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724160

registered interest
date	25/04/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Meningitis: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to (a) improve the (i) prevention and (ii) management of meningitis in children and (b) enhance rehabilitation programmes for children who have had that disease.
tabling member constituency	Woking
tabling member printed	Mr Jonathan Lord
uin	71997
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>Prevention of meningococcal disease is primarily achieved by vaccination. Two vaccines have been added to the national programme recently to help protect against meningitis and septicaemia; the meningitis B vaccine for babies and the meningitis ACWY vaccine for school leavers and university students. Where there is a case, local Public Health England Centres advise on the use of antibiotics and vaccination for appropriate close contacts.</p><p> </p><p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has produced both a quality standard (QS) and a clinical guideline (CG) relevant to bacterial meningitis and meningococcal septicaemia in children:</p><p> </p><p>- QS19 - ‘Meningitis (bacterial) and meningococcal septicaemia in children and young people’ available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/qs19" target="_blank">https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/qs19</a></p><p> </p><p>- CG102 - ‘Meningitis (bacterial) and meningococcal septicaemia in under 16s: recognition, diagnosis and management’ available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg102" target="_blank">https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg102</a></p><p> </p><p>Basic inpatient care combined with out-patient rehabilitation is delivered by Specialty Multidisciplinary Teams who will engage with other specialties as required to address any additional identified needs following recovery from infection.</p><p> </p><p>Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are responsible for commissioning rehabilitation services, in line with their assessment of the specific rehabilitation needs of different groups within their localities. In 2016, NHS England published “Commissioning Guidance for Rehabilitation”, which is intended to support local CCGs in the commissioning of local rehabilitation services across a range of settings.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood question first answered 27/04/2017 09:09:59 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord

724161

registered interest
date	25/04/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health: Children and Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Government's aspiration number 7 and paragraph 407 of his Department's Future in Mind report, published in March 2015, what plans he has to invest in universal services to support children and young people's wellbeing through delivering mental health promotion and prevention activities.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	71984
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>Children and young people’s mental health continues to be a priority area for this Government. We are committed to delivering the vision set out in Future in Mind through a major system-wide transformation programme working alongside our partners in the Government and arms’ length bodies. This will improve access and make services more widely available across the country.</p><p> </p><p>The core delivery mechanism in making this happen is the system-wide publicly available, Local Transformation Plans (LTPs), that should cover the full spectrum of children and young people’s mental health need from prevention, raised awareness and resilience building to support and care for existing or emerging mental health problems and include plans for how clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) will ensure that the needs of all children and young people are met locally. In developing LTPs local areas were asked to work with their key partners across health, education, youth justice and local authorities, and crucially, involving young people and their families, to agree locally how best to meet the mental health needs of children and young people in their local populations, which includes delivery through universal settings and through targeted services for children experiencing mental health problems. LTPs are refreshed annually, and it is for CCGs and their partners to decide which local organisations should be involved in developing and refreshing these plans.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A national programme of work will support local areas, including the extension and expansion of the use of evidence-based interventions, tackling stigma, improving data and information to inform greater transparency and accountability and developing a specialist and stronger workforce. The Department has also invested £3 million into MindEd to improve awareness and knowledge of children and young people’s mental health, which provides a free e-learning platform so that those in contact with children can better recognise when a child needs help and ensures they get it. MindEd is extending the skills and knowledge of National Health Service clinicians, staff working in universal settings, such as teachers, social workers, and counsellors and supervisors working in a range of educational and youth settings.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood question first answered 27/04/2017 09:05:33 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

724162

registered interest
date	25/04/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Cancer: Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much funding has been invested by (a) his Department, (b) the National Institute for Health Research and (c) the Medical Research Council in research on (i) bowel, (ii) prostate, (iii) breast, (iv) lung, (v) testicular and (vi) throat cancer in each of the last seven years.
tabling member constituency	Woking
tabling member printed	Mr Jonathan Lord
uin	71996
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>During the last seven years, the Department has funded research through its Policy Research Programme (PRP) and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). The PRP commissions research to inform the development and implementation of policy, and the Department’s investment in cancer research is mainly through the NIHR.</p><p> </p><p>Spend on research funded directly by NIHR is categorised by Health Research Classification System (HRCS) health categories including ‘cancer’. There are no HRCS health sub-categories such as for bowel cancer and other specific cancer sites and information on total annual NIHR spend on research on specific cancer sites is not held. A figure for total NIHR cancer research spend in 2016/17 is not yet available. Figures for the previous six years are as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>£ million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>100.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>104.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>133.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>129.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>134.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>142.4</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The Medical Research Council (MRC) is an independent research funding body which receives its grant in aid from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. MRC expenditure on cancer research includes research into the biology, causes, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer as well as research on outcomes. Figures for MRC cancer research spend are provided below (source: National Cancer Research Institute). Data on spend from 2015 is not currently available.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>£ million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>107.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>112.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>95.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>79.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>76.2</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Information on MRC spend on research on specific cancer sites covering the seven year period requested is not held and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood question first answered 27/04/2017 09:16:33 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord

723843

registered interest
date	24/04/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Gluten-free Foods: Prescriptions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) coeliacs, (b) people working in the manufacturing industry and (c) other people who will be affected by the proposal to remove gluten-free provisions from prescription.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	71681
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>It is estimated that 1% of the population is affected by coeliac disease. No estimate has been made of effects on people in the manufacturing industry if supply on prescription changes. The impact assessment measures health impacts of all three options that are contained in the published Gluten Free consultation. The impact assessment will be developed further once the consultation responses have been analysed. More information can be found by following this link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/availability-of-gluten-free-foods-on-nhs-prescription" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/availability-of-gluten-free-foods-on-nhs-prescription</a></p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood question first answered 27/04/2017 08:45:17 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

723870

registered interest
date	24/04/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	British Pregnancy Advisory Service
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 from the public purse on the provision of abortions by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	71670
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>This information is not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood question first answered 27/04/2017 09:01:44 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

723871

registered interest
date	24/04/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Surrogacy: Lone Parents
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 8 March 2017 to Question 66737, on Surrogate mothers: lone parents, when he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to give single parents with children born through surrogacy the same rights as couples.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
uin	71671
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2017 answer text <p>Decisions on the timing of introducing a remedial order to Parliament to address the incompatibility in the Human Fertility and Embryology Act 2008 will be a matter for the incoming administration.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood question first answered 26/04/2017 12:40:24 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald

723872

registered interest
date	24/04/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Marie Stopes International
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 from the public purse on the provision of abortions by Marie Stopes UK (a) within and (b) outside the UK in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	71688
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>Information on National Health Service expenditure on the provision of abortions by Marie Stopes UK is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p><p>Over the past five years, United Kingdom Government funding has provided central support to Marie Stopes International’s (MSI) developing country portfolio of 29 countries, and Department for International Development (DFID) specific programmes in Bangladesh, Kenya, Malawi, Pakistan and Sierra Leone. Over this period, DFID direct funding to MSI was £163.01 million.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood question first answered 27/04/2017 09:00:48 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

723873

registered interest
date	24/04/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Abortion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was spent from the public purse on the provision of abortions by independent abortion providers in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	71689
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>The Department has not allocated any funding directly to the British Pregnancy Advisory Service. Information on contracts held by clinical commissioning groups with independent abortion providers is not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood grouped question UIN 71645 question first answered 27/04/2017 07:31:12 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

723874

registered interest
date	24/04/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Organs: Donors
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will consider moving to a system of presumed consent for organ donation.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	71709
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>On 1 December 2015, Wales introduced deemed consent (opt-out) for organ and tissue donation. The Department will monitor closely how these changes in legislation in Wales affect donation rates.</p><p> </p><p>Since the launch of the United Kingdom-wide Taking Organ Transplantation to 2020 Strategy in 2013, organ donation rates have increased by 7% and transplant rates by 6% mainly through a strengthening of the donation infrastructure (e.g. increased specialist nurses, improved retrieval arrangements). In 2016/17, there were 1,413 deceased donors resulting in 3,712 transplants.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood question first answered 27/04/2017 08:43:21 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

723877

registered interest
date	24/04/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Action On Smoking and Health
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 28 March 2017 to Question 68965, on Action on Smoking and Health, what controls and checks are in place to ensure that none of the grant funds provided are used to fund lobbying activities.
tabling member constituency	Kettering
tabling member printed	Mr Philip Hollobone
uin	71726
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave him on 28 March to Question <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;uin=69025" target="_blank">69025</a>.</p><p> </p><p>In financial year 2012/13, the Department grant awarded to Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) (under Section 64 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968) was included in a sample of grants that was reviewed in an internal audit of the grant management arrangements of the Department. The audit included visits to the charities that formed part of the sample to test the information they provided to the Department and to garner their views on how the Department engaged with them. ASH was included in the work because its grant fulfilled the sample criteria.</p><p> </p><p>The internal audit was not a review of the organisation and the way that it operated, its focus was on the Department’s grant management. It found that, at the time, there were satisfactory arrangements in place in the Department. The audit report did not raise any adverse comments about ASH or include any recommendations in relation to them. It is not normal practice to place copies of Internal Audit reports in the Library.</p><p> </p><p>Minutes of annual review meetings with ASH are available on request from the Department. These documents are held for six years in line with Cabinet Office guidance.</p><p> </p><p>There is no requirement in the grant award for funding to be held in a separate account; however, the grant must be identified in annual accounts.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood grouped question UIN 71727 71728 question first answered 27/04/2017 08:49:15 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	1537 label Biography information for Mr Philip Hollobone