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1138514

registered interest
date	11/07/2019
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	Pregnancy: Prisoners
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 8 July 2019 to Question 272159, what assessment he has made of the merits of the recommendations made in the Birth Companions Report entitled Birth Charter for women in prisons in England and Wales; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	276164
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2019 answer text <p>No formal assessment has been made.</p><p>NHS England and NHS Improvement are responsible for commissioning healthcare services in prisons in England. It is working closely with Public Health England and Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service on a review of how current practice meets the Gender Specific Standards for Women in Prison to improve health and wellbeing, published in March 2019. Standards are included around the care of pregnant and post pregnant women.</p><p>NHS England is developing a mental health perinatal service to ensure maternity services meet the needs of pregnant and post-partum women across the estate.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 16/07/2019 12:04:16 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1138053

registered interest
date	10/07/2019
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	Smoking: Pregnancy
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 projected change in smoking rates among pregnant women is over the next two years.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	275697
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2019 answer text <p>As outlined in the Tobacco Control Plan for England, published in 2017, the Government is committed to reducing the prevalence of women smoking during pregnancy to 6% or less by the end of 2022.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 15/07/2019 16:30:57 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1138110

registered interest
date	10/07/2019
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	Measles: Disease Control
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 reduce the number of measles cases in England.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	275669
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2019 answer text <p>In January 2019 Public Health England, Public Health Wales, the Public Health Agency in Northern Ireland and Health Protection Scotland published the United Kingdom Measles and rubella elimination strategy, which is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/measles-and-rubella-elimination-uk-strategy" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/measles-and-rubella-elimination-uk-strategy</a></p><p>This strategy sets out four core components required to maintain elimination of measles and rubella:</p><p>- achieving and sustaining very high coverage of greater than or equal to 95% with two doses of measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) through the routine childhood immunisation programme for those children less than five years old;</p><p>- providing opportunities for MMR catch-up to all population groups at risk for and susceptible to measles and/or rubella for those over five years old;</p><p>- strengthening surveillance systems by rigorous case investigation and laboratory confirmation of suspected sporadic cases and outbreaks; and</p><p>- improving the availability and use of high-quality, evidence-based information for health professionals and the public on the measles and MMR.</p><p>A multi-agency implementation board is working with national and local stakeholders to take forward the actions of the strategy.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 15/07/2019 16:40:56 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1138112

registered interest
date	10/07/2019
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	Antimicrobials: Drug Resistance
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 discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on vaccine research to tackle antimicrobial resistance.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	275670
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2019 answer text <p>The Secretaries of State for Health and Social Care and for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs co-signed the foreword to the cross-Government United Kingdom vision for antimicrobial resistance in 2040 and five year national action plan, published in January, and recognising the key role vaccination plays in minimising infections in both humans and animals.</p><p> </p><p>The national action plan includes the commitment to stimulate more research into new vaccines for humans and animals, as well as improving the effectiveness of existing ones.</p><p> </p><p>The Departments are working across Government and its agencies to implement the commitments in the national action plan.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 15/07/2019 16:38:01 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1138130

registered interest
date	10/07/2019
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	Cancer: Health Services
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 employ more staff working on cancer (a) prevention, (b) diagnosis and (c) treatment in the NHS after 2021; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	275661
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2019 answer text <p>The interim NHS People Plan, published on 3 June 2019, puts the workforce at the heart of the National Health Service and will ensure we have the staff needed to deliver high quality care. A final People Plan will be published soon after the conclusion of the 2019 Spending Review.</p><p>The Cancer Workforce Plan for England, published in December 2017 by Health Education England (HEE), set out plans to expand capacity and skills in the cancer workforce, including targeting additional training support for seven priority professions which are key to cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment, such as clinical radiology, histopathology, oncology and diagnostic and therapeutic radiography. HEE will now work with NHS England and NHS Improvement to understand the longer-term workforce implications of further development of cancer services. This work will inform the final People Plan.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 15/07/2019 16:39:13 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

1138147

registered interest
date	10/07/2019
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 Health Services: Children and Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether postgraduate training level seven will be fully funded and mandatory for people working therapeutically with children and young people on mental health issues.
tabling member constituency	High Peak
tabling member printed	Ruth George
uin	275819
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2019 answer text <p>Health Education England (HEE) is responsible for commissioning of training for the National Health Service workforce and refer to their plan ‘Stepping Forward to 2020/21: Mental Health Workforce Plan for England’.</p><p>All Level 7 postgraduate training for people working therapeutically with children and young people commissioned by HEE is fully funded.</p><p>HEE cannot mandate training as it is the responsibility of the professional regulators and employers. HEE can define the curriculum for the training but cannot control the practice.</p><p>All training commissioned by HEE for people working therapeutically with children and young people has a set of learning objectives that are underpinned by both evidence based practice and practice based evidence as it is overseen and delivered by senior members of professions pertinent to the practice of psychological therapy.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 275820 question first answered 16/07/2019 12:05:19 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George

1138153

registered interest
date	10/07/2019
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	Dental Services: Children
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 cost to the public purse was of the Smile4life Starting well pilot project in the 2017-18 financial year.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	275778
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2019 answer text <p>NHS England, which set up Starting Well, an initiative to reach out to children not regularly in touch with a dentist in 13 high needs areas, advises that this information is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 15/07/2019 16:43:42 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

1138154

registered interest
date	10/07/2019
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	Dental Services: Children
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 children aged five to nine have had to go to hospital for an emergency dental extraction in each of the last three years; and what the cost has been to the public purse.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	275779
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2019 answer text <p>The data is not held in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 15/07/2019 16:44:27 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

1138242

registered interest
date	10/07/2019
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	Spinal Muscular Atrophy: Nusinersen
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 8 July 2019 to Question 369611 on Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), what the evidential basis is that Spinraza does not work effectively on people with SMA that are excluded from access to that drug following the announcement of 15 May 2019 by NICE on that drug; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
uin	275653
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2019 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is currently developing recommendations for the National Health Service on the use of Spinraza for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) through its technology appraisal programme. NICE recommends technologies for use in the NHS when the evidence demonstrates that they are clinically effective and represent a cost-effective use of NHS resources.</p><p>There are several subtypes of SMA and, in the case of Spinraza, NICE has advised that it was not presented with evidence in SMA type 0 and SMA type 4. Evidence presented for the SMA type 3 population, who had lost the ability to walk, was limited and immature and resulted in its independent Appraisal Committee concluding that the size and nature of the benefits of Spinraza for this population were uncertain. Therefore, they were not included in the managed access arrangement (MAA) agreed by NHS England and Biogen.</p><p>Following publication of the initial MAA, the company presented further clinical evidence and the MAA was extended to include paediatric patients, who have recently (in the previous 12 months) lost the ability to walk independently.</p><p>Uniquely for this type of arrangement, during the five-year course of the MAA, should evidence become available on the potential benefits of Spinraza for type 3 SMA patients that are currently not included in the MAA, NICE will review that evidence to see whether it would support a change in the MAA inclusion criteria.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 15/07/2019 16:42:57 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

1137731

registered interest
date	09/07/2019
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: Sign Language
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 assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the procurement processes operated by NHS trusts for the purpose of hiring British Sign Language translators.
tabling member constituency	Wansbeck
tabling member printed	Ian Lavery
uin	275195
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2019 answer text <p>Many National Health Service trusts use framework agreements for the procurement of translation services which are put in place either by Crown Commercial Service or their local procurement hub. These central purchasing bodies undertake assessments of companies to ensure that they meet the minimum standards and are able to track performance across a number of NHS trusts.</p><p>The Department does not review NHS procurement practices on a trust by trust basis.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 16/07/2019 08:43:29 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4139 label Biography information for Ian Lavery