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832894

registered interest
date	29/01/2018
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	Incinerators: Health Hazards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 31 October 2017 to Question 50386, on Incinerators: Health hazards, what information his Department holds on the planned publication date for the papers.
tabling member constituency	Halton
tabling member printed	Derek Twigg
uin	125210
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2018 answer text <p>It is expected that papers from the project on the health hazards of incinerators will be submitted by the Small Area Health Statistics Unit to peer reviewed journals in early 2018, and it is likely to be a few months after submission for the papers to be published.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 01/02/2018 11:38:58 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	429 label Biography information for Derek Twigg

832918

registered interest
date	29/01/2018
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	Breast Cancer: Greater London
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 running cost of Central and East London breast screening services has been in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	125234
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2018 answer text <p>The information is shown in the following table:</p><p> </p><p>Barts Health NHS Trust - Breast screening service</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p>£'000</p></td><td><p>£'000</p></td><td><p>£'000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Actuals</p></td><td><p>2,909</p></td><td><p>3,888</p></td><td><p>3,036</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 01/02/2018 11:33:58 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

832927

registered interest
date	29/01/2018
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	Health Services: Reciprocal Arrangements
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 his Department has made on ensuring the UK remains part of the European Health Insurance Card scheme.
tabling member constituency	Sunderland Central
tabling member printed	Julie Elliott
uin	125243
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2018 answer text <p>While the United Kingdom remains a member of the European Union, it will continue to respect the rights and honour the obligations attendant upon EU membership.</p><p> </p><p>The UK Government appreciates the importance of retaining existing reciprocal healthcare arrangements with the EU and has been clear in the negotiations that it wants to see the existing arrangements continued after the UK leaves the EU. This includes the European Health Insurance Card scheme.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 07/02/2018 13:40:06 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4127 label Biography information for Julie Elliott

832930

registered interest
date	29/01/2018
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	Mental Health Services: Transgender People
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 the provision of mental health support for young people who identify as transgender.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	125246
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2018 answer text <p>The National Health Service is providing new services to support transgender children and young people. The Gender Identity Development Service is a national specialist service directly commissioned by NHS England, based in London and Leeds. It is for children and young people up to 18 years of age, and their families, who experience difficulties in the development of their gender identity.</p><p> </p><p>The service is holistic and tailored to the needs of the individual and the family. Young people are seen individually and with their families for assessment and psychosocial intervention by members of the Multi-Disciplinary Team which includes psychiatry, psychology, psychotherapy and social work.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is aware that transgender people have a higher reported incidence of mental ill health, attempted suicide and self-harm. The Government published ‘Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision: a green paper’ on 4 December 2017. This green paper sets out an ambitious set of proposals to transform support for all children and young people’s mental health, including those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 125601 question first answered 02/02/2018 12:01:55 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

832935

registered interest
date	29/01/2018
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	Cervical Cancer: Screening
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 increase the take-up rate for cervical screening in (a) York and (b) England.
tabling member constituency	York Outer
tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
uin	125251
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2018 answer text <p>The North Yorkshire and York Health Improvement Plan includes halting the decline in cervical screening coverage by delivering additional training to general practice staff; working with the clinical commissioning group engagement agents and plans to enlist volunteer cancer champions to attend community events and work with local businesses to promote cervical screening.</p><p> </p><p>Public Health England (PHE), the Department and NHS England continue to work together to understand and redress the falling participation in the National Health Service cervical screening programme. A range of work is being undertaken by PHE to understand the reasons for the decline in uptake and to support the NHS and local authorities (LAs) to address them. They include access to timely and useful data for benchmarking, evidence on best practices to increase uptake among women who wish to be screened, using governance levers to advice NHS and LAs and working in partnership with commissioners, providers and charities.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 06/02/2018 12:06:53 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

832938

registered interest
date	29/01/2018
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	Epilepsy
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 have been diagnosed with epilepsy by (a) gender and (b) age in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	125254
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2018 answer text <p>Information concerning the number of people diagnosed with epilepsy in the last five years is not available. However, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence estimates that epilepsy affects between 362,000 and 415,000 people in England.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 06/02/2018 12:03:00 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

832954

registered interest
date	29/01/2018
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	Nurses: Training
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 he has made of the effect of the replacement with loans of the nurse training bursary on the number of applications from mature students in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Heywood and Middleton
tabling member printed	Liz McInnes
uin	125270
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2018 answer text <p>The Government published a consultation response and Equality Analysis on the 21 July 2016. These documents provide the assessment of the potential effect of the replacement of National Health Service bursaries by student loans for all the protected characteristics of the Public Sector Equality Duty (Section 149 of the Equality Act 2010).</p><p> </p><p>Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) application data showed that the number of English-domiciled students aged 21 and above applying for nursing and midwifery courses<sup>1</sup> in 2017 was 24,160; applicant numbers were 28% lower than in 2016.</p><p> </p><p>UCAS’s end-of-cycle data showed the number of acceptances of students aged 21 and above to nursing and midwifery in England in 2017 was 13,025; this is similar to acceptance numbers in 2014 and 2015.</p><p> </p><p>A number of provisions have been made to support all pre-registration nursing, midwifery and allied health profession students. These include child dependents allowance, travel and dual accommodation support and an exceptional hardship fund in certain circumstances.</p><p>Developing new work based routes into nursing is a priority for the Department. That is why we have developed the new nursing associate role and Nursing Degree Apprenticeship which will open up routes into the registered nursing profession for thousands of people from all backgrounds and allow employers to grow their own workforce. There are currently 2,000 Nursing Associates in training on 35 Health Education England Pilots, due to complete and become qualified in 2019.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Note:</p><p><sup>1</sup>It should be noted that the information provided is for nursing and midwifery as UCAS’s published data does not separate out the two courses.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 01/02/2018 17:34:02 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4342 label Biography information for Liz McInnes

832957

registered interest
date	29/01/2018
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	Nurses: North Yorkshire
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 nurses were employed in Harrogate District and North Yorkshire in (a) 2013-2014, (b) 2014-2015 and (c) 2016-2017.
tabling member constituency	Harrogate and Knaresborough
tabling member printed	Andrew Jones
uin	125273
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2018 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes workforce statistics and the following table shows the number of Full Time Equivalent (FTE) Hospital and Community Health Service nurses and health visitors in Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust, which is the main service provider for north Yorkshire, each year from 2013 to 2017.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS): Nurses and health visitors as at 31 October each specified year (FTE).</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>FTE</p></td><td><p>October 2013</p></td><td><p>October 2014</p></td><td><p>October 2015</p></td><td><p>October 2016</p></td><td><p>October 2017</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust</p></td><td><p>766</p></td><td><p>830</p></td><td><p>789</p></td><td><p>1,092</p></td><td><p>1,081</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS Digital HCHS workforce statistics</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 06/02/2018 15:05:08 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones

832965

registered interest
date	29/01/2018
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	Charles Bonnet Syndrome
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps his Department has taken to raise awareness of Charles Bonnet Syndrome.
tabling member constituency	Ealing Central and Acton
tabling member printed	Dr Rupa Huq
uin	125281
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2018 answer text <p>The NHS Choices website provides comprehensive information on a range of conditions, including Charles Bonnet syndrome. This can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/charles-bonnet-syndrome/Pages/Introduction.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/charles-bonnet-syndrome/Pages/Introduction.aspx</a></p><p> </p><p>The Department does not hold information on the number of people diagnosed with Charles Bonnet syndrome, nor has any such assessment been made of trends in the number of diagnoses of Charles Bonnet syndrome in recent years.</p><p> </p><p>No estimate has been made by the Department of the number of misdiagnoses of Charles Bonnet syndrome or of associated costs to the National Health Service of misdiagnosis.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 125282 125283 125284 question first answered 06/02/2018 11:54:51 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4511 label Biography information for Dr Rupa Huq

832966

registered interest
date	29/01/2018
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	Charles Bonnet Syndrome
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 he has made of trends in the number of diagnoses of Charles Bonnet syndrome since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Ealing Central and Acton
tabling member printed	Dr Rupa Huq
uin	125282
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2018 answer text <p>The NHS Choices website provides comprehensive information on a range of conditions, including Charles Bonnet syndrome. This can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/charles-bonnet-syndrome/Pages/Introduction.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/charles-bonnet-syndrome/Pages/Introduction.aspx</a></p><p> </p><p>The Department does not hold information on the number of people diagnosed with Charles Bonnet syndrome, nor has any such assessment been made of trends in the number of diagnoses of Charles Bonnet syndrome in recent years.</p><p> </p><p>No estimate has been made by the Department of the number of misdiagnoses of Charles Bonnet syndrome or of associated costs to the National Health Service of misdiagnosis.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 125281 125283 125284 question first answered 06/02/2018 11:54:51 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4511 label Biography information for Dr Rupa Huq