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451516

registered interest
date	09/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	HIV Infection: Health Services
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 effectiveness of local authorities in carrying out their duties under the new commissioning arrangements to ensure that the needs of people living with HIV in their areas are met.
tabling member constituency	Exeter
tabling member printed	Mr Ben Bradshaw
uin	26434
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>Decisions on funding and access to social care support services for people with HIV are made by local authorities. The Care Act 2014 sets out the legal framework for social care in England, and this applies to all adults with support needs including those living with HIV.</p><p> </p><p>Diagnosed early most people with access to HIV treatment can expect a near normal life expectancy. Public Health England monitors the results of individuals receiving NHS HIV treatment. In 2014, 91% of people attending for care were receiving antiretroviral (ARV) treatment of which 95% were virally suppressed and very unlikely to be infectious to others. The United Kingdom is already ahead in meeting two of the three ambitious UNAIDS 90/90/90 global goals of 90% of people with HIV being diagnosed, 90% on ARV treatment and 90% viral suppression for those on ARV treatment by 2020.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 26137 26151 question first answered 11/02/2016 17:56:25 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	230 label Biography information for Mr Ben Bradshaw

451784

registered interest
date	09/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Per Capita Costs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what were the figures, in real terms, for spending per head of the population on the NHS in 1997–98 and 2014–15.
tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
uin	HL6059
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2016 answer text <p>Latest available data for spending per head of population on the National Health Service in England is 2013-14.</p><p> </p><p>Spend per head of population on the NHS in England in real terms for 1997-98 and 2013-14 is shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p>England NHS health spend per head</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Spend per head in 2013-14 prices £</p></td><td><p>Source</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1997-98</p></td><td><p>1,026</p></td><td><p>Office for National Statistics Mid 1997 population projection and net NHS spend 1997-98</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>1,994</p></td><td><p>HM Treasury Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses 2015</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 12/02/2016 08:28:53 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

450933

registered interest
date	08/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Human Embryo Experiments
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Prior of Brampton on 27 January (HL5039), whether they will place in the Library of the House a full copy of the responses to peer reviewers by the person responsible for the recently approved licence application submitted to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) to perform genome editing in human embryos by means of CRISPR-Cas9; to what extent the HFEA’s Executive followed the recommendations raised by both of their peer reviewers; and on how many occasions the HFEA’s Executive have made decisions against the recommendations of all appointed peer reviewers.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL5959
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) publishes on its website the inspection report relating to a licence renewal application and the minutes of the Licence Committee’s decision. It does not publish other information associated with a licence application.</p><p> </p><p>The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 (as amended) permits the genetic modification of embryos in research, subject to an HFEA licence. As the regulator, the HFEA’s responsibility is to apply the test in the legislation, namely that the research is necessary or desirable for any of the purposes specified in the Act and that the use of embryos is necessary. The Licence Committee has added a condition to the licence that no research using genome editing may take place until it has received approval from an NHS Research Ethics Committee.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL5649 HL5773 HL5960 question first answered 11/02/2016 17:51:32 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

450944

registered interest
date	08/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Cancer: Screening
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what the average waiting time is for a result to be given of a DEXA bone density scan in each NHS region in England; and what assessment they have made of the average waiting time for such results in (1) Scotland, and (2) Wales.
tabling member printed	Baroness Quin
uin	HL5970
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>Genomics England has set an objective to deliver 8,000 clinical reports by the end of 2016. The precise details of the reports from the pilot and main phases will become clearer once the phenotypic data is collected and linked to the genome data.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 11/02/2016 13:19:44 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	518 label Biography information for Baroness Quin

451113

registered interest
date	08/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS Improvement
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much money is being spent by NHS Improvement on a re-design of that organisation.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL5979
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>The forecast spend for the design of NHS Improvement is £800,000. This includes the development of a single organisational structure and new operating model to better support the National Health Service to drive improvements.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 11/02/2016 15:00:39 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

451119

registered interest
date	08/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Osteoporosis
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the average waiting time for a result to be given of a DEXA bone density scan in each NHS region in England; and what assessment they have made of the average waiting time for such results in (1) Scotland, and (2) Wales.
tabling member printed	Baroness Quin
uin	HL5985
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>Data are not collected on the average waiting time for a result to be given for a dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) scan. Data are collected on the average waiting time from referral to test, and these are shown in the following table for the four NHS England commissioning regions for most recent period, which is November 2015. Health is a devolved matter in Scotland and Wales.</p><p> </p><p>Table: average median waiting times in weeks for a DEXA scan from referral by NHS England commissioning region, November 2015</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Region</p></td><td><p>Number of weeks</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North of England</p></td><td><p>2.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Midlands and East of England</p></td><td><p>1.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>1.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South of England</p></td><td><p>1.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>1.9</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 11/02/2016 13:18:56 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	518 label Biography information for Baroness Quin

451241

registered interest
date	08/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Palliative Care: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to support young people who have been receiving palliative care and are transitioning from children's to adults' services.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	26248
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>The Department has provided grant funding to Together for Short Lives which is the membership organisation for children’s hospices to support the Transition Taskforce to provide guidance and training that supports good transitions locally between children’s and adult services for those with life-limiting conditions or needing palliative care.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 11/02/2016 16:24:48 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

451289

registered interest
date	08/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 5 February 2016 to Question 25603, on NHS: finance, with which seven trusts Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority have met since 15 January 2016.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
tabling member printed	Heidi Alexander
uin	26362
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority are unable to disclose the seven trust names that they have met since 15 January for commercial-in-confidence reasons.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 11/02/2016 15:58:37 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	4038 label Biography information for Heidi Alexander

451291

registered interest
date	08/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	HIV Infection: Medical Treatments
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 his policies of the recent finding by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine that pre-exposure prophylaxis could reduce HIV rates in men who have sex with men by between 40 and 60 per cent; and what steps he is taking to make pre-exposure prophylaxis available to people in this group.
tabling member constituency	Exeter
tabling member printed	Mr Ben Bradshaw
uin	26357
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>NHS England is working with local authorities, clinicians, patient representatives and Public Health England to consider the clinical and cost effectiveness of providing Pre-exposure prophylaxis to at-risk groups to prevent them acquiring HIV. This includes a full review and analysis of published literature in this area.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 11/02/2016 16:19:57 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	230 label Biography information for Mr Ben Bradshaw

451292

registered interest
date	08/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Macular Degeneration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in the UK have been diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	26346
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>We do not have information on the numbers of people diagnosed with age related macular degeneration in each of the last five years.</p><p> </p><p>What we do have is the number of finished admission episodes, for England, for the last five years, where the primary diagnosis was ‘degeneration of the macular and posterior pole’.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Age group</p></td><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>0-4</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>5-9</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10-14</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>15-19</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>20-24</p></td><td><p>43</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>36</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>25-29</p></td><td><p>51</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>33</p></td><td><p>47</p></td><td><p>45</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>30-34</p></td><td><p>61</p></td><td><p>42</p></td><td><p>57</p></td><td><p>56</p></td><td><p>58</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>35-39</p></td><td><p>95</p></td><td><p>73</p></td><td><p>101</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>73</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>40-44</p></td><td><p>162</p></td><td><p>156</p></td><td><p>162</p></td><td><p>229</p></td><td><p>148</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>45-49</p></td><td><p>256</p></td><td><p>254</p></td><td><p>319</p></td><td><p>377</p></td><td><p>386</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>50-54</p></td><td><p>417</p></td><td><p>439</p></td><td><p>477</p></td><td><p>636</p></td><td><p>603</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>55-59</p></td><td><p>980</p></td><td><p>812</p></td><td><p>973</p></td><td><p>1,216</p></td><td><p>1,283</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>60-64</p></td><td><p>2,617</p></td><td><p>2,589</p></td><td><p>2,647</p></td><td><p>2,833</p></td><td><p>2,767</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>65-69</p></td><td><p>4,740</p></td><td><p>5,153</p></td><td><p>5,982</p></td><td><p>6,427</p></td><td><p>6,729</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>70-74</p></td><td><p>8,685</p></td><td><p>8,937</p></td><td><p>9,770</p></td><td><p>9,847</p></td><td><p>10,671</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>75-79</p></td><td><p>12,998</p></td><td><p>14,051</p></td><td><p>15,347</p></td><td><p>14,506</p></td><td><p>16,069</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>80-84</p></td><td><p>16,568</p></td><td><p>17,083</p></td><td><p>18,765</p></td><td><p>17,747</p></td><td><p>18,847</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>85-89</p></td><td><p>13,114</p></td><td><p>13,960</p></td><td><p>15,550</p></td><td><p>14,262</p></td><td><p>15,497</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>90+</p></td><td><p>5,382</p></td><td><p>6,179</p></td><td><p>7,320</p></td><td><p>7,318</p></td><td><p>8,580</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Unknown</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>TOTAL</p></td><td><p>66,195</p></td><td><p>69,826</p></td><td><p>77,559</p></td><td><p>75,672</p></td><td><p>81,815</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>This would include age related macular degeneration, as well as other conditions. It also only relates to people admitted to hospital not those seen in outpatients or primary care.</p><p> </p><p><em>Notes: </em></p><p>A finished admission episode is the first period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider.</p><p> </p><p>Admissions do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the same period.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 11/02/2016 16:21:44 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon