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1128505

	registered interest
	date	23/05/2019
	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	Primary Care Networks: General Practitioners
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether safeguards are in place to ensure that patients' rights to continuity of care with their named GP will be protected in the new Primary Care Network contract, published in March 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
	tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
	uin	257814
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2019 answer text <p>The new Primary Care Network arrangements will not prevent patients seeing their preferred professional at their practice. The core general practice contract will still include a requirement for each contractor to ensure that for each of its registered patients, there is assigned an accountable general medical practitioner (an ‘accountable GP’).</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 10/06/2019 15:24:15 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

1142733

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2019
	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	NHS: Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of requests by NHS professionals to the NHS Business Services Authority to provide them with an accurate and up to date pension statement have been responded to in a timely manner in the most recent period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
	tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
	uin	284282
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>The NHS Business Services Authority can provide ‘on demand’ Pension Savings Statements (PSS) to members on request. This is not triggered by a member breaching the annual allowance, but instead by the member requesting a statement. ‘On demand’ statements should be provided by the NHS Business Services Authority by the later of three months from the date of request by the individual or by 6 October following the end of the relevant tax year. However, this is dependent on the NHS Business Services Authority receiving the relevant data from the Employing Authority such as pensionable pay.</p><p>The NHS Business Services Authority cannot exclusively identify healthcare professionals but confirm that during the period of 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2019 it provided NHS Pension Scheme members with 17,187 ‘on demand’ PSSs of which 13,393 were completed on time.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 09/09/2019 18:38:13 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

1143066

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2019
	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	Parkinson's Disease: Research
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is funding research on higher rates of (a) anxiety and (b) depression in people with Parkinson’s.
	tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
	tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
	uin	284735
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>The Department’s National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) welcomes funding applications for research into any aspect of human health, including Parkinson’s disease and mental health. Applications are subject to peer review and judged in open competition, with awards being made on the basis of the importance of the topic to patients and health and care services, value for money and scientific quality. Information on individual projects funded by the NIHR can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/programmes/" target="_blank">https://www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/programmes/</a></p><p>NIHR support for research into Parkinson’s was nearly £15 million since 2015. This includes studies looking specifically at Parkinson’s and mental health such as the ‘Antidepressants Trial in Parkinson’s Disease (ADepT-PD)’ and the ‘Personalised Care for People with Parkinson’s Disease: PD Care’ study. NIHR infrastructure has supported 169 studies into Parkinson’s disease since 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 284621 question first answered 09/09/2019 17:28:21 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

1147017

	registered interest
	date	30/09/2019
	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	Gluten-free Foods: 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 assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of establishing a national gluten-free prescribing scheme for England to avoid variation in prescribing policies across different Clinical Commissioning Groups.
	tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
	tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
	uin	292301
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 08/10/2019 15:59:44 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

1306459

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2021
	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	Tobacco
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to bring forward proposals in the Green Paper, Advancing our health: prevention in the 2020s, in the upcoming Tobacco Control Plan.
	tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
	tabling member printed	Jason McCartney
	uin	175805
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/04/2021 answer text <p>A new Tobacco Control plan is due to be published later this year and will set out further ambitions to deliver a smoke free country by 2030. Policies for the new plan are currently under development. We will consider all proposals from the 2019 Green Paper, including those on e-cigarettes and addressing smoking in particular vulnerable groups.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 175806 question first answered 13/04/2021 09:04:35 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	3953 label Biography information for Jason McCartney

1306460

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2021
	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	Tobacco
	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 publish his timeframe for the policy development and publishing of the Tobacco Control Plan.
	tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
	tabling member printed	Jason McCartney
	uin	175806
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/04/2021 answer text <p>A new Tobacco Control plan is due to be published later this year and will set out further ambitions to deliver a smoke free country by 2030. Policies for the new plan are currently under development. We will consider all proposals from the 2019 Green Paper, including those on e-cigarettes and addressing smoking in particular vulnerable groups.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 175805 question first answered 13/04/2021 09:04:35 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	3953 label Biography information for Jason McCartney

1306461

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2021
	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	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, which products are planned to be included in the scope of the proposed ban of TV advertising of products High in Fat, Sugar and Salt (HFSS); and whether only products of particular appeal to children are planned to be banned.
	tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
	tabling member printed	Jason McCartney
	uin	175807
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/04/2021 answer text <p>The current proposal is to use the categories originally put forward by Public Health England (PHE) as part of the calorie reduction programme, sugar reduction programme and the soft drinks industry levy overlaying this with the 2004/05 Nutrient Profiling Model. As outlined in our consultations, one of the key objectives of any further advertising restriction was to be targeted at the products of more concern to childhood obesity.</p><p>Officials are considering the final list put forward by PHE as well as views fed in as part of the consultation process to come to a final decision on what products are in scope and will publish our full response to the consultation shortly.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 13/04/2021 08:29:56 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	3953 label Biography information for Jason McCartney

1360980

	registered interest
	date	19/10/2021
	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	Coronavirus: Vaccination
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What recent assessment his Department has made of the progress of the covid-19 vaccine rollout.
	tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
	tabling member printed	Jason McCartney
	uin	903661
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2021 answer text <p>Due to our successful COVID-19 vaccination programme we have now delivered over 83 million doses to people in England, including 3.6 million booster and third doses to the most vulnerable since September.</p><p>This has reduced the link between case numbers and hospitalisation, preventing the National Health Service from becoming overwhelmed and provided additional protection ahead of the winter.</p><p>Over 24.3million infections have been prevented and more than 127,000 lives saved to date.</p> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup question first answered 19/10/2021 16:39:19 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
	tabling member	3953 label Biography information for Jason McCartney

1684903

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2024
	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	Respiratory Diseases: Screening
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department is taking steps to encourage people to attend lung screening appointments.
	tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
	tabling member printed	Jason McCartney
	uin	11305
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2024 answer text <p>By the end of March 2024, 48% of the eligible population of West Yorkshire will have been reached by targeted lung health checks. This figure includes the impact of the national programme overseen by NHS England and the Yorkshire Lung Screening Trial, which operates in the City of Leeds and has been funded by Yorkshire Cancer Research.</p><p> </p><p>The national requirement is that a full population rollout programme should be in place by 2028/29 and a local programme of expansion has already been developed to cover the remaining population within this timescale. This will include populations who will have aged into eligibility for targeted lung health checks whilst the initial programme has been developed across West Yorkshire. The rollout strategy for targeted lung health checks has been based around managing health inequalities and improving clinical outcomes.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson grouped question UIN 11306 question first answered 31/01/2024 11:49:25 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	3953 label Biography information for Jason McCartney

1684904

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2024
	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	Respiratory Diseases: Yorkshire
	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 she has made of the proportion of people living in Yorkshire being reached by the targeted lung health checks.
	tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
	tabling member printed	Jason McCartney
	uin	11306
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2024 answer text <p>By the end of March 2024, 48% of the eligible population of West Yorkshire will have been reached by targeted lung health checks. This figure includes the impact of the national programme overseen by NHS England and the Yorkshire Lung Screening Trial, which operates in the City of Leeds and has been funded by Yorkshire Cancer Research.</p><p> </p><p>The national requirement is that a full population rollout programme should be in place by 2028/29 and a local programme of expansion has already been developed to cover the remaining population within this timescale. This will include populations who will have aged into eligibility for targeted lung health checks whilst the initial programme has been developed across West Yorkshire. The rollout strategy for targeted lung health checks has been based around managing health inequalities and improving clinical outcomes.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson grouped question UIN 11305 question first answered 31/01/2024 11:49:25 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	3953 label Biography information for Jason McCartney