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1173824

registered interest
date	28/01/2020
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	National Institute for Health Research: Equality
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 undertake an equality impact assessment of research funding spent by the National Institute for Health Research.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
tabling member printed	Ian Murray
uin	8996
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2020 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) is funded by the Department. As a public authority, the Department is required to adhere to the Public Sector Equality Duty in line with the Equality Act 2010. The Department takes its obligations under the Equality Act very seriously, specifically in ensuring that we give due regard to the impacts on people with protected characteristics. The NIHR Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Board is leading work on equality impact assessments and their applicability to the NIHR. A decision on whether and where to apply equality impact assessments will be made as a result of this work.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 03/02/2020 16:42:50 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

994267

registered interest
date	24/10/2018
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	Organs: China
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 bringing forward legislative proposals to ban (a) organ trafficking and (b) transplant tourism to China.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
tabling member printed	Ian Murray
uin	183334
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2018 answer text <p>The Human Tissue Act 2004 prohibits commercial dealings in human material for transplantation and makes it an offence to traffic organs.</p><p> </p><p>Clinical advice to United Kingdom patients is not to travel to less well-regulated countries to seek an organ transplant. It is thought that very few patients in the UK choose to do so but data on those who do is not available.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has welcomed China's move to stop using organs harvested from executed prisoners from January 2015. The Government continues to monitor the degree of implementation of this commitment, and encourages China to make further progress in bringing transparency to their organ transplant process.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 29/10/2018 14:15:57 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

882285

registered interest
date	13/04/2018
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	Brain: Tumours
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 eligible brain tumour patients with a glioma had their tumour tissue sample tested for 1p/19q co-deletion biomarker between 1 January 2016 and 31 December 2016.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
tabling member printed	Ian Murray
uin	135425
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2018 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 135559 question first answered 18/04/2018 15:56:19 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

882497

registered interest
date	13/04/2018
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	Brain: Tumours
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 eligible brain tumour patients with a glioma had their tumour tissue sample tested for 1p/19q co-deletion biomarker between 1 January 2017 and 31 December 2017.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
tabling member printed	Ian Murray
uin	135559
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2018 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 135425 question first answered 18/04/2018 15:56:19 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

882498

registered interest
date	13/04/2018
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	Glioblastoma
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 eligible brain tumour patients with a glioblastoma had their tumour tissue assessed for MGMT promoter hypermethylation status between 1 January 2016 and 31 December 2016.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
tabling member printed	Ian Murray
uin	135560
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2018 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 135561 question first answered 18/04/2018 15:57:29 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

882499

registered interest
date	13/04/2018
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	Glioblastoma
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 eligible brain tumour patients with a glioblastoma had their tumour tissue assessed for MGMT promoter hypermethylation status between 1 January 2017 and 31 December 2017.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
tabling member printed	Ian Murray
uin	135561
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2018 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 135560 question first answered 18/04/2018 15:57:29 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

833884

registered interest
date	30/01/2018
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	Brain: Tumours
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department's Task and Finish Working Group on Brain Tumour Research plans to publish its second report; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
tabling member printed	Ian Murray
uin	125642
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2018 answer text <p>The Task and Finish Working Group on Brain Tumour Research involves a wide range of people and organisations. The Working Group’s report was delivered to the Parliamentary under Secretary of State for Health (Lord O’Shaughnessy) on 31 January, and will be published as soon as possible.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 05/02/2018 16:28:19 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

731154

registered interest
date	21/06/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Buildings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether all hospitals and NHS buildings are fully compliant with fire and building regulations; and if he will ensure that all NHS properties will be checked and signed-off as safe.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
tabling member printed	Ian Murray
uin	436
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2017 answer text <p>National Health Service organisations in England are locally responsible for the safety of their estate, including in relation to fire. The Department publishes comprehensive and up to date guidance on fire safety, including the ‘Firecode’ suite of Health Technical Memorandum (HTM) documents, to support NHS organisations in England to comply with legislation relating to fire safety:</p><p>HTM 05-01: Managing healthcare fire safety: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/managing-healthcare-fire-safety</p><p>HTM 05-02: Firecode Guidance in support of functional provisions (Fire safety in the design of healthcare premises): https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-in-support-of-functional-provisions-for-healthcare-premises</p><p>HTM 05-03: Fire safety measures for health sector buildings: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/suite-of-guidance-on-fire-safety-throughout-healthcare-premises-parts-a-to-m</p><p>Fire safety is taken extremely seriously in the NHS and because of the professionalism and dedication of staff across the entire NHS estate, the number of fire incidents is extremely low, given the complexity and size of the health estate (about 25 million square metres of occupied floor area) and its level of clinical activity.</p><p>To ensure that the lessons from the Grenfell Tower fire incident are learned, the Department is working with all NHS organisations to ensure that any appropriate action is taken as soon as possible.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 26/06/2017 16:46:22 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

678661

registered interest
date	25/01/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Drugs
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 potential effect of the UK leaving the EU on healthcare standards and patient access to medicines in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
tabling member printed	Ian Murray
uin	61746
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2017 answer text <p>The Department is working to make sure the best outcome for the health and social care system. All policy teams within the Department are involved with this work and assessing the implications of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union on their area. This includes working with NHS England and other arm’s length bodies.</p><p> </p><p>The Prime Minister has instructed all departments to identify potential opportunities that will arise in their areas from EU Exit. The Government is united in its ambition to deliver a successful withdrawal from the EU and a new relationship with Europe, and departments will work together to deliver this.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat question first answered 30/01/2017 15:53:04 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

522599

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Alcoholic Drinks: Consumption
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 Department's policies of the UK Chief Medical Officer's revised alcohol guidelines, published in January 2016.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
tabling member printed	Ian Murray
uin	38959
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2016 answer text <p>The UK Chief Medical Officers’ (CMOs) alcohol guidelines give the public the latest and most up to date scientific information so that they can make informed decisions about their own drinking. Government has a responsibility to ensure this information is provided for citizens in an open way.</p><p> </p><p>The Government launched a public consultation seeking views on the advice from the UK CMOs. The final guidelines and the Government response to the consultation will be published shortly.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 13/06/2016 16:34:59 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray