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869401

registered interest
date	22/03/2018
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	Obesity: West Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to evaluate the provision of weight management services for (a) children and young people and (b) adults in the West Midlands.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	133915
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2018 answer text <p>Public Health England (PHE) is aware, through its Mapping of Weight Management Services in 2015, that the majority of local councils in the West Midlands provided weight management services for children, young people and adults. PHE has developed tools to support data collection for the purpose of locally evaluating services, though there are no current plans to evaluate the provision of weight management services in specific regions.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 27/03/2018 11:53:49 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

868348

registered interest
date	21/03/2018
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	Diseases
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 recent WHO reports on Disease X.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	133568
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2018 answer text <p>Disease X is a hypothetical infection used to represent the knowledge that a serious international epidemic could be caused by a pathogen currently unknown to cause human disease.</p><p> </p><p>Public Health England (PHE) has comprehensive systems in place to identify and monitor global outbreaks of infectious disease, including incidents where the cause is not identified or the outbreak is caused by a pathogen currently unknown to cause human disease such as World Health Organization’s hypothetical “Disease X”.</p><p> </p><p>Robust risk assessment processes exist to review threats to the United Kingdom population. As information emerges appropriate mitigation strategies will be implemented to protect the health of the UK public. The PHE National Emergency Response plans exist to deal with such event and have cross-Government agreement.</p><p> </p><p>The National Health Service-PHE High Consequence Infectious Disease (HCID) programme, initiated after the Ebola outbreak, has developed clinical and public health protocols and plans to provide a resilient HCID service for England. This will enable the NHS to deliver care safely and effectively for a wider range of known and unknown HCIDs.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 26/03/2018 15:28:03 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

868471

registered interest
date	21/03/2018
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	Addictions: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding has been allocated from the public purse to addiction services in each year since 2012.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	133691
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2018 answer text <p>Responsibility for public health services, including for commissioning specialist drug and alcohol treatment services, addiction treatment, was transferred to local government in 2013. The table below shows actual spending on alcohol and drug treatment services for both adults and children since 2013.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial year</p></td><td><p>Alcohol and Drug Treatment Service (£ million)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>£782 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>£819 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>£869 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>£860 million</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>There are no directly comparable figures for previous years, however in 2012/13 the treatment budget that allocated money for adult drug misuse treatment totalled around £570 million.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 26/03/2018 15:14:04 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

868472

registered interest
date	21/03/2018
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: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support his Department provides to GP practices to help with data migration when transitioning to new IT clinical systems.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	133692
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2018 answer text <p>As independent contractors, individual general practitioner (GP) practices can choose any IT clinical system that best suits their needs from a range of four principal system suppliers approved by NHS Digital.</p><p> </p><p>While NHS Digital is responsible for the accreditation of any IT clinical system chosen by the GP practice, NHS England expects the supplier to assist GP practices with the migration of data from one system to another.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 26/03/2018 15:30:47 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

868572

registered interest
date	21/03/2018
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	Lumacaftor/ivacaftor
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 discussions his Department has had with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence on access to Orkambi for people with cystic fibrosis.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	133791
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2018 answer text <p>Departmental officials regularly discuss a range of matters with colleagues in the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, including the availability of Orkambi for the treatment of people with cystic fibrosis.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 26/03/2018 15:26:42 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

868574

registered interest
date	21/03/2018
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	Cystic Fibrosis
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 suffer from cystic fibrosis in (a) Newcastle, (b) the north east of England and (c) England.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	133793
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2018 answer text <p>This data is not available. However, cystic fibrosis is estimated to affect about 7,700 people in England (1 in 2,500 live births).</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 26/03/2018 15:25:35 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

867296

registered interest
date	20/03/2018
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	Bowel Cancer: Screening
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What the timetable is for the implementation of the faecal immunochemical test for bowel cancer screening.
tabling member constituency	Eastbourne
tabling member printed	Stephen Lloyd
uin	904478
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>The UK National Screening Committee has recommended that the faecal immunochemical test (FIT) be the primary screening test for bowel cancer and NHS England remains absolutely committed to implementing FIT in 2018/19.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is working with Public Health England to finalise a number of practical arrangements around sensitivity, production and distribution of FIT kits, and diagnostic and pathology workforce capacity to ensure that when FIT is implemented, it is sustainable.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 20/03/2018 17:31:43 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	3968 label Biography information for Stephen Lloyd

867383

registered interest
date	20/03/2018
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	Heart Diseases: 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 assessment he has made of the evidential basis for the decision of the UK National Screening Committee in 2015 not to recommend screening to prevent sudden cardiac death in 12 to 39-year-olds.
tabling member constituency	Witham
tabling member printed	Priti Patel
uin	133358
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2018 answer text <p>The United Kingdom National Screening Committee (UK NSC) makes recommendations to introduce a new screening programme based on robust peer reviewed evidence. This process was recognised by the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee Inquiry into Health Screening, which supported the idea that the evidential barrier should remain high because of the potential for screening to do harm. Further information is available here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201415/cmselect/cmsctech/244/24409.htm" target="_blank">https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201415/cmselect/cmsctech/244/24409.htm</a></p><p> </p><p>In 2015, the UK NSC did not recommend screening to prevent Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD) in 12 to 39 year olds. This was due to the epidemiology of the condition not being fully understood a lack of published peer reviewed evidence to correctly identify the number of people affected and issues around the test. Further information on UK NSC’s recommendation can be found here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://legacyscreening.phe.org.uk/suddencardiacdeath" target="_blank">https://legacyscreening.phe.org.uk/suddencardiacdeath</a></p><p> </p><p>The UK NSC will be reviewing SCD in 2018/19.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 26/03/2018 15:06:47 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel

867387

registered interest
date	20/03/2018
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	Lumacaftor/ivacaftor
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential reduction in hospital admissions for people with cystic fibrosis were Orkambi to be made available on the NHS.
tabling member constituency	York Outer
tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
uin	133362
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2018 answer text <p>The Department has made no assessment itself. However, in developing its technology appraisal guidance, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, takes into account all the costs and savings associated with the treatment compared with existing clinical practice.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 27/03/2018 14:32:34 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

867419

registered interest
date	20/03/2018
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	Electronic Cigarettes
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 he has made of the potential savings to the public purse from the health service encouraging the uptake of e-cigarettes among smokers.
tabling member constituency	York Outer
tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
uin	133394
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2018 answer text <p>The potential financial impacts of e-cigarettes on the public purse are not yet fully understood. The evidence base is still evolving on these products, largely because vaping is still relatively new and the health effects may be very long term. Significant savings to the public purse are likely to arise only if smokers switch completely from smoked tobacco. The Government’s Tobacco Control Plan, published in July 2017, estimates that the National Health Service currently spends £2.5 billion on treating smoking-related diseases and Public Health England assess e-cigarettes to be at least 95% less harmful than smoked tobacco. Reduced harm may not translate exactly into proportional costs savings, but superficially this implies that vaping, as an alternative to smoking, may contribute to significant savings.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 27/03/2018 14:37:44 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy