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1174277

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2020
	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	Alcoholic Drinks: Death
	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 reduce alcohol related deaths in South Yorkshire.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	9677
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2020 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for assessing local needs and commissioning drug and alcohol prevention, treatment and harm reduction services to meet these needs. Public Health England (PHE) supports local authorities in this work by providing data, guidance and advice.</p><p> </p><p>PHE’s Yorkshire and Humber Centre has a work programme focused on addressing alcohol and drug-related harm in South Yorkshire. This programme includes:</p><p> </p><p>- helping local areas, such as Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham, plan and improve their local alcohol systems, services and interventions to reduce alcohol harm using the CLeaR (Challenge services, Leadership, and Results) evidence-based approach;</p><p>- supporting local areas to develop new specifications for their alcohol and drug treatment systems by providing advice, guidance and evidence to ensure that prevention, treatment and support is of consistent quality;</p><p>- supporting local areas, such as Barnsley, to develop their drug-related deaths processes in line with recent Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs recommendations;</p><p>- convening a homelessness and rough sleeping roundtable to bring partners together from across the region to share best practice; and</p><p>- supporting the formation and ongoing activities of Alcohol Alliances, which are local strategic partnership boards aimed at tackling the burden of alcohol harms on individuals and communities in Doncaster, Barnsley and Rotherham.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 9678 question first answered 03/02/2020 17:47:45 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1174278

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2020
	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	Drugs: Death
	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 reduce drug related deaths in South Yorkshire.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	9678
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2020 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for assessing local needs and commissioning drug and alcohol prevention, treatment and harm reduction services to meet these needs. Public Health England (PHE) supports local authorities in this work by providing data, guidance and advice.</p><p> </p><p>PHE’s Yorkshire and Humber Centre has a work programme focused on addressing alcohol and drug-related harm in South Yorkshire. This programme includes:</p><p> </p><p>- helping local areas, such as Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham, plan and improve their local alcohol systems, services and interventions to reduce alcohol harm using the CLeaR (Challenge services, Leadership, and Results) evidence-based approach;</p><p>- supporting local areas to develop new specifications for their alcohol and drug treatment systems by providing advice, guidance and evidence to ensure that prevention, treatment and support is of consistent quality;</p><p>- supporting local areas, such as Barnsley, to develop their drug-related deaths processes in line with recent Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs recommendations;</p><p>- convening a homelessness and rough sleeping roundtable to bring partners together from across the region to share best practice; and</p><p>- supporting the formation and ongoing activities of Alcohol Alliances, which are local strategic partnership boards aimed at tackling the burden of alcohol harms on individuals and communities in Doncaster, Barnsley and Rotherham.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 9677 question first answered 03/02/2020 17:47:45 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1236193

	registered interest
	date	21/09/2020
	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, what progress the Government has made on its ambition of a smokefree England in 2030.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	92773
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2020 answer text <p>Smoking rates are the lowest on record at 13.9% for England and we are not complacent. We laid out our ambition to make England smokefree by 2030 in our Prevention Green Paper, ‘Advancing Our Health: Prevention in the 2020s’ consultation last year. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the response to this consultation has been put on hold. The response and plans for achieving our smokefree objectives will be published at a later date.</p><p>Decisions on the future funding of local government health improvement functions will be taken as part of the Spending Review.</p><p>The Department has not made an assessment of introducing a levy on tobacco industry profits. However, HM Treasury has previously carried out a consultation and published its response in September 2015. It is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/464795/PU1814_Tobacco_Levy_final_v3.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/464795/PU1814_Tobacco_Levy_final_v3.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 92774 92775 question first answered 09/10/2020 15:13:37 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill previous answer version 49838 answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1236194

	registered interest
	date	21/09/2020
	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, what funding the Government plans to provide to (a) regional and (b) local government in England to help deliver the Government’s smokefree 2030 policy objective.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	92774
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2020 answer text <p>Smoking rates are the lowest on record at 13.9% for England and we are not complacent. We laid out our ambition to make England smokefree by 2030 in our Prevention Green Paper, ‘Advancing Our Health: Prevention in the 2020s’ consultation last year. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the response to this consultation has been put on hold. The response and plans for achieving our smokefree objectives will be published at a later date.</p><p>Decisions on the future funding of local government health improvement functions will be taken as part of the Spending Review.</p><p>The Department has not made an assessment of introducing a levy on tobacco industry profits. However, HM Treasury has previously carried out a consultation and published its response in September 2015. It is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/464795/PU1814_Tobacco_Levy_final_v3.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/464795/PU1814_Tobacco_Levy_final_v3.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 92773 92775 question first answered 09/10/2020 15:13:37 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill previous answer version 49839 answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1236195

	registered interest
	date	21/09/2020
	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, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of introducing a levy on tobacco industry profits to achieve the Government’s objective for a smokefree England in 2030.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	92775
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2020 answer text <p>Smoking rates are the lowest on record at 13.9% for England and we are not complacent. We laid out our ambition to make England smokefree by 2030 in our Prevention Green Paper, ‘Advancing Our Health: Prevention in the 2020s’ consultation last year. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the response to this consultation has been put on hold. The response and plans for achieving our smokefree objectives will be published at a later date.</p><p>Decisions on the future funding of local government health improvement functions will be taken as part of the Spending Review.</p><p>The Department has not made an assessment of introducing a levy on tobacco industry profits. However, HM Treasury has previously carried out a consultation and published its response in September 2015. It is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/464795/PU1814_Tobacco_Levy_final_v3.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/464795/PU1814_Tobacco_Levy_final_v3.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 92773 92774 question first answered 09/10/2020 15:13:37 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill previous answer version 49840 answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1386655

	registered interest
	date	09/12/2021
	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	Blood: Donors
	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 his Department has made of the impact of the closures of all Plasma Donation Facilities in Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council on the number of blood plasma donations.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	90425
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2021 answer text <p>The Department, NHS Blood and Transplant and NHS England and NHS Improvement are working to create a long-term domestic supply of plasma in England, which can be used to manufacture immunoglobulins.</p><p> </p><p>The Government agreed temporary funding for plasma donation using part of the infrastructure originally established for the COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma Programme. In light of the important wider opportunity to develop the supply of immunoglobulins in the United Kingdom, the Government has now directed NHS Blood and Transplant to retain three of its plasma donation centres on a permanent basis. This is based on balancing affordability with the benefits of sustaining significant domestic plasma supply.</p><p>NHS Blood and Transplant will continue to collect plasma at Birmingham, Reading and Twickenham and from recovered plasma from whole blood donations collected across England. NHS Blood and Transplant is supporting the affected staff at its Barnsley centre to find alternative employment.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield grouped question UIN 90426 question first answered 14/12/2021 09:31:18 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1386656

	registered interest
	date	09/12/2021
	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	Blood: Donors
	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 his Department has made of the impact of the closures of all Plasma Donation Facilities in Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council on (a) unemployment and (b) regional health disparities.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	90426
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2021 answer text <p>The Department, NHS Blood and Transplant and NHS England and NHS Improvement are working to create a long-term domestic supply of plasma in England, which can be used to manufacture immunoglobulins.</p><p> </p><p>The Government agreed temporary funding for plasma donation using part of the infrastructure originally established for the COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma Programme. In light of the important wider opportunity to develop the supply of immunoglobulins in the United Kingdom, the Government has now directed NHS Blood and Transplant to retain three of its plasma donation centres on a permanent basis. This is based on balancing affordability with the benefits of sustaining significant domestic plasma supply.</p><p>NHS Blood and Transplant will continue to collect plasma at Birmingham, Reading and Twickenham and from recovered plasma from whole blood donations collected across England. NHS Blood and Transplant is supporting the affected staff at its Barnsley centre to find alternative employment.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield grouped question UIN 90425 question first answered 14/12/2021 09:31:18 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1173538

	registered interest
	date	27/01/2020
	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	Organs: Donors
	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 publicise the changes to the law resulting from the introduction of the Organ Donation (Deemed Consent) Act 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	8297
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2020 answer text <p>The Organ Donation (Deemed Consent) Act 2019 heralds a new system of consent for organ and tissue donation in England, known as ‘opt-out' or ‘deemed consent’. The Government aims for the new consent arrangements to be introduced from spring 2020.</p><p>Ahead of the new system coming into force, the Government held a 12-week public consultation to seek views on a proposed list of organs and tissues to exclude from deemed consent. The Government Response to the consultation, the accompanying regulations and a Code of Practice for healthcare professionals, prepared by the Human Tissue Authority following public consultation, will be laid in Parliament in the near future, with information about the timetable.</p><p>To make the public fully aware of the new system of consent, NHS Blood and Transplant launched a communication campaign on behalf of Government in April 2019. Several platforms have been used since then to raise public awareness of the new system, more recently through TV and radio adverts, as well as public advertising with specific targeting of people with different backgrounds, faith and beliefs. NHS Blood and Transplant will continue to work with general practitioner (GP) practices, schools and black, Asian and minority ethnic communities to address barriers to organ donation.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 8298 question first answered 30/01/2020 11:37:08 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1173541

	registered interest
	date	27/01/2020
	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	Organs: Donors
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to publish the timetable for the changes to the law following the introduction of the Organ Donation (Deemed Consent) Act 2019 and accompanying guidance and regulations.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	8298
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2020 answer text <p>The Organ Donation (Deemed Consent) Act 2019 heralds a new system of consent for organ and tissue donation in England, known as ‘opt-out' or ‘deemed consent’. The Government aims for the new consent arrangements to be introduced from spring 2020.</p><p>Ahead of the new system coming into force, the Government held a 12-week public consultation to seek views on a proposed list of organs and tissues to exclude from deemed consent. The Government Response to the consultation, the accompanying regulations and a Code of Practice for healthcare professionals, prepared by the Human Tissue Authority following public consultation, will be laid in Parliament in the near future, with information about the timetable.</p><p>To make the public fully aware of the new system of consent, NHS Blood and Transplant launched a communication campaign on behalf of Government in April 2019. Several platforms have been used since then to raise public awareness of the new system, more recently through TV and radio adverts, as well as public advertising with specific targeting of people with different backgrounds, faith and beliefs. NHS Blood and Transplant will continue to work with general practitioner (GP) practices, schools and black, Asian and minority ethnic communities to address barriers to organ donation.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 8297 question first answered 30/01/2020 11:37:08 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1378498

	registered interest
	date	15/11/2021
	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 Covid Pass: British Nationals Abroad
	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 ensure UK citizens who have received their Covid-19 vaccinations in New Zealand are able to receive an NHS Covid Pass.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	74994
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2021 answer text <p>The pilot scheme will be deployed nationally in December, supported by online bookings and further vaccination sites. We are working to understand which non-Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency-approved equivalent vaccines we would be confident to recognise in the NHS COVID Pass. Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Moderna and Janssen vaccines administered in New Zealand recorded with the national service will be able to generate a NHS COVID Pass shortly.</p> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup grouped question UIN 74995 question first answered 03/12/2021 13:36:43 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup previous answer version 33091 answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis