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78989

registered interest
date	21/07/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Tobacco: Packaging
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when his Department plans to conduct its consultation on the potential effect of standardised packaging of tobacco on the small retail sector; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Broxbourne
tabling member printed	Mr Charles Walker
uin	206716
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2014 answer text <p>The Government has not yet made a final decision on whether to introduce standardised packaging for tobacco products. We held a United Kingdom-wide consultation on introducing regulations for standardised packaging of tobacco products, which ran from 26 June to 7 August. The consultation asked for new and relevant information that would help in assessing the wider impact of plain packaging, including economic and other considerations.</p><p>The consultation included draft regulations so it is clear how requirements for standardised packaging would work in practice. Alongside the consultation, we have also published an updated consultation-stage Impact Assessment. The consultation asked respondents for further evidence or information which would improve the assumptions or estimates made in the Impact Assessment.</p><p>The Government does not intend to run any further consultations with regard to standardised packaging.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 206715 206788 question first answered 04/09/2014 14:21:02 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker

78994

registered interest
date	21/07/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Tobacco: Packaging
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if his Department will conduct a consultation on the potential effect of standardised packaging of tobacco on down-trading to cheaper products.
tabling member constituency	Broxbourne
tabling member printed	Mr Charles Walker
uin	206788
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2014 answer text <p>The Government has not yet made a final decision on whether to introduce standardised packaging for tobacco products. We held a United Kingdom-wide consultation on introducing regulations for standardised packaging of tobacco products, which ran from 26 June to 7 August. The consultation asked for new and relevant information that would help in assessing the wider impact of plain packaging, including economic and other considerations.</p><p>The consultation included draft regulations so it is clear how requirements for standardised packaging would work in practice. Alongside the consultation, we have also published an updated consultation-stage Impact Assessment. The consultation asked respondents for further evidence or information which would improve the assumptions or estimates made in the Impact Assessment.</p><p>The Government does not intend to run any further consultations with regard to standardised packaging.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 206715 206716 question first answered 04/09/2014 14:21:02 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker

78995

registered interest
date	21/07/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Tobacco: Packaging
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with his counterpart in New Zealand on the standardising of tobacco packaging.
tabling member constituency	Broxbourne
tabling member printed	Mr Charles Walker
uin	206787
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2014 answer text <p>Health ministers have not had any specific discussions about standardised packaging of tobacco with ministers from New Zealand.</p><p>Departmental officials occasionally receive updates from the New Zealand Ministry of Health regarding plans in that country for the introduction of requirements for standardised packaging.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 04/09/2014 13:02:08 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker

79004

registered interest
date	21/07/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Tobacco: Packaging
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if his Department will conduct a consultation, separate to that carried out by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills on the potential effect of standardised packaging of tobacco on the Government's long-term economic plan.
tabling member constituency	Broxbourne
tabling member printed	Mr Charles Walker
uin	206715
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2014 answer text <p>The Government has not yet made a final decision on whether to introduce standardised packaging for tobacco products. We held a United Kingdom-wide consultation on introducing regulations for standardised packaging of tobacco products, which ran from 26 June to 7 August. The consultation asked for new and relevant information that would help in assessing the wider impact of plain packaging, including economic and other considerations.</p><p>The consultation included draft regulations so it is clear how requirements for standardised packaging would work in practice. Alongside the consultation, we have also published an updated consultation-stage Impact Assessment. The consultation asked respondents for further evidence or information which would improve the assumptions or estimates made in the Impact Assessment.</p><p>The Government does not intend to run any further consultations with regard to standardised packaging.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 206716 206788 question first answered 04/09/2014 14:21:02 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker

79044

registered interest
date	21/07/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Fats: Imports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what system his Department has put in place to carry out sample checks on imported fat; and what assessment he has made of the risks of imported fat being passed off as a meat product.
tabling member constituency	Ogmore
tabling member printed	Huw Irranca-Davies
uin	206747
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2014 answer text <p>We have been advised by the Food Standards Agency that in accordance with European Union legislation, all consignments of meat, imported into the United Kingdom (UK) must be presented for official controls at designated Border Inspection Posts (BIPs) in the UK. All consignments must undergo documentary and identity checks to ensure they are the products attested in the required animal and public health certificate accompanying each consignment. In addition, 20% of all meat, including offal, and products of the bovine, ovine, caprine, porcine and equine species, passing through the BIP, must undergo a physical check, which may include a laboratory test. This rate is increased to 50% for poultry, rabbit and game meat. We have no reports of imported fat being presented as meat products from these controls.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 04/09/2014 13:38:28 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1476 label Biography information for Huw Irranca-Davies

79061

registered interest
date	21/07/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Diabetes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were (a) diagnosed with and (b) living with diabetes in (i) Torbay constituency and (ii) England in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Torbay
tabling member printed	Mr Adrian Sanders
uin	206783
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Public Health England do not routinely present diabetes data by parliamentary constituency. It has produced estimates of the total number of adults with diabetes (diagnosed and undiagnosed). Across England it was estmated that there were 3,141,622 adults with diabetes (diagnosed and undiagnosed) in 2012. The estimates for 2013 and 2014 were 3,211,368 and 3,279,925 respectively. It was estimated that in Torbay Unitary Authority the total number of adults with diabetes (diagnosed and undiagnosed) was 9,589 in 2012, 9,773 in 2013 and 9,947 in 2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Quality and Outcomes Framework provides data on the total number of adults aged 17 years and older who have diagnosed diabetes. This showed that in 2012 there were 2,566,436 adults with diagnosed diabetes in England. By 2013 this had increased to 2,703,044. It is not possible to provide local data for consistent areas for recent years. In 2013 there were 14,485 adults with diagnosed diabetes in South Devon and Torbay Clinical Commissioning Group. However, this covers a larger area than Torbay Unitary Authority.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The National Cardiovascular Intelligence Network will be publishing cardiovascular disease profiles by clinical commissioning group in August 2014 which will include a chapter about diabetes. These will bring together a number of key indicators about diabetes.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 04/09/2014 13:44:27 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	237 label Biography information for Mr Adrian Sanders

79062

registered interest
date	21/07/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Services: Private Sector
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to Answer of 14 July 2014, Official Report, column 440W, on health services: private sector, whether there are requirements regarding what proportion of the surplus made by private companies by providing NHS services must be reinvested in those services.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	206814
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/09/2014 answer text <p>Decisions on reinvestment are taken by providers individually and are not set centrally.</p><p> </p><p>It is this Government’s policy that National Health Service patients should receive services from the best providers available. All providers need to reinvest in their services to ensure that they will continue to be chosen by commissioners or, where patients have a choice of provider, by patients themselves.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is clear that where NHS commissioners decide to use competition this must always be as a means to improve the quality of NHS services and achieve best value, as opposed to being driven by price alone.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 01/09/2014 11:55:26 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

79065

registered interest
date	21/07/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
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, how much funding his Department provided to (a) Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and (b) Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust in each of the last six years.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Mark Hendrick
uin	206732
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>National Health Service trusts and foundation trusts do not receive the majority of their funding directly from the Department. They are semi-autonomous organisations whose income derives from the provision of services to NHS England and clinical commissioning groups.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department did however provide public dividend capital to both organisations in 2013-14 to support a number of centrally-led initiatives, shown in the following table:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Lancashire Teaching Hospitals<br> NHS Foundation Trust <br> £000s</p></td><td><p>Lancashire Care NHS<br> Foundation Trust<br> £000s</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dementia care</p></td><td><p>1,014</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Improving birth environments</p></td><td><p>754</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nursing and technology fund</p></td><td><p>162</p></td><td><p>358</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Improving maternity care settings</p></td><td><p>52</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Integrated digital care fund</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>403</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>1,982</p></td><td><p>761</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department additionally provided public dividend capital in previous years as set out in the following table. The purpose of these allocations was not collected centrally prior to 2013-14.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Lancashire Teaching Hospitals<br> NHS Foundation Trust<br> £000s</p></td><td><p>Lancashire Care NHS<br> Foundation Trust<br> £000s</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>624</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>3,888</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>3,888</p></td><td><p>1,524</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 04/09/2014 13:42:20 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

79071

registered interest
date	21/07/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Prescription Drugs: Misuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department has taken since 2009 to review policy on addiction to prescription medication; and what the total identifiable costs have been of this review process.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Eric Ollerenshaw
uin	206669
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Department has been reviewing policy on addiction to prescription medicine over this period, and the Government’s Drug Strategy, published in December 2010, highlights our commitment to reduce dependence on prescription and over the counter medicines.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In 2009, the Department identified a lack of information on this important subject. The Department commissioned a literature review from the National Addiction Centre and a report from the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse (NTA) which interrogated data on specialist treatment and surveyed local commissioners and specialist treatment providers. These reports were peer reviewed and published in May 2011. The cost to the Department for the National Addiction Centre literature review was £9,750 and the cost for the NTA review was £80,000.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The reports informed the discussions of roundtable meetings of expert stakeholders which were convened by the Minister for Public Health to agree action to tackle addiction to medicines. The roundtable produced a consensus statement, endorsed by the Royal College of General Practitioners, the Royal College of Psychiatrists and other organisations which was published in January 2013. The only direct cost to the Department concerning the roundtables, and other meetings, was £1,928.09 in travel expenses for non-Departmental staff.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Other Departmental costs associated with reviewing policy on addiction to prescription medicine are not separately identifiable.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Public Health England (PHE) organised a seminar in February 2013 to improve the commissioning of services to treat addiction to medicine, and following the seminar, in June 2013 published a guide for the National Health Service and local authorities on commissioning treatment for dependence on prescription and over-the-counter medicines.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency published in March 2013 a learning module on benzodiazepines which includes advice for prescribers on preventing and treating dependence on these medicines.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In July 2014, with the approval of the Department and the devolved administrations, PHE launched a public consultation on whether there should be an update to the 2007 United Kingdom clinical guidelines on drug misuse and dependence. The guidelines include advice on treating dependence on benzodiazepines.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 04/09/2014 13:40:04 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4141 label Biography information for Eric Ollerenshaw

79076

registered interest
date	21/07/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Homeopathy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the availability of homeopathy on the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	206797
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2014 answer text <p>No assessment has been made of the availability of homeopathy on the National Health Service.</p><p>It is the responsibility of local NHS organisations to make decisions on the commissioning and funding of any healthcare treatments for NHS patients, such as homeopathy, taking account of issues to do with safety, clinical and cost-effectiveness and the availability of suitably qualified/regulated practitioners.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 04/09/2014 13:05:54 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon