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1176607

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date	05/02/2020
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	Liothyronine
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the operation of data protection legislation in respect of Clinical Commissioning Groups asking to see patients' personal health data when reviewing the use of liothyronine for the purposes of cost cutting.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL1359
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2020 answer text <p>Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are legally responsible, as data controllers in their own right, to abide by data protection legislation when processing any data. The Department does not assess their operation of data protection legislation.</p><p>CCGs are the responsible commissioner for the prescription of liothyronine and it is for CCGs to have regard to guidance set out by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and NHS England and NHS Improvement.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 12/02/2020 17:41:55 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1176201

registered interest
date	04/02/2020
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	Vaccination
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the causes of the decline in uptake of vaccinations.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL1321
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2020 answer text <p>To assess the causes of the decline in uptake of vaccinations, Public Health England (PHE) undertakes annual surveys of parents and adolescents to understand how knowledge, beliefs and attitudes towards immunisation, vaccine safety and disease severity influence vaccine uptake decision-making.</p><p>PHE believes that the causes of the decline in vaccine include access to services and inconsistencies in reminder communications from healthcare professionals. More information on the survey can be found in the attached National Audit Office report, <em>Investigation into pre-school vaccinations</em>.</p><p>The Government is committed to improving the uptake of vaccinations which is why we will shortly be publishing a vaccine strategy.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 13/02/2020 15:36:25 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford attachment 1 file name NAO-vaccinations-report-2019-10-25 (002).pdf title NAO-vaccinations-report-2019
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1176202

registered interest
date	04/02/2020
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	Vaccination: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what evidence they have collected to show the effectiveness of actions, taken since 2016, to improve the uptake of vaccinations of children.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL1322
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2020 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Plan set out a clear commitment to improve uptake of vaccinations and a range of action has been taken. This has included expanding key childhood vaccination programmes. All primary school children are now eligible for their seasonal flu vaccination through the National Health Service school vaccination programme after it was extended to include year 6 this season. NHS Digital is due to publish the annual vaccine uptake data, collected by Public Health England, for 2019/20 in September 2020, which will give some indication of whether these interventions have started to be effective.</p><p>General practice plays an invaluable role in the delivery of vaccination services, especially for children. During 2019, NHS England and NHS Improvement undertook the most significant review of vaccination and immunisation payment mechanisms since 1990. The findings of this extensive review identified a range of effective interventions. The recent update to the general practitioner (GP) contract confirmed the interventions will see the biggest reforms to the payment and incentive system in 30 years to support GP practices improve vaccination coverage.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 13/02/2020 15:37:25 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1176203

registered interest
date	04/02/2020
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	MMR Vaccine
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the number of children aged five who have not had both doses of the MMR vaccination.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL1323
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2020 answer text <p>Public Health England reports childhood vaccination coverage statistics for England. In 2018/19 there were 94,342 children aged five years who did not have a record of receiving both doses of the Measles Mumps Rubella (MMR) vaccine. Of these, 55,916 children had received dose one of MMR and 38,426 had no record of receiving MMR.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 12/02/2020 17:41:01 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1176204

registered interest
date	04/02/2020
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	Asthma: Medical Equipment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the study from the University of Cambridge The costs of switching to low global-warming potential inhalers. An economic and carbon footprint analysis of NHS prescription data in England, published on 30 October 2019, which found that switching to more environmentally friendly asthma inhalers could achieve large cabon saving and reduce drug costs.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL1324
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2020 answer text <p>NHS England and NHS Improvement are aware of and have considered the study referenced. The findings are being taken into account alongside other evidence in understanding the impact on patient care, the environmental impact and the costs involved in a change in the mix of inhalers to lower carbon alternatives.</p><p>As set out in the NHS Long Term Plan, the National Health Service restated its commitment to the carbon targets in the UK Government Climate Change Act 2008, reducing carbon emissions, on a 1990 baseline, by:</p><p>- 34% by 2020; and</p><p>- 51% by 2025</p><p>In particular, the NHS Long Term Plan commits that a substantial reduction in the carbon impact of inhalers and anaesthetics over 10 years, will contribute to the overall NHS carbon reduction targets. The propellants used in pressurised inhalers are potent greenhouse gases.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 12/02/2020 17:40:47 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1176205

registered interest
date	04/02/2020
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	Kingston Hospital: Parking
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they are satisfied that the Kingston NHS Foundation Trust is able to maintain permanently a minimum number of 797 car parking spaces for patients, visitors and staff, in line with planning obligations, as a result of the sale of a plot of hospital land to residential developers.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL1325
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2020 answer text <p>The appropriateness of parking is the responsibility of the local National Health Service trust.</p><p>NHS organisations have autonomy to make decisions that best suit their local circumstances.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford grouped question UIN HL1326 question first answered 12/02/2020 17:21:40 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1176206

registered interest
date	04/02/2020
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	Kingston Hospital: Parking
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what action the Kingston NHS Foundation Trust is taking to ensure the re-provision of 75 permanent, as opposed to temporary, parking spaces for the benefit of patients, visitors and staff to replace those lost as a result of the sale of a plot of hospital land.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL1326
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2020 answer text <p>The appropriateness of parking is the responsibility of the local National Health Service trust.</p><p>NHS organisations have autonomy to make decisions that best suit their local circumstances.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford grouped question UIN HL1325 question first answered 12/02/2020 17:21:40 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1176213

registered interest
date	04/02/2020
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: Staff
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many members of NHS staff provided fraudulent qualifications between 2017 and 2019.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL1333
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2020 answer text <p>Data on the number of cases of staff providing fraudulent qualifications detected in the National Health Service over the last three years is collected by the NHS Counter Fraud Authority. The information requested is shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial year</p></td><td><p>Number of cases</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 12/02/2020 17:41:18 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

1175465

registered interest
date	03/02/2020
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	IVF
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord O'Shaughnessy on 24 October 2017 (HL1882), whether the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority now holds information on methods of freezing; if not, why not; and if so, how many human embryos were (1) transferred to uteri to establish pregnancies, (2) destroyed, and (3) allocated for destruction but have not yet been destroyed, following (a) vitrification, and (b) slow freezing methods, in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL1237
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2020 answer text <p>The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has advised that it does not hold information on which methods of freezing are used.</p><p>The HFEA is required under the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 to keep a register recording identifiable information on patients, the treatments they undergo and their outcomes. This information does not include the method used to freeze sperm, eggs or embryos.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 11/02/2020 15:04:05 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1175466

registered interest
date	03/02/2020
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	Coronavirus
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people who have flown to the UK from Wuhan, China, since the outbreak of the coronavirus was announced have been contacted; how many of those have been tested for coronavirus; what steps they are taking to (1) identify, and (2) locate, those yet to be tested; and what assessment they have made of the statement by the Chief Medical Officer for England on 24 January that there is a “fair chance” that the UK will see cases of that virus.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL1238
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2020 answer text <p>On direct flights from Wuhan into the United Kingdom, 1,466 passengers and 95 staff arrived between 10 and 24 January. Of these, 162 of the passengers have already left the UK, 53 of the crew have already left the UK and all of the remaining passengers (1,304) are now outside of the incubation period.</p><p>As of 5 February, a total of 468 UK tests have concluded, of which 466 were confirmed negative and two positive. Information is published daily online on the <em>Coronavirus: latest information and advice</em> page on the Government website.</p><p>Posters and leaflets with health advice has been made available in all UK international airports, Eurostar terminals and Dover. As of 5 February, the two patients who tested positive are receiving specialist National Health Service care and we are using tried and tested infection control procedures to prevent further spread of the virus.</p><p>The NHS is extremely well-prepared and used to managing infections and we are already working rapidly to identify any contacts the patients had, to prevent further spread. We are continuing to work closely with the World Health Organization and the international community as the outbreak in China develops to ensure we are ready for all eventualities.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford grouped question UIN HL1239 question first answered 12/02/2020 17:23:56 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool