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169058

	registered interest
	date	09/12/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Hearing Impairment: Children
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what information they are currently making available to parents of deaf children about the quality of paediatric audiology services.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL3548
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2014 answer text <p>We are advised by NHS England that the Improving Quality in Physiological Services programme, run jointly by the United Kingdom of Accreditation Service (UKAS) and the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), is raising the profile of accreditation and quality assurance schemes for physiological diagnostic services. A mapping exercise is underway to identify those services which are accredited or working towards accreditation which is an integral improvement step on the pathway to full accreditation as a mark of quality. To date audiology services are making good progress towards accreditation.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Commissioning of accredited services is considered good practice and should be encouraged. UKAS and RCP are supporting the NHS England business objective to increase the use of accreditation. Information about those services which have achieved accreditation is publicly available on the UKAS website.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>All hospital providers of audiology services are registered with the Care Quality Commission and information on their monitoring and inspections is freely available online. Local authorities and clinical commissioning groups should also be providing details of services for deaf children as part of their published offer under the new statutory framework for special educational needs and disability.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe grouped question UIN HL3549 HL3550 question first answered 22/12/2014 14:48:17 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

169059

	registered interest
	date	09/12/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Hearing Impairment: Children
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the quality of paediatric audiology services, and how they will be monitored in the future.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL3549
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2014 answer text <p>We are advised by NHS England that the Improving Quality in Physiological Services programme, run jointly by the United Kingdom of Accreditation Service (UKAS) and the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), is raising the profile of accreditation and quality assurance schemes for physiological diagnostic services. A mapping exercise is underway to identify those services which are accredited or working towards accreditation which is an integral improvement step on the pathway to full accreditation as a mark of quality. To date audiology services are making good progress towards accreditation.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Commissioning of accredited services is considered good practice and should be encouraged. UKAS and RCP are supporting the NHS England business objective to increase the use of accreditation. Information about those services which have achieved accreditation is publicly available on the UKAS website.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>All hospital providers of audiology services are registered with the Care Quality Commission and information on their monitoring and inspections is freely available online. Local authorities and clinical commissioning groups should also be providing details of services for deaf children as part of their published offer under the new statutory framework for special educational needs and disability.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe grouped question UIN HL3548 HL3550 question first answered 22/12/2014 14:48:17 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

169060

	registered interest
	date	09/12/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Hearing Impairment: Children
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will consider mandating NHS England to ensure that all children’s audiology services both undertake the Improving Quality In Physiological Services process and sign waivers of confidentiality so that all information about the quality of children’s audiology services is available to families of deaf children.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL3550
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2014 answer text <p>We are advised by NHS England that the Improving Quality in Physiological Services programme, run jointly by the United Kingdom of Accreditation Service (UKAS) and the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), is raising the profile of accreditation and quality assurance schemes for physiological diagnostic services. A mapping exercise is underway to identify those services which are accredited or working towards accreditation which is an integral improvement step on the pathway to full accreditation as a mark of quality. To date audiology services are making good progress towards accreditation.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Commissioning of accredited services is considered good practice and should be encouraged. UKAS and RCP are supporting the NHS England business objective to increase the use of accreditation. Information about those services which have achieved accreditation is publicly available on the UKAS website.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>All hospital providers of audiology services are registered with the Care Quality Commission and information on their monitoring and inspections is freely available online. Local authorities and clinical commissioning groups should also be providing details of services for deaf children as part of their published offer under the new statutory framework for special educational needs and disability.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe grouped question UIN HL3548 HL3549 question first answered 22/12/2014 14:48:17 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

169061

	registered interest
	date	09/12/2014
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Earl Howe on 3 December (HL2953), how they consider the removal of the existing taper to be of benefit to small companies, and why it was removed.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL3551
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>The 2014 Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme (PPRS) provides certainty and stability to all companies that decide to join it. Companies with less than £5 million in health service sales are exempted from having to make any PPRS payments. <br> <br> The 2014 PPRS was negotiated with the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry with the agreed objective of ensuring that the branded medicines bill stays within affordable limits. Smaller companies were represented in the negotiations.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 17/12/2014 14:07:22 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

169062

	registered interest
	date	09/12/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Rare Diseases
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the process by which NHS England makes decisions on whether to support the funding of treatments for rare diseases.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL3552
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2014 answer text <p>NHS England specialised commissioning is supported by devolved clinical leadership. Specialised services are grouped into five programmes of care:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- Internal Medicine;</p><p> </p><p>- Cancer and Blood;</p><p> </p><p>- Mental Health;</p><p> </p><p>- Trauma; and</p><p> </p><p>- Women and Children.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Within the programmes of care, 75 Clinical Reference Groups (CRGs) are responsible for preparing national specialised service-level strategy and developing specialised service contract products such as specifications and policies.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Specialised Commissioning Medicines Optimisation CRG works across all 75 service-specific CRGs.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>The Clinical Priorities Advisory Group (CPAG) advises the Specialised Commissioning Committee on commissioning of new treatments for rare diseases in England. CPAG’s membership includes clinicians, patient representatives and commissioners of health services. Recommendations are made by following the principles and criteria of a decision-making framework.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Specialised Commissioning Committee advises the NHS England Board on development and implementation of strategy for specialised commissioning, agreeing specialised commissioning priorities and work programmes, and receiving assurance that these are delivered.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The NHS England Board recommendations from the Specialised Commissioning Committee and deliberates accordingly.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>A copy of the CPAG Decision-Making Framework is attached.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 22/12/2014 14:49:45 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe attachment 1 file name CPAG Decision- Making Framework.pdf title CPAG Decision-Making Framework
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

169063

	registered interest
	date	09/12/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Diseases
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what criteria have been established by NHS England to guide the Clinical Priorities Advisory Group in its evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of treatments for rare diseases.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL3553
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2014 answer text <p>The Rare Diseases Advisory Group considers the evaluation of all treatments for rare diseases and advises the Clinical Priorities Advisory Group (CPAG). The evidence base for treatments of rare diseases is often more limited than for more common conditions. Therefore, allowances are made for greater uncertainty. In some cases, formal evaluation of cost effectiveness may not be possible or helpful.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The decision making framework published on the NHS England website guides CPAG in assessing and making a commissioning position recommendation.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A copy of the CPAG Decision-Making Framework is attached.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 22/12/2014 14:48:59 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe attachment 1 file name CPAG Decision- Making Framework.pdf title CPAG Decision-Making Framework
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

169064

	registered interest
	date	09/12/2014
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Private Equity
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have any plans to introduce any further transparency requirements for companies owned or substantially owned by private equity funds.
	tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
	uin	HL3554
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2014 answer text <p>Measures to create a central, public register of people with significant control over UK companies are contained within the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill. Where a private equity fund owns more than 25% of a UK company’s shares or voting rights – or otherwise exercises significant control over that company - the company will need to disclose information on the control of the fund in line with the requirements in Schedule 3 of the Bill.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government does not have any plans to introduce any further transparency requirements on such companies.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 22/12/2014 14:52:51 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

169065

	registered interest
	date	09/12/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Private Equity
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have received any representations from investors in private equity funds on the increase in fees paid by portfolio companies to the operators of the funds and not to the funds where investors would benefit.
	tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
	uin	HL3555
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2014 answer text <p>Treasury Ministers and officials receive regular correspondence on a wide range of issues. We cannot disclose details of specific representations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Deighton question first answered 19/12/2014 12:51:19 answering member 4262 label Biography information for Lord Deighton
	tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

169066

	registered interest
	date	09/12/2014
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Counterfeit Manufacturing
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what has been the performance of Trading Standards in the United Kingdom in securing convictions for (1) the production, (2) the sale, (3) the distribution, and (4) the importation of counterfeit goods.
	tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
	uin	HL3556
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2014 answer text <p>Trading Standards services, including tackling counterfeit goods, are provided by local authorities. Local authorities operate independently from central government and are accountable to their own electorate, allocating resources according to local priorities.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Local authorities do not report regulatory outputs to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. Therefore, the Department does not hold this information.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 19/12/2014 13:13:17 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

169067

	registered interest
	date	09/12/2014
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Jordan
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have any additional plans to provide further support to the government of Jordan to assist with displaced Syrian refugees.
	tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
	uin	HL3557
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>By the end of March 2015, the UK will have provided almost £220 million of assistance to Jordan since the start of the Syria crisis. In 2014/15, UKAid spending in Jordan is forecast to be around £66 million. Since the onset of the Syria crisis the UK has committed £700 million for humanitarian activities in Syria and neighbouring states. This includes £82 million to date in support of UNICEF’s ‘No Lost Generation’ initiative, which provides protection, trauma care and education for children affected by the crisis.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Northover question first answered 18/12/2014 12:46:31 answering member 2539 label Biography information for Baroness Northover
	tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn