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1076645

registered interest
date	25/02/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fire and Rescue Services: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What assessment he has made of the effect of changes in the number of firefighters on fire service capacity to respond to emergency calls.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Jenny Chapman
uin	909399
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>Recent data show that the average total response time to primary fires has remained the same as last year, and for secondary fires has increased by 1 second since last year.</p><p>Total response times have risen gradually since 1994 but are now starting to stabilise.</p><p>Fire and rescue services have the resources they need to do their important work.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 25/02/2019 18:08:30 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	3972 label Biography information for Baroness Chapman of Darlington

1064359

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Public Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how he plans to use the next Spending Review to reduce economic inequalities between the north and south of England.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Jenny Chapman
uin	223833
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2019 answer text <p>Since 2010, over 60% of jobs have been created outside of London and the South East, and all regions of the North of England have seen faster nominal productivity growth over that time period than London and the South East. The Government is continuing to support the Northern Powerhouse, for example, the £2.5bn Transforming Cities Fund as well as Devolution deals for Manchester, Liverpool and North of Tyne. We will continue to support this growth through the Spending Review later this year and other policies such as a refreshed Northern Powerhouse Strategy.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 27/02/2019 14:33:19 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	3972 label Biography information for Baroness Chapman of Darlington

1064360

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Health: Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the next Spending Review will include plans to review the level of investment in health research received by northern institutions.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Jenny Chapman
uin	223834
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2019 answer text <p>The Spending Review will consider all public investments in the round.</p>Research funding, including Medical Research Council funding, is allocated following nation-wide competitive and academic peer review processes, where scientific excellence is the core assessment criteria.<p> </p><p>Since 2016, Government has committed an additional £7bn for R&amp;D by 2021-22 – the largest increase for 40 years, which supports the government target of increasing economy-wide R&amp;D investment to 2.4% of GDP by 2027. To support innovation-led growth across the whole of the UK, Autumn Budget 2018 backed local initiatives to nurture R&amp;D strengths by doubling the Strength in Places Fund to £235m.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 27/02/2019 08:28:25 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	3972 label Biography information for Baroness Chapman of Darlington

1064361

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
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	NHS: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how the new NHS funding settlement will be spent to takcle health inequalities between the north and south of England.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Jenny Chapman
uin	223835
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2019 answer text <p>NHS England sets clinical commissioning group funding allocations.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England has committed to ensuring a higher share of funding goes towards geographies with high health inequalities. This funding is estimated to be worth over £1 billion by 2023/24.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan sets out a number of commitments for reducing health inequalities and NHS England will continue to target a higher share of funding towards geographies with high health inequalities.</p><p> </p><p>The National Implementation Framework, to be published in the spring, will provide further information on how the Long Term Plan will be implemented. Additional details, based on local health system five-year plans, will be brought together in a detailed national implementation plan in the autumn. Work will continue with key partners and stakeholders as we support the National Health Service to deliver the commitments set out in the Long Term Plan.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 27/02/2019 11:15:59 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	3972 label Biography information for Baroness Chapman of Darlington

1045505

registered interest
date	21/01/2019
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	Diseases
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 cases of (a) gout, (b) rickets, (c) cholera, (d) tuberculosis, (e) malnutrition, (f) whooping cough, (g) measles, (h) scurvy, (i) typhoid, (j) scarlet fever, (k) diphtheria, (l) mumps, and (m) vitamin D deficiency have been reported by each NHS Trust since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Jenny Chapman
uin	210501
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>Public Health England publishes data on the number of cases of cholera, tuberculosis, whooping cough, measles, typhoid, scarlet fever, diphtheria and mumps as part of the notifications of infectious diseases data. The data are reported by local authority. Annual data for 2015, 2016 and 2017 are available to view at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/notifiable-diseases-annual-report" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/notifiable-diseases-annual-report</a></p><p>Annual data for 2018 will be published in June 2019.</p><p>NHS Digital has provided a breakdown of the number of cases of gout, rickets, cholera, malnutrition, scurvy and vitamin D deficiency recorded by hospital provider from 2015-16 to 2017-18. The attached table shows counts of finished admission episodes. Information has been provided for both primary diagnosis and primary or secondary diagnosis. These data only include cases where the diagnosis was treated in a hospital inpatient setting. This should not be described as a count of people as the same person may have been admitted on one or more occasion.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 29/01/2019 17:23:07 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine attachment 1 file name Copy_of_PQ210501_FAE_data.xlsx title PQ210501 data
tabling member	3972 label Biography information for Baroness Chapman of Darlington

1037183

registered interest
date	07/01/2019
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	Pharmacy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has plans to renegotiate the community pharmacy contractual framework; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Jenny Chapman
uin	205887
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department will be seeking to renegotiate the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework. Community pharmacies play a vital role within our health and care system and the Department remains committed to working closely with the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee to better utilise the reach and skill set of pharmacy teams.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 10/01/2019 17:17:09 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	3972 label Biography information for Baroness Chapman of Darlington

1037185

registered interest
date	07/01/2019
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	Pharmacy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions his Department has had with the Cabinet Office on potential reforms to the community pharmacy sector.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Jenny Chapman
uin	205888
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2019 answer text <p>As is customary, the Department regularly engages the Cabinet Office across a wide range of policy issues. Ongoing discussions continue between the Department and the Cabinet Office on the role of community pharmacy and the important contribution of pharmacy teams as outlined in the NHS Long Term Plan.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 10/01/2019 17:18:08 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	3972 label Biography information for Baroness Chapman of Darlington

1037187

registered interest
date	07/01/2019
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	Pharmacy: Finance
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 29 October 2018 to Question 181567, what the average fee per prescription item is including the retained medicine margin for (a) a pharmacy which dispensed an average mean number of prescription items in 2017-18, (b) a pharmacy which dispensed the highest number of prescription items in 2017-18, (c) a pharmacy which dispensed the lowest number of prescription items in 2017-18 and (d) a pharmacy which is in the bottom quartile of all pharmacies for the number of prescription items it dispensed in 2017-18.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Jenny Chapman
uin	205889
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2019 answer text <p>The following table shows the average fee relating to essential services per prescription item for pharmacies with different levels of dispensing activity for the period 2017/18 and also includes medicine margin.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Average fee per prescription item including margin</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Pharmacy with mean number of prescription items</p></td><td><p>£2.37</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Pharmacy with highest number of prescription items</p></td><td><p>£2.10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Pharmacy with lowest number of prescription items</p></td><td><p>£2.07</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Pharmacy with lowest quartile number of prescription items</p></td><td><p>£2.57</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>We have calculated total fees as the sum of all essential service fees, including establishment payments and quality payments. It excludes any advanced service fees as these are payments for activity not related to dispensing. Any funding received via retained medicine margin, and any payments relating to the Pharmacy Access Scheme have similarly been excluded from this analysis and so would need to be separately considered.</p><p> </p><p>The medicine margin retained by individual pharmacy contractors is not known, therefore it can only be calculated by using the number of pharmacy contractors and the total medicine margin as per the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework (which in 2017/18 was £800 million).</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 10/01/2019 17:01:26 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	3972 label Biography information for Baroness Chapman of Darlington

1037188

registered interest
date	07/01/2019
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	Pharmacy: Finance
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 29 October 2018 to Question 181567, to list (a) the distance selling pharmacies used in the calculation provided in that Answer, (b) the average number of items dispensed each month for each in 2017/18 and (c) the average fee earned per prescription item for each in 2017-18.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Jenny Chapman
uin	205890
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2019 answer text <p>The list of distance selling pharmacies used in that calculation is in the attached table alongside their average number of prescription items in 2017/18. It would prejudice companies’ commercial interest to disclose the average fee per prescription item for each individual contractor and for this reason this information is provided as a range between £1.25 and £23.74.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 10/01/2019 17:05:04 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine attachment 1 file name PQ205890 table.docx title PQ205890 attached table
tabling member	3972 label Biography information for Baroness Chapman of Darlington

1037190

registered interest
date	07/01/2019
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	Pharmacy
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 page 82 of the NHS Long Term Plan, what specific reforms to reimbursement and supply arrangements for community pharmacy his Department is considering.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Jenny Chapman
uin	205891
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2019 answer text <p>As outlined in the published final package of, ‘Community Pharmacy in 2016/17 and beyond’<sup>1</sup>, the Government is committed to pursuing a number of reimbursement reforms and taking steps to improve the prescription ordering journey to maximise patient choice and convenience.</p><p> </p><p>The reimbursement reforms include:</p><p>- ‘non Part VIII’ products, i.e. products with no reimbursement price listed in Part VIII of the Drug Tariff;</p><p>- changes to Category M for certain generic medicines to better reflect their market price;</p><p>- changes to the margin survey to account for multiple suppliers for Non Part VIII products and Category C products;</p><p>- ‘splitting the discount’- to reflect that in general generic medicines have increased margin over brands; and</p><p>- changes to the way Category A prices are set.</p><p>The Government has also recently committed to reforming reimbursement arrangements for specials.</p><p> </p><p>Note:</p><p><sup>1</sup><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/561495/Community_pharmacy_package_A.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/561495/Community_pharmacy_package_A.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 10/01/2019 17:06:57 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	3972 label Biography information for Baroness Chapman of Darlington