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1142000

registered interest
date	25/07/2019
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	Valsartan
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 adequacy of supplies of Valsartan; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	282409
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2019 answer text <p>The Department fully understands that maintaining access to Valsartan is vitally important to many people in this country.</p><p> </p><p>We are aware that suppliers of valsartan have encountered a recent supply issue. However, currently valsartan tablets and capsules remain available in all strengths (40mg, 80mg, 160mg 320mg). We are continuing to work very closely with all the manufacturers, and the supply situation continues to improve with further deliveries expected from next month.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 06/09/2019 11:10:20 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1142056

registered interest
date	25/07/2019
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	Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to encourage innovation in gene and cell therapies and ensure that such therapies reach those patients who will benefit from such therapies.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South West
tabling member printed	Eleanor Smith
uin	282440
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2019 answer text <p>The United Kingdom is a global leader in providing access to pioneering cell and gene therapies for treating diseases such as cancer, cystic fibrosis, heart disease and diabetes. Indeed, 24% of developers of advanced therapy medicinal products in Europe are headquartered in the UK. Last year the National Health Service was the first health system in Europe to agree full access for a revolutionary new CAR-T treatment, representing one of the fastest funding approvals in the history of our health service.</p><p>Together with the Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult we have nine specialist hospitals delivering approved CAR-T therapies as well as three Advanced Therapy Treatment Centres across the UK. These centres have been assigned £30 million by UK Research and Innovation - including project funding and an Apprenticeship Training Scheme.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 06/09/2019 11:11:41 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4609 label Biography information for Eleanor Smith

1142079

registered interest
date	25/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Prime Minister's statement of 24 July 2019, what the timescale is for the recruitment of 20,000 police officers.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	282443
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2019 answer text <p>The Prime Minister has said that 20,000 extra police officers will be recruited over the next three years.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 06/09/2019 13:28:37 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1142110

registered interest
date	25/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to review the restrictions that prevent asylum seekers from working.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	282458
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2019 answer text <p>Asylum seekers are allowed to work in the UK if their claim has been outstanding for 12 months, through no fault of their own. Those permitted to work are restricted to jobs on the shortage occupation list published by the Home Office. The Home Office is currently reviewing this matter.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 06/09/2019 13:31:43 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1142142

registered interest
date	25/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to allocate the funding for 20,000 extra police officers to local forces according to how many police officers each force has lost since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Hyndburn
tabling member printed	Graham P Jones
uin	282303
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2019 answer text <p>We recognise that demand on the police is changing and we are acting. We are committed to recruiting 20,000 additional police officers over the next three years to tackle the rise in crime. This is the start of a new relationship between the Government and the police, and we will work even more closely together to protect the public.</p><p>The National Policing Board has been set up to provide strong leadership and deliver on our commitment to recruit 20,000 more police officers. Following the first meeting, the government and police will move at pace to drive forward our plans to bolster the police’s ranks.</p><p>All force-level funding allocations will be set out in the usual way at the pro-visional police funding settlement in December. The Government is working with the sector through a number of important details, including on allocating officers between different functions and activities to ensure maximum value from this additional resource.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 06/09/2019 14:00:07 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	3999 label Biography information for Graham P Jones

1142150

registered interest
date	25/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it remains her Department's policy to reduce immigration to the UK; and what her policy is on international students coming to the UK to study.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	282386
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2019 answer text <p>We strongly believe in the benefits of migration and we will continue to ensure that we attract the best and brightest talent to the UK. We will deliver a system that welcomes to this country the people who want to contribute, but that enables us to control migration.</p><p><br>We want to attract international students to study in the UK and study at our world class institutions.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 06/09/2019 14:45:16 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

1142153

registered interest
date	25/07/2019
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Northern Ireland Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps his Department is taking to restoring devolved Government in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	282389
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2019 answer text <p>Since May, the five main Northern Ireland parties have engaged in a series of cross-party talks, focused on the key issues that are central to restoring the power-sharing institutions. I am doing everything I can to support the political parties in coming to an agreement, including continuing having detailed discussions with everyone involved.</p><p> </p><p>The report I laid before the House on Wednesday 4 September contains a fuller update on the progress towards restoring the Executive.</p><p> </p><p>The people of Northern Ireland deserve strong political leadership from locally elected politicians. They do not deserve the current impasse.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Skipton and Ripon answering member printed Julian Smith question first answered 06/09/2019 11:29:27 answering member 4118 label Biography information for Julian Smith
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

1142157

registered interest
date	25/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Stone: Theft
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to re-establish the Metal Theft Taskforce with an extended remit to include stone theft.
tabling member constituency	Hyndburn
tabling member printed	Graham P Jones
uin	282304
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2019 answer text <p>We provided over £6 million of funding for the police-led Metal Theft Taskforce to help ensure the reforms to tackle metal theft introduced by the Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013 were embedded within the normal business of police forces and local authorities.</p><p>The Taskforce was not intended to be a long-term arrangement and disbanded in 2014 following the successful implementation of the 2013 Act. <br>The most recent statistics show that recorded levels of metal theft offences in March 2018 are still 73% lower compared with March 2013.</p><p>We continue to work with the police, industry, local authorities and others on this issue and on acquisitive crime more generally.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 06/09/2019 13:20:45 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	3999 label Biography information for Graham P Jones

1142188

registered interest
date	25/07/2019
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	Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps NICE will take in its review into its methods and processes to review the (a) appraisal process and (b) pricing mechanisms for future cell and gene therapies.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	282321
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2019 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is currently reviewing its methods and process for technology appraisals and highly specialised technologies. This will include the methods and processes for specific types of technologies such as cell and gene therapies. NICE plans to engage with partners (including industry and patient groups involved with cell and gene therapies) throughout 2019 and 2020.</p><p>NICE has set up groups made up of academics, patients, life sciences industry and system partners that will use their collective expertise to help shape the process and methods for cell and gene therapies. A dedicated patient working group has been set up to ensure NICE gets feedback from patients and patient organisations (including those that would benefit from cell and gene therapies). Proposals will also be presented for six weeks of formal public consultation in the summer of 2020.</p><p>The development of pricing mechanisms for future cell and gene therapies is undertaken by NHS England’s Commercial Medicines Directorate. NICE’s Commercial Liaison Team enables appropriate translation of NICE Committee decision-making to NHS England’s Commercial Medicines Directorate, but does not have a role in the development of the pricing mechanisms.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 06/09/2019 11:11:04 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

1142191

registered interest
date	25/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Criminal Investigation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of police capacity to adequately investigate low-level crimes.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
uin	282486
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2019 answer text <p>We recognise that demand on policing is changing and becoming more complex. That is why we provided an additional £1 billion of funding for policing in 2019/20 and PCCs announced plans to recruit an additional 3000 police officers and over 700 police staff.</p><p>The Government is now going even further – the Prime Minister announced on 26 July our commitment to recruiting an additional 20,000 police officers in England and Wales over the next three years.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 06/09/2019 13:14:51 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves