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1123570

registered interest
date	29/04/2019
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	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 (a) raise awareness of the need for stem cell donations from people aged 16-30 and (b) encourage those people to join the stem cell donor register.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	248660
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2019 answer text <p>The Department has provided more than £26 million to NHS Blood and Transplant and Anthony Nolan for stem cell donation since 2011. The funding has specific targets about the proportion of young donors, specifically young male donors, due to research identifying that younger donors offer the potential for better patient outcomes and a greater chance of survival. The Anthony Nolan and NHS Stem Cell Registry which was supported by the Department funding has over 1.4 million registered donors. 69% of new donors recruited to the registry in 2017 were under the age of 30.</p><p>Raising awareness about the importance of stem cell donation is everyone's business. The government fully supports and recognises the important work charities do to encourage registration and donation for the benefit of patients. I recently met with Team Margot, a charity who are doing excellent work to raise awareness of the need for stem cell donors.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 09/05/2019 14:30:19 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price previous answer version 116388 answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1123571

registered interest
date	29/04/2019
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	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 discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Education on including information on the need for stem cell donation in the compulsory health education to be taught in secondary schools from September 2020.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	248661
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2019 answer text <p>The Department for Education is making health education compulsory in all state funded schools. The draft guidance includes the teaching of the science relating to blood, organ and stem cell donation. This will also be complemented by teaching in the national curriculum for science in maintained schools.</p><p> </p><p>Schools will be encouraged and supported to teach this from September 2019 and required to do so from September 2020. The regulations have now been debated and passed in both Houses, so the draft guidance will be published as final shortly.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 02/05/2019 16:14:37 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1123572

registered interest
date	29/04/2019
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	Pharmacy: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to agree a multi-year funding commitment with community pharmacies to help ensure they can help achieve the goals of the NHS Long Term Plan.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	248662
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2019 answer text <p>The Department, with NHS England, has recently begun negotiations to determine the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework for 2019/20 and beyond. The length of any settlement will form part of these negotiations and as such a decision has not yet been taken. These negotiations are confidential and no further information can be provided at this time.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 02/05/2019 15:50:32 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1123573

registered interest
date	29/04/2019
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	Pharmacy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to use community pharmacies to reduce pressure on urgent care services across England as part of the NHS Long Term Plan.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	248663
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2019 answer text <p>Both the NHS Long Term Plan and the Prevention is Better than Cure vision document set out an ambition to better utilise the skills and expertise within community pharmacy. The NHS Long Term Plan introduces the development of pharmacy connection schemes that will enable patients, who do not need primary medical services, to be referred from NHS 111 and General Practitioner practices, to a community pharmacy for support and advice with a minor illness.</p><p> </p><p>The Department, with NHS England, has recently begun negotiations to determine the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework for 2019/20 and beyond. These negotiations will include discussions about the role of community pharmacy as set out within the NHS Long Term Plan. As the negotiations are confidential, no further detail can be provided at this time.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 02/05/2019 15:53:47 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1123120

registered interest
date	25/04/2019
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	Pharmacy
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 expand existing public health and prevention services in community pharmacies in order to support the aims of the NHS Long Term Plan.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	247688
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2019 answer text <p>Both the NHS Long Term Plan and the ‘Prevention is Better than Cure’ vision document, published in November 2018, set out an ambition to encourage more people to make the most of their local pharmacy to stay well in the community. Within the prevention vision, the value of the advice and wide range of lifestyle and public health interventions being delivered by more than 9,500 community pharmacies already accredited as healthy living pharmacies was recognised. In line with this, the NHS Long Term Plan outlines an aim for voluntary sector partners, community pharmacists and general practitioner practices to work together to facilitate opportunities for the public to check on their health, through tests for high blood pressure and other high-risk conditions.</p><p>The Department is now developing a Green Paper to further work up this ambition and plans for delivering it. This will be published later this year.</p><p>Alongside this, the Department, with NHS England, has now begun negotiations to determine the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework for 2019/20 and beyond. These are confidential negotiations and as such we are unable to provide further detail at this time.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 30/04/2019 14:35:25 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1123121

registered interest
date	25/04/2019
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	General Practitioners: Pharmacy
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 facilitate engagement between GPs and community pharmacies as part of the Government’s plan to refer patients with minor illnesses from NHS 111 to pharmacies.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	247689
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2019 answer text <p>The Digital Minor Illness Referral Service, being piloted in the North East, London, Devon and the East Midlands, means that patients can and already are being referred from NHS 111 to community pharmacy for support and advice with minor illnesses. The NHS Long Term Plan includes an ambition to build on this, to further integrate community pharmacy into the health and care system to enable and encourage more collaborative working alongside other local National Health Service providers. To achieve this, it outlines the development of pharmacy connection schemes designed to facilitate the referral of patients to community pharmacy from other parts of the health and care system, including general practice.</p><p>The Government has been clear that it recognises the opportunity to better utilise community pharmacy to help more people in the community and is committed to working with the sector to make this a reality. The Department, with NHS England, has recently begun negotiations to determine the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework for 2019/20 and beyond. These are confidential negotiations and as such we are unable to provide further detail at this time.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 30/04/2019 14:40:14 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1108652

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	Cancer: Research
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 assessment he has made of the effect of leaving the European Research Area on access to EU framework programme funding for UK-based cancer research projects.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	239229
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>European Union Framework Programme funding for United Kingdom-based projects, including those on cancer research, will not necessarily be linked to the UK’s involvement in the European Research Area.</p><p> </p><p>If we leave with the Withdrawal Agreement, UK participants will still be eligible for funding from Horizon 2020, including for cancer research projects. As a responsible Government, we are continuing to prepare for a ‘no deal’ scenario. In a ‘no deal’ scenario, the Government has committed to fund all successful UK bids to Horizon 2020 submitted before the end of 2020 and for the lifetime of projects. This guarantee will enable UK researchers and businesses to continue to access funding required to participate in Horizon 2020 and will support ongoing world-leading collaboration, including in cancer research.</p><p> </p><p>Looking beyond Horizon 2020, in any scenario we want to continue to back the UK research and innovation community by supporting the provision of opportunities for world-class collaborative research. We are continuing to seek a relationship with the European Union on science and innovation including the option of future association to excellence-based EU research and innovation funding programmes.</p><p> </p><p>National Institute for Health Research cancer research expenditure has risen from £101 million in 2010/11 to £136 million in 2017/18. This constitutes the largest investment in a disease area. A large proportion of this funding comprises support for the delivery of Cancer Research UK-funded research in the National Health Service.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 04/04/2019 11:13:19 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1104859

registered interest
date	25/03/2019
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	China: Muslims
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his international counterparts on alleged human rights violations of Muslims in Xinjiang province.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	236429
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2019 answer text <p>We have serious concerns about the human rights situation in Xinjiang and the Chinese Government’s deepening crackdown; including credible reports that over 1 million Uyghur Muslims have been held in re-education camps, and reports of widespread surveillance and restrictions targeted at ethnic minorities. Visits to Xinjiang by diplomats from the British Embassy in Beijing have corroborated much of this open source reporting.</p><p> </p><p>Ministers and senior officials have been raising our concerns directly with the Chinese authorities for some time, and will continue to do so . I raised our concerns about Xinjiang with Vice Minister Guo Yezhou during my visit to China on 22 July 2018. The Foreign Secretary also raised our concerns about the region with Chinese State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi during his visit to China on 30 July 2018.</p><p> </p><p>At the 40<sup>th</sup> session of the UN Human Rights Council which ran from February to March 2019, Lord Ahmad raised our concerns about Xinjiang during his opening address (on 25 February). The UK also raised concerns about Xinjiang during our item 4 statement on 12 March, and we co-sponsored a side event on “Protecting the fundamental freedoms in Xinjiang” on 13 March.</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field question first answered 28/03/2019 17:09:15 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1104860

registered interest
date	25/03/2019
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	Radioisotopes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of leaving the EU without an agreement on the UK’s ability to access (a) radioactive isotopes to diagnose and treat breast cancer and (b) other such medical materials.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	236430
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2019 answer text <p>Leaving the European Union with a deal remains the Government’s top priority. However, as a responsible Government we must plan for every possible outcome including ‘no deal’. The Department has published guidance to industry and the health and care system to allow them to make informed plans and preparations. This is available on GOV.UK.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has been working closely with industry to ensure the supply of medicines, including medical radioisotopes to diagnose and treat breast cancer, can continue uninterrupted in the event of a ‘no deal’ EU exit.</p><p> </p><p>For any products that require air freight, such as medical radioisotopes, we are continuing to work with all suppliers to ensure this occurs. The Department can confirm that companies supplying the vast majority of medical radioisotopes medicines by volume have air freight routes that are currently operational.</p><p> </p><p>The Department wrote to all suppliers of medicines to the United Kingdom on 26 March to advise them of the changes to EU exit dates, and ask them to continue with preparations to protect patients in all possible outcomes.</p><p> </p><p>We are confident that, if everyone does what they need to do, the supply of medicines and medical products will be uninterrupted.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 28/03/2019 16:27:06 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1093494

registered interest
date	22/03/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Social Services: Sunderland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the financial sustainability of children's services in Sunderland.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	235783
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2019 answer text <p>Over the five-year period to 2019-20, councils have access, through the Local Government Finance Settlement, to over £200 billion to deliver local services, including children’s services. Core spending power has increased from £45.1 billion in 2018-19 to £46.4 billion in 2019-20. For Sunderland, this means an increase in core spending power of £235 million in 2018-19 to £239 million in 2019-20.</p><p>In addition to this, the Autumn Budget announced a further £410 million in 2019-20 for local authorities to invest in adult and children’s social care services.</p><p>The Department for Education (DfE) made an investment of £2.4 million towards the creation of Together for Children (TfC), the company responsible for delivering children’s services in Sunderland, which has started to make an impact on improving children’s services. In addition, we are supporting TfC to develop projects which will help to deliver better quality services for the children and families of Sunderland.</p><p>DfE are working closely with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government on the review of relative needs and resources to develop a robust, up-to-date approach to funding distribution for children's services at local government finance settlements.</p><p>The government will continue to work closely with the sector to consider long-term children’s services funding as part of the upcoming Spending Review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 235784 question first answered 27/03/2019 15:55:37 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson