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346901

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Obesity: Babies and Pregnant Women
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will focus his Department's anti-obesity strategy on pregnant women and babies.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	296
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2015 answer text <p>Tackling obesity, particularly in children, is one of our major priorities and we know that pregnancy and early years are one of the many influences on children’s weight. Progress has been made in recent years, but we know we have much further to go and we will put forward our plans in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 298 question first answered 01/06/2015 13:50:37 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

346903

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Obesity: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he plans to take to tackle childhood obesity.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	298
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2015 answer text <p>Tackling obesity, particularly in children, is one of our major priorities and we know that pregnancy and early years are one of the many influences on children’s weight. Progress has been made in recent years, but we know we have much further to go and we will put forward our plans in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 296 question first answered 01/06/2015 13:50:37 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

346923

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	IVF
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to bring forward legislative proposals to prohibit embryonic gene-editing technologies developed over the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	286
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2015 answer text <p>The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990, as amended, already addresses this technology.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 01/06/2015 14:03:41 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

346926

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Medical Records: Data Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what data protection measures are in place when sending patient data to a country that does not appear on the European Commission's list of countries recognised as providing adequate protection.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Tom Blenkinsop
uin	81
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2015 answer text <p>All National Health Service organisations are expected to comply with their existing obligations for data protection. Organisations that consider sending data overseas must follow existing information governance guidance that includes a comprehensive assessment of the risks and mitigations possible. Such risk considerations should be undertaken on a case by case basis by the NHS organisation concerned and may vary according to the data and overseas locations involved. Use of the standard contract clauses provided by the Information Commissioner should also be made, with appropriate data assurance checks implemented.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 01/06/2015 14:12:02 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	4037 label Biography information for Tom Blenkinsop

346929

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Drugs: Finance
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 Department's policies of plans in Scotland to double the New Medicines Fund; and what his policy is on creating such a fund in England.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	83
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2015 answer text <p>It is a matter for the Scottish Government to decide how to use the apportioned payments they receive from the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme (PPRS).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government has no plans to create a New Medicines Fund in England.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government established the Cancer Drugs Fund to ensure that cancer patients in England have better access to life-extending and improving drugs not routinely funded by the National Health Service. Between October 2010 and December 2014 the Fund has helped over 67,000 cancer patients.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government is implementing all of the commitments in the PPRS on improving access to innovative medicines commensurate with the outcomes they offer patients. In addition, NHS England and the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry are pressing ahead with plans to maximise the benefits of the PPRS by improving access to and optimising the use of medicines to improve patient outcomes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In addition the Accelerated Access Review is looking at a range of proposals for accelerating access to innovative medicines to NHS patients and the potential for securing more value from the NHS research infrastructure in commissioning innovative medicines.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 01/06/2015 13:57:06 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

346935

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
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, in what ways the rebate from the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme has been spent in England; and if he will make it his policy that any future rebate will be allocated for treatments for (a) cystic fibrosis and (b) other long term conditions.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	84
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2015 answer text <p>Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme (PPRS) payments for England all go back into spending on improving patients’ health and care. 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>Decisions on how NHS England medicines budgets are spent are taken by NHS England clinical leadership on the basis of clinical priorities.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 01/06/2015 14:15:00 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

346990

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Abortion: Sex Selection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what account he has taken of the research performed by Dubuc and Coleman in formulating a strategy for the assessment of the incidence of sex-selective abortion in England and Wales.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent South
tabling member printed	Robert Flello
uin	17
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2015 answer text <p>The assessment of the evidence of gender abortions will capture a number of approaches, including an update of the Department’s analysis of birth ratios to include births occurring in 2013, and will take into consideration relevant published research, including that by Dubuc and Coleman.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 01/06/2015 14:20:43 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1569 label Biography information for Robert Flello

346991

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Abortion: Sex Selection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to meet Jeena International, Karma Nirvana and the Sharan Project and other women's groups to discuss their experience of dealing with UK women who have had sex-selective abortions.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent South
tabling member printed	Robert Flello
uin	19
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2015 answer text <p>All requests for meetings with Ministers are dealt with on a case by case basis giving due consideration to parliamentary business. The Government is clear that sex selective abortions in the United Kingdom are illegal.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 01/06/2015 14:17:11 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1569 label Biography information for Robert Flello

347152

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	King George Hospital: Accident and Emergency Departments
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 effect of the closure of accident and emergency services at King George Hospital on older people.
tabling member constituency	Ilford North
tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
uin	119
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2015 answer text <p>This Government has always been clear that the reconfiguration of health services is a matter for the local National Health Service that should be engaging with local people. All service change should be led by clinicians and be in the best interests of patients, not driven from the top down.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In February 2009 the local primary care trusts published <em>The case for change in north east London</em> which set out clear reasons why changes to local health services were needed.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Decisions to change the configuration of emergency services were made in 2010 by the local NHS following public consultation and were endorsed by the Secretary of State for Health on the advice of the Independent Reconfiguration Panel.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>However, the proposals for change were first set out in 2009 under the then Government. Detailed reasons for the proposals can be found in the Health for North East London Case for Change and in the Pre-Consultation Business Case both published in November 2009.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The local NHS has always been clear that changes to the accident and emergency service at King George Hospital will not be made until it is safe to do so. Plans have been put on hold and cannot take place whilst Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust remains in special measures.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 120 121 122 question first answered 01/06/2015 14:25:08 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

229380

registered interest
date	24/03/2015
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the efficacy of using BRCA gene testing techniques to diagnose certain types of cancers.
tabling member constituency	South Down
tabling member printed	Ms Margaret Ritchie
uin	228879
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2015 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s (NICE) clinical guideline on familial breast cancer, published in June 2013, recommends that women with breast or ovarian cancer should be offered genetic testing if their combined BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carrier possibility is 10% or more.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NICE clinical guidelines represent best practice and we expect National Health Service organisations in England to take them fully into account in designing services to meet the needs of their local populations.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 26/03/2015 11:16:25 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4130 label Biography information for Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick