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date	23/06/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Prescription Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress he has made on replacing branded drug prescriptions with generic drug prescriptions; how much from the NHS drugs budget has been saved as a result; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	201693
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p>The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) publication <em>Prescriptions Dispensed in the Community, Statistics for England - 2002-2012</em>, contains a series of statistical tables, one of which, table A5: <em>Generic prescribing and dispensing, percentage by class, 2002–2012</em>, provided an 11 year time series of data on generic prescribing. Information from this is provided in the attached table. The next edition of this publication, which will contain 2013 data, is due to be published by the HSCIC on 9 July 2014. The Department has not made an estimate of the savings that have resulted from greater use of generics.</p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 30/06/2014 15:55:48 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb attachment 1 file name PQ201693_-_Table.docx title Table PQ201693
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

62943

registered interest
date	19/06/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Autism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to include specialist autism training for community care assessors as a requirement in the Care Act 2014 Part 1 regulations.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	201528
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2014 answer text <p>The Care Act will require local authorities to ensure all assessors are appropriately trained to carry out assessments. This builds on the statutory guidance <em>Implementing Fulfilling and Rewarding Lives</em> which followed the 2010 Adult Autism Strategy for England, and which required autism awareness training to be available to all staff working in health and social care and specialist training for those in key roles that have a direct impact on access to services for adults with autism. The Department is currently consulting on the regulations and statutory guidance that will support the implementation of the Care Act, and we will remind local authorities through this of this requirement in <em>Implementing Fulfilling and Rewarding Lives.</em></p><p> </p><p>Due to the complexities of assessing people who are deafblind, regulations under the Care Act will require their assessments to be carried out by a specialist assessor. One of the questions in the consultation document is whether specialist assessors should be required to carry out the assessment of people with other conditions, such as autism, and to explain why this should be the case. Based on the evidence we receive through the consultation we will consider if this requirement should be extended to other conditions.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 26/06/2014 14:54:08 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

48566

registered interest
date	25/04/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions he has had on affordability of hospital car parks.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	196611
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health has had a number of recent meetings in relation to the affordability of car parking in the National Health Service. He has asked his officials to produce guidance for hospitals to identify which groups should receive concessionary or free parking including disabled patients and visitors, those whose condition demands that they make frequent visits to hospital, and patients and visitors on a low income.</p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon