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172635

registered interest
date	07/01/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Hospitals
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will list the National Health Service hospitals which declared major incidents in the period 1 December 2014 to 7 January 2015 inclusive; and in each case how long the incidents lasted.
tabling member printed	Lord Mawhinney
uin	HL3969
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2015 answer text <p>NHS England, Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority have advised that this information is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In the context of hospitals currently declaring major incidents, this refers to an emergency situation where particular facilities or resources are under pressure and special arrangements are required to maintain the delivery of some services. It would be for the organisation that had declared the emergency to de-escalate it, in line with its incident response plan.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The use of major incidents has been part of the National Health Service planning process since 2005, and they have been declared in every year since then.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>There is no central definition but a major incident in a hospital might be called in:</p><p> </p><p>- times of severe pressure such as winter periods or an infectious disease outbreak; and</p><p> </p><p>- a period of particular local pressure such as dealing with a road traffic accident.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe grouped question UIN HL3970 HL3971 question first answered 14/01/2015 14:39:55 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	121 label Biography information for Lord Mawhinney

172636

registered interest
date	07/01/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Hospitals
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, for each National Health Service hospital which declared a major incident in the period 1 December 2014 to 7 January 2015 inclusive, how much money was spent per year in the preceding two years on the fees and costs of agencies which were contracted to supply (1) doctors, (2) nurses, and (3) other National Health Service staff, to the hospital concerned.
tabling member printed	Lord Mawhinney
uin	HL3970
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2015 answer text <p>NHS England, Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority have advised that this information is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In the context of hospitals currently declaring major incidents, this refers to an emergency situation where particular facilities or resources are under pressure and special arrangements are required to maintain the delivery of some services. It would be for the organisation that had declared the emergency to de-escalate it, in line with its incident response plan.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The use of major incidents has been part of the National Health Service planning process since 2005, and they have been declared in every year since then.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>There is no central definition but a major incident in a hospital might be called in:</p><p> </p><p>- times of severe pressure such as winter periods or an infectious disease outbreak; and</p><p> </p><p>- a period of particular local pressure such as dealing with a road traffic accident.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe grouped question UIN HL3969 HL3971 question first answered 14/01/2015 14:39:55 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	121 label Biography information for Lord Mawhinney

172637

registered interest
date	07/01/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Hospitals
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, for each National Health Service hospital which declared a major incident in the period 1 December 2014 to 7 January 2015 inclusive, how many beds were occupied by patients whose treatment had been completed but who remained in hospital because alternative health care or treatment were not available for them outside hospital at the time that the major incident was brought into effect.
tabling member printed	Lord Mawhinney
uin	HL3971
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2015 answer text <p>NHS England, Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority have advised that this information is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In the context of hospitals currently declaring major incidents, this refers to an emergency situation where particular facilities or resources are under pressure and special arrangements are required to maintain the delivery of some services. It would be for the organisation that had declared the emergency to de-escalate it, in line with its incident response plan.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The use of major incidents has been part of the National Health Service planning process since 2005, and they have been declared in every year since then.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>There is no central definition but a major incident in a hospital might be called in:</p><p> </p><p>- times of severe pressure such as winter periods or an infectious disease outbreak; and</p><p> </p><p>- a period of particular local pressure such as dealing with a road traffic accident.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe grouped question UIN HL3969 HL3970 question first answered 14/01/2015 14:39:55 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	121 label Biography information for Lord Mawhinney

172659

registered interest
date	07/01/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Diabetes
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to improve food labelling to assist diabetes sufferers.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL3993
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2015 answer text <p>The nutrients that can be declared on pre-packed food are defined by law. Under current legislation, companies already providing nutrition information on a voluntary basis are required to declare carbohydrate value. From December 2016, the majority of pre-packaged foods will be required to carry nutrition information, including on carbohydrate value, on the back of pack.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Additionally, the new EU Regulation No. 1169/2011 allows energy value only or energy value plus amounts of fat, saturates, sugars and salt to be voluntarily repeated on front of pack. In June 2013 we published a Government recommendation on how this information could be provided clearly and consistently. To date, companies accounting for nearly two thirds of pre-packaged food have said they will use this new scheme.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 21/01/2015 14:21:57 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

172665

registered interest
date	07/01/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Folic Acid
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government on what date in the first quarter of 2015 Public Health England expect to publish the results of the blood folate analysis carried out by the Centre for Disease Control on the samples from the National Diet and Nutrition Survey.
tabling member printed	Lord Rooker
uin	HL3999
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2015 answer text <p>Public Health England (PHE) expects to publish the results for folate levels in blood samples from the National Diet and Nutrition Survey in mid-March 2015. The exact publication date will be pre-announced on the PHE statistics page of GOV.UK, in line with official statistics procedures.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 21/01/2015 14:21:23 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	302 label Biography information for Lord Rooker

172666

registered interest
date	07/01/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Folic Acid
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what progress has been made in setting up a laboratory in the United Kingdom able to conduct blood folate status analysis.
tabling member printed	Lord Rooker
uin	HL4000
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2015 answer text <p>The Medical Research Council Human Nutrition Research are in the process of setting up the new method for serum folate in their laboratories in Cambridge, working closely with scientists at the Centre for Disease Control in the United States, who are the leading international experts on this analysis. Work is well advanced and it is hoped that the method will be ready to use to analyse blood samples collected in the National Diet and Nutrition Survey later this year.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 21/01/2015 14:27:51 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	302 label Biography information for Lord Rooker

172667

registered interest
date	07/01/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Abortion: Neural Tube Defects
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Earl Howe on 31 December 2014 (HL3793), to what factors they attribute the rising trend in terminated pregnancies due to neural tube defects; and why the figures for the first three years in the answer differ substantially from the information provided by the Minister in the letter of 18 November 2013 following the debate on 6 November 2013 (HL Deb, cols 284–297).
tabling member printed	Lord Rooker
uin	HL4001
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2015 answer text <p>The proportion of terminations for neural tube defects per live births has been between 0.04% and 0.05% for the last 10 years.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Data from the letter of 18 November 2013 are sourced from the British Isles Network of Congenital Anomaly Registers and are estimates for England and Wales; whereas data from the written answer I gave on 31 December 2014, <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;uin=3794" target="_blank">HL3794</a>, are sourced from the Department’s official abortion statistics collected from Abortion Notification form HSA4 for all abortions in England and Wales. The different data sources used explain why the data given in the answer and the letter are different.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 21/01/2015 15:32:07 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	302 label Biography information for Lord Rooker

172669

registered interest
date	07/01/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Hepatitis: Drugs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they expect that new treatments for Hepatitis C with cure rates in excess of 90 per cent will be made available on the National Health Service.
tabling member printed	Lord Mancroft
uin	HL4003
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2015 answer text <p>I refer my Noble Friend to the Answer I gave to Lord Hunt of Kings Heath in response to his Question <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;uin=3887" target="_blank">HL3887</a> on 19 January 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe grouped question UIN HL4004 HL4005 question first answered 21/01/2015 14:23:13 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	1833 label Biography information for Lord Mancroft

172670

registered interest
date	07/01/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Hepatitis: Drugs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what consultation has taken place on NHS England's request to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence to defer the implementation of its guidance on the use of sofosbuvir for patients with Hepatitis C.
tabling member printed	Lord Mancroft
uin	HL4004
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2015 answer text <p>I refer my Noble Friend to the Answer I gave to Lord Hunt of Kings Heath in response to his Question <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;uin=3887" target="_blank">HL3887</a> on 19 January 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe grouped question UIN HL4003 HL4005 question first answered 21/01/2015 14:23:13 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	1833 label Biography information for Lord Mancroft

172671

registered interest
date	07/01/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Hepatitis: Drugs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact on patient health of the delay of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance for Sovaldi for the treatment of Hepatitis C.
tabling member printed	Lord Mancroft
uin	HL4005
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2015 answer text <p>I refer my Noble Friend to the Answer I gave to Lord Hunt of Kings Heath in response to his Question <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;uin=3887" target="_blank">HL3887</a> on 19 January 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe grouped question UIN HL4003 HL4004 question first answered 21/01/2015 14:23:13 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	1833 label Biography information for Lord Mancroft