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1699184

registered interest
date	26/03/2024
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	Brain: Injuries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions his Department has had with the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council on classification as an industrial injury of neurodegenerative conditions linked to repeated head impacts.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	20737
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2024 answer text <p>The Department is advised by the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (IIAC), an independent scientific body, on changes to the list of occupational diseases for which Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (IIDB) can be paid. IIAC is currently considering whether there is a link between certain neurodegenerative diseases and professional sportspeople.</p><p> </p><p>IIAC has reviewed over 100 studies relating to ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) and will need to give more consideration to the evidence before it can make a decision. IIAC will also likely consult experts (neurologists) in this field and will then publish its findings when the investigation is complete.</p><p> </p><p>It would be premature to speculate on how the Council’s investigation will progress or whether there is enough evidence of a link between certain neurodegenerative diseases and professional sportspeople to meet the threshold for a new ‘prescribed disease’ to be recommended by IIAC for the purpose of IIDB entitlement.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>If recommendations are made by IIAC on this matter, they will be carefully considered by the Department.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 16/04/2024 15:57:23 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1669084

registered interest
date	09/11/2023
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	Brain: Injuries
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 is taking to improve care for patients with acquired brain injuries.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	1010
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2023 answer text <p>Through the cross-Government Acquired Brain Injury Strategy, we will improve experiences and outcomes for people who live with acquired brain injury by outlining what survivors of acquired brain injury and their families should expect from public services, including health and care services. We expect to publish the Strategy next year.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 17/11/2023 09:41:30 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1666386

registered interest
date	20/10/2023
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	Brain: Injuries
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 publish the Acquired Brain Injury Strategy.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	203648
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p>We expect to publish the Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) Strategy next year. We remain fully committed to publishing the Strategy so people living with ABI have the best quality of life and outcomes.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 25/10/2023 12:04:54 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1627908

registered interest
date	15/05/2023
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	Brain: Injuries
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 progress his Department has made on analysing responses to the acquired brain injury call for evidence.
tabling member constituency	Watford
tabling member printed	Dean Russell
uin	185146
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2023 answer text <p>The Department continues to work on the development of the strategy, based on the feedback from the Call for Evidence, the Patient and Public Voice Reference Group, the Programme Board and the Steering Group.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 23/05/2023 12:14:15 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4812 label Biography information for Dean Russell

1583148

registered interest
date	01/02/2023
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	Brain: Injuries
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the forthcoming National Institute for Clinical Excellence guidance on head injury, what steps they intend to take to tackle the difficulties many patients are facing in getting the correct diagnosis for adult Growth Hormone Deficiency following a head injury.
tabling member printed	Baroness Merron
uin	HL5327
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2023 answer text <p>The 2021 UK Rare Diseases Framework sets out four priorities to improve the lives of people living with rare diseases, such as Growth Hormone Deficiency. To implement the Framework, we published England’s first Rare Diseases Action Plan in February 2022. The Plan includes actions to improve the timely diagnosis of rare conditions and raise awareness of rare conditions among healthcare professionals. Progress against these actions will be reported in England’s second Rare Diseases Action Plan, due to be published in early 2023.</p><p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence are currently updating its guideline on the assessment and early management of head injury. The final guideline is expected to be published in March 2023.</p><p>The curricula for postgraduate specialty training such as endocrinology are set by the relevant Royal College and has to meet the standards set by the General Medical Council and be formally approved by them.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham grouped question UIN HL5328 HL5330 question first answered 09/02/2023 12:13:22 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	347 label Biography information for Baroness Merron

1540668

registered interest
date	08/11/2022
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	Brain: Injuries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the potential implications for his Department’s policies of the US National Institutes of Health's decision to acknowledge a causal link between repeated blows to the head and chronic traumatic encephalopathy; and whether the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council has plans to look into this issue.
tabling member constituency	North Swindon
tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
uin	82274
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2022 answer text <p>The Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (IIAC) is a scientific advisory body which provides advice and recommendations to DWP Ministers about the Industrial Injuries Scheme (IIS), of which Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (IIDB) is a part. IIAC has recently launched an investigation into the potential occupational link between neurodegenerative diseases and professional sportspeople. The DWP will consider any recommendations from IIAC when they are available.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 14/11/2022 14:51:43 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson

1465212

registered interest
date	24/05/2022
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	Brain: Injuries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people in the UK have been diagnosed with permanent brain damage.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	7990
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2022 answer text <p>This information is not collected in the format requested. However, the following table shows a count of finished admission episodes with a primary or secondary diagnosis of brain damage in each of the last four years. The information for 2021/22 is not yet available.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Admissions with primary diagnosis</p></td><td><p>Admissions with primary or secondary diagnosis</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>2,973</p></td><td><p>11,804</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>3,052</p></td><td><p>12,698</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>3,024</p></td><td><p>12,906</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>2,529</p></td><td><p>10,463</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: NHS Digital</p><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>The data represents activity in English National Health Service hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector.</li><li>A finished admission episode (FAE) is the first period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. This data shows FAEs which have been counted against the month and year in which the episode was completed. Admissions do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the period.</li><li>The data includes the following diagnosis codes:</li></ol><p>G93.1 Anoxic brain damage, not elsewhere classified</p><p>G93.9 Disorder of brain, unspecified</p><p>P11.2 Unspecified brain damage due to birth injury</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 01/06/2022 09:43:50 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1365447

registered interest
date	02/11/2021
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	Brain: Injuries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of (a) support available and (b) policies for addressing the issues that additional brain injury patients experience in day to day living.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	68277
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2021 answer text <p>We have taken your PQ to refer to support for people with Acquired Brain Injury. People who are unable to work because they are disabled or have a health condition, including people who have Acquired Brain Injury, may be eligible for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) or Universal Credit (UC). Extra costs benefits, including Personal Independence Payment (PIP), are also available to help people with long-term health conditions or disabilities. PIP can be paid in addition to other benefits and support, including benefits which may help with the costs of living.</p><p> </p><p>The Work Capability Assessment (WCA) determines entitlement to ESA and the additional health-related element of UC. A case discussion about the needs of claimants with Acquired Brain Injury forms part of new entrant training for all WCA assessors, who also have access to a self-directed learning module on Acquired Brain Injury which was updated this year and quality assured by Headway, the brain injury association. Headway is also a member of the WCA provider’s customer representative group.</p><p> </p><p>Acquired Brain Injury is incorporated into training for PIP Health Professionals, who all have access to a Condition Insight Report on brain injury that was updated in 2020 and completed in collaboration with Headway. The PIP Forum regularly consults with a wide range of stakeholders to ensure that PIP meets the needs of its claimants.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The National Disability Strategy aims to improve disabled people’s everyday lives. Our long term vision is to transform disabled people’s day-to-day lives. The strategy offers both a positive vision for long term societal change and a wide-ranging, practical plan for action now.</p><p>Although progress has been made over recent decades on accessibility and inclusion, far too often obstacles remain. The strategy sets out probably the widest-ranging set of practical actions to improve the lives of disabled people ever developed, across jobs, housing, transport, education, shopping, culture, justice, public services, and data and evidence.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 12/11/2021 11:43:03 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith previous answer version 30984 answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1365048

registered interest
date	01/11/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Brain: Injuries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Acquired Brain Injury Card for people under 18 years old produced by the Child Brain Injury Trust, what steps officials in his Department have taken with officials in the (a) Department for Health and Social Care and (b) Department for Levelling up, Housing and Communities to ensure that that injury card is promoted in (i) schools, (ii) hospitals and (iii) local authorities.
tabling member constituency	Rhondda
tabling member printed	Chris Bryant
uin	67085
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2021 answer text <p>We welcome the introduction of the Acquired Brain Injury Card and feel that offering young people this personal Card is a helpful in supporting their independence and to help others to better understand the potential impact of their injury. It is up to individual schools to choose what to promote in their schools.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 04/11/2021 16:28:29 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1446 label Biography information for Sir Chris Bryant

1365049

registered interest
date	01/11/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Brain: Injuries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he has taken to ensure that children and young people with an Acquired Brain Injury have a return to school pathway plan that provides tailored support for them, their family and their teachers.
tabling member constituency	Rhondda
tabling member printed	Chris Bryant
uin	67086
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2021 answer text <p>It is important that children with medical conditions, such as acquired brain injury, are supported to receive a full education.</p><p>A pupil’s acquired brain injury could manifest in different ways. Support should be tailored to their own learning barriers, irrespective of their diagnosis. The special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) Code of Practice asks schools and colleges to address pupils’ individual educational needs, regardless of their condition.</p><p>Under Section 100 of the Children and Families Act 2014, governing boards are required to make arrangements to support pupils with medical conditions and to have regard to statutory guidance. The guidance covers a range of areas and is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/supporting-pupils-at-school-with-medical-conditions--3" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/supporting-pupils-at-school-with-medical-conditions--3</a>.</p><p>To be awarded qualified teacher status, trainees must meet the Teachers’ Standards, which include a requirement that they adapt teaching to meet the strengths and needs of all pupils. The performance of all existing teachers in maintained schools must be assessed every year against the Teachers' Standards. It is the responsibility of school leaders to determine the training needs of their staff, within their approach to school improvement, professional development and performance management.</p><p>In line with the approach that we expect school-based staff to identify and intervene to support any pupil who presents with difficulties in learning, we expect that training should relate to the specific learning needs an individual child has. For example, we have a contract with NASEN (the Whole School SEND consortium) to support schools, this includes training for school staff on how to tailor provision for different types of learning needs.</p><p>The SEND system is designed to get the right support in place for all children and young people with additional needs, so they are able to fulfil their potential, just like other children.</p><p>The reforms to the SEND system are key to this. The government has strengthened systems for joining up education, health and care support for those with complex needs, and placed families at the heart of the decision-making about their children. The Education, Health and Care (EHC) plan process is crucial in meeting the needs of those with complex needs. The arrangements are intended to support:</p><ul><li>Joint working between health, social care and education</li><li>Multi-professional assessment of a child or young person’s needs involving relevant experts</li><li>The development of an individual EHC plan to meet those needs</li></ul><p>This should provide a basis for the sharing of information and of expertise to ensure the needs of children and young people with acquired brain injury are supported in school.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 67083 67084 67087 question first answered 08/11/2021 12:16:45 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1446 label Biography information for Sir Chris Bryant