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432664

registered interest
date	26/11/2015
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Lord Coe
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much UK Sport spent in support of the campaign of Lord Coe becoming President of the IAAF on (a) fees to consultancies, (b) direct payments to Lord Coe's campaign team, (c) travel and subsistence, (d) entertainment expenses and (e) other items.
tabling member constituency	Folkestone and Hythe
tabling member printed	Damian Collins
uin	17827
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2015 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">As recently reported, UK Sport's international relations grant to British Athletics contained an amount of £63,000 used to support the communications costs of Lord Coe's year-long election campaign. In addition, approximately £7,000 has also been spent on seconded UK Sport staff assisting with the campaign.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">As recently reported, UK Sport's international relations grant to British Athletics contained an amount of £63,000 used to support the communications costs of Lord Coe's year-long election campaign. In addition, approximately £7,000 has also been spent on seconded UK Sport staff and an independent contractor assisting with the campaign.</ins></p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 01/12/2015 17:10:17 question first ministerially corrected 02/12/2015 14:16:41 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch previous answer version 33128 answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	3986 label Biography information for Damian Collins

432774

registered interest
date	26/11/2015
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Energy: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent representations she has received from community energy companies on removal of their entitlement to social investment tax relief.
tabling member constituency	Orkney and Shetland
tabling member printed	Mr Alistair Carmichael
uin	17806
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2015 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">My rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change has not received any direct representations from community energy companies on removal of their entitlement to social investment tax relief, however this is an HM Treasury policy lead.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Further to my previous answer, my rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change has now received a small number of representations from community energy companies on removal of their entitlement to social investment tax relief. These have been transferred to HM Treasury as the policy lead on this matter.</ins></p><p><br /></p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 02/12/2015 10:09:04 question first ministerially corrected 08/12/2015 16:37:58 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 33172 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	1442 label Biography information for Mr Alistair Carmichael

432240

registered interest
date	25/11/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Military Bases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will detail what accommodation has been available for trainees at (a) MOD Grantown-on-Spey, (b) MOD Llanwrst, (c) MOD Fairbourne and (d) MOD Crickhowell in each of the last 10 years; whether external bed and breakfast accommodation is used for trainees at any of those centres; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Bridgend
tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
uin	17676
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2015 answer text <p>The military bed space capacity at each of the centres is as follows:</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Training Centre</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Bed Spaces</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Force Development Training Centre (FDTC) Crickhowell</p></td><td><p>260</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FDTC Fairbourne</p></td><td><p>60</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FDTC Grantown-on-Spey</p></td><td><p>40</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Joint School for Adventurous Training Instructors (JSATI) Llanwrst</p></td><td><p>4<del class="ministerial">2</del><ins class="ministerial">0</ins></p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>On occasions, for example when Ministry of Defence accommodation is at full capacity a local bed and breakfast would be used. Records dating back 10 years are not available. However during financial year 2014-15 bed and breakfast accommodation has been utilised as follows:</p><p>FDTC Fairbourne (18 nights’ accommodation) and <ins class="ministerial">as at December 2016 for financial year 2015-16: </ins>FDTC Grantown (64 nights’ accommodation).</p><br /> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 02/12/2015 16:14:03 question first ministerially corrected 28/01/2016 14:07:05 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton previous answer version 33221 answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

432243

registered interest
date	25/11/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Military Bases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the maintenance, improvement and development costs of (a) MOD Grantown-on-Spey, (b) MOD Llanwrst, (c) MOD Fairbourne and (d) MOD Crickhowell were in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Bridgend
tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
uin	17679
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2015 answer text <p>The RAF does not hold the costs for the last ten years. However, the costs for the last financial year are shown below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Site</p></td><td><p>Maintenance Costs financial year 2014-15</p></td><td><p>Improvement Costs financial year 2014-15</p></td><td><p>Development Costs financial year 2014-15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Joint School for Adventurous Training Instructors (JSATI) Llanrwst</p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">£15,500</del> <ins class="ministerial">£22,500</ins></p></td><td><p>nil</p></td><td><p>nil</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Force Development Training Centre (FDTC) Fairbourne</p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">£25,500 </del><ins class="ministerial">£34,500</ins></p></td><td><p>nil</p></td><td><p>nil</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FDTC Crickhowell</p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">£60,000 </del><ins class="ministerial">£39,000</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">nil </del><br /><ins class="ministerial">£200,000<sup>1</sup></ins></p></td><td><p>nil</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FDTC Grantown-On-Spey</p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">Costs cannot be broken out </del><ins class="ministerial">£13,400</ins></p></td><td><p>£7,000<ins class="ministerial"> <sup>2</sup></ins></p></td><td><p>nil</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><ins class="ministerial"><sup>1</sup>£200,000 is transferred to the Council of Reserve Forces and Cadet Association (CRFCA) each year to spend on their cadet buildings at Crickhowell.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><sup>2</sup>Spent on lifestyle improvements and funded through a centralised grant.</ins></p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 02/12/2015 16:18:00 question first ministerially corrected 18/12/2015 14:11:00 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton previous answer version 33234 answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

432246

registered interest
date	25/11/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost of providing adventurous training in Bavaria to each branch of the armed forces was in each of the last 10 years; how many personnel in each branch have participated in such training in each of those years; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Bridgend
tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
uin	17646
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2015 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence does not hold records dating back 10 years, however over the last financial year (financial year 2014-15<ins class="ministerial">for the Navy and RAF, and predicted for financial year 2015-16 for the Army</ins>) the detailed breakdown of the costs to deliver adventurous training, by service, at each of the three adventurous training centres in Bavaria, are as follows:</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Training Centre</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Personnel Participating (approx)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Approx cost (per year)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Force Development Training Centre (FDAT) Bavaria (RAF)</p></td><td><p>1,740</p></td><td><p>£850,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Naval Outdoor Centre Germany (NOCG) (Navy)</p></td><td><p>2,000</p></td><td><p>£1.4 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Adventurous Training Centre (ATC) Bavaria (Army)</p></td><td><p>1,300</p></td><td><p>£3.5 million</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 03/12/2015 16:30:24 question first ministerially corrected 28/01/2016 13:40:42 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt previous answer version 33470 answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

432082

registered interest
date	24/11/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Atrial Fibrillation: Screening
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they are taking to promote opportunistic screening for atrial fibrillation.
tabling member printed	Baroness Masham of Ilton
uin	HL3855
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <br /><p>NHS England is encouraging clinical commissioning groups to work with local practices to target people at risk of atrial fibrillation (AF). Innovative approaches such as pulse testing at flu clinics and by some dentists are being used to identify AF in older people. The NHS Health Check programme’s best practice guidance also recommends a pulse check is carried out as part of the process of taking a blood pressure reading. People found to have an irregular pulse rhythm should be referred to the general practitioner for further investigation.</p><br /><p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published an updated guideline on AF in June 2014. This offers evidence-based advice on the care and treatment of people with AF and includes recommendations on diagnosis. In July 2015 NICE also published a quality standard on AF.</p><br /><p>In addition to its clinical guideline on AF, NICE has published technology appraisal guidance on a number of new oral anticoagulants (NOACs), approving them for certain patients.</p><br /><p>There is a legal requirement on commissioners to provide funding for treatments and drugs recommended in NICE technology appraisal guidance within three months of the guidance being published.This is enshrined in the NHS Constitution as a right to NICE-approved drugs.</p><br /><p>A <a href="https://www.nice.org.uk/resource/CG180/pdf/c/cg180-atrial-fibrillation-nic-consensus-statement-on-the-use-of-noacs?id=gvyb3hjdqrcjtn6ytpwx3ydb64" target="_blank">consensus statement</a> by the <a href="https://www.nice.org.uk/News/Article/new-collaborative-aims-to-increase-nice-guidance-uptake" target="_blank">NICE Implementation Collaborative</a> was published alongside NICE’s updated guideline in June 2014. This addresses some of the barriers to implementing NICE’s recommendations on prescribing NOACs.</p><br /><p>The need to reduce variation and strengthen compliance of the uptake of NICE technology appraisals was identified in <em>Innovation Health and Wealth</em>, published in December 2011. In response, NHS England and the Health and Social Care Information Centre now publishes on a quarterly basis an Innovation Scorecard to enable commissioners to benchmark their own position and increase transparency to patients and the public. This assists the NHS in the identification of variation and the adoption of treatments such as NOACs that are recommended in NICE technology appraisals. In addition, NHS England advises that it expects practitioners to consider anticoagulant treatments in line with NICE guidelines.</p><p>Some progress is being made. The uptake of NOACs across England has doubled in recent years from 45,708 per 100,000 of the resident population in 2013-14 to 126,845 in 2014-15.</p><br /><p><del class="ministerial">No assessment has been made of the number of strokes related to AF could be prevented each year through the roll-out of Guidance on Risk Assessment and Stroke Prevention for Atrial Fibrillation in primary care. However, in 2014, an economic analysis estimated that if all eligible patients at high risk were managed according to the NICE AF guidelines, an additional 11,600 AF related strokes per year could be avoided.</del></p><br /><p><del class="ministerial">Copies of the guidance referred to have been placed in the Library.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial"></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">No assessment has been made of the number of strokes related to AF could be prevented each year through the roll-out of Guidance on Risk Assessment and Stroke Prevention for Atrial Fibrillation (GRASP-AF) in primary care. However, in 2014, an economic analysis estimated that if all eligible patients at high risk were managed according to the NICE AF guidelines, an additional 11,600 AF related strokes per year could be avoided.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Copies of the guidance referred to, excluding GRASP-AF have been placed in the Library.</ins></p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 08/12/2015 12:43:31 question first ministerially corrected 09/12/2015 13:42:42 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton previous answer version 34227 answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	1850 label Biography information for Baroness Masham of Ilton

432083

registered interest
date	24/11/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Atrial Fibrillation: Diagnosis
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they are taking to improve the diagnosis of atrial fibrillation.
tabling member printed	Baroness Masham of Ilton
uin	HL3856
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>NHS England is encouraging clinical commissioning groups to work with local practices to target people at risk of atrial fibrillation (AF). Innovative approaches such as pulse testing at flu clinics and by some dentists are being used to identify AF in older people. The NHS Health Check programme’s best practice guidance also recommends a pulse check is carried out as part of the process of taking a blood pressure reading. People found to have an irregular pulse rhythm should be referred to the general practitioner for further investigation.</p><br /><p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published an updated guideline on AF in June 2014. This offers evidence-based advice on the care and treatment of people with AF and includes recommendations on diagnosis. In July 2015 NICE also published a quality standard on AF.</p><br /><p>In addition to its clinical guideline on AF, NICE has published technology appraisal guidance on a number of new oral anticoagulants (NOACs), approving them for certain patients.</p><br /><p>There is a legal requirement on commissioners to provide funding for treatments and drugs recommended in NICE technology appraisal guidance within three months of the guidance being published.This is enshrined in the NHS Constitution as a right to NICE-approved drugs.</p><br /><p>A <a href="https://www.nice.org.uk/resource/CG180/pdf/c/cg180-atrial-fibrillation-nic-consensus-statement-on-the-use-of-noacs?id=gvyb3hjdqrcjtn6ytpwx3ydb64" target="_blank">consensus statement</a> by the <a href="https://www.nice.org.uk/News/Article/new-collaborative-aims-to-increase-nice-guidance-uptake" target="_blank">NICE Implementation Collaborative</a> was published alongside NICE’s updated guideline in June 2014. This addresses some of the barriers to implementing NICE’s recommendations on prescribing NOACs.</p><br /><p>The need to reduce variation and strengthen compliance of the uptake of NICE technology appraisals was identified in <em>Innovation Health and Wealth</em>, published in December 2011. In response, NHS England and the Health and Social Care Information Centre now publishes on a quarterly basis an Innovation Scorecard to enable commissioners to benchmark their own position and increase transparency to patients and the public. This assists the NHS in the identification of variation and the adoption of treatments such as NOACs that are recommended in NICE technology appraisals. In addition, NHS England advises that it expects practitioners to consider anticoagulant treatments in line with NICE guidelines.</p><p>Some progress is being made. The uptake of NOACs across England has doubled in recent years from 45,708 per 100,000 of the resident population in 2013-14 to 126,845 in 2014-15.</p><br /><p><del class="ministerial">No assessment has been made of the number of strokes related to AF could be prevented each year through the roll-out of Guidance on Risk Assessment and Stroke Prevention for Atrial Fibrillation in primary care. However, in 2014, an economic analysis estimated that if all eligible patients at high risk were managed according to the NICE AF guidelines, an additional 11,600 AF related strokes per year could be avoided.</del></p><br /><p><del class="ministerial">Copies of the guidance referred to have been placed in the Library.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">No assessment has been made of the number of strokes related to AF could be prevented each year through the roll-out of Guidance on Risk Assessment and Stroke Prevention for Atrial Fibrillation (GRASP-AF) in primary care. However, in 2014, an economic analysis estimated that if all eligible patients at high risk were managed according to the NICE AF guidelines, an additional 11,600 AF related strokes per year could be avoided.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Copies of the guidance referred to, excluding GRASP-AF have been placed in the Library.</ins></p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 08/12/2015 12:43:31 question first ministerially corrected 09/12/2015 13:43:14 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton previous answer version 34228 answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	1850 label Biography information for Baroness Masham of Ilton

432084

registered interest
date	24/11/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Atrial Fibrillation: Strokes
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of how many strokes related to atrial fibrillation could be prevented each year through the roll-out of GRASP-AF in primary care.
tabling member printed	Baroness Masham of Ilton
uin	HL3857
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>NHS England is encouraging clinical commissioning groups to work with local practices to target people at risk of atrial fibrillation (AF). Innovative approaches such as pulse testing at flu clinics and by some dentists are being used to identify AF in older people. The NHS Health Check programme’s best practice guidance also recommends a pulse check is carried out as part of the process of taking a blood pressure reading. People found to have an irregular pulse rhythm should be referred to the general practitioner for further investigation.</p><br /><p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published an updated guideline on AF in June 2014. This offers evidence-based advice on the care and treatment of people with AF and includes recommendations on diagnosis. In July 2015 NICE also published a quality standard on AF.</p><br /><p>In addition to its clinical guideline on AF, NICE has published technology appraisal guidance on a number of new oral anticoagulants (NOACs), approving them for certain patients.</p><br /><p>There is a legal requirement on commissioners to provide funding for treatments and drugs recommended in NICE technology appraisal guidance within three months of the guidance being published.This is enshrined in the NHS Constitution as a right to NICE-approved drugs.</p><br /><p>A <a href="https://www.nice.org.uk/resource/CG180/pdf/c/cg180-atrial-fibrillation-nic-consensus-statement-on-the-use-of-noacs?id=gvyb3hjdqrcjtn6ytpwx3ydb64" target="_blank">consensus statement</a> by the <a href="https://www.nice.org.uk/News/Article/new-collaborative-aims-to-increase-nice-guidance-uptake" target="_blank">NICE Implementation Collaborative</a> was published alongside NICE’s updated guideline in June 2014. This addresses some of the barriers to implementing NICE’s recommendations on prescribing NOACs.</p><br /><p>The need to reduce variation and strengthen compliance of the uptake of NICE technology appraisals was identified in <em>Innovation Health and Wealth</em>, published in December 2011. In response, NHS England and the Health and Social Care Information Centre now publishes on a quarterly basis an Innovation Scorecard to enable commissioners to benchmark their own position and increase transparency to patients and the public. This assists the NHS in the identification of variation and the adoption of treatments such as NOACs that are recommended in NICE technology appraisals. In addition, NHS England advises that it expects practitioners to consider anticoagulant treatments in line with NICE guidelines.</p><p>Some progress is being made. The uptake of NOACs across England has doubled in recent years from 45,708 per 100,000 of the resident population in 2013-14 to 126,845 in 2014-15.</p><br /><p><del class="ministerial">No assessment has been made of the number of strokes related to AF could be prevented each year through the roll-out of Guidance on Risk Assessment and Stroke Prevention for Atrial Fibrillation in primary care. However, in 2014, an economic analysis estimated that if all eligible patients at high risk were managed according to the NICE AF guidelines, an additional 11,600 AF related strokes per year could be avoided.</del></p><br /><p><del class="ministerial">Copies of the guidance referred to have been placed in the Library.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">No assessment has been made of the number of strokes related to AF could be prevented each year through the roll-out of Guidance on Risk Assessment and Stroke Prevention for Atrial Fibrillation (GRASP-AF) in primary care. However, in 2014, an economic analysis estimated that if all eligible patients at high risk were managed according to the NICE AF guidelines, an additional 11,600 AF related strokes per year could be avoided.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Copies of the guidance referred to, excluding GRASP-AF have been placed in the Library.</ins></p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 08/12/2015 12:43:31 question first ministerially corrected 09/12/2015 13:43:28 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton previous answer version 34229 answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	1850 label Biography information for Baroness Masham of Ilton

432085

registered interest
date	24/11/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Atrial Fibrillation: Strokes
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they are taking to promote the implementation of NICE guidance on prescribing anticoagulants for the prevention of strokes related to atrial fibrillation.
tabling member printed	Baroness Masham of Ilton
uin	HL3858
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>NHS England is encouraging clinical commissioning groups to work with local practices to target people at risk of atrial fibrillation (AF). Innovative approaches such as pulse testing at flu clinics and by some dentists are being used to identify AF in older people. The NHS Health Check programme’s best practice guidance also recommends a pulse check is carried out as part of the process of taking a blood pressure reading. People found to have an irregular pulse rhythm should be referred to the general practitioner for further investigation.</p><br /><p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published an updated guideline on AF in June 2014. This offers evidence-based advice on the care and treatment of people with AF and includes recommendations on diagnosis. In July 2015 NICE also published a quality standard on AF.</p><br /><p>In addition to its clinical guideline on AF, NICE has published technology appraisal guidance on a number of new oral anticoagulants (NOACs), approving them for certain patients.</p><br /><p>There is a legal requirement on commissioners to provide funding for treatments and drugs recommended in NICE technology appraisal guidance within three months of the guidance being published.This is enshrined in the NHS Constitution as a right to NICE-approved drugs.</p><br /><p>A <a href="https://www.nice.org.uk/resource/CG180/pdf/c/cg180-atrial-fibrillation-nic-consensus-statement-on-the-use-of-noacs?id=gvyb3hjdqrcjtn6ytpwx3ydb64" target="_blank">consensus statement</a> by the <a href="https://www.nice.org.uk/News/Article/new-collaborative-aims-to-increase-nice-guidance-uptake" target="_blank">NICE Implementation Collaborative</a> was published alongside NICE’s updated guideline in June 2014. This addresses some of the barriers to implementing NICE’s recommendations on prescribing NOACs.</p><br /><p>The need to reduce variation and strengthen compliance of the uptake of NICE technology appraisals was identified in <em>Innovation Health and Wealth</em>, published in December 2011. In response, NHS England and the Health and Social Care Information Centre now publishes on a quarterly basis an Innovation Scorecard to enable commissioners to benchmark their own position and increase transparency to patients and the public. This assists the NHS in the identification of variation and the adoption of treatments such as NOACs that are recommended in NICE technology appraisals. In addition, NHS England advises that it expects practitioners to consider anticoagulant treatments in line with NICE guidelines.</p><p>Some progress is being made. The uptake of NOACs across England has doubled in recent years from 45,708 per 100,000 of the resident population in 2013-14 to 126,845 in 2014-15.</p><br /><p><del class="ministerial">No assessment has been made of the number of strokes related to AF could be prevented each year through the roll-out of Guidance on Risk Assessment and Stroke Prevention for Atrial Fibrillation in primary care. However, in 2014, an economic analysis estimated that if all eligible patients at high risk were managed according to the NICE AF guidelines, an additional 11,600 AF related strokes per year could be avoided.</del></p><br /><p><del class="ministerial">Copies of the guidance referred to have been placed in the Library.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">No assessment has been made of the number of strokes related to AF could be prevented each year through the roll-out of Guidance on Risk Assessment and Stroke Prevention for Atrial Fibrillation (GRASP-AF) in primary care. However, in 2014, an economic analysis estimated that if all eligible patients at high risk were managed according to the NICE AF guidelines, an additional 11,600 AF related strokes per year could be avoided.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Copies of the guidance referred to, excluding GRASP-AF have been placed in the Library.</ins></p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 08/12/2015 12:43:31 question first ministerially corrected 09/12/2015 13:43:51 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton previous answer version 34230 answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	1850 label Biography information for Baroness Masham of Ilton

432976

registered interest
date	24/11/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Uniforms
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many state-funded schools require pupils to wear a burqa or jilbab as part of their uniform.
tabling member constituency	Monmouth
tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
uin	902428
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2015 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The governing body or academy trust of an individual school is responsible for setting their uniform policy. The Department does not collect information about individual schools’ uniform policies.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">Schools must have full regard to their obligations under equalities legislation and act reasonably, fairly and flexibly in the interests of all their children.</del></p><br /><p><ins class="ministerial">The governing body or academy trust of an individual school is responsible for setting their uniform policy. The Department does not collect information about individual schools’ uniform policies.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Our guidance to schools on school uniform is clear that schools must have full regard to their obligations under equalities law, and act reasonably and fairly in the interests of all their students.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">We would expect all schools to act flexibly in response to reasonable requests to vary their uniform policy.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Department's guidance on school uniform is available online: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-uniform" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-uniform</a>.</ins></p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 30/11/2015 17:15:11 question first ministerially corrected 02/12/2015 14:18:02 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb previous answer version 32754 answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
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