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1055803

registered interest
date	06/02/2019
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	Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
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 the Government is taking to ensure the effectiveness of the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	217538
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2019 answer text <p>The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman carries out independent investigations about unfair or improper or poor service by United Kingdom Government departments and their agencies, and the National Health Service in England. The Ombudsman is independent of Government, accountable directly to Parliament through the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 11/02/2019 15:08:49 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

1055819

registered interest
date	06/02/2019
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: Members' Constituency Work
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 21 January 2019 to Question 209287 on NHS: Members' Constituency Work, when the NHS started to require hon. Members to have signed authority before replying to such Members on issues raised by constituents.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Helen Jones
uin	217477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2019 answer text <p>As set out in the answer of 21 January 2019 to Question 209287, there has been no change in policy with regards to obtaining consent of a patient for the purposes of an inquiry or investigation.</p><p> </p><p>Paragraph 24 of Schedule 1 to the Data Protection Act 2018 sets out the circumstances in which special categories of personal data, which would include health data, can be disclosed to Members of Parliament without the controller - here, the National Health Service body - having to obtain explicit consent from the data subject. This is discussed in the House of Commons Briefing Paper, Number 1,936 of 31 October 2018 ‘Data protection: constituency casework’ at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN01936/SN01936.pdf" target="_blank">http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN01936/SN01936.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>However, it remains the responsibility of the National Health Service body to satisfy itself that there is a legal basis under the General Data Protection Regulation/Data Protection Act for processing patient information (i.e. disclosing and sharing it for the purposes of the investigation).</p><p> </p><p>In the earlier answers to Questions 209287 and <a href="https://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=208761" target="_blank">208761</a>, we said that a National Health Service body ‘must’ obtain the consent of the patient before disclosing patient information held by it in order to progress an inquiry from a Member of Parliament. There are circumstances in which a National Health Service body may provide patient information to a Member of Parliament without the Member evidencing the consent of the patient, so long as that information is provided in accordance with the requirements set out in paragraph 24 of Schedule 1 to the Data Protection Act 2018. We are arranging for the record to be corrected.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 11/02/2019 16:44:38 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones

1055858

registered interest
date	06/02/2019
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	Health Insurance
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 the Government has to maintain mutual recognition of EU health insurance policies after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Basildon and Billericay
tabling member printed	Mr John Baron
uin	217488
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2019 answer text <p>Current reciprocal healthcare arrangements ensure that people from the United Kingdom and European Union countries can receive healthcare in each other's countries under certain conditions.</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 continuation of these arrangements when the UK leaves the EU.</p><p> </p><p>Subject to the Withdrawal Agreement being agreed by Parliament, during the implementation period all reciprocal healthcare rights will continue until December 2020 and there will be no changes to healthcare for pensioners, workers, students, tourists and other visitors, the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) scheme, or planned treatment.</p><p> </p><p>As part of its future relationship with the EU, the Government has been clear that is proposing continued participation in the EHIC scheme and continued cooperation on planned treatment.</p><p> </p><p>In the event the UK leaves the EU without an agreement, the Government is seeking to secure reciprocal arrangements bilaterally with individual member states.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 11/02/2019 16:06:58 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	1390 label Biography information for Mr John Baron

1055867

registered interest
date	06/02/2019
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	Down's 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 steps he is taking to monitor the effect of non-invasive pregnancy testing on the number of babies born with Down’s syndrome.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	217541
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2019 answer text <p>The national evaluative roll out for non-invasive pregnancy testing (NIPT) as a contingent screening test is yet to be implemented into the NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme (FASP). Therefore, no information is held on the effect of NIPT on the number of babies born with Down’s syndrome.</p><p> </p><p>Once NIPT is rolled out, data on the choices women make regarding screening and/or diagnosis will be collected. Data will also be collected on the pregnancy outcomes of women who choose to have screening, including babies born with Down’s syndrome.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 11/02/2019 15:02:56 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

1055935

registered interest
date	06/02/2019
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	Abortion
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 make an assessment of the reasons for the increase in the rate of abortions among women aged 30 to 34 in the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	217569
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2019 answer text <p>The abortion rate for women aged 30-34 has increased steadily from 15.1 per 1,000 women in 2007 to 18.5 in 2017. This is a complex area and overall increases in conception rates for women aged 30-34 need to be taken into account in any assessment. We continue to monitor this trend.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 11/02/2019 14:59:17 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

1055938

registered interest
date	06/02/2019
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: Migrant Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 5 February 2019 to Question 215173, what plans his Department has to work with EU nationals employed by the NHS to ensure that they stay in the UK and feel welcome and encouraged to do so.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	217572
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2019 answer text <p>We have been clear from the beginning of this process that we want European Union nationals currently working in the National Health Service, to stay after we leave the EU. As part of this, we opened the public testing phase of the EU Settlement Scheme on 21 January 2019. Following a successful private testing phase in December 2018, the scheme is now open to all EU nationals in the United Kingdom.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has undertaken a targeted communications campaign with stakeholders, employers and representative bodies in the health sector to ensure that as many of our EU workforce are aware of the straight forward and user-friendly scheme that allows them to secure their long-term rights to stay and work in the UK after we leave the EU.</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, to help facilitate as many applications as possible, the Prime Minister announced on 21 January 2019 that, as of 30 March 2019, all applications to the settlement scheme will be free. Additionally, where individuals have applied, or do apply, before that date, and are charged an application fee, then this fee will be refunded.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 11/02/2019 11:35:53 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

1056004

registered interest
date	06/02/2019
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	Blood Diseases: Drugs
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 the supply of medications for bleeding disorders in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	217506
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2019 answer text <p>Treatments for bleeding disorders include pharmaceutical medicines as well as products derived from donated blood, such as clotting factors. As these are licensed medicines, they will be in scope of our medicine supply contingency plans. Contingency work for blood and blood components is being led by NHS Blood and Transplant.</p><p> </p><p>We understand that these medicines are vitally important to many people in this country. Our contingency plans include sensible mitigations for medicines that come to the United Kingdom from or via the European Union to ensure that the supply of medications for bleeding disorders and other essential medicines for patients is not disrupted.</p><p> </p><p>In August 2018, the Department wrote to all pharmaceutical companies that supply prescription-only and pharmacy medicines to the UK that come from, or via, the EU/European Economic Area (EEA) asking them to ensure a minimum of six weeks’ additional supply in the UK, over and above existing business-as-usual buffer stocks, by 29 March 2019.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise, however, that certain medicines cannot be reasonably stockpiled. Where these medicines are imported from the EU or EEA, we have asked that suppliers ensure in advance plans to air freight these medicines from the EU in the event of a ‘no deal’ exit.</p><p> </p><p>Whilst the stockpiling medicines and alternative air freight remains a critical part of our ‘no deal’ medicine supply contingency plans, we are also supplementing these with additional actions.</p><p> </p><p>We have further secured sufficient roll-on, roll-off freight capacity on alternative routes to enable these vital products to continue to move freely in to the UK. Medicines and other medical products will be prioritised on these routes to ensure that the flow of all these products will continue unimpeded after 29 March 2019.</p><p> </p><p>Throughout enacting our plans, we have received very good engagement from industry who share our aims of ensuring that the continuity of supply of medicines and medical products for patients is maintained and able to cope with any potential delays at the border that may arise in the short term in the event of a ‘no deal’ EU exit.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 11/02/2019 11:34:59 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1056045

registered interest
date	06/02/2019
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	Medical Treatments: Innovation
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 page 77 of the NHS Long Term Plan, what criteria will determine which medical technology innovations are ready for adoption; and what plans are being put in place for the individualised support described in that document.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	217587
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2019 answer text <p>As part of the NHS Long Term Plan, NHS England sets out accelerating the uptake of proven, affordable innovations through a new funding mandate for diagnostics, devices and digital innovation. This will apply to innovations that the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has assessed as cost-saving. NICE will increase the number of evaluations for these products, and these assessments will form the basis of the ‘ready for spread’ status.</p><p> </p><p>Further work to develop implementation plans on criteria and the individualised support described in the NHS Long Term Plan is currently underway, and will be published later this year.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 11/02/2019 14:54:11 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1054998

registered interest
date	05/02/2019
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	Health Professions: 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 steps he is taking to publicise his Department's consultation on mandatory training on learning disabilities for healthcare professionals.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	217137
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>We consulted with a wide range of organisations, including those representing people with learning disability, to develop the consultation document on mandatory training on learning disabilities for health and social care professionals.</p><p> </p><p>Once the consultation opens, we will seek to widely publicise the consultation, including through our arm’s length bodies, voluntary sector organisations, professional groups, and health and social care providers.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 08/02/2019 14:50:05 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1055000

registered interest
date	05/02/2019
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	Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill (HL)
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 29 January 2019 to Question 210488, which representative organisations for people with (a) dementia, (b) brain injuries and (c) learning difficulties he has met to discuss the effect of the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill on those people.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
uin	217011
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>The Law Commissions report on the Mental Capacity and Deprivation of Liberty was published March 2017, in which they attended 83 events across England and received 583 written responses for their provisional proposal to reform the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards.</p><p> </p><p>Further to the Law Commissions consultation events the department collectively carried out over 50 additional consultation events with stakeholders including local authorities and hospitals, numbering over 100 people, to inform the Mental Capacity Amendment Bill. Among those consulted were third sector, Government, health and care sector, professional bodies, National Health Service organisations, individuals with learning disabilities and Dementia. Representative organisations for those with dementia, brain injuries and learning disabilities include Mencap, Sense, Alzheimer’s Society, Headway, National Autistic Society, VoiceAbility, Voluntary Organisations Disability Group and more.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is engaging and will continue to consult widely with stakeholders on the development of the code of practice to ensure the Bill works as intended.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 08/02/2019 14:44:06 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle