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892173

registered interest
date	26/04/2018
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	Health Services: Children
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 implement a national policy for the training and use of chaperones in the treatment of children in healthcare services in response to the recommendation of the Interim Report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, published on 25 April 2018.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	138468
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2018 answer text <p>The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse published its Interim Report on 25 April. The Report contains a series of recommendations for specific changes, several of which are directed at Government. The Government welcomes the Report and is now considering the Inquiry’s recommendations very carefully. We will respond fully in due course.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 03/05/2018 15:34:29 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

892295

registered interest
date	26/04/2018
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	Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
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 been diagnosed with foetal alcohol syndrome in each of the last seven years.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	138537
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2018 answer text <p>The Hospital Episode Statistics database contains counts of hospital episodes and attendances rather than people. The following table shows a count of finished admission episodes (FAEs) in England with a primary or secondary diagnosis of foetal alcohol syndrome 2010-11 to 2016-17.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>FAEs</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>212</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>270</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>252</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>272</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>286</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>349</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>361</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>It should be noted that this should not be described as a count of people as the same person may have been admitted on one or more occasions.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 03/05/2018 15:03:52 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

892304

registered interest
date	26/04/2018
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	Care Workers: Pay
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 is available to social care providers to implement the change in guidance on the national minimum wage and national living wage for sleep-in shifts for care workers.
tabling member constituency	Spelthorne
tabling member printed	Kwasi Kwarteng
uin	138447
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2018 answer text <p>Through the National Living Wage, the Government is making sure that pay is fair in all sectors, including social care.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has already invested an additional £2 billion to put social care on a more stable footing and alleviate short-term pressures across the health and care system.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to working with local government and the provider sector to ensure that local authorities understand the costs associated with the National Living Wage when negotiating fee rates.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 03/05/2018 15:32:53 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng

891471

registered interest
date	25/04/2018
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, what assessment he has made of the suitability of the Single Technology Appraisal process for new treatments for patients with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.
tabling member constituency	Chesham and Amersham
tabling member printed	Dame Cheryl Gillan
uin	137885
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2018 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is the independent body responsible for developing authoritative, evidence-based guidance for the National Health Service on whether drugs and other treatments represent an effective use of NHS resources.</p><p> </p><p>NICE assesses most significant new drugs through its technology appraisal programme and has been able to recommend a number of drugs licenced for the treatment of rare diseases for routine use on the NHS. NICE also operates a separate highly specialised technology (HST) evaluation programme for the assessment of very high cost drugs for the treatment of very small numbers of patients. Decisions on the most appropriate programme for individual drugs and other treatments are made through an established topic selection process that includes a public consultation and thorough consideration against a set of published criteria.</p><p> </p><p>NICE published HST guidance recommending ataluren for treating Duchenne muscular dystrophy with a nonsense mutation in the dystrophin gene in July 2016 and is currently developing guidance, through its technology appraisal and HST programmes, on other drugs for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 03/05/2018 15:58:20 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	18 label Biography information for Dame Cheryl Gillan

890038

registered interest
date	23/04/2018
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	Paramedical Staff: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 19 April 2018 to Question 135158, if he will classify paramedic science as an exception course to allow those who study it as a second degree to obtain a student loan.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	137090
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2018 answer text <p>Since the decision taken by the Health and Care Professions Council on 21 March 2018 to move paramedic programmes to a degree level, the Department of Health and Social Care has been working with Health Education England and the Department for Education to actively review the position of students wishing to study a paramedic programme.</p><p> </p><p>This review will consider aligning paramedic courses with other healthcare courses reviewed during the recent healthcare education funding reforms.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 03/05/2018 15:40:43 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay previous answer version 54346 answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle