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1052331

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Animals: Crime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans the Government has to increase police resources to deal with crimes against animals and wildlife, including investigating reports of illegal fox hunting.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington South
	tabling member printed	Faisal Rashid
	uin	215258
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office, along with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, committed to fund the National Wildlife Crime Unit until 2019/20. This money is in addition to central government funding to police forces. Decisions on funding the National Wildlife Crime Unit beyond 2020 will be taken at the next Spending Review.</p><p>The Government does not prescribe the nature or level of resources deployed by individual police forces to tackle crimes against animals and wildlife or any other form of crime. It is for Chief Constables and Police and Crime Commissioners, as operational leaders and elected local representa-tives, to ensure that forces’ priorities locally reflect those of their communities, and it is important that forces have the flexibility to deploy their resources without Government interference.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 07/02/2019 13:27:51 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	4670 label Biography information for Faisal Rashid

1052215

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2019
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Sheep Meat: New Zealand
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will discuss with his New Zealand counterpart how that country labels exports of sheepmeat to include information on pre-stunning.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	215077
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>Defra officials regularly meet with their New Zealand counterparts to discuss a range of issues including the New Zealand requirements around slaughter and food labelling. Officials have discussed the issue of stunned sheepmeat exports from New Zealand.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 07/02/2019 14:16:30 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1052353

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2019
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Coal Fired Power Stations and Incinerators: Health Hazards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether (a) his Department or (b) Public Health England has (i) undertaken or (ii) made an assessment of any studies that compare the effectiveness of the different methods of filtering pollutants used in (A) waste incinerators and (B) coal fired power stations for protecting human health.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	215080
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>No such studies have been undertaken by the Environment Agency or Public Health England, nor any assessments made of such studies.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 07/02/2019 11:08:40 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1052312

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2019
	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	Mental Health Services: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce waiting times for children receiving initial mental health treatment in West Kent.
	tabling member constituency	Sevenoaks
	tabling member printed	Sir Michael Fallon
	uin	215059
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>The Department has introduced two waiting time standards for children and young people and are on track to meet both of these standards. The first aims for 95% of children (up to 19 years old) with eating disorders to receive treatment within a week for urgent cases and four weeks for routine cases by 2020/21. 81.3% of children and young people’s eating disorder patients started urgent treatment within one week and 80.2% of patients started routine treatment within four weeks in April to June 2018. The second aims for 50% of patients of all ages experiencing a first episode of psychosis to receive treatment within two weeks of referral. Nationally, the National Health Service is exceeding the target, with 76.2% of patients started treatment within two weeks in November 2018.</p><p>West Kent Clinical Commissioning Group, working with North East London Foundation Trust, continues to embed new service modelling and transform services for children and young people in Kent. The new model provides a Single Point of Access along with clear and seamless pathways to support ranging from Universal ‘Early Help’ through to highly specialist care with better transition between services. During the initial six months the service underwent significant changes designed to address access and treatment waiting times. This included the provision of a Crisis Service with additional capacity, digital therapy access offers and national and local recruitment campaigns to increase capacity and resource.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 215060 question first answered 07/02/2019 17:17:34 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon

1052313

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2019
	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	North East London NHS Foundation Trust: Mental Health Services
	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 waiting times in mental health services for initial treatment for children at the North-East London Foundation Trust.
	tabling member constituency	Sevenoaks
	tabling member printed	Sir Michael Fallon
	uin	215060
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>The Department has introduced two waiting time standards for children and young people and are on track to meet both of these standards. The first aims for 95% of children (up to 19 years old) with eating disorders to receive treatment within a week for urgent cases and four weeks for routine cases by 2020/21. 81.3% of children and young people’s eating disorder patients started urgent treatment within one week and 80.2% of patients started routine treatment within four weeks in April to June 2018. The second aims for 50% of patients of all ages experiencing a first episode of psychosis to receive treatment within two weeks of referral. Nationally, the National Health Service is exceeding the target, with 76.2% of patients started treatment within two weeks in November 2018.</p><p>West Kent Clinical Commissioning Group, working with North East London Foundation Trust, continues to embed new service modelling and transform services for children and young people in Kent. The new model provides a Single Point of Access along with clear and seamless pathways to support ranging from Universal ‘Early Help’ through to highly specialist care with better transition between services. During the initial six months the service underwent significant changes designed to address access and treatment waiting times. This included the provision of a Crisis Service with additional capacity, digital therapy access offers and national and local recruitment campaigns to increase capacity and resource.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 215059 question first answered 07/02/2019 17:17:34 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon

1052184

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2019
	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	Cancer: Diagnosis
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he will take to benchmark progress against the target for increasing the proportion of cancers diagnosed at stages one or two from half to three-quarters by 2028, as announced in the NHS Long Term Plan.
	tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
	tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
	uin	215175
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Plan included an ambition that 55,000 more people who are diagnosed with cancer in 2028 will survive for five years. Early diagnosis is a major determinant of cancer survival and NHS England have deliberately set the early diagnosis ambition – to diagnose 75% of cancers at stage 1 and 2 by 2028 - at a level which, under most scenarios, would be more than sufficient to meet the survival ambition. During the development of the plan, clinicians and stakeholders agreed that we should set a stretching ambition to ensure we improve the rate of diagnosis across all cancers, so many more people will survive.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan sets out a number of key steps to achieve this ambition, including through raising greater awareness of symptoms of cancer, accelerating access to diagnosis and treatment and maximising the number of cancers that we identify through screening. Meeting this ambition will also require the National Health Service to harness new technological advances to target at risk patients more effectively; directing our research and innovation effort to the areas where the data tells us we can have the biggest impact; and mobilising the NHS so that we can adopt proven new approaches more quickly.</p><p> </p><p>Following the publication of the NHS Long Term Plan, the National Implementation Framework, to be published in the spring, will provide further information on how the Long Term Plan will be implemented. Additional details, based on local health system five year plans, will be brought together in a detailed national implementation plan in the autumn.</p><p> </p><p>We will continue to work closely with key partners and stakeholders and other voluntary sector partners, as we support the NHS to deliver the commitments set out in the Long Term Plan.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 215176 215177 question first answered 07/02/2019 13:50:19 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

1052185

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2019
	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	Cancer: Diagnosis
	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 number of people that will be diagnosed with cancer at stages one or two by 2028 if the 75 per cent early diagnosis target is met.
	tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
	tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
	uin	215176
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Plan included an ambition that 55,000 more people who are diagnosed with cancer in 2028 will survive for five years. Early diagnosis is a major determinant of cancer survival and NHS England have deliberately set the early diagnosis ambition – to diagnose 75% of cancers at stage 1 and 2 by 2028 - at a level which, under most scenarios, would be more than sufficient to meet the survival ambition. During the development of the plan, clinicians and stakeholders agreed that we should set a stretching ambition to ensure we improve the rate of diagnosis across all cancers, so many more people will survive.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan sets out a number of key steps to achieve this ambition, including through raising greater awareness of symptoms of cancer, accelerating access to diagnosis and treatment and maximising the number of cancers that we identify through screening. Meeting this ambition will also require the National Health Service to harness new technological advances to target at risk patients more effectively; directing our research and innovation effort to the areas where the data tells us we can have the biggest impact; and mobilising the NHS so that we can adopt proven new approaches more quickly.</p><p> </p><p>Following the publication of the NHS Long Term Plan, the National Implementation Framework, to be published in the spring, will provide further information on how the Long Term Plan will be implemented. Additional details, based on local health system five year plans, will be brought together in a detailed national implementation plan in the autumn.</p><p> </p><p>We will continue to work closely with key partners and stakeholders and other voluntary sector partners, as we support the NHS to deliver the commitments set out in the Long Term Plan.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 215175 215177 question first answered 07/02/2019 13:50:19 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

1052186

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2019
	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	Cancer: Diagnosis
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to set targets for individual cancer types as part of the aim set out in the NHS Long Term Plan to diagnose 75 per cent of cancers at stages one or two by 2028.
	tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
	tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
	uin	215177
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Plan included an ambition that 55,000 more people who are diagnosed with cancer in 2028 will survive for five years. Early diagnosis is a major determinant of cancer survival and NHS England have deliberately set the early diagnosis ambition – to diagnose 75% of cancers at stage 1 and 2 by 2028 - at a level which, under most scenarios, would be more than sufficient to meet the survival ambition. During the development of the plan, clinicians and stakeholders agreed that we should set a stretching ambition to ensure we improve the rate of diagnosis across all cancers, so many more people will survive.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan sets out a number of key steps to achieve this ambition, including through raising greater awareness of symptoms of cancer, accelerating access to diagnosis and treatment and maximising the number of cancers that we identify through screening. Meeting this ambition will also require the National Health Service to harness new technological advances to target at risk patients more effectively; directing our research and innovation effort to the areas where the data tells us we can have the biggest impact; and mobilising the NHS so that we can adopt proven new approaches more quickly.</p><p> </p><p>Following the publication of the NHS Long Term Plan, the National Implementation Framework, to be published in the spring, will provide further information on how the Long Term Plan will be implemented. Additional details, based on local health system five year plans, will be brought together in a detailed national implementation plan in the autumn.</p><p> </p><p>We will continue to work closely with key partners and stakeholders and other voluntary sector partners, as we support the NHS to deliver the commitments set out in the Long Term Plan.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 215175 215176 question first answered 07/02/2019 13:50:19 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

1052188

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2019
	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	Bowel Cancer: Screening
	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 Government's announcement of 10 August 2018 that the age for bowel cancer screening in England will be lowered from 60 to 50, what the timetable is for implementing the lower screening age; and what assessment he has made of the effect that staff shortages in endoscopy and pathology services will have on the ability to deliver bowel cancer screening from age 50.
	tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
	tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
	uin	215179
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>Plans are well underway to deliver the commitment in the NHS Long Term Plan to modernise the bowel cancer screening programme; faecal immunochemical testing at 120ug/g will be integrated into the programme from April 2019.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England has committed to, over time, lowering the starting age for bowel screening from 60 currently to 50. This is being discussed by NHS England, the Department and Public Health England, and the final timetable will take into account modelling and feedback received from the system (commissioners, providers and cancer alliances).</p><p> </p><p>For a safe, sustainable and high-quality service extended to age 50 years, there is a requirement to balance workforce requirements for the current commitments and Health Education England has pledged to fund the training of 400 clinical endoscopists by 2021 to significantly increase endoscopy capacity in England.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 215180 question first answered 07/02/2019 15:24:54 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

1052189

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2019
	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	Bowel Cancer: Screening
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to introduce the faecal immunochemical test for the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme.
	tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
	tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
	uin	215180
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>Plans are well underway to deliver the commitment in the NHS Long Term Plan to modernise the bowel cancer screening programme; faecal immunochemical testing at 120ug/g will be integrated into the programme from April 2019.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England has committed to, over time, lowering the starting age for bowel screening from 60 currently to 50. This is being discussed by NHS England, the Department and Public Health England, and the final timetable will take into account modelling and feedback received from the system (commissioners, providers and cancer alliances).</p><p> </p><p>For a safe, sustainable and high-quality service extended to age 50 years, there is a requirement to balance workforce requirements for the current commitments and Health Education England has pledged to fund the training of 400 clinical endoscopists by 2021 to significantly increase endoscopy capacity in England.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 215179 question first answered 07/02/2019 15:24:54 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin