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1608444

registered interest
date	28/03/2023
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	Public Health: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what are the reasons for the delay in the publication of the Public Health Grant Allocation for 2023/24; and what assessment they have made of the impact of this delay on councils and their ability to plan effectively for the new financial year.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL6954
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2023 answer text <p>Local Authority Public Health Grant allocations are not required to be published by a specific date. The Public Health Grant allocations for 2023/24 were published on 14 March 2023. Publication dates for allocations in the three previous years were 17 March 2020, 16 March 2021, and 7 February 2022.</p><p> </p><p>In recognition of the need to offer local authorities as much certainty as possible, we have also published the indicative allocations for 2024/25 and aim to confirm these by the end of the calendar year.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 30/03/2023 15:52:09 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

1607742

registered interest
date	27/03/2023
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 Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of his Department's annual budget (a) will be spent on prevention of ill health in 2022-23 and (b) was spent on prevention of ill health in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Ilford North
tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
uin	174381
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2023 answer text <p>The information requested is not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 30/03/2023 12:46:21 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

1607887

registered interest
date	27/03/2023
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	Dental Services: Stockport
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 make an assessment of the adequacy of the provision of dentistry in Stockport in (a) 2018, (b) 2020 and (c) 2022.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Navendu Mishra
uin	174476
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2023 answer text <p>The Department routinely monitors dental statistics, published by NHS Digital, which brings together information on National Health Service dental activity in England, including at NHS Commissioning Regions and Local Authority levels. NHS Dental Statistics for England, 2021-22 is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-dental-statistics/2021-22-annual-report" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-dental-statistics/2021-22-annual-report</a></p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 30/03/2023 08:50:00 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4811 label Biography information for Navendu Mishra

1607889

registered interest
date	27/03/2023
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	Dental Services: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he will hold discussions with the British Dental Association on NHS dental contracts and the retention of dentists.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Navendu Mishra
uin	174478
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2023 answer text <p>We have regular discussions with the British Dental Association, other organisations in the dental sector and organisations representing dental patients to support and improve National Health Service dental care.</p><p>Stakeholders were integral to the development of ‘Our plan for patients’, announced in September 2022. This plan outlines how we will meet oral health needs and increase access to NHS dental care. This included improving the 2006 contract to ensure fairer remuneration for practices providing complex treatment, issuing clear guidance on how often patients should expect to attend for check-ups and enabling dentists to make better use of dental teams to deliver NHS treatment. Working together with stakeholders, these changes were implemented through regulations that came into effect on 25 November 2022.</p><p>NHS England is holding further discussions with the British Dental Association and the wider dental sector to set out plans for additional reforms of the NHS Dental System shortly.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 30/03/2023 08:54:13 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4811 label Biography information for Navendu Mishra

1607898

registered interest
date	27/03/2023
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	General Practitioners: Armed Forces
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on how many Army medical forms for (a) full time and (b) reservist recruitments were submitted to GPs in the last 12 months; and what the average length of time was between those forms being (i) submitted and (ii) returned completed in (A) Manchester, (B) the North West and (C) England.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	174424
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2023 answer text <p>Neither the Department nor NHS England hold central information with regards to the number of Army medical forms submitted to general practices in England in the last 12 months.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 30/03/2023 12:44:46 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1607899

registered interest
date	27/03/2023
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	Dental Services: Cancer
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 potential merits of providing free dentistry to people with cancer.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Andrew Western
uin	174524
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2023 answer text <p>No assessment has been made.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 30/03/2023 08:55:25 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4979 label Biography information for Andrew Western

1607952

registered interest
date	27/03/2023
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	Community Diagnostic Centres
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what eligibility criteria his Department plan to use to determine (a) where new Community Diagnostic Centres are located and (b) the order in which they are rolled out.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	174194
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2023 answer text <p>To identify appropriate locations, integrated care systems (ICSs) are required to ensure that proposed sites meet the specifications of being separate from acute diagnostics and are able to accommodate minimum community diagnostic centre (CDC) services.</p><p>All proposed CDCs go through an approvals process led by systems and NHS England, prior to approval by Ministers.</p><p>NHS England’s ambition is that each ICS will have at least one standard or large model CDC.</p><p>The first CDCs to open were early adopter sites that could be stood up quickly with no capital investment requirements, to add much-needed additional diagnostic capacity to address the diagnostic backlog. Where required, these temporary sites are being replaced. There are no other eligibility criteria on the order in which CDCs are being rolled out.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 30/03/2023 16:43:32 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

1607991

registered interest
date	27/03/2023
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	Healthy Start Scheme: Costs
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 make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of increasing the Healthy Start Allowance by 20 per cent.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Andrew Western
uin	174525
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2023 answer text <p>The Department has no current plans to make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of increasing the Healthy Start value by 20%.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 30/03/2023 08:56:06 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4979 label Biography information for Andrew Western

1608018

registered interest
date	27/03/2023
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	Voluntary Scheme for Branded Medicines Pricing and Access: Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department’s ongoing VPAS pre-negotiation workshops, if he will publish the (a) minutes and (b) attendees of those workshops.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	174320
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2023 answer text <p>The objective of the pre-negotiation workshops was to enable a mutual understanding of the impact of the current voluntary scheme for branded medicines pricing and access (VPAS) upon the different organisations represented and to discuss the potential objectives and priorities for a new voluntary scheme. The discussions in the workshops will feed into the upcoming negotiation of a successor to the 2019 VPAS. In order to facilitate a transparent and candid discussion, participants agreed that all contributions and resulting outputs would be kept confidential to those who attended.</p><p>The following organisations were invited to the workshops:</p><p>Industry bodies (including representatives of their member companies):</p><p>- Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry;</p><p>- British Generic Manufacturers Association;</p><p>- Ethical Medicines Industry Group;</p><p>- BioIndustry Association.</p><p>Patient organisations and civil society organisations:</p><p>- Cancer52;</p><p>- The Blood Cancer Alliance;</p><p>- The Charity Medicines Access Coalition;</p><p>- National Voices;</p><p>- The Patients Association;</p><p>- Alzheimer’s Research UK;</p><p>- Anthony Nolan;</p><p>- Cystic Fibrosis Trust;</p><p>- Genetic Alliance UK;</p><p>- The Association of Medical Research Charities;</p><p>- Breast Cancer Now;</p><p>- Myeloma UK;</p><p>- Office of Health Economics;</p><p>- King’s Fund;</p><p>- NHS Confederation.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 174321 question first answered 30/03/2023 15:18:28 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1608020

registered interest
date	27/03/2023
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	Voluntary Scheme for Branded Medicines Pricing and Access: Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department’s ongoing VPAS pre-negotiation workshops, whether he plans to make the outputs of those discussions publicly available.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	174321
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2023 answer text <p>The objective of the pre-negotiation workshops was to enable a mutual understanding of the impact of the current voluntary scheme for branded medicines pricing and access (VPAS) upon the different organisations represented and to discuss the potential objectives and priorities for a new voluntary scheme. The discussions in the workshops will feed into the upcoming negotiation of a successor to the 2019 VPAS. In order to facilitate a transparent and candid discussion, participants agreed that all contributions and resulting outputs would be kept confidential to those who attended.</p><p>The following organisations were invited to the workshops:</p><p>Industry bodies (including representatives of their member companies):</p><p>- Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry;</p><p>- British Generic Manufacturers Association;</p><p>- Ethical Medicines Industry Group;</p><p>- BioIndustry Association.</p><p>Patient organisations and civil society organisations:</p><p>- Cancer52;</p><p>- The Blood Cancer Alliance;</p><p>- The Charity Medicines Access Coalition;</p><p>- National Voices;</p><p>- The Patients Association;</p><p>- Alzheimer’s Research UK;</p><p>- Anthony Nolan;</p><p>- Cystic Fibrosis Trust;</p><p>- Genetic Alliance UK;</p><p>- The Association of Medical Research Charities;</p><p>- Breast Cancer Now;</p><p>- Myeloma UK;</p><p>- Office of Health Economics;</p><p>- King’s Fund;</p><p>- NHS Confederation.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 174320 question first answered 30/03/2023 15:18:28 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner