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1011420

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date	21/11/2018
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what proportion of (a) employment support allowance mandatory reconsiderations and (b) personal independence payment mandatory reconsiderations her Department has contacted a claimant's GP or specialist to request medical evidence in the last 12 months; and what guidance his Department provides on when it is appropriate to contact a claimant's GP or specialist.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	194024
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not recorded centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The guidance for both benefits tells claimants that when making their claim they should provide the evidence that they already hold and that they should not request additional evidence for which they may need to pay, for example from their GP. If further medical evidence is required this will be requested by the Assessment Provider at no cost to the claimant. At Mandatory Reconsideration the guidance encourages claimants to share any <em>new</em> medical evidence they may have received since their original claim. The instructions in relation to claims and Mandatory Reconsideration are clearly signposted for both benefits.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 26/11/2018 17:42:49 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

1011421

registered interest
date	21/11/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Yemen: Casualties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment her Department has made of the accuracy of the WHO's casuality statistics in Yemen.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
uin	194120
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>The World Health Organisation (WHO) casualty statistics are the best UN data currently available. Because of the active conflict in Yemen fewer than half of health facilities are fully functional. The WHO data reflects civilian injuries and deaths reported through health facilities, therefore they represent a partial picture. The real figure is likely higher.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 28/11/2018 14:59:44 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1011422

registered interest
date	21/11/2018
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	Public Health: Finance
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 Department's Local Authority circular, published on 21 December 2017, what assessment he has made of the effect on the NHS of the reduction in the public health grant settlement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
uin	194121
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government considers all the relevant factors in setting the level of the public health grant. Over the five years of the current spending review period we are making over £16 billion of grant funding available to local authorities in England exclusively for use on improving health. The grant is only a proportion of the total spending on public health: for example, NHS England commissions national screening and immunisation programmes with a budget of £1.2 billion in 2017/18, and many other interventions occur in National Health Service primary care settings. Public Health England monitors progress against the wide-ranging set of indicators published in the Public Health Outcomes Framework (PHOF) which shows that, as a whole, for the majority of PHOF indicators the trends in England are either broadly constant or have improved in comparison with 2014.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 29/11/2018 16:05:11 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1011423

registered interest
date	21/11/2018
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	Mental Health Services: Finance
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 the report entitled Fair funding for mental health: Putting parity into practice, published by IPPR in October 2018, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the finding in that report that NHS mental health services require an increase in spending of at least (a) five per cent up to 2023-24 and (b) 5.5 per cent by 2030-31 to achieve parity of esteem.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
uin	194122
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government recognises the need for additional investment in mental health services and the Institute for Public Policy Research report represents a valuable contribution to the debate.</p><p> </p><p>The Government announced its long term financial settlement for the National Health Service in June. This will represent an increase of £20.5 billion in real terms by 2023/24 and the chancellor has already announced that at least a further £2 billion of this will go to fund mental health, including expanding crisis services and supporting more people with severe mental illness into employment.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has asked the NHS to develop a long term plan which will set out a vision for the health service and ensure every penny is well spent. The Government has been clear that better access to mental health services, to help achieve the Government’s commitment to parity of esteem between mental and physical health, is one of the principles which must underpin the plan. Further details will follow when the plan is published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 28/11/2018 14:22:14 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1011425

registered interest
date	21/11/2018
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	Game
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the health benefits of eating wild game meat.
tabling member constituency	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
tabling member printed	Jamie Stone
uin	194123
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2018 answer text <p>No assessment on the health benefits of game meat has been made. Current advice on red and processed meat is for high consumers to reduce their intake to the population average intake equivalent to 70 grams a day. This is based on a review by the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition in 2010, available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/339309/SACN_Iron_and_Health_Report.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/339309/SACN_Iron_and_Health_Report.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 29/11/2018 16:15:06 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4612 label Biography information for Jamie Stone

1011426

registered interest
date	21/11/2018
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	Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will respond to the recent Cancer Research UK report entitled Securing a Cancer Workforce For The Best Outcomes.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	194056
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2018 answer text <p>Health Education England (HEE) published its first ever Cancer Workforce Plan in December 2017, which commits to the expansion of capacity and skills including:</p><p>- 200 additional clinical endoscopists (in addition to 200 already committed to);</p><p>- 300 reporting radiographers by 2021;</p><p>- An ambition to increase improved working practices, attracting qualified people back to the National Health Service through domestic and international recruitment, more clinical radiologists, histopathologists, oncologists and radiographers by 2021;</p><p>- The expansion of Clinical Nurse Specialists and develop common and consistent competencies for this role with a clear route into training; and</p><p>- Sustainable growth beyond 2021 in key professions through continued investment in training places, with a greater focus on attracting and retaining students and improving the numbers of qualified professionals who go on to work in the NHS.</p><p>HEE intends to follow the plan later this year with a longer-term strategy that looks at the workforce needs beyond 2021. This will include exploring sustainable growth beyond 2021 in key professions through continued investment in training places, with a greater focus on attracting and retaining students and improving the numbers of qualified professionals who go on to work in the NHS.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 29/11/2018 17:03:44 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

1011437

registered interest
date	21/11/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Cumbrian Coast Line
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will assess the potential effect on passengers of the RMT Union's Saturday strikes on the Cumbrian Coast Line service.
tabling member constituency	Copeland
tabling member printed	Trudy Harrison
uin	194125
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2018 answer text <p>I share the frustrations of passengers on Northern whose journeys have been repeatedly disrupted by the actions of the RMT. This dispute is not about safety – the independent rail regulator has said driver controlled doors on trains are safe.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 29/11/2018 13:43:56 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison

1011442

registered interest
date	21/11/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Bank Services: Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to tackle online scams which rely on the individual voluntarily transferring money.
tabling member constituency	South Suffolk
tabling member printed	James Cartlidge
uin	194127
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government recognises that fraudulent transactions of this manner, commonly known as Authorised Push Payment (APP) scams, can significantly impact those affected.</p><p> </p><p>In 2015, the Government set up the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) with a statutory objective to, among other things, ensure that payment systems are operated in a way that takes account of users’ needs. The PSR is addressing these kinds of scams as part of a programme of work announced in December 2016, following a Which? Super-complaint on the issue.</p><p> </p><p>In April 2018, the PSR established a steering group of consumer representatives and banks to draft an industry code to help protect consumers against these kinds of scam. The code was published for consultation in September 2018, with the intention for the final code to be in place in 2019. The aim of this code is to reduce the incidence of APP scams, and it will set out rules on how industry should reimburse consumers in certain scenarios.</p><p> </p><p>It is right that industry takes the necessary steps to protect consumers against this kind of fraud. The Government supports the work the PSR is driving forward to tackle these kinds of scams in conjunction with industry, consumer groups and other regulatory and government bodies.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 28/11/2018 13:04:16 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge

1011445

registered interest
date	21/11/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Typhoon Aircraft: Safety Measures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 19 November 2018 to Question 189831 on European Fighter Aircraft: Safety Measures, and with reference to Regulatory Article 1205 para 1b, on what basis the operating duty holder's tolerable and ALARP safety statement for the Typhoon aircraft is made when considering the mid-air collision risk.
tabling member constituency	Moray
tabling member printed	Douglas Ross
uin	194128
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2018 answer text <p>The requirements of Regulatory Article (RA) 1205 para 1b are fully met as part of the Operating duty holder's Tolerable and ALARP safety statement consideration of mid-air collision risk.</p><p>The Typhoon Safety Case explicitly states what is Reasonably Practicable and Tolerable in terms of fitment of Collision Warning Systems and the other systems detailed in RA1205 for this platform. The RA states that the 'Collision Warning System' term is intentionally used to allow flexibility in identifying the optimal solution for platforms, including those currently under development.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 29/11/2018 15:50:34 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4627 label Biography information for Douglas Ross

1011446

registered interest
date	21/11/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Healthy Pupils Capital Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department plans to publish a report on how the Healthy Pupils Capital Fund has been spent by schools.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	194062
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2018 answer text <p>Existing mechanisms for school condition funding are being used to report on Healthy Pupils Capital Fund (HPCF) expenditure. We plan to collect data on HPCF spend during 2018/19 in 2019 and include it in our published report on capital spend by local authorities and multi- academy trusts on the school estate, which will be published in 2020.</p><p>Successful HPCF projects funded through the Condition Improvement Fund 2018-19 have been published here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/condition-improvement-fund-2018-to-2019-outcome" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/condition-improvement-fund-2018-to-2019-outcome</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 29/11/2018 16:42:46 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson