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873785

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date	28/03/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Lighting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department plans to review The Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations 1989,1989 No. 1796, PART III, Regulation 27; what assessment his Department has made of the effect of brighter car headlamps on other road users; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	134899
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <p>Regulation 27 of the Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations 1989 already contains a general provision preventing headlamps from causing undue dazzle or discomfort to other road users. However, the regulations governing the performance of lamps fitted to new vehicles are negotiated internationally through the United Nations and, responding to concerns raised by the public about headlamp glare, the UK secured support to establish an experts’ group to review the technical requirements that is expected to report later this year.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has made no specific assessment of the effect of brighter car headlamps on other road users but the Police collect data on collisions routinely and the officer attending the scene can record up to six contributory factors based on their initial assessment of the incident. From 2005 to 2016, dazzle from headlamps at night is recorded in 0.77 percent to 1.04 per cent of accidents and shows no discernible increase over that time period. This suggests that any potential trend for increasingly bright headlamps is having little or no significant effect on road safety.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 16/04/2018 16:38:29 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

873788

registered interest
date	28/03/2018
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	Gambling: Advertising
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 assessment the Government has made of the potential merits of banning gambling adverts on television shown prior to the watershed of 9pm.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	134902
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2018 answer text <p>There are strict controls on the content of all gambling advertisements, including television adverts. Gambling operators who advertise in the UK must comply with the advertising codes, which aim to ensure gambling advertising does not appeal particularly to children or young people or exploit those who are vulnerable. Gambling adverts must not portray, condone or encourage gambling behaviour that is socially irresponsible or could lead to financial, social or emotional harm. The Committees for Advertising Practice recently published guidance setting out tougher standards for interpreting the rules on gambling advertising, focusing on protections for those vulnerable to problem gambling and on free bets and bonuses. Further guidance on protecting children and young people will be published later this year.</p><p> </p><p>Through the Gambling Industry Code for Socially Responsible Advertising there is an industry-wide voluntary commitment not to advertise on television before 9pm, with the exception of lotteries, bingo and advertising around live sporting events. This code also bans free sign up offers targeted at new customers before 9pm.</p><p> </p><p>We sought evidence on protections around advertising as part of the Government's Review of Gaming Machines and Social Responsibility Measures, and outlined a package of measures in our consultation. The consultation closed in January and we will publish our response in due course.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 19/04/2018 15:02:02 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

873790

registered interest
date	28/03/2018
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	Surgery: Waiting Lists
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 mandate to NHS England for 2018-19, published on 20 March 2018, for reasons the elective surgery waiting time of 18 weeks and the emergency waiting time of 4 hours will not be met until 2020.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	134904
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2018 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Oxford West and Abingdon (Layla Moran MP) on 28 March 2018 to Question <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;uin=133890" target="_blank">133890</a>.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 18/04/2018 14:14:07 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

873791

registered interest
date	28/03/2018
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	Surgery: Waiting Lists
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 mandate to NHS England for 2018-19, published on 20 March 2018, what plans his Department has to ensure that the elective surgery and emergency waiting times will be maintained at levels set out in previous years' mandates to NHS England.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	134905
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2018 answer text <p>The 2018/19 mandate sets out the formal expectation that the National Health Service will meet the agreed constitutional standards on referral to treatment (RTT) and accident and emergency (A&amp;E) waiting times.</p><p> </p><p>The Government expects the NHS to deliver the actions set out in the NHS Planning Guidance for 2018/19 in full as key steps towards fully recovering the performance against these core access standards at the levels they are currently set (RTT 92% and A&amp;E 95%).</p><p> </p><p>We gave the NHS top priority in the 2017 budget with an additional £2.8 billion of funding for the NHS between 2017-18 and 2019-20, and this has been reflected in the mandate. It takes overall funding for the NHS to over half a trillion pounds between 2015 and 2020.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 18/04/2018 14:10:58 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

872752

registered interest
date	27/03/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Period Poverty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of providing sanitary products to girls in receipt of free school meals.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	134565
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2018 answer text <p>Our current Sex and Relationships Education guidance encourages schools to make adequate and sensitive arrangements to help girls cope with menstruation. Schools have discretion over how they use their funding and can make sanitary products available to pupils if they identify this as a barrier to attainment or attendance. We support schools in addressing the needs of disadvantaged pupils through the provision of the Pupil Premium, equivalent to almost £2.5 billion of additional funding this year alone.</p><p> </p><p>We are committed to ensuring that any action to support disadvantaged pupils is based on robust evidence. We have sought to establish whether there has been any rigorous national assessment of the prevalence of period poverty or its impact on attendance, however none appears available. We reached out to school stakeholders in July 2017 through the Association of School and College Leaders forum asking for contributions on the issue and received a very limited response. As promised in the House, we have reviewed our absence statistics and our recently published analysis shows no evidence that period poverty has a significant nation-wide impact on school attendance. We do want to find out more; this is why we intend to place questions on these issues in the department’s 2018 surveys for pupils and senior school leaders.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 05/04/2018 16:24:50 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

872243

registered interest
date	26/03/2018
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	General Practitioners: Incentives
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of doctors who have been awarded bonuses by clinical commissioning groups limiting the number of patients they refer to hospital; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	134157
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2018 answer text <p>NHS England confirms that no bonuses have been paid.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 29/03/2018 13:59:45 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

872244

registered interest
date	26/03/2018
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	General Practitioners: Incentives
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of doctors who have been awarded bonuses by clinical commissioning groups for limiting the number of patients they refer for cancer screening; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	134158
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2018 answer text <p>NHS England does not hold this information.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England does not support bonus payments to general practitioners for reducing referrals.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 29/03/2018 13:52:44 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

865140

registered interest
date	16/03/2018
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	Huddersfield Royal Infirmary
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 March to Question 131949 on Huddersfield Royal Infirmary, on what date the Independent Reconfiguration Panel's report on the potential downgrading of Huddersfield Royal Infirmary will be made public.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	133007
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2018 answer text <p>The Joint Chairs of the Calderdale and Kirklees Joint Health Scrutiny wrote to the Department last year formally referring the National Health Service proposal, Right Care Right Time Right Place – Proposed future arrangements for hospital and community health services in Calderdale and Greater Huddersfield. We referred the case to the Independent Reconfiguration Panel in January. An announcement will be made in due course.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 21/03/2018 16:35:07 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

862294

registered interest
date	14/03/2018
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	Nabiximols
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 12 March 2018 to Question 130778 on Nabiximols, what progress his Department has made on reducing the cost of the drug Sativex.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	132713
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2018 answer text <p>The Department has had no discussions on reducing the cost of Savitex. The decision to prescribe and fund a licensed treatment on the National Health Service is taken by the relevant clinician and commissioner (such as NHS England or individual clinical commissioning groups) based on the individual needs of the patient.</p><p> </p><p>When the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published its guideline on the treatment of adults with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 2014, it recommended that Sativex should not be offered as an option to treat spasticity in people with MS because it is not a cost effective treatment. NICE is responsible for determining whether its guidance should be updated following the publication of any significant new evidence.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 22/03/2018 17:28:38 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

862303

registered interest
date	14/03/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of Transport, for what reasons his Department's consultation entitled Road Vehicles Improving Air quality and Safety has run for a period of four weeks rather than the 12 weeks recommended in the Code of Practice on Consultation.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	132722
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2018 answer text <p>The Government’s Consultation Principles replaced the previous Code of Practice in July 2012. The latest version dated 14 January 2016 requires that “Consultations should last for a proportionate amount of time”. In this case, the proposals were the subject of informal discussion between the UK motor industry and the department’s technical experts prior to the consultation launch.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 19/03/2018 15:00:27 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker