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1129260

registered interest
date	03/06/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Shoplifting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, under what different categories may shoplifting be recorded; and whether there are regional differences in that recording.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	259106
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2019 answer text <p>For all police forces in England and Wales, shoplifting is recorded under a single crime code according to the Home Office counting rules; the Theft Act 1968.</p><p>The Home Office holds information on all offences recorded by police, including the offence of Shoplifting, which is published by Police Force Area (PFA). Information on the number of shoplifting offences recorded in each financial year from April 2012 to December 2018 can be found in the Open Data tables, which can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables</a></p><p>An impact assessment was carried out for the crime threshold of £200 on levels of crime, which can be found here: <br><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/252650/Annex_A_Overarching_IA_Lords.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/252650/Annex_A_Overarching_IA_Lords.pdf</a></p><p>The Government recognises the cost and disruption that shoplifting can cause to businesses, as well as to communities and consumers. It is important that retailers continue to report incidents of shoplifting and violence to the police so that effective action can be taken against offenders.</p><p>The Minister for Crime, Safeguarding and Vulnerability co-chairs the National Retail Crime Steering Group which brings together Government, enforcement and key retail partners to identify and tackle the issues facing retailers in England and Wales. The Group’s key areas of focus include work to tackle shop theft and work to address violence and abuse toward retail staff.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd grouped question UIN 259107 259108 question first answered 06/06/2019 14:55:02 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

1129261

registered interest
date	03/06/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has carried out an impact assessment of the crime threshold of £200 on levels of crime.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	259107
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2019 answer text <p>For all police forces in England and Wales, shoplifting is recorded under a single crime code according to the Home Office counting rules; the Theft Act 1968.</p><p>The Home Office holds information on all offences recorded by police, including the offence of Shoplifting, which is published by Police Force Area (PFA). Information on the number of shoplifting offences recorded in each financial year from April 2012 to December 2018 can be found in the Open Data tables, which can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables</a></p><p>An impact assessment was carried out for the crime threshold of £200 on levels of crime, which can be found here: <br><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/252650/Annex_A_Overarching_IA_Lords.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/252650/Annex_A_Overarching_IA_Lords.pdf</a></p><p>The Government recognises the cost and disruption that shoplifting can cause to businesses, as well as to communities and consumers. It is important that retailers continue to report incidents of shoplifting and violence to the police so that effective action can be taken against offenders.</p><p>The Minister for Crime, Safeguarding and Vulnerability co-chairs the National Retail Crime Steering Group which brings together Government, enforcement and key retail partners to identify and tackle the issues facing retailers in England and Wales. The Group’s key areas of focus include work to tackle shop theft and work to address violence and abuse toward retail staff.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd grouped question UIN 259106 259108 question first answered 06/06/2019 14:55:02 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

1129262

registered interest
date	03/06/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Shoplifting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of changes in the level of shoplifting by region in (a) 2012-13, (b) 2013-14, (c) 2014-15, (d) 2015-16, (e) 2016-17, (f) 2017-18 and (g) 2018-19.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	259108
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2019 answer text <p>For all police forces in England and Wales, shoplifting is recorded under a single crime code according to the Home Office counting rules; the Theft Act 1968.</p><p>The Home Office holds information on all offences recorded by police, including the offence of Shoplifting, which is published by Police Force Area (PFA). Information on the number of shoplifting offences recorded in each financial year from April 2012 to December 2018 can be found in the Open Data tables, which can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables</a></p><p>An impact assessment was carried out for the crime threshold of £200 on levels of crime, which can be found here: <br><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/252650/Annex_A_Overarching_IA_Lords.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/252650/Annex_A_Overarching_IA_Lords.pdf</a></p><p>The Government recognises the cost and disruption that shoplifting can cause to businesses, as well as to communities and consumers. It is important that retailers continue to report incidents of shoplifting and violence to the police so that effective action can be taken against offenders.</p><p>The Minister for Crime, Safeguarding and Vulnerability co-chairs the National Retail Crime Steering Group which brings together Government, enforcement and key retail partners to identify and tackle the issues facing retailers in England and Wales. The Group’s key areas of focus include work to tackle shop theft and work to address violence and abuse toward retail staff.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd grouped question UIN 259106 259107 question first answered 06/06/2019 14:55:02 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

1129369

registered interest
date	03/06/2019
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	Cannabis: Medical Treatments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions his Department has had with (a) NHS England, (b) manufacturers and (c) NICE on funding arrangements for accessing (a) licensed and (b) unlicensed cannabis-based medicines on the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	259109
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2019 answer text <p>In developing policy on the rescheduling of cannabis-based products for medicinal use, the Government has applied existing arrangements for accessing licensed and unlicensed medicines on the National Health Service. The Department has not had discussions with NHS England, manufacturers or the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) on funding arrangements for accessing licensed or unlicensed cannabis-based products, beyond the existing arrangements.</p><p>The recent changes to the law to reschedule cannabis-based products for medicinal use, does not impact on the availability of existing licensed cannabis-based medicinal products, such as Sativex and Nabilone. Any medicines which receive a marketing authorisation from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency or European Medicines Agency will be assessed for cost effectiveness by NICE. This is the foundation of NHS decisions about routine funding, and applies to all licensed medicines.</p><p>For unlicensed medicines, the normal NHS medicines governance systems apply, as they do to all locally funded unlicensed treatments. These processes support good clinical practice and safe and effective prescribing. Decisions will be taken, at NHS trust level on a case by case basis, based on the needs of the individual patient and the evidence of efficacy and cost effectiveness available.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 11/06/2019 16:54:00 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

1128521

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	Cannabis: Medical Treatments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his oral contribution of 8 April 2019, Official Report, column 36, what the timetable is for making available a public register of specialist clinicians who can prescribe cannabis-based medicines.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	257698
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2019 answer text <p>The law provides that specialist clinicians on the General Medical Council’s ‘Specialist Register’ can prescribe cannabis-based products for medicinal use, where clinically appropriate and in the best interest of patients.</p><p>A general practitioner (GP) may make a referral to a specialist clinician on the General Medical Council’s ‘Specialist Register’ once the patient reaches the appropriate point in their treatment pathway.</p><p>A list of Registered Medical Practitioners, including specialist clinicians, is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gmc-uk.org/registration-and-licensing/the-medical-register" target="_blank">https://www.gmc-uk.org/registration-and-licensing/the-medical-register</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 05/06/2019 13:48:29 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

1110783

registered interest
date	09/04/2019
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	Ophthalmology
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 4 April 2019 to Question 239204 on Ophthalmology, whether the NHS Improvement impact assessment (a) covers changes affecting patient access to combined Minimally Invasive Glaucoma Surgery (MIGS) and cataract operation and (b) recognises the procedure as a common practice; and whether the new tariff price was assessed to cover cataract and MIGS as a single operation.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	242747
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2019 answer text <p>In considering the proposed prices for the 2019/20 national tariff, the ophthalmology Clinical Expert Working Group (EWG) specifically stated that minimally invasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS) and cataract activity are commonly done together and it would not usually be in the patient’s best interest to do them separately. The prices assigned to HRG BZ91 in the 2019/20 tariff cover cataract and MIGS as a single operation. The EWG and Royal College of Ophthalmology agreed that the BZ91 prices were appropriate, relative to the prices for other ophthalmology procedures.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 15/04/2019 13:01:52 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

1110785

registered interest
date	09/04/2019
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	Visual Impairment: Surgery
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 4 April 2019 to Question 239205 on Ophthalmology, if his Department will publish the (a) data and (b) analysis on which NHS Improvement based the assessment that indicates that Minimally Invasive Glaucoma Surgery (MIGS) is cheaper than other glaucoma procedures; and what the difference is in reference costs for MIGS and cataract operation since the last tariff prices were set.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	242748
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2019 answer text <p>The current codes do not allow differentiation between minimally invasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS) and non-MIGS activity.</p><p> </p><p>In the development of each national tariff, NHS England and NHS Improvement undertakes an overall assessment of the impact of proposals. This includes consideration of change in expenditure on different types of care in ‘2019/20 National Tariff Payment System – A consultation notice: Impact assessment’. While this provides an overall assessment of impact, detailed feedback on proposed prices for individual Healthcare Resource Groups (units of healthcare) is sought from clinical Expert Working Groups (EWGs). EWGs are managed by the NHS Digital National Casemix Office and comprise clinicians representing specific specialities. This is to ensure that the published tariff supports clinical practice.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 15/04/2019 13:00:52 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

1110795

registered interest
date	09/04/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to ensure that maintenance loans are available to all students.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	242749
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2019 answer text <p>Eligible full-time students attending full-time undergraduate higher education courses qualify for maintenance loans. All such students, regardless of their income, qualify for a minimum loan with additional support for disadvantaged students.</p><p>For the current academic year, 2018/19, students on family incomes of £25,000 or less who are living away from the parental home and studying outside London qualify for a maintenance loan of £8,700, increasing to £8,944 for the 2019/20 academic year. Higher rates of loan are available for students living away from home and studying in London.</p><p>Since August 2018, new students attending part-time degree level courses have also qualified for partially means-tested maintenance loans. Information on student support for undergraduate students, including maintenance loans, can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/get-undergraduate-student-loan" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/get-undergraduate-student-loan</a>.</p><p>The government’s review of post-18 education and funding is looking at how we can ensure that the education system for those aged 18 years and over is accessible to all. The review’s focus includes how disadvantaged students and learners receive maintenance support, both from government and from universities and colleges.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 15/04/2019 15:20:08 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

1108746

registered interest
date	01/04/2019
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	Visual Impairment: Surgery
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment on the effect of the changes to the NHS tariff for combined cataract and glaucoma surgery on (a) hospital costs and (b) efficiency in the field of ophthalmology.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	239204
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>There has been a significant change in clinical practice in ophthalmology since the last tariff prices were set and reference costs used to calculate prices were collected, with a shift to performing Minimally Invasive Glaucoma Surgery (MIGS) instead of open glaucoma procedures which are frequently combined with cataract extraction.</p><p> </p><p>MIGS are significantly cheaper, and both procedures cannot be differentiated using operating procedure code supplement codes. Open/tube glaucoma procedures are nearly always done with a graft of sclera or tutoplast, which triggers multiple procedures so will receive significantly more under the 2019/20 prices than MIGS procedures, which is appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Improvement has carried out an impact assessment which shows that the national tariff changes should not affect patient access to glaucoma treatment.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 239205 question first answered 04/04/2019 11:12:13 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

1108747

registered interest
date	01/04/2019
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	Glaucoma: Medical Treatments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the changes to the NHS tariff for 2019-2020 in the field of ophthalmology on patient access to glaucoma treatment.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	239205
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>There has been a significant change in clinical practice in ophthalmology since the last tariff prices were set and reference costs used to calculate prices were collected, with a shift to performing Minimally Invasive Glaucoma Surgery (MIGS) instead of open glaucoma procedures which are frequently combined with cataract extraction.</p><p> </p><p>MIGS are significantly cheaper, and both procedures cannot be differentiated using operating procedure code supplement codes. Open/tube glaucoma procedures are nearly always done with a graft of sclera or tutoplast, which triggers multiple procedures so will receive significantly more under the 2019/20 prices than MIGS procedures, which is appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Improvement has carried out an impact assessment which shows that the national tariff changes should not affect patient access to glaucoma treatment.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 239204 question first answered 04/04/2019 11:12:13 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley