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1733623

registered interest
date	11/10/2024
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	Infant Foods
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will publish voluntary industry guidelines on commercial infant and baby food and drink.
tabling member constituency	South West Devon
tabling member printed	Rebecca Smith
uin	8737
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2024 answer text <p>The independent Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN), for their report on Feeding Young Children aged 1 to 5 years, published in July 2023, recommended that foods, including snacks that are high in salt, free sugars, saturated fat, or are energy dense, should be limited in the diets of children aged one to five years  old and that commercially manufactured foods and drinks marketed specifically for infants and young children are not needed to meet nutrition requirements. <br> <br> We face a childhood obesity crisis and the Government is committed to raising the healthiest next generation. Under our health mission and shift to prevention we are considering what action is needed to respond to the SACN commercial baby food recommendations to establish healthy habits as early as possible.</p> answering member constituency Gorton and Denton answering member printed Andrew Gwynne question first answered 17/10/2024 16:29:11 answering member 1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne
tabling member	5301

1733624

registered interest
date	11/10/2024
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	Infant Foods: Nutrition
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 adequacy of the nutritional content of commercial infant and baby foods.
tabling member constituency	South West Devon
tabling member printed	Rebecca Smith
uin	8738
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2024 answer text <p>An evidence review on commercial baby food and drink, published in June 2019, showed that young children are eating too much sugar and salt, and energy intakes are exceeding requirements. Some baby foods, particularly finger foods, had added sugar or salt or contained ingredients that are high in sugar or salt. More information on this review is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/commercial-infant-and-baby-food-and-drink-evidence-review" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/commercial-infant-and-baby-food-and-drink-evidence-review</a></p><p>More recent evidence considered by the independent Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN), for their report on Feeding Young Children aged 1 to 5 years, published in July 2023, reported that among children aged 12 to 18 months old who consumed commercial baby food and drinks, these products provided around 20% of free sugars intakes. Free sugar intakes are above recommendations for children at all ages where recommendations have been set.</p><p>SACN recommended in this report that foods, including snacks that are high in salt, free sugars, saturated fat, or are energy dense, should be limited in the diets of children aged one to five years and that commercially manufactured foods and drinks marketed specifically for infants and young children are not needed to meet nutrition requirements.</p><p>We face a childhood obesity crisis and the Government is committed to raising the healthiest next generation. Under our health mission and shift to prevention we are considering what action is needed to respond to the SACN commercial baby food recommendations to establish healthy habits as early as possible.</p> answering member constituency Gorton and Denton answering member printed Andrew Gwynne question first answered 17/10/2024 16:25:33 answering member 1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne
tabling member	5301

1733641

registered interest
date	11/10/2024
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: Public Places
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has had discussions with local authorities on the potential impact of the proposed outdoor smoking ban on local businesses.
tabling member constituency	Clacton
tabling member printed	Nigel Farage
uin	8699
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2024 answer text <p>The Government will soon introduce the Tobacco and Vapes Bill which stands to be the most significant public health intervention in a generation. The bill will put us on track to a smoke-free United Kingdom, helping to reduce 80,000 preventable deaths, reduce the burden on the National Health Service, and reduce the burden on the taxpayer. To this end, Department officials regularly engage with local authorities and the Local Government Association.</p> answering member constituency Gorton and Denton answering member printed Andrew Gwynne question first answered 17/10/2024 16:32:36 answering member 1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne
tabling member	5091

1733243

registered interest
date	10/10/2024
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	Ovarian Cancer: Health Education
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 with (a) the NHS and (b) stakeholders to help increase awareness of ovarian cancer.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	8460
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2024 answer text <p>NHS England runs the Help Us Help You campaigns to increase knowledge of cancer symptoms, address barriers to acting on them, and to encourage people to come forward as soon as possible to see their general practitioner. The campaigns focus on a range of symptoms, including symptoms of ovarian cancer, as well as encouraging body awareness to help people spot symptoms across a wide range of cancers at an earlier point. Previous phases of the campaign have focused on abdominal symptoms which, among other abdominal cancers, can be indicative of ovarian cancer.</p><p>NHS England and other National Health Service organisations, nationally and locally, also publish information on the signs and symptoms of many different types of cancer, including ovarian cancer. This information can be found at the NHS website.</p> answering member constituency Gorton and Denton answering member printed Andrew Gwynne question first answered 15/10/2024 16:35:05 answering member 1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1733261

registered interest
date	10/10/2024
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	Schools: Nurses
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 School and Public Health Nurses Association on the adequacy of school nursing provision.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Adam Jogee
uin	8563
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2024 answer text <p>Government officials meet regularly with the School and Public Health Nurses Association and have attended two recent roundtable events, as well as the launch event for their report entitled The Forgotten Frontline.</p><p>We are committed to creating the healthiest generation of children ever and recognise the critical role that school nurses play in supporting children, young people, and families. Our Chief Public Health Nurse Office has recently established a programme of work which aims to improve the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme, which includes school nursing. This will include a review of the school nursing workforce data in England, which then can be considered as part of our longer-term workforce planning.</p> answering member constituency Gorton and Denton answering member printed Andrew Gwynne question first answered 17/10/2024 16:27:23 answering member 1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne
tabling member	5168

1733279

registered interest
date	10/10/2024
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	Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: 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, whether he has issued guidance to integrated care systems (ICS) on commissioning specialist care and treatment services for myalgic encephalomyelitis or chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS); and whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of requiring ICSs to commission minimum levels of those services.
tabling member constituency	Runnymede and Weybridge
tabling member printed	Dr Ben Spencer
uin	8476
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer // answer text <p>The Department of Health and Social Care has indicated that it will not be possible to answer this question within the usual time period. An answer is being prepared and will be provided as soon as it is available.</p> answering member constituency Gorton and Denton answering member printed Andrew Gwynne question first answered // answering member 1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne
tabling member	4785 label Biography information for Dr Ben Spencer

1733337

registered interest
date	10/10/2024
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	Coeliac Disease: Prescriptions
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 update guidance to Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) on the need to offer gluten free staples on NHS prescription for people with coeliac disease.
tabling member constituency	Worthing West
tabling member printed	Dr Beccy Cooper
uin	8603
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2024 answer text <p>NHS England has no plans to update the guidance. The Department undertook a national consultation in 2017 on the prescribing of gluten-free (GF) foods in primary care. The rationale for this was the increased availability of these products in supermarkets and other food outlets at a time when the annual cost to the National Health Service of prescribing such items was £15.7 million. The first of these proposed changes to prescribing arrangements resulted in the Government’s decision to restrict NHS prescribing of such foods to only bread and mixes.</p><p>NHS England’s guidance, Prescribing Gluten-Free Foods in Primary Care, was developed to communicate to local commissioners, now integrated care boards (ICBs), the changes in legislation. Wording is included in the guidance which states that commissioners may further restrict the prescribing of GF foods by selecting bread or mixes only, or may choose to end the prescribing of GF foods altogether if they feel this is appropriate for their population, whilst taking account of their legal duties to advance equality and provided they have regard to reducing health inequalities. In NHS England’s guidance, there are no limits on the amount of bread or mixes that can be prescribed. This guidance is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/prescribing-gluten-free-foods-primary-care-guidance-for-ccgs.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/prescribing-gluten-free-foods-primary-care-guidance-for-ccgs.pdf</a></p><p>Decisions about the commissioning and funding of local health services are the responsibility of local ICBs. NHS England’s guidance should be taken into account when ICBs formulate local policies, and prescribers are expected to reflect local policies in their prescribing practice. The guidance does not remove the clinical discretion of prescribers in accordance with their professional duties.</p> answering member constituency Bristol South answering member printed Karin Smyth question first answered 18/10/2024 11:21:43 answering member 4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth
tabling member	5307

1732783

registered interest
date	09/10/2024
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	Social 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 plans he has to ensure that the National Care Service supports the needs of people from diverse (a) cultural and (b) linguistic backgrounds.
tabling member constituency	Ealing Southall
tabling member printed	Deirdre Costigan
uin	8286
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2024 answer text <p>The Government is committed to building a National Care Service based on clear, consistent national standards, that will improve the quality of care. On 10 October 2024, recognising the central role of our care workforce, we took a critical step, introducing the legislation that will establish the first ever Fair Pay Agreement for care professionals.</p><p>We will set out the next steps in due course for a process that engages with adult social care stakeholders, including cross-party members and a diverse range of people with lived experience of care, to build consensus towards a National Care Service.</p> answering member constituency Aberafan Maesteg answering member printed Stephen Kinnock grouped question UIN 8282 8283 8285 question first answered 16/10/2024 12:15:25 answering member 4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock
tabling member	5075

1733007

registered interest
date	09/10/2024
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	Migrants: Health Services and Temporary Accommodation
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 tackle misinformation relating to (a) migrant access to NHS services and (b) accommodation of asylum seekers.
tabling member constituency	Bournemouth East
tabling member printed	Tom Hayes
uin	8361
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2024 answer text <p>As my Rt. Hon. friend, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology said on 9 September 2024, the Online Safety Act will be the Government’s key tool in combatting online mis- and disinformation.</p><p>The Department recognises the importance of reducing barriers to services for migrants, and encourages these groups to access the National Health Services’ they are entitled to. The Government has published the Migrant Health Guide, which sets out guidance on the services which migrants are entitled to receive. This guidance is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migrant-health-guide" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migrant-health-guide</a></p><p>The Department of Health and Social Care works with the Home Office to ensure asylum seekers have access to health care. The Home Office will ensure that the asylum system operates fairly, and processes claims quickly.</p><p>The Department of Health and Social Care, along with the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, the UK Health Security Agency, NHS England, the Home Office, and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, are in the final stages of agreeing the principles, objectives, and priorities of a National Partnership Agreement which will set out the common aspirations to support the health and wellbeing needs of people seeking asylum. They will also support local systems, like integrated care boards, local authorities, voluntary, community, and social enterprises, and others, in delivering these locally. <br> <br> NHS England has been working with the Home Office and the Ministry of Defence to support access to healthcare services for people on protection and resettlement routes, as well as people seeking asylum. NHS England has also worked with the Home Office to improve support during the Move On period, when people are granted leave to remain, and any change of accommodation.</p> answering member constituency Gorton and Denton answering member printed Andrew Gwynne question first answered 17/10/2024 16:40:56 answering member 1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne previous answer version 10504 answering member constituency Gorton and Denton answering member printed Andrew Gwynne answering member 1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne
tabling member	5210

1732324

registered interest
date	08/10/2024
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	Procurement: Health Services and Social 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 assessment his Department has made of effectiveness of the Government’s procurement strategy for (a) health and (b) social care.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	7783
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2024 answer text <p>The role of the Department’s Commercial Directorate is to provide the Department and wider health system with the appropriate commercial strategy, leadership, insight, and advice to enable delivery of the Government’s Health Mission, consistently maximising value for money. The directorate is responsible for oversight and assurance of procurement activity in the Health Family, including Arms Length Bodies like NHS England and The UK Health Security Agency, which encompasses approval of high-value or high-risk business cases.</p><p>The directorate is also responsible for ensuring that procurement policy is aligned to Cabinet Office requirements, and that Health Family commercial compliance and performance is continually assessed for improvement against the Government’s Commercial Functional Standards, which is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-commercial-function" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-commercial-function</a></p><p>The directorate sets an annual commercial savings target against contracts the Department awards and manages. For 2023/24, the directorate has delivered £44.6 million worth of commercial savings and benefits through procurement and contract management activity within the Department.</p> answering member constituency Bristol South answering member printed Karin Smyth question first answered 15/10/2024 10:36:48 answering member 4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon