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850745

registered interest
date	27/02/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Energy: Meters
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that smart meters are on schedule to be installed in every household by 2020.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	129982
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that all homes and small businesses are offered smart meters by the end of 2020. The Programme is well underway with around 400,000 being installed every month.There are now over 8.6 million smart and advanced meters operating across homes and businesses across Great Britain. The rollout of smart meters is on track to deliver significant benefits, including putting an end to estimated bills, and is set to save consumers £300m in 2020 alone.</p><p> </p><p>Energy suppliers are responsible for planning and delivering the roll-out of smart meters, working within the legal framework established by the Government. Energy suppliers’ licence conditions require them to take ‘all reasonable steps’ to roll-out smart meters to all their domestic and small business customers by 31 December 2020. Ofgem is responsible for regulating energy suppliers against this obligation.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 07/03/2018 16:43:22 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

850746

registered interest
date	27/02/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	3D Printing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will he make an assessment of the potential contribution of 3D printing to UK GDP by 2020.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	129983
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2018 answer text <p>The industry backed Additive Manufacturing strategy identifies that the UK’s High Value Manufacturing Sector can capture over £3.5bn per year (Gross Value Added) for the UK of the rapidly growing global market for additive manufacturing products (3D printing) and services by 2025, supporting 60,000 jobs in the knowledge economy and generating new, highly skilled employment opportunities. The industry led Made Smarter Review also identifies the contribution of digitally enabled technologies to manufacturing-including additive manufacturing- to the UK economy to be as much as £455 billion over the next decade.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the Industrial Strategy, we are working closely with UK industry to create the right conditions for competitive, world leading manufacturing businesses to flourish and grow across the UK. Government recognises the importance of 3D printing and additive manufacturing and since 2012 The UK’s EPSRC and Innovate UK’s combined investment in additive manufacturing R&amp;D, including capital grants, has been well over £200 million, helping to develop and maintain UK capability in additive in the UK. In addition we have invested over £300m in the High Value Manufacturing Catapult, including establishing the National Centre for Net Shape and Addictive Manufacturing housed in the Manufacture Technology Centre in Coventry. Its aim is to develop production-ready additive manufacturing processes, to overcome barriers to wide-scale adoption, and to work on legislative and standardisation issues to support the commercialisation of the innovation and new technologies such as 3D printing.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 05/03/2018 14:28:02 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

850748

registered interest
date	27/02/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Data Processing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an estimate of the potential contribution of machine learning to UK GDP by 2020.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	129984
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2018 answer text <p>Machine Learning is a significant technology within Artificial Intelligence (AI) more broadly.</p><p>One estimate published by PWC in 2017 proposed that AI could add £232bn to the UK economy by 2030 [1]. Analysis by Accenture predicts that AI alone could add an Additional £630bn to the economy by 2035 increasing the annual growth rate of GVA from 2.5 to 3.9% [2].</p><p>The Industrial Strategy sets Grand Challenges to put the UK in the vanguard of the industries of the future, ensuring that the UK takes advantage of major global changes, improving people’s lives and the country’s productivity. First among these is the AI and Data-driven Economy Grand Challenge.</p><p><em><strong>[1]</strong></em><em><a href="https://www.pwc.co.uk/press-room/press-releases/artificial-intelligence-could-add-232bn-to-UK-gdp.html" target="_blank">https://www.pwc.co.uk/press-room/press-releases/artificial-intelligence-could-add-232bn-to-UK-gdp.html</a></em></p><p><strong><em>[2] </em></strong><em><a href="https://newsroom.accenture.com/subjects/technology/artificial-intelligence-poised-to-double-annual-economic-growth-rate-in-12-developed-economies-and-boost-labor-productivity-by-up-to-40-percent-by-2035-according-to-new-research-by-accenture.htm" target="_blank">https://newsroom.accenture.com/subjects/technology/artificial-intelligence-poised-to-double-annual-economic-growth-rate-in-12-developed-economies-and-boost-labor-productivity-by-up-to-40-percent-by-2035-according-to-new-research-by-accenture.htm</a></em></p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 07/03/2018 16:18:25 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

850749

registered interest
date	27/02/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Graphene
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an assessment of the potential contribution of graphene to UK GDP by 2020.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	129985
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2018 answer text <p>At this point in the lifecycle of such an emergent technology, we cannot make reliable estimates of graphene’s near-term contribution to UK GDP. There is a long lead-in time for new materials to be embedded in technologies, and the case of graphene is no exception. Graphene is increasingly gaining traction across the world. One report has estimated that the global graphene-based products market will grow to $2.1 billion by 2025, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 46.3%.[1] Over 140 companies in the UK have been active in graphene in the UK. The Government is playing an active role to support the development and exploitation of graphene – including through the projects funded by Innovate UK and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), with universities, and suppliers and end users of graphene, and the foundation of the National Graphene Institute (NGI) and the Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre (GEIC).</p><p> </p><p>[1] Graphene: Technologies, Applications and Markets, BCC Research, 2016</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 07/03/2018 11:54:46 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

845516

registered interest
date	20/02/2018
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	Mental Health Services: Digital Technology
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department is making in harnessing digital technologies to deliver mental health services.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	128488
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to expanding access to mental health digital services to enable more people to receive effective care and provide greater accessibility and choice.</p><p> </p><p>There has been a lot of progress made to date in harnessing digital technologies such as the establishment of seven mental health global digital exemplars which are trusts leading the way in improving digital inclusion and uptake of digital therapies and tools. The National Health Service app library is now hosting six digital tools aimed at improving mental health support and early intervention for children and young people.</p><p> </p><p>There is also ongoing work to redesign the NHS.uk website to improve information and access to digital support for mental health. Development is also underway for a specialist mental health assessment module for NHS111 which will provide more appropriate support and signposting.</p><p> </p><p>For people in need of mental health crisis care who have been detained under the Mental Health Act, new technology is being trialled to enable health and social care professionals, community street triage teams and the police to access appropriate Health Based Places of Safety.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is working with the National Institute for Health and Care and Excellence in developing a digitally enabled therapy assessment programme which will assess up to 14 digital therapy products for use in Improving Access to Psychological Therapies services by 2020. Three of these 14 products have been assessed for inclusion in this programme so far.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 28/02/2018 13:07:29 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

845517

registered interest
date	20/02/2018
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	Medical Treatments: Innovation
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 ensure that hospitals use new technologies to improve patient care.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	128489
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2018 answer text <p>As set out in the response to the Accelerated Access Review, published last year, a total of £6 million has been announced to help the National Health Service adopt and integrate new technologies into everyday practice, through the Pathway Transformation Fund. The Pathway Transformation Fund will support NHS organisations to overcome these initial barriers to uptake, allowing the NHS to implement new innovative products where it otherwise would have struggled to do so.</p><p>We are also introducing a new Accelerated Access Pathway, to streamline regulatory and market access decisions, getting breakthrough products that we believe will be truly transformative to patients more quickly. All products including medical technologies, devices and diagnostics will be eligible for selection.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 28/02/2018 17:33:30 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

845518

registered interest
date	20/02/2018
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	Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
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 (a) improve the prevention of mental illness and (b) provide mental health support for children and young people.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	128490
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2018 answer text <p>We acknowledge that prevention is key to transforming children and young people’s mental health and are taking a number of actions to prevent problems occurring. This includes investment of £3 million to develop the MindEd e-portal, which provides free training on children and young people’s mental health to all professionals who work with children, and over the course of 2016/17-2020/21, providing just over £12 million to fund Time to Change. Time To Change aims to raise awareness of mental health illness and address the fear of stigma that can stop young people and their families from seeking the help that they need. We are also delivering mental health awareness training in every school in England, and given that maternal mental health has a significant impact on the child’s mental health, we are investing £365 million up until 2020/21 to improve access to specialist perinatal mental health services.</p><p> </p><p>In order to transform children and young people’s mental health services, we are making an additional £1.4 billion available from 2015/16 to 2019/20, to ensure access to specialist mental health services for 70,000 additional children and young people each year by 2020/21. This additional money provides funding for clinical commissioning groups and various national programmes, including improving crisis support, expanding the workforce and tackling stigma. Our recent Green Paper, which is supported by over £300 million of additional funding, aims to improve provision of support in schools, bolster links between schools and National Health Service specialist services and improve access through piloting a four week waiting time.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 28/02/2018 13:05:42 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

845519

registered interest
date	20/02/2018
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	Long Term Unemployed People: Mental Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect of long-term unemployment on the mental health needs of claimants.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	128491
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2018 answer text <p>We know that the longer a working age person is out of work, the more difficult it is for them to return to work and their health and wellbeing may worsen as a result, which is why improving employment support for people with mental health issues is a key priority for this Government.</p><p>The Command Paper <em>Improving Lives: The Future of Work, Health and Disability</em>, published in November 2017, outlines actions to improve out of work support, including:</p><ul><li>Investment in trials, proofs of concept and feasibility studies to test ways to provide specialist support for people with mental health conditions;</li><li>Doubling the number of employment advisers working in NHS Improving Access to Psychological Therapies services by over 300 by 2019, enabling greater provision of integrated psychological treatment and employment support;</li><li>Enhancing mental health training for Jobcentre work coaches;</li><li>Supporting NHS plans to increase access to the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) model – a model of integrated employment support within secondary mental health care services.</li></ul> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 26/02/2018 12:21:10 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

845520

registered interest
date	20/02/2018
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	Loneliness
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 recent assessment he has made of the role of technology in helping people who are socially isolated.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	128492
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2018 answer text <p>This government is committed to working with the Jo Cox Commission, charities and businesses to create a government wide strategy that tackles loneliness.</p><p>Part of this work will review the evidence-base, including the groups affected, the causes and impact of loneliness on individuals and communities, and what works to reduce loneliness. Technology definitely has a role to play and we will consider this as part of the work.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch grouped question UIN 128493 question first answered 28/02/2018 16:48:55 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

845521

registered interest
date	20/02/2018
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	Loneliness
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 he has made of the effect of social isolation on mental health.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	128493
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2018 answer text <p>This government is committed to working with the Jo Cox Commission, charities and businesses to create a government wide strategy that tackles loneliness.</p><p>Part of this work will review the evidence-base, including the groups affected, the causes and impact of loneliness on individuals and communities, and what works to reduce loneliness. Technology definitely has a role to play and we will consider this as part of the work.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch grouped question UIN 128492 question first answered 28/02/2018 16:48:55 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie