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93562

registered interest
date	15/10/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Huntington's Disease
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions his Department has had with the Huntingdon's Disease Association on the care of people with Huntingdon's disease.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
uin	210624
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2014 answer text <p>The Department has no record of contact from the Huntington’s Disease Association in the recent past although a small number of our correspondents have been given details of the organisation’s website (<a href="http://hda.org.uk/" target="_blank">http://hda.org.uk/</a>) so that they might obtain further support.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 22/10/2014 14:53:46 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland

93102

registered interest
date	14/10/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Income Tax
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of adults in the UK aged (a) 21 to 64 years old and (b) 65 years and over pay income tax; and how many in each such group pay tax at the higher rate or above.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
uin	210604
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2014 answer text <p>The estimate for the tax year 2014-15 shows that there are 23.7m taxpayers aged between 21 and 64 and 5.9m aged 65 or over. Within this there are approximately 4.4m taxpayers aged between 21 and 64 and 500,000 taxpayers aged 65 or over who pay the higher rate or above.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This table contains estimates of the total number of taxpayers aged under 21 years old, 21 to 64 years old and those aged 65 and over split by the marginal tax rates. These figures are projected for 2014-15.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The estimates are based upon the 2011-12 Survey of Personal Incomes using economic assumptions consistent with the OBR’s March 2014 economic and fiscal outlook to project forward.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Estimates of the UK population by age are published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Table A3.1 contains the mid-year population projections for 2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/re-reference-tables.html?edition=tcm%3A77-318453" target="_blank">http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/re-reference-tables.html?edition=tcm%3A77-318453</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 22/10/2014 15:41:30 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke attachment 1 file name Doc1.docx title Numberoftaxpayers
tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland

92578

registered interest
date	10/10/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Rare Diseases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department plans to take to promote and partake in Rare Disease Day 2015.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
uin	209848
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2014 answer text <p>Rare Disease Day is an international event which is coordinated in England by Rare Disease UK. The Department has supported these events in the past and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Quality has accepted an invitation to attend the next Rare Disease Day event on 5 March 2015 organised by Rare Disease UK and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 17/10/2014 13:52:06 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland

92579

registered interest
date	10/10/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Huntington's Disease
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what changes have been made to the level of support available for patients with Huntingdon's disease in the last year.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
uin	209847
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2014 answer text <p>Whilst there have been no changes to the level of support so far, the Neurosciences Clinical Reference Group is about to consider a draft Neuropsychiatry service specification at its meeting next week which will, if implemented, be of relevance for patients with Huntington’s Disease.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 17/10/2014 12:46:47 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland

92580

registered interest
date	10/10/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Rare Diseases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the progress of the implementation of the UK Strategy for Rare Diseases.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
uin	209846
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2014 answer text <p>The Department has established the UK Rare Disease Forum to monitor how the vision and commitments outlined in the UK Strategy for Rare Diseases are being responded to across the United Kingdom. The Forum will formally report back to Ministers in the four UK countries by March 2016.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 17/10/2014 13:50:24 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland

92585

registered interest
date	10/10/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Dementia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what funding his Department has committed to dementia research in each of the next five years.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
uin	209307
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2014 answer text <p>At the G8 dementia summit in December 2013, the G8 countries agreed to work together to tackle and defeat dementia. The declaration, built on the Prime Minister’s Dementia Challenge, announced the G8’s ambition to identify a cure or a disease-modifying therapy by 2025 and to increase collectively and significantly the amount of funding for dementia research.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Investment in dementia research by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) has already more than doubled from £12.6 million in 2009-10 to £26.8 million in 2013-14.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In March 2012, the Prime Minister’s challenge on dementia announced that the combined value of the NIHR, the Medical Research Council and the Economic and Social Research Council funding for research into dementia will increase from £26.6 million in 2009-10 to an estimated £66.3 million in 2014-15. The NIHR does not have a ring-fenced budget for dementia research and has not committed a specific amount for expenditure on dementia research in 2014-15 or in each of the next five years.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 15/10/2014 15:10:43 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland

92586

registered interest
date	10/10/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Dementia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent steps he has taken to tackle dementia.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
uin	209308
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2014 answer text <p>Dementia is a key priority for this Government and we are committed to ensuring people with dementia and their carers receive the best possible care in all care settings. That is why in 2012 we launched the first ever Prime Minister’s Challenge on dementia to increase diagnosis rates, raise awareness and understanding and double funding for research in dementia by 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Since the launch of the Challenge, the Government has made significant progress across all three strands of the challenge. On 7 May 2014 the Co-Chairs of the Dementia Challenge champion groups wrote to the Prime Minister to update him on progress. They highlighted the important achievements in the two years since the challenge was launched. The letter also reiterates the champion groups’ ambition for England to become among the best countries in the world for dementia care and support. More recently;</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- The Government’s refreshed Mandate to Health Education England, published on 1 May 2014, builds on the existing ambition to have 100,000 NHS staff receive Tier 1 training on dementia by setting an ambition for a further 250,000 NHS staff to receive Tier 1 training on dementia by March 2015, with the tools and training opportunities being made available to all staff by the end of 2018.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- On 7 May 2014 Public Health England and the Alzheimer’s Society launched a major new campaign with the aim of securing one million people to become dementia friends by March 2015. There are currently over 520,000 Dementia Friends.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- At the UK Dementia Legacy event held in London on 19 June 2014 following on from the successful Dementia G8 Summit in December 2013 the Prime Minister committed to new action to accelerate progress on dementia drugs, with focus on patents, funding and patient access to new medicines.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- The Medical Research Council announced the world’s biggest research cohort involving 2 million people as part of a 16 million Public-Private Partnership.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- Alzheimer’s Research UK announced a £100 million research pledge. This builds on the Alzheimer’s Society announcement made in December 2013, to spend at least £100 million over the next 10 years on dementia research.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- On 10 September 2014 NHS England published a new Dementia Toolkit aimed at helping general practitioners (GPs) making a more timely diagnosis and what they can do in terms of vital post-diagnostic support.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- On 3 October 2014 NHS England announced that £5 million will be made available to fund an additional enhanced service for GPs to run between October 2014 and March 2015 to drive improvements in dementia diagnosis.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- On 13 October 2014 NHS England announced that seven new ambassadors had been appointed to begin spreading the word about the importance of diagnosing more patients with dementia in a bid to help improve patients and their carers quality of life.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 15/10/2014 15:18:15 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland

92109

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 11 September 2014, Official Report, column 730W, on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, who carried out the independent analysis; what their terms of reference were; and what the cost of that analysis was.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
uin	209676
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2014 answer text <p>A team led by Professor Joseph Francois, organised by the Centre for Economic Policy and Research (CEPR), carried out the analysis. The following project requirements are taken from the terms of tender document. The project was costed at £72,600 excluding VAT.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 14/10/2014 16:47:13 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland

92128

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Charities
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, on how many occasions in (a) 2011, (b) 2012, (c) 2013 and (d) 2014 to date the Charity Commission (i) opened and (ii) did not open an inquiry into a charity after having engaged with that charity on a regulatory issue.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
uin	209725
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2014 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the Charity Commission. I have asked the Commission's chief executive to reply.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson question first answered 15/10/2014 15:00:22 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson attachment 1 file name Greg Mullholland MP PQs re compliance cases and inquiries Oct 14.pdf title Charity Commission Letter to Member - Charities
tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland

91686

registered interest
date	12/09/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Charities
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, about how many charities which were the subject of regulatory cases the Charities Commission has not published statements in each quarter of (a) 2011, (b) 2012, (c) 2013 and (d) 2014 to date.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
uin	209210
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the Charity Commission. I have asked the Commission's chief executive to reply.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson grouped question UIN 209211 209212 question first answered 13/10/2014 16:03:07 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson attachment 1 file name Greg Mullholland MP PQs public statements re inquiries 17 Sep 14.pdf title Charity Commission Letter to Member - Charities
tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland