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1287115

registered interest
date	19/02/2021
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: Medical Treatments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of patients that have been asked to reduce their cancer treatment during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	155037
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2021 answer text <p>Information is not available in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 24/02/2021 17:40:53 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

1287116

registered interest
date	19/02/2021
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: Medical Treatments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data NHS trusts are collecting on interruptions to cancer treatment for existing patients during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	155038
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2021 answer text <p>Multi-disciplinary teams use patient tracking lists to ensure patients receive timely treatment and NHS England and NHS Improvement use a variety of data sources to calculate the number of patients waiting longer than a certain period for treatments, as well as informing action to reduce these numbers. This data includes published cancer waiting times data on activity, referrals and waiting times, as well as management information which can give a week to week view of activity and the current scale of the waiting list. Any decision to reschedule cancer surgery will be a last resort and patients will be given the dates for their new treatment at the earliest opportunity.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 24/02/2021 17:32:26 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

1287119

registered interest
date	19/02/2021
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: Medical Treatments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to help prevent cancer patients from experiencing delays in their treatment in the event that pressures on hospitals due to the covid-19 outbreak increase in the future.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	155039
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2021 answer text <p>The key aims of the Cancer Recovery Plan is to restore urgent referrals at least to pre-pandemic levels, to reduce the number of people waiting over 62 days from urgent referral. By ensuring sufficient capacity to meet demand and re-establishing COVID-19 secure cancer hubs and consolidating cancer surgery, prioritising people for surgery centrally on the basis of clinical need and drawing on the independent sector (IS) to increase capacity, urgent cancer surgery patients are the first priority for accessing IS services.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 24/02/2021 17:43:55 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

1281637

registered interest
date	28/01/2021
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	Breast Cancer: Diagnosis
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 estimate he has made of the proportion of new diagnoses of recurrent and metastatic breast cancer which hospital trusts are submitting to the Cancer Outcomes and Services Dataset (COSD).
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	145021
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2021 answer text <p>No recent estimate has been made.</p><p>It is a requirement for hospital trusts to report on new diagnoses of recurrent and metastatic breast cancer. Public Health England reports data on recurrent and metastatic breast cancer to National Health Service trusts to support improved data quality and ascertainment. Non-compliance with data standards is monitored through the local clinical commissioning groups.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 145022 question first answered 08/02/2021 16:51:37 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill previous answer version 79920 answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

1281638

registered interest
date	28/01/2021
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	Breast Cancer: Diagnosis
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what mechanisms are in place to monitor hospital trust compliance with the requirement to collect data on new diagnoses of recurrent and metastatic breast cancer.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	145022
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2021 answer text <p>No recent estimate has been made.</p><p>It is a requirement for hospital trusts to report on new diagnoses of recurrent and metastatic breast cancer. Public Health England reports data on recurrent and metastatic breast cancer to National Health Service trusts to support improved data quality and ascertainment. Non-compliance with data standards is monitored through the local clinical commissioning groups.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 145021 question first answered 08/02/2021 16:51:37 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill previous answer version 79864 answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

1274019

registered interest
date	06/01/2021
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	Coronavirus: Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to train health care professionals on communicating the (a) safety and (b) effectiveness of the covid-19 vaccine.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	133850
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2021 answer text <p>Public Health England produces comprehensive training and information materials for COVID-19 vaccinators. This includes information about the safety and effectiveness of the vaccines and key messages for healthcare professionals to convey to those being vaccinated. All vaccinating staff involved in the deployment programme are required to complete training that includes modules on the safety and effectiveness of vaccines. Communicating about the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine is a component of the process for gaining informed consent.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 26/01/2021 10:51:08 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi previous answer version 72818 answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

1247842

registered interest
date	02/11/2020
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	Test and Trace Support Payment
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 and what proportion of people who have been notified by the NHS Test and Trace app to self-isolate are ineligible to apply for the Test and Trace Support Payment scheme because they have not been contacted by NHS Test and Trace by phone, email, letter or text message.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	110138
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2021 answer text <p>As COVID-19 app users are anonymous, we cannot determine who has or has not been contacted by Test and Trace contact tracers as well as receiving an app notification to self-isolate as a contact of a positive case.</p><p>From 10 December, app users who are identified as a contact of a positive case have been eligible to apply for the NHS Test and Support payment by exiting the app and registering with Test and Trace.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 22/01/2021 13:23:45 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 59204 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

1219783

registered interest
date	01/07/2020
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	Coronavirus: Quarantine
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 he has had with the Home Secretary on exempting carers of people with disabilities who are (a) directly employed as a personal assistant and (b) employed through a care agency registered with the Care Quality Commission from the 14-day quarantine period upon arrival in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	67649
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2020 answer text <p>These regulations and the exemptions are kept under constant review. The regulations make no exemption for direct care workers from the requirement to quarantine for 14 days.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 22/07/2020 12:45:46 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 35097 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

1219786

registered interest
date	01/07/2020
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	Care Workers: Quarantine
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what equality impact assessment he has made of the disparity in rules for quarantine upon arrival in the UK for (a) carers of people with disabilities who are either directly employed as a personal assistant or employed through a care agency registered with the Care Quality Commission and (b) health and care workers with proof of professional registration with a UK-based regulator.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	67650
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2020 answer text <p>On 8 June new rules for international travellers were introduced in order to reduce the risk of new COVID-19 cases from abroad. An exemption to the requirement to self-isolate was added to allow registered health and care staff to return to England to provide essential healthcare, helping to strengthen the country’s response to the coronavirus outbreak and save lives.</p><p>On 30 July the Government removed the exemption for registered health and care staff, thereby requiring them to self-isolate for 14 days on return from a non-exempt country or territory. The removal of this exemption ensure consistency with wider self-isolation measures and continue to protect public health.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 17/09/2020 11:32:06 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 35098 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

1219788

registered interest
date	01/07/2020
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	Coronavirus: Quarantine
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether care workers who are carrying out essential work for disabled people, either working directly as a personal assistant or being introduced through a CQC-registered care agency, are exempt from quarantine when entering the UK.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	67651
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2020 answer text <p>The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) Regulations 2020 are clear in that they include an exemption for registered healthcare professionals from the requirement to quarantine, if they are required to return to, or start work within 14 days of arrival in the United Kingdom, if they are staying in England, Wales or Northern Ireland.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 22/07/2020 12:58:15 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 35099 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams