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173275

registered interest
date	07/01/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Services: North East
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent representations he has received on hospital services in the North East of England.
tabling member constituency	Hartlepool
tabling member printed	Mr Iain Wright
uin	906977
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2015 answer text <p>A search of the Department’s Ministerial correspondence database has identified 14 items of correspondence received since 1 October 2014 about the reconfiguration of hospital services in the North East. This is a minimum figure which represents correspondence received by the Department’s Ministerial correspondence unit only. There have been six Parliamentary Questions and one Parliamentary Petition. There have been no meetings with Ministers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 13/01/2015 14:32:51 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	1478 label Biography information for Mr Iain Wright

172130

registered interest
date	06/01/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Construction: Industry
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will publish any recent assessment he has made of compliance with the Construction Supply Chain Payment Charter.
tabling member constituency	Hartlepool
tabling member printed	Mr Iain Wright
uin	219831
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2015 answer text <p>The Construction Supply Chain Payment Charter was published in April and publicly supported by members of the Construction Leadership Council.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Signing up to the Payment Charter is a voluntary commitment. We are currently consulting on a set of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) which construction businesses signing the Charter will report on, via the Institute of Credit Management. The KPIs are being developed in order to have a framework in place to monitor the effect of the Charter.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 13/01/2015 11:29:27 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	1478 label Biography information for Mr Iain Wright

172134

registered interest
date	06/01/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Construction: Industry
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department is taking to improve (a) co-ordination, (b) efficiency and (c) improvements to productivity within the construction industry.
tabling member constituency	Hartlepool
tabling member printed	Mr Iain Wright
uin	219845
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2015 answer text <p>The Industrial Strategy for Construction, <em>Construction 2025,</em> was published in July 2013; it sets out a vision of where the industry will be in 2025 and the steps that are needed to get there. This is being taken forward in partnership with the industry through the Construction Leadership Council.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Achieving the four key ambitions of the strategy - reducing initial cost of construction and the whole-life cost of assets; reducing overall time from inception to completion; reducing greenhouse gas emissions; and reducing the trade gap between total exports and total imports - will improve the efficiency and the productivity of the industry.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 13/01/2015 11:37:56 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	1478 label Biography information for Mr Iain Wright

172222

registered interest
date	06/01/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Innovative Medicines and Medical Technology Review
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to his announcement on 20 November 2014 of an Innovative Medicines and MedTech Review, launched on 20 November 2014, what the formal terms of reference are for the review and what the deadline is for the review to report.
tabling member constituency	Hartlepool
tabling member printed	Mr Iain Wright
uin	219836
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2015 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the Written Ministerial Statement that I made on 20 November 2014, Official Report, column 14WS. The review of the pathways for the development, assessment, and adoption of innovative medicines and medical technology will consider how to speed up access for National Health Service patients to cost-effective new diagnostics, medicines and devices.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government is working to establish the formal terms of reference for the review. These will be published in due course. The exact structure of the review is currently being considered and, as appropriate, procurements will be through standard departmental procurement processes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The review will set out both short and long-term options for action by Government and relevant bodies — including the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and NHS England. Officials are already working with these bodies and will continue to do so as the review progresses.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The review will take into account a wide range of evidence to draw up its recommendations. We anticipate an initial report before the autumn.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman grouped question UIN 219834 219835 219837 question first answered 13/01/2015 11:15:26 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	1478 label Biography information for Mr Iain Wright

172223

registered interest
date	06/01/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Innovative Medicines and Medical Technology Review
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to his announcement on 20 November 2014 of an Innovative Medicines and MedTech Review, if he will ensure that the review will take into consideration the conclusions of NICE following its consideration of responses to the Value-Based Assessment consultation.
tabling member constituency	Hartlepool
tabling member printed	Mr Iain Wright
uin	219837
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2015 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the Written Ministerial Statement that I made on 20 November 2014, Official Report, column 14WS. The review of the pathways for the development, assessment, and adoption of innovative medicines and medical technology will consider how to speed up access for National Health Service patients to cost-effective new diagnostics, medicines and devices.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government is working to establish the formal terms of reference for the review. These will be published in due course. The exact structure of the review is currently being considered and, as appropriate, procurements will be through standard departmental procurement processes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The review will set out both short and long-term options for action by Government and relevant bodies — including the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and NHS England. Officials are already working with these bodies and will continue to do so as the review progresses.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The review will take into account a wide range of evidence to draw up its recommendations. We anticipate an initial report before the autumn.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman grouped question UIN 219834 219835 219836 question first answered 13/01/2015 11:15:26 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	1478 label Biography information for Mr Iain Wright

172233

registered interest
date	06/01/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Innovative Medicines and Medical Technology Review
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to his announcement on 20 November 2014 of an Innovative Medicines and MedTech Review, whether the review will take into account the ongoing Innovation, Health and Wealth refresh.
tabling member constituency	Hartlepool
tabling member printed	Mr Iain Wright
uin	219835
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2015 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the Written Ministerial Statement that I made on 20 November 2014, Official Report, column 14WS. The review of the pathways for the development, assessment, and adoption of innovative medicines and medical technology will consider how to speed up access for National Health Service patients to cost-effective new diagnostics, medicines and devices.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government is working to establish the formal terms of reference for the review. These will be published in due course. The exact structure of the review is currently being considered and, as appropriate, procurements will be through standard departmental procurement processes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The review will set out both short and long-term options for action by Government and relevant bodies — including the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and NHS England. Officials are already working with these bodies and will continue to do so as the review progresses.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The review will take into account a wide range of evidence to draw up its recommendations. We anticipate an initial report before the autumn.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman grouped question UIN 219834 219836 219837 question first answered 13/01/2015 11:15:26 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	1478 label Biography information for Mr Iain Wright

172234

registered interest
date	06/01/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Innovative Medicines and Medical Technology Review
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to his announcement on 20 November 2014 of an Innovative Medicines and MedTech Review, how the independent organisation that will run the review will be selected; and what the criteria for the selection will be.
tabling member constituency	Hartlepool
tabling member printed	Mr Iain Wright
uin	219834
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2015 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the Written Ministerial Statement that I made on 20 November 2014, Official Report, column 14WS. The review of the pathways for the development, assessment, and adoption of innovative medicines and medical technology will consider how to speed up access for National Health Service patients to cost-effective new diagnostics, medicines and devices.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government is working to establish the formal terms of reference for the review. These will be published in due course. The exact structure of the review is currently being considered and, as appropriate, procurements will be through standard departmental procurement processes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The review will set out both short and long-term options for action by Government and relevant bodies — including the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and NHS England. Officials are already working with these bodies and will continue to do so as the review progresses.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The review will take into account a wide range of evidence to draw up its recommendations. We anticipate an initial report before the autumn.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman grouped question UIN 219835 219836 219837 question first answered 13/01/2015 11:15:25 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	1478 label Biography information for Mr Iain Wright

172235

registered interest
date	06/01/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Innovation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to publish the results of the Innovation Health and Wealth refresh.
tabling member constituency	Hartlepool
tabling member printed	Mr Iain Wright
uin	219842
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2015 answer text <p>NHS England has advised that the publication of this review has been superseded by the <em>Five Year Forward View</em> which was published on 23 October 2014 and is available at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/futurenhs/" target="_blank">www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/futurenhs/</a></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>The <em>Five Year Forward View </em>builds on the progress made through the Innovation Health and Wealth work programme, and signals new initiatives to support innovation, such as ‘test bed’ sites to deploy and test new technologies in a real-world setting. <em> </em></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>More broadly, both the Department and NHS England have made good progress in delivering the aims of Innovation Health and Wealth, and remain committed to driving improvements in health through developing, testing and spreading innovation across the health system. For example, ongoing improvements are being made to the Innovation Scorecard, to enhance its effectiveness as a tool to support the identification of unjustified variation in the uptake of new technologies in the NHS.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 13/01/2015 17:06:06 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	1478 label Biography information for Mr Iain Wright