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1109016

	registered interest
	date	02/04/2019
	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	Obesity
	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 has taken to establish the cost of obesity to the (a) NHS, (b) social services and (c) the wider economy.
	tabling member constituency	St Ives
	tabling member printed	Derek Thomas
	uin	240052
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2019 answer text <p>‘The economic burden of ill health due to diet, physical inactivity, smoking, alcohol and obesity in the UK: an update to 2006-07 NHS costs’ estimated that overweight and obesity cost the National Health Service in the United Kingdom £5.1 billion per year. This figure was uplifted to £6.1 billion in 2014/15 to take account of inflation.</p><p> </p><p>The Foresight team published ‘Tackling Obesities: Future Choices in 2007’. This estimated the annual costs of overweight and obesity to society and the economy as £27 billion in 2015, based on obesity prevalence at the time. In 2014 the McKinsey Global Institute estimated the cost of obesity to the UK economy as £46 billion per year.</p><p> </p><p>No further estimates of the costs of obesity are planned or have been made centrally.</p><p> </p><p>Copies of ‘The economic burden of ill health due to diet, physical inactivity, smoking, alcohol and obesity in the UK: an update to 2006-07 NHS costs’; ‘Tackling Obesities: Future Choices’; and the McKinsey Global Institute’s report ‘Overcoming obesity: An initial economic analysis’ are available at the following links:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/article/33/4/527/1568587" target="_blank">https://academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/article/33/4/527/1568587</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/reducing-obesity-future-choices" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/reducing-obesity-future-choices</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.mckinsey.com/industries/healthcare-systems-and-services/our-insights/how-the-world-could-better-fight-obesity" target="_blank">www.mckinsey.com/industries/healthcare-systems-and-services/our-insights/how-the-world-could-better-fight-obesity</a></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 240053 question first answered 10/04/2019 13:47:01 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4532 label Biography information for Derek Thomas

1109017

	registered interest
	date	02/04/2019
	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	Obesity
	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 cost of obesity to the (a) NHS, (b) social services and (c) wider economy.
	tabling member constituency	St Ives
	tabling member printed	Derek Thomas
	uin	240053
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2019 answer text <p>‘The economic burden of ill health due to diet, physical inactivity, smoking, alcohol and obesity in the UK: an update to 2006-07 NHS costs’ estimated that overweight and obesity cost the National Health Service in the United Kingdom £5.1 billion per year. This figure was uplifted to £6.1 billion in 2014/15 to take account of inflation.</p><p> </p><p>The Foresight team published ‘Tackling Obesities: Future Choices in 2007’. This estimated the annual costs of overweight and obesity to society and the economy as £27 billion in 2015, based on obesity prevalence at the time. In 2014 the McKinsey Global Institute estimated the cost of obesity to the UK economy as £46 billion per year.</p><p> </p><p>No further estimates of the costs of obesity are planned or have been made centrally.</p><p> </p><p>Copies of ‘The economic burden of ill health due to diet, physical inactivity, smoking, alcohol and obesity in the UK: an update to 2006-07 NHS costs’; ‘Tackling Obesities: Future Choices’; and the McKinsey Global Institute’s report ‘Overcoming obesity: An initial economic analysis’ are available at the following links:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/article/33/4/527/1568587" target="_blank">https://academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/article/33/4/527/1568587</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/reducing-obesity-future-choices" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/reducing-obesity-future-choices</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.mckinsey.com/industries/healthcare-systems-and-services/our-insights/how-the-world-could-better-fight-obesity" target="_blank">www.mckinsey.com/industries/healthcare-systems-and-services/our-insights/how-the-world-could-better-fight-obesity</a></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 240052 question first answered 10/04/2019 13:47:01 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4532 label Biography information for Derek Thomas

1110327

	registered interest
	date	08/04/2019
	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	Prescriptions: Universal Credit
	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 recipients of universal credit have had penalty notices issued for falsely claiming free prescriptions that were subsequently cancelled in each of the last two years; and how many of those cancellations were because the claimant had proven they were correctly claiming such prescriptions.
	tabling member constituency	New Forest West
	tabling member printed	Sir Desmond Swayne
	uin	241976
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2019 answer text <p>Work is ongoing to update the FP10 prescription form to include a new exemption tick box for use by Universal Credit (UC) claimants, and the revised form will be introduced at the earliest opportunity. In advance of this update both UC and income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance claimants who meet the criteria for free National Health Service prescriptions are ticking exemption box K on the FP10 prescription form.</p><p> </p><p>As a result, the NHS Business Services Authority does not have a data split that enables it to confirm how many recipients of UC have been issued with penalty charge notices for incorrectly claiming free prescriptions that were subsequently cancelled, or how many of these were cancelled due to claimants having a valid prescription charge exemption.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 11/04/2019 16:57:48 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne

1110385

	registered interest
	date	08/04/2019
	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	Prescriptions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the cost to the public purse has been of free repeat prescriptions in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
	tabling member printed	Royston Smith
	uin	242195
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2019 answer text <p>Whether a prescription is a repeat or not is not indicated on the prescription. Therefore, the cost to the public purse of free repeat prescriptions is not recorded centrally. However, we know, for the past three years, that around almost 90% of prescriptions are dispensed free of charge.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 12/04/2019 14:14:47 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

1110381

	registered interest
	date	08/04/2019
	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	Prescriptions
	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 people are registered for repeat prescriptions.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
	tabling member printed	Royston Smith
	uin	242194
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2019 answer text <p>Whether a prescription is a repeat or not is not indicated on the prescription therefore it is not recorded centrally.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 11/04/2019 16:59:25 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

1109266

	registered interest
	date	02/04/2019
	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	Obesity: Cancer
	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 tackle the rate of cancer caused by obesity.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	239986
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2019 answer text <p>We published the second chapter of our world-leading childhood obesity plan in June 2018. This builds on the real progress we have made since the publication of chapter one in 2016, particularly in reformulation of the products our children eat and drink most. In chapter two we have set a bold ambition to halve childhood obesity by 2030 and significantly reduce the gap in obesity between children from the most and least deprived areas by 2030.</p><p> </p><p>Many of the measures in both chapters of the plan will have an impact on tackling obesity across all age groups. These include the soft drinks industry levy, sugar reduction and wider calorie reformulation programme, restricting promotions and calorie labelling in restaurants which will improve our eating habits and reduce the amount of sugar we consume.</p><p> </p><p>‘Childhood obesity: a plan for action, chapter 2’ is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/childhood-obesity-a-plan-for-action-chapter-2" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/childhood-obesity-a-plan-for-action-chapter-2</a></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 09/04/2019 14:37:48 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1109022

	registered interest
	date	02/04/2019
	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	Sterilisation
	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 Clinical Commissioning Groups commission vasectomy services for patients who are not in exceptional circumstances.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	240100
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>This is a matter for local clinical commissioning groups, and the information requested is not held centrally by the Department or NHS England.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 08/04/2019 15:26:41 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1109060

	registered interest
	date	02/04/2019
	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	Cytomegalovirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the costs incurred to NHS England each year of treating cytomegalovirus.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
	tabling member printed	David Linden
	uin	240088
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2019 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally. The range of procedures and diagnoses that may cover cytomegalovirus mean it is not possible to provide a cost of treatment.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 10/04/2019 13:50:04 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1110409

	registered interest
	date	08/04/2019
	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	Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: North West
	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 the Government has allocated to services used by patients with ME in the North West in each year for which information is available.
	tabling member constituency	Wallasey
	tabling member printed	Ms Angela Eagle
	uin	242027
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2019 answer text <p>This data is not available. Services for people with myalgic encephalomyelitis are commissioned by local clinical commissioning groups. It is the responsibility of the local National Health Service commissioners to ensure NHS services are commissioned to meet local need and that they address any shortfalls in provision.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 11/04/2019 16:58:19 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle

1109699

	registered interest
	date	04/04/2019
	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	Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: North East
	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 the Government has allocated to services used by patients with ME in the North East.
	tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
	uin	240991
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2019 answer text <p>This data is not available. Services for people with myalgic encephalomyelitis are commissioned by local clinical commissioning groups. It is the responsibility of the local National Health Service commissioners to ensure NHS services are commissioned to meet local need and that they address any shortfalls in provision. Where appropriate, this will include commissioning services provided by voluntary sector organisations.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 240992 question first answered 12/04/2019 11:37:15 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson