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1020217

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date	05/12/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Army: Suicide
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to tackle the matter of soldiers taking their own life (a) during and (b) after active service.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	199402
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>Every study conducted by the Ministry of Defence has found that the risk of suicide amongst the Armed Forces community, including veterans of the 1982 Falkland and 1990-91 Gulf conflicts, is lower than amongst the general population.</p><p>A considerable amount of work has already been undertaken to improve the mental health of Service personnel and to prevent suicide and suicide risk. This includes tackling stigma through education and providing easily accessible, rapid and flexible access to mental health support and healthcare services. Armed Forces personnel undergo &quot;through life&quot; psychological resilience training which enables them to recognise and manage stress in themselves and in their colleagues and actively encourages them to seek help at an early stage.</p><p>However, we continue to look at what more can done. This includes a focused review by the Defence Safety Authority of suicide in Service personnel to identify additional measures for preventing suicide. The review was published on 9 November 2018 by the Defence Safety Authority and work to take forward the recommendations has commenced.</p><p>We have less influence on individuals' behaviour once they are discharged from the Armed Forces, as their mental healthcare becomes the responsibility of the National Health Service in the UK. There are many factors that can result in suicide such as relationship breakdown, debt and employment concerns, not only service in the Armed Forces.</p><p>However, we are not complacent. Any suicide is one too many and a tragedy for the individual, their family, friends and colleagues.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 11/12/2018 16:15:29 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1020218

registered interest
date	05/12/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Lost Property
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the police take receipt of lost property handed in by the general public.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	199403
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2018 answer text <p>Taking receipt of lost property handed in by the general public is a matter for individual police forces.</p><p>Following a national police review of Lost Property Services, the National Police Chief’s Council accepted a decision to cease general lost property reporting with effect from 1st October 2018.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 21/12/2018 17:04:55 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1020224

registered interest
date	05/12/2018
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Dogs: Meat
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to ban the human consumption of dog meat.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	199404
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to the hon. Member for East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow, Dr Lisa Cameron, on 12 November 2018, PQ UIN 187378.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 11/12/2018 11:57:37 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1020225

registered interest
date	05/12/2018
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	Cancer
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 he has made of the effect of recent changes in the level of public health funding on trends in the number of incidences of cancer.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	199405
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government has made no specific assessment of any correlation between current levels of spending on public health and the incidence of cancer. In the period 2007 to 2016 (the latest year for which there is data) new registrations of cancer rose from 255,200 to 303,100, with the largest increases being in diagnoses of skin cancers (other than melanoma) and prostate cancer. The increases largely reflect the impact on incidence of an ageing population.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2013 local authorities in England have taken the lead in commissioning a wide range of public health interventions, including a number with the potential to help prevent cancer, based on their own assessments of local needs. The Government is making available over £16 billion during the current five-year spending review period for use by local authorities exclusively on public health services, but by their nature such interventions may take some time to take full effect.</p><p> </p><p>As well as prevention, improving the early diagnosis of cancer is a key priority for the Government. From next year people with suspected cancer will receive a diagnosis or have cancer ruled out within 28 days. We have also announced a package of cancer measures that will radically improve the system and ensure that 55,000 more people survive cancer for at least five years every year from 2028.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 12/12/2018 14:57:43 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1020226

registered interest
date	05/12/2018
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	Dermatitis
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have a diagnosis of eczema.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	199406
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2018 answer text <p>The data requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 12/12/2018 14:52:17 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1020227

registered interest
date	05/12/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: Snow and Ice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to ensure sufficient road grit is available for winter 2018-19.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	199407
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2018 answer text <p>Highway authorities have a duty under Section 41 of the Highways Act 1980 to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that safe passage along a highway is not endangered by snow or ice. Winter service and maintenance, including ensuring adequate grit supplies, is therefore the responsibility of the relevant highway authority. Roads in Northern Ireland are a devolved matter, but there too it is a matter for the highway authority to ensure that it has an adequate supply of road grit to treat the roads for which it is responsible.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Transport has taken a number of steps to ensure highway authorities in England enter the 2018/19 winter season well prepared. This includes monitoring the amount of road grit being held around the country throughout the winter season, working closely with the UK domestic road grit producers and maintaining a substantial national emergency road grit reserve.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Transport has written to all highway authorities in England, outside London, reminding them of their responsibilities during the winter season and the letter is available at the following weblink:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/762280/winter-2018-2019-final-letter-to-local-authority.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/762280/winter-2018-2019-final-letter-to-local-authority.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 12/12/2018 14:35:23 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1017182

registered interest
date	29/11/2018
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	Prostate Cancer: Surgery
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the NHS has any plans to introduce a new surgical procedure for treating prostate cancer.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	197363
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2018 answer text <p>No such plans currently exist.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 07/12/2018 13:03:41 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1017183

registered interest
date	29/11/2018
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	Erenumab
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 the NHS has to make erenumab available to people with migraines.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	197364
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2018 answer text <p>The National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is currently developing Technology appraisal guidance on the use of erenumab for preventing migraines. NHS commissioners are legally required to fund drugs and treatments recommended by NICE’s technology appraisal programme. In the absence of positive guidance from NICE, it is for commissioners to make decisions on whether to fund this treatment based on an assessment of the available evidence.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 07/12/2018 13:07:25 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1017184

registered interest
date	29/11/2018
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	Fertility: Medical Treatments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that fertility treatment is available to older women.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	197365
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2018 answer text <p>It is the Government's policy that clinical commissioning groups should have regard to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guideline on the assessment and treatment of people with fertility problems when commissioning services for which they are responsible. This includes the recommendation in the guideline that three cycles of in-vitro fertilisation be offered to qualifying couples where the woman is under the age of 40 and one cycle where the woman is between the ages of 40 and 42.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 07/12/2018 12:50:32 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1017185

registered interest
date	29/11/2018
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	Hypertension: Drugs
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 the NHS has made of the link between the use of blood pressure drugs and lung cancer; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	197366
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2018 answer text <p>NHS England has made no assessment of the link between the use of blood pressure drugs and lung cancer.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 07/12/2018 13:04:25 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon