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993680

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date	23/10/2018
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	Cervical 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, what the average time taken is for patients to receive their smear test results in each NHS trust area.
tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
tabling member printed	Colleen Fletcher
uin	182795
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>Data on the average time taken for patients to receive their smear test results in each National Health Service trust area are not collected.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 26/10/2018 12:28:15 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4378 label Biography information for Colleen Fletcher

993683

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
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	Pathology
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 has made an assessment of the adequacy of staffing levels in Histopathology Departments in each NHS Trust in England.
tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
tabling member printed	Colleen Fletcher
uin	182796
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>Responsibility for staffing levels rests with individual National Health Service trusts and their boards who are best placed to decide how many staff they need to provide a given service, taking into account skill mix, efficiency and the needs of their local population.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 26/10/2018 11:49:11 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4378 label Biography information for Colleen Fletcher

993687

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
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	Stem Cells: Donors
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 encourage (a) men aged 16-30 and (b) people from black, Asian or minority ethnic backgrounds to sign up to the stem cell donor register.
tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
tabling member printed	Colleen Fletcher
uin	182797
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>Young people play a pivotal role in the stem cell landscape. Research has identified that younger donors offer the potential for better patient outcomes and a greater chance of survival. In 2017, 82% of people who were selected to donate their stem cells were male, and 58% were men aged 30 and under. In acknowledgement of this fact, the Department provides funding to Anthony Nolan and NHS Blood and Transplant to support recruitment of young male donors. In 2017 69% of new potential donors recruited to the United Kingdom registry were under the age of 30, and 40% of new potential donors were male.</p><p> </p><p>The Department also funds Anthony Nolan and NHS Blood and Transplant to improve equity of access to unrelated donor stem cell transplantation for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) patients through targeted recruitment to the Anthony Nolan and the NHS Stem Cell Registry.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has provided more than £26 million to NHS Blood and Transplant and Anthony Nolan for stem cell donation since 2011 and have set very specific targets about the proportion of donors that must be from BAME backgrounds; for example, in this financial year, Anthony Nolan will continue to target more than 35% of the umbilical cords stored in the UK Cord Blood Bank to be donated by mothers from BAME backgrounds.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 26/10/2018 11:53:19 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4378 label Biography information for Colleen Fletcher

993694

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
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	Period Poverty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent steps she has taken to end period poverty.
tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
tabling member printed	Colleen Fletcher
uin	182798
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>This Government is taking a range of action to ensure that women and girls are able to access affordable sanitary products.</p><p>No girl should be held back from reaching her potential because of her gender or background; this is why the current and draft guidance on Relationship and Sex Education issued to schools encourages them to make sensitive arrangements to help girls cope with menstruation. Schools have discretion over how they use their funding and can make sanitary products available, if they identify this as a barrier to attendance. The Department for Education’s published analysis, which reviewed absence statistics, shows no evidence that period poverty has a significant impact on school attendance,</p><p>Additionally, since 2015, the Government has awarded £15 million a year to women’s charities through the Tampon Tax Fund – equivalent to the amount of VAT raised from the sale of women’s sanitary products. Through the current round of the fund, we will provide over £1.6 million for the ‘Let’s Talk. Period.’ Project, delivered by ‘Brook Young People’ across England. The project will identify vulnerable and disadvantaged young women who struggle to afford products through the organisation’s existing community services and a network of local partners, including schools. It will also develop resources to educate girls about menstruation and hand out pre-paid cards allowing girls and young women in need to access free sanitary products at local distribution points.</p><p> </p><p>Work offers people the best opportunity to move out of poverty; across the UK, there are over 3.3m more people in work, around 964,000 fewer workless households, and around 637,000 fewer children living in such households compared with 2010. Also since 2010 there are 1 million fewer people in absolute poverty (before housing costs) compared with 2010.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 26/10/2018 13:44:29 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4378 label Biography information for Colleen Fletcher

993695

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
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	Sanitary Products
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of the proposals made by Unite the Union in its Period Dignity Charter published on 24 September 2018.
tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
tabling member printed	Colleen Fletcher
uin	182849
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>The Department has made no such assessment.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 26/10/2018 11:57:10 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4378 label Biography information for Colleen Fletcher