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1667599

	registered interest
	date	07/11/2023
	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	Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
	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 his Department is taking to improve diagnostic processes for foetal alcohol spectrum disorder.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
	tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
	uin	387
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2023 answer text <p>The Department asked the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to produce a Quality Standard in England (QS204) for fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) to help the health and care system improve both diagnosis and care of those affected. As well as covering the assessment and diagnosis of FASD, the Quality Standard covers support during pregnancy to improve awareness and prevent the disorder. It was published in March 2022, and is available at the following link:</p><p>https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/qs204</p><p> </p><p>The UK Chief Medical Officers’ low risk drinking guidelines published in 2016 provide clear advice to women not to drink alcohol if they are planning for a pregnancy or are pregnant, and these are available at the following link:</p><p>https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a80b7ed40f0b623026951db/UK_CMOs__report.pdf</p><p> </p><p>This message is also included in the patient information leaflet recommended for use when giving brief advice to any adult identified as drinking above low risk levels, and in the National Health Service public-facing health information pages. These are available at the following links:</p><p>https://khub.net/web/phe-national/public-library/-/document_library/v2WsRK3ZlEig/view_file/377334553</p><p>https://www.nhs.uk/pregnancy/keeping-well/drinking-alcohol-while-pregnant/</p><p> </p><p>The Department is currently consulting on the first ever UK clinical guidelines for alcohol treatment. The guidelines set out how maternity, alcohol treatment and other healthcare professionals should support women to reduce or stop their alcohol use as quickly and safely as possible, to reduce the ongoing exposure of the foetus to alcohol and the risk and severity of future disability. More information is available at the following link:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/uk-clinical-guidelines-for-alcohol-treatment</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, the Maternity Disparities Taskforce is currently producing a resource for pre-conception care for women from minority ethnic communities and those living in the most deprived areas. This guidance will include information on drinking in pregnancy.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom grouped question UIN 388 question first answered 16/11/2023 12:51:37 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1667600

	registered interest
	date	07/11/2023
	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	Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
	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 his Department is taking to improve awareness of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
	tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
	uin	388
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2023 answer text <p>The Department asked the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to produce a Quality Standard in England (QS204) for fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) to help the health and care system improve both diagnosis and care of those affected. As well as covering the assessment and diagnosis of FASD, the Quality Standard covers support during pregnancy to improve awareness and prevent the disorder. It was published in March 2022, and is available at the following link:</p><p>https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/qs204</p><p> </p><p>The UK Chief Medical Officers’ low risk drinking guidelines published in 2016 provide clear advice to women not to drink alcohol if they are planning for a pregnancy or are pregnant, and these are available at the following link:</p><p>https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a80b7ed40f0b623026951db/UK_CMOs__report.pdf</p><p> </p><p>This message is also included in the patient information leaflet recommended for use when giving brief advice to any adult identified as drinking above low risk levels, and in the National Health Service public-facing health information pages. These are available at the following links:</p><p>https://khub.net/web/phe-national/public-library/-/document_library/v2WsRK3ZlEig/view_file/377334553</p><p>https://www.nhs.uk/pregnancy/keeping-well/drinking-alcohol-while-pregnant/</p><p> </p><p>The Department is currently consulting on the first ever UK clinical guidelines for alcohol treatment. The guidelines set out how maternity, alcohol treatment and other healthcare professionals should support women to reduce or stop their alcohol use as quickly and safely as possible, to reduce the ongoing exposure of the foetus to alcohol and the risk and severity of future disability. More information is available at the following link:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/uk-clinical-guidelines-for-alcohol-treatment</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, the Maternity Disparities Taskforce is currently producing a resource for pre-conception care for women from minority ethnic communities and those living in the most deprived areas. This guidance will include information on drinking in pregnancy.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom grouped question UIN 387 question first answered 16/11/2023 12:51:37 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1667646

	registered interest
	date	07/11/2023
	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: Health Services
	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 hospital trusts run specialist in-patient smoking cessation services; and what recent estimate he has made of when all hospital trusts will provided these services.
	tabling member constituency	Don Valley
	tabling member printed	Nick Fletcher
	uin	602
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2023 answer text <p>As of September 2023, 74% of trusts were delivering an inpatient smoking cessation service. As part of the NHS Long Term Plan, it has been agreed that integrated care boards will determine locally when they achieve a 100% level of trusts providing this service.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 16/11/2023 12:44:45 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4832 label Biography information for Nick Fletcher

1667713

	registered interest
	date	07/11/2023
	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	Novel Foods: Regulation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to page 20 of his Department's food strategy white paper, published on June 2022, what his planned timetable is for when the Food Standards Agency will review the novel foods regulatory framework.
	tabling member constituency	Cambridge
	tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
	uin	238
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2023 answer text <p>The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is committed to maintaining the United Kingdom’s high standards of food and feed safety whilst also working hard to support innovation across the food system. The FSA has a programme of continuous improvement and reform that has been in place since the launch of the Regulated Products Service in January 2021.</p><p> </p><p>In June, the FSA published a summary of the findings of the review of the Novel Foods Regulatory Framework. Following this review, the FSA has focused resource to look at potential future options for more fundamental reform of the food and feed regulatory system. This has included surveying stakeholders across all regulated product regimes to gain their views on potential reforms.</p><p> </p><p>The FSA is in the process of analysing this information to develop reform plans and will provide further detail on these, including timetables, at the public FSA Board meetings in the future.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 16/11/2023 12:23:41 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1667714

	registered interest
	date	07/11/2023
	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	Novel Foods: Regulation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's food strategy white paper, published on June 2022, what steps the Food Standards Agency is taking to help food producers conduct (a) safe and (b) limited tastings of novel food products.
	tabling member constituency	Cambridge
	tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
	uin	239
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2023 answer text <p>Under retained EU Regulation 2015/2283, a novel food is only deemed safe to be placed on the market in Great Britain after the Food Standards Agency (FSA) has processed an application for the authorisation of the novel food.</p><p> </p><p>For foods that are still in the research and development phase prior to authorisation guidance issued by the FSA Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes in 2002 confirms that taste trials are permitted as long as they are not conducted for marketing or advertising purposes.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 16/11/2023 12:37:36 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1667715

	registered interest
	date	07/11/2023
	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	Novel Foods
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 12 December 2022 to Question 105459 on Food: Research, what progress the Food Standards Agency has made in developing dedicated guidance materials for alternative protein companies developing novel foods and processes; and when he plans to publish that guidance.
	tabling member constituency	Cambridge
	tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
	uin	240
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2023 answer text <p>The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has prepared an information page for its website that will provide guidance to companies producing cell-cultivated products that wish to apply for regulatory approval. This will be published before the end of November 2023.</p><p> </p><p>This page will outline information about the FSA’s regulated product application service, the regulations that apply to these cell-cultivated products, and information about labelling implications. Alongside this, the FSA has been providing pre-application support to businesses on an individual basis due to the novelty and complexity of this technology. This one-to-one engagement with business and industry has helped to inform and tailor our online guidance which will be available shortly.</p><p> </p><p>The FSA is also considering producing additional regulatory guidance for alternative protein producers as part of its wider aim to support business innovation whilst ensuring that food is safe and what it says it is. In addition to this, a new UK Research and Innovation project was announced on 9 November 2023 that will work on new safety rules for the United States of America, Singapore, United Kingdom and the European Union with a focus on creating standards for cell-cultivated protein.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 16/11/2023 12:39:36 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1668100

	registered interest
	date	07/11/2023
	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	General Practitioners: Finance
	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 make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the share of NHS funding for general practice to shift care into the community.
	tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
	tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
	uin	434
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2023 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Plan committed to increase investment in primary medical and community health services as a share of the planned total national revenue spend in the National Health Service across the five years from 2019/20 to 2023/24. Investment in general practice has grown in each of the last five years for which we have published the investment in general practice report. In 2021/22, which is the latest year for which data is available, we saw a 7.14% growth in investment compared with 2020/21. The full report is available at the following link:</p><p>https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/investment-in-general-practice-in-england-17-18-to-21-22/</p><p> </p><p>The Delivery Plan For Recovering Access to Primary Care, published by NHS England on 9 May 2023, recognised the benefits of moving care closer to home and supported the vision set out in Dr Claire Fuller’s Stocktake on Next steps For Integrating Primary Care. This is backed by a major new investment into primary care services, with up to £645 million over two years to expand the services offered by community pharmacies, helping to take the pressure off general practitioners and providing patients with more options for care.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 16/11/2023 12:26:25 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1669215

	registered interest
	date	10/11/2023
	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	Dental Services: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 13 September 2023 to Question 198352 on Dental Services: Cornwall, how funding recovered from NHS dentists may be spent by his Department.
	tabling member constituency	St Ives
	tabling member printed	Derek Thomas
	uin	1380
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2023 answer text <p>NHS England has provided guidance for integrated care boards (ICBs) that requires dental funding to be ringfenced, with any unused resources re-directed to improve National Health Service dental access in the first instance. A schedule setting out the dental ringfence has been issued to ICBs. NHS England’s 2023/24 revenue finance and contracting guidance, which provides more detail, is available at the following link: https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/2023-24-revenue-finance-and-contracting-guidance/</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 16/11/2023 12:10:42 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 1081 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4532 label Biography information for Derek Thomas

1668437

	registered interest
	date	08/11/2023
	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	Dementia: Clinical Trials
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how the National Institute for Health and Care Research's Dementia Translational Research Collaborative plans to work with a Clinical Trial Acceleration Network for dementia to increase the UK’s share of clinical trials.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	799
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2023 answer text <p>The Dementia Translational Research Collaboration (D-TRC) is funded by the Department via the National Institute for Health &amp; Care Research. The D-TRC plays a critical role in coordinating dementia research in early phase clinical trials in the United Kingdom and seeks to offer a wider, more collaborative and cohesive network. The D-TRC's over-arching goal is the elevation of the UK as the world-leading place to conduct early phase clinical trials in dementia.</p><p>The Government will publish a full response to the Lord O’Shaughnessy independent review into commercial clinical trials in autumn 2023. The response will include an update on progress and implementation of the initial five headline commitments and foundational actions that the government made in May 2023 as well as all other recommendations in the review.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 15/11/2023 16:42:09 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1668594

	registered interest
	date	08/11/2023
	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	Department of Health and Social Care: Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what level of consultation officials in his Department had with their counterparts in the Department for Business and Trade during the negotiation of the UK’s accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP); and whether his Department has made an assessment of the implications for its policies of the findings of Public Health Wales’ report entitled The health, well-being and equity impact of the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) Agreement on Wales.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington North
	tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
	uin	945
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2023 answer text <p>Officials across Government work closely to support the negotiation of the United Kingdom’s trade deals, including the UK’s accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). While the Department has not made a specific assessment of this report, the Government has been clear that protecting the National Health Service is a fundamental principle of our trade policy. During our negotiations to accede to CPTPP our commitment to this did not change; the NHS, its services and the price it pays for medicines were never on the table. CPTPP preserves the right to regulate to protect human, animal and plant life and health. The UK will continue to uphold our high standards in all our trade agreements, including CPTPP. Decisions on these standards remain a matter for the UK and will be made separately from any trade agreements.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 15/11/2023 16:32:01 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols