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746852

registered interest
date	29/06/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Salmonella
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cases of salmonella were identified in (a) 2014, (b) 2015, (c) 2016, and (d) 2017; and of those cases how many originated in each non-UK EU country.
tabling member constituency	North Antrim
tabling member printed	Ian Paisley
uin	2202
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2017 answer text <p>Confirmed cases of non-typhoidal Salmonella in England are reported on the laboratory reporting database called Second Generation Surveillance System. The total number of cases reported for 2014 to the first quarter of 2017 (1 January 2017 to 31 March) are included in the following table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number of cases</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>6,939</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>8,185</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>8,248</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017 (1<sup>st</sup> quarter)*</p></td><td><p>1,419</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>*Data available for 1 January to 31 March 2017</p><p> </p><p>Note: data for 2015, 2016 and 2017 is still undergoing validation and therefore may change prior to publication.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 06/07/2017 15:45:42 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine attachment 1 file name PQ2202 attached table.docx title PQ2202 attached table
tabling member	4129 label Biography information for Ian Paisley

661716

registered interest
date	19/12/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Pathology
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the implications for (a) his and (b) the NHS's policies of the findings of Cancer Research UK's report entitled, Testing times to come: an evaluation of pathology capacity in the UK, published in November 2016.
tabling member constituency	North Antrim
tabling member printed	Ian Paisley
uin	58176
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2017 answer text <p>The Government welcomes the publication in November 2016 of the Cancer Research UK, Testing times to come: an evaluation of pathology capacity in the UK. Pathology services play a major role in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, as well as many other conditions.</p><p> </p><p>The Department’s national delivery partners are working to modernise the delivery of pathology services in the National Health Service in England, and reviewing the workforce and training that will be required in the future.</p><p> </p><p>Health is a devolved matter in the rest of the United Kingdom.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat question first answered 11/01/2017 12:09:46 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	4129 label Biography information for Ian Paisley

459320

registered interest
date	10/03/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Tobacco: EU Law
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of (a) minimum pack-size requirements and (b) other elements of the new Tobacco Products Directive.
tabling member constituency	North Antrim
tabling member printed	Ian Paisley
uin	30625
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2016 answer text <p>An assessment estimating the impact of the provisions introduced by the revised Tobacco Products Directive on business, including minimum pack size requirements, was published alongside a public consultation on transposition of the Directive in summer last year. A final impact assessment, reflecting the outcome of the consultation, will be published alongside the implementing Regulations.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 17/03/2016 14:18:20 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4129 label Biography information for Ian Paisley

418947

registered interest
date	15/09/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Palliative Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that health professionals across the United Kingdom are made aware of all the palliative care teams and resources at their disposal.
tabling member constituency	North Antrim
tabling member printed	Ian Paisley
uin	10302
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2015 answer text <p>We are committed to ensuring high quality palliative care services are available to everyone who needs them, whether they are being cared for in hospital, a care home, or their own home.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Palliative and end of life care is everyone’s business and individual clinicians, hospitals and general practitioner practices are responsible for ensuring they are aware of local palliative care provision and for coordinating that care effectively so that their patients can receive high quality palliative care services when they need them.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In 2014, we published <em>One Chance to Get it Right</em>, which set out a new approach to care for dying people based on five Priorities for Care, and specific guidance for health and care staff, provider organisations and commissioners in England on implementing the new approach.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Following publication, members of the Leadership Alliance for the Care of Dying People, which produced the report, undertook a range of activities to raise awareness of the Priorities and the new approach among health and care staff, the public, dying people, relatives and carers.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Alongside this, Health Education England, working with NHS England and others developed new and updated education and training materials and provision to ensure the new approach was fully embedded in the training staff receive.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 21/09/2015 16:09:34 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	4129 label Biography information for Ian Paisley

418948

registered interest
date	15/09/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on ringfencing Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme payments specifically to pay for medicinal drugs.
tabling member constituency	North Antrim
tabling member printed	Ian Paisley
uin	10303
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2015 answer text <p>Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme (PPRS) payments are allocated to each of the four countries of the United Kingdom on an agreed basis each year. It is a matter for the devolved health administrations to decide how to use the apportioned payments they receive from the PPRS.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department ensures that all the income it receives from PPRS payments in England is reinvested in the National Health Service for patients’ benefit. The Department includes the expected PPRS payments in setting the NHS England allocations in advance of each year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England is responsible for allocating its overall budget (which includes expected income from PPRS payments in England) between clinical commissioning groups, specialised commissioning etc. Following normal Government accounting rules, there is no separately identified or ring-fenced funding stream associated with the PPRS payments.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government believes that NHS commissioners and providers are best placed to decide how to allocate their budgets to deliver improvements in the outcomes for patients. The PPRS includes a number of commitments for improving patient outcomes by improving access to clinically and cost effective medicines.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 21/09/2015 14:45:41 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	4129 label Biography information for Ian Paisley

389583

registered interest
date	13/07/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Exercise: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to increase the number of children who are partaking in 60 minutes of daily exercise.
tabling member constituency	North Antrim
tabling member printed	Ian Paisley
uin	6769
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p>This is a devolved matter.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>On 2 July, Public Heath England launched the “Change4Life” 10 Minute Shake Up campaign with Disney. This aims to inspire the nation's children to get moving and help them achieve the recommended 60 minutes of exercise per day.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department also funds the PE and Sport Premium for Primary Schools and School Games with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Department for Education to encourage more children and young people to become active.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 21/07/2015 15:58:54 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4129 label Biography information for Ian Paisley

348267

registered interest
date	03/06/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Abortion: Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of NHS abortion services from May 2010 to April 2015.
tabling member constituency	North Antrim
tabling member printed	Ian Paisley
uin	1015
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2015 answer text <p>Information about expenditure on termination of pregnancy services is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 09/06/2015 11:56:55 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4129 label Biography information for Ian Paisley

348268

registered interest
date	03/06/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	IVF: Licensing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of licences the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority will grant under the Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Mitochondrial Donation) Regulations 2015 over the next three years.
tabling member constituency	North Antrim
tabling member printed	Ian Paisley
uin	1046
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2015 answer text <p>The Department has made no estimate of the number of licences that the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authorisation (HFEA) might grant over the next three years.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The HFEA will make an assessment of applications as set out in the Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Mitochondrial Donation) Regulations 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 12/06/2015 10:55:23 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4129 label Biography information for Ian Paisley

348269

registered interest
date	03/06/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Gene Therapies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether it is his policy to permit Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats techniques in the UK.
tabling member constituency	North Antrim
tabling member printed	Ian Paisley
uin	1099
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2015 answer text <p>The use of Clustered Regular Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) is one of the many new technologies emerging in the field of genetic research. The technique is rapidly becoming a standard method to introduce mutations into cell lines and laboratory animals in order to understand the cause of serious diseases such as cancer and dementia and identify new therapies.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The United Kingdom has a strong and clear regulatory framework that bans genetic modifications of the nuclear genome that can be inherited from one generation to another. The use of CRISPR is permissible in the UK in a research setting, as long as any research carried out has the appropriate approvals. In the case of human embryos, research but not treatment using these techniques would be permissible provided the UK national regulator, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, was satisfied that the research met the criteria set out in the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990, as amended.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 12/06/2015 10:48:23 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	4129 label Biography information for Ian Paisley

224683

registered interest
date	03/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Social Services: Veterans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to reform the social care system so that veterans injured before 6 April 2005 do not have the cost of their care taken from their military compensation.
tabling member constituency	North Antrim
tabling member printed	Ian Paisley
uin	226101
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2015 answer text <p>We are in the process of introducing fundamental reforms to how we pay for social care that will make the system fairer for everyone, including veterans. At the moment, someone who has the highest care needs can risk losing all they have to meet the cost of their care. These reforms will mean that, for the first time ever, everyone will be protected from the risk of catastrophic care costs. The proposals are currently out for consultation and can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.careact2016.dh.gov.uk/" target="_blank">www.careact2016.dh.gov.uk</a></p><p> </p><p>The War Pensions Scheme, which provides no fault compensation for injury caused by Service before April 2005, includes certain allowances that were designed to pay for ongoing care costs and that is why it is has been taken into account under the social care charging rules. The Armed Forces Compensation Scheme, which provides no fault compensation for injury caused by Service after April 2005, operates differently. Officials in the Department are working with the Royal British Legion to review this issue and assess how the rules could be aligned in future to ensure fair treatment of veterans under both of these schemes.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 10/03/2015 17:37:37 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	4129 label Biography information for Ian Paisley