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1110022

registered interest
date	05/04/2019
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	MMR Vaccine
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 estimate his Department has made of the child MMR vaccination rates.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	241384
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2019 answer text <p>Public Health England routinely monitors coverage for the national immunisation programme, including the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine on a quarterly and annual basis.</p><p> </p><p>National coverage figures reported for the MMR first dose as measured at five years show coverage, which reached the World Health Organization recommended target level of 95% for the first-time last year, was 94.9% in England in 2017-18. Uptake of the second MMR dose by age five years in England was 87.2%. The 2017/18 data can be viewed at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://files.digital.nhs.uk/55/D9C4C2/child-vacc-stat-eng-2017-18-report.pdf" target="_blank">https://files.digital.nhs.uk/55/D9C4C2/child-vacc-stat-eng-2017-18-report.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 10/04/2019 13:26:53 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1109775

registered interest
date	04/04/2019
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	Cannabis: Medical Treatments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will issue a response to Early Day Motion 1832, on legalisation of medical cannabis.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	241057
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2019 answer text <p>The Government is clear that the decision to prescribe a cannabis-based product for medicinal use should only be made where it is clinically appropriate and in the best interest of the patient. This will be subject to local National Health Service governance and funding arrangements for prescribing unlicensed medicines, and patients will not be able to be prescribed such products by their general practitioner – and would require referral to a specialist clinician on the basis of clinical need.</p><p>The evidence base for cannabis-based products for medicinal use is still developing. However, the changes to the law are designed to encourage further research and the National Institute for Health Research has issued two calls for research proposals to rapidly advance knowledge in this area and remains open to research proposals outside of these calls in this priority area.</p><p>Interim clinical guidance, issued by the Royal College of Physicians, British Paediatric Neurology Association and Association of British Neurologists is based on the best available international evidence and reflects clinical guidance that has been published in other jurisdictions. This guidance will be updated and replaced in October 2019 by that commissioned from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 09/04/2019 14:40:03 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1109797

registered interest
date	04/04/2019
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	Haemophilia
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 13 March 2019 to Question 230073 on Haemophilia, if he will place copies in the library of National Haemophilia Database data on the average number of bleeds people with (a) mild, (b) moderate and (c) severe (i) Haemophilia A and (ii) Haemophilia B had in the latest year for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	240995
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2019 answer text <p>Data on the average number of bleeds for people with severe haemophilia A and haemophilia B is shown in the following table.</p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>Diagnosis</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>Patients treated 2018<br> (number)</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>Bleed count 2018</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mean</p></td><td><p>Standard deviation</p></td><td><p>Median (interquartile range)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Severe Haemophilia A</p></td><td><p>1,553</p></td><td><p>4.1</p></td><td><p>8.2</p></td><td><p>1 (0 - 5)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Severe Haemophilia B</p></td><td><p>263</p></td><td><p>3.7</p></td><td><p>7.6</p></td><td><p>1 (0 - 4)</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The National Haemophilia Database have very limited bleed-level data for patients with mild or moderate haemophilia, as these patients do not bleed frequently and therefore do not generally require home therapy. The non-severe patients using Haemtrack are skewed towards the severe end of moderate and anyone with zero bleeds is very unlikely to be reporting. For this reason, they have excluded non-severe patients from these results, as they would make the data unlikely to be robust.</p><p> </p><p>It should be noted that the following limitations apply to this data:</p><p> </p><p>1. The data is derived from patient-reported Haemtrack home therapy diary data.</p><p>2. The data is limited to patients who require home-therapy.</p><p>3. These results are prone to reporting bias since uncompliant patients and patients treated on-demand, treated only when they bleed, are under-represented in this sample. The data may therefore paint a slightly optimistic picture.</p><p>4. About 85-90% of clinically severely affected (less than 2% VIII/IX) patients are managed with regular prophylaxis to prevent bleeding. Prior to prophylaxis, patients treated on-demand bled between twice a week and once a fortnight and, as the figures show, the mean annualised bleed rate has been dramatically reduced to about four per year. However, our aim is for the patients to be bleed free, without which the joints will not be fully protected from bleeding.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 09/04/2019 14:43:25 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1109799

registered interest
date	04/04/2019
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	Haemophilia
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 13 March 2019 to Question 230073 on Haemophilia, if he will place copies in the library of National Haemophilia Database data on the number and patients with (a) mild, (b) moderate and (c) severe (i) haemophilia A and (ii) haemophilia B by the number of bleeds they had in the most recent year for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	240996
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2019 answer text <p>The data on the number of patients with severe haemophilia A and haemophilia B by the number of bleeds is attached.</p><p> </p><p>The National Haemophilia Database (NHD) have very limited bleed-level data for patients with mild or moderate haemophilia since these patients do not bleed frequently and do not generally require home therapy. The non-severe patients using Haemtrack are skewed towards the severe end of moderate and anyone with zero bleeds is very unlikely to be reporting. For this reason, the NHD have excluded non-severe patients from this data, as it makes the data unlikely to be robust.</p><p> </p><p>It should be noted that the following limitations apply to this data:</p><ol><li>The data are derived from patient-reported Haemtrack home therapy diary data.</li><li>The data is limited to patients who require home-therapy.</li><li>These results are prone to reporting bias since uncompliant patients and patients treated on-demand, treated only when they bleed, are under-represented in this sample. The data may therefore paint a slightly optimistic picture.</li><li>About 85-90% of clinically severely affected (less than 2% VIII/IX) patients are managed with regular prophylaxis to prevent bleeding. Prior to prophylaxis, patients treated on-demand bled between twice a week and once a fortnight and, as the figures show, the mean annualised bleed rate has been dramatically reduced to about four per year. However, our aim is for the patients to be bleed free, without which the joints will not be fully protected from bleeding.</li></ol> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 09/04/2019 14:50:49 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy attachment 1 file name Pq240996 - bleeds for severe haemophilia.xlsx title PQ240996 attached information
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1109800

registered interest
date	04/04/2019
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	Haemophilia
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 13 March 2019 to Question 230073 on Haemophilia, if he will publish the number of patients with (a) mild, (b) moderate and (c) severe (i) haemophilia A and (ii) haemophilia B by (A) the number of bleeds they had in the most recent year for which data is available and (B) age groups (1) 0 to 18 and (2) over 18.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	240997
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2019 answer text <p>The number of patients with severe haemophilia A and haemophilia B for 2018 by the number of bleeds they had and age groups 0 to 18 and over 18, is attached.</p><p> </p><p>The National Haemophilia Database (NHD) have very limited bleed-level data for patients with mild or moderate haemophilia who do not bleed frequently and do not generally require home therapy. The non-severe patients using Haemtrack are skewed towards the severe end of moderate and anyone with zero bleeds is very unlikely to be reporting. For this reason, the NHD have excluded non-severe patients from these results, as it makes the data unlikely to be robust.</p><p> </p><p>It should be noted that the following limitations apply to this data:</p><p>1. The data is derived from patient-reported Haemtrack home therapy diary data.</p><p>2. The data is limited to patients who require home-therapy.</p><p>3. These results are prone to reporting bias since uncompliant patients and patients treated on-demand, treated only when they bleed, are under-represented in this sample. The data may therefore paint a slightly optimistic picture.</p><p>4. About 85-90% of clinically severely affected (less than 2% VIII/IX) patients are managed with regular prophylaxis to prevent bleeding. Prior to prophylaxis, patients treated on-demand bled between twice a week and once a fortnight and, as the figures show, the mean annualised bleed rate has been dramatically reduced to about four per year. However, our aim is for the patients to be bleed free, without which the joints will not be fully protected from bleeding.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 09/04/2019 14:59:08 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy attachment 1 file name PQ240997 - data by age.xlsx title PQ240997 attached data
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1109487

registered interest
date	03/04/2019
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	Teenage Pregnancy
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 to the public purse has been of the teenage pregnancy unit in each year since its creation; and how many civil servants were employed within it in each of those years.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	240592
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2019 answer text <p>The Teenage Pregnancy Unit was established to drive delivery of national work to reduce under 18 conceptions by 2010. Details of staff numbers and the costs involved are no longer held. Since 2010 this work has been devolved to local authorities. Between 2010 and 2016, the latest year for which data is available, under 18 conceptions fell by 45%.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 10/04/2019 10:37:34 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy previous answer version 112580 answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1108996

registered interest
date	02/04/2019
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 Services: Travellers and Homelessness
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 (a) his Department plans to take with the NHS to respond to the findings of the Friends Families and Travellers’ report entitled No room at the inn: How easy is it for nomadic Gypsies and Travellers to access primary care and (b) the NHS plans to take to ensure homeless people can access healthcare at any GP practice they choose.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	240011
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2019 answer text <p>Registering with and access to primary medical care services is the same for all patients, whether they are gypsies, travellers, or homeless people. People do not need to provide proof of address to register with a general practice (GP). NHS England is working with a range of community groups to redesign the patient registration leaflet so that people are aware of this when registering. The free NHS 111 service can assist anyone who has faced difficulty finding a GP or accessing other services in their local area.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is aware of difficulties some individuals have faced when trying to register with a GP and is taking steps to address shortcomings with individual practices, working in partnership with the voluntary sector.</p><p> </p><p>The Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise Health and Wellbeing Alliance is a partnership arrangement with the aim to facilitate integrated working between the voluntary and statutory sectors, to promote equality and reduce health inequalities. It receives £1.2 million for core work from the Department, with each member receiving funding of up to £60,000. Families and Travellers is a member of the Alliance and have supported the Department on a range of work to date including the Inclusion Health Audit Tool, on maternal health, mental health, end of life care and dementia.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 09/04/2019 14:33:43 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

1109016

registered interest
date	02/04/2019
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 he has taken to establish the cost of obesity to the (a) NHS, (b) social services and (c) the wider economy.
tabling member constituency	St Ives
tabling member printed	Derek Thomas
uin	240052
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2019 answer text <p>‘The economic burden of ill health due to diet, physical inactivity, smoking, alcohol and obesity in the UK: an update to 2006-07 NHS costs’ estimated that overweight and obesity cost the National Health Service in the United Kingdom £5.1 billion per year. This figure was uplifted to £6.1 billion in 2014/15 to take account of inflation.</p><p> </p><p>The Foresight team published ‘Tackling Obesities: Future Choices in 2007’. This estimated the annual costs of overweight and obesity to society and the economy as £27 billion in 2015, based on obesity prevalence at the time. In 2014 the McKinsey Global Institute estimated the cost of obesity to the UK economy as £46 billion per year.</p><p> </p><p>No further estimates of the costs of obesity are planned or have been made centrally.</p><p> </p><p>Copies of ‘The economic burden of ill health due to diet, physical inactivity, smoking, alcohol and obesity in the UK: an update to 2006-07 NHS costs’; ‘Tackling Obesities: Future Choices’; and the McKinsey Global Institute’s report ‘Overcoming obesity: An initial economic analysis’ are available at the following links:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/article/33/4/527/1568587" target="_blank">https://academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/article/33/4/527/1568587</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/reducing-obesity-future-choices" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/reducing-obesity-future-choices</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.mckinsey.com/industries/healthcare-systems-and-services/our-insights/how-the-world-could-better-fight-obesity" target="_blank">www.mckinsey.com/industries/healthcare-systems-and-services/our-insights/how-the-world-could-better-fight-obesity</a></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 240053 question first answered 10/04/2019 13:47:01 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4532 label Biography information for Derek Thomas

1109030

registered interest
date	02/04/2019
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	Orthopaedics
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the conclusions of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Vascular and Venous Disease report entitled Saving Limbs, Saving Lives: A Call to Action to Reduce Inequalities in Lower Limb Amputation Rates; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	St Ives
tabling member printed	Derek Thomas
uin	240055
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2019 answer text <p>The specialised commissioning Clinical Reference Group (CRG) for Vascular Disease, together with NHS Improvement’s Getting it Right First Time (GIRFT) team, aims to address many of the issues raised in the report. There is a joint NHS England and GIRFT Board for the ‘Action on Vascular’ work, which is focusing on the early availability of treatments to increase lower limb circulation and reduce amputation rates.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan published on 7 January commits to ensuring that hospitals provide patients with access to multi-disciplinary footcare teams and inpatient specialist nursing teams, in order to improve recovery and reduce lengths of stay and future readmissions. This commitment will support reducing inequalities by giving universal access to multi-disciplinary footcare teams and diabetes inpatient specialist nurses.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 240056 question first answered 10/04/2019 13:38:19 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4532 label Biography information for Derek Thomas

1109031

registered interest
date	02/04/2019
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	Orthopaedics
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 report from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Vascular and Venous Disease entitled Saving Limbs, Saving Lives: A Call to Action to Reduce Inequalities in Lower Limb Amputation Rates, what steps he will take to address disparities in amputation rates throughout the UK.
tabling member constituency	St Ives
tabling member printed	Derek Thomas
uin	240056
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2019 answer text <p>The specialised commissioning Clinical Reference Group (CRG) for Vascular Disease, together with NHS Improvement’s Getting it Right First Time (GIRFT) team, aims to address many of the issues raised in the report. There is a joint NHS England and GIRFT Board for the ‘Action on Vascular’ work, which is focusing on the early availability of treatments to increase lower limb circulation and reduce amputation rates.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan published on 7 January commits to ensuring that hospitals provide patients with access to multi-disciplinary footcare teams and inpatient specialist nursing teams, in order to improve recovery and reduce lengths of stay and future readmissions. This commitment will support reducing inequalities by giving universal access to multi-disciplinary footcare teams and diabetes inpatient specialist nurses.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 240055 question first answered 10/04/2019 13:38:19 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4532 label Biography information for Derek Thomas