made since the publication of chapter one in 2016, particularly in reformulation of the products our children eat and drink most. In chapter two we have set a bold ambition to halve childhood obesity by 2030 and significantly reduce the gap in obesity between children from the most and least deprived areas by 2030.</p><p> </p><p>Many of the measures in both chapters of the plan will have an impact on tackling obesity across all age groups. These include the soft drinks industry levy, sugar reduction and wider calorie reformulation programme, restricting promotions and calorie labelling in restaurants which will improve our eating habits and reduce the amount of sugar we consume.</p><p> </p><p>‘Childhood obesity: a plan for action, chapter 2’ is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/childhood-obesity-a-plan-for-action-chapter-2" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/childhood-obesity-a-plan-for-action-chapter-2</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 28/02/2019 16:21:29 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1064898

registered interest
date	22/02/2019
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	Sexually Transmitted Infections: Screening
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 tests for sexually transmitted infections have been paid for by the public purse in each year for which information is available; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	224804
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2019 answer text <p>Local authorities pay for sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing. In England, the total number of STI tests, paid for by local authorities from 2013 to 2017 is given in the following table.</p><p> </p><p>Further information is available in Public Health England ’s annual STI data tables at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/sexually-transmitted-infections-stis-annual-data-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/sexually-transmitted-infections-stis-annual-data-tables</a></p><p> </p><p>Total number of STI tests, paid for by local authorities from 2013 to 2017:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Years</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>2017</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total tests</p></td><td><p>7,373,761</p></td><td><p>7,604,000</p></td><td><p>7,778,264</p></td><td><p>7,808,902</p></td><td><p>7,772,537</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>The services provided include STI testing which include tests for chlamydia, gonorrhoea, syphilis and HIV. The STI tests were expanded in 2015 to include tests (for herpes simplex virus, hepatitis A/B/C) that were not previously reported via GUMCAD. Therefore, data from 2015 for these STI tests are not directly comparable to data from previous years.</li><li>Source: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/sexually-transmitted-infections-stis-annual-data-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/sexually-transmitted-infections-stis-annual-data-tables</a></li></ol> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 224805 question first answered 27/02/2019 16:14:19 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1064899

registered interest
date	22/02/2019
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	Sexually Transmitted Infections: Screening
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 number of tests for sexually transmitted infections administered over the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	224805
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2019 answer text <p>Local authorities pay for sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing. In England, the total number of STI tests, paid for by local authorities from 2013 to 2017 is given in the following table.</p><p> </p><p>Further information is available in Public Health England ’s annual STI data tables at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/sexually-transmitted-infections-stis-annual-data-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/sexually-transmitted-infections-stis-annual-data-tables</a></p><p> </p><p>Total number of STI tests, paid for by local authorities from 2013 to 2017:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Years</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>2017</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total tests</p></td><td><p>7,373,761</p></td><td><p>7,604,000</p></td><td><p>7,778,264</p></td><td><p>7,808,902</p></td><td><p>7,772,537</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>The services provided include STI testing which include tests for chlamydia, gonorrhoea, syphilis and HIV. The STI tests were expanded in 2015 to include tests (for herpes simplex virus, hepatitis A/B/C) that were not previously reported via GUMCAD. Therefore, data from 2015 for these STI tests are not directly comparable to data from previous years.</li><li>Source: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/sexually-transmitted-infections-stis-annual-data-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/sexually-transmitted-infections-stis-annual-data-tables</a></li></ol> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 224804 question first answered 27/02/2019 16:14:19 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1064900

registered interest
date	22/02/2019
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	Sexually Transmitted Infections: Screening
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what representations he has received in the last 12 months on the closure of physical clinics providing testing for sexually transmitted infections; what plans he has to encourage the use of online and postal testing services for sexually-transmitted infections; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	224806
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2019 answer text <p>We have identified one item of correspondence received since 1 February 2018 about the closure of physical clinics providing testing for sexually-transmitted infections. This figure represents correspondence received by the Department’s Ministerial correspondence unit only.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has mandated local authorities to commission comprehensive open access sexual health services, including sexually transmitted infection testing and treatment. Local authorities are utilising technology, such as online and postal testing services for sexually-transmitted infections, to manage lower risk and asymptomatic patients. As these services develop, they also have the potential to reach groups not currently engaged with clinic services. The expansion of digital services increases patient choice and service accessibility but local authorities must still meet their open access mandate and ensure that appropriate walk-in and appointment only physical services are still available to anyone wishing to use them.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 27/02/2019 16:17:50 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1064691

registered interest
date	21/02/2019
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	Lung Diseases: Screening
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 NHS Long Term Plan, what the timeframe is for the introduction of lung health checks in Southampton Care Commissioning Group.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	224354
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2019 answer text <p>Local areas are beginning to work up plans for the implementation of lung health checks in their area, and funding has been made available to enable projects to start in 2019-20. Total costs are just under £70 million and will pay for nurses, radiographers and radiologists to provide lung health check appointments and low dose computed tomography (CT) scans.</p><p> </p><p>In the ten initial roll-out sites which include Wessex Cancer Alliance (Southampton Care Commissioning Group) there are approximately 600,000 eligible patients, who between them will require a total of 200,000 CT scans.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 28/02/2019 11:51:35 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

1064721

registered interest
date	21/02/2019
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	Alcoholic Drinks: Misuse
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 cost has been to the NHS of treating injuries caused by excessive alcohol consumption each year since 2016.
tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
uin	224315
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2019 answer text <p>The most recent assessment of costs to the National Health Service in England associated with alcohol misuse estimated these costs to be £3.5 billion each year in line with 2009/10 prices. The Government does not update this estimate on an annual basis.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 28/02/2019 11:52:38 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

1064732

registered interest
date	21/02/2019
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	NHS: Drugs
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 12 February 2019 to Question 220230 on NHS: Drugs, whether he has plans to undertake a public consultation on the proposed Framework.
tabling member constituency	Newton Abbot
tabling member printed	Anne Marie Morris
uin	224335
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2019 answer text <p>NHS England, together with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, is developing a ’commercial framework’ setting out the parameters for the commercial approach for medicines in the health service in England. This framework will be tested with and informed through consultation with stakeholders. In preparation for public consultation in the coming months, NHS England is actively engaging with industry trade bodies and health system partners, in the first instance, to progress the development of the commercial framework, as set out in the 2019 Voluntary Scheme for Branded Medicines Pricing and Access.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 28/02/2019 16:19:39 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4249 label Biography information for Anne Marie Morris

1064748

registered interest
date	21/02/2019
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	NHS: Negligence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to publish the cross-Government strategy on the costs of clinical negligence.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	224312
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2019 answer text <p>The rising costs of clinical negligence are a major concern. As set out by the National Audit Office in their September 2017 report ‘Managing the Costs of Clinical Negligence in Hospital Trusts’, between 2006-07 and 2016-17, annual cash costs for clinical negligence quadrupled from £0.4 billion to £1.6 billion. In the same period the number of claims registered with NHS Resolution doubled from 5,300 to 10,600. Funds spent on clinical negligence claims are resources that are not available for patient care and this rate of rise is unsustainable.</p><p> </p><p>We are committed to tackling this issue and we are working intensively across Government, looking at all the drivers of cost. We will bring forward proposals in due course.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 26/02/2019 15:40:50 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

1064750

registered interest
date	21/02/2019
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	Cancer: Health Services
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 8 February 2019 to Question 218743 on Cancer: Health Services, how the funding arrangement for sustainability and transformation plans (STP) will operate where a Cancer Alliance is aligned with more than one STP or integrated care system.
tabling member constituency	Mitcham and Morden
tabling member printed	Siobhain McDonagh
uin	224292
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2019 answer text <p>Cancer Alliances will work with their sustainability and transformation plans/integrated care systems (STP/ICSs) to develop local plans that set out how they will direct funding locally to address the cancer service transformation priorities for their local populations. Where a Cancer Alliance aligns with more than one STP or ICS, the Alliance is responsible for working with all stakeholders to agree the strategy for cancer across the Alliance geography, including allocation of funds for each of the local systems.</p><p> </p><p>The vast majority of Cancer Alliances are already coterminous with one or more sustainability and transformation plans/integrated care systems (STP/ICSs). The NHS Cancer Programme is working closely with regional and Cancer Alliance colleagues in the few areas where STP/ICS are not yet coterminous to carry out robust assessment of the options available. This work is under way and proposed changes will be reviewed and agreed in the coming months.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 224293 question first answered 28/02/2019 11:55:35 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	193 label Biography information for Dame Siobhain McDonagh