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1108820

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date	01/04/2019
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	Hospitals: Human Remains
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of data from the Human Tissue Authority that over the past three years there were 253 "serious incidents" in hospital morgues where corpses were accidentally damaged, bereaved relatives shown the wrong body, or the remains of unborn babies incinerated against the wishes of the family.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL14927
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2019 answer text <p>The Government assesses data from the Human Tissue Authority (HTA) on serious incidents at quarterly accountability meetings.</p><p>When these incidents occur they are upsetting for the families of those involved; although they are rare, when they do happen we are assured that the HTA work with establishments to ensure that a thorough investigation takes place, and that improvements are made to reduce the risk of similar incidents happening again.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 05/04/2019 10:42:15 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1108841

registered interest
date	01/04/2019
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	Patients: Transport
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Lord O'Shaughnessy on 4 April 2017 (HL Deb, col 940), what improvements have been made in the waiting time for hospital patient transport; and what is the average waiting time.
tabling member printed	Lord Harries of Pentregarth
uin	HL14948
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2019 answer text <p>Patient transport service waiting time data is not collected centrally.</p><p>The provision of non-emergency patient transport services is a matter for local National Health Service commissioners, including setting performance standards, monitoring performance and taking improvement action where needed. This ensures that services are best adapted to local conditions, and where services fall short we expect commissioners to take swift action.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 05/04/2019 10:42:44 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	3813 label Biography information for Lord Harries of Pentregarth

1108842

registered interest
date	01/04/2019
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	Incontinence
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government on what grounds incontinence pads provided through the NHS were changed from Attends to Tena; and what tests were carried out as to their relative effectiveness.
tabling member printed	Lord Harries of Pentregarth
uin	HL14949
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2019 answer text <p>NHS Supply Chain has not changed supply of incontinence pads from Attends to Tena. Both these and other brands are available for purchase from NHS Supply Chain.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 05/04/2019 10:36:22 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	3813 label Biography information for Lord Harries of Pentregarth

1108849

registered interest
date	01/04/2019
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	Human Remains: Imports
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford on 19 March (HL14296), what was the outcome of their discussions with the Human Tissues Authority about concerns around bodies imported for display.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL14956
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2019 answer text <p>The Government has had discussions with the Human Tissue Authority (HTA) about concerns around bodies imported for public display. We are assured by the HTA that it seeks every assurance that the use of imported bodies for public display is compliant with the legal requirements of their country of origin.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 05/04/2019 10:32:52 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1108851

registered interest
date	01/04/2019
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	Human Remains: Imports
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford on 19 March (HL14296), what concerns were raised in their discussions with the Human Tissue Authority; and whether they plan to seek to amend the Human Tissue Act 2004 as a result of those discussions.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL14958
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2019 answer text <p>The Government discussed with the Human Tissue Authority (HTA) the provisions of the Human Tissue Act 2004, which requires that people who wish to be displayed in public after their death must give their written consent. These provisions do not apply to bodies imported from abroad. The Government is in further discussions with the HTA about any non-legislative activity which the Authority could pursue.</p><p> </p><p>There are no current plans to review the Human Tissue Act 2004.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 05/04/2019 10:35:47 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1105826

registered interest
date	28/03/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Loans
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether university income from student tuition fee loans is classed as public or private funds; what legal advice, if any, they have received to this effect; and whether they will publish any such advice.
tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
uin	HL14912
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2019 answer text <p>The government pays universities directly in respect of the tuition fee loans which are approved for eligible students each year. Students are then legally obliged to repay any tuition fee loans in accordance with the contract they sign when taking out the loan. The Office for National Statistics classifies the money provided by the government to cover tuition fees as a debt for the purposes of the public finances. The government does not ordinarily disclose its legal advice as that is protected by legal professional privilege.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 05/04/2019 12:00:21 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

1105665

registered interest
date	27/03/2019
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	Orthopaedics
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many amputations were performed by the NHS in each year from 2014 to 2018.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hodgson of Abinger
uin	HL14854
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2019 answer text <p>The following table shows a count of finished consultant episodes (FCEs)<sup>1</sup> with a main or secondary procedures<sup>2</sup> of amputation for the years 2014/15 to 2017/18.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial year</p></td><td><p>Total FCEs</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>19,953</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>20,356</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>20,968</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>21,330</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Source: </em>Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), NHS Digital</p><p> </p><p><em>Notes</em>:</p><ol><li>A FCE is a continuous period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FCEs are counted against the year in which they end. Figures do not represent the number of different patients, as a person may have more than one episode of care within the same stay in hospital or in different stays in the same year.</li></ol><p> </p><ol start="2"><li>Number of episodes with a main or secondary procedure:</li></ol><p>The number of episodes where the procedure (or intervention) was recorded in any of the 24 (12 from 2002-03 to 2006-07 and four prior to 2002-03) procedure fields in a HES record. A record is only included once in each count, even if the procedure is recorded in more than one procedure field of the record. It should be noted that more procedures are carried out than episodes with a main or secondary procedure. For example, patients undergoing a ‘cataract operation’ would tend to have at least two procedures – removal of the faulty lens and the fitting of a new one – counted in a single episode.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 05/04/2019 10:41:27 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	4301 label Biography information for Baroness Hodgson of Abinger

1105667

registered interest
date	27/03/2019
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	Thiomersal
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government which vaccines prescribed by the NHS contain thimerosal.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hodgson of Abinger
uin	HL14855
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2019 answer text <p>None of the vaccines currently recommended for use as part of the United Kingdom routine immunisation programme contains the preservative thiomersal.</p><p>The safety of thiomersal-containing vaccines has been extensively evaluated in studies which have found no evidence to suggest thiomersal is associated with any serious or long-term risks. Such studies have mostly been in young children. The most recent assessment in the <em>Weekly epidemiological record</em> was undertaken by the World Health Organization in 2012, which advised that the available evidence strongly supports the safety of the use of thiomersal in vaccines where required. A copy of the 2012 <em>Weekly epidemiological record</em> is attached.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford grouped question UIN HL14856 question first answered 05/04/2019 10:32:15 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford attachment 1 file name WHO report.pdf title 2012 Weekly epidemiological record
tabling member	4301 label Biography information for Baroness Hodgson of Abinger

1105668

registered interest
date	27/03/2019
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	Thiomersal
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when thimerosal was last tested for safety of use in patients (1) below 16, and (2) above 65, years old.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hodgson of Abinger
uin	HL14856
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2019 answer text <p>None of the vaccines currently recommended for use as part of the United Kingdom routine immunisation programme contains the preservative thiomersal.</p><p>The safety of thiomersal-containing vaccines has been extensively evaluated in studies which have found no evidence to suggest thiomersal is associated with any serious or long-term risks. Such studies have mostly been in young children. The most recent assessment in the <em>Weekly epidemiological record</em> was undertaken by the World Health Organization in 2012, which advised that the available evidence strongly supports the safety of the use of thiomersal in vaccines where required. A copy of the 2012 <em>Weekly epidemiological record</em> is attached.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford grouped question UIN HL14855 question first answered 05/04/2019 10:32:15 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford attachment 1 file name WHO report.pdf title 2012 Weekly epidemiological record
tabling member	4301 label Biography information for Baroness Hodgson of Abinger

1105689

registered interest
date	27/03/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Agriculture: Degrees
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many agriculture degrees in England offer modules on agroecology.
tabling member printed	Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer
uin	HL14869
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2019 answer text <p>The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collects and publishes data on UK higher education (HE).</p><p>Analysis of HESA’s ‘Student Record 2017/18’ shows that there were 2 HE institutions in England with one or more participants in agroecology[1] modules in the academic year 2017/18. These agroecology modules were all at postgraduate level at either Harper Adams University or Coventry University.</p><p>Module data for HE provided by further education colleges and alternative providers is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] Relevant module titles identified in the HESA Student Record were ‘Fundamentals of Agroecology’, ‘Agroecological Techniques and Practices’ and ‘Agroecological Production Systems’.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 05/04/2019 10:40:18 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	1934 label Biography information for Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer