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908944

registered interest
date	21/05/2018
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	5-aminolevulinic Acid
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 his Department's press release of 14 May 2018 entitled Government announces £40 million for brain cancer research in honour of Tessa Jowell, what the planned timetable is for the roll-out of 5-AminoLevulinic Acid to all brain cancer centres in England.
tabling member constituency	Wigan
tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
uin	146227
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2018 answer text <p>The fluorescent dye 5-AminoLevulinic Acid (5-ALA) is already in use in some brain cancer centres. NHS England has communicated its commitment to implementation in all relevant National Health Service trusts and is currently working with neurosurgical centres to ensure that 5-ALA is available for use in accordance with National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines from July 2018.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 23/05/2018 15:24:50 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

909026

registered interest
date	21/05/2018
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	General Practitioners: Fees and Charges
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 take steps to prevent GPs from charging for signing a patient’s letter.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	David Simpson
uin	146186
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2018 answer text <p>Under the terms of their contract with NHS England, general practitioners (GPs) are required to provide certain medical reports or complete certain forms for which a medical report is required by other legislation, for example, the Social Security Administration Act, free of charge to their registered patients.</p><p> </p><p>There are no plans currently to prevent GPs from charging for signing a patient’s letter, other than those which they are required to provide free of charge.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 23/05/2018 15:29:24 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

909027

registered interest
date	21/05/2018
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	Psoriasis: Children
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 children were being treated for psoriasis as of 1 May 2018.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	David Simpson
uin	146187
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2018 answer text <p>This information is not available.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 23/05/2018 15:23:27 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

909110

registered interest
date	21/05/2018
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	Muscular Dystrophy
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 last met charities representing the interests of people living with duchenne muscular dystrophy.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	146248
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2018 answer text <p>The last meeting between a Minister of the Department and a charity representing the interests of people living with Duchenne muscular dystrophy took place in October 2017, when the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health (Lord O’Shaughnessy), met a number of charities representing people with neurological disorders, including the Neurological Alliance. The Alliance provides a collective voice for over 80 neurological condition charities, including Action Duchenne.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 23/05/2018 15:22:37 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

909143

registered interest
date	21/05/2018
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	Nutrition: Health Education
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 on dietary advice on the recommended level of fat in diet.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	146303
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2018 answer text <p>The Government’s advice on saturated fats consumption remains unchanged for now. Following receipt of the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition’s final advice on saturated fat, Public Health England and other Government bodies will consider whether Government advice on saturated fats requires updating.</p><p> </p><p>A search of the Department’s Ministerial correspondence database has identified no items of correspondence received since December 2017 about dietary advice on the recommended level of fat in diet. This figure represents correspondence received by the Department’s Ministerial correspondence unit only.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 23/05/2018 15:17:55 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

909182

registered interest
date	21/05/2018
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	Endoscopic Thoracic Sympathectomy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which clinical commissioning groups fund endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy operations.
tabling member constituency	North Herefordshire
tabling member printed	Bill Wiggin
uin	146132
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2018 answer text <p>Information on which clinical commissioning groups fund endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy operations is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>It is the responsibility of each clinical commissioning group to decide which treatments they fund. Each decision must be based on clinical evidence, and clinical commissioning groups must ensure they meet their statutory duties when taking this decision.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 23/05/2018 15:18:59 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1428 label Biography information for Sir Bill Wiggin

909226

registered interest
date	21/05/2018
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	Sugar: Consumption
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the average amount of sugar consumed by a person in the UK (a) in one week, (b) in one year and (c) over the course of their life.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	146154
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2018 answer text <p>The latest data from the National Diet and Nutrition Survey shows that the average daily intake of free sugars for men and women aged 19-64 years in the United Kingdom was 64.3g and 50.0g per day respectively in 2014/15-2015/16.</p><p> </p><p>Data on how much sugar is consumed by a person in the UK per week and per year are not available in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p>Further information is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/699241/NDNS_results_years_7_and_8.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/699241/NDNS_results_years_7_and_8.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 23/05/2018 15:20:43 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

907099

registered interest
date	18/05/2018
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	Human Papillomavirus: Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether there are plans to allow males to be offered the Human Papilloma Virus vaccine.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
uin	145546
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2018 answer text <p>The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) is currently considering whether the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programme for girls should be extended to include adolescent boys.</p><p> </p><p>The Department will consider its final advice once it has been received. This advice is expected in 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The JCVI have also considered HPV vaccination for men who have sex with men (MSM), and advised that a targeted HPV vaccination programme should be introduced for MSM aged up to 45 years who attend Genitourinary Medicine and HIV clinics.</p><p> </p><p>Following a successful Public Health England led pilot in 42 of such clinics, the Department announced in February 2018 that this programme would roll out across the country from April 2018.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 23/05/2018 15:30:26 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

907123

registered interest
date	18/05/2018
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
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 potential implications for the effectiveness of the National Cancer Patient Experience Survey of moving data from NHS trusts to (a) a central point of collection within the NHS and (b) an external survey provider.
tabling member constituency	Lincoln
tabling member printed	Karen Lee
uin	145614
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2018 answer text <p>Since its inception, the Cancer Patient Experience Survey has followed the same model – whereby trusts provide contact information for those patients eligible to receive the survey. This information is passed to a centrally procured external survey supplier who then runs the survey, receives survey responses from patients and produces the national set of results (with support from central analytical colleagues, particularly in terms of quality assurance of the output). There are no current plans to change the model.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 23/05/2018 15:31:46 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4664 label Biography information for Karen Lee

907133

registered interest
date	18/05/2018
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	Breast Cancer: 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 changes his Department and Public Health England have made to the system by which women are invited to breast screening; and whether his Department is planning further changes to that system.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	145567
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2018 answer text <p>Public Health England has put in place remedial measures including information technology changes and manual safety checks to ensure that the error is not affecting any further women going forward. Any additional changes will be considered in light of the findings of the independent review that the Secretary of State commissioned.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 23/05/2018 15:10:20 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves