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1719405

registered interest
date	20/05/2024
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: Southport
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 her Department is taking to help improve mental health services in Southport constituency.
tabling member constituency	Southport
tabling member printed	Damien Moore
uin	27143
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2024 answer text <p>Between 2018/19 and 2023/24, the National Health Service increased spending on mental health services in England by £4.7 billion in cash terms, compared to the target of £3.4 billion set out at the time of the NHS Long Term Plan. All integrated care boards, including Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board, are also on track to meet the Mental Health Investment Standard in 2023/24 by increasing their investment in mental health services, in line with their overall increase in funding for the year.</p><p> </p><p>Almost £16 billion was invested in mental health in 2022/23, enabling over 3.6 million people, including those in the Southport constituency, to be in contact with mental health services, a 10% increase on the previous year.</p><p> </p><p>We have also made positive progress on our ambition to grow the mental health workforce by an extra 27,000 staff between 2019/20 and 2023/24. We delivered three quarters of this, approximately 20,800, by December 2023, with further growth expected to have been achieved once the full year figures for 2023/24 are available.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 22/05/2024 16:07:59 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4669 label Biography information for Damien Moore

1719436

registered interest
date	20/05/2024
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	Thirlwall Inquiry: Finance
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 her Department has allocated to the Thirlwall Inquiry.
tabling member constituency	City of Chester
tabling member printed	Samantha Dixon
uin	27174
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2024 answer text <p>Decisions about the budget for the inquiry will be confirmed in due course.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 22/05/2024 08:58:36 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4976 label Biography information for Samantha Dixon

1718766

registered interest
date	16/05/2024
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: Screening
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of offering breast cancer screening to women going through early menopause.
tabling member constituency	Putney
tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
uin	26776
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) currently recommends that all women aged 50 to 71 years old are invited for a breast screening every three years. The AgeX trial is looking at the impact of increasing or decreasing the screening age for breast screening, and the UK NSC will review its findings when they are available.</p><p>The UK NSC can be alerted to any new published peer reviewed evidence which may suggest the case for a new screening programme, or changes to an existing one. Proposals can be submitted via the UK NSC’s annual call in July 2024, which is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-nsc-annual-call-submitting-a-screening-proposal/uk-nsc-annual-call-how-to-submit-a-proposal#:~:text=To%20submit%20a%20proposal%20for,your%20name" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-nsc-annual-call-submitting-a-screening-proposal/uk-nsc-annual-call-how-to-submit-a-proposal#:~:text=To%20submit%20a%20proposal%20for,your%20name</a></p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 21/05/2024 16:51:28 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson

1718802

registered interest
date	16/05/2024
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	Bipolar Disorder: 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 steps her Department have taken to reduce the time taken from initial presentation of symptoms to diagnosis of bipolar disorder.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	26719
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2024 answer text <p>We’re set to reach nearly £1 billion of additional funding invested by 2023/24, compared to 2018/19, to transform community mental health services. In 2022/23, 288,000 people with severe mental illness, including bipolar disorder, accessed support through new integrated models of community care.</p><p>The funding aims to increase access to high quality care and transform care pathways for people with severe mental illness, including bipolar disorder, through: greater integration of primary and community services, to provide care in the community driven by the needs of individuals, rather than based solely on diagnoses; physical health checks; and Individual Placement and Support schemes, as well as Early Intervention in Psychosis services.</p><p>NHS England is also working on implementing new access and waiting time standards for mental health services, including one for adults with bi-polar disorder or similar, to start to receive community-based mental health care within four weeks of referral.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 22/05/2024 09:28:15 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1718814

registered interest
date	16/05/2024
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: Standards
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 20 February 2023 to Question 142657 on Mental Health Services: Children and Young People, what progress has been made on work to (a) establish the feasibility and associated risks of introducing new mental health waiting time standards for (i) adult's and (ii) children and young people’s community-based mental health services and (b) support the development of a baseline position for waiting times.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	26668
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2024 answer text <p>NHS England will publish new core community all-age mental health waiting time metrics from autumn 2024, which will encompass activity data from April 2024. It will cover the percentage of patients receiving meaningful help within four weeks of referral to community mental health services. Once published, NHS England will focus on improving data quality, including ensuring appropriate Systematised Nomenclature of Medicine data is flowed to show when patients are receiving meaningful help. Improved data quality within community mental health services will provide greater insights into the frequency and types of therapeutic provision.</p><p>The publication of the new community waiting times metrics is expected to increase transparency and local accountability on waiting times for community mental health services. Furthermore, NHS England expect that publication of the data will improve the quality of the data, so that the Department and NHS England will be in a better position to assess the costs and benefits of introducing performance standards against these metrics.</p><p>Systems have also been asked to focus on reducing long waits in community mental health services and to develop local plans to support this, including by improving data quality. We will work with systems to develop an agreed baseline and improvement trajectories for waits over 104 weeks in autumn 2024, as referenced in NHS England’s 2024/25 Operational Planning Guidance.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 22/05/2024 09:35:04 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1718862

registered interest
date	16/05/2024
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	Health Services: Payments
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 responses were received to her Department's consultation entitled The disclosure of industry payments to the healthcare sector, which closed on 16 October 2023; and what her planned timetable is to respond to that consultation.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Sir Philip Davies
uin	26667
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>The Department launched a United Kingdom-wide public consultation on 4 September 2023 on the disclosure of industry payments to the healthcare sector. The consultation sought views on the possible introduction of regulations through new secondary legislation, as well as views on alternative options to regulations. There were 603 responses to the consultation. The Department is analysing the responses, and the Government’s response will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 21/05/2024 16:47:43 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1718341

registered interest
date	15/05/2024
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	Ophthalmic Services: Special Educational Needs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will hold discussions with the Association of Optometrists on the adequacy of funding for the special schools eye care service.
tabling member constituency	Bromley and Chislehurst
tabling member printed	Sir Robert Neill
uin	26397
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2024 answer text <p>NHS England has committed to invest up to £12.7 million annually on the provision of sight tests and associated optical vouchers in special educational settings. This represents an approximate 87% increase compared to the current budget. This additional investment has the potential to increase coverage from 4% of special educational settings to 100%. NHS England has already engaged with the Optical Fees Negotiating Committee, which includes the Association of Optometrists.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom grouped question UIN 26398 26399 question first answered 22/05/2024 15:05:51 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	1601 label Biography information for Sir Robert Neill

1718342

registered interest
date	15/05/2024
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	Ophthalmic Services: Special Educational Needs
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 her Department is taking to ensure that the special schools eye care service has adequate funding to enable the long-term commissioning of those services.
tabling member constituency	Bromley and Chislehurst
tabling member printed	Sir Robert Neill
uin	26398
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2024 answer text <p>NHS England has committed to invest up to £12.7 million annually on the provision of sight tests and associated optical vouchers in special educational settings. This represents an approximate 87% increase compared to the current budget. This additional investment has the potential to increase coverage from 4% of special educational settings to 100%. NHS England has already engaged with the Optical Fees Negotiating Committee, which includes the Association of Optometrists.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom grouped question UIN 26397 26399 question first answered 22/05/2024 15:05:51 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	1601 label Biography information for Sir Robert Neill

1718343

registered interest
date	15/05/2024
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	Ophthalmic Services: Special Educational Needs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will hold discussions with the Association of Optometrists on the adequacy of funding for the special schools' eye care service.
tabling member constituency	Bromley and Chislehurst
tabling member printed	Sir Robert Neill
uin	26399
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2024 answer text <p>NHS England has committed to invest up to £12.7 million annually on the provision of sight tests and associated optical vouchers in special educational settings. This represents an approximate 87% increase compared to the current budget. This additional investment has the potential to increase coverage from 4% of special educational settings to 100%. NHS England has already engaged with the Optical Fees Negotiating Committee, which includes the Association of Optometrists.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom grouped question UIN 26397 26398 question first answered 22/05/2024 15:05:51 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	1601 label Biography information for Sir Robert Neill

1718439

registered interest
date	15/05/2024
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: Screening
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when she plans to extend the opt-out HIV testing programme.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Peter Gibson
uin	26609
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>As part of the HIV Action Plan, NHS England made an initial £20 million available over three years up to 2025 for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) opt-out testing in 34 emergency departments in areas with extremely high HIV prevalence, with five or more HIV cases per 1,000 residents aged 15 to 59 years old. This includes Blackpool at 4.9 HIV cases in 2019, and the whole of London, including some local areas with high HIV prevalence, specifically with two to five HIV cases per 1,000 residents aged 15 to 59 years old, with additional funding from NHS London.</p><p>The programme shows extremely encouraging outcomes and in the first two years, it has preliminarily delivered nearly 1.9 million HIV tests, and helped find more than 1,000 people with undiagnosed or untreated HIV.</p><p>In November 2023, the Department announced a new research project to evaluate an expansion of HIV opt-out testing in emergency departments in England. Backed by a further £20 million of funding from the National Institute for Health and Care Research, the research project will evaluate the testing programme in 47 new sites across England, where HIV prevalence is high. The research project is currently in its set-up phase and will run until the end of 2025/26, with sites receiving twelve months of funding for testing.</p><p>Decisions on whether to continue offering opt-out HIV testing in emergency departments in local areas with extremely high and high HIV prevalence will be based on outcomes of the current opt-out HIV testing programme and research project, as well as available funding.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 21/05/2024 08:46:36 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4754 label Biography information for Peter Gibson