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226571

registered interest
date	11/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average time was for the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman to allocate an assessor to a health case in (a) February 2015, (b) August 2014, (c) February 2014 and (d) 2010.
tabling member constituency	North East Bedfordshire
tabling member printed	Alistair Burt
uin	227140
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2015 answer text <p>The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman is independent of Government, accountable directly to Parliament. The Department does not, therefore, hold this information. However, we understand that the Ombudsman will be writing directly to the hon. Member with further detail on the question raised.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 18/03/2015 17:31:04 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt

226701

registered interest
date	11/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 6 March 2015 to Question 225987, for what reasons the Answer states that a contract for University Hospital Bristol to deliver stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) was transferred to NHS England in April 2013 when that hospital first acquired a gamma knife to deliver SRS in October 2013.
tabling member constituency	Wells
tabling member printed	Tessa Munt
uin	227144
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>All existing contracts for stereotactic radiosurgery and stereotactic radiotherapy services, including that with University Hospital Bristol, were transferred to NHS England on 1 April 2013. Gamma Knife treatments started at University Hospital Bristol in October 2013, as there was an identified need for this provider to replace its existing equipment.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England intends to update the information contained within the <em>Stereotactic Radiosurgery and Radiotherapy Services - needs assessment and service review</em> to reflect the 2014-15 contract position as part of the work to review the results of the consultation on the future provision of stereotactic radiosurgery services.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 227124 question first answered 16/03/2015 16:26:00 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4089 label Biography information for Tessa Munt

226702

registered interest
date	11/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Electronic Cigarettes
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 implications for his policies of research on the efficacy and safety of e-cigarettes as a smoking cessation aid.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Mr Mike Hancock
uin	227133
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2015 answer text <p>According to the ASH Smokefree GB survey, around two million adults in Great Britain currently use e-cigarettes. A third are ex-smokers who have given up completely, and a further third are using them as part of a quit attempt.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>While e-cigarettes are not completely without risk, they carry a far lower risk to health than smoking tobacco. A recent Cochrane Review found that e-cigarettes can help smokers to quit or reduce their smoking and the National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training (NCSCT) advice to local stop smoking services is that they should be open to helping smokers who want to quit smoking with the help of e-cigarettes, especially in those that have tried, but not succeeded, in stopping smoking with the use of licenced stop smoking medicines.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Public Health England (PHE) is responsible for reviewing the evidence on e-cigarettes and providing evidence-based recommendations to inform the Government’s future thinking. In May 2014 PHE published an expert report from Professor John Britton, one of the UK’s leading respiratory physicians and tobacco researchers (available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/311887/Ecigarettes_report.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/311887/Ecigarettes_report.pdf</a>).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 18/03/2015 17:15:10 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	59 label Biography information for Mr Mike Hancock

226703

registered interest
date	11/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 6 March 2015 to Question 225987, which refers to there being a contract for stereotactic radiosurgery and stereotactic radiotherapy services (SRS) with University Hospital Bristol, for what reasons that hospital is listed as non-contracted and non-commissioned to deliver SRS in the NHS England document Stereotactic radiosurgery and radiotherapy services needs assessment and service review, published in November 2014.
tabling member constituency	Wells
tabling member printed	Tessa Munt
uin	227124
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>All existing contracts for stereotactic radiosurgery and stereotactic radiotherapy services, including that with University Hospital Bristol, were transferred to NHS England on 1 April 2013. Gamma Knife treatments started at University Hospital Bristol in October 2013, as there was an identified need for this provider to replace its existing equipment.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England intends to update the information contained within the <em>Stereotactic Radiosurgery and Radiotherapy Services - needs assessment and service review</em> to reflect the 2014-15 contract position as part of the work to review the results of the consultation on the future provision of stereotactic radiosurgery services.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 227144 question first answered 16/03/2015 16:26:00 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4089 label Biography information for Tessa Munt

226704

registered interest
date	11/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	IVF
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 25 February 2015 to Question 224828, what assessment he has made of the factors contributing to the reduction in NHS-funded IVF cycles from 2013 to 2014.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	227135
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>NHS England has made no assessment of the factors contributing to the difference between 22,340 National Health Service-funded cycles of in vitro fertilisation in 2013 and 22,238 cycles in 2014, a reduction of less than 0.5%.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 16/03/2015 17:46:12 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

226705

registered interest
date	11/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Capacity
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 costs to each clinical commissioning group of GPs and ambulance staff of attending after deaths in care homes of people subject to Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Assessments.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Ann Coffey
uin	227171
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department does not hold information as to the costs to clinical commissioning groups of general practitioners and ambulance staff attending after deaths in care homes of people subject to Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards authorisations.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 16/03/2015 15:31:46 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	458 label Biography information for Ann Coffey

226706

registered interest
date	11/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Capacity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Supreme Court judgment of 19 March 2014 in the case of P v Cheshire West and Chester Council and another, how many requests for a Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Assessment under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 there have been in each local authority area in (a) 2013, (b) 2014 and (c) 2015 to date.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Ann Coffey
uin	227169
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>The Health and Social Care Information Centre collects official statistics on the number of Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards applications.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The figures can be found:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>(a) For 2012/13 at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB11379" target="_blank">http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB11379</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>(b) For 2013/14 at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB14825" target="_blank">http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB14825</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>(c) For 2014/15 to date at:</p><p> </p><p>Quarter One</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB15475" target="_blank">http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB15475</a></p><p> </p><p>Quarter Two</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB15856" target="_blank">http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB15856</a></p><p> </p><p>Quarter Three</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB16793" target="_blank">http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB16793</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 16/03/2015 15:30:59 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	458 label Biography information for Ann Coffey

226707

registered interest
date	11/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Electronic Cigarettes
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 positive and negative effects of e-cigarettes on people with asthma.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Mr Mike Hancock
uin	227216
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2015 answer text <p>No such assessment has been made.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 18/03/2015 17:11:35 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	59 label Biography information for Mr Mike Hancock

226708

registered interest
date	11/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Care Homes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many care homes with (a) a dementia service band and (b) an older people service band there were in (i) England, (ii) the North West and (iii) Lancashire in the latest period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Pendle
tabling member printed	Andrew Stephenson
uin	227230
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2015 answer text <p>The Care Quality Commission (CQC), as the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England, registers and regulates all providers. We are informed by CQC that, as at 1 March 2015, the information requested was as follows:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>Area</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Numbers of care homes registered in service bands</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dementia</p></td><td><p>Older people</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>7,043</p></td><td><p>11,056</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>884</p></td><td><p>1,535</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lancashire County</p></td><td><p>232</p></td><td><p>434</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p><em>Source:</em> CQC database as at 1 March 2015</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p><em> </em></p><p><em>Notes:</em></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>1. Service bands are not mutually exclusive. The number of care homes caring for older people may be higher than the number registered under the “Older people” service band. Care homes may be registered under a service band such as &quot;Dementia&quot; and not under &quot;Older people&quot;, even though it is highly likely that they will care for people aged over 65.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>2. Data for the North West comprises the counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Lancashire.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>3. Data for Lancashire County comprises:</p><p> </p><p>- Lancashire (which includes districts of West Lancashire, Chorley, South Ribble, Fylde, Preston, Wyre, Lancaster, Ribble Valley, Pendle, Burnley, Rossendale, Hyndburn)</p><p>- Blackburn with Darwen (unitary authority)</p><p>- Blackpool (unitary authority)</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 18/03/2015 17:13:35 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson

226709

registered interest
date	11/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Human Papillomavirus: Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will trial the HPV vaccination programme for men who have sex with men in selected sexual health clinics to assess likely take up and budgetary implications.
tabling member constituency	Finchley and Golders Green
tabling member printed	Mike Freer
uin	227163
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2015 answer text <p>The Government is advised on all immunisation matters by the independent expert body, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI). At its February 2015 meeting, the JCVI endorsed the view of its human papilloma virus (HPV) Sub-committee. This was that, in response to the results of the stakeholder consultation it conducted on its provisional advice on HPV vaccination for men who have sex with men (MSM), and before giving its final advice, it should wait for Public Health England’s (PHE) modelling team to incorporate all the necessary changes and sensitivity analyses agreed following the consultation and the peer review.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>PHE estimates that this additional work would take several months, meaning the JCVI may not be in a position to re-consider its position until its meeting in October 2015. A final statement will be issued by the JCVI following the completion of these additional analyses and the development of a final position by the Committee.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>There are two north London genito-urinary medicine (GUM) clinics that have trialled offering HPV vaccination for MSM (initially those under 28 years old) since November 2012, and which now offer vaccination as an ongoing service. This work has measured the uptake and acceptability of HPV vaccination and observed the effect on other sexual health outcomes in this population. Findings to date have demonstrated high uptake rates for the vaccine and will be considered by the JCVI.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are doing preliminary work with stakeholders to assess likely uptake and budgetary implications in anticipation of JCVI’s final advice.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 18/03/2015 17:09:19 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer