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1179173

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date	21/02/2020
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	Cancer: Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department’s position is on whether patients who initially privately fund a cancer drug can receive it on the NHS if it is subsequently (a) approved for use by NICE, (b) added to NHS England’s National Cancer Drugs Fund List and (c) if they meet the criteria for the drugs' use.
tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
uin	18956
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>NHS England and NHS Improvement has advised that, following a drug becoming routinely available from the National Health Service, it would expect all eligible patients to be able to access that drug from the NHS.</p><p>This principle would also apply for treatments under the Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF). A patient previously treated privately would be able to transfer to NHS care and continue treatment available via the CDF, as long as they meet all of the treatment criteria.</p><p>For those patients who have previously received all of their care in the private sector and then transfer to NHS care, NHS England and NHS Improvement has advised that it cannot reimburse for treatments given in the private sector or funded privately prior to the treatment becoming routinely available from the NHS.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 02/03/2020 15:37:56 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1179182

registered interest
date	21/02/2020
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Artificial Intelligence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what plans her Department has to ensure (a) lines of accountability and (b) attributable liability for mistakes of artificial intelligence services.
tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
uin	18959
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>Our future work related to attributable liability for mistakes of artificial intelligence services will be informed by independent expert advice. As part of its current work programme, the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation is conducting a review into the potential for bias in the use of algorithms and will publish its report in March 2020.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Other measures include promoting a more ethical use of data within government. For example, one of the seven principles of the UK’s Data Ethics Framework is transparency about the tools, data and algorithms used to conduct work to enable greater scrutiny. The Framework encourages sharing models for algorithmic accountability and making data science tools available for scrutiny wherever possible.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Moreover, the Data Protection Act introduced the necessary safeguards such as the right to be informed of automated processing as soon as possible and the right to challenge an automated decision made by a data controller or processor.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Mr John Whittingdale question first answered 02/03/2020 17:06:44 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1179185

registered interest
date	21/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Marriage: Humanism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the financial effect on couples wishing to have a humanist wedding of the requirement to also have a civil ceremony in order for their marriage to be lawfully recognised.
tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
uin	18961
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>Government consulted in 2014 on marriages by non-religious belief organisations. Its summary assessment of costs and benefits was published in the response, which can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/marriages-by-non-religious-belief-organisations.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 02/03/2020 15:32:31 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1179213

registered interest
date	21/02/2020
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	Mental Health Services: Young People
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 has taken to ensure that GPs are trained to respond to young people attending an appointment about their mental health.
tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
uin	18979
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>The curriculum for general practitioner (GP) specialty training is set by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) and the General Medical Council (GMC) approves the curriculum and assessment systems for the programme. The curriculum integrates the GMC’s generic professional capabilities framework covering the professional behaviours, knowledge and skills that doctors in GP specialty training must demonstrate.</p><p>‘The RCGP Curriculum: Being a General Practitioner’ has recently been reviewed and a wide range of conditions are covered in the clinical topic guides.</p><p>The National Health Service has identified child health as a key area for education and training in general practice and young people’s mental health is emphasised in the clinical topic guide on children and young people.</p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 02/03/2020 17:31:12 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1179214

registered interest
date	21/02/2020
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	Mental Health Services: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what mental health training is available for people who work with young people outside of educational settings; what plans he has to introduce training for people who work in those settings.
tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
uin	18980
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>All registered healthcare professionals are required to complete training to meet the educational outcomes as set by the regulator of their profession, these include mental health training where necessary. This would cover doctors, nurses and allied health professionals.</p><p> </p><p>We would expect people working in the criminal justice system and local authority children’s services to meet the relevant training requirements for those settings.</p><p> </p><p>For people working in other organisations there are a range of training opportunities available, such as mental health first aid, and it would be for each individual organisation to ensure their staff have the appropriate training in mental health issues.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 02/03/2020 17:43:18 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1179215

registered interest
date	21/02/2020
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	Mental Health Services: Expenditure
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 (a) Clinical Commissioning Groups and (b) local authorities have allocated to low-level mental health support in each year since 2014.
tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
uin	18981
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>The information is not available in the format requested as this level of granularity is not separately identifiable.</p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 02/03/2020 17:30:13 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1179342

registered interest
date	21/02/2020
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	Cancer: 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, what the timetable is for the publication of the Health Education England Cancer Work Force Plan phase 2.
tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
uin	18997
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>Health Education England (HEE) published phase one of the Cancer Workforce Plan in December 2017, which commits to the expansion of capacity and skills across priority professions within the cancer workforce to 2021.</p><p>HEE began work on phase two in early 2018. The work on phase two of the plan was submitted by HEE to NHS England to inform the development of the cancer ambitions in the NHS Long Term Plan in July 2018. NHS England established a Cancer Workforce Task and Finish Group in 2019 (including representatives of HEE, the National Health Service, Cancer Research UK (CRUK), Macmillan and Cancer 52). The final NHS People Plan, due to be published in early 2020, will also build upon the progress made through the Cancer Workforce Plan, including taking targeted action to ensure the supply of NHS staff who play a vital role in increasing early diagnosis of cancer.</p><p>Ministers and officials regularly meet, both formally and informally, with a wide range of health professionals, patients and charities linked to supporting cancer including CRUK and Macmillan Cancer Support. In October last year Departmental Ministers hosted a cancer workforce roundtable with 25 charities (including patient organisations) and representatives of NHS England and HEE.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 18999 19000 question first answered 02/03/2020 13:21:00 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1179345

registered interest
date	21/02/2020
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	Cancer: 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, what discussions (a) he and (b) his officials have had with (a) health professionals, (b) charities and (c) patient organisations on the Health Education England Cancer Workforce Plan phase 2.
tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
uin	18999
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>Health Education England (HEE) published phase one of the Cancer Workforce Plan in December 2017, which commits to the expansion of capacity and skills across priority professions within the cancer workforce to 2021.</p><p>HEE began work on phase two in early 2018. The work on phase two of the plan was submitted by HEE to NHS England to inform the development of the cancer ambitions in the NHS Long Term Plan in July 2018. NHS England established a Cancer Workforce Task and Finish Group in 2019 (including representatives of HEE, the National Health Service, Cancer Research UK (CRUK), Macmillan and Cancer 52). The final NHS People Plan, due to be published in early 2020, will also build upon the progress made through the Cancer Workforce Plan, including taking targeted action to ensure the supply of NHS staff who play a vital role in increasing early diagnosis of cancer.</p><p>Ministers and officials regularly meet, both formally and informally, with a wide range of health professionals, patients and charities linked to supporting cancer including CRUK and Macmillan Cancer Support. In October last year Departmental Ministers hosted a cancer workforce roundtable with 25 charities (including patient organisations) and representatives of NHS England and HEE.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 18997 19000 question first answered 02/03/2020 13:21:00 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1179347

registered interest
date	21/02/2020
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	NHS: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how work previously undertaken by Health Education England on the Cancer Workforce Plan phase 2 will be taken account of in the final People Plan.
tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
uin	19000
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>Health Education England (HEE) published phase one of the Cancer Workforce Plan in December 2017, which commits to the expansion of capacity and skills across priority professions within the cancer workforce to 2021.</p><p>HEE began work on phase two in early 2018. The work on phase two of the plan was submitted by HEE to NHS England to inform the development of the cancer ambitions in the NHS Long Term Plan in July 2018. NHS England established a Cancer Workforce Task and Finish Group in 2019 (including representatives of HEE, the National Health Service, Cancer Research UK (CRUK), Macmillan and Cancer 52). The final NHS People Plan, due to be published in early 2020, will also build upon the progress made through the Cancer Workforce Plan, including taking targeted action to ensure the supply of NHS staff who play a vital role in increasing early diagnosis of cancer.</p><p>Ministers and officials regularly meet, both formally and informally, with a wide range of health professionals, patients and charities linked to supporting cancer including CRUK and Macmillan Cancer Support. In October last year Departmental Ministers hosted a cancer workforce roundtable with 25 charities (including patient organisations) and representatives of NHS England and HEE.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 18997 18999 question first answered 02/03/2020 13:21:01 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous