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887057

registered interest
date	19/04/2018
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	Coagadex
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether Coagadex is available on the NHS for patients with the hereditary factor X deficiency bleeding disorder; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North East
tabling member printed	Fabian Hamilton
uin	136625
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2018 answer text <p>At present, NHS England does not routinely commission Coagadex for any indication.</p><p> </p><p>A commissioning policy proposal for the prescribing of Coagedex for patients with the hereditary factor X deficiency bleeding disorder has been developed. The Clinical Priorities Advisory Group (CPAG) makes recommendations on NHS England's approach to commissioning services, treatments and technologies, and considers which of these should be prioritised for investment. The CPAG will make its recommendations regarding the commissioning of Coagadex to NHS England in May 2018.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 26/04/2018 10:24:10 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	415 label Biography information for Fabian Hamilton

887235

registered interest
date	19/04/2018
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	Ebola
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding was allocated to the Ebola contingency fund; and how much of that funding has been reallocated to other programmes.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	136799
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2018 answer text <p>In 2018 the Department provided £4 million of Official Development Assistance funding to the World Health Emergencies Programme Contingency Fund which was set up in 2015 following the Ebola outbreak. The World Health Organization is responsible for the allocation of funds provided to the World Health Emergencies Programme Contingency Fund.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 24/04/2018 15:34:37 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

886247

registered interest
date	18/04/2018
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	Inflammatory Bowel Disease
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps (a) his Department and (b) NHS England are taking to improve the training for healthcare professionals in primary care to (i) diagnose and (ii) manage inflammatory bowel disease.
tabling member constituency	Great Grimsby
tabling member printed	Melanie Onn
uin	136442
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2018 answer text <p>NHS England and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are responsible for commissioning services for people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).</p><p> </p><p>To support local commissioning, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published best practice guidance for the timely and accurate diagnosis, treatment care and support for patients with IBD.</p><p> </p><p>NICE has published the guidance ’Faecal calprotectin diagnostic tests for inflammatory diseases of the bowel’ which recommends that that faecal calprotectin testing as an option to help support clinicians distinguish between IBD and irritable bowel syndrome.</p><p> </p><p>Faecal calprotectin testing will therefore help decide who should be referred for colonoscopy (the Gold Standard diagnostic test) and who may be amenable to management in primary care. Primary and secondary care clinicians are expected to follow the good practice guidelines and the quality standard.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England commissions specialised Intestinal Failure Services. A number of these centres are currently involved in multidisciplinary training of health professionals in specialised IBD care. In addition, the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland are currently in the process of setting out national standards for surgical management of IBD. Patients are managed by a multidisciplinary team (MDT) with the necessary expertise to enable appropriate monitoring, support and advice necessary to manage the side effects of treatment, flare-ups and to review and maintain remission. MDT support and the associated diagnostic and investigative resource necessary for IBD patient care will usually be found in secondary care settings.</p><p> </p><p>General practitioners and clinicians are expected to take account of relevant NICE guidance to ensure that patients with suspected inflammatory bowel disease are referred quickly and efficiently, and have a specialist assessment within four weeks of referral.</p><p> </p><p>The NICE guidelines are available at the following links:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg152/resources/crohns-disease-management-pdf-35109627942085" target="_blank">www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg152/resources/crohns-disease-management-pdf-35109627942085</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg166/resources/ulcerative-colitis-management-pdf-35109695126725" target="_blank">www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg166/resources/ulcerative-colitis-management-pdf-35109695126725</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 136435 136439 136444 question first answered 23/04/2018 15:18:40 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4464 label Biography information for Melanie Onn

886401

registered interest
date	18/04/2018
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	Mental Health Services: Detention Centres
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding his Department has allocated to the provision of mental health services in detention centres in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	136596
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2018 answer text <p>Prior to September 2014 the Home Office was responsible for commissioning health including mental health services in Immigration Removal Centres. The Department does not therefore hold the information requested for years 2010 to September 2014.</p><p> </p><p>Since September 2014 NHS England has been responsible for commissioning all health services within Immigration Removal Centres. However NHS England does not hold the information in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 23/04/2018 13:46:59 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

885239

registered interest
date	17/04/2018
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	Breastfeeding
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 adequacy of provision of breast pumps in (a) maternity and (b) neo-natal units.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	136104
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2018 answer text <p>No assessment has been made centrally. It is for local healthcare providers to commission services and equipment to meet the needs of their population, including the provision of breast pumps in maternity and neo-natal units.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 136105 question first answered 23/04/2018 13:40:10 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

885423

registered interest
date	17/04/2018
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	Gluten-free Foods: Prescriptions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Government plans to reintroduce prescriptions for gluten-free products for children who have coeliac disease.
tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
uin	136286
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2018 answer text <p>A range of staple gluten free foods continue to be available on prescription for all patients with established gluten sensitivity enteropathies, including coeliac disease.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 23/04/2018 15:13:55 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps

884929

registered interest
date	16/04/2018
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	Smoking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department has spent on campaigns to promote the cessation of smoking in (a) 2016-17 and (b) 2017-18; and what funding he plans to allocate to such campaigns in 2018-19.
tabling member constituency	Harrow East
tabling member printed	Bob Blackman
uin	135917
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2018 answer text <p>Expenditure on smoking cessation advertising media by Public Health England (PHE) in 2016-17 was £1,520,000.</p><p> </p><p>The projected expenditure for smoking cessation campaigns for PHE campaigns in 2017-18 is £2,060,000. Figures for 2017-18 are provisional at this stage. A final amount will be available later in the year once all accounts have been finalised.</p><p> </p><p>Detailed planning is underway for 2018-19 smoking cessation campaigns; therefore at this stage advertising media allocations are not yet available.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 24/04/2018 15:38:54 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4005 label Biography information for Bob Blackman

885047

registered interest
date	16/04/2018
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	Nurses: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether public health nurses employed directly by local authorities will be included in the local government pay award; and whether those nurses will receive pay rises comparable to nurses in the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	136035
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2018 answer text <p>The pay of public health nurses, who have a contract of employment with a local authority, is determined by the local authority. It is for local authorities to determine the terms and conditions, including pay that will best enable them to recruit, retain and motivate the staff they need.</p><p> </p><p>The Chancellor was explicit that additional funding, above that already factored into the 2015 Spending Round, was tied to major structural reforms to Agenda for Change to help improve recruitment, retention, increase capacity and improve productivity.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay grouped question UIN 136032 136034 question first answered 19/04/2018 14:48:38 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

882149

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	Hepatitis: Prisoners
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 March 2018 to Questions 134202 and 134203, on Prisoners: Hepatitis, for what reason 48 per cent of prisoners diagnosed with hepatitis C in the first quarter of 2017-18 have yet to be referred to specialist care to have their infection treated.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	135208
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2018 answer text <p>Data collected via the Health and Justice Indicators of Performance is used by NHS England commissioners to performance manage healthcare providers in prisons. NHS England currently does not have plans to publish this data.</p><p> </p><p>Prison healthcare providers commissioned by NHS England are responsible for referring patients diagnosed with hepatitis C virus infection to specialist services for assessment and treatment.</p><p> </p><p>Public Health England is supporting a research study into barriers to accessing hepatitis C virus treatment for people in prison, due to be completed in September 2018. Identified issues to date include: length of stay in a specific prison; patient choice; development of referral pathways from prisons, and ‘run rates’ imposed on Operational Delivery Networks which limited the number of people treated per year</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 135207 question first answered 20/04/2018 11:00:49 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

882668

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	Rare Diseases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Government plans to continue to participate in the European Reference Networks for patients with complex or rare medical conditions after the UK leaves the EU and the expiry of the implementation period.
tabling member constituency	Stafford
tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
uin	135730
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2018 answer text <p>The Government has noted the importance of continued collaboration with European partners in the 2017 policy paper ‘Collaboration on Science and Innovation: A Future Partnership Paper’. European Reference Networks (ERNs) for rare diseases patients were cited in the paper as an example of collaboration that the United Kingdom and European Union should discuss in the negotiations, given the mutual benefit.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has set out three key principles in developing a new regulatory system post EU exit: patients should not be disadvantaged; innovators should be able to get their products into the UK market as quickly and simply as possible; and we continue to play a leading role promoting public health. The Government will be guided by these principles in its negotiations with EU partners.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 19/04/2018 14:12:32 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy