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834613

registered interest
date	01/02/2018
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	Ankylosing Spondylitis and Arthritis
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 22 December to Question 119911 on Ankylosing Spondylitis and Arthritis , when NHS England plans to announce its next steps in relation to the recommendations it was presented with on 1 December 2017 by the data advisory group, led by Arthritis Research UK; and whether there will be a wider consultation on the opportunities for improved routine data collection on musculoskeletal incidence, prevalence, clinical activity, and outcomes.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	126061
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2018 answer text <p>NHS England’s work to consider the recommendations of the data advisory group is ongoing. Information on the next steps will be available in due course.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 08/02/2018 14:48:37 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

834625

registered interest
date	01/02/2018
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
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 effect of current nursing staffing levels on patient safety.
tabling member constituency	Blackburn
tabling member printed	Kate Hollern
uin	126073
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2018 answer text <p>Local National Health Service trusts and commissioners have responsibility for ensuring high-quality, safe and financially sustainable services, and are expected to consider a basket of measures to assess whether nursing staffing levels for their organisation are appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>At a national level, in July 2016, the National Quality Board issued updated staffing guidance, ‘Supporting NHS providers to deliver the right staff, with the right skills, in the right place at the right time, to support local decision making’, which advises NHS trusts to consider safe staffing levels in the context of this basket of measures.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Improvement collects monthly data returns on staffing levels, vacancy, fill rates, agency data and also quality metrics such as patient safety thermometer and safety incidents. This data is reviewed monthly by regional NHS Improvement teams to support NHS objectives. There are triggers and criteria in the data sets that flag NHS trusts which have staffing and safety issues and these are placed on higher surveillance, with regular input via NHS Improvement teams, to ensure safety and quality.</p><p> </p><p>The latest statistics for October 2017 show that since May 2010, there are now almost 42,700 more professionally qualified clinical staff (full time equivalent) working in NHS trusts and clinical commissioning groups – this includes over 14,200 (9%) more nurses onwards.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 07/02/2018 16:04:45 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4363 label Biography information for Kate Hollern

834638

registered interest
date	01/02/2018
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	Patients: Surveys
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 assessment he has made of the value of the data collected by the NHS Friends and Family Test.
tabling member constituency	Heywood and Middleton
tabling member printed	Liz McInnes
uin	126086
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2018 answer text <p>NHS England is responsible for the NHS Friends and Family Test. There is currently a project underway within NHS England’s Insight and Feedback team, which oversees the Friends and Family Test, to look at what is working best and what can be improved in relation to the test. NHS England expects to update the current guidance by April 2019.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 06/02/2018 16:56:27 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4342 label Biography information for Liz McInnes

834639

registered interest
date	01/02/2018
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	NHS: Surveys
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what is the annual cost to the NHS is of administrating the Staff Friends and Family Test.
tabling member constituency	Heywood and Middleton
tabling member printed	Liz McInnes
uin	126087
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2018 answer text <p>NHS England are responsible for the Staff Friends and Family Test (FFT) and are unable to provide a breakdown of the annual cost of administering this test. The Staff FFT is administered from the same budget and by the same staff who work on the patient-facing FFT. The Staff FFT accounts for the smaller element of these costs.</p><p> </p><p>In terms of the non-central costs of the FFT process, this is in the hands of local providers and they are responsible for promoting the FFT tool and its outcomes, but the costs are normally minimal. NHS England does not collect this information.</p><p> </p><p>During peak activity around the FFT rollout to services in 2014/15, the budget was a little over £5 million. The central spend allocation has been reducing annually to reflect the reduction in work as the FFT becomes “business as usual” across NHS services. In the current year it stands at about £1 million.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 06/02/2018 12:27:01 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4342 label Biography information for Liz McInnes

834641

registered interest
date	01/02/2018
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	Leeds General Infirmary: Accident and Emergency Departments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the average waiting time for A&E patients at Leeds General Infirmary in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	126089
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2018 answer text <p>The table below shows the mean and median duration to treatment and duration to departure for accident and emergency at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, for the financial years between 2010-11 and 2016-17. NHS Digital collects this data at trust level, not at individual hospital site level.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Duration to Treatment (minutes)</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Duration to Departure (minutes)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Financial year</p></td><td><p>Mean</p></td><td><p>Median</p></td><td><p>Mean</p></td><td><p>Median</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>98.1</p></td><td><p>84</p></td><td><p>154.9</p></td><td><p>155</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>102.9</p></td><td><p>86</p></td><td><p>158.0</p></td><td><p>156</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>107.2</p></td><td><p>89</p></td><td><p>165.8</p></td><td><p>163</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>92.9</p></td><td><p>78</p></td><td><p>154.6</p></td><td><p>154</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>101.6</p></td><td><p>87</p></td><td><p>165.3</p></td><td><p>166</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>108.5</p></td><td><p>93</p></td><td><p>173.8</p></td><td><p>175</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>125.7</p></td><td><p>106</p></td><td><p>194.7</p></td><td><p>185</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Hospital Episode Statistics; Outpatients, NHS Digital</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 07/02/2018 16:21:14 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

834689

registered interest
date	01/02/2018
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	Genito-urinary Medicine
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 steps he has taken to ensure that sexual health services are (a) adequately funded, (b) sustainable and (c) accessible.
tabling member constituency	Exeter
tabling member printed	Mr Ben Bradshaw
uin	126137
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2018 answer text <p>The Department has mandated local authorities to commission comprehensive open access sexual health services, including free sexually transmitted infection testing and treatment, notification of sexual partners of infected persons and free provision of contraception. We are investing more than £16 billion in the provision of local authority public health services, including sexual health services, during the current spending period.</p><p> </p><p>In August 2017, Public Health England (PHE) published a report, ‘Sexual Health, Reproductive Health and HIV: A Review of Commissioning’, which identifies the commissioning challenges faced by commissioners and providers, and sets out an action plan that aims to reduce fragmentation of commissioning and resolve contracting systems barriers. As part of the action plan, PHE will take forward a range of activities aimed at strengthening commissioning. These activities include providing evidence and data to commissioners to support commissioning and the monitoring of outcomes, and building capacity and capability in sexual and reproductive health commissioning. The report can be viewed online at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/640578/Sexual_health_reproductive_health_and_HIV_a_survey_of_commissioning.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/640578/Sexual_health_reproductive_health_and_HIV_a_survey_of_commissioning.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 08/02/2018 14:44:36 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	230 label Biography information for Mr Ben Bradshaw

834690

registered interest
date	01/02/2018
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	HIV Infection
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 assessment his Department has made of the social care (a) needs of and (b) provision for people aged 50 and over who are living with HIV.
tabling member constituency	Exeter
tabling member printed	Mr Ben Bradshaw
uin	126138
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2018 answer text <p>It is for local authorities to decide upon the appropriate provision of social care services for people aged 50 and over who are living with HIV, based on individual need and local circumstances.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities are subject to the Public Sector Equality duty, which requires them to take steps to meet the needs of people with protected characteristics, including people living with HIV, where they are different from the needs of others, and to minimise or remove disadvantages resulting from protected characteristics. Local authorities have a duty to ensure that, when someone has been assessed as being eligible for care and support, services are commissioned to meet those needs.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 08/02/2018 14:46:48 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	230 label Biography information for Mr Ben Bradshaw

834693

registered interest
date	01/02/2018
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	NHS Trusts: Subsidiary Companies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance his Department is providing to NHS Trusts who have (a) set up or (b) are in the process of setting up subsidiary companies within their organisation.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	126141
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2018 answer text <p>NHS Improvement has advised that no formal guidance has been issued to National Health Service trusts who have set up or are in the process of setting up subsidiary companies within their organisation.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 06/02/2018 12:23:56 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

834701

registered interest
date	01/02/2018
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	Coca Cola and Mars UK
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what meetings officials of his Department have had with representatives of (a) Coca Cola and (b) Mars in the last twelve months.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	126148
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2018 answer text <p>Officials from the Department have met with representatives from Coca Cola, Mars and the British Soft Drinks Association in the last 12 months. Discussions have included the soft drinks industry levy, sugar reduction and the wider reformulation programme.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 126164 question first answered 06/02/2018 16:27:57 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

834702

registered interest
date	01/02/2018
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	Food: Advertising
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 he is taking to limit children’s exposure to the marketing of food high in fat, salt and sugar.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	126149
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2018 answer text <p>We launched ‘Childhood Obesity: A Plan for Action’ in August 2016. Our world-leading plan focuses on actions that are likely to have the biggest impact on reducing obesity in children and young people. Key measures in the plan include the soft drinks industry levy, the sugar reduction and wider reformulation programme, and helping children to enjoy an hour of physical activity every day.</p><p> </p><p>‘Childhood Obesity: A Plan for Action’ is available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/546588/Childhood_obesity_2016__2__acc.pdf" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/546588/Childhood_obesity_2016__2__acc.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>Current advertising restrictions in the United Kingdom on high fat, salt or sugar (HFSS) products are among the toughest in the world. Strict new rules came into effect in July 2017 banning the advertising of HFSS food or drink products in children’s media. These restrictions apply across all non-broadcast media including in print, cinema, online and in social media.</p><p> </p><p>In August 2017 we announced £5 million investment in a policy research unit on childhood obesity to provide a robust evidence, evaluation and research capability including looking at the impact of marketing on childhood obesity. We will use this, alongside other reports and data published on progress in delivering our world-leading childhood obesity plan, to determine whether sufficient progress has been made and whether alternative levers need to be considered.</p><p> </p><p>My Rt. hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health, has not had any recent discussions with representatives from social media companies on restricting junk food adverts to children.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 126150 126155 question first answered 06/02/2018 16:25:12 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest