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1137560

registered interest
date	08/07/2019
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	Sexually Transmitted Infections
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 the correlation between reductions to public health funding and increases in rates of syphilis and gonorrhoea.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	274471
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2019 answer text <p>We estimate that increases in rates of syphilis, gonorrhoea and chlamydia are due to a number of factors. These include increases in both the number of people attending sexual health services and the number of tests for sexually transmitted infections. Public Health England has advised that other factors include, better detection of infection and behavioural changes such as an increase in partner numbers and condomless sex, as well as, for some men who have sex with men, ‘chemsex’ and group sex facilitated by geosocial networking applications.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities will receive £3.1 billion in 2019/20, ring-fenced exclusively for use on public health, including sexual health. We are investing over £16 billion in local authority public health services over the five years of the 2015 Spending Review until 2020/21. It is for individual local authorities to decide their spending priorities based on an assessment of local need, including the need for sexual health services taking account of their statutory duties.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities are required by regulations to provide comprehensive open access sexual health services, including provision for sexually transmitted infection testing and treatment and contraception.</p><p> </p><p>The latest statistics show that more people are now accessing sexual health services. Attendances have increased by 7% between 2017 and 2018 (from 3,337,677 to 3,561,548). This continues the trend of increases in attendances seen over the past five years. To help manage the overall increase in demand, local authorities are increasingly commissioning online services to manage lower risk and asymptomatic patients. These services have the potential to reach groups not currently engaged with clinic services.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 11/07/2019 13:19:43 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

1135827

registered interest
date	01/07/2019
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 England: Private Sector
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the total payments made by NHS England to private providers in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	271400
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2019 answer text <p>Total spending by NHS Commissioners on private health providers in each of the last five years for which figures are available is shown in the following table.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>NHS Commissioners' spend on non National Health Service bodies by organisation type</p></td><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>2017/18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>£ million</p></td><td><p>£ million</p></td><td><p>£ million</p></td><td><p>£ million</p></td><td><p>£ million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Independent sector providers</p></td><td><p>6,467</p></td><td><p>8,067</p></td><td><p>8,818</p></td><td><p>9,007</p></td><td><p>8,765</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br> Note: 1. The numbers above have been collected separately from audited accounts data and may include estimates.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 04/07/2019 11:03:36 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

1135293

registered interest
date	27/06/2019
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: Legal Costs
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 24 June 2019 to Question 266123 on NHS: Legal Costs, how his Department differentiates between individual projects or cases; and what steps his Department takes to (a) ensure that public funds paid to those legal services providers is in respect of work actually done or carried out by those providers and (b) record the areas of law and jurisdictions of courts and tribunals in which the work is done.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	270315
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2019 answer text <p>The Department uses two main routes to engaging legal support.</p><p>- The Department’s Anti-Fraud Unit (AFU) engages external law firms through the Civil Litigation and Arbitration in Medicines and Pharmaceuticals Framework, as well as the Government Legal Department (GLD). The AFU utilises a case management system in order to differentiate between individual cases and checks are conducted against invoices and supporting documents submitted by each law firm, including GLD, to ensure these are reflective of their instructions.</p><p> </p><p>- Other business areas within the Department consult with the GLD on the resources available and should they not have the capacity then they will a conduct a competition for other Legal service providers using the Crown Commercial Services framework contract. GLD will ensure that deliverables are agreed and undertaken to the agreed quality before payments are made.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 02/07/2019 16:11:28 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

1132981

registered interest
date	18/06/2019
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: Legal Costs
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 17 June 2019 to Question 263752 on NHS: Legal Costs, how much was money was spent by (a) NHS England, (b) NHS trusts, (c) Health Education England and (d) NHS Improvement on the services of (a) Bevan Brittan, (b) Mills & Reeve, (c) DAC Beechcroft, (d) Hempsons, (e) Capsticks and (f) Hill Dickinson in relation to employment disputes in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	266123
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2019 answer text <p>The arm’s length bodies concerned do not collect information in the format requested. The transactions charged by the organisations involved do not specifically itemise legal costs as ‘employment disputes’.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 24/06/2019 15:28:59 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

1131616

registered interest
date	12/06/2019
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: Legal Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much was money was spent by (a) NHS England, (b) NHS Trusts, (c) Health Education England and (d) NHS Improvement on the services of (a) Bevan Brittan, (b) Mills & Reeve, (c) DAC Beechcroft, (d) Hempsons, (e) Capsticks and (f) Hill Dickinson in relation to employment and whistleblower disputes in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	263752
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2019 answer text <p>The arm’s length bodies concerned do not collect information in a way that would enable them to answer this question in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 17/06/2019 15:42:04 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

1131800

registered interest
date	12/06/2019
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	Department of Health and Social Care: Chief Scientific Advisers
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 meetings he held with his Department’s Chief Scientific Adviser between 1 March 2019 and 31 May 2019.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	263762
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2019 answer text <p>For the period 1 March 2019 and 31 May 2019 my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care met the Department’s Chief Scientific Adviser seven times.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 20/06/2019 15:38:29 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

1128556

registered interest
date	23/05/2019
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	Influenza: Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department plans to publish data on the uptake of influenza vaccinations by social care workers in 2018-19.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	257680
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2019 answer text <p>There is no nationally agreed data set or data collection for recording the immunisation of social care workers.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 05/06/2019 15:16:16 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

1128626

registered interest
date	23/05/2019
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	Whorlton Hall Hospital
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 average weekly fee per patient charged to the NHS was for the provision of care by Cygnet at Whorlton Hall.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	257682
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2019 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 05/06/2019 14:03:55 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

1121453

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
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	Vaccination: Research
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 his oral contribution on 26 March 2019 to Question 910028 on Antimicrobial Resistance: Vaccines, what steps his Department is taking to stimulate research and development into vaccines, including for tuberculosis, as an alternative to antibiotics.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	244039
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2019 answer text <p>The United Kingdom national action plan on antimicrobial resistance (AMR), published on 24 January 2019, contains the commitment to continue to support research into new and alternative treatments, vaccines and diagnostic tests.</p><p>The Government has invested over £350 million in AMR research and development since 2014, including research funding calls with vaccination in scope, most recently the £32 million capital funding call lead by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), and the Small Business Research Initiative competition which announced its awards in January 2019. We would expect to consider the role of vaccines for AMR in future programmatic funding.</p><p>The UK supports the development of vaccines through UK Aid programmes such as the Global AMR Innovation Fund (GAMRIF) and the UK Vaccine Network. GAMRIF is a £50 million fund to support innovative research and development for AMR, for the benefit of people in low- and middle-income countries, and invests £30 million into preventative measures in human and animal health, including vaccines for AMR not including tuberculosis (TB). The fund includes a £1 million work package with the Bacterial Vaccinology Network which supports early stage research and development around the world to drive the development and uptake of vaccines for AMR in humans and animals.</p><p>The UK supports TB vaccine research through the Medical Research Council (MRC), with support to the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership, and through the Joint Global Health Clinical Trials programme represented by the Department for International Development (DFID), MRC, NIHR and Wellcome. DFID’s Agriculture research team is supporting work on bovine TB vaccine development in partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 244040 question first answered 24/04/2019 08:08:02 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

1121454

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
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	Vaccination: Research
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 his oral contribution on 26 March 2019 to Question 910028 on Antimicrobial Resistance: Vaccines, what funding he plans to make to stimulate research and development into vaccines as an alternative to antibiotics.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	244040
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2019 answer text <p>The United Kingdom national action plan on antimicrobial resistance (AMR), published on 24 January 2019, contains the commitment to continue to support research into new and alternative treatments, vaccines and diagnostic tests.</p><p>The Government has invested over £350 million in AMR research and development since 2014, including research funding calls with vaccination in scope, most recently the £32 million capital funding call lead by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), and the Small Business Research Initiative competition which announced its awards in January 2019. We would expect to consider the role of vaccines for AMR in future programmatic funding.</p><p>The UK supports the development of vaccines through UK Aid programmes such as the Global AMR Innovation Fund (GAMRIF) and the UK Vaccine Network. GAMRIF is a £50 million fund to support innovative research and development for AMR, for the benefit of people in low- and middle-income countries, and invests £30 million into preventative measures in human and animal health, including vaccines for AMR not including tuberculosis (TB). The fund includes a £1 million work package with the Bacterial Vaccinology Network which supports early stage research and development around the world to drive the development and uptake of vaccines for AMR in humans and animals.</p><p>The UK supports TB vaccine research through the Medical Research Council (MRC), with support to the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership, and through the Joint Global Health Clinical Trials programme represented by the Department for International Development (DFID), MRC, NIHR and Wellcome. DFID’s Agriculture research team is supporting work on bovine TB vaccine development in partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 244039 question first answered 24/04/2019 08:08:03 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb