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1599570

registered interest
date	27/02/2023
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	Air Pollution: Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the implications for his policies of the paper Associations between air pollution and multimorbidity in the UK Biobank: A cross-sectional study.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	153661
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2023 answer text <p>No specific assessment has been made. However, the developing evidence on this issue is kept under review and this paper will be taken into account as part of the overall evidence base.</p><p>The UK Health Security Agency’s Cleaner Air Programme is working to increase and improve awareness and understanding of the evidence base on the health impacts of air pollution in the United Kingdom, including its links with multimorbidity and mental health. There is ongoing collaborative work across Government to address these health impacts.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien grouped question UIN 153663 question first answered 06/03/2023 16:27:57 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien previous answer version 59229 answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1599573

registered interest
date	27/02/2023
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	Air Pollution: Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the paper Associations between air pollution and multimorbidity in the UK Biobank: A cross-sectional study, if he will make an estimate of the costs of air pollution to the (a) NHS and (b) UK.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	153662
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2023 answer text <p>In 2018, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) published an estimation of the potential health burden and costs to the National Health Service and social care system arising due to diseases related Particulate Matter (PM2.5) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2).</p><p>Between 2017 and 2025, the total cost to the NHS and Social Care from air pollution in England is estimated to be £1.60 billion for PM2.5 and NO2 combined (£1.54 billion for PM2.5 and £60.81 million for NO2), where there is robust evidence for an association between exposure and disease; where the evidence is less robust the cost is £2.81 billion for PM2.5 and £2.75 billion for NO2.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 02/03/2023 09:28:56 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1599574

registered interest
date	27/02/2023
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	Air Pollution: Mental Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the paper Associations between air pollution and multimorbidity in the UK Biobank: A cross-sectional study, if he will make an assessment of the consequences for his policies of links between mental health and air pollution.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	153663
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2023 answer text <p>No specific assessment has been made. However, the developing evidence on this issue is kept under review and this paper will be taken into account as part of the overall evidence base.</p><p>The UK Health Security Agency’s Cleaner Air Programme is working to increase and improve awareness and understanding of the evidence base on the health impacts of air pollution in the United Kingdom, including its links with multimorbidity and mental health. There is ongoing collaborative work across Government to address these health impacts.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien grouped question UIN 153661 question first answered 06/03/2023 16:27:57 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien previous answer version 59230 answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1599576

registered interest
date	27/02/2023
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	Air Pollution: Mental Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the paper Association of Air Pollution Exposure With Psychotic Experiences During Adolescence, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the links between air pollution and psychotic experiences in adolescents in England and Wales.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	153665
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2023 answer text <p>No specific assessment has been made. However, the developing evidence on this issue is kept under review and this paper will be taken into account as part of the overall evidence base. There is ongoing collaborative work across Government to address the health impacts of air pollution.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 02/03/2023 16:32:57 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1599578

registered interest
date	27/02/2023
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	Air Pollution: Mental Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the implications for his policies of the paper Mental health consequences of urban air pollution: prospective population-based longitudinal survey.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	153666
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2023 answer text <p>No specific assessment has been made. However, the developing evidence on this issue is kept under review and this paper will be taken into account as part of the overall evidence base. There is ongoing collaborative work across Government to address the health impacts of air pollution.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 06/03/2023 14:44:48 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1583018

registered interest
date	01/02/2023
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	Members: Correspondence
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 respond to the the letter of 8 December 2022 from All-Party Parliamentary Groups on investment in the specialist workforce for children and young people.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	137716
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2023 answer text <p>The letter was responded to by Minister Coutinho of the Department for Education on <ins class="ministerial">23rd January 2023</ins><del class="ministerial">14 December 2022</del>, as the relevant minister.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield previous answer version 53390 answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince 56565 answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield question first answered 21/02/2023 16:59:00 question first ministerially corrected 08/03/2023 10:27:02 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1581754

registered interest
date	30/01/2023
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	Poisoning: Testing
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 potential merits of offering patients routine NHS testing for poisoning from heavy metals and volatile organic compounds when poisoning is suspected.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	135120
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2023 answer text <p>The Department has made no assessment of the potential merits of offering patients routine National Health Service testing for poisoning from heavy metals and volatile organic compounds when poisoning is suspected.</p><p>Testing for heavy metals where diagnosis of heavy metal poisoning is a possibility may include blood testing, 24-hour urine collection, long bone X-ray in children and chest X-ray as listed in the following link:</p><p><a href="https://patient.info/doctor/heavy-metal-poisoning#ref-4" target="_blank">https://patient.info/doctor/heavy-metal-poisoning#ref-4</a></p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 08/02/2023 11:29:48 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1581544

registered interest
date	27/01/2023
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	Carbon Monoxide: Alarms
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 take steps to ensure that (a) ambulance staff and (b) other medical staff who visit homes are provided personal alarm equipment to sense carbon monoxide.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	133937
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2023 answer text <p>No such steps are currently planned by the Department. The provision of safety equipment to National Health Service staff is an operational matter for the NHS.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 03/02/2023 13:50:19 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1581545

registered interest
date	27/01/2023
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	Carbon Monoxide: Poisoning
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what training is given to GPs on the symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	133938
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2023 answer text <p>General Practitioners are responsible for ensuring their own clinical knowledge, including on carbon monoxide, remains up-to-date and for identifying learning needs as part of their continuing professional development. This activity should include taking account of new research and developments in guidance, such as that produced by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, to ensure that they can continue to provide high quality care to all patients.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 06/02/2023 14:24:04 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1581548

registered interest
date	27/01/2023
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	Guy's Hospital: Poisons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the toxicologists based in Guy's Hospital's Poisons Unit are employed directly by the (a) Department of Health and Social Care, (b) NHS or (c) other organisation.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	133939
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2023 answer text <p>The three consultant clinical toxicologists (and two emergency physicians with an interest in clinical toxicology) are all employed by Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT) with full-time National Health Service contracts.</p><p>Guy’s Poisons Unit closed over 15 years ago. Poisons information services in the United Kingdom are run by the National Poisons Information Service (NPIS) which has units in Birmingham, Newcastle, Cardiff and Edinburgh. Two of the GSTT Consultant Clinical Toxicologists are on the NPIS consultant on call rota.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 09/02/2023 17:24:25 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies