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1037772

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
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	Learning Disabilities Mortality Review Programme
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 Learning Disabilities Mortality Review report published by the University of Bristol, whether his Department is taking steps to address the recommendations of that report.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	206447
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government’s response to the Learning Disabilities Mortality Review Programme (LeDeR) report, published on 12 September 2018, identifies actions for the Department, as well as NHS England and other partners, to address the national recommendations in the LeDeR report.</p><p> </p><p>The Department and its partners continue to make progress towards implementing these actions, to improve support for people with learning disabilities across the health and care system, reduce health inequalities and improve health and wellbeing outcomes.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 16/01/2019 12:20:39 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1037773

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	BBC: Off-payroll Working
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his tax policies of the conclusions of the report entitled the BBC’s engagement with personal service companies, published by the National Audit Office in November 2018.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	206274
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>The National Audit Office (NAO) report concerns one organisation’s use of personal service companies over the last two decades, concluding with its experience of implementing the April 2017 reform of the off-payroll working rules in the public sector. The report does not comment on the off-payroll working rules themselves.</p><p> </p><p>The off-payroll working rules ensure that individuals who work through their own personal service company, and would have been an employee had they provided their services directly, pay broadly the same tax and National Insurance contributions (NICs) as other employees. The rules do not affect the genuinely self-employed.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 11/01/2019 14:26:53 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1037774

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
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	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 23 October to Question 182843 on Universal Credit, if she will publish he Department's review of research carried out by organisations including the Trussell Trust on food bank use.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	206395
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>The evidence that we have reviewed to date is already published and examples can be accessed through the following links :-</p><p> </p><p>The Trussell Trust (2018) ‘Left Behind: Is Universal Credit Truly Universal?’</p><p><a href="https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/trusselltrust-documents/Trussell-Trust-Left-Behind-2018.pdf" target="_blank">https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/trusselltrust-documents/Trussell-Trust-Left-Behind-2018.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>The Trussell Trust (2018) ‘The next stage of Universal Credit: Moving onto the new benefit system and foodbank use’</p><p><a href="https://www.trusselltrust.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/The-next-stage-of-Universal-Credit-Report-Final.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.trusselltrust.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/The-next-stage-of-Universal-Credit-Report-Final.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>Loopstra, R., and Lalor, D. (2017) ‘<em>Financial insecurity, food insecurity, and disability: the profile of people receiving emergency food assistance from the Trussell Trust Foodbank Network in Britain’</em></p><p><a href="https://trusselltrust.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/06/OU_Report_final_01_08_online.pdf" target="_blank"><em>https://trusselltrust.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/06/OU_Report_final_01_08_online.pdf</em></a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 11/01/2019 14:06:11 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1037775

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Charities: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate his Department has made of the number of charities that are running a deficit on statutory contracts.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	206370
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>We do not centrally hold data on government contracts with charities for statutory services. The viability of a particular contract is matter for the relevant government department. If organisations are concerned about a procurement process, we encourage them to refer to the Public Procurement Review Service, the details of which can be found on GOV.UK.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 11/01/2019 14:36:51 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1037776

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Royal College of Psychiatrists briefing entitled Children and young people's mental health, published in November 2018, what plans his Department has to ensure the timely roll-out of designated senior leads and mental health support teams in schools; and whether his Department has a timetable for the roll-out of such initiatives in every school.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	206281
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>Over the next five years the NHS will fund new Mental Health Support Teams working in schools and colleges which will be rolled out to between one fifth and a quarter of England by 2023. This will start with 25 trailblazer areas which will be fully operational by the end of 2019. Next steps for roll out are being considered as part of the NHS long term plan and will be informed by the evaluation of the initial trailblazers.</p><p> </p><p>The designated senior lead for mental health training will be available from the academic year 2019/20, over a five-year period, so that all schools and colleges have the chance to train a lead.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 11/01/2019 13:13:21 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

1037777

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Borders: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will she hold discussions with the Irish Government on that country's recent mapping exercise of the Irish Border in advance of the UK leaving the EU.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	206275
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>The mapping exercise carried out recently by the Irish Government is a matter for them.</p><p> </p><p>The UK and the EU have agreed the terms of the UK’s smooth and orderly exit from the EU in the form of the Withdrawal Agreement, and a detailed political declaration on the terms of our future relationship. Delivering the settlement negotiated with the EU remains the Government’s top priority.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 11/01/2019 11:24:38 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1037778

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
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	Air Pollution
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 15 October 2018 to Question 174612 on Air Pollution, what plans his Department has to further study the effects of PM0.1 and PM1 particles on human health.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	206215
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2019 answer text <p>Recent assessments have been undertaken of the health effects of long-term exposure to the air pollution mixture in the United Kingdom, but no separate assessments of the impact of the PM1 and PM0.1 components (particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter smaller than 1 or 0.1 microns, respectively) of particulate air pollution have been produced.</p><p> </p><p>The reviews by the Health Effects Institute and the World Health Organization about the effects of different components of air pollution, including ultrafine particles (PM0.1), concluded that there is currently limited evidence on the effects on health of ultrafine particles. These reviews are available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.healtheffects.org/publication/understanding-health-effects-ambient-ultrafine-particles" target="_blank">https://www.healtheffects.org/publication/understanding-health-effects-ambient-ultrafine-particles</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/193108/REVIHAAP-Final-technical-report-final-version.pdf?ua=1" target="_blank">http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/193108/REVIHAAP-Final-technical-report-final-version.pdf?ua=1</a></p><p> </p><p>Currently, Public Health England has no plans to engage in work on the effects of PM1 and PM0.1 particles on human health over the coming year.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 16/01/2019 12:30:56 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1037779

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
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	Public Health: Fuel Poverty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the effects of fuel poverty on public health.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	206216
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2019 answer text <p>The causes of excess winter death and illness are complex and interlinked, and include circulating diseases such as influenza, cold temperatures and wider determinants of health, such as poor housing and fuel poverty. It is difficult to attribute the relative impacts of each of these factors as the contribution varies year on year.</p><p> </p><p>Living in a cold home and being in fuel poverty represent a significant risk to health, wellbeing and inequalities. The joint Public Health England and University College London Institute of Health Equity report ‘Local action on health inequalities: Fuel poverty and cold home-related health problems’ reported that an estimated 21.5% of annual excess winter deaths are attributable to the coldest quarter of housing. The report is available to view at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/355790/Briefing7_Fuel_poverty_health_inequalities.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/355790/Briefing7_Fuel_poverty_health_inequalities.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>The Public Health Outcomes Framework (PHOF) includes an Excess Winter Deaths Index and a Fuel Poverty indicator, available to view at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/search/fuel%20poverty#page/3/gid/1/pat/6/par/E12000007/ati/102/are/E09000022/iid/90356/age/1/sex/4" target="_blank">https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/search/fuel%20poverty#page/3/gid/1/pat/6/par/E12000007/ati/102/are/E09000022/iid/90356/age/1/sex/4</a></p><p> </p><p>Local government use PHOF to assess the scale of the problem locally and are supported to take action through both the Cold Weather Plan for England and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Guidelines.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 16/01/2019 12:28:53 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1037780

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
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	Housing: Health
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 effect of home energy efficiency interventions on human health.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	206217
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is leading a project looking at the health impacts of living in cold homes.</p><p> </p><p>BEIS is working in collaboration with the Department for Work and Pensions, Public Health England and NHS Digital to understand and quantify the cost to the health service arising from households that underheat their homes requiring more hospital care, compared to similar households who heat their homes adequately. The study will also consider the impact of households who subsequently make energy efficiency improvements and whether this leads to a reduction in hospital care required.</p><p> </p><p>The study is set to conclude later in the year.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 16/01/2019 12:27:12 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1037781

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
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	Incinerators: Health Hazards
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 make an (a) estimate of the levels and (b) assessment of the effects on public health of nitrogen oxides emitted during incineration of municipal waste.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	206218
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2019 answer text <p>Public Health England (PHE) has reviewed the evidence on the effects of waste incinerators on human health. The PHE publication can be viewed at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/municipal-waste-incinerator-emissions-to-air-impact-on-health" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/municipal-waste-incinerator-emissions-to-air-impact-on-health</a></p><p> </p><p>PHE does not have any current plans to estimate the levels and assessment of the effects on public health of nitrogen oxides emitted during incineration of municipal waste. PHE’s position is that well run and regulated modern municipal waste incinerators (MWIs) are not a significant risk to public health. This view is based on detailed assessments of the effects of air pollutants on health and on the fact that modern MWIs make a small contribution to local concentrations of air pollutants.</p><p> </p><p>PHE will review its advice in light of new substantial research on the health effects of incinerators published in peer reviewed journals. To date, PHE is not aware of any evidence that requires a change in its position statement.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 16/01/2019 12:26:12 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew