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1038941

registered interest
date	10/01/2019
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	Hormone Replacement Therapy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on reducing the cost of hormone replacement therapy for patients who pay multiple prescription charges for medication with more than one ingredient.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	207273
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>Unless a valid exemption has been declared the statutory applicable charge of £8.80 is payable for each prescription item, such as a quantity of a drug, dispensed in the community in England. The Government has no plans to change this position in respect of combination packs of hormone replacement therapy medication comprised of multiple drugs. Accordingly, no recent discussions about this matter have taken place at Cabinet level.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 15/01/2019 16:04:06 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1038946

registered interest
date	10/01/2019
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	Pancreatic Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has a target for increasing the early stage diagnosis rate for pancreatic cancer in the lifetime of this Parliament.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	207163
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Plan sets an ambition for three out of four cancers to be diagnosed at an early stage by 2028, compared to around one in two currently. This ambition applies to all cancers, including pancreatic cancer, not just the 10 currently in the Public Health Outcomes Framework early diagnosis metric. NHS England is keen to work with the charities representing some of the cancers not currently included in this metric on how best to measure progress towards the ambition moving forwards.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 15/01/2019 16:00:59 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1039003

registered interest
date	10/01/2019
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	Epilepsy: Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to exclude epilepsy medications from the Serious Shortage Protocol for medicines; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	207181
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>Any serious shortage protocol would be developed with and signed off by clinicians. Only if clinicians deem it appropriate, an alternative quantity, strength, pharmaceutical form or medicine can be dispensed in line with the protocol. Each protocol would clearly set out what action can be taken by the retail pharmacy, under what circumstances, for which patients and during which period.</p><p> </p><p>Protocols for therapeutic or generic equivalents will not be suitable for all medicines and patients. For example, they would not be suitable for treatments where the medicines that are prescribed need to be prescribed by brand for clinical reasons, for example anti-epilepsy medicines. In these cases, patients would always be referred back to the prescriber for any decision about their treatment before any therapeutic or generic alternative is supplied.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 15/01/2019 16:16:17 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

1039007

registered interest
date	10/01/2019
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	Diabetes
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 people have put their Type 2 diabetes into remission and stopped taking medication for their condition in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	207183
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not centrally held.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 15/01/2019 16:09:07 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

1039009

registered interest
date	10/01/2019
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	Diabetes: Young People
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 people under 21 years old have developed Type 2 diabetes in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	207184
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>The following table details the number of people who were diagnosed with type 2 or other diabetes when aged 20 years or under in England and Wales in each of the five calendar years 2013 to 2017:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Calendar year</p></td><td><p>Number of people</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>605</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>690</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>770</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>905</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>1,030</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: National Diabetes Audit (NDA)</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>- The NDA does not hold comprehensive data on children with diabetes;</p><p>- Disclosure control has been applied to all figures, as per the NDA publication. All numbers are rounded to the nearest five, unless the number is one to seven, in which case it is rounded to five.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 15/01/2019 16:08:17 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

1039011

registered interest
date	10/01/2019
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	Artificial Sweeteners
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 his Department has made of the effect on health of sweeteners used in foods as an alternative to sugar.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	207186
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>Sweeteners are used in a variety of everyday foods in the United Kingdom, including energy reduced and sugar free foods. But before they are permitted for use, all sweeteners must first undergo a thorough safety evaluation conducted by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), which includes assessing the likely impact on health.</p><p> </p><p>EFSA makes its assessment on the basis that all foods permitted to contain sweeteners have them at the maximum permitted level, this enables it to assess the highest possible levels of exposure and set the amount of a substance that can be consumed daily during a lifetime without any appreciable risk to health in the general population.</p><p> </p><p>Evidence considered as part of Public Health England’s report ‘Sugar reduction: The evidence for action’ found that replacing foods and drinks sweetened with sugar with those containing no or low-calorie sweeteners could be useful in helping people to manage weight as they reduce the calorie content of foods and drinks whilst maintaining a sweet taste. A copy of this report can be accessed at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/470179/Sugar_reduction_The_evidence_for_action.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/470179/Sugar_reduction_The_evidence_for_action.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 15/01/2019 16:06:12 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

1039026

registered interest
date	10/01/2019
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	Influenza: Vaccination
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 his Department has made of the current uptake of winter 2018-19's influenza vaccination among those who are eligible for free treatment.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	207188
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>Influenza vaccine coverage is closely monitored, with publication of weekly and monthly reports throughout the flu season. In addition, Public Health England publishes an annual report on gov.uk in the spring with finalised data on vaccine uptake.</p><p> </p><p>The following table shows the latest available data on the uptake of the influenza vaccine amongst eligible groups for 2018/19:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Patient Group</p></td><td><p>2018/19 (%)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Patients aged 65 years or older</p></td><td><p>69.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Patients aged six months to under 65 years in risk groups (excluding pregnant women without other risk factors)</p></td><td><p>45.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Pregnant women (including those in risk groups)</p></td><td><p>43.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Patients aged two years old (including those in risk groups)</p></td><td><p>41.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Patients aged three years old (including those in risk groups)</p></td><td><p>43.5</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>Weekly vaccine uptake data snapshot for week one (week ending 6 January 2019)</li><li>Data is provisional and from a sample of 97.2% of all automated general practitioner (GP) practices participating in the 2018/19 sentinel GP Flu survey. The data for the two and three year olds is from a sample of 97.4% of all automated GP practices participating in the 2018/19 sentinel Childhood flu GP</li><li>Source: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/weekly-national-flu-reports-2018-to-2019-season" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/weekly-national-flu-reports-2018-to-2019-season</a></li><li>Source: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/weekly-national-flu-reports-2017-to-2018-season" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/weekly-national-flu-reports-2017-to-2018-season</a></li></ol> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 15/01/2019 16:07:27 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

1039059

registered interest
date	10/01/2019
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	Infant Foods: Sugar
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 his Department has made of the average level of sugar content in baby food products available in the UK.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	207200
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>Product ranges targeted at babies and young children are now part of the government’s reduction and reformulation programme. This work is being led by Public Health England who will consider the sugar content of baby food products in the United Kingdom as part of its review of the evidence for action. Publication of an approach is expected later in 2019.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 15/01/2019 16:04:57 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

1039074

registered interest
date	10/01/2019
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	Gambling: Rehabilitation
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 clinics for the treatment of problem gambling are planned to open between now and 2023; and where they are planned to be located.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	207201
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>NHS England announced in the NHS Long Term Plan that it will invest in expanding National Health Service specialist clinics to help more people with serious gambling problems. This will build upon the two current clinics offering NHS treatment (a long-established clinic in London and newly launched Leeds clinic).</p><p> </p><p>Further details will be set out as part of a national implementation programme as mentioned in the Long Term Plan.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 15/01/2019 16:15:26 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

1039077

registered interest
date	10/01/2019
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	GP Practice Lists: Closures
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 potential increases in patient numbers at some GP practices as a result of practice closures due to rising rent and charges imposed by NHS Property Services.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	207257
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>We are aware of only one practice where the general practitioner (GP) cited NHS Property Services charges among the reasons for handing back their contract. NHS Property Services worked with and supported the practice in reconciling the charges and these were then agreed and paid in full by the practice.</p><p> </p><p>When a GP practice does close, patients are informed of the closure and advised to register at other local practices of their choice within the catchment area in which they live. In some instances, and in consultation with patients and patient groups, patients are allocated to other neighbouring practices with adequate capacity. Commissioners locally will work with their practices to ensure they are only allocated a volume of patients which they have capacity to manage appropriately and effectively.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 15/01/2019 16:00:04 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger