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752446

registered interest
date	17/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government when NHS England plans to produce a commissioning specification for Specialist Audiology Services used by children and commissioned directly by NHS England.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL892
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>NHS England has produced the following service specifications for audiology services that it commissions, which apply to all ages and sit in the Trauma Programme of Care (Specialised Ear and Ophthalmology Services):</p><p> </p><p>- Specialised Ear Surgery: Cochlear Implants (All Ages); and</p><p>- Implantable Hearing Aids for Microtia, Bone Anchored Hearing Aids and Middle Ear Implants (All Ages).</p><p> </p><p>Copies of these service specifications are attached.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England has no plans to publish further service specifications for specialist audiology services used by children.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England has also published commissioning policies for the following services that are available for children:</p><p> </p><p>- Auditory brainstem implant with congential abnomalities of the auditory nerves of cochleae;</p><p>- Bone Anchored Hearing Aids; and</p><p>- Bone conducting hearing implants for hearing loss (all ages).</p> answering member printed Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen attachment 1 file name d09-ear-surg-coch-0414.pdf title Specialised Ear Surgery service specification 2 file name d09-implan-hear-aids.pdf title Implantable Hearing Aids service specification question first answered 20/07/2017 14:41:47 answering member 4330 label Biography information for Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

752559

registered interest
date	17/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Land
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of homes that will be built as a result of the sale of NHS assets held by (a) Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust and (b) Humber NHS Foundation Trust after the Naylor Review.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	5280
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>‘NHS Property and Estates: why the estate matters for patients’ (the Naylor Review) is an independent report prepared for the Department and published on 31 March 2017. The report is available on the Department’s website at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-property-and-estates-naylor-review." target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-property-and-estates-naylor-review.</a></p><p>The Government is giving careful consideration to the Review’s recommendations and will respond in due course.</p><p> </p><p>The Review did not identify specific surplus National Health Service land and buildings nor recommend the sale of particular sites. It is for local NHS land owners to determine whether land and buildings are no longer needed for patient care and available for disposal, as part of the development of local plans by sustainability and transformation partnerships. We are engaging with the NHS to enable them to identify opportunities to support delivery of the Department’s existing aims to release land no longer required by the NHS sufficient for 26,000 homes and to generate up to £2 billion of proceeds for reinvestment in healthcare facilities and services.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Digital undertakes an annual collection of data from individual NHS organisations on the land and property that they have deemed surplus to the delivery of healthcare. The latest data are available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/nhs-surplus-land-financial-year-2016-to-2017-england" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/nhs-surplus-land-financial-year-2016-to-2017-england</a></p><p> </p><p>The following table shows the land area in hectares (ha) and estimated number of housing units for each plot declared as surplus by Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust and Humber NHS Foundation Trust as part of this data collection:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Trust</p></td><td><p>Surplus Land Plot Area (ha)</p></td><td><p>Estimated Number of Housing Units</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hull and East Yorkshire NHS Trust</p></td><td><p>31.75</p></td><td><p>680</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Humber NHS Foundation Trust</p></td><td><p>1.00</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>No estimate of proceeds from the disposal of these sites has been made. The number of housing units built on each site is subject to local planning permission.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is committed to ensuring that the NHS has the capital resources it needs and capital receipts from the sale of surplus NHS land are a key part of this, supplementing the Department’s capital budget set by HM Treasury in the 2015 Spending Review. We recognised at the time of the Spending Review the potential need to transfer resources from this capital budget in order to help meet overall spending priorities; £1.2 billion was transferred from the Department’s capital budget to revenue in 2016-17. The Department is planning to reduce the level of transfer with the aim of eliminating it entirely by the end of the Spending Review period.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne grouped question UIN 5278 5279 question first answered 20/07/2017 13:56:54 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

752628

registered interest
date	17/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Food: EU Law
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of updating UK law in line with EU food safety regulations in the period after the UK has left the EU.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	5129
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>The European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill 2017 will ensure that the body of existing EU food safety law continues to have effect in United Kingdom law. This will provide businesses and stakeholders with maximum certainty as we leave the EU. We will then have the opportunity, over time, to ensure our legislative framework maintains food safety standards.</p><p> </p><p>The Food Standards Agency’s statutory objective is to protect public health and consumers’ other interests in relation to food while maintaining access to a range of goods that are trusted and safe.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 20/07/2017 14:41:42 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

752652

registered interest
date	17/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Alcoholic Drinks: Misuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have been diagnosed with problems relating to alcohol consumption in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	5498
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>In 2015-16, there were 144,908 adults receiving specialist treatment for alcohol problems. Further data about the numbers of people in treatment for alcohol problems is contained in a series of annual reports from the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System, which is available online:</p><p><a href="http://www.nta.nhs.uk/statistics.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.nta.nhs.uk/statistics.aspx</a></p><p> </p><p>Data is not available on the number of new diagnoses of alcohol-related disease each year. The estimated number of hospital admissions where the main reason for admission was alcohol-related was 339,000 in 2015-16 and 330,000 in the previous two years.</p><p> </p><p>Further data on alcohol-related hospital admissions and incidence of alcohol-related cancer is available from:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-alcohol-profiles-for-england-lape" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-alcohol-profiles-for-england-lape</a></p><p><a href="https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/local-alcohol-profiles" target="_blank">https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/local-alcohol-profiles</a></p><p>There are a number of actions underway to tackle the harm caused by alcohol, including alcohol-related cancers. These actions include NHS England’s national Commissioning for Quality and Innovation programme to incentivise the delivery of alcohol identification and brief advice; Public Health England’s One You campaign to motivate people to take steps to improve their health, with a focus on alcohol use; and the NHS Health Check provides an opportunity for general practitioners to offer advice to reduce alcohol use if appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>The Government believes in informing and empowering citizens, and has a responsibility to provide the most up to date, clear information to enable people to make informed choices about their drinking. The 2016 United Kingdom Chief Medical Officers’ low risk drinking guidelines provide the public with the most up to date scientific information.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 5497 5499 question first answered 20/07/2017 14:39:46 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

752653

registered interest
date	17/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Cancer: Alcoholic Drinks
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to reduce the number of cancer diagnoses related to alcohol consumption.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	5499
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>In 2015-16, there were 144,908 adults receiving specialist treatment for alcohol problems. Further data about the numbers of people in treatment for alcohol problems is contained in a series of annual reports from the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System, which is available online:</p><p><a href="http://www.nta.nhs.uk/statistics.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.nta.nhs.uk/statistics.aspx</a></p><p> </p><p>Data is not available on the number of new diagnoses of alcohol-related disease each year. The estimated number of hospital admissions where the main reason for admission was alcohol-related was 339,000 in 2015-16 and 330,000 in the previous two years.</p><p> </p><p>Further data on alcohol-related hospital admissions and incidence of alcohol-related cancer is available from:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-alcohol-profiles-for-england-lape" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-alcohol-profiles-for-england-lape</a></p><p><a href="https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/local-alcohol-profiles" target="_blank">https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/local-alcohol-profiles</a></p><p>There are a number of actions underway to tackle the harm caused by alcohol, including alcohol-related cancers. These actions include NHS England’s national Commissioning for Quality and Innovation programme to incentivise the delivery of alcohol identification and brief advice; Public Health England’s One You campaign to motivate people to take steps to improve their health, with a focus on alcohol use; and the NHS Health Check provides an opportunity for general practitioners to offer advice to reduce alcohol use if appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>The Government believes in informing and empowering citizens, and has a responsibility to provide the most up to date, clear information to enable people to make informed choices about their drinking. The 2016 United Kingdom Chief Medical Officers’ low risk drinking guidelines provide the public with the most up to date scientific information.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 5497 5498 question first answered 20/07/2017 14:39:46 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

752654

registered interest
date	17/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Alcoholic Drinks: Gambling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on the potential link between alcohol and problem gambling; and what steps he is taking to tackle that link.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	5496
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>Alcohol misuse and problem gambling can be regarded as significant public health problems with adverse consequences for the individuals concerned and to wider society.</p><p> </p><p>A range of Government initiatives have been taken at a national level to tackle alcohol misuse. An essential part of our strategy to tackle alcohol harms is the provision of high quality, evidence based treatment services. Local alcohol and drug treatment services are commissioned by local authorities on the basis of local needs assessment. They should be commissioned to have competent staff who are equipped to identify and respond appropriately to a broad range of patient needs, including problem gambling, and then refer them appropriately through established pathways.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally there are a range of services available to problem gamblers, details of which can be found on the NHS Choices website.</p><p> </p><p>The Responsible Gambling Trust (RGT) funds GamCare, an independent charity offering help and support, and a specialist National Health Service service for gambling disorders. The RGT collects donations from the gambling industry to fund them. Some NHS mental health services also treat gambling problems and self-help is available from Gamblers Anonymous.</p><p> </p><p>Public Health England has published a briefing for local authorities, with the Local Government Association, on problem gambling and what action local authorities could take.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 20/07/2017 14:29:06 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

752655

registered interest
date	17/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Alcoholic Drinks: Misuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have been treated for alcohol addiction in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	5497
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>In 2015-16, there were 144,908 adults receiving specialist treatment for alcohol problems. Further data about the numbers of people in treatment for alcohol problems is contained in a series of annual reports from the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System, which is available online:</p><p><a href="http://www.nta.nhs.uk/statistics.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.nta.nhs.uk/statistics.aspx</a></p><p> </p><p>Data is not available on the number of new diagnoses of alcohol-related disease each year. The estimated number of hospital admissions where the main reason for admission was alcohol-related was 339,000 in 2015-16 and 330,000 in the previous two years.</p><p> </p><p>Further data on alcohol-related hospital admissions and incidence of alcohol-related cancer is available from:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-alcohol-profiles-for-england-lape" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-alcohol-profiles-for-england-lape</a></p><p><a href="https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/local-alcohol-profiles" target="_blank">https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/local-alcohol-profiles</a></p><p>There are a number of actions underway to tackle the harm caused by alcohol, including alcohol-related cancers. These actions include NHS England’s national Commissioning for Quality and Innovation programme to incentivise the delivery of alcohol identification and brief advice; Public Health England’s One You campaign to motivate people to take steps to improve their health, with a focus on alcohol use; and the NHS Health Check provides an opportunity for general practitioners to offer advice to reduce alcohol use if appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>The Government believes in informing and empowering citizens, and has a responsibility to provide the most up to date, clear information to enable people to make informed choices about their drinking. The 2016 United Kingdom Chief Medical Officers’ low risk drinking guidelines provide the public with the most up to date scientific information.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 5498 5499 question first answered 20/07/2017 14:39:46 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

752656

registered interest
date	17/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Fundraising
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many appeals for fundraising by the public have been supported by the NHS for (a) NHS equipment and (b) NHS services in the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	5419
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>This information is not collected centrally. The Department does not set criteria to assess the merits of launching such appeals and no assessment has been made of their effect on geographical health inequalities. We are aware that many people are keen to support the National Health Service through charitable activity, often after they or their family have received good care from their local NHS.</p><p> </p><p>NHS charities are independent of NHS trusts, their funds and assets are not Exchequer funds, and are held for the beneficiaries of the charity only. Funds donated to the NHS must therefore be managed separately from an NHS body’s own monies.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne grouped question UIN 5420 5421 question first answered 20/07/2017 14:26:32 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

752657

registered interest
date	17/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Fundraising
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what criteria his Department has in place to assess the merits of launching appeals for public fundraising for NHS services and equipment.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	5420
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>This information is not collected centrally. The Department does not set criteria to assess the merits of launching such appeals and no assessment has been made of their effect on geographical health inequalities. We are aware that many people are keen to support the National Health Service through charitable activity, often after they or their family have received good care from their local NHS.</p><p> </p><p>NHS charities are independent of NHS trusts, their funds and assets are not Exchequer funds, and are held for the beneficiaries of the charity only. Funds donated to the NHS must therefore be managed separately from an NHS body’s own monies.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne grouped question UIN 5419 5421 question first answered 20/07/2017 14:26:32 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

752658

registered interest
date	17/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Fundraising
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect of appeals for public fundraising to finance NHS healthcare and equipment on geographical health inequalities.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	5421
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>This information is not collected centrally. The Department does not set criteria to assess the merits of launching such appeals and no assessment has been made of their effect on geographical health inequalities. We are aware that many people are keen to support the National Health Service through charitable activity, often after they or their family have received good care from their local NHS.</p><p> </p><p>NHS charities are independent of NHS trusts, their funds and assets are not Exchequer funds, and are held for the beneficiaries of the charity only. Funds donated to the NHS must therefore be managed separately from an NHS body’s own monies.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne grouped question UIN 5419 5420 question first answered 20/07/2017 14:26:32 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman